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When D&H ran on the Northeast Corridor. N/B train WR7 (Washington, DC to Rouses Point) is passing by tracks leading to Conrails Orangeville engine terminal.
An eastbound City of Prineville train is passing the entrance of Sigman Ranch on its trip from the BNSF connection at Prineville Junction near Redmond, Oregon, back to Prineville on September 28, 2016. The short train is powered by former Milwaukee Road rebuilt GP9, now labeled a GP20, No. 989.
"Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can"---- Pink Floyd(Echoes from the album Meddle)
The train sweeps through the curve and heads toward Toddington. Taken during a 30740 Photo charter on the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway 9thJune 2018
8-22-15 MS Veendam passing an iceberg while traveling through Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland.
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Right over my head earlier this summer...
Cumulus cloud
Small cumulus humilis clouds floating over cloud that can have noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges.
Cumulo- means "heap" or "pile" in Latin. Cumulus clouds are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance, and have flat bases. Cumulus clouds, being low-level clouds, are generally less than 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in altitude unless they are the more vertical cumulus congestus form. Cumulus clouds may appear by themselves, in lines, or in clusters.
Cumulus clouds are often precursors of other types of cloud, such as cumulonimbus, when influenced by weather factors such as instability, moisture, and temperature gradient. Normally, cumulus clouds produce little or no precipitation, but they can grow into the precipitation-bearing congestus or cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulus clouds can be formed from water vapor, supercooled water droplets, or ice crystals, depending upon the ambient temperature. They come in many distinct subforms, and generally cool the earth by reflecting the incoming solar radiation. Cumulus clouds are part of the larger category of free-convective cumuliform clouds, which include cumulonimbus clouds. The latter genus-type is sometimes categorized separately as cumulonimbiform due to its more complex structure that often includes a cirriform or anvil top. There are also cumuliform clouds of limited convection that comprise stratocumulus (low-étage), altocumulus (middle-étage) and cirrocumulus. (high-étage). These last three genus-types are sometimes classified separately as stratocumuliform.
Formation
Cumulus clouds form via atmospheric convection as air warmed by the surface begins to rise. As the air rises, the temperature drops (following the lapse rate), causing the relative humidity (RH) to rise. If convection reaches a certain level the RH reaches one hundred percent, and the "wet-adiabatic" phase begins. At this point a positive feedback ensues: since the RH is above 100%, water vapour condenses, releasing latent heat, warming the air and spurring further convection.
In this phase, water vapor condenses on various nuclei present in the air, forming the cumulus cloud. This creates the characteristic flat-bottomed puffy shape associated with cumulus clouds. The size of the cloud depends on the temperature profile of the atmosphere and the presence of any inversions. During the convection, surrounding air is entrained (mixed) with the thermal and the total mass of the ascending air increases. Rain forms in a cumulus cloud via a process involving two non-discrete stages. The first stage occurs after the droplets coalesce onto the various nuclei. Langmuir writes that surface tension in the water droplets provides a slightly higher pressure on the droplet, raising the vapor pressure by a small amount. The increased pressure results in those droplets evaporating and the resulting water vapor condensing on the larger droplets. Due to the extremely small size of the evaporating water droplets, this process becomes largely meaningless after the larger droplets have grown to around 20 to 30 micrometres, and the second stage takes over. In the accretion phase, the raindrop begins to fall, and other droplets collide and combine with it to increase the size of the raindrop. Langmuir was able to develop a formula which predicted that the droplet radius would grow unboundedly within a discrete time period.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_cloud
A large thunderhead had passed over Browns Canyon and was now receding to the east. It had been thrilling, but at dusk it showed a gentler side.
While in St Ives during a heavy shower I decided to head for the elevated vantage point of the main bus station to catch the colours and light that usually follow this type of event. By the time I arrived, most of the drama was out in the bay and so I used the lighthouse and harbour wall as a left-of-centre focal point rather than capture the classic panoramic view over the headland and town. Thanks for viewing.
Passing through another day on the river. Water showing a
slight gain on the ice in the last few days. Still in winters grip.
Wastwater, Lake District Cumbria.
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Built for the PRR in 1956 this GP9 in the service of the Adrian & Blissfield is passing by the classic mid-street grade crossing protection installation in downtown Blissfield. A former depot is half hidden behind the front of the Geep. Blissfield, MI 11/25/2022
The purpose of formation is for the reduction of ego?
and I do lament that....
a slow goodbye to me...mask and wall...
stepping no where...
amongst “The Waiting Ones”
-rc
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo
After the clouds had unloaded all their snow they just fizzled out and looked like torn rags scattered across the sky.
A two shot vertical panorama. I'm really starting to like this vintage Nikkor 300mm lens
A train passing by the village allotments.
Taken with great difficulty holding my mobile up against a gap in the wire of the gate, and hanging on to Tasku at the same time. I also had to clone out two cars parked in the most annoying place with their boots up.
ANSH 114 (14) public transport
Definitely Dreaming 'transport' theme. 47/52
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
On the eve of September 30, 2021, a westbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link, passes the depot at Sandpoint, Idaho. BNSF is double tracking through here to the MRL connection at Sandpoint Junction (in the background) in conjunction with the second bridge being built at the Lake Pend Oreille crossing. It appears that the right-of-way will have to widened here, perhaps using a retaining wall to provide enough clearance between the depot and the buildings and parking lots on the right. Regardless, this scene will change a bit in the next few years.
Aucazein is a village in the Ariège department of south-western France. The plan was to string a few existing long distance trails together and hike along the Pyrenean foothills from the Mediterranian to the Atlantic. I love the old world charm of French villages where finding a bakery can be one of the day's highlights. Most long distance trails in Europe offer more of a cultural than a wilderness experience. This was day 23 of our hike and we were following the GR 78 (Voie du Piémont) which is part of the Way of St. James pilgrimage trail network. Eventually all these trails are leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago#/media/File:Ways...
