Christchurch , NZ

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.

The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.

The main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, has a large group of locomotives in for rebuild and overhaul on May 19, 2015, including UP SD40-2s Nos. 3151 and 3320 that will become a rebuilt SD40Ns.

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So much of the area seems a large building site.

Decor from MILK MOTION : -Under Construction Penthouse-

Available at Uber - 25th march

Allegria- Marcia helmet black

Naminoke- Frozen horns

Oddfish- Composed sphere

Bauhaus movement- Fearless poses (Cliff hanger)

CSX SD40-3 4035 and GP38-3 2063 work on switching cars in Taft yard on a gloomy and wet July evening.

Union Pacific’s Malad Local treks slowly into Tremonton, Utah, through the Bear River Valley with 30 cars for Nucor Steel in Plymouth on May 23, 2000. Pulling the train are fresh GP38-2 rebuilds from Boise Locomotive. UP 2576 and 2575 began their careers in January 1966 as Rio Grande GP40s No. 3059 and 3053. UP 2576 holds the destruction as one of only three Rio Grande four axle units to have worn Southern Pacific “speed lettering” (also DRGW 3086 and 3138).

AMSTERDAM - One of the most iconic domes of Netherlands (The historical Aviation dome Schiphol) will get a second life in Amsterdam; the first circular Convention location of the Netherlands, it opens the doors in the autumn. In the background the A5.

N.B. De foto is genomen vanuit de trein!

Along for the ride on NS 16T is the latest AC44C6M to roll out of Norfolk Southern's Roanoke Shops, NS 4043. Just like the last Roanoke rebuild I caught on the Lurgan, the former D9-40C is sporting primer where the new bits have been installed above the frame. The gloss-black trucks and new-rust wheels below the frame are for the DC-to-AC traction conversion that have pumped new life into the old GE's.

A trio of former IC GP10's feel right at home on the former IC Amboy District now owned by the Illinois Terminal Belt railroad. Here we see the trio of rebuilds slowly moving a grain train through Wapella Illinois.

CP 7033 and 7001 bracket a GEVO on train 281, wheeling west out of Milwaukee on a warm spring day with the Miller brewery in the background. I didn't realize it at the time, but for lack of anything else to do, I'd end up chasing this train halfway across the state.

A post Christmas snow storm blanketed most of Minnesota with a fresh layer of snow. BLE 900 pulls a loaded train of steaming taconite pellets.

BLE 900

IC 6263

DMIR 409

Metro-North GP35R 106 rests in Selkirk Yard on Friday, August 7, 2015, before being shipped off to Brookville Equipment for rebuild and paint. The veteran EMD was built in 1964 for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Freshly-rebuilt, Metra F59PH 97 (originally with GO Transit, then AMT) leads an also-rebuilt MP36 on an outbound Milwaukee District North Line express through the woods at Edgebrook, Chicago.

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Launching my website and facebook page last week I thought I would check which images I'd taken that i'd include in my portfolio so revisited the mass upload I did last year and decided to reprocess some that slipped under the radar..using Lightroom. From a trip to Croatia when I went into Bosnia for a day to see this amazing structure in Mostar which was completely destroyed during the war there 20 years ago the locals reproduced it incredibly well and its now lit up spectacularly.

On a walk around the city to catch up with the rebuild. December 2018 Christchurch New Zealand

"They said knowledge is a flame, so we lit the lamp that illuminates what injustice has darkened around us."

Students in besieged Eastern Ghouta practice writing in a classroom. There have been over 4,000 attacks on schools in a four year span (Save the Children), and one in three schools are closed due to destruction, use for military purposes, or to shelter displaced people (HRW). Enrollment rates are as low as six percent in territories which face indiscriminate air strikes (Save the Children). As an act of defiance, many schools have been moved to underground locations, to enlighten the generation that will rebuild Syrian society from the ground up.

Eastern Gouta on 23/2/2017

Jill

NS AC446CM 4036 moves east with stacks through some heavy lake effect snow at Chesterton, Indiana.

Amtrak GP38-3 rebuild 720 (ex CRR 2002) is seen running light through Metuchen, NJ as it heads up the NEC towards Newark & NYC.

Jill

I just got done with the grass now it is time to cook! I'll be back in a while. I have to test out my grill after rebuilding it this morning.

With an SD40-3 rebuild, NS train D18 drags 110's train across town from 10th St. near Block 224 to UP's 18th St. Yard in Kansas City, KS. Here, they're taking the connector out of the Gooseneck on the KCT to UP's KC Metro Sub at St. Louis Ave. 10/9/22.

I used to live next to this beach and there is a fella who has a hut. He rebuilds DOW Racers. Kinda like the details in the old wood.

Jill

East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya, a stairway leads down into the Templete Semisubterráneo, an acoustic, red-sandstone pit structure measuring 26m by 28m, with a rectangular sunken courtyard and walls adorned with 175 crudely carved stone faces. In the 1960s archaeologists tried to rebuild these and used cement between the stones.

