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CN L539 slowly pitter patters down the old DSS&A mainline bound for L'Anse for with one car of old ties but will pull about a dozen empties once there.
Meandering along in a light rain at 10mph, CN's local from L'Anse is skirting the shore of the Spurr River just east of Three Lakes, Michigan. It'll tie up east of Champion and continue on the next day into Ishpeming and eventually Partridge.siding to swap cars with another CN local from Gladstone.
One of 2 C30-7's painted in the coke scheme works hard switching a steel plant at the VW spurr, the C30-S7N which was used as a manned helper from Puebla to Panzacola, waits on the main track, they will soon be coupled together for their run back to the Puebla yard
Panzacola, Tlaxcala
A pair of ex-Oakway SD60s drag the L'Anse Job along the Spurr River near Three Lakes, Michigan on ex-DSS&A rails.
Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet region are ringed with active volcanoes; Mt Spurr, Mt Redoubt, Mt Iliamna and Mt Augustine. At present activity alert level on all four is green, indicating typical background, non-eruptive state.
Tiny on the ocean sunset horizon is Mt Iliamna volcano.
Elgol on the west coast of the Isle of Skye affords beautiful views of the Black Cuillin peaks of Spurr Nan Eag and Spurr Na Stri across the bay. With a stunning location and golden evening glow, what more could you ask for!
2 colors drawing
This is my work for the ARGH! Comic magazine.
My collaboration is for the number 2 but this awesome magazine has 2 numbers now.
You can find more information about that here: arghcomic.com/
Looking south to Stac Pollaidh, Sgorr Tuath, Sgurr an Fhidhleir and Ben More Coigach from the west spurr of Cul Mor
Cool nights and heavy rains the day before create a thick moody fog that is still lingering close to the ground and covering the tree tops in the Huron Mountains in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The crew on L540 with their one load are about to reach Summit where, the train will start down hill to Lanse with grades varying from little to flat all the way to over 3% with the majority of the hill being over 1.5% down to the Keweenaw Bay, which on this day wont be an issue going down but the returning train will make the EMD's work a little to get back up.
This is a volcano that currently has a high chance of a major eruption and is not far from Anchorage AK. Captured with Light Lens Elcan. Overflight in a Saab 2000 turboprop.
The elcan was designed for US military and originals are extermely expensive combined with the military version of the Leica M4. This is a contemporary copy of the lens made in small numbers and here used for capture from air, perhaps in the spirit off the military use.
Capitol Reef was something unexpected. While planning our route I completely missed the fact that we will be crossing it! We should have at least stopped by the fruit gardens!
If you'll ever going to be in the area I totally recommend Broken Spurr Inn & Steakhouse!
The small.. village, blimp? on the map that goes by Herman is a rather ghostly town especially in the Fog. Here L540 rolls through Herman past the old Depot and hotel on the right that sits in a very sad and unkempt state. Add in the twice a week train moving at 10mph on 80lbs rail from the early 1900's and even a couple sticks from the late 1890's it really makes this location feel ghostly.
Perishing gloomily,
Spurr'd by contumely,
Cold inhumanity,
Burning insanity,
Into her rest.—
Cross her hands humbly
As if praying dumbly,
Over her breast!
Owning her weakness,
Her evil behaviour,
And leaving, with meekness,
Her sins to her Saviour!
-"The Bridge of Sighs" by Thomas Hood
~The End~
Working their way up hill still from L'Anse L539/540 comes out of the dense woods and enters into the void that is Daults Creek in Herman. Once going back past us and through Herman the train will keep climbing up hill to Summit and will stay in dense woods for most of the trip back to Ishpeming.
The Spurr Volcano is about 130 Km west of Anchorage, Alaska, across the Cook Inlet. This view was taken from a pullout on the Sterling Highway, the road that runs down the west side of the Kenai Penninsula to Homer. At this point the volcano is probably closer to 150 Km away. It is a very, very large mountain.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 14,1972 primarily for its architectural significance. The architectural work of Wills and Dudley of New York, Holy Trinity is an outstanding example of the Gothic Revival style in church buildings. The original congregation had its beginnings in 1849 as a mission of Christ Church, Nashville's first Episcopal congregation. This Gothic Revival-style building was constructed of random, native limestone ashlar with a gable roof and large square tower centered on the facade. The tower, crowned in battlements, has a chamfered turret on the southwest corner. Simple masonry plate tracery is found in the pointed-arch tower window and belfry openings. The have walls are jointed by spurr buttresses with single pointed-arch windows located between each. The interior is divided into nave and sanctuary, and the narthex is in the base of the tower. The roof structure is exposed and supported by a system of modified hammer beams. Holy Trinity was first used by black Episcopalians in 1895, and its present predominantly black congregation was organized in 1902. Also, in 1862 the building was taken over by the Federal Army as a powder magazine and stable.
