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24K rolls into Morrisville Yard, with a slightly beaten and battered Jersey Central Lines H/U on the point. As a side note, I'd typically try to move some of the junk laying around, but a NS maintainer was parked right next to me, and I decided it wasn't the best choice to attempt trash removal.
For 'New Wall Wednesday'. Norfolk flint and brick wall, Sheringham, North Norfolk.
This is the north facing gable-end of the former whelk boiling buildings. Now a house and tea rooms, called 'Whelk Coppers'
This photographs was taken yesterday at dawn on the Norfolk Coast at Caister on sea. The forecast for the morning was rain up until 7am, then overcast for most of the morning with occasional showers. Typically, it lashed it down for most of the day and gave me a good soaking. Shortly after sunrise there was some lovely muted colour appear just above the horizon. Trying to keep the lens free from rain spots turned out to be a nightmare.
This image was shot on a Nikon D800 using a Nikon 24-120 mm f4 Lens at 0.6 sec exposure at f/11 & ISO 160.
See more of my Norfolk & Suffolk landscape photos at: www.stevedocwra.co.uk
Hunstanton beach is remarkable for its striking pink and white striped cliffs, formed from a combination of Norfolk carstone and white chalk.
The spacious beach area has plenty of interesting rock pools for visitors to enjoy, and young explorers may be lucky enough to find fossils among the rocks and shingle..
The "original" Norfolk Southern Railway heritage unit, NS 8114, leads westbound stack train 21A through the intermediate signals at MP 116 on the NS Pittsburgh Line on the haziest of summer afternoons.
WWRFP 6/28/16 RLP 8/15/16
NS 2512 (SD70), with 3 powered units trailing, pulling 13 dead units westbound & is about to cross Canadian National @ Centralia, Il. (140308)*
The third train here in the span of 10 minutes was Amtrak regional train 93 from Boston to Norfolk making its station stop on Main 3 at MP CFP 105.2 of modern day CSXT's RF&P Subdivision. In the lead is AMTK 46, a GE P42DC blt. Jan. 1997 and dressed in a special 50th Anniversary scheme applied a couple years ago.
At left stands the busy and nicely restored Alexandria Union Station. Built in 1905 by the Richmond-Washington Company (corporate parent of the modern RF&P created as a holding company in 1901 by six owning Class 1s) it passed to Amtrak in 1971 and has been owned by the city since 2001, receiving National Register of Historic Places designation in 2013. Designed by the Pennsylvania Railroad’s office of the chief engineer in a Colonial-Revival style with Federal details it served trains of the Southern Railway, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
The station is very busy with some 32 VRE trains stopping daily plus up to 28 Amtrak regional and long distance trains to and from destinations as far as Boston, Chicago, Roanoke, and Miami. Throw in 14-18 CSXT trains and you have a pretty decent train watching spot.
Here are two nice overviews if you want to learn more:
www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/alexandria-va-alx/
www.trains.com/trn/railroads/hotspots/hot-spot-alexandria...
Alexandria, Virginia
Thursday March 23, 2023
Thurton is a village in South Norfolk lying 8½ miles (13½ km) south-east of Norwich between Framingham Pigot and Loddon. Thurton is written 'Tortuna' in the Domesday Book. The suffix is the Anglo-Saxon 'tun', meaning an enclosed space. The prefix may refer to a thorn bush, or perhaps to the Anglo-Saxon god Thunor, whom the Normans called Thur. So Thurton may mean 'the place of the thorn bush' or 'Thor's enclosure'.
The village sign was cast at a foundry in the village and replaced the previous sign that stood for 40 years. The sign depicts an image of St. Ethelbert taken from a stained glass window in the village's parish church of St. Ethelbert.
Overstrand in Norfolk a great place to try out long exposure photography with some interesting see defences.
Female Norfolk Hawker testing the water for egg laying.
NS 20E has the original Norfolk Southern heritage unit leading for an early morning run through Piscataway.
NS 8114 ES44AC "Norfolk Southern"