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Started long before 4am with head torches on, to be greeted by this amazing sunrise light shortly before reaching Allalinjoch.
...about 1.6% of the trees are starting to change into their Autumn colors in this region of the world. I counted them, lol. Mostly the outer limbs right now. Not hardly any information from the web on this particular lens; but it works well on my M series Canon.
* Fotomat 100-300mm f/5.6 lens
* Fotga MD-EOSM lens adapter
My starting length. She certainly suits me. But want more. Much more. The length of the hair will be such that with the help of it to satisfy any fetish.
the leaves are starting to turn on the chinese pistache trees at work. I love these trees. I love autumn too tho' I don't want to rush the seasons.
This was the last train I shot in Laredo before starting the long drive back to Houston and the flight home after an epic solo adventure last spring. About 40 minutes after CP 2816 made its historic crossing south into Mexico it was back to business as usual as four big UP units led by SD70ACE 8317 (EMD blt. Feb. 2005) step out over the Rio Grande with train MPBMX 27 (Pine Bluff, AR to CPKC de Mexico in Laredo). Sharp eyes will note the US Customs and Border Patrol car sitting along the bank just beyond and below the bridge keeping an eye on every train that crosses the river.
I've always had a fascination with rail border crossings and photographing trains crossing to or from Mexico has long been on my wish list, so what better excuse was needed than this?! Among the half dozen active rail crossings none is busier than this one, which also happens to be the first between the two nations dating from shortly after the 1881 arrival of the Texas Mexican Railway from Corpus Christi lwhen the then 3 ft narrow gauge built the first rail crossing over the river here. The Tex Mex came under the control of the Mexican government which held the 162 mile long line from the Gulf Coast in trust. The line was standard gauged in 1902 and the present 1275 ft long combination deck and thru truss span was built in 1920.
Though owned by the Tex Mex most traffic to and from the bridge moved via the Missouri Pacific Railroad which traces its history back to 1881 when the International and Great Northern Railway arrived in Laredo from San Antonio not long after the Tex-Mex opened. The shortline's sleep history all changed in 1996 when the Mexican government privatized its national railway system and awarded one of three concessions to a joint venture between Kansas City Southern and Transportación Maritima Mexicana which operated the railroad as Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM). At the same time the UP was acquiring the SP and as a merger condition little Tex-Mex (which KCS had bought a 49% interest in one year prior) was granted trackage rights to Beaumont, TX and a connection with KCS. By 2005 KCS had bought out its partner and controlled 100% of Tex-Mex and TFM which it renamed Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (KCSM).
Finally on April 14, 2023 the Canadian Pacific Railway completed its acquisition of Kansas City Southern and its subsidiaries creating the CPKC, the first tri-national railroad with a 20,000 mile network stretching from Maine and Montreal to Vancouver and south to New Orleans and southwest to here and on to Monterrey, Mexico City and Veracruz on Mexico's Gulf coast and Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific. In front of the span can be seen the temporary construction bridge and some of the new girders for the parallel second main bridge that CPKC is building totally with private funding. With volume tapped out at 26 trains per day this span is projected to permit a doubling of that train count. This sure is a far cry from the days of the little known and sleepy Tex-Mex Railway, but assuredly William Jackon Palmer is looking down with a smile that his vision of a century and half ago has become a reality beyond even his lofty dreams.
Here's the official railroad press release on the project:
www.kcsouthern.com/media/news/news-releases/kansas-city-s...
Laredo, Texas
Thursday May 30, 2024
Start Point lighthouse was built in 1836 to protect shipping off Start Point in South Devon England. Start Point is one of twenty nine towers designed by James Walker. The tall circular tower is 28 metres (92 ft) high.
Die Pouva Start in Bakelit-Gehäuse, Klapp-Sucher und herausschraubbarem Objektiv für Rollfilm 6x6 cm.
Model: Victoria Bell
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
c2c 'Electrostar' Class 357 357312 pulls into Upminster while working 2D07, the 0555 Southend Central to London Fenchurch Street
February week 2 drawing. - Colored.
More marker practice.
Apologies for the drawing spam. I promise to take/post some dolly photos tomorrow or later in the week. ^__^;
Starting the engines on a bitterly cold January morning, 47145 73204 and 73205 get warmed up in the west yard at Tonbridge, 27 January 2005
This is from an abandoned six unit apt building near me in West Rogers Park, Chicago. You always hear that fire destroys everything and this bedroom is proof. The whole building is being rehabbed due to fire and smoke damage.
Starting my new Flickr account with the newest addition to the household. Branwen is Dreaming Doll Lia and I'm head over heels in love with her. ^^
WZFO Start
Fotopan NB04 200 at 25, expired in 1982
Something went wrong and the film curled up improperly, I got only 6 of 12 frames. I'm guessing that the film has detached from the backing paper.
Develpoed in Divided D23 7+4min at 22C
I took my camera to Winchester again this p.m.and could hardly believe it when there was Don again, near the city museum this time, getting the perspective at the start of a new painting.
He told me he has 3 paintings waiting to be finished, all needing a rainy day for the work.
With the cold and dreary weather we've had lately, I started looking at some images from the summer. Noticed I hadn't processed this one just yet.