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Looking northwest towards Marin County from the Albany Bulb landfill on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The tree line shadows reflected on the mud flats caught my eye.
Providence and Worcester Railroad's Valley Falls based local PR-3 is seen in this long telephoto view spotting a single loaded gondola for Nucor/Harris Rebar at the end of Moshassuck Running Track just south of Higginson Ave. in Lincoln. After dropping the resf of their train back on the mainline up by old Lawn Tower they made the trip up the branch with the single gon sandwiched between their two units. They nosed the north facing one into the siding then cut away and spotted the car with the south facing unit. Momentarily they will MU the two units and then return light back thru here headed off the 1.2 mile long branch.
Looking like the proud independent regional I grew up with, PR-3's two units still wear the classic red and brown scheme some eight years after Genesee and Wyoming orange took over. GP38-2s 2006 and 2008 are original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Feb. and Dec. 1980 respectively), and have spent their entire careers working the rails in and out of the Ocean State.
Colloquially known to railroaders as 'The Mud' this branch had been out of service for a couple years, but in a pleasant turnabout it recently returned to life when the railroad cleared all the enchroaching brush and put the signals back in service. In fact I believe this might be the first car since it returned to service.
Looking at this line as an outsider you wouldn't think much of it as it seems to be no more than any other old urban spur, but digging a bit deeper this line is so much more. This was once the mainline of one of the nation's shortest of shortlines and the tiniest of three such roads that maintained their independence through the late 19th and nearly all of the 20th centuries when the mighty New Haven was buying, leasing, merging, or crushing every other independent railroad in southern New England.
With credit to Edward Ozog's wonderful Rhode Island Railroads web site and Ronald Dale Karr's invaluable reference book "The Rail Lines of Southern New England" here is a bit of history.
Chartered in 1874 the two mile long Moshassuck Valley Railroad Company commenced operations in 1877 and ran from a main line interchange in Woodlawn, Pawtucket to Saylesville in the town Lincoln. It was built to serve the textile finishing mills of the Sayles brothers, but it was also a common carrier with a profitable freight business and for many years frequent passenger service. In fact until 1921 it ran up to 10 passenger trains a day with four stops on the 2 mile route.
The Sayles mills were the reason for building the MVRR and its major customer for most of its existence. Textiles to and from the Sayles Bleacheries, Lorraine Manufacturing Co. and Glenlyon Dye Works were a major source of traffic but there was also large amounts of coal for the mills and a variety of related products.
The textile industry in Rhode Island declined in the 1920's and 30's due to lower costs in the south and in 1960 Sayles operations ended. After 90 years being run by the Sayles family, the little road was sold to Standard Transportation in December 1967 and traffic remained relatively good as various light industries replaced the textile mills.
After 105 years of independent operations it was finally sold to its connecting carrier which by 1982 was the reborn Providence and Worcester. Nine years later the P&W abandoned the northern 3/4 of a mile of track north of the Higginson Avenue crossing where the MVRR's small yard and shop were located. Those shops still exist in fact and for decades the modern day P&W used the remodeled MVRR enginehouse to maintain MofW vehicles though when I drove by recently it appears to have been sold or leased for non railroad use.
To learn more and see some fabulous images of the MVRR in its earliest days and right up to the end in the late 70s click this link:
sites.google.com/site/moshassuckvalleyrailroad/Home
Lincoln, Rhode Island
Wednesday November 20,
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Dress your best for this Tuxedo Mud Cake. These down-under classic cakes are layered on top of one another with alternating frostings, no holiday required!
Get the recipe at: layercakeparade.com/tuxedo-mud-cake/
[10/365] Quest for mud!
For years I have longed for a picture with MX bikes and flying mud - my journey has come to an end.
My hard disk is full of countless shots of black dots to an empty background or flying mud with no context or meaning.
This picture is the shit!!!
Shot on “Stångebroslaget” which is an Enduro competition with over 2000 participants. I usually participate myself, but this year only my brother drove. My brother had his share of the mud and I had mine, but in a completely different way. Yes, I got dirty! ;)
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One of three rhinos in a group that was relaxing in the midday hotness. Photographed in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
A dark colored mud dauber from central Benin (collection from 1997). This wasp lives in miombo forests with 6 months of drought. The pointed and long mandibles are used to collect mud to build nests. The nests are often seen in crevices, old trees and houses. The impressive jaws are also used to hunt spiders that are brought to the nest. Total length of this wasp is 3,5cm; this image is about 10mm tall.
Studio stack based on 176 images taken with an MP-E 65mm at 3,5x (ISO100, f5.6, 1/200sec, wb on flash). Flash needed 3x2 AA batteries (GP, rechargeable NiMH, 2600mAh, 1.2V). One flash at 20 cm, diffused with a bristol paper roll, fitted rather close around the specimen (diameter 35mm). The colored streaks in the background (upper right) come from the wing.
Mud wrestlers during a bout at the Akhara Siyaram club on the banks of the Hoogly River in Kolkata. There are about fifty club members who treat the facility rather like a gym where they meet at around 5am to practice their training routines under the guidance of the guru, Jawala Tewari.
Kolkata, West Bengal. India.
December 2017. © David Hill
This is the first time I have seen a mud brick chimney. I grew up in a mud brick home, but the chimney was brick.
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"Mud-puddling is the phenomenon mostly seen in butterflies and involves their aggregation on substrates like wet soil, dung and carrion to obtain nutrients such as salts and amino acids. This behaviour has also been seen in some other insects, notably the leafhoppers.
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are diverse in their strategies to gather liquid nutrients. Typically, mud-puddling behavior takes place on wet soil. But even sweat on human skin may be attractive to butterflies. The most unusual sources include blood and tears
This behaviour is restricted to males in many species, and in some like Battus philenor the presence of an assembly of butterflies on the ground acts as a stimulus to join the presumptive mud-puddling flock"
Dupont WA, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-40mm f /4.0L
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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
We're right across the road from
The Spirit House.
The background is the mangrove
swamp.
The dogs are running on sticky
swamp clay.
Rocky an Little Stubby are going
bananas while Mama's being very
cautious.
6 months ago an excavator dredged
the swamp in order to build this berm.
What we have here is very slick, sticky,
stinky clay mud !
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128/365 - We have a water table/sand table combo for the kids...word of advice: don't EVER buy one of these...as you can see from this picture, it's a MUDDY MESS! We just let the boys go to town on it though since it was really the first time we enjoyed our backyard this year...plus it was Mother's Day so part of our tradition is that I don't have to lift a finger all day (which means my husband had to bathe them after, ha ha).
Dojran lake...placed at the south of MACEDONIA. Destination of the thousand of birds on their routh to the wormer places. But in the same time destination to lot of people who belive that the mud from the lake is a healing DRUG. Place full with magic....!
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