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Taken on my walk home yesterday. Today it’s snowing, but now that I’m home after shopping, I’ll be staying in for the rest of the day.
Just another wider take on this picture perfect scene.
After grabbing the Valley Railroad steam shot I headed down here to check another box. I'd been wanting to get a nice sunny well lit shot of Amtrak ACS64 662 in it's special 'Phase III' wrap sponsored by the Train Sim World 2 game. Thanks to a tip from a friend I knew it was leading Washington bound regional train 135. Here they are right on time wheeling west around the curve on Main 1 into BROOK interlocking at MP 103.6 on Amtrak's New Haven Line main.
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Saturday February 26, 2022
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The Köhlbrand is an arm of the river Elbe which is leading part of the large sea port of Hamburg.
It is the second largest port in Europe and one of the main hubs on the European main land.
The Köhlbrandbrücke on the left is the second longest bridge in Germany. It connects the container terminals of the sea port with the A7 express way.
In the mid-90s, the professional wrestling stable known as the New World Order was the hottest thing in pop culture at the time. The nWo, as it was known, had a saying, "When you're nWo, you're nWo 4-LIFE!" 25 years later, Amtrak has apparently taken a page out of the nWo's playbook. When Amtrak's heritage unit 184, painted in the "Phase IV" livery in 2011 in celebration of the railroad's 40th anniversary, was painted back to standard "Phase V" in early 2023, everyone thought "Phase IV" was officially done. Then, unexpectedly and from seemingly out of nowhere, in early May 2023, Amtrak released 164 as the new Phase IV heritage unit (albeit missing the 40th Anniversary niceties.) The first anyone seemingly ever knew of this unit was when it suddenly showed up in Chicago Union Station. Two days later it was leading it's maiden voyage on Train #5, the westbound California Zephyr. Here it can be seen passing through Somonauk, IL, on the return portion of this maiden voyage on the point of the Zephyr's eastbound counterpart, Train #6. In tow behind trailing locomotive 54 is a special treat, two brand new Siemens ALC-42 Chargers, 330 & 331, in Amtrak's newest "Phase 7" livery. So it would seem that, like the New World Order, when Amtrak is Phase IV, it is Phase IV-LIFE!.
#6, the eastbound California Zephyr, splits a pair of DRGW-era intermediates near Cisco, Utah behind a P42DC in Phase 7 livery leading.
For a short time, Amtrak’s California Zephyr saw 161 on rotation. This was Amtrak’s Phase I heritage unit and replaced the previous Phase I, 156, after it hit a truck and got severely damaged. Just like 156, 161 also has been retired as a few weeks ago it caught fire in Washington D.C. and was burnt to a crisp.
'It was way past midnight
And she still couldn't fall asleep
This night the dream was leavin'
She tried so hard to keep
And with the new day's dawning
She felt it driftin' away
Not only for a cruise
Not only for a day'
As I sit here writing this in the final hour of 2020, reflecting back upon the year that was, I cannot help but think of something that someone said on one of the myriad podcasts I listen to. If for nothing else, 2020 has provided us all with the one thing we could never get enough of: Time. And what we have chosen to do with the time that has been given us has been one of the most important decisions of the year. For me, in between many other projects, I have finally began the long process of organizing and sorting my old photos. Here is one of them. Amtrak Phase 3 Heritage Unit 145 leads westbound train #380, the Illinois Zephyr, around the bend at Main Street in downtown Sandwich, IL on an early September evening in 2014.
It's a phase I'm going through.
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Per the previous shot then created two flipped versions and merged them.
Discovered as I was driving on my scooter by this big tree that I stopped and photography. It was looking at me on and off and stayed up on the tree.
Another view below….
Original RAF file processed with newly-released DXO PureRAW 2, before creation of JPEG in Lightroom 5.3.
Amtrak 89 heads south with one of the Phase 6 Chargers for power. I preferred this livery on these things over the Phase 7 that eventually stuck. It's a shame there weren't more of them in this scheme.
Ice and snow slowly transition to liquid water in a small, shallow tarn high above the Innvikfjorden and the town of Loen, Norway.
