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Here is a photo of DT&I Jct. located just outside of Lima, Ohio on August 31st, 2022. The IORY ends here at right and merges into the CSX Toledo Subdivision. Interlocking is still protected by these CPL's, and I was even able to get an old whistle post in the shot.
Center composed, black and white image in square format… Well that’s the Macro Mondays theme this week then :)
When it works at all, my brain works like this: centre (English translation ;) ) means symmetry; square means circle (I kid you not); black and white means textures and shapes… So the problem is what’s circular, with texture and macro sized… and, I forgot to mention, inside my house (it’s cold outside :) ).
Golly gosh. I’m glad other people don’t think like that! Can you imagine how boring that would be?
Have you guessed what it is? This is the stalk end of a Kiwi fruit, all suitably hairy and organic. If you take a picture like this it looks a bit like a scene from an Alien film (movie ;) ) …
It's a couple of centimetres across I guess so OK for the group - yey!
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t give you strange nightmares :) Happy Macro Mondays!
[Mainly lit in daylight but some help from an LED torch behind a sheet of white paper (it was getting dark at the time). Tripod; remote release; manual focus in LiveView; VR off…
Developed in Lightroom adding colour (to give something for the B&W converter to play with) and aiming for a tonal range; a ton of Clarity for detail; denoise because it’s a long exposure and it’s an ancient camera.
Into Affinity Photo. Sharpened with a mixture of Tone Mapping, Unsharp Mask and High Pass/Linear Blend filter.
Into Nik Silver Efex for the conversion; quite a bit of playing around… Used a green filter and lots of microcontrast.
Back in Affinity added a Curves layer and tweaked the contrast here and there to get a pleasing tonal range.
Dark vignette; border with shadow fx and Bob’s your auntie’s husband :)]
CSX train Q634-29 with an SD40-2 & SD40-3 passes through Berea Interlocking and past the NYC (Big Four) station which is now a restaurant and sports bar.
K38 has a cool unit running along the Marquette sub at Lake interlocking, about an hour after sunrise. Lake is basically the convergence for three CPKC subs, Chicago, Marquette and Davenport. To my very right is the Mississippi River and only peace and quiet with birds singing. This is a local out of Mason City, IA and has to shove across the river to Savanna yard to yard its train.
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
Around 50 to 60 million years ago, during the Paleocene Epoch, Antrim was subject to intense volcanic activity, when highly fluid molten basalt intruded through chalk beds to form an extensive lava plateau. As the lava cooled, contraction occurred.
Horizontal contraction fractured in a similar way to drying mud, with the cracks propagating down as the mass cooled, leaving pillarlike structures, which are also fractured horizontally into "biscuits". In many cases the horizontal fracture has resulted in a bottom face that is convex while the upper face of the lower segment is concave, producing what are called "ball and socket" joints. The size of the columns is primarily determined by the speed at which lava from a volcanic eruption cools.
The extensive fracture network produced the distinctive columns seen today. The basalts were originally part of a great volcanic plateau called the Thulean Plateau which formed during the Paleocene.
According to legend, the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant. The story goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet. In one version of the story, Fionn defeats Benandonner. In another, Fionn hides from Benandonner when he realises that his foe is much bigger than he is. Fionn's wife, Oonagh, disguises Fionn as a baby and tucks him in a cradle. When Benandonner sees the size of the 'baby', he reckons that its father, Fionn, must be a giant among giants. He flees back to Scotland in fright, destroying the causeway behind him so that Fionn would be unable to chase him down.
Across the sea, there are identical basalt columns (a part of the same ancient lava flow) at Fingal's Cave on the Scottish isle of Staffa, and it is possible that the story was influenced by this.
In overall Irish mythology, Fionn mac Cumhaill is not a giant but a hero with supernatural abilities, contrary to what this particular legend may suggest. In Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) it is noted that, over time, "the pagan gods of Ireland [...] grew smaller and smaller in the popular imagination, until they turned into the fairies; the pagan heroes grew bigger and bigger, until they turned into the giants". There are no surviving pre-Christian stories about the Giant's Causeway, but it may have originally been associated with the Fomorians (Fomhóraigh); the Irish name Clochán na bhFomhóraigh or Clochán na bhFomhórach means "stepping stones of the Fomhóraigh". The Fomhóraigh are a race of supernatural beings in Irish mythology who were sometimes described as giants and who may have originally been part of a pre-Christian pantheon
Interlocked Destinies by Daniel Arrhakis (2016)
Sometimes fates intersect in certain temporal lines ... not by chance ... are events that need to materialize ... the secret is to recognize the characters and the directions so that we can anticipate the Future ... we live in that times !
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Flint Creek empty KCS Train C-FLKC-07 is coming up KCT Track 74 at Penn Avenue as UP Train ITAME3 04 heads east on Track 75. The KCS train will become UP Train CFKNA 08 here at KC after the Union Pacific crew hops on in a few minutes.
Locomotives: UP 6052, UP 6026, UP 1989, UP 7978, UP 4284
3-8-15
Kansas City, MO
Amtrak work extra 2006 is southbound through Cedar Interlocking in North Haven, CT. The Providence & Worcester GP38-2 is on loan to Amtrak for work train service on the Springfield and Shore Lines.
An eastbound CWR train swings into F interlocking, straddling the line between the Metropolitan Sub to the west and the Washington Sub to the east. In the foreground is the west end of the Montana Track. This track ran from here to Montana Ave to the east. Jeremy Plant took this photo in May 1972. JL Sessa collection.
An eastbound CSX detour train rolls through MIFFLIN interlocking in November of 1983. A Conrail SD40-2 is ahead of the power, wearing Chessie System colors. Downsizing has slowly started creeping to the Middle Division at this point - it appears track three has been recently removed through the interlocking.
CR 6377. Mifflin, PA.
November 9, 1983. Scott Cotner photo.
Adam Klimchock collection.
A Canadian Pacific manifest ducks under the signal bridge at Hoffman along Dayton's Bluff in Saint Paul. The route for this train became clear after the Empire Builder departed making a direct line for Red Wing.
CTrail 4407 passing through Willow interlocking before making its station stop in Berlin. The far left track is Pan Am's Waterbury Branch to Plainville, and the far right track is the Berlin industrial.
Sounder #1707 arrives King Street Station in Seattle from Everett after emerging out of the mile-long Great Northern Tunnel leading under downtown Seattle. The tunnel was completed in 1905, the highest and widest tunnel in the country at the time, and the construction of King Street Station followed the tunnel's completion.
More from the lovely conditions seen here in last few days. A last few days leave this year came at the right time - definitely beats Christmas shopping in my view.
Bargo once boasted a set of emergency crossovers, as well as a short perway siding. These were all later removed, along with the upper quadrant semaphore signal. An 82 class can be seen in the background with TM72 loaded Tahmoor to Port Kembla coal train.
Canandaigua's boathouses don't feel like they should be in Upstate NY. I felt like I was wandering Halifax or some fishing town on the Atlantic as I took my photos.
Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40, 000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a National Nature Reserve. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 meters (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 meters (92 ft) thick in places. The Giant's Causeway is today owned and managend by the National Trust and it is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.
I loved this place....took so many photos of it. This is an amazing area ...