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Lower, older bridge is no longer used. The higher, new bridge provide a more efficient route between Albany and Bethlehem.
When you're driving north on the New York State Thruway, and you're just getting to Albany, you go over a high bridge over the Normanskill. If you had looked to the right on November 7th at 11:24 in the morning, you would have seen me taking this picture. Albany County Rail Trail, formerly the Delaware & Hudson.
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Made some sheaths for my primitive normanskill skinning and butchering knives. #paleo #paleoindian #flutedpoints #experimentalarchaeology #knife #primitiveknife #stoneknife #crafts ift.tt/2hhHBvg
I brought Jack to the Normanskill with Dezzy because he loves to swim. Unfortunately, he's also super disobedient when he finds better things to focus on (other dogs). Half the time I was yelling at him and reeling him in. He also managed to find the only dead decaying slimy thing on the shore and proceeded to suck it down inch by inch while I choked him up and correct the hell out of him and yell "Drop it!" ...until I finally had to take my bare hand and pull the dead decaying rotting corpse of whatever animal it used to be out of his throat. I think it was the remnant of a squirrel, the stringy spaghetti washed up remnants of a squirrel.
Thanks for always being true to your character, Jack. Always the dick.
On another note: My computer died last week, so I was unable to upload/process my photos in time for the week 18 submission. *sigh* I feel like such a failure in this project. I also have a lot of difficulty squeezing in photos of Jack because he isn't my primary companion on outings. He's a housedog, he doesn't go out to public places because of his anxieties. He's also a big fat jerk of a dominant terrier, so he isn't reliable off-leash and has the worst case of selective hearing I have ever encountered in a dog. Can I change my commitment for this project from just one dog to two? If I can use Dezzy when I can't get Jack out for photos it would make my life a lot easier. I feel like I should have gone with my gut and used Dezzy for this project instead of Jack. :(
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This stuff is so hard to flake, it’s so low quality, it’s also incredibly difficult to acquire and rare to find in creeks. I wish I knew someone who had an outcropping on their land. I have some kind of obesssion with #normanskill #chert. I think it might just be a magic stone. #paleo #paleoindians #flintknapping #ancientways #forgottenknowledge #crafts ift.tt/2inREUI
This is the bridge that led to the closing, abandonment, and removal of tracks of the former D&H Albany Main between Albany, NY and Voorheesville, NY. Around 2000 or so, Canadian Pacific condemned this bridge over the Normanskill Creek (near Delmar) as unsafe for trains to pass over. Rather than repairing the bridge, CP went with a cheaper option: Rehabbing the Albany Main between Delanson and Voorheesville. Around 2003 or so, CP removed the tracks between Voorheesville and Albany. Albany County is converting the line to a rail trail, and the portion between Albany and Delmar is not only open, but also paved. On New Year's Day, my wife and I walked the trail between Albany and just beyond the bridge. It was a very enjoyable and scenic walk, especially along the Normanskill Creek. Though I'm sad that railroad is gone, I'm glad to see the ROW preserved. Additionally, the trail remains "railbanked," meaning that the railroad could be restored if a railroad company can show the STB the viability of such restoration.
A view from above of this tiny stream that winds its way through Guilderland NY to join the Normanskill and flow to the Hudson River.
Photo taken along the bridge that spans the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y.
Photograph taken with GAF Aerial film (Aerographic) 70mm sprocketed film. Three exposures were generated, then combined in film-based HDR capture. Camera used was an Agfa Chief. Photo by Chuck Miller.
Flying in to Albany, NY from the south, you can see the Port of Albany yard (very much not abandoned), and the D&H Delanson Branch (very much abandoned). The D&H is curving off the CSX yard in the very center of the photo. It then goes alongside the Normanskill underneath US-9 and I-87 (the NYS Thruway) out the bottom-left corner of the photograph.
There's also an industrial which curves counter-clockwise around the two big buildings in the middle, to end up on the right-hand-side of the bottom of the two big buildings. I think that industrial still had tracks up to a few years ago, when the whole thing was cleared out in preparation for turning the D&H into the Albany County Rail Trail. They're still waiting for funding. I think the goal is to pave it all, end to end. They've got a few sections open in the middle with some stone dust.
