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mmmmm, yummy! fabric stack for the quilt you can see partially constructed behind it. Quilt is the 9 Patch Trellis quilt by Oh Fransson!
I was headed Westbound at Gold Run when I heard the UP 7631 West get talked through a MoW Gang. At that point the chase was on. Bowman and Rocklin were my last two chances to grab this train. Even after a slight detour through Loomis and headed down US-40, I still managed to beat this train between Bowman and Rocklin.
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Peter Calaboyias, 2000, near Paterno Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, sculpture
For many years, the SP intermodal facility across the Mississippi from New Orleans sent and received many trains from California. This was just one of the more modern renditions, a Long Beach-bound stack train rolling on the Sunset Route through Houston. However, with the advent of PSR UP closed or downsized many of their smaller intermodal terminals. Avondale no longer sees trains of containers, though there are occasional cuts of well cars mixed in with manifest traffic.
IAVLB (Intermodal- Avondale, LA to Long Beach, CA)
NS ES-40DC #7571
UP SD70M #4157
Missouri City, TX
May 25th, 2014
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
Stacks on! Here's one of the girls from Nicky's pod wrestling with two other dolphins during courtship. These guys aren't shy about mating, they'll do it anywhere... orgy's are always fun... and you gotta have an audience!
Photography ©Lisa Skelton, all rights reserved.
Indian women wear sarees. Sarees are long pieces of cloth wrapped round the body. More info on India and Indians here www.amazon.com/India-Kids-Amazing-Facts-About/dp/149470997X
Now that the Wilfred Sykes has cleared the MacArthur lock and the space is free, it’s finally time for the many tour boats to make their way upbound towards Lake Superior. Leading the group were the Nokomis and Le Voyageur of Famous Soo Locks Boat Tours, while the Canadian tour boat Miss Marie lll takes position number 3, and the Hiawatha and Bide A Wee hold spots 4 and 5. While they ain’t the biggest things locking through today, it’s hard to beat the view these tour boats provide of this engineering marvel.
Possibly the best smile in all of Dharavi – from a cardboard stacker at a recycling unit at Nauvrag Compund.
Andromeda Galaxy - M31 with M32 and M110 satellite galaxies. Sony A7S body attached to Starwave 102 refractor, image consists of 44 20 second exposures at ISO 3200. The images were stacked using DSS.
Two UP Stack trains meet in Traver, CA. This is a small town of about 700 people along the SR-99 "valley" corridor of the Central Valley of California. Traver is known for its grain exports.
Today these two stack trains waste no time blazing through town, even with an older Southern Pacific (now UP) loco second out on the Westbound (Compass North) train.
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There was some discussion on the ICE Rail group today about the possibility of double-stacks on the IC&E via the Kansas City connection with KCS. One report said CP was making track adjustments under the CN (IC) bridge at Genoa to accommodate stacks.
I recalled photographing some UP overhead stack trains on the I&M Rail Link, and dug up this one of stacks coming under said bridge on 4-5-2000...so I'm not sure what work needed done if it was indeed for future stack traffic. Either way, this is interesting news...
South Stack Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1809, marking a tiny islet off Anglesey at the north west tip of Wales
Built
1809
Height of Tower
28 m
Height of light above Mean High Water
60 m
Automated
1983
Electrified
1938
Optic
1st Order six panel catadioptric rotating
Character
Fl 10s
Intensity
467,000 candela
Range of light
24 NM
Region
West
South Stack Rock lies separated from Holyhead Island by 30 metres of turbulent sea, surging to and fro in continuous motion. The coastline from the breakwater and around the south western shore is made of large granite cliffs rising sheer from the sea to 60 metres.
Origins
South Stack Lighthouse was first envisaged in 1665 when a petition for a patent to erect the lighthouse was presented to Charles II. The patent was not granted and it was not until 9 February 1809 that the first light appeared to mark the rock. The lighthouse was designed by Trinity House surveyor Daniel Alexander and originally fitted with Argand oil lamps and reflectors. Around 1840 a railway was installed by means of which a lantern with a subsidiary light could be lowered down the cliff to sea level when fog obscured the main light.
On 25 October 1859 it is said that the most severe storm of the century occurred, known as the 'Royal Charter' gale; and on that and the following day over 200 vessels were either driven ashore or totally wrecked with the loss of 800 lives.The steamship Royal Charter was among these, sinking within yards of help with the loss of almost 500 passengers and crew.
In the mid 1870s the lantern and lighting apparatus was replaced by a new lantern. In 1909 an early form of incandescent light was installed and in 1927 this was replaced by a more modern form of incandescent mantle burner. The station was electrified in 1938.
Automation
On 12 September 1984 the lighthouse was automated and the keepers withdrawn. The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.