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We are about to enter the doldrums of cloudy and rainy November. So here, I present a colourful, cathartic capture to counter the "meh" of the eleventh month! #TBT
Memories from Italy
Tower of Mangia
The Torre del Mangia is a tower in Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. Built in 1338-1348, it is located in the Piazza del Campo, Siena's premier square, adjacent to the Palazzo Pubblico. When built it was one of the tallest secular towers in medieval Italy.
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With temperatures in the 90's for the past 10 days and next week not looking any better tonights Throw Back Thursday needed some snow. Here is Wheeling 6314 taking a short train to Connellsville.
I ran across these two shots from over 10 years ago that look like I took them yesterday. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing!!
Since Pan Am is in the news lately I figured I would put up a few Pan Am shots from my trip in 2015. In 2015 GSP was kind enough to give me the full 1 week tour of New England railroading. We had mostly good luck with the weather and managed to shoot a number of the Guilford Highhood GP40s which were high on my list. Probably the most impressive consist was this quartet with two GP40s leading POWA. Unfortunately due to a failed attempt at the Maine Eastern (which we later more than made up for) we missed most of the well lit opportunities of this train but this one came out quite nice. Here the train is approaching Leeds Junction with 373 leading 377. At Leeds they would swap the locos around for some long forgotten reason.
I ran across these two shots from over 10 years ago that look like I took them yesterday. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing!!
Saw a coworker at North Park way back in 2014. This is his photo, but I used Gigapixel AI to increase the size of the image from 960x640 to 3840x2560. It mostly worked! Well, it worked better than I expected. There are some funky things going on if you look closely, but I think it was worth the price. Just don't expect to enlarge fine art with it. I think this app is best for enlarging old, low-res snapshots.
Once again a scan of a slide from my 1994 holiday in southern USA. This one was taken on a trip from El Paso to Phoenix.
This is especially for you Llanuza!
Algoma Central FP9A 1752 and friends bask in the golden sunset of a beautiful Sault St. Marie evening in August 1996. We had just returned from a private car charter round trip up to Hearst and back.
Four Maroon C420 glow in the last light of day as the Monnet turn chugs back into Rogers. As I was taking this I realized this was one of the last times this would ever happen....turns out I was wrong but it was still the last time for me.
Kirkjufell Church Hill (or translation: Church Hill), because it looks like a straw hat, it is also called Straw Hat Hill by tourists. It is a landmark of Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Its unique majestic appearance often appears on the media pages related to tourism in Iceland. In the above, the famous album "Game of Thrones" was also filmed here. If you like to shoot the Aurora, it is a great prospect. Unfortunately, there were too many clouds that night to shoot the Aurora.
Kirkjufell 教堂山（或譯：教會山），因為造型蠻像一頂草帽，也有遊客叫他草帽山，是冰島斯奈山半島上的景點地標，獨特的雄偉外觀時常出現在冰島旅遊相關的媒體版面上，著名影集「權力遊戲」也曾在這裡拍攝，喜歡拍極光的話更是超棒的前景，可惜當晚雲太多，拍不到極光。
die niedermühle im kirnitzschtal, 1980 oder 81, scan vom s/w-negativ, orwo np20, kamera praktica PLC3, objektiv 1.8/50
This week in 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-112, lifted off from Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station. STS-112 carried two primary payloads: the S1 integrated truss segment and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid Cart A, the first of two human-powered carts that would ride along the space station railway, providing mobile work platforms for future spacewalking astronauts. Here, mission specialist David Wolf participates in the mission’s first extravehicular activity. Wolf is carrying the S1 outboard nadir external camera, which was installed on the end of the S1 Truss on the station. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center serves as “science central” for the International Space Station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory’s science experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
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