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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!
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
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?
Voltaire,Verlaine,Robespierre,Danton se rendaient dans ce "café" C'était le bar des maîtres à penser.Aujourd'hui il n'y a personne peut être il y en a plus :-(
Getting ready to work the cows with his dad, this little buckaroo leads his horse out of the trailer.
ABC Weather Vic
Most of the sky was covered with clouds and the sunrise was trying to peak through a small area just above the Warby Ranges so I was lucky that the colour stayed until I got into the Winton Wetlands and grabbed this image.
Rene Martens
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
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I was cleaning out unedited files from a folder and organizing them when I realized I really wanted to add some more of these to the album. I don't know about you but usually on a big chase day where you shoot 500 frames I end up with a dozen at best I choose to edit and share. But this was one of those days where the ratio was more like 50% instead of 2%...it was just that good of a day! There aren't many of those in this hobby so why not?!
Anyway, the winter of 2021-2022 didn't yield any plow trains of any sort for me so here is a look back to a spectacular day spent along those magical Washington County rails of a railroad that should need no introduction.
Getting ready to start a day of plowing out the Batten Kill Railroad mainline to Eagle Bridge, SNEX 5012 (an ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 blt. 12/59) has been fired up on the Carovail spur where she normally rests with out of service RS3 605 (Alco blt. Nov. 1950 as Lehigh and Hudson River number 10). The cab roofs offer a hint as to how much snow had fallen on the region the prior couple days.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
One of the coolest things we have done is to start cooking. I found myself well into my thirties without any idea of nutrition and without the ability to cook anything. On the recommendation of a friend - I start using cookbooks from America's Test Kitchen. They experiment with recipes 50 different ways until they come up with something that tastes good and that anybody can make.
And it works. We made potato salad first and it turned out to be the best I had ever tasted. I couldn't believe that we actually made it. We were hooked and now have eight of their books and use them for everything. Years later we now make all kinds of food including our own salad dressing and bread. It never ceases to amaze me and I think of it every time we reach the bottom of another spice bottle.
Wonderful Wednesday to you my friend. Food brings people together.
The scene on the mouuntain road to Aberfeldy, in the Scottish Highlands, during the beginning of the winter weather. All too soon there will be a complete white-out
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The 10/16/21 Smile on Saturday theme is Starts with S.
In 1978, when my wife Sammy and I were walking on a beach in Mazatlan, Mexico early one morning, we were treated to the sight of over 100 newborn sea turtles boiling up out of the sand, and all were scrambling straight for the sea. I remember the sky instantly filled with hordes of screaming gulls, all intent on plucking these little delicacies up off the beach before they could reach the sea. Sammy and I screamed at the gulls, waved our hats and kept the gulls away until every last one of the turtles made it home safely. To this day, I don't think we've seen anything in nature to top this experience.
HSoS