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Having dealt with the drainage in Bledlow Cutting last year, we are now replacing the track. In readiness, new concrete sleepers are being loaded at Chinnor, after which they will be hauled to the worksite and offloaded. The next task will be to do the same with umpteen bags of ballast. And of course redundant sleepers and the old ballast will be coming the other way.
Here the crew is doing the second wagonload. I drove the class 08 all day (under the watchful eye of driver Dave).
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway.
buckling under the morning load of gricers, and the first electrification mast stands victoriously at the end of Platforms 6 and 7; Summer '76.
Sunday evening after the last circus show Union Pacific repositions the rail way flat cars on the BMI branch line then in groups between 4-10 they load up the circus wagons. Once the wagons are loaded, the flats will move down the mainline picking up the animals cars on another siding and last pick up the circus personnel living quarters within six hours the train after air testing will be ready to depart on to their next show site.
Cycladic Islands, Spring 2016 (Tinos, Serifos, Sifnos, Milos, Folegandros)
Serifos, South Aegean, Greece
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Loading docks at dawn, supported hand held, 13 second exposure. EASTMAN Kodak Fine Grain Release Positive Film 5302 expired vintage from 1961. Shot at night and predawn at ISO 6. Shot with Hanimex / Praktica Super TL 35mm with Super Lentar 28mm f/3, and Soviet KMZ MIR-1 37mm f2.8 (adapted) M42, universal thread mount lenses. This was an experiment to test long exposures in limited natural light with this film. Interesting results. Most were handheld and supported. Stand developed in Glycin - carbonate developer for 2 1/2 hours, water stop, Ilford Hypam 1:4 fix. Scanned in B&W.
Indiana Southern loads cars for Indianapolis Power and Light's Petersburg (IN) plant at various mines located on their own line, Indiana Rail Road, and Norfolk Southern. This 100-car train is departing Triad Mining's Log Creek operation south east of Oakland City, which at one time was Enos mine for the Algers, Winslow and Western railway.
Farina.
A pastoral lease was taken up here in 1859 by George Davenport of Macclesfield and Beaumont and William Fowler. It was along the Leigh Creek (which flows occasionally into Lake Eyre) and the area was known as Government Gums. A town site was surveyed here in 1876 near the water reserve but no farming lands were ever surveyed. The town was declared in 1878 at the same time as the government was planning the northern railway and settlers arrived late that year. Although this region was far beyond Goyder’s Line (its northern limit was Orroroo - 316 kms to the south) Governor Jervois in his wisdom named the town Farina from a Latin word for flour. The grain paddocks never eventuated but a thriving town emerged based on the railway, supplies to the sheep and cattle stations, mail routes to properties along the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks and occasional mining in the Flinders and Gammon Ranges. The government was so optimistic about the future of this area that they laid out a town with a north, south, east and west terraces with 432 town blocks and 88 suburban blocks with small acreages. Although the first buildings were in timber or canvas stone structures soon followed with the foundation stone of the Transcontinental Hotel laid by a local Aboriginal woman on 5 June 1878. The hotel was licensed in 1879 as was the second hotel in town the Exchange Hotel. The railway was pushed up through Pichi Richi Pass to Quorn and Hawker in 1878 and extended to Farina in 1882. Chinese men were employed on building the railway and some settled in the town. Farina was the rail head from 1882 -1884 when the line went to Marree.
The town boomed in the 1880s. It soon had 100 adults and 50 children. The galvanised iron government school opened by 1882. Almost from its inception the town had two general stores, a couple of short lived breweries (within the two hotels), saddler, blacksmiths and underground bakery. Dozens of camel trains lined the streets loading goods for outlying stations. By 1886 Farina had 300 residents, about 30 houses an Anglican (wooden) church and 8 teamsters. Before 1900 it had a stone Police Station, a stone Post Office and telegraph station, and an enlarged school and the Catholics were raising funds to erect a Catholic which occured in 1897 and removed to Murraytown in 1937. After 1900 the town began to decline as the rail head was pushed beyond Marree to Oodnadatta by 1891 but it remained the staging post for camel trains to outback stations. Railway cottages were built for workers stationed in the town and an “Afghan town” emerged about a mile from the town. It was where all the Afghan cameleers lived with their families. Often they married Aboriginal women as their choices were limited at that time. But some of the Afghans (and some Chinese) were known to attend Methodist Church services well into the 20th century. As the population declined the churches suffered. By 1912 the Methodist Church seems to have closed and Methodist services were held in the assembly room of one of the hotels. Who said Methodists never went into hotels? The wooden Anglican Church survived for many years into the 1930s. A newspaper in 1928 noted that Farina had two churches, 50 children at the school, 50 houses, 73 adults on the electoral roll and a hotel.