There's also a bridge over NY-32 (which goes behind the two big buildings near the center). It's still painted with the D&H logo, which is still an existing corporation -- just wholly owned by CN.
June 2th, 2012 vs Nov 7th, 2015. Quite a difference! Normanskill bridge on the Albany Main of the Delaware and Hudson just a bit west of the NYS Thruway. Now the Albany County Rail Trail.
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Put together a little #knife sheathe out of #deer #hide for safer transport of the #normanskill #knife and #flaker it’s sharp as hell! Nice little #butchering tool. #crafts #outdoors #bushcraft #survival #paleo #paleoindian #replication #flint #chert ift.tt/29N5N4R
These signals have some messy visors! They are tunnel visors with sideways tunnel visors attatched on the end (except the one on the left, where its cap visors on the end). Odd indeed and really interesting! NY 155 at Normanskill Rd in Voorheesville, NY.
June 2th, 2012 vs Nov 7th, 2015. Quite a difference! Normanskill bridge on the Albany Main of the Delaware and Hudson just a bit west of the NYS Thruway. Now the Albany County Rail Trail.
HDR picture of an abandoned bulldozer in the woods of the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y. Nikon D700 camera, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller.
HDR picture of an abandoned bulldozer in the woods of the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y. Nikon D700 camera, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller.
HDR picture of an abandoned bulldozer in the woods of the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y. Nikon D700 camera, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller.
oldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion work to clear space near Normanskill Creek in Albany, N.Y. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 as part of New York's preparations for the possible landfall of Hurricane Joaquin. At the direction of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo members of the battalion were mobilized to work with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to clear obstructions from waterways which could cause flooding during a heavy rainfall. As part of that process the engineers created space where debris from the stream could be deposited. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Major Corine Lombardo/Released)
Soldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion work to clear space near Normanskill Creek in Albany, N.Y. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 as part of New York's preparations for the possible landfall of Hurricane Joaquin. At the direction of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo members of the battalion were mobilized to work with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to clear obstructions from waterways which could cause flooding during a heavy rainfall. As part of that process the engineers created space where debris from the stream could be deposited. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Major Corine Lombardo/Released)
Traffic signals at the skewed intersection of NY 155 and Normanskill Road in Voorheesville. Rather than cough up some extra money for proper louvers, NYSDOT just slapped a second set of visors at the end of the ones attached to the signal to block the view of the cross street's signal.
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Decided to work on some of the #normanskill #chert that I received as a gift. It looks and works amazing. Decided to make a knife and pressure flaker in one tool. #paleo #paleoindian #flutedpoint #oldstuffiscool #knife #blade #flint #primitive #traditional #warrior #survivalist #earthskills #bushcraft #chipping #stone #chippingstone #crafts #caveman #visionquest #visionquestarts ift.tt/2aal5Tj
HDR picture of an abandoned bulldozer in the woods of the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y. Nikon D700 camera, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller.
Traffic signals at the skewed intersection of NY 155 and Normanskill Road in Voorheesville. Rather than cough up some extra money for proper louvers, NYSDOT just slapped a second set of visors at the end of the ones attached to the signal to block the view of the cross street's signal.
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a little point I knapped #normanskill #arrowhead #flintknapping #bow #primitive #bushcraft #aboknapping #abo #paleo #rewild #lithic #flint #chert #crafts ift.tt/2dICcB9
HDR picture of an abandoned bulldozer in the woods of the Normanskill Creek, Delmar, N.Y. Nikon D700 camera, Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller.
Soldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion work to clear space near Normanskill Creek in Albany, N.Y. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 as part of New York's preparations for the possible landfall of Hurricane Joaquin. At the direction of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo members of the battalion were mobilized to work with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to clear obstructions from waterways which could cause flooding during a heavy rainfall. As part of that process the engineers created space where debris from the stream could be deposited. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Major Corine Lombardo/Released)