Niles Canyon Railway
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“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
Charles Caleb Colton
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“The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kruger National Park.
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The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The longest river in Africa, it has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. The Nile is amongst the smallest of the major world rivers by measure of cubic metres flowing annually. About 6,650 km (4,130 mi)[a] long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.[9] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile
I think that, of all the times I have shot this hill, this is the first time I have tried it in B&W. I like it.
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Hans Makart
Kleopatra auf dem Nil
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Kunstmuseum des Landes Baden-Württemberg
A ride with local fishermen in their boats sharing the traditional experience and skills of these men who live in harmony with the Nile. Shot from Besaw island some 100km north of Aswan.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 6, 1976
Back in 1912, the Western Pacific constructed Niles Tower, an interlocking plant where the WP crossed the Southern Pacific Railroad in Niles, California. The tower stood in relative obscurity until railfans and a historians realized the tower's time was about up, and standard technology of 1912 was ancient technology by 1980.
Niles Tower finally succumbed to SP's implementation of CTC and DTC in early 1986, and the building itself was sadly destroyed in two successive fires that same year. Although WP operators manned the tower (as part of the agreement allowing WP to cross SP tracks), most of their work involved SP trains: cutting orders and routing trains around SP's two wye tracks. WP work was largely confined to lighting signals, and routing their own trains over the SP diamond.
Doug Harrop lived in San Francisco and made numerous trips to Altamont to capture Western Pacific's "Fab Four" quartet of F7s in freight service on the San Jose Turn in the mid- to late 1970s. He captured this stunning view as WP 921 approaches the SP diamonds at Niles Tower on April 6, 1976.
Today's theme: riverfront, Chobe National Park, Botswana. I took an afternoon cruise on the Chobe River where it was possible to see animals on the river bank. Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also the most biologically diverse. Located in the north of the country, it is Botswana's third largest park after Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Gemsbok National Park.
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent.
A ship on the Nile (1888 - 1898). My colorization of Pascal Sébah´s photo in the Rijksmuseum archive. To me this looks more like a yacht than a cargo vessel.
PHOTO SHOT IN THE SERENGETI PARK ,IN TANZANIA WITH PENTAX K 10 D AND smc PENTAX-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED
The statue is located in the little square named Piazzetta Nilo. During the Roman Empire in that area of Naples lived many Egyptians. They decided to erect a statue of the Nile god. The statue was lost with the collapse of the Roman Empire. It was recovered many centuries later headless. In 1647 it was placed in the present location with a new head. In the 1950s some parts of the statue were stolen including the little Sphinx. In 2013 a special branch of the Carabinieri found the little Spinx in Austria and after a restoration it has been set again in its original place.