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The annual fair was always such a big deal I was thrilled to see it come to life at Old Town. Read more about this amazing place here on the SLuggle

Evening on San Diego's Marina and the impressive Midway aircraft carrier.

Yellowstone National Park

Midway Geyser Basin

Prismatic Spring

 

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF17-40mmF/4L-USM

Aperture: f/13

Focal Length: 23 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/400

ISO: 100

 

The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego, California at Navy Pier. The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway. The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern Californi

The USS Midway was the United States' longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century, from 1945 to 1992. Approximately 200,000 sailors served aboard the carrier, known for several naval aviation breakthroughs as well as several humanitarian missions. It was the only carrier to serve the entire length of the Cold War and beyond. It is currently a museum ship in San Diego, California.

Midway opened as a museum on 7 June 2004. By 2012 annual visitation exceeded 1 million visitors. As of 2015 Midway is the most popular naval warship museum in the United States.The museum has over 13,000 members, and hosts more than 700 events a year, including more than 400 active-duty Navy retirements, re-enlistments, and changes of command. The museum also hosts approximately 50,000 students on field trips and 5,000 children in its overnight program annually.

Admission includes a self-guided audio tour, narrated by former Midway sailors to more than 60 locations, including sleeping quarters, engine room, galley, bridge, brig, post office, foc's'le, pilots' ready rooms, officers quarters, primary flight control, and "officers country". Other features include climb-aboard aircraft and cockpits, videos, flight simulators, and a narrated audio tour for youngsters.

In addition to private events, the museum has hosted several events, including a nationally broadcast NCAA basketball game between San Diego State University and Syracuse University in 2012. American Idol has filmed an episode on Midway, as have the Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, FOX News, The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover, History Channel, and Military Channel.

Membership has grown to more than 25,000. A high definition, holographic movie theater, "The Battle of Midway Theater", was added in 2017, and in 2019 the museum is adding a virtual reality flight simulator ride in addition to its existing four flight simulators.

 

The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego, California at Navy Pier. The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway. The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern Californi

The USS Midway was the United States' longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century, from 1945 to 1992. Approximately 200,000 sailors served aboard the carrier, known for several naval aviation breakthroughs as well as several humanitarian missions. It was the only carrier to serve the entire length of the Cold War and beyond. It is currently a museum ship in San Diego, California.

Midway opened as a museum on 7 June 2004. By 2012 annual visitation exceeded 1 million visitors. As of 2015 Midway is the most popular naval warship museum in the United States.The museum has over 13,000 members, and hosts more than 700 events a year, including more than 400 active-duty Navy retirements, re-enlistments, and changes of command. The museum also hosts approximately 50,000 students on field trips and 5,000 children in its overnight program annually.

Admission includes a self-guided audio tour, narrated by former Midway sailors to more than 60 locations, including sleeping quarters, engine room, galley, bridge, brig, post office, foc's'le, pilots' ready rooms, officers quarters, primary flight control, and "officers country". Other features include climb-aboard aircraft and cockpits, videos, flight simulators, and a narrated audio tour for youngsters.

In addition to private events, the museum has hosted several events, including a nationally broadcast NCAA basketball game between San Diego State University and Syracuse University in 2012. American Idol has filmed an episode on Midway, as have the Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, FOX News, The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover, History Channel, and Military Channel.

Membership has grown to more than 25,000. A high definition, holographic movie theater, "The Battle of Midway Theater", was added in 2017, and in 2019 the museum is adding a virtual reality flight simulator ride in addition to its existing four flight simulators.

 

Yellowstone National Park, Wy

 

I have many shots of the geysers and will be posting in the next few days...With some I have used my creative side...others I will upload what I saw...This one is a combination of both...

 

Do click for a better view...

 

Doyle, California

Interesting fact: If you search in Flickr for "midway motel," you get 594 photos.

This location is midway between the villages of Scarcroft and Thorner.

