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State Line Tower in Hammond, Indiana was North America's largest mechanical interlocking. The plant was put in service in 1897 and retired in August 2000.
This interior view from the tower's last year of existence shows the tower's track diagram – a replacement diagram installed in the late Forties or early Fifties.
Rail replacement on the West Somerset Railway between Minehead and Dunster on 15th September 2021 with former Stockport Leyland Titan PD2/40 HJA 965E from the Crosville Vintage fleet.
The first job for Omega Buses is a Metro Replacement run. There have been delays in the firms' birth, and Omega are still operating in Smith's yard, and do not have any services yet. High winds have caused problems on the metro and local firms are covering.
Omega are hoping to have their full fleet of 10 vehicles painted and acquire services by the end of January/start of February. At this moment in time, neither Smith's nor Omega are buying new vehicles, but the plan is to keep Omega as a smaller, family run type firm, with a maximum of 10 buses in the fleet, and any further expansion will occur in the Smith's side of the fleet.
My hybrid tea rose stopped blooming. This is the original rose it was grafted onto. Instead of a single pink blossom I get a bush full of these beauties. A welcome repacement.
I feel like all I do with regards to buses right now is go along the 35 trying to get buses soon to be withdrawn. Lothian have always put some of the older buses on the 35 of late for a reason that I do not know which I like but it does mean that I do have to think to try and get different shots. I know that this is not the best shot as the sun is facing the wrong way hence the wishy washy look but it is much better than my previous 319 shot. So here it is on Chambers Street bound for Ocean Terminal.
CVS closed their old store which used to be a Longs Drugs and moved down the street to this brand new store next to a Fresh & Easy Market.
CVS stores used to be much smaller, until a few years ago. Then CVS started building bigger and taller stores. This new prototype towers much higher than older versions of this style of store.
Antioch, California
V7 approaches Glenbrook station with a morning westbound Blue Mountains line service.
While this may be a common scene today, a new intercity fleet is likely to enter service on the Blue Mountains line in the coming months. Replacement of the V Sets has already occurred on the Newcastle and Central Coast line.
Glenbrook, NSW.
Sunday, 8 December 2024.
The Bank Holidays over Christmas 2021 saw a large rail replacement bus operation covering services between Farnborough, Woking, Weybridge, Aldershot, Guildford and Basingstoke. As a result, a large number of vehicles were out and about and I snapped a few in Farnborough, Guildford and Woking.
Tying down where my first nightjar would drop her replacement clutch proved far from easy. In fact, I really struggled. It was only a bit of inspired thinking that lead me to her. I realised an area that I hadn't given my full focus had been next to a heavily walked path. Subconsciously, it's because in the back of your mind, it's the last place you want the bird to utilise. And so it proved to be that she was just thirty yards off the path. Two clear side on views were available and over the next ten days, bless her, she never moved an inch. Every day was the same shot. It was all academic as I knew it was going to end badly yet again for this bird. Every day two separate dog walkers, each with four springers would walk the path at different times of day and the dogs would go off piste. I saw her on two occasions flushed by a rampaging dog. No springer on flushing a bird in the same area twice would not after that point deliberately not go looking for it. It may have been the work of one individual but there is every chance that all of the dogs contributed in some way. She endured two days of relentless rain as later photos will show but with less than four days to hatching I found the eggs intact but scattered over the area. In some part, better that I witnessed that, rather than chicks. Very sad but I knew it was always going to happen.
My rewards this year photographically and video wise with the jars have fallen hopelessly short in terms of the time and effort that I've put in. I'm in no doubt about that. But to have seven weeks spent in the company of such amazing birds has been reward itself.
Tendring Travel Setra S315 comes through Brantham on the Greater Anglia Rail Replacement service from Manningtree to Ipswich.Just on the right is one of the new housing developments (Not affordable) and a Goldfinch flies overhead.
Track replacemet curently underway in Barmouth, the final stage of Network Rail's renovation project, scheduled to be finished for this weekend.
The rather inclement weather had me pondering whether or not to venture out to Basingstoke today (05/01/2025) but in the end curiosity won again! A good few captures here for you to enjoy.
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
YY63OEO and YY63OJA Volvo B9R / Caetano Levante.
East Yorkshire Coaches, Kingston upon Hull.
On rail replacement at Cleethorpes.
TE1440 (LK13BFM) is seen having been blinded for Nation Rail REPLACEMENT - National Rail Logo.
Title mentions how Govia are just falling apart....especially Thameslink
Go Ahead London General SEN32 YX61FZR working a Southern rail replacement service from East Grinstead
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
YR10BCF is seen on Chiltern Rail Replacement at Amersham Station.
Vehicle Details
Operator: Masons
Fleet Number: 5070
Registration: YR10BCF
Vehicle: N230UD Scania OmniCity
Klarners Coaches based in Colchester were running this Wrightbus Eclipse Solar on rail replacement work when I visited on the Easter weekend.
This vehicle started off with First PMT, branded for route 1 from Liverpool to Chester, and has been through few operators en route to this Colchester operator.
