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The shadows are long on a hot summer afternoon in June as the roar of a westbound train to Dover drowns out the surrounding urban noise of East Orange.
Unknown NJT @ Green Interlocking, East Orange, NJ
NJTR GP40PH-2B 4207
Taken from the Camden Waterfront, featuring the Battleship New Jersey (built in 1942).
Even though dark clouds were rolling in and blocking a lot of the sunset colors, a tear had opened up along the horizon. Out of it spilled these varying orange hues. Just in front of the battleship is a ferry that will shuttle you to Penn's Landing Penn's Landing and back. And just in back of the 74 year old ship is the Walt Whitman Bridge
Of course, I am always looking out for great private rooftops or unique public locations and if anyone knows of any please contact me via flickrmail or rbudhuphotos [at] gmail.com.
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Seen in the Central Market, St Helier. The penguin is made from dried grasses - I assume it was made originally for the Battle of Flowers in the summer.
HBM & happy New Year.
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) ("Big J" or "Black Dragon") is an Iowa-class battleship, and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other four completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship providing gunfire support during the Vietnam War.
During World War II, New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall Islands. During the Korean War, she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the "mothball fleet". She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Reactivated once more in the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service. In 1983, she participated in US operations during the Lebanese Civil War.
New Jersey was decommissioned for the last time in 1991 (after serving a total of 21 years in the active fleet), having earned a Navy Unit Commendation for service in Vietnam and 19 battle and campaign stars for combat operations during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War, and service in the Persian Gulf. After a brief retention in the mothball fleet, she was donated to the Home Port Alliance in Camden, New Jersey, and began her career as a museum ship 15 October 2001.
After a mostly rainy day here in Hillhead the sun finally emerged early evening... a little wander and sit to enjoy some late rays.... the butterflies emerged as well as a beautiful Jersey Tiger moth appeared briefly... alas I didn't get a photo of it with it's wings open... which are a fantastic red/orange colour... maybe tomorrow. All the best for the coming week ahead folks.
I never got to experience the Central Railroad of New Jersey; the railroad was one of the six bankrupt northeastern railroads that got chopped up in 1976, with the remains becoming Conrail the year before I visited the mid-Atlantic states for the first time.
The Jersey Central was known for being a large hauler of anthracite coal, and for its immense commuter service serving the Garden State's suburbs around New York. The railroad's Statue of Liberty emblem was inspired by the proximity of the railroad's mammoth Jersey City terminal on the Hudson River overlooking New York Harbor. Jersey Central passengers reached Manhattan via railroad-operated steam ferries which, fittingly, terminated at Liberty Street.
This under-appreciated railroad had a fleet of 2-8-0 Camelback locomotives, so named because the cab straddled the boiler. One can't help but appreciate the infrastructure that made up the Jersey Central from the extensive marine operation plying the Hudson and New York Harbor, to the immense passenger station on the banks of the Hudson in Jersey City, to the huge four-track bridge over Newark Bay (which was in 1958 the scene of a tragedy). A little-known footnote in history is that the first successful Class 1 diesel operation took place on the Jersey Central Lines.
But history was not kind to the Jersey Central. First, the anthracite traffic largely dried up after World War II. The huge commuter service began hemorrhaging cash: Too much equipment and too many crews were used only for two short rush hour periods, and sat largely idle during the rest of the day. As the heavy industry of the Northeast began to wither, the railroad found it had too much infrastructure for too little traffic. With nearly 75% of its traffic originating offline, the Jersey Central became little more than a terminal carrier, meaning they collected little revenue from the freight it hauled. To add insult to injury, the state of New Jersey viewed the railroad as a cash cow for tax revenue.
Though the commuter service was ultimately saved by state subsidies and eventual acquisition by NJ Transit, the poor little Jersey Central foundered, and largely disappeared without a trace outside of suburban territory.
When I heard that Norfolk Southern's 15E would be led by the beautiful orange and blue Jersey Central heritage engine, I decided to travel to Danville, Illinois to capture the engine in an industrial landscape that might recall similar scenes of the gritty industrial regions the Jersey Central once served. Like the Jersey Central, poor Danville, Illinois is undergoing hard times and has seen better days.
Just for the moment, this visitor ties together this mostly-forgotten past of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the past of Danville, Illinois.
added to Cream of the Crop as my most viewed (although i'm not quite sure why, maybe its the shock factor)
People who know me well will be surprised I managed this feat, as 6am ans earlier is not on my watch. But seeing as I was on holiday and Mac Bouchaire who organised the trip had gone to some trouble to set this up, it seemed rude not to go.
With this shot I got lucky. I had my 28mm to 300mm sigma - Nikon D300 on the tripod when I heard the the sound of what turned out to be herons and here is the result. I had no idea they flew like this.
I took Jane's picture back in the summer of 2012. At the time, she was a wide-eyed calf at the Lee County Fair in Donnellson, Iowa. Since she's a Jersey dairy cow, it's a safe assumption she is now fully grown and living out her live on a local farm.
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