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Spotted this seemingly abandoned, burned-out house on a road I've driven 100 times before. It did •not• want to be photographed. And even though there was no glass left, something kept reflecting (peeking?) back at me through the windows....
Happy Halloween!
(Digital composite: sky. Obviously.)
Our weather at the moment is brutally cold, with windchills down to around -38C! Still no car to go anywhere, though I know I wouldn't be going out in such bitterly cold weather, anyway. Very soon, the situation is about to change, as I have been told that my car will be ready to collect on Tuesday, 28 December, after 58 days without it. Hoping that won't change!
As I have been doing for weeks now, here are a few more photos from my archives. I will add the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted photo taken on the same outing.
"Can't believe the crazy weather we are having. It was -2C when I left the house to go on a walk all morning from the Boat Launch in Fish Creek Park to the far end of the park, past the LaFarge area (or it may have been at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary). This afternoon, it's 20C - warmer than most of our so-called summer days this year! We saw one Bald Eagle perched across the Bow River, and a Snow Goose flying in a distant formation with a number of Canada Geese. On the walk back, my friends spotted a mystery "something" in a distant tree. When I looked in that direction, I saw something sticking up from a long branch and assumed that this "object" was what everyone else was looking at. Turned out that their "something" was just part of a tree, but my "something" turned out to be a Great Blue Heron, LOL!! Out in the open on a branch, but oh so far away : ) Lovely to see it just seemingly enjoying the sun's warmth. This little White-breasted Nuthatch showed up nicely in the light."
2 Way seemingly have a few of these Neoplan Euroliners; a vehicle type I haven’t really seen anywhere else but they seem to have carved out a niche for running them. This photo dates back to 2018, at a time when I’d have been totally clueless regarding most of the Lincolnshire operators. Luckily I at least had the sense to take a snap of the random coach outside the railway station, to record my one and only sighting of this one.
St Mary’s Street, Lincoln, 20.10.18
YN04 AVF
Hinsdale, Illinois is one of those places where, seemingly, nothing ever changes- a place full of people who'll throw their money around to make sure it stays that way, for better (the beautifully intact, historic town center, including the old CB&Q Brush Hill station, still in use, for instance) or for worse- witness the myriad of historic homes in the area being razed for McMansions that make a mockery of architecture and stand as testament to the completely lopsided wealth distribution of our times. At the suburb's center, Metra 186 approaches the historic depot with an early-afternoon outbound BNSF line run.
As I waited on the beach for the Sun to set (before taking this photograph) I was entertained for a few minutes by a delightful shore bird. It ran up and down the surf line, almost frantically, in search of hidden prey buried in the sand. What stuck me is how the bird was continuously (and voluntarily) on the edge of catastrophe: a moment's hesitation, and it could be engulfed by the pounding waves.
And it got me thinking about our own lives, too. In reality, don't we all conduct our lives on the edge of catastrophe? There is a seemingly fine line that separates sickness from health, poverty from abundance, warfare from peace, hate from love. Like the immutable surge of the ocean, we often encounter forces and circumstances which are beyond our control. The key, then, to living a fulfilling and productive life on the edge, is learning to deal with whatever comes our way. This idea is perfectly encapsulated in the Serenity Prayer:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
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This photo is worth VIEWING IN LARGE, as there is some fascinating detail in the bird's feathers.
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Featured in Explore 2009.12.31 #83
iss073e0175732 (May 27, 2025) --- The New Moon is pictured seemingly beneath Earth's atmosphere during an orbital sunset in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 259 miles above Mauritania on the African continent at approximately 9:59 p.m. local time.
Seemingly a very contented meal. I loved the sound of the grass being chomped.
Nikon D750
Sigma 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM Art
‘Schplendid’ decline, a natural going away with the waveforms of sunlight, winds and rain slowly eroding everything seemingly diligently taking all of what is til nothing will remain. All the while the guardian stands watch making memories of even older dread ghost of man's tormented slaves free expressions of intricate passions delivered for sensation rather than for continued ‘rememberation’ all woven in light and in shadow, woven into so many songs on the winds and embroidered in fine worked detail with the rain til only the rocks and their hollows remain.
Too many reflections loaded and here I am loading more. These are the end to the reflections as the personal intrusion was the end my friend. No worries about being personally intruded, it is just the way it is, was and hopefully will be. Please step in, out and walk all around my pictures, your pathways are more important than my pictures. When everything else is in balance I try to take an image and create a picture hopefully in harmony.