The climb up a different fjord on the previous day was significant enough that some in our party balked at repeating the effort so soon on its heels, so on this day we elected to plonk down our kroners and enjoy an effortless ride to the top of the Innvikfjorden via the Loen Skylift. The Skylift is a large gondola supported by only two towers, one at the beginning and one at the end. On the ride up, the angle of the lines is such that one is essentially hauled straight up a good portion of the cliff, providing quite a sensation of the heights. The top of the Skylift has a restaurant with an extraordinary view, and a ledge frequented by people wearing squirrel wingsuits to launch into the void, for what must be the mother of all adrenaline rushes. We witnessed several people preparing to make the leap, and I cannot say I was inspired to attempt such foolishness myself.
Seeking adventures on a somewhat less exciting scale, I had it in mind to walk up one of the peaks that is several kilometers from the top of the Skylift. Not long after setting off, we encountered more or less continuous snow cover, and it was clear that the route to the peak I wanted to ascend was steep and snowy enough that it would be dangerous without axe and crampons. Lacking such helpful instruments, I noticed a rock band that looked possible to climb up and around the steepest of the snow, but my wife put her foot down firmly and informed me she was not at all interested in such things, but that I was welcome to head up myself if I wanted. My two boys also demurred. Feeling that common sense might be percolating through the rest of my family, I gave up the idea and we set our sights on a somewhat closer, and reasonably safer overlook in a different direction. Along the way I discovered this small tarn, and I was captivated by the abrupt phase transition from solid to liquid that divides the frame.
Amtrak #66, the original Phase II heritage unit painted for Amtrak's 40th Anniversary in 2011, pauses next to the Market St signals in Grand Rapids as passengers get off the train. We got spoiled with the Pere Marquette that summer, as nearly every single Amtrak heritage unit made an appearance on the train at least once. This would be the only time I ever saw #66 in this scheme, as it would be heavily damaged in a grade crossing accident not long after this and removed from service. I believe it is still sitting in Beech Grove, likely waiting eventual scrapping. The old C&O searchlights here were also not long for the world, coming down in the fall of 2013. Not one of my better night photos, but I'll take it considering the subject matter! The GRPD Crown Vic I inadvertently worked in nicely dates this pic, too.
A new year and a new phase for tourists in Rafina port ... The port is almost empty for the period after the holiday days
Both Amtrak Dash 8s currently stationed in Sanford are in phase IV paint, and sit alone in the shops after a day of work. Taken from Persimmon Avenue., Sanford, Fl.
Image showing phases of lunar eclipse on November 8th.
William Optics GT 71
Skywatcher EQM-35
EOS 5D mark iv
Photoshop
Amtrak’s new fleet wide paint scheme, known as Phase VII, is taking the railroad over by storm. While the scheme has yet to debut on passenger cars, locomotives have been rolling out of the shop left and right wearing the eye catching new paint. Here it is on the mighty Genesis locomotive leading the southbound Silver Star through Boca Raton, FL
Amtrak P041 @ Boca Raton, FL
AMTK P42DC 82
AMTK ALC-42 345
A nice treat this morning was to find Amtrak's Phase 4 heritage unit, AMTK 164, leading the westbound Zephyr as the train crosses East Portal Road between Tolland and East Portal. Fall colors are about as good as they are going to get, offering a spectacular ride for passengers.
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Cha Red Woods, is on the list of nature's collectives. A. lovely place to visit no matter what your status is, and what phase you are going through.. Phases as we go through our lives. I always believed that when I am sad it rains. Rains and I have a very strong bond. It makes me feel that the droplets are just your feelings over the year under your chest made it heavy and you have waited years to fall from your eyes as tears. Sometimes it happens, and a lot of times it does not. But what remains is the buried feeling of droplets and turns to grudges.
Amtrak's newest heritage unit leads the westbound California Zephyr over Donner Pass. Maintenance along the pass and heavy traffic slowed the train down a little bit for a good chunk of the trip but not long later the train would halt for two hours near Midas. By the time the train got to Roseville it would be several hours late.