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CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 rounds the bend on Main 1 as they come out from beneath the East Street / Route 9 overpass right at MP 147 (note the milepost partially obscured at right) on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light as they pull down so they can go pick up the outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange traffic off the west end of Track 3.
Looming beyond is the the last remaining building from the once massive former GE plastics plant. General Electric was once the dominant industry in town dating all the way back to 1903 when when it purchased the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co., which had been established in Pittsfield in 1890. In addition to its plastics division, GE manufactured transformers in town and operated an aerospace division. At its peak during the 1940s, the GE plant employed 13,000 people - in a city of just about 50,000!
The transformer division shut down by 1987 and took 2000 jobs with it, followed by the sale of aerospace to Lockheed Martin leaving only about 500 employees working for the plastics division. That last operation was closed and the remains sold off in 2005 and since that time many of the buildings on the 324 acre site have been removed, and for the past two decades GE has been working to clean and remediate the area from decades of PCB contamination. In fact I thought this scene looked different from the last time I photographed off this bridge and turns out I was right: flic.kr/p/2nqsYeE
In addition to being a major employer it was once a huge rail customer though today what little trackage remains on the property is rusty and unused and there is so little rail served industry left that CSXT has long since abolished their last local freight crew in town.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
EXPLORE, 14.10.2009! Thank you ! :-))
I have a series of these form Wesley. I think they may look lovely with textures etc. so will start working on them. This one is just a cropped SOOC. Thanks for all your lovely comments, friends! ;-)
@RHS Wisley, UK
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Chinatown, Singapore
too swift a look,
too sluggish a fixation.
Ahh, I should be tasered for neglecting this stream, and yours. I know, it is quite annoying for me to repeat this over and over again on every upload. Anyway, I am in the midst of my Western Art History research. Focusing on the Northern Renaissance, put forth new dimensions I have not explored before.
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"I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own."
-- Hazel Levesque, House Of Hades, Heroes of Olympus
46100 Royal Scot heading Saphos Trains "Christmas White Rose" Llandudno Junction - York. 15 December 2021.
In the gathering gloom at dusk on 22nd March 2025, Class 37 No. 37501 'Teesside Steelmaster' heads along the Down Fast at Polesworth while hauling TfL Class 378 No. 378227 to Widnes Transport Tech. The train is the Rail Operations Group operated 5Q36, 1449ex-New Cross Gate Carriage Sidings. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
A passing glance reveals a world of interest.
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(zooming will take you right to the forest on this one)
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45111 Grenadier Guardsman heading the 06.53 Plymouth - Birmingham with the meat processing plant of Lloyd Maunder producing the usual disgusting smell. 23 April 1984
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Travelers have passing by the beautiful walking path, and did not stay for long.
The boats have passing by the wonderful harbor, and did not stay for long.
The clouds have passing by the quiet ocean city, and did not stay for long.
Many people have passing by our life, and only the meaningful one’s stay for long.
Passing by a farm I saw this bicycle standing by itself. When I stopped to take a photo I realized that there was a big lunch on in the field, and the bike had probably been used to get the lunch there.
66152 on the 6C53 11:51 Parkandillack to Exeter Riverside pass the mini gallery at Keyham (thanks to NR for the view)
When I got inside the Convention Center , the rain stopped and those clouds were passing by very fast sprinkling a few drops here and there ( see it Large to see the water droplets on the glass roof )
Convention Center ~ San Diego ~
With #20 just coming into town, #17 begins to depart Durand westbound preparing to pass each other just west of the diamond on March 5th, 1961. Photo by Emery Gulash.
This Red Fox keeps a wary eye on the photographer as it passes within a few feet from me. The summertime is normally a time of feasting for the fox of Prudhoe Bay, however, this year will be slim pickings. The spring was unusually cold and the ponds did not thaw until late June, so many of the migratory birds headed back south to warmer weather.
Curving past the Barnes lower quadrant distant signal is S313,B76,T395 on the P&O trans Australia rice train from Deniliquin on 14-10-11
66304 catches some dramatic winter light as it runs through what remains of Severn Tunnel Junction with 4V44 10:47 Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal to Wentloog Freightliner.
Gliding through the harbor basin towards their destination in West Duluth, Interlake’s Hon. James L Oberstar cruises past the remains of the Interstate bridge at the end of Rices Point. Built in the 1890’s to provide the first direct link between Duluth and Superior, the Interstate bridge provided safe crossing for pedestrians, automobiles, trolley cars, railroads, and animals for many years until it was deemed obsolete and replaced in the 1960’s by the John A Blatnik bridge right next to the Interstate. Today, the once essential link has been relegated to use as a fishing pier while I-535 flies up above with the Blatnik until a new bridge goes to replace it too in the near future.
8-22-15 MS Veendam traveling through Price Christian Sound in southern Greenland going west heading back to Boston.
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I can't find that I uploaded this image anywhere?! I seem to have forgotten it from the thousands and milions of photos I have! It's from last year, but it is the December picture of my 2013 calendar.