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It's always nice to see a railroad taking pride in their facility and putting up some nice signage, and the KCS locomotive shop at Deramus Yard has to be one of the best examples. Not a whole lot of power sitting around this Friday, as a solo Gevo suns under an image of one of its siblings.
The incredibly atmospheric Old City in Nazareth really does manage to meet tourist expectations. But Nazareth is a big, modern, growing city of shopping malls and dual carriageways, with a population of 100,000 and the centre of cultural and political life for Arabs in Israel proper. A great way to appreciate it in all its aspects is to take in the view from Mount Precipice (395 m above sea level).
Mount Precipice is said to be where Jesus was chased after preaching a very unpopular sermon at the Nazareth Synagogue – when the crowd tried to throw him off Mount Precipice's steep cliffs: "They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way." (Luke 4: 29–30)
On top of the ridge above the old city is the modern minaret (2009) and onion dome of the Nebi Saeen Mosque, and to its right, the red roof and white tower of the St Gabriel Hotel. Further to the left is the 1906-23 Salesian Church, the Basilica of Jesus the Adolescent. On the lower slopes, the Annunciation Basilica is very obvious - and huge. The Synagogue Church and Christ Church Anglican are visible to its left if one knows what one is looking for. Finally below and to the left of the Basilica are the green dome and minaret of the modern Al-Sadiq Mosque.
Taking a proper photo of this 'floating' was hell, but totally worth the effort! Can you spot Finn the Human? He's onboard for some new adventures on this sky barge attached to LEGO 21332 Ideas Globe
Also, new insta account @kristof_builds
Made for an article for LEGO www.lego.com/en-us/categories/adults-welcome/article/how-...
A proper Cotswold establishment, it looked great. We went to see if they were serving food and they were!!
You can see the amount of water outside, it was very wet.
No Sunday in Jacksonville would be complete, without the friendly wave of Engineer Dave Shelley. Here he departs Jacksonville, Fl with FEC train 101-31 on July 31, 2016 at Sunbeam Road.
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This year the Providence and Worcester Railroad continued to provide their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
The train consist is deadheading south from Worcester to begin the final weekend of performances with B39-8E 3910 (GE blt. Dec. 1987 as LMX 8534) amidst a winter wonderland scene of the first significant snow of the year. They crossing in Blackstone River near MP 17.9 on the historic original Providence and Worcester mainline just north of the Rhode Island state line. This is the 10th of 14 crossings of the Blackstone along the 43 mile line when traveling south from Worcester to Providence.
As I've told you before in previous posts the P&W is my hometown road and it is inextricably linked to the river it follows both historically and physically. The Blackstone River courses 48 miles from its headwaters near Worcester (at the confluence of the Middle River and Mill Brook) to where it flows into the Seekonk River at the headwaters of Narragansett Bay. The river drains a watershed of 640 square miles and more importantly drops 450 feet in the 48 miles. It is that drop, that made this river a pivotal point in American History.
From ririvers.org: A series of steep drops along the length of the Blackstone River provided ideal conditions for the development of water powered industry. Samuel Slater arrived in America in 1790, with managerial experience and technical knowledge of textile manufacturing in England. With the assistance of local merchants and artisans, he helped establish the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. Slater Mill was established on the Blackstone River, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This achievement is credited with spawning the birth of America's industrial revolution. Development of the Slater textile mill catalyzed the development of water-driven technology throughout the length of the Blackstone River. By 1914 water-powered mills occupied all of the readily available dam sites in the Valley.
As the birthplace of industrial America, the need for transportation quickly arose in the valley, and between 1825 and 1828 the Blackstone Canal was constructed. The canal lasted only 20 years having been rendered obsolete by the opening of the Providence and Worcester Railroad in 1847. The railroad has proven to be a more durable method of transportation and 175 years after its opening here it is still serving the purpose for which it was built.
Blackstone, Massachusetts
Friday December 20, 2024
This past holiday season the Providence and Worcester Railroad once again provided their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains with trains running and 3:30 and 6:30 PM Fri-Sun for a total of 42 sold out trips in 2024.
The train consist has just arrived from Worcester after deadheading south for the last time to begin the final weekend of performances. Bringing up the rear is PW 4007, a GE B40-8W blt. Apr. 1992 as Santa Fe 582, and one of three of the model on the roster acquired from BNSF by the then independent P&W in 2010. Above the train can be seen the historic depot built in 1882 by the original Providence and Worcester Railroad replacing one dating from the 1847 opening of the railroad. This view looks across aptly named Railroad Street at about MP 16.5 as measured from Providence Union Station.
