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This section of the alignment, just east of the MLK/Hwy 99E Viaduct seen at the top left of the photo, shows the light rail trackway to the right of existing Union Pacific Railroad tracks, which also run north-south and carry freight and passenger trains.
Safety improvements to the rail crossing at SE 8th Avenue at the center of the photo, along to the with improvements to SE 11th and 12th avenues to the east, will allow this stretch to be designated a Quiet Zone, meaning freight and light rail trains will not be required to blow their horns when passing through.
Licensed for all uses by TriMet.
Grayling Lake, Alaska, a little to the north of the Arctic Circle line along the Dalton Highway. 2011
SMART Train, 31 August 2017
SMART, the Sonoma Marin Rail Transit system, began service on 25 August. I was busy with work that day, but 31 August was a bit quieter, so I took a train ride, working from train for part of the time.
SMART operates on the Northwestern Pacific between San Rafael and the Sonoma County Airport, just north of Santa Rosa. It parallels US 101. The line had been freight only since 1958, when NWP's Redwood was cut back to Willits-Eureka operation, connecting with buses for the Willits-San Francisco part of the trip.
Before the Golden Gate Bridge was built, NWP ran electrified commuter train in the southern part of Marin County, connecting with ferries to San Francisco at Sausalito. The bridge quickly drained the commuter traffic to SF and the electrics finished before WW2. North of San Rafael, the passenger service was never as heavy, although the NWP used to carry a lot of lumber.
As logging on the north coast declined, the NWP's traffic did as well and eventually, the entire NWP was out of service for several years. It is still out of service north of Windsor and whether it will be restored north of there is anyone's guess. The line in Eel River Canyon is washed out in places and the Ft Bragg lumber mill, which provided traffic to the NWP via the California Western at Willits is gone. The new NWP runs freight between Lombard and Windsor, and now it shares the track with passenger service between Novato and the airport.
My trip was via Capitol Corridor train 527 from Sacramento to Richmond. This 0700 departure is the train I took last year when I had a job in Berkeley for a month. We were delayed shortly after leaving Sacramento because UP had let the ZOAG2 run ahead of Capitol train 520 and we wound up waiting for 520 to crossover at West Causeway betwen Davis and Sacramento. 520 had the Amtrak California P32s, 2051 and 2052, leading. They were going to the Siemens plant in Sacramento to fetch a Charger locomotive.
As I've done on other Capitol runs, I took some photos of ships at Benicia. Martinez and farther on along the bay.
As we were late getting into Richmond, there was no way I was going to make a tight connection on a bus to San Rafael, so I hung out at Richmond station long enough to record the arrival of Capitol 529, which had a cabbage car (ex-F40) instead of its usual cab car. I considered sticking around in Richmond to see the eastbound Zephyr, but that might have risked the bus connection, so I took BART to El Cerrito del Norte, where the Golden Gate Transit 40 route took me to San Rafael.
San Rafael depot has changed since I last was there. SMART uses high level platforms and has rebuilt what was some pretty dilapidated track from the NWP days. There are plans to extend SMART south from San Rafael to the ferry terminal at Larkspur, near the trestle where Dirty Harry jumps off the NWP onto the school bus in the first Dirty Harry movie, but for now, people wanting to connect to SF can catch a GGT bus to SF or to Larkspur and the ferry from there.
I was heading the other way, and after buying a Clipper card, got set up to record the arrival of the next train into San Rafael. The train appeared to be full from the crowd getting off and our northbound train also had a lot of people board. Right on time at 1129, our train departed and rolled north parallel to 101. SMART moves right along and in places where we could see the highway, we were passing some cars on it, even in the middle of the day. On the way back, the northbound lanes were stop and go as we zipped by.
Not all of the NWP is in sight of 101 and in some places we passed through cow pastures and wetlands with hundreds of gulls, egrets, geese, ducks and other birds.
