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Freight cars, taken out of service, sit on CSX siding tracks awaiting repairs in New Buffalo, Michigan.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 500, f/6.3, 270mm, 1/200s
ยฉ Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from November 2019. Enjoy!
Sometimes when you are out hunting the light, an unexpected opportunity shows up on the side of the road. For this one, I just pulled over, got out, set up the tripod, mounted the camera, and shot the scene. It just looked worth it at the time.
We go to the Phily Diner, our sixth this year. It's delightfully retro, as you can see from this jukebox. Unfortunately, this is not in working order, and it got stuck in a space right by the kitchen doors with a tray leaning against it. I jump up to remove the tray for my photo, but the waitress beats me to it and seats people in this booth. So, picture flawed. I like the jukebox anyway.
We had a huge, delicious lunch surrounded by Elvis, Marilyn, Frank and Ray (Charles}. We saw an antique toy car collection, not to mention the Ford Fairlane outside, 50's sports memorabilia, lots of neon and always, the ketchup. This one fit the bill!
Random snapshot, catching my babe preparing for her blog... She is beautiful, she is amazing and I love her! โฅ
Filling in for a sideline Maryland & Delaware DeWitt Geep was this Black River & Western SW1200, a former New Haven RR unit. Here the crew is building their train to head west on this former Pennsylvania RR line that once dead ended at Chestertown.
I've always liked criss-crossed lines. From this point the canal crossed with the railway and further along multiple roads crossed over the train tracks. Very satisfying.
These parts of Chester were very quiet by this time. I think one car passed us and we might have seen just one or two people in the distance.
This female Great Horned owl and her mate were being mobbed by jays and crows, with robins on the sidelines "cheering". While her mate was getting the brunt of the attack (see flic.kr/p/2pWrXbj), she was somewhat protected in a tree nearby. Still, she was on high alert due to the intensity of the harassment.
In north Walnut Creek, California
On Oct. 15, 1977, my father and I stopped by Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. Our timing was perfect, as Western Pacific's "Wendover Local" pulled into the yard to tie up. Leading the train was General Electric U23B locomotive No. 2259.
WP acquired 15 samples of this model from GE in May and June of 1972. After the UP-WP merged in 1983, the remaining 13 U23Bs were sidelined and stored in Salt Lake City, and would be formally retired from the roster when the lease expired in 1987.
Belvidere & Delaware River (BDRV) SW1200 no. 1202 rests at a jaunty angle on a siding in Three Bridges, NJ. The locomotive was built in January 1956 as New Haven Railroad no. 643.
As we continued to meander through the Nicola Valley, various opportunities cropped up. The weather was cooperating as the rains had finished and the inclement weather continued. It was a challenge to know where to stop because the atmosphere was so conducive to photography. Deciding on one composition meant abandoning others.
However, like an athlete past their prime, this golden brush was now sidelined while the rest of the story "played" out. It was such a stark color against a deep black, the resulting image was given an eccentric look. I even had a title for this photo before capturing it.
Literally and metaphorically?
Class 507 electric multiple units Nos. 507028 and 507003 stabled at New Brighton station on Friday 10th March 2023. Meanwhile on the right sister unit No. 507009 waits to leave with 2N30, the 13:38 service to New Brighton (via Liverpool Central).
We hadnโt really bargained for a bulging car park here on Christmas Eve. Why wasnโt everyone else charging about in a frenzy, picking up an extra jar of cranberry sauce and having punch ups in the supermarket aisles over the last tray of pigs in blankets? Why werenโt they worrying about whether there were enough crackers or sprouts for the dinner table the next day? I ignored the queue and snuck off to the right into the top car park, which at first seemed to be a bad move until an elderly couple came strolling towards me with intent. โAre you about to leave?โ I asked through a wound down window. โYes, weโre just here,โ the man pointed to a parked car five yards behind me. Fortune favours the inventive. Five minutes later, as I walked down through the melee, apologetic volunteers told waiting drivers that the place was full. โWeโll get you in as soon as possible,โ I heard a lady say to a bored looking man who was stuck in a growing tailback that threatened to block the road down to the King Harry Ferry. At least I was in, although it was very busy indeed. At her suggestion Iโd come here to meet my daughter and two year old granddaughter for a spot of lunch and a slow amble around our local National Trust garden. At least once inside the grounds, things seemed a bit more relaxed. None of us cope well with Christmas. It all goes a bit too crazy as far as weโre concerned. People spending money they canโt afford on things that other people neither need nor want. โDid you keep the receipt?โ Ali and I find it all a lot less stressful now that we no longer buy each other presents. One of my cousins is in the Witnesses, and while I donโt share her religious convictions, our views on the festive season donโt seem to be that far apart. Call me Mr Grinch if you like. If you enjoy this time of year, thatโs great - all I ask is to be allowed to sit on the sidelines with a note from Matron.