 

Sunset was developing but just faded away

  

With a photogenic leader, CP 198 brings their stack train over the hill on the ex-GN, having finished their work at Shoreham Yard. It is easy enough for West Hump to send them down the St. Paul Sub when coming out of Shoreham, but today West Hump was nice enough to send them down the Midway Sub.

USS Midway was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, it operated for an unprecedented 47 years, during which time it saw action in the Vietnam War and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm. Decommissioned in 1992, it is now a museum ship at the USS Midway Museum, in San Diego, California, and the only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.

The Midway Geyser Basin was thick with mist when we visited one early morning at Yellowstone. I liked the lines and textures of the bacteria that thrive in this unreal super-heated geyser basin. Lots of lens cleaning that day 😁

For my video; youtu.be/r6JxDFBqm3Y?si=yOUkiz43EoN3h_qk,

 

Klaipedia Lithuania,

 

Smiltynė, Klaipėda County, Lithuania

Downtown Minneapolis looms in the background while the remote set of BNSF locomotives move empty well cars at the Midway Terminal. The Twin Cities & Western waits for a signal while BNSF maintenance works a pair of crossover switches ahead.

. . . Lynn's quest for the perfect fair food: apple pie on a stick, jalapeno burger dogs, hot beef sundae or pulled pork parfait -- washed down with a jug of icy root beer!

A westbound Deseret Power Railway coal train approaches the Highway 64 overpass, west of Midway, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.

The village below as seen on trek to Brahmatal in Kumaun Himalayas, India

Another Fb rescue, Canon EOS Rebel 3Ti, Tamron 18-270mm lens

Yellowstone National Park

Midway between the "Fairy Forest" and Seneca rocks I saw this beautiful scene and couldn't resist a snap. You can see the moon getting ready to put out some light. This time of year, and especially later in the afternoon the shadows are very strong and I really like that. I also like the hex sign on the barn. The line of white looking trees at the base of the mountains are Sycamores and I'm guessing there is a river or creek running along there as they grow profusely along the banks of water. Perhaps it's the Greenbriar River as we did follow that for some way. Taken while careening down the road with Anita at the wheel! :D

Midway Series, New Mexico State Fair 2015

This was the view crossing the walking bridge over Firehole River. Waters from geysers at the Midway Geyser Basin on the right run down into the Firehole River on the left. The waters are very hot as you can see steam coming off the stream flow from the right. In the background center steam rises off of the Excelsior Geyser Crater. The colors on the rock are due to chemicals coming out of the water as well as possible thermophiles - heat loving microbes. Other water features at Midway are the Opal Pool, Turquoise Pool, and the Grand Prismatic Spring.

 

Taken 17 September 2014 at Yellowstone National Park.

A trio of E60C locomotives leads a loaded coal train on the Deseret Power Railroad, the last heavy-haul electric freight railroad in the United States, through a remote section of Rio Blanco County, Colorado. June, 15, 2020.

............................................. “Midway”

  

I don’t know all the bright and shinning paths to heaven,

 

But I do know that midway along the way we choose

between shadow...and light.

 

I don’t know if a day shall be marked... "end of days"

 

But I do know that if it were so, it would fall midway

between counted yesterdays and uncounted tomorrows.

 

I don’t know if any breath bent to word can truly be true

 

But I do know the moments most pure are laid midway

between a breath drawn ...and a sigh released.

 

I don’t know if one should whisper aloud just how passionate the kiss

 

But I do know that given the chance I would linger midway

between your longest …and your sweetest.

  

I don’t know how far exactly from "here"... to "there",

 

But I do know that "midway" is charted somewhere-

between the setting of sails and the lifting of anchors.

 

...Sigh,

 

I won't pretend... I don’t know all the bright and shinning paths to heaven.

But I do know that when I follow you -

 

..."heaven" is found on a wing and a prayer, midway

-between a divided cloud, and a last sacred light of day.

 

...

.

.

.