Here we see Stagecoach South West 24146 WA59FXC photographed at Exeter St Davids Station while operating rail replacement services between Barnstaple and Exeter.
Taken February 2023.
London double-deck route 28 succumbed to midibuses under Gold Arrow branding in March 1989, initially with MA class Mercedes/Alexander 28-seaters. MA101 is in Westbourne Park on 31 July 1991. After a spell with DW class Dennis Darts, double-decker buses returned from June 2004.
Pentax MX/50mm
Kodachrome 64
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
8302 otherwise known as PVL217 (Y817TGH) is seen at Haggerston Station while working on the London Overground Rail Replacement to Dalston. (15/02/16)
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
I grabbed a shot of the James Creek diversion at South St. Vrain to show the layout from above on the south side hill. Below is the second, more serious dam cut into the banks of the South fork of the South St. Vrain River. The original diversion is just beyond the original. You can see the course of the South Fork of the original St. Vrain cut off on the left and the highly built up ditch, right. Boy, does the early light suck down in this hole. It is at least two hours early especially on a blazing blue sky day. Oh well, I was there right then and it looked interesting for the story even if it is another tough shot to edit while using multiple layers. It's a pretty crummy diversion for which all of western water law hinged, rightly or wrongly. I just as well edit these descriptive shots for the series. Maybe I could find them a beaver to work for Lefthand Ripped Water District.
Here we now at the "headwaters" of James Creek on that blue bird autumn day. Al and I trekked up to the meadow - really the original source of James. It's always worth some serious slackage after the trek. In fact, we are now above the original source of the James. It surely looks like an irrigation ditch diversion in the mountains. Who dug this ditch and why? I figured I'd fully document the landmark in this series. Now you know!
Could the beavers alone, the far and away the best engineers at preserving the Rockies watered riparian habitat, have accomplished this much pretty easily? Assuming they thought it would be a good idea and. assuming they wanted a dam right here. Phil and I sat quietly watching a young beaver working in the meadows for period of time on an earlier trek.
Maintenance was required after the big flood that nearly wiped out Jamestown. Boy did the water diversion ever pay Jamestown back bigly during the big flood a few years back! After looking over the "flaccid" ditch, I wonder where ALL the rest of the flood waters came from.
Al claimed that he intended to do an article for the Longmont Observer about the James Creek water diversion that figured most mightily into Western, Colorado and regional water law. Phil and I knew that this all had to do with the diversion at the top of James Creek a spot we visited previously and knew well. The story is well woven into our history. This is my reveal of the geography behind the story.
Here's another colorful shot up the James that fall. The trail was a mix of foliage in fallage lush color. This screams high Rockies palette while in deepest shade. It needed extra layers because of the range. Oh well, we are set for a now 90s in August record before we can escape this summer and get a few 50s for the nights. Pretty please, deniers.
Ridleys Coaches BV69 LPF In Golden Square Berwick Upon Tweed On a Cross County Trains Rail Replacement
As the Monsoon Clouds Hit The Vindhyachal Ranges of Madhya Pradesh , A Sleeper Replacement Machine Swiftly Moves towards Budni in order to replace a Damaged Sleeper , Due to the work many trains were Held up at Hoshangabad and Train services were Hit for 2 hours. Monsoons have this time around Hit Madhya Pradesh violently triggering Flood Like Situations in all parts as all the rivers are in Spate , Narmada River Not far from this place was flowing almost 5-6 meters above danger levels. Madhya Pradesh is the most drenched State Of India this year receiving rains almost everyday.
Phil. Touristers Inc.
Fleet No.: 583
Engine: Doosan DL08
Chassis: Daewoo BS120S ( PL5UX )
Bus Body: Santarosa Daewoobus BS120S Low Floor
Bear Buses VN36140 is pictured on Garratt Lane, Earlsfield whilst heading for Surbiton on South Western Railway Rail Replacement
In 1982 it was still possible to “bunk round” depots and on 9th May 1982 I am doing just that my local depot, Toton. Amongst a line of Class 08 shunters stabled in the yard is 08021.
Locomotive History
08021 was originally 13029 and then later under the 1957 renumbering scheme D3029. It was built at Derby Works and entered traffic October 1953. For the first half of its career it was based in the West Midlands with its first Allocation being Tyseley. In August 1960 it transferred to Stourbridge Junction and then to Bescot when Stourbridge closed in April 1967. It transferred to Toton in July 1968 (one of the Class 10 replacements) where it remained until withdrawn in December 1986. Following withdrawal it has entered preservation and is the resident shunter at the Tyseley Locomotive Works, its first home in 1953.
Toton Diesel Shunter Allocation – 1967/68
In the 1950’s and early 1960’s British Railways built/purchased around two thousand diesel shunters which replaced considerably more steam shunting engines. By the middle of the 1960’s changing operating methods and the reducing size of the network lead to a surplus of diesel shunting locomotives. Withdrawal commenced with the classes containing only a few locomotives however as the surplus grew a start was made on the larger less reliable classes.