All information above was taken from the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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O who rides by night thro' the woodland so wild?
It is the fond father embracing his child;
And close the boy nestles within his loved arm,
To hold himself fast, and to keep himself warm.
"O father, see yonder! see yonder!" he says;
"My boy, upon what dost thou fearfully gaze?"
"O, 'tis the Erl-King with his crown and his shroud."
"No, my son, it is but a dark wreath of the cloud."
"O come and go with me, thou loveliest child;
By many a gay sport shall thy time be beguiled;
My mother keeps for theee many a fair toy,
And many a fine flower shall she pluck for my boy."
"O father, my father, and did you not hear
The Erl-King whisper so low in my ear?"
"Be still, my heart's darling--my child, be at ease;
It was but the wild blast as it sung thro' the trees."
"O wilt thou go with me, thou loveliest boy?
My daughter shall tend thee with care and with joy;
She shall bear three so lightlyt thro' wet and thro' wild,
And press thee, and kiss thee, and sing to my child."
"O father, my father, and saw you not plain
The Erl-King's pale daughter glide past thro' the rain?"
"Oh yes, my loved treasure, I knew it full soon;
It was the grey willow that danced to the moon."
"O come and go with me, no longer delay,
Or else, silly child, I will drag thee away."
"O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized me--his grasp is so cold!"
Sore trembled the father; he spurr'd thro' the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, clasp'd to his bosom, the infant was dead.
J.W. Goethe
Looking west from Anchorage, on the left is Mt. Spurr and to the right is Mt. Susitna (also known as Sleeping Lady).
Note the squirrel in the tree on the right. LOL
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Peninsula
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PjL3och9fI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Spurr
From: volcano.oregonstate.edu/spurr
Mt. Spurr is a stratovolcano in Alaska. It is composed mostly of andesite. The Spurr volcanic complex was built on the remains of an older volcano. The present Mt. Spurr grew in the center of the old caldera. The original volcano was an andesitic stratovolcano. It is about 12 miles (19 km) around. Snow and ice cover the north side. The base of the volcano is covered by thick ashflows and pyroclastic deposits which contain dikes and sills. The upper part of the volcano is mostly andesitic lava flows. The caldera of the older volcano is ~3 by 4 miles (5 by 6 km) wide. The elevation of this caldera is about 9800 ft (3000 m). The caldera is breached to the south. It contains an ice field which feeds glaciers in all directions.
A dome grew in the center of the old volcano's caldera to form the present Spurr. This volcano is mostly covered with ice. The exposed ground around the volcano has fumaroles which are near the boiling point. A small summit crater sometimes melts some of the ice on the volcano. Fumarole activity from this crater was the only activity before 1953. A second cone called Crater Peak grew in the breach of the older volcano. This was the sight of a major ash eruption on July 9, 1953. The most recent eruption of Spurr was in 1992. Spurr's two historical eruptions, from Crater Peak in 1953 and 1992, deposited ash on the city of Anchorage.
The 3374-m-high summit of Mount Spurr, the highest volcano of the Aleutain arc, is a large lava dome constructed at the center of a roughly 5-km-wide horseshoe-shaped caldera that is open to the south. The volcano lies 130 km west of Anchorage and NE of Chakachamna Lake. The caldera was formed by a late-Pleistocene or early Holocene debris avalanche and associated pyroclastic flows that destroyed an ancestral Spurr volcano. The debris avalanche traveled more than 25 km to the SE, and the resulting deposit contains blocks as large as 100 m in diameter. Several ice-carved post-caldera cones or lava domes lie in the center of the caldera. The youngest vent, 2309-m-high Crater Peak, formed at the breached southern end of the caldera and has been the source of about 40 identified Holocene tephra layers.
Along the banks of the partially frozen Spurr River, Canadian National local L539 heads for Euclid Yard in Ishpeming, MI. Currently between Three Lakes and Michigamme, the local is traversing what was once the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic’s mainline across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.