 

Greg Hughey Revised August 29, 2004 / 2nd revision August 1, 2007 "/3rd (smile) February 18th, 2014" ** ©

* dedicated to the "soul mates", deep within us all....

Museum Ship USS Midway (CV-41) permanently berthed at the San Diego Waterfront since 2004. Commissioned just eight days after the end of WWII modified in 1955 and again in 1970, 45,000t in 1945, 64,000t at Decommissing in 1992, she served in the Viertnam conflict (twice) and the Gulf War in 1991. Believed to be the largest Aircraft carrier open to the public anywhere.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming USA. Opal Pool (?), Firehole River. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. & is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. It was established in 1872. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features.

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Sony a6300. Sony 16-50mm F3.5-5.6. 16mm F1.4. F11, 1/160 sec, ISO 100. Thanks for viewing.

 

Baca County, Colorado

Early morning departure from Midway International Airport. The view from seat 9F.

A pair of CPKC SD30C-ECOs pull into Minnesota Commercial's Midway Yard with the J15 (CPBN) job on a quiet Sunday morning. This was my first time seeing these unique rebuilds, of which only CPKC and CSX roster.

The Belt Job arrives Midway Yard behind repainted ex-Frisco B30-7 #54 in subzero temperatures.

Museum Ship USS Midway at San Diego waterfront opened as such in 2004. Originally built in only 17 months and commissioned one week after the end of WWII. Modernised in 1955 & again in 1970 from 45,000 ton displacement in 1945 to 64,000 tons on decommission in 1992. Participated in Vietnam conflict (twice) and the Gulf War 1991 and to date is the largest aircraft carrier open to the public.

Beautiful old railroad town with shops, restaurants and a railroad depot. Located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region.

This upward facing view of the U.S.S. Midway, in service from 1945 to 1992, now docked in Navy Pier in San Diego, brought to mind the "Defying Gravity" theme. It was amazing to see all of the cantilevered, unsupported layers of the ship and the height of 222'. So enjoyed our tour there are grew even more appreciate of the many who served our country on her (including my husband's father who was stationed on the Midway). Stats that they shared were just mind blowing. Here are a few fun facts: 4,500 crewmembers, 13,000 meals a day (500 pies a day, 1,000 loaves of bread a day), 212,000 horsepower, 3.4 million gallons of fuel, 69,000 tons fully loaded.

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

 

This photo was taken at the Letaba rest camp in the Kruger National Park. The camp is situated on a sweeping bend of the Letaba River, midway between the southern and northern boundaries of the Park.

 

In winter the gardens are a riot of colour, with several species of Aloe and the Impala lily in full bloom.

 

The Aloes attract a variety of birds, including the White Bellied, Collared and Marico Sunbird, Crested Barbet, Blackheaded Oriole and Black Eyed Bulbul.

After a delay in Rupp Yard the crew of RJ Corman's Z545 has the train underway as it passes the Civil War era buildings in the town of Midway, Kentucky.

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A trio of Deseret Power Railroad E60C electrics lead a coal train near Midway siding in remote northwest Colorado.

on our invisible axis

a thousand miles an hour

in outer darkness

and with even more velocity

in our elliptical orbit, tiny

blue marble in an endless

sea of night, we do not feel

the speed of this life,

of time passing by,

of the girl you were

now grown old,

overnight, it seems,

and what keeps us

from flying off

as the merry-go-round

whirls and the midway

wheel leaves us

momentarily breathless,

if not for my holding

your hand

all these years,

now more tightly

than ever.

 

M deO

Carnival Midway at the Boone County Fair in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/11.0 with an 8-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.

 

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MIDWAY on long Winander’s eastern shore,

Within the crescent of a pleasant bay.

A southbound CN vehicle train passes the meandering Honey Creek on the main at Midway. Siding is so named because it's about midway between Chicago and Fond du Lac.

The TC&W Saint Paul Turn interchanges with the Commercial alongside the #43 working a yard job. After finishing its work at Midway, the train will head down to South Saint Paul to interchange with the UP.

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