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The CHURCHGATE RAILWAY STATION is one of the busiest stations in the city. Train run every minute with clockwork precision. Millions of city dwellers residing in the suburbs alight at this station to get to their offices in the business districts of south Mumbai. An average of 7.5 millions passengers travel per day in the city .. Churchgate is the 5th busiest station in Mumbai.
After hitting the scales at the Burlington River Terminal, freshly repainted Burlington Junction Railway C415 #701 shoves three gondolas of crushed, cubed scrap metal north through Burlington, Iowa. The crew will set the cars out at an ad hoc loading facility set up just south of the BJRY shops.
The 701 was built as Columbia and Cowlitz Railway #701, and was later sold to the Port of Tillamook Bay.
Alishan Forest Railway is an 86 km network of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County, Taiwan. The railway, originally constructed for logging, has become a tourist attraction with its unique Z-shaped switchbacks, and over 50 tunnels and 77 wooden bridges. Taiwan's Ministry of Culture has listed the forest railway as a potential World Heritage Site.
A Utah Railway "Martin Turn" expedites a train of coal empties, departing Provo Yard through Springville, Utah the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1976. I wish I'd had a tape recorder with me that day!
Kazusa-Okubo Sta, Kominato Railway, Chiba, Japan
上総大久保駅、小湊鉄道、千葉
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF70-200 F2.8L IS USM
200 mm ƒ/2.8 1/400 ISO 100
This image shows the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. The locomotive "Norman / NCB No. 35" was built in 1943 by Robert Stephenson’s Locomotive, Newcastle upon Tyne, Works number 7086/43.
Fascinating architecture -
This is not a modern railway system, it is a skyscraper.
Looking up to the Skygarden along the reflecting glass facade.
A photo taken near Akihabara (秋葉原), a few km upstream from the previous photo.
The railway bridge over the Kandagawa is the Soubu line (総武線) of JR East. The old uplifted railway track in the left is the Chuuou line (中央線) of JR East leading to Kanda (神田) and Tokyo stations. The space under the old railway girder is used for cafes and restaurants.
It's an acrobatic construction!
Both lines operate trains every several minutes.
This section of the Kandagawa is a canal constructed in the 17th century as part of Sotobori (外濠) or the outer moat of Edo Castle by the Date clan (伊達氏) from Sendai. The construction involved digging 20m to bisect the Surugadai hill.
The Date clan was a powerful Daimyou based in Sendai in northeastern Japan. They were not a relative nor a hereditary subordinate of the Tokugawa. Such local rulers were called Tozama Daimyou (外様大名) or the outsider Daimyou.
The Tokugawa shogunate often assigned large scale construction works in Edo to Tozama Daimyou to test their loyalty to the shogunate. It was also intended to weaken them with huge spendings for the construction works (^-^;