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Old rails in the woods. According to Larch Mountain expert Don Nelson: "This iron rail was probably first used by the horse-drawn streetcars in 1870’s Portland. When Mr. Bessemer’s process made turning iron into steel affordable, most iron rail was pulled up and sold for scrap. This rail was likely purchased used and laid down on a short spur line off the main RR line out of Palmer. It wouldn’t be subject to the heavy wear and tear of heavily loaded trains returning with their loads of old-growth timber. The forest service sold a stand of timber about 30 or 40 years ago and a logging road was graded over the top of part of the rail line and this rail was taken up and pushed into the pile you see here. Somehow this survived the scrap drives of WWII, probably because no one knew it was here or maybe because the work of getting it out was more than it was worth."
Another shot taken with the EPL-1. Original photo was in colour and shot using the pinhole art filter. I used the camera software to convert to monotone and added soft focus.
Here is a comparison of the current version of Pages (the page listing at least) in v0.2.2 of slate against what's coming in the latest version v0.3.0. Right now we're listing this as v0.3.0a as we're working through issues still. Look for a release along with a lot more screenshots (a ton has changed!) on or shortly after Dec. 15th.
They really show the evolution of slate as we work with users on usability issues and just plain use the system ourselves. Some of the things tweaked:
- no more 'My Pages'. this was only ever for the dynamic drag and drop and felt tacked on.
- moved all of the reorganize features to a separate action since it's not used very often.
- not loading every page in the site anymore on the default view (because of reorganize). this caused a headache for us when our sites getting large. something we didn't test well. now branches are only loaded when requested.
- added different page icons. in 0.2.2 it's difficult to figure out what your default page is if you don't name it home (and not everyone does!). also i've had problems identifying why certain pages don't show up in nav so i needed the "hidden" page icon.
- the "delete" button is toned down. it competed with the page title in v0.2.2 too much.
- a key for the actions! i tried adding text next to the action buttons but it looks fugly. The key works though it will get pushed down for larger sites (assuming a site has a lot of top-level pages).
Any suggestions are welcome.
Please note that we're showing test data only.
Also, if you can drop a line and let me know where you found the screenshot I'd appreciate it. I'm curious as to where the fairly steady views are coming from...
I love sunsets.
And I especially love winter sunsets.
January 20, 2014 and I managed to get several distinct looks from the same sunset...the sun glints off the former L&N railroad tracks behind Blue Grass Grain on Henry Street in Lexington, KY.
camera: Rolleiflex 6008 Professional
lens: Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2,8 PQ HFT
film: FUJI Neopan 100 Acros
exposure time: 1/60 sec
aperture: f/4
exposure compensation: +/- 0 EV
filter: Hoya Orange G HMC
film development: Color Drack
scan: CanoScan 9000F with SilverFast SE
New rails, rusting outdoors, stacked and ready at the railroad repair yard in Ibarra. Ecuador is rebuilding several scenic routes that had fallen into disrepair over the years and closed. A few passing trains will clean that rust right off.
65 years ago a train with POWs as well as jewish prisoners from KZ Mühldorf (most of them survived Ausschwitz) to KZ Dachau stopped at exactly this dead rails. The responsible SS men set the prisoners free because they thought the war was over. Some other SS men came, shot their comrades and many of the prisoners.
Four days after the masacre of Poing WW2 was over in Europe.
Poing was a backwater then, some of its inhabitants hided the prisoners others hunted them just like some deer.
Today it is a village providing some thousand jobs in multiple high tech companies, which settled there. My lab is 100 meters from this scene. I did not know that for a long time, people do not talk about that.
This would have fit the black white red topic at the thematorium in two different ways.
Maybe its better not to do that for a contest.
The rails are off and there is no coming back from it. It is true, the rails are off and the trains are silent, the whistles are no more. It is sad sad sad
Here is one of the rails sitting on the up-turned rack. It's simple L-shaped aluminum bars. They're really light, and it was very easy to drill these holes.
Much of the trail follows an old rail bed. It's a nice, flat, elevated place to walk, with woods and water on both sides.
Abandoned rails sitting near the railroad tracks of the Caldwell County Railroad in Hudson/Whitnel, NC.
May 12th, 2012
NS 952, a northbound MoW rail train breaks into the dead period at Spring City. Normally trains do not run this time of day unless they are extra trains, so that signal maintainers can check wayside crossing gates and such. However, 952 is an extra train and must get this string of welded rail to its next destination where it will be placed to safely move more NS trains. Leading this string of rails is a classic EMD SD60 locomotive with a squeaky old cast Nathan P5 airhorn.
-Spring City, Tennessee