The depot is contributing structure to the Woonsocket Main Street Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. From the NRHP nomination form:
Providence & Worcester Railroad Station 1882, John W. Ellis, architect: The original 1847 railroad depot burned and was replaced in 1882 with what was considered the most impressive depot on the P&W line. The new station is a rectangular, one-and-one-half-story, red brick Queen Anne building housing the main waiting room with a similarly designed baggage handling and service extension at the north end. The jerkin-head gable roofline is oriented parallel to the railroad tracks, and the building faces onto Depot Square with one end abutting Main Street.
Prominent features include a protective overhang integrated into the roof slope and supported on large, curved brackets, which runs around three sides of the main building and extension. The central entrances on both sides are located below a large cross gable with elaborate decorative brickwork and terra cotta ornamentation, stained-glass and ocular windows, and terra cotta finials. A square clock tower with a tall, pyramidal hip roof topped with a distinctive locomotive weathervane rises from the roof ridge between the gables. The narrow Main Street elevation has now-altered storefronts on the first floor and brickwork, stained-glass windows, and a large central oriel window on the upper floor. The east end of the Depot Square elevation is sheathed in modern vertical wood siding and has no openings, reflecting the fact that this was originally a party wall shared with the Edwards Block, a Second Empire building that was demolished in the 196Os. The former building site is neatly landscaped with terraces and evergreen and deciduous plants.
The P&W really was Rhode Island's own railroad. Chartered in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1844 it opened for business on 43 miles between its namesake cities in 1847. Built along portions of the Blackstone Canal that was opened in 1828, the P&W replaced the waterway as the main artery of transportation in the historically significant Blackstone River Valley - the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.
The New Haven leased the P&W for 99 years in 1892 and that lease passed to the Penn Central in 1969. The PC intended to abandon the middle of the P&W and sever it as a through route when a group of dissident independent shareholders wrested control away from the giant carrier and began independent operations again. The P&W thrived on it's own for 43 years as a publicly traded company (I held a small equity position for many years) until being sold to Genessee & Wyoming in 2016. It's hard to see the P&W I loved and grew up with turn orange, but at least the rails remain and continue to thrive.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday December 20, 2024
Somehow or another after leapfrogging 515 into Truro, we missed CBNS 306 getting out of town. While munching on some snacks, we made one final set of 515 rolling past the now mostly quiet VIA station. Shortly after 515 cleared, I received word that 407 was in fact BEHIND VIA 15, so without skipping a beat, we headed for East Mines. The passenger train was on time both into and out of Truro, and the light was decent for a wide view just below the trestle. At 1500 on the nose, VIA 15 with a hybrid set makes its way across the classic East Mines trestle, with the mid-train Renaissance cars cleverly hidden.
After hours of sitting in Selkirk Yard, Q253 throttles out of the yard here at Gamefarm Road on the Selkirk Branch with now another former SCL SD40-2 leading as an add-on from the yard. Two empty oil trains ahead of the autorack train had gotten gevo add-ons, but thankfully that was not the case here.
Stagecoach London
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC
11033 - SN18KTX
Seen at the 46th Annual Spring Gathering, London Bus Museum, Brooklands.
One of the trial buses to be fitted with Hanover's new high-resolution screen went to the show and the added flexibility allowed the shuttle 462 service to be programmed on the display. All other London buses have to show blank or Special Service with 462 in the window.
Thanks to a quick sign test I found out that the resolution of the front screen is 512x88, already far superior to the standard 144x19 but with added smoothness from the anti-aliasing.
Precon Concrete Products 1997 E.R.F. E.C.11 six wheel rigid fitted with a lorry crane on Sudbury Lorry Park
A northbound Cumbrian Mountain Express romps along the Garsdale Valley with King Arthur 777 "Sir Lamiel" ( minus smoke deflectors ) in charge.
A heavy snowfall overnight had produce wonderful conditions on the S&C although mist and fog surrounded much of the line. After a long hard climb from the road in the valley and having to trudge through 3 foot snow drifts we finally got to this spot , the mist was swirling around us but cleared just enough for the passing of Sir Lamiel producing some weak but welcome light on the scene.
2nd February 1991.
Mamiya 645, 150mm. Fuji RDP 100.
' Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood'
Andy Goldsworthy
so true...couldn't wait to get out there this morning!
textures thanks to Kim Klassen for aurora and canvasback.
'Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers'.
Kahlil Gibran
This bull buffalo stopped grazing, looked up and turned his head towards the light for only a brief moment, but long enough for me to get this shot.
Interesting how these big mammals are kept free of ticks and parasites by birds!