There are some good links below. My reflected images don’t get many views, here they are though. Some pictures I take I see the reflection opening up the scene. Here the dark cross caught my eye and the potential to extend the original image from a landscape orientation and then from a portrait orientation fired my mind and then, and then someone rose from their lower perspective photography and stood in my scene. Suddenly I was woken from my image making dream. They were a great photography companion and the only reason that I was there and out and about with a camera. No shade on them for elevate themselves from a close-up photography Yoga pose focused on a flower I believe. They can puncture my composed dream frames anytime, also in any place and in all space and none, even if their puncture power means the dream scene has gone.*
The Sun will shine and cast shadows and in inspecting them we can tell the time. We can see line and with a care we can watch the minutes and hours pass as the line moves. If we wish we can look at light as the generative creator of life and we can see shadow as an opposition a place that will not respond to the clarion call of the Sun. Shadow and shade bring about their own distinct wonders and Shadow is created and directed in constant movement by light of varying intensity. We humans have considered good and bad omens from the force of the Sun and from the reaction of shade, shadow and subterranean sunless places as well as the phase of the Moon displaying reflected radiance of the Sun and at times the Moon shrouds the Sun in eclipse of amazing exactness gifting sight of the edge the immediate crown of the star that illuminates us and leaves us to the further distant view of the other stars and planets by night. All this to say Sun and Shadow, direct light and reflection and refraction all the time in world seemingly making and recreating signs and symbols that we divine as the language of light and the symphony of dark. Light is light and lack of light is either less, or even total darkness with no need to try to read the light and to listen to the dark. After this mention of omen and even prediction everything below this is information about the absolutely stunning location.
Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.
Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.
The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.
*The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit is currently available from the Akashic Records at wherever you usually Yoga access them. They can help you achieve stone solid results and icon Sphinx like waking scenes and also avoid all frame puncture at every photographic juncture. Higher State close lens search for Dream Scene Puncture Repair in Khemtastic Pack IV Pharaoh Awakes near potential pyramid lakes. If you have not found The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit then join the rest of us that either have to recompose and take another dream scene, or move on literally figuratively and even spiritually if your dream close to fulfilment was such a wondrous scene.
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Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Nasmyth_-_Hawthornde...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
'Wallace's Cave'
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778
The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
I've had a rather rough couple of weeks and took this shot on a morning walk to clear my head on a particularly difficult day. Landscape photography never fails to surprise me, with this glorious sunrise seemingly coming out of no where.
A lovely lighthouse and shingle beach, on a colourful morning.
Happy new year to all when it comes.
Now seemingly in the final months of their Freightliner lives, the sight of 4 Class 86's at the head of a service in 2020 is extremely welcome!
I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the story is here nor the actual headcode. It would seem that 4M42 ran in to difficulties at Shenfield in the early hours with 86613 and 86610. It looks as though 86608 and 86605 (which were probably allocated to 4M45) have ran light from Ipswich and recovered the service. 4M45 did leave Felixstowe but was cancelled at Ipswich Yard in it's normal path.
Any help on headcode and confirmation of the above would be great! :)
86608 86605 86613 86610 Halebank. 04:55 Shenfield - Garston FLT.
In “Rockswarm” the artist and apiarist Bill Woodrow explores the ways in which bees organize themselves socially, particularly when forming a swarm. Cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf, Woodrow’s bees are in transition, on the verge of arriving at – or perhaps departing from a stone that stands at the entrance to Vital Vitale. This temporary location, where bees greet visitors upon arrival, underscores the reciprocal arrangement between these pollinators and humans, and the crucial role plays in keeping the other alive. With honey bee colonies dying at terrifying rates, Woodrow’s use of gold leaf underscores the preciousness to nature and the depiction of bees on the cusp of change embodies the turning point we now face in determining our own sustainability.
In the background, :”Mixed Emotions 2011 by Tony Cragg (b.1949, England)
The title of Tony Cragg’s dynamic sculpture articulates ambivalence or irresolution. Similarly, its very form embodies ambiguity: are the figures clinging to each other entwined as one, or are they on the verge of splitting apart ? Seen in the light ”Mixed Emotions” seems to manifest the diverse feelings expressed in politics and society about our impact on the causes of environmental change and our roles vis-à-vis its ramifications. Additionally, when considered along side Cragg‘s belief that sculpture may lead to open-minded approaches to the world around us, “Mixed E motions” seemingly represents a hope for sensitive thinking about the future of the human race while recognize the quandaries that we face.
