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Golden crowned kinglet showing off for the ladies. Taken deep in the forest, NC Arboretum, Asheville.
Mohawk Falls is the first waterfall along the Ganoga Glen branch of Kitchen Creek. The falls plunge over an initial undercut ledge, and then spread outward across a broad shelf. Online reference to all the details: www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/waterfall/Mohawk-Falls-18661
Tipped over outhouse - someone digging in the pit? Lots of stuff thrown in there. Thanks to Rick Gulden for bringing this subject up.
I vividly remember as a kid seeing this exact type of US&S signal all along the SP mainline that ran through my hometown. In the early 90s SP sold off it and a few other lines to the Southern California Regional Rail Authority which planned to operate Metrolink commuter trains on them. It wasn’t long before they were all replaced in favor of a more modern signaling system. Fast forward to early 2017 when a good friend gave me the heads up there were still many in operation along the Sunset Route in Arizona. I made my fair share of trips to document as many as I could, but for some reason this is the only photo I got that seems to capture the same way I remember them as a kid without the wooden poles and relay antennas all the remaining few seen to have.
Recently, my good friend Caleb Wentzell twisted my arm to spend a morning on CSX (and I'm glad he did!). The original plan was to head out to the Mohawk Subdivision around Amsterdam, NY but -- to make a long story short -- we ended up on the Selkirk Branch instead.
During our morning trackside, I lamented how -- in twenty-five years of doing railroad photography -- any time I decided to go to CSX I got widecabs more often than not. It's one of the things that kept me away from CSX and led me to gravitate more towards regionals and shortlines.
However, I DID remember one memorable, non-widecab catch on CSX, and it wasn't that long ago. On May 10, 2022, CSX ran their B&O-inspired OCS from Selkirk west in the afternoon. I just happened to have the full day off, and one of the surprises of the morning was a an eastbound Q626 with SD40-2 #8054 leading. I gave chase from St. Johnsville, NY to South Schenectady before heading back west to Little Falls to get into position for the OCS in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, word got out that the CSXT 8054 had turned at Selkirk and was going to lead Q627 back west behind the OCS. So, it was very much worth sticking around a little longer to catch the scene you see here!
CSX Train Q627
Little Falls, NY
May 10, 2022
The fog blankets the Mohawk Valley on this cool fall morming as New York, Susquehanna and Western local freight UT-1 starts their day after coming up the lead from the enginhouse with GP40 3040 (EMD blt. May 1970 as AWP 732). They will do a bit of switching in their former Lackawanna yard and then gather up four cars and head down the street to start their day's work peddling cars around New Hartford and New York Mills.
Utica, New York
Thursday October 28, 2021
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River view captured at Mowhawk Valley Rest Stop
New York Turnpike (I-90)
Crop & Contrast edits in Flickr Photo Editor
Springtime at the Mohawk Waterfall in Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania. This 37 foot waterfall is the first waterfall from the top of the Falls Trail on the Ganoga Glen side.
Panel of a mural by Sebastian (Mr. D) Boileau aka @mrd1987 for the Coffee House at West End, seen at 4782 Rose Street in Houston, Texas.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
UP 2593 East approaches the west end of Stoval while sprinting through vast emptiness of the Sonoran Desert.
Created for TMI's BEAUTIFUL BRANCHES challenge.
I have no idea what these amazing trees are … some kind of succulent, I guess … but they're a few blocks away from me and I've been enjoying them for years. See the original photo HERE.
Like My Mohawk? I have seldom seen a green heron with its crest raised. Taken at John Heinz NWR,
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I've always wanted to shoot trains with heat distortion so I got an opportunity back in the summer of 2017 when we took a family trip out to Palm Springs. It was a big group on my wife's side of the family and we arrived Friday night, so I took advantage of the situation and drove out to Yuma where I'd stay the night, with the condition I'd be back by early afternoon the next day. I got up early the next morning only to find a lack of traffic, but finally got some action by late morning. Here UP 2613 East approaches a pair of intermediates as the midday heat sends heat waves roiling through the air.
one from "a trip down the lane - just to the left of center" to see the rest bytegirlphotography.com
And this was one of those rare times.. he definitely saw me, lol. But I saw him coming, planted myself and waited because I wanted him in the frame with the face ;)
Overlooking the Mohawk Pool at Iroquois Wildlife Refuge off Feeder Road. The black dot up in the tree is a Turkey Vulture.
New York Central L3a 4-8-2 "Mohawk" #3001 poses during a night photo session at the National New York Central RR Museum, back in January of 2011. Some friends and I spent most of the afternoon rigging the scene lighting as well as a fog machine and box fan inside the smokebox to make #3001 look a little more "alive". The locomotive has since had its elephant ears re-installed and more recently has been sold to the Fort Wayne RR Historical Society. It will take time and money, but the plan is for this stately old gray hound to run again.
The L3a class were the first of the dual-service Mohawks to arrive on the Central. NYC rostered more 4-8-2s than other railroad, with a fleet of 600 of them. The freight L1s and L2s were basically the SD40s of their era: go anywhere, do anything. The L3as (and the even more modern L4s that followed) were an improvement of the earlier design, with better cross-balancing and weight distribution for higher-speed running. They joined the Central's famous Hudsons in passenger and express service all across the system, from Mackinaw City, MI to St. Louis, MO, and everywhere in between. While other railroads would adopt 2-8-4s and 4-8-4s for fast freight service, the Mohawks were plenty powerful for the mostly flat NYC. The 4-8-4 Niagaras would come much later. While they were dual-service engines, most worked primarily in passenger service until very late in their careers. The NYC was not kind to preservation, and today #3001 is one of just six remaining NYC steamers.
NYC Alco (American Locomotive Company) 4-8-2 L-3a class Mohawk locomotive at the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, IN.
When my great grandfather A. R. Miller migrated west from Pennsylvania in the later 1800's, he settled in Elkhart, IN. There he worked for the New York Central Railroad in the roundhouse servicing NYC's steam locomotives and turning them for their return trip to New York. I do not know what years he worked there so I don't know if he serviced Mohawks. The first Mohawks were built in 1916. The one pictured that resides at the museum was built around 1940.
Seeing as I don't normally post on Mondays due to work, etc. but have today off and am home, how about a "Mohawk Morning Monday"?
You have to get up early in the summer if you want this shot, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to do with more growth obstructing the former Adirondack Power and Light building. At 6:45 AM on June 24, 2021, eastbound CSX Train K504 -- a loaded rail train -- heads east through Cranesville, NY on the Mohawk Subdivision.
CSX Train K504 (loaded rail train)
Cranesville, NY
June 24, 2021