Tsavo National Park, Kenya.
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Ok, after posting that last decidedly uninspiring photo of a 'freight' train at Hurricane let's share what is arguably my best catch ever from my secret camp spot and overlook.
While not a revenue freight train, the company work train always puts on a good show usually rating classic original, built new, home road GP40-2s for power and trailing any combination of a string of ballast hoppers, side dumps, gons, flats, the depressed center car with a piece of heavy equipment or more...and always punctuated by one of the Alaska Railroad's three remaining cabooses.
On this spectacular fall day it dawned clear and colorful as Frank and John and I awoke in Talkeetna and after a (nearly to!) leisurely breakfast we made the hour drive up the Parks Hwy to the trailhead and hiked in the mile. When we heard them blowing for the crossing while still trekking in it became a mad dash through the woods, and Frank damn near barrell rolled in through the brush just as engineer Gordon Larson inched slowly out over the Gulch in charge of train 591W with four matching geeps (3010, 3005, 3002, 3004) punctuated on the end by ARR 1092, an ex CN wide vision van!
Located at MP 284.2, this bridge spans 918 ft and rises 296 ft above the floor below. This famous arch is arguable the signature location the on the entire ARR mainline and was the most expensive and difficult engineering project on the entirety of the railroad. The American Bridge Company started construction in early 1921, erected steel in June and finished in August. To construct the bridge, they strung an aerial tram across the gulch and construction proceeded from both sides. The first passenger train crossed Hurricane Gulch Bridge on August 15, 1921 culminating the $1,200,000 project. For some stunning historic photos of its construction click: vilda.alaska.edu/digital/search/searchterm/Hurricane
if interested.
Hurricane, Alaska
Friday September 15, 2017
Explored June 29, 2018
Inspired by Reva G's capture, I hurried over to Lonsdale to take one for myself!
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Fastnet Rock (Irish: An Charraig Aonair, meaning Rock of Solitude or Lonesome Rock) is a small clay-slate island with quartz veins and the most southerly point of Ireland, 6.5 km southwest of Cape Clear Island (Oileán Chléire) in County Cork, which is itself 13 km (8 miles) from the mainland. It lies in the Atlantic Ocean 11.3 km south of mainland County Cork, at latitude 51.37°N. It rises to about 30 m above low water mark. Study of the documentary record suggests that the name is from Old Norse Hvastann-ey 'sharp tooth island'.
Divided into Fastnet Rock proper and the much smaller Little Fastnet to the south by a 10 m (30 ft) wide channel, it also had the nickname 'Ireland's Teardrop' as it was the last part of the country seen by Irish emigrants to the United States in the 19th century as they sailed past it.
Characteristics of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse
Position
51º 23.3’ North 9º 36.1’West
Light
Fl W 5s White Flash every 5 seconds, also exhibited by day when the fog signal is sounding: nominal range 27 nautical miles.
Radar Beacon
Morse ‘G’ on vessel’s radar display.
Fog Signal
4 blasts every 60 seconds
Height of Tower
54 metres
Height of Light above mean high water springs
49 metres
FASTNET ROCK
I write a logbook in this lighthouse,
Autumn waning, winter coming
Wind from the North
Gelid blowing;
Sun cloud-shadowed,
shortening days.
ships wave battered,
ploughing ocean,
And every night
migrant birds calling.
Spindrift sprayed.
The tower windows;
A time of change
That's my log.
D.J O'Sullivan (From Fastnet to Inishtrahull)
Part of a set "Proper Off" comprising characters observed on North Quay, Weymouth Harbour.
Original images (including drawings by me) shot with an iPhone 5.
Composited and edited with an iPad using Photoshop Touch, Superimpose and ProCreate.
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Class 373 Eurostar lead by 3220 is seen at Sandway tunnel working the 9I32 1301 London St Pancras International - Brussels Midi 15/9/23.
Proper pleased with this. Me and my mate Glynn (formerly stumpy now the yorkshire rascal) went for a little walk around an old colliery site and this amazing bird was hovering overhead. We took a number of photos and it just kept getting nearer and nearer to us so this is about a half frame crop.
A worthy consolation prize for some Shed bowlage earlier in the morning... DCR Class 56s nos. 56103 and 56301 are seen powering out of Derby, working 4L92 the 11:08 Chaddesden to King's Lynn sand train empties.
There really is nothing that compares with the sight and sound of a 56 at full power, except for two 56s at full power!
It's nice to see 301 back out after over a year of repair work, still hanging onto Fastline livery
fifteen years after Fastline ceased trading.