Seemingly everlasting these sedimentary rock layers are actually quite fragile especially when exposed to the pounding surf.
This seemingly sylvan setting is actually on the edge of The Black Country, and the West Midlands Trains Class 172 DMU is crossing the Birmingham Canal Navigation's Old Main Line at Smethwick Galton Bridge. The train, service 2K25 0926 Stratford-upon-Avon - Kidderminster is slowing on the approach to Galton Bridge station on 30th April 2022. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Onion Flowers - little white flowers that spring from seemingly nowhere, and which smell like onions when the lawn mower rips through them, but when left alone, can produce a lovely carpet of White...
Granddaughters Grace (aged 3.5 years) and Olivia (aged 2) are cousins, and over the last week or so, they've had a lovely time on our long driveway picking bouquets of these little flowers. Never mind that the stems are all different lengths; there's something special about hearing a little voice proudly proclaiming, "Here you are Gwanddad; dees are for ooo!" as a little hand passes over the little bouquet...!
Anyway, inspired by the photo that recently appeared on Andrew's site (www.flickr.com/photos/ajhaysom/48928507917/in/dateposted/),
I paid a visit to our church yard cemetery which (unlike our driveway) still has lots of Onion Flowers blooming!
Unfortunately, the wind was blowing strongly through the cemetery, but I was never-the-less reasonably pleased with this shot (above). So thanks for the Inspiration Andrew; I had a lot of fun in an old graveyard this morning!
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At last I have found a picture of HOM 699D, previously my only seemingly unpictured vehicle. This was my second Reliant, bought from Grey's on Coventry Road for 399 guineas. Greys used to price their bikes and 3 wheelers in guineas (£1.05p in today's money) the advantage to Greys is 399 guineas sounds a lot cheaper than roughly £529!
The picture was taken in August 1968 at Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, my future wife, Jean, is holding the door on. The van was about 2 years old and as is obvious it had been highly tuned, it had stick on front number plates and a trendy drivers door mirror which clamped onto the quarter light upright. Unless regularly tightened the mirrors would work loose and fall off, generally under the wheels of the Foden following behind. I had fitted Austin A35 chrome hub caps to it and, to hide the 'flying A' motif, a couple of Lucas orange side reflectors were drilled and bolted on, regrettably not quite in the centre so that when the wheel revolved the reflectors kind of oscillated, a thing of wonder to the drivers of cars passing in the next motorway lane. The van came with a boomerang drivers wing mirror, this was removed and a parking light (a legal requirement back then) was fitted in the hole. Whereas most motorists clipped their parking lights over the drivers door window I just had to flick a switch on the dashboard and my light came on, neat!
I was so proud of that car, today I can't even be bothered to clean the Euro blob I now own.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 08/1968: All rights reserved
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown
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Seemingly rushed into its new role out of London, T22 (the fleetcode carried in London) passes New Parks Library on Aikman Avenue in Leicester.
A seemingly sightless doll, completely oblivious to the beauty of her surroundings. A wonderful metaphor for the human tendency to let relatively trivial frustrations and disagreements hinder positive living. Happens to me all the time despite a professed desire to not allow it to happen. In the worst case, the trivial matter festers as I start to dwell on my perceived failing in letting it get to me in the first place. Fortunately these things tend to be cyclic. All is soon forgotten (one of the sometimes good, sometimes bad aspects of older age) and life rolls on. I try hard to avoid people and situations that I know from experience act as catalysts for unhappiness. I relate best with people who raise the level of discourse, and in the process, elevate my mood. By contrast, I try to minimize my involvement with people who constantly lower the discourse. It's vital for me to not use sight of the beauty around. Unlike the poor little doll, I still have the choice.
I only had seconds to shoot when these egrets -- seemingly "in a mad dash to head home before dark" -- appeared overhead. I only managed five shots, and this is the one I like the most. I tucked the camera in the bag after this. I felt that I've taken the best shots of the day, and I needn't search for any more. :)
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Seemingly overnight, the first Pitcher Plant flowers are popping up around the bog...the separate white 'pitcher' that ingest insects will soon follow...they have both a Spring and Autumn growing season...these flowers provide seed and the 'pitchers' provide ingested nutrients...
In seemingly typical WCRC charter weather (for me anyway!) - drab(!), Northern Belle liveried 57601 comes up the gradient towards Burton Joyce with 1Z22, the 07.48 Northern Belle charter from Lincoln Central to Llandudno Junction.