CSX W036 splits the C&O bracket signals at West End Pauley with a pair of SD23T4's (ET23DCM's) leading.

Rebuilding

I think I found the cleanest unit on UP's roster at the end of 2021. Freshly rebuilt UP 6159 leads an empty soda ash train through southeast Houston as it heads back to the hills of southwest Wyoming.

OT1W1 27 (Ore [Soda Ash]- Galveston, TX to Westvaco, WY)

UP C44ACM #6159

UP C45ACCTE #8039

UP C44ACM #7015

UP C45ACCTE #7980

Houston, TX

December 28th, 2021

A BNSF SD70MACE leads V-BLUFTM West on the Chillicothe Sub.

I truly dislike pretty much everything about CN's AC44C6Ms, but one thing you can't complain about is how spotless most are. So when presented an opportunity to shoot one leading at Paris in some gorgeous evening light, I certainly didn't pass up.

The first AC44C6M rebuild, #4000, leads hopper train NS 815 west just past the West Virginia border at Hale's Gap.

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I got some feedback on the last shot about too much sky so I tried a new crop.. However with this raw file I`m not able to do so much more. Have to reshoot from a pov closer to the tower and shoot more both ways.. This is still the 30 sec exposure.

Anyways, I pushed the warmth all the way up to get a "different" shot... I guess some of you are fed up with this installation now so hopefully I can calm myself down on these shots for a while:p But it has been so terrible weather here so nearly no shooting lately.

Merry Christmas all:-)

This locomotive was used to pull a truck out of a ditch days after I took this photo in a now viral social media video.

Vischering Castle (German: Burg Vischering) in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia is the most typical moated castle in the Münster (region) of Germany. This region has one of the highest German concentrations of castles, palaces and fortifications, Lüdinghausen having three by itself. The castle consists of outer defensive courtyard, defensive gateways, moat, drawbridge, main building and chapel. The sandstone walls, the red tile roofs as well as their reflection in the moat provide many harmonious views from the wooded surroundings.

Vischering Castle was built by Bischop Gerhard von der Mark to counter the second castle built by the Von Lüdinghausen family. It became the seat of the Droste zu Vischering Family. Droste is the local title for the hereditary noble administrators serving the Bishops of Münster. The moat is constantly replenished by a side-arm of the River Stever. The outer defensive courtyard contains the business and farm buildings. The main building is a horseshoe-shaped three-story structure with heavy outer wall. Its inner courtyard is closed off by the chapel and a lower defense wall. A castle keep is missing, having been removed during Renaissance renovations. Fire destroyed the castle in 1521. Rebuilding took place on the existing foundation. Windows and the addition of a large bay made the castle more liveable but diminished its defensive character. The whole site however retains the character of a feudal age moated castle. Damage from air attack during World War II was minor.

Vischering Castle houses the Münsterlandmuseum, an exhibit on knighthood for children, as well as a cafe-restaurant. It serves as a cultural center for Kreis Coesfeld. Visiting hours are provided in the first link below. Viewing the outside is possible at all times. The second link provides a more detailed chronology of the castle in German.

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Die Burg Vischering ist eine münsterländische Wasserburg am nördlichen Rand der nordrhein-westfälischen Stadt Lüdinghausen. Trotz eines fast vollständigen Neubaus im 16. Jahrhundert hat die Burg ihren wehrhaften Charakter weitgehend erhalten. Unter den zahlreichen Burgen und Schlössern des Münsterlandes ist sie eine der ältesten und besterhaltenen Anlagen.

Als Trutzburg durch den Bischof von Münster in der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts gegründet, entwickelte sich die Burg zum Stammsitz der Familie Droste zu Vischering, deren Eigentum die Anlage heute noch ist. Der Name Vischering wurde für die Burg aber erst ab der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts gebräuchlich. Bei einem Brand im Jahr 1521 wurde die Anlage weitgehend zerstört. Sie wurde bis 1580 wiederaufgebaut und gleichzeitig im Stil der Renaissance erweitert. Nachdem die Eigentümer ihren Wohnsitz 1690 nach Schloss Darfeld verlegt hatten, war Vischering lange Zeit ungenutzt und wurde nur von einem Rentmeister verwaltet. Nach Beschädigungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg und anschließenden Wiederherstellungen pachtete der damalige Kreis Lüdinghausen die Burg, um sie als Kultur- und Bürgerzentrum zu nutzen. Dazu wurden von Beginn der 1970er bis in die Mitte der 1980er Jahre umfangreiche Restaurierungsmaßnahmen an den Gebäuden durchgeführt.

Die gesamte Anlage steht seit dem 8. Oktober 1986 unter Denkmalschutz und beherbergt heute unter anderem das Münsterlandmuseum. Außenbesichtigungen sind jederzeit unentgeltlich möglich.

With less than 5 months after rebuild its belt, CP AC4400CWM 8106 leads 123 across Third Creek.

NS SD70ACC 1846 leads a intermodal East past some nice fall colors in Otis, IN.