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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.
Today Amtrak unveiled a new phase III wrap on ACS-64 #662 sponsored by the Train Simulator video game. It's maiden voyage was on train 176 this afternoon and I happened to be in New Haven so I figured I'd grab a shot. Here we see the train doing station work before the last leg of the trip to Boston. As of now the engine should be leading 93 in the morning so happy hunting for those interested.
The Avalon Siem Reap is in Tonlé Sap River making its way back to Phnom Penh and the end of this phase of the trip. So yup, more river shots on the Tonlé Sap.
And this is it, the last of the river cruise shots.
Next is a flight to Siem Reap for a visit to several wats.
Amtrak 696, the southbound Downeaster, races through a marsh in Scarborough, ME at Winnocks Neck Road. Leading today's train is NPCU 90406 which wears Amtrak's old Phase III paint scheme.
It's a phase I'm going through.
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Per the previous shot then created two flipped versions and merged them.
Amtrak 145, painted in Phase III colors, heads west on the point of the westbound Capital through Gaithersburg, MD.
Seven is a lucky number after all.
A bad luck Friday had Amtrak's Southwest Chief running three and a half hours late into it's thirtieth stop at Riverside, California. The train is only three and a half miles away from it's previous stop in San Bernardino and is now on the home stretch for Los Angeles Union Station, granted now the train is having to navigate outside of it's time window running into BNSF's morning Z-train wave as it wiggles through La Cadena. Leading the train was Amtrak 138 a repainted P42DC wearing the newer Phase VII paint scheme which debuted in 2022, but since Siemens Chargers don't frequent this long distance train have kept sightings like this far and few between especially given Amtrak's running hours through this part of the LA Basin and SoCal as a whole.
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….
I don't know about you, but I always know which phase the moon is in at all times.
I took a break from deep-sky to capture our beautiful first quarter (59% illuminated) moon earlier this week.
The image is a composite of two images to reveal the unlit portion of the moon for a more 3D look.
The starry sky was also added for effect. I've still got a lot to learn about solar system photography, but I REALLY enjoy it.
I've been struggling to find time to get out and shoot these days, so I've reverted to digging back into my archives and posting some lighter moments. This one from a skiing trip last year. :)
Amtrak 184 and 78 AMTK19 "The Crescent" depart Hattiesburg Depot bound for New Orleans "The Crescent City"
Image showing phases of lunar eclipse on November 8th.
William Optics GT 71
Skywatcher EQM-35
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A new year and a new phase for tourists in Rafina port ... The port is almost empty for the period after the holiday days
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
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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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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.
Longtime exposure and a movment on one axe of the tripod made it able for me to shift the Molenfeuer in Warnemünde at the Molenfeuer.
A crop ( approx 50%) to show two dark phase Snow Geese aka Blue Geese. The all dark one centre top is a juvenile and the white headed upper left side is an adult.
The Grade I Listed Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549) before the central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt.
It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the eminent Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: "I have always held... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."
Remigius de Fécamp, the first bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal seat there between 1072 and 1092. Up until then St. Mary's Church in Stow was considered to be the "mother church" of Lincolnshire (although it was not a cathedral, because the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 9 May of that year, two days before it was consecrated. In 1141, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Bishop Alexander rebuilt and expanded the cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185. The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the UK. The damage to the cathedral is thought to have been very extensive.
After the earthquake, a new bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as St Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. Rebuilding began with the choir (St. Hugh's Choir) and the eastern transepts between 1192 and 1210. The central nave was then built in the Early English Gothic style.
The cathedral is the 3rd largest in Britain after St Paul's and York Minster, being 484 feet by 271 feet. Until 1549 the spire was reputedly the tallest medieval tower in Europe, though the exact height has been a matter of debate. Accompanying the cathedral's large bell, Great Tom of Lincoln, is a quarter-hour striking clock.
The two large stained glass rose windows, the matching Dean's Eye and Bishop's Eye, were added to the cathedral during the late Middle Ages. The former, the Dean's Eye in the north transept dates from the 1192 rebuild begun by St Hugh, finally being completed in 1235.
After the additions of the Dean's eye and other major Gothic additions it is believed some mistakes in the support of the tower occurred, for in 1237 the main tower collapsed. A new tower was soon started and in 1255 the Cathedral petitioned Henry III to allow them to take down part of the town wall to enlarge and expand the Cathedral, including the rebuilding of the central tower and spire.
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile died and King Edward I of England decided to honour her, his Queen Consort, with an elegant funeral procession. After her body had been embalmed, which in the 13th century involved evisceration, Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral, and Edward placed a duplicate of the Westminster tomb there.
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