Seemingly every intersection in Austin, Texas, features a person begging. I've got mixed feelings about it. On one hand I try not to look away and pretend the problem doesn't exist. On the other I'm cynical about the need when the person is well-dressed and basically making begging a job. This guy seemed to fall somewhere in between. Whichever way you fall, it wasn't this way when I was a kid. The only homeless person in town then was Bicycle Annie and everyone knew her name.
Here's a set of photos about homelessness that I've been shooting when the opportunity presents itself: www.flickr.com/photos/joemoconnell/sets/72157626576257513/
A seemingly abandoned shack sits on the opposite side of a fence from...
Decatur (Glennwood Estates), Georgia, USA.
26 September 2020.
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This seemingly abandoned Roadside Amusement Park in Jordan is small but colourful! It appears to have been abandoned for only a few years.
Read more: www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/roadside-amuseme...
Two seemingly happy children peer out of their gated doorway in Old Havana (La Habana Vieja), Cuba. This is classic Cuban colonial architecture—as revealed by the a tall, narrow doorway and this home’s openness to the sidewalk, welcoming street life and human exchange.
Old Havana is the city-center and one of the 15 municipalities forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of Havana.
Well someone wants to get into my pants... so that's nice. The males don't bite, they feed on nectar. The females require a blood feed before they can successfully produce their eggs. They are drawn to movement and dark colours, seemingly especially black. I had a light coloured long sleeved shirt and still got bitten on the hand. I have previously noticed they'll land on a black camera bag and the camera body. Despite the painful bite, I am always on the lookout for a picture because of those eyes.
A Seemingly abandoned Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Lovely sunny day deckchairs out on the south lawn, and no one about!
Another take on this scene seemingly lifted straight out of the old west. According to an old USGS topo map these ramshackle log cabin structures are in a place named Beals, but I've otherwise been unable to find any information whatsoever about this spot other than that name. So perhaps it was just a lonely ranch or maybe it is a ghost town with a hidden past. It is fun to imagine that perhaps Kid Curry passed this way to rendezvous with Butch and Sundance at Hole-in-the-Wall or maybe Ike Gravelle rode through on his way to blow up the NP's Yellowstone River bridge near Livingston or....you fill in your own wild west tale.
But even if it doesn't look like it at times, it's very much the 21st century as Montana Rail Link's 844 Logan Local is seen at about MP 5.4 on MRL's 6th Sub (Harrison Branch) rolling north (timetable east) through a classic western high plains landscape. They are dropping downgrade toward Antelope Creek which they'll follow back through a canyon that cuts through the London Hills on their return toward the 5th Sub (former NP passenger main) at Sappington. Leading the eight loaded covered hoppers are two classic EMD GP35s, MRL 403 and 401 blt. Dec 1964 as DRGW 3039 and Jan. 1964 as DTI 353 respectively.
Serving only one customer, this branch sees service once a week at most to reach the tiny country elevator at the end of the line. I can't verify the veracity of this claim, but I've been told by railroaders that the only reason this anachronism survives is that the owner of the Harrison Elevator Co. is an old friend of MRL's owner, billionaire industrialist Dennis Washington. If true it would certainly help to explain the otherwise unexplainable!
This branch itself was originally built to Harrison by a Northern Pacific subsidiary in 1889 and extended a year later another 10 miles or so to Norris. Additionally at Harrison another branch forked 7 miles west to a small mining area at Pony. This branch was cut back by the NP during WWII and the outer 10 miles of the main stem to Norris succumbed under BN in 1975 leaving what was left to pass to MRL in 1987.
As for the railroad itself, countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence and if you care to learn more download this great series courtesy of Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TRN-MRL.pdf
Madison County, Montana
Tueaday September 6, 2022
Seemingly overnight, every Osprey nest up and down the coast here has been repopulated. It is finally spring!
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This seemingly ordinary man was in fact a scientist when he was working, Head of the Air, Water and Soil Protection Section of the region's Land Department. He played an important role in the regional management of the notorious Chernobyl disaster of 1986
Streetlights of Eternity
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Star trails seemingly emanating from one of the tufas at Trona Pinnacles, CA on a very hot August evening. The pinnacles are tufas left from an ancient lake bed.
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Seemingly, a mobile advert on St Giles High Street, London WC2, rather than the more usual all-over advertising livery on a regular service bus.
This East Lancs bodied Dennis Trident that started life with Metrobus in 2001 with a different registration number, Y416 HMY.
