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It was a very dark morning along 19th Street in Erie as NS train 309 rolled through. The time was 0745 and the K64 was being pushed to its limits.
It didn't help things that the subject matter was darker than the clouds, but the opportunity to nab a GE C39-8 in the middle of the street was something you couldn't pass up.
Had digital equipment existed in 1992, I could have simply pushed up the ISO and that would have been the end of it; but that's not the way it was.
No ATCS, advance knowledge via text or internet groups...just the scanner set to the Nickel Plate channel, and the luck of the crew calling signals. It was a simpler time.
For the record, NS C39-8 8602 was leading C36-7 8508 and C40-8 8739. And of course, the street running is gone and the three locomotives are also long gone.
Adding a few more photos from my archives. More free space needed on my computer, so lots of checking and deleting old images. If I wrote a description under other photos taken on the same outing/drive, I will add it to these five shots. Also, after posting a number of winter photos recently, I need to add some colour to my photostream.
"Waterton Lakes National Park is where three friends (Anne B, Janet and Shirley) and I went the last two days, 11 and 12 June 2018. Part of Monday was spent travelling south to Waterton Lakes National Park, stopping at several places en route, including Lundbreck Falls. With no stops, it takes roughly three hours to get there. We stayed on Monday night at the Bear Mountain Motel in Waterton town. Tuesday morning, we drove around the Waterton area, hoping to maybe see more bears, and then made our way back north, reaching Calgary late afternoon/early evening. As it was, we were so lucky to see a gorgeous Cinnamon Black Bear, at first from a great distance and then unexpectedly close. Also spotted a Black Bear in among the blackened, burned trees that were near the edge of the road. It was very difficult to see and impossible to find an open spot through which to take photos - but it was our second bear.
I had been hoping to someday get a chance to get down to Waterton, especially to see how it looked after the devastating Kenow wildfire that damaged or destroyed so much of the park in 2017. Most of the park is still closed, but the whole town site and Chief Mountain Parkway and area are open. To me, the park looked beautiful, with enough green areas to contrast with the dead trees on the mountain sides. Firefighters did such a brilliant job last year of saving the whole town, and a team of firefighters form Calgary had been given the task of doing all they could to save the historic Prince of Wales Hotel. There it still stands, untouched. One can see how close to the town and iconic Hotel the fire had come - right up to the very edge, where a sprinkler system had been set up before the fire got close.
"Built in 1926-27 during one of Waterton’s windiest and snowiest winters, the Prince of Wales Hotel is the park's most recognized landmark.
During its construction the extreme weather conditions and poor access created many problems for contractors Douglas Oland and James Scott, from Cardston, Alberta.
On December 10 1926 hurricane-force winds (estimated at 145 km/hr) blew each of the hotel's wings about 7.5 cm off their foundation. The men managed to winch the sections back in line. Three months later winds reached speeds of over 129 km/hr, again pushing the building off its foundation. This time Oland feared structural damage if they tried to pull back the now fully-framed building so he decided to leave it slightly out of plume.
The hotel is named after Edward, Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VIII, and, like its namesake, it has a colourful history. If its Douglas fir pillars could talk they would tell you a tale of American imagination and money, built with Canadian grit and patience.
Today, many people recognize the Prince of Wales as a railway hotel, but few realize it was built by the Great Northern of United States ... and not the Canadian Pacific.
In February 1993 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board approved the Prince of Wales' designation as a National Historic Site, recognizing its architectural style (rustic design tradition, with peaked roofs, gables, balconies and timber-frame interior that give it an appearance of a giant alpine chalet) and its contribution to tourism in the mountains. On July 23 1995 a commemorative plaque ceremony was held at the hotel." From Parks Canada.
www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul4.aspx
Wild animals, plants and birds were seen. There were plenty of wildflowers, though I suspect we may have been just a little early for many species. I was so pleased to spot a small patch of what I thought might be Mariposa Lilies near the edge of the road that we were driving on. We stopped for me to check and, sure enough, my friends were able to see these unusual flowers for the first time. Chipmunk, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels, Columbian Ground Squirrels and deer were seen. Not a huge variety of birds, but we were only able to look in such a limited space. It was great, though, to see two distant Sandhill Cranes and a distant Common Loon on her nest.
Apart from the most unpleasant, very strong wind all day both days, we were very lucky with the weather for our two days. No rain, thank goodness. The morning was chilly and so was the night. Yesterday, Tuesday, the temperature got up to 20C on our way home."
I like your usual clean pace shot of a locomotive flying down the rails at 50-60mph, but something about nailing one as they race through the woods is all the more better to me. Here we see CSX Q605 flying south through the trees in Canoe, Alabama.
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In push pull mode,33113 passes under Battledown flyover on 08/April/1989 with a Salisbury to Waterloo service
Nikon F3, Nikkor 35/2.8 AI, Arista EDU 100@800, push +3 development, HC-110/dil. B, 15min. Negative digitized with Nikon D700, AF Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 D, ES-2, CS-LITE
A surprise visitor to Preston today was LSLs retro Push & Pull set headed by 47712 undertaking a couple of test runs prior to a tour of Scotland which will include a couple of runs on its old stamping ground on the E&G route.
It was noted however that the DBSO has a noticeable wheel flat so hopefully that won't spoil things.
8-2-23
had a right grump on at work yesterday so much so I decided that I did want to be Helen in such a state and decided I wouldn't go dancing.
Well I got home still grumpy kicked the imaginary cat and hid upstairs. then the wife had a word like she does.
Well that was a good enough push to make me go dancing 💃.
left my wife entertaining her friend and her friends granddaughter and our daughter .
had a good time dancing so was worth going in the end.
I do hate it when the stress of work carries over into my personal life.
this is what I wore last night
Ashley Greene - 'Push' premiere in Westwood (Jan 29)
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[image via celebutopia]
As a squad of Soviet soldiers rush through a rural German town, they encounter some of the last of the defenders as they desperately try to push the Soviets out of the father land.
By first try at editing. U liek? Also, new pr0tips :3
I was willing to try just about anything to get big Alco's/MLW's on film and this one is a great example of taking it to far. It was basically dark when I tried this shot of CP 4742 along with 4718 really starting to get a roll on an extra west leaving London on May 7, 1987. I didn't leave home until a little after noon that day and had made the run down to London and had just finished a late dinner when I happened across this guy heading out of town while I was returning to my room. Trying to add time and distance up puts this shot well after 9PM....not really what Kodachrome was designed to do.