The declining town was besieged literally by sand in the mid-1930s although at that time the train service was as strong as ever. The Commonwealth Railways took over the line from Marree to Oodnadatta from the SA government in 1911 with a promise to extend it all the way to Darwin. The Commonwealth reneged on that promise but they did build the line to Alice Springs between 1926 and 1929 when the Ghan service began. The harsh environment caught up with the town in 1935. Saint-a-Becket sand hill five mills away was gradually blown towards the town and newspapers reported that locals we paying £10 a year to have sand removed from their properties. The former Exchange Hotel was half covered in sand as the building was stripped of floor boards etc and it closed in 1937. Sand clogged the rail yards. The government commissioned a report by the Soil Erosion Committee. Prolonged drought, overstocking on the outlying pastoral properties and town residents grazing their own goats, camels and donkeys on the outskirts of the town all contributed to the problem. It was proposed to plant non-edible plants to animals and to create a fenced reserve around the town upon which no animals were allowed to graze. This rectified the problem but the town was dying by then anyway. Goats were kept by outback residents as a source of milk before refrigeration rail carriages could deliver milk. They were the forebears of the feral goats throughout the Flinders Ranges today. The camels of the Afghan cameleers were also the forebears of the feral camels that roam northern SA and the NT. A District and Bush Nurses Hospital opened in 1921 in the former Transcontinental Hotel which had closed in 1918. Then the establishment of Leigh Creek and hospital in 1943 reduced the need for a hospital in Farina. The hospital closed in 1945 as it had no staff and it formally closed in 1949. The Police station closed 1951. In 1936 the Farina school had 38 pupils but that declined and the school shut in 1957. The Post Office closed in 1960 as did the cemetery and the last general store closed in 1967. A new railway line was built in standard gauge to the Leigh Creek coalfields in 1956 and it was extended through Farina to Marree in 1957 but it closed too in 1980 when a new railway opened from Tarcoola to Alice Spring. Farina became a ghost town with a handful of residents. The last resident left in 1975. The railway to Farina was torn up in 1993. In 2009 a group of Victorian volunteers began a restoration project in the town on the remaining ten stone buildings. Farina now has secured a role to play in the outback history record of Sth. Australia.
I have had this film for about 10 years. I noticed how much the colour of the leader had changed. I have set the camera to expose this film at iso 50 to compensate for loss of sensitivity.
I am looking forward to seeing how the photographs turn out. I love the exitement of not knowing what film photographs will be like until they are developed. I will iuse this camera and film to make informal photographs mostly of my family and our friends.
Credits: Katie Pertiet - Maybe Tomorrow; Tabbed Dates No.1; Taped Together Overlays No.2; Selvage Frames No.1
Loading area for powder and dust products at the Morris & Perry Ltd., Gurney Slade limestone quarry. This independent family owned company supplies asphalt, ready mix concrete and aggregates. I think that this section is operated by the Gurney Slade Lime & Stone Company Limited (a subsidiaty of LKAB Minerals) a group engaged in the manufacture of ground limestone and fertilizer products, the recycling of limestone powders and mineral processing.
Pacific National 8139 and 8249 load grain at Cunningar in southern NSW, 17th February 2022. On display are at least 3 different eras of grain storage facilities plus the temporary at ground storage further back.
This truck was hauling a single-axle trailer carrying an oversized load through Stayner, ON today. I saw it coming and jumped out of the car to grab a shot but forgot to turn on Steady Shot (turned off for table-top shots earlier) so it is a bit soft, and didn't have time to dial in Continuous Shooting to get try to avoid overlapping traffic. Not the shot I was hoping for, but not a total bust.
RailBlox Industries recently opened a new factory location. Here, they are loading their first load of products at the loading bay.
Class 56 56100 was heading for Redcar Mineral Terminal when recorded near South Bank. The hoppers were either for loading with imported coal or possibly coke for Scunthorpe Steel Works.
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Bolton allocated Ivatt class 2 46417 and a short parcels train at Ramsbottom Station. In reality 46441 on a photo charter in 2002 creates the illsion perfectly
The top corner was also treated to some undercoat. I am very happy with the look of the offside bustle as it had a load of chopping and repair carried out on it and now it is in undercoat it looks fab.
Loading of the HAA hoppers was underway and once completed, Cardiff Canton's Class 37/5 37689 would take 7B64 from Tower Colliery via Aberdare to the Phurnacite plant at Abercwmboi.
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