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The American Redstarts have returned to the North East. They are the only warbler with an all black plumage with striking orange.
Heading toward the July 4th long holiday weekend in the gardens and the coneflowers are almost ready to pop. :)
HAIR: Magika - Faye
TATTOO: HISS. Mark Me
BOTTOM: Pseudo- Lex RIpped Jeans Mid
BACKDROP CENTRAL: Outdoor Scenes
When in the heights of majestic Himalayas, the weather changes very quickly. A shot when winds started playing and temperature started dropping rapidly.
CSXT Framingham based local L004 has been on duty more than three hours and is just now starting north. They are technically still inside the Framingham Yard limits as they trundle northbound on the Fitchburg Branch at about MP QBU35.6. The entirety of the branch is designated as Other Than Main Track with this local operating at Restricted Speed but not exceeding 10 MPH the whole way making for an agonizingly long round trip.
The two ex Chessie GP40-2s are crossing the short deck girder bridge over the Foss Reservoir/Sudbury River with a big train of more than 30 cars. Have you ever driven the Mass Pike in the Framingham area and looked over your shoulder to the south and seen a grafitti covered bridge and wondered what train crosses it? Well now you know, because the eastbound lanes of I90 are just 100 or so ft to the left of the train. a
This trackage dates from 1855 when the Agricultural Branch Railroad opened between Framingham and Northborough. In July 1866, the railroad opened a 14-mile extension to a connection with the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad at Pratts Junction in Sterling. The next dozen years were rather convoluted as many small independent lines began to congeal into larger systems and by 1879 the route was part of the Old Colony Railroad, then ultimately came into the fold of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford in 1893.
This line, like its sister route to Lowell, was one of only three incursions of the NH north of the defacto "Mason Dixon Line" of New England Railroading into what otherwise was the exclusive domain of the Boston and Maine. For virtually a century, with few exceptions, the NH ruled CT and RI and everything in MA south of New York Central's Boston & Albany subsidiary which ran in a virtual straight line between its namesake cities bifurcating New England.
Today this 30 mile route meandering northwest is the last CSXT owned branchline in Massachusetts, with all the rest of any length that they still operate having been sold to MassDOT. The branch seems to have a solid future thanks to the addition of a busy new demolition debris customer near the end of the line in Leominster a few years ago supplementing stalwarts like Ken's Foods, Nucor, and Bestway Lumber.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Monday May 12, 2025
Maplewood flats a wildlife and bird sanctuary, also contains these scale model houses built during the 2010 Olympics. The houses were built to simulate the original squatters shacks that were origianally called Shangra-La that were present for years. The city tore the originals down to put in a shopping mall that never happened The wildlife reserve over 30 acres, is a much more pleasant way to spend the afternoon! Wish I had come with a more wide angle lens for these tiny shacks. I also missed the prime time fall leaves by a storm or two!
Starting point to explore the world.
São Paulo (Brazil) international airport (Guarulhos - GRU), 2023
This is an image from the 4th of July fireworks in Idaho Falls but it seemed appropriate ;-)
I love each new year full of promise and opportunity. What will we each make of the precious gifts of life and time?
Getting ready to work the cows with his dad, this little buckaroo leads his horse out of the trailer.
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
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