I first started visiting Toton MPD in the summer of 1966 and in November 1966 Toton MPD had an allocation of twenty five diesel shunters. Over the next two years this fleet would be totally replaced and was also reduced to fifteen locomotives. The diesel shunter allocation in November 1966 consisted of four types of locomotive:
Class D2/2 - (TOPS class 03) –204bhp diesel mechanical shunter built by Swindon and Doncaster works between 1957 - 1961
Class D3/3 – 350bhp diesel electric shunter (mechanically a class 08) fitted with a Crossley ESNT6 engine and Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment, built by Derby Works in 1955.
Class D3/4 - (TOPS class 10) –350bhp diesel electric shunter (mechanically a class 08) fitted with a Blackstone ER6T engine and GEC electrical equipment built by Darlington and Doncaster Works between 1953 and 1962.
Class D3/8 (TOPS class 11) - 350bhp diesel electric shunter (the prototype for the class 08) fitted with an English Electric 6KT engine and English Electric electrical equipment built at Derby Works between 1945 and 1952.
Those allocated were as follows
Class D2/2 (class03) – D2116
Class D3/3 – D3117 – D3126 (complete class)
Class D3/4 (class 10) – D3476/93/95/97-99, D3500-02, D3632
Class D3/8 (class 11) – 12038/55/63/82
Of note is D2116 which had officially arrived in September 1966 but despite regular visits at this time I can not personally ever recall seeing it at Toton.
The first change was the transfer of the four D3/8 locomotives in November/December 1966 (with 12038 going to Speke Junction and 12055/63/82 going to Crewe) and the withdrawal of four of the class D3/3 locomotives D3122-24/26. These were replaced by eight class D3/4 locomotives, D3446/47/48/49/50 from Peterborough, D3452/75 from Tinsley and D3473 from Doncaster.
In April 1967 a further class D3/3 locomotive was withdrawn D3121 and in July 1967 the remaining five class D3/3 locomotives D3117-20/25 were withdrawn.
In September 1967 the class D2/2 locomotive D2116 was transferred to Barrow
In November 1967 the first two class D3/2 (TOPS class 08) locomotives D3400/02 arrived from Cardiff
In December 1967 two further class D3/2 locomotives D3050 and D3997 arrived from Willesden and Bescot respectively as did two class D3/4 locomotives D3442/89 from Colwick however a start was made on withdrawing the D3/4 locomotives with the withdrawal of D3449.
So the situation at the end of 1967 was an allocation of twenty five diesel shunters (the same total as November 1966) of only two types:
Class D3/2 (class 08) - D3050, D3400/02, D3997
Class D3/4 (class 10) – D3442/46-50/52/73/75/76/89/93/95/97-99, D3500-02, D3632.
This was to be the high point as over the next nine months twenty of the class D3/4 locomotives were withdrawn with the remaining one D3497 being transferred to Colwick. As replacements eleven class D3/2 locomotives arrived, D3021/25/29/34/36/37 from Bescot, D3026 from Tyseley, D3039 from Derby and D3340/45/90 from the Scottish Region (Thornton Junction, Dunfermline and Eastfield respectively). One class D3/4 D3490 also arrived from Colwick but was withdrawn one month later.
So by September 1968 in less than two years the Toton diesel shunter allocation was totally replaced initially by additional class D3/4 (class 10) locomotives which were in turn quickly withdrawn and replaced by class D3/2 (class 08) locomotives. Also in the first nine months of 1968 the fleet was significantly reduced, being reduced from twenty five to fifteen locomotives as follows.
D3/2 (class 08) – D3021/25/26/29/34/36/37/39/50, D3340/45/90, D3400/02, D3997
As a young spotter this meant plenty of new “cops” on a regular basis.
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Always good storm chasing stories to tell about my weather adventures in 2014.
Days right after my knee replacement... Home from the hospital & I definitely wasn't supposed to be out and about. Knee was almost in a cast and I wasn't supposed to be doing anything to aggravate the situation. Though my quest for severe weather never ends and I wasn't going to miss another possible chase especially when its in my backyard. This storm was going to be a photogenic monster... Decision was made & off I went.
I wasn't out for long as the storm has now passed over to the north of the city. Wasn't the wisest of ideas to go out. I headed back home & as I pulled into the drive, the backside edge of the updraft had this incredible mammatus display. It was just a bit north of the city & I had a phenomenal view of this storm as it passed almost directly overhead. Sunlight that was cresting against this was simply incredible. So much detail in these mammatus clouds I couldn't quit taking snaps.
Personal Note *** On the original set Back in 2014 I had use the free Avery photo editor here Flickr and it wasn't the best but I had no prior knowledge of editing them back then. Only shot in .jpg format and I didn't do the best by over coloring and over saturation. Was very under experienced in photo editing back then.
Another epic set of thunderstorm captures from South Central Nebraska remastered through Lightroom and Photoshop. Though I paid for it with my knee just being replaced. I was super sore and the swelling was unreal a few days after this event. All worth it when it comes to what epic views I caught storm chasing on that particular day!
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