After lunch, when a very small person needed to go home before the danger nap hour arrived, I was determined to grab a bit of time to myself before surrendering to the madness. And this was a place where Iโd once come to directly from work, immediately after the end of my last ever autumn term, on an afternoon where Iโd seen a couple of possibilities that nobody else appeared to have spotted before. On that drab December day I took shots that promised more than they delivered, and resolved to return with a longer lens and in better conditions. Now, four years and one day later, I was back again. The clock had not long struck two in the afternoon, sunset was a little after four, and Ali had given me a shopping list for Tesco in Truro before six. Which included pigs in blankets. But they had to be nice ones because we were dining with her family the next day. Twelve people in one space with all of those awful Christmas songs bouncing off the walls and rattling between my ears. I refer you to the last few sentences of the first paragraph.
I digress - back to those two compositions Iโd seen but never returned to in all this time. The first of them was proving to be rather frustrating. Try as I did, it needed a fast shutter and wasnโt working, so with daylight starting to run out, I moved from the beach and up the slope to the other, where the matching headlands on the east side of the Fal Estuary lay bathed in softly glowing winter light. Last time I tried, it was a tight one to compose with some distractions coming in from the right, but now I had the extra options that the big lens offered, and I was sure this was going to be the time to finally get the shot Iโd had in my mindโs eye for so long. With up to four hundred millimetres at my disposal, isolating the twin headlands seemed straightforward enough.
So imagine my surprise when it quickly dawned on me that the distraction wasnโt a distraction at all. That instead of the minimal appeal of a long exposure on the two promontories alone, one with the foreground section on the right might add an element of balance that I hadnโt really considered before. A faster exposure allowed the scene to come alive with the inclusion of the gulls. Of course I tried each option, with exposures both short and long. I liked this one the most. When I think back to this Yuletide season, I wonโt linger on parlour games and that tiresome Slade song that Iโve now had to endure for fifty-two (count them!) consecutive Christmases. Instead, this is where youโll find me - standing alone in a peaceful place, and only faintly worrying about whether the local Tesco will have run out of pigs in blankets or if there are enough sprouts in the fridge for us to make it through to the new year without starving.
TRRA SD60 2173 awaits a call to work that has yet to come. The "new" SD60's ran around for about a week before being set to the side. Perhaps they are waiting for their slugs? I'll be happy to see them shed that bandit paint job and get into the nice red and white scheme. 3007 & 307 pull yet another cut out of the receiving tracks and take headroom before shoving over the hump.
09-26-2025
Nikon F3 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 on Fuji 200
August 13, 2010
Koreatown, Los Angeles, Southern California
The newest addition to my "Rust in Peace" collection, is this wonderful old heap at Marysville.
Can't think of a finer place to spend your "retirement", rusting away. Thanks for visiting!
berlin, new hampshire
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On the sidelines of a Family Football day, for Linkable, a charity in Woking, Surrey.
Shot with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
I must confess that I didn't know anything about TH, the firm which built this loco until I was researching its history.
The best information, as ever from wikipdia makes a very interesting and detailed read, if you have 5 minutes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hill_(Rotherham)_Ltd
Napa Valley Wine Train locomotives 72 and 73 are seen at the Napa Valley Railroad (NVRR) yard in Napa, California. The ALCO/MLW locomotives, which are former Canadian National FPA-4 units, have been sidelined with the arrival of a Tier 4-compliant KLW unit that now operates the excursion services in the valley.