Sony a7 + Canon FDn 28mm f/2.0
Upon our visiting East Point Lighthouse in Prince Edward Island we came across this seemingly friendly Red Fox, who showed little fear of approaching our vehicle when we came to a stop. Obviously, the little guy had become somewhat accustomed to humans; we assume over the past few busy tourist months when food or snack were plentiful. We decided to stay in the vehicle and not provide any encouragement to Reddy - we did not get out to tour the lighthouse grounds and will have to save that for a later trip.
Fata Morgana
Seemingly flying mountains while travelling on the very long roads of Patagonian Argentinian steppes, due to fata Morgana optical effect.
Prov. Chubut - Argentina
Notes // On Black // Interesthings // Continente Patagonia
Cruising seemingly effortlessly over the undulations of a calm Atlantic Ocean, the fulmar flies at such low altitude that its wingtip draws a trail in the surface as it banks, or crests a wave. In this moment, it scores the surface of the water with the lightest of touches.
As a fellow traveller of the air, I look in awe at this scene of composure and precision; skills honed to perfection, a master of the sky and sea.
Compared to my earlier shot of the fulmar, this one is certainly touched: in particular heavily cropped.
Seemingly oblivious to the silver cross parents on his left, Hamilton's mayor, Fred Eisenberger, spent most of the wreath-laying ceremony at today's Remembrance service chatting and laughing with the local MPP Andrea Horvath.
This was THE railfan event of 2018...at least in the Northeast. Seemingly every railfan within 200 miles, maybe more, was here spread out around the valley going for different angles. Some even planned their shots for 6 months I hear! Not me though, I didn't even know about this move until about three weeks before this. Thanks to Michael Sullivan I didn't have to do any planning...just sit shotgun and enjoy the ride.
The Sprit of Union Pacific, specially painted SD70ACe 1943 leads UP's OCS dinner train special operating as NS train 066-03 makes for an incongruous sight passing the stunningly restored former Erie WC tower as they sail east on Main 1 of New Jersey Transit's Main Line at MP 23.6.
Constructed by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad in 1890, the wooden Victorian styled structured would serve the Erie, EL, Conrail, and NJT before the latter finally closed the tower in 1986. Restoration work began in 2004 and the exterior was restored and painted by the end of 2005. Interior work continued and the tower opened as a museum in 2009, but work has been ongoing culminating in the return of the original CTC board to the tower in March of 2021. Much has been written about this tower over the years so here are several links to get you started if you care to learn and see more:
www.thehistorygirl.com/2016/09/waldwick-nj-station-and-to...
www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/erie-railroads-waldw...
railpace.com/waldwick-tower-model-board-restoration/
And to learn a bit more about what this train was about and why it was here check out this earlier image and the caption: flic.kr/p/2jdqNum
Waldwick, New Jersey
Sunday June 3, 2018
Telling a story in three simple images let's go to 2) The Bad
Seemingly little changed on the Maine Centrail for the first couple years until 1983 when Guilford bought the Boston and Maine ending a 13 year long bankruptcy. When the road then turned around a year later and purchased the Delaware and Hudson Railway it had created a 4000 mile system stretching from the Canadian border in northern Maine as far west as Buffalo, as far south as Alexandria, VA and to Harrisburg and Philadelphia. There was promise in the air and for a brief shining moment hope ran high that New England railroading was on the cusp of a renaissance and there would be a strong regional competitor for Conrail, then still a ward of the government which had just begun to turn a profit itself. This news story sums up the hope of those early days: youtu.be/tmoH1uZaBb8
But the lustre would quickly fade and the hope turned bad as the railroad abandoned routes, laid of workers and restructured work rules. A strike came in 1986 followed by a longer and more disruptive one in 1987 that threatened the entirety of railroading in the northeast. Employees suffered, customers suffered and the pride and good will evaporated overnight. It wad a sad time and this far less polished video helps illustrate how the railroad broke bad: youtu.be/wjvVPpzKU3U
Later came legal but manipulative tactics to change work rules by playing a shell game of leasing the B&M and MEC line by line to Springfield Terminal, a tiny shortline in Vermont wholly owned by the B&M and hence Guilford. While that tactic worked in New England they weren't able to manipulate the D&H similarly and only four years after creating the system they gave up and cast off the old Bridge Line into bankruptcy.
Retrenching to New England Guilford Transportation soldiered on as an enigma looked upon with derision and disgust by many.
In Lawrence this sign on the bedraggled yard office standing beside a twisted yard yard full of mostly rusty disconnected wobbly tracks remains showing off the stylized white G arrow logo and signature gray and orange of the railroad everyone loved to hate.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Thursday February 7, 2019