We arrived on time at the Somoma County Airport station at 1236. Many people got off at Santa Rosa, the last station that had much around it, with those of us staying on to the airport mostly being folks just out for the ride. SMART's maintenance yard is at the airport. There are plans to extend SMART north to Cloverdale.
The train soon returned south and I rode it to Santa Rosa downtown, which has a nice old NWP station and some restaurants. Lunch was in the plans for Santa Rosa, then afterward, I looked it at the visitor center in the station before boarding the next train heading south, which I rode to Petaluma.
Another southbound train would be along in a half hour at Petaluma and a northbound came through shortly after my train departed. Between trains, I photographed the station, and checked out the visitor center in the Petaluma depot.
I wanted to get home at a reasonable hour, so I took the next train south. As we passed Novato junction, an NWP train was stopped and I barely got a grab shot with the camera. When we arrived in San Rafael, the nest northbound train was ready to depart and I photographed it leaving before getting on the 40 bus to El Cerrito, where a BART train was arriving as I stepped onto the platform. BART took me back to Richmond, where train 543 was heading west as I got onto the Amtrak plaform.
540 was due in a few minutes, and it pulled in on time at 1712. The BART train I had ridden was still in the BART platform and another BART train was creeping up on the block as Amtrak arrived. I can only imagine the frustration of people on that BART train who might have been try to connect to Amtrak to see their Amtrak train arrive as they waited.
540 was on time the whole way, and early into Sacramento. I took a few photos at the station, then was asked by the family to stop by the store on the way home.
It was a great day out.
A rather abstract view of a brightly painted metal shipping container which sits next to the Port Museum in Rotterdam.
You can see more shots from this trip in my Netherlands set.
Good thing I went shooting the other day... teehee. I was torturing the poor girl in the cold to pose :))
Special thanks to her.
Parallel Realities
Everything you experience as solid and "real" is a vibration of energy – held, or locked in place, by belief systems. If, for a moment, you could set aside all mental programs about your reality, you would experience an entirely different perspective of what you call reality.
We would like you to receive the idea that there are several realities, several outcomes, several parallel realities that could always manifest.... You and others are broadcasting energy in the form of your thoughts, your emotions, and your beliefs at all times. As you send the energy forth, several realities are always possible. The reality that manifests is the one you have focused more of your energy on.
We are encouraging you to.... embrace the countless realities that are only a frequency, a vibration away.
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Dopo l’incredibile successo del “Dear G.I.R.L.” Tour, il cantante, produttore ed icona Pharrell Williams torna in Italia con una data a Milano, il prossimo 12 luglio all’Assago Summer Arena, in occasione dello Street Music Art.
Premiato da Billboard “Produttore del decennio” nel 2010, Pharrell ha lavorato da sempre con nomi musicali di altissimo profilo, quali Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk, Robin Thicke e persino Rolling Stones. Ha parallelamente costruito anche un’importante carriera come artista solista, scrivendo il brano “Happy” (nominato agli Oscar 2014 nella categoria “miglior canzone originale”) per il film “Cattivissimo Me 2”. La canzone è rimasta in vetta alla classifica statunitense Billboard per 10 settimane consecutive, oltre che conquistare le chart di tutto il mondo. Il suo secondo album in studio, “G.I.R.L.” è uscito il 3 marzo 2014 in Italia. Pharrell è anche leader del famoso gruppo alt-rock/hip-hop N.E.R.D.
Parallels swag table at MacTech Conference 2010. One of the MacTech Conference kiosks can be seen in the background.
One image from the Parallel Reconstruction series, all of which are generated by the same program. This uses a grid system to attach the ends of series of parallel bezier curves.
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Concours combinaison d'engins, barres fixes, barres parallèles et barres asymétriques (Actifs-Actives) de la Fête Cantonale Vaudoise de Gymnastique (18.06.2022). ©Jean-François Martin
Hmmm. It seems walking around with your camera is the 2nd best way to spend a beautiful afternoon. Ok, maybe third. :D