** A night shot of the Saint Laurent Bridge that crosses the River Saone between the city of Macon and the smaller settlement of Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône. A bridge I have walked and driven across many times.

This image is taken from Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône which is a good spot to have dinner and take in the skyline of Macon. The two spires you can see in the distance are the Eglise Church Saint Pierre.

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After waiting for the Calvert City train to depart the Paducah & Louisville Yard, CN Train L51371-13 starts its way up the lead toward the L&N Gate where it'll go down the P&I Connection to the Paducah & Illinois Railroad. From there it's to CR Jct., and back on the PAL Maxon District to Maxon, and onto the CN Chiles Sub. for a home rails run back to Fulton, KY.

The train will cross over the middle of the P&L Yard on the P&I bridge in the distance. This train is still affectionately referred to as the "FUPD", its old IC train symbol for Fulton, KY-Paducah, KY. I love the Illinois Central, and as much as a couple black EMD's would have been, I can't complain over the pair of dyed in the wool Canadian units. I don't remember the last time I saw a GP40-2LW, much less one paired with an SD40-2W in the North American Scheme.

CN 9452, CN 5319

7-13-22

Paducah, KY

Fortunatamente appena dopo essersi dissolto il mare di nebbia, l'IR 2924 diretto a Interlaken Ost transita nei pressi di Ewil Maxon, subito dopo aver fatto fermata a Sachseln.

A loaded BNSF coal train rolls east in the morning sun just outside of Avery, Iowa. This is one of the locations where the double track Ottumwa Sub runs of separate grades between Maxon and the east side of Avery.

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BNSF Ottumwa Sub

Avery, IA

Unknown Symbol

BNSF 8578 SD70ACe Blt. 2014

BNSF 5760 ES44AC Blt. 2005

(DPU) BNSF 9794 SD70MAC Blt. 1997

(DPU) BNSF 9393 SD70ACe Blt. 2006

Found in deserts, grasslands, and forests, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) cruises through the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Its slightly smaller relative, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox), is generally found further south. Both birds belong to the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, which also includes anis and malkohas. All the members of the family have zygodactyl feet, with two forward-facing and two backward-facing toes. The arrangement gives roadrunners X-shaped footprints.

According to The Real Roadrunner by Martha Anne Maxon, scientists have clocked the speedy birds running at 15 to 20 miles per hour. Coyotes can run twice as fast as even the fastest roadrunners, but luckily for the birds, coyotes would just as well dine on small rodents, plants, and lizards instead of birds.

After spending the day dropping ties along the BNSF Ottumwa Sub around Albia, Iowa, BNSF work train W MAXCTI1 04T makes a split at the 672nd Ave crossing and ties down for the night in the Maxon Siding. Lead ES44DC 7714 is looking worn with the hood and fuel tank covered with partially finished graffiti.

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BNSF Ottumwa Sub

Albia, IA

BNSF W MAXCTI1 04T (Maxon, IA to ???)

BNSF 7714 ES44DC Blt. 2005

This thing is going to come in so handy... I've now got a way to get those motors in Albia that the BNSF drops off in the west pass at Maxon instead of on the ISRY connection track. The 1400 was dropped off sometime in the last two weeks, the 1699 was dropped off earlier last week, and I think the Trinity commuter cars were dropped off on Thursday night. None had been moved to the connection track, making a damn nice drone photo op this morning.

A quartet of GE Genesis units lead Amtrak 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, as it cruises across BNSF's Ottumwa Sub on the east side of Albia, Iowa. The train has just passed through one of the sections on the line where Main 1 and Main 2 take different routes due to grade improvements in the past and is now just around the bend from the control point at Maxon. On the point of the day's train is AMTK 203, a P42DC that was been specially painted in an Operation Lifesaver scheme.

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BNSF Ottumwa Sub

Albia, IA

AMTK 6 (Passenger; San Francisco, CA to Chicago, IL)

AMTK 203 P42DC Blt. 2001

AMTK 33 P42DC Blt. 1996

AMTK 815 P40DC Blt. 1993

AMTK 186 P42DC Blt. 2001

One of the first things you'll see in Ruth Bancroft Garden are six Tabebuia trees. It was the second thing I saw. I stopped and tried to isolate a branch with flowers at the end. It wasn't easy. It is a 35 foot tree, and very little at eye level. This photo was take on the fourth day when I was lucky.

Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. The common name "roble" is sometimes found in English. Tabebuias have been called "trumpet trees", but this name is usually applied to other trees and has become a source of confusion and misidentification.

Tabebuia consists almost entirely of trees, but a few are often large shrubs. A few species produce timber, but the genus is mostly known for those that are cultivated as flowering trees.

By the end of August, I had images of the gold, tangerine, and pink varieties, but this orange was the most striking.

Found him on street view, doing trash.

Train 554 Maxon Road May 28, 1994

Running the recycling route on a Monday afternoon in Los Angeles

Operated by Marios Trucking based in Sun Valley CA

collecting dumpsters labeled BLT Recycling.

D&H train RPPY with RS3u 501 leading at Maxon Rd.,Schenectady,N.Y.,photo taken on May 27,1984.

Legal One hopper paired to an early 80s "og" sloped Amrep Octo body. Gotta love the custom stuff you find in LA.

An empty coal train drop down grade out of Albia. the Ottumwa Sub mains are split here due to the grades in this area. The old way would not allow coal trains to take main #1 between Halpin and Maxon because they couldn't make the 1.2-1.5% grade. Not sure if that is still the case with DP power and such, but the normal operation today is to have coal train use main #2, as is the case here as a load is crawling up main #2 across town as this empty rolls west towards next crew change in Creston, IA.

Footage of a very similar truck, #25, is posted at youtube!!

This was a fun catch. I had heard that earlier in the week No. 5 had to drop off a motor at Maxon (Albia). I'd been tracking a slightly late No. 6 across Iowa as I did light work around the house while nursing a cold on Sunday morning. I noticed that it had stopped just east of Albia and seemed to be taking a long time. I had a hunch that it had stopped ot pick up that motor to drag back to Chicago, and I turned out to be more correct than I could have imagined. I thought for sure it would be in the middle of the head two motors, but it turns out they picked it up on the rear! I've lived here for 5 years this week and I've not seen this before!

The focal point of this park is the beautifully renovated two-story house with elegant white columns and wrap-around porch. Surrounded by moss-draped live oaks and ornamental gardens, the Wesley House inspires visions of hoop skirts and landed gentry.

What was once the home of the William Henry Wesley family is now a place of tranquility. Yet 100 years ago, the site was alive with mechanical and human energy. This was the hub of the Wesley Lumber Company, operating from 1890 until after World War I. Company holdings included a sawmill, planner mill and dry kiln, with a dock to facilitate loading barges in Tucker Bayou for shipping lumber.

Wesley built his home near the mill in 1897, and his family lived there until 1953 when his wife, Katie Strickland Wesley, died and the home was sold with 10.5 acres. Ten years later, Lois Maxon fell in love with the place and purchased it, converting the house into a showplace for her family antiques and heirlooms. Ms. Maxon developed the grounds as ornamental gardens, and in 1968 she donated Eden Gardens to the state of Florida.

The staff and volunteers of Eden Gardens take great pride in protecting and preserving this property for future generations by interpreting its history and resources, and maintaining the beautiful azalea and camellia bushes scattered throughout the grounds.

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