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Let's rewind the clock to 2008 and head back to the Midwest. A pair of ex-Conrail motors heads up a Gibson-bound autorack train on the IHB. Grasselli Tower was preserved and moved to the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in 2009.
This week we are going back sixteen years to 2009, and to RV 551 arriving into Balbriggan with a service on route 33.
CIE took over operation of this route from the GNR(I) in 1958, and it is still operated by Dublin Bus to this day. The route connects the city centre with Skerries, going via Swords, Lusk and Rush. Certain departures are extended to / from Balbriggan, and it is the most northerly route in the Dublin city network.
RV 551 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was withdrawn in 2012, and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. It was still operating there until at least 2022.
11/09/2009
For Throwback Thursday.
My father's friend, Eddie VanVaulkenburg. He couldn't read or write, except to sign his name but as a hobby, built homemade tractors. He didn't simply modify old trucks to create a "doodlebug" or makeshift tractor. He actually built these totally from scratch and his own design. This is one of his early ones and I wish I had some pictures of his later ones which were hard to distinguish from factory made machines. He worked as a janitor and night watchman at the tool and die machine shop where my father worked and they allowed him to build these there in his off time.
One year ago, I snapped this shot of a foraging Zebra Dove at a beach in Kauai. I didn't realize how cool the composition was until now. The low-angle shot and the grass blades framing the zebra finch, all made me feel as if I were foraging with that Zebra Dove.
Looking back in my camera roll also made me realize how much I improved. Many of my photos then were overexposed and out of focus. Also, why did I need to take 50 photos of the same plant? This makes me proud when I say my current camera roll is so much cleaner.
Throwback Thursday to those hot Summer, halcyon days in Amsterdam. While we were there, we had the opportunity to experience a local record-breaking heatwave. The mercury hit 42°C for a couple of days straight. This week we have the polar opposite, where temperatures are barely going above -15°C during the daytime.
..to a couple months ago. Forgot to post this neat consist that was on the point of a LINGAL manifest, caught in Burlington, Ia.
Just a couple that I ran across this morning from 2014 that caught my eye.
This was the same day, at a restaurant where I stopped for breakfast.
Just another take on this scene for the trip album from last May's adventure on the Range.
This would ultimately be the last train of our time on the Iron Range (for now) and it was quite the stunning way to end our time here. We'd manage it at three spots before calling it a day and heading to Duluth for a celebratory dinner and beers down on the waterfront
A U790 train of empty hoppers is heading to Minntac for another load of pellets to turn around and take back to Two Harbors. The train is crossing the fill over Embarsass Lake and approaching South Biwabik at about MP 58.6 on modern day CN's North Division Iron Range Subdivision mainline. The standard three pack of ex CNW C40-8s have a train of modern CN era ore cars (over 1000 of which were acquired between 2009 and 2018) on the historic former Duluth and Iron Range Railroad which was the other component half of the DMIR created in 1938 when the two roads long owned by US Steel were officially merged. Today Biwabik is home to a 6118 ft passing siding and a small little used yard, but in the old raw ore days it was bustling as a marshaling point for the mine branches seemingly radiating in all directions as well as the main continuing into Virginia. They will pull down past the remains of the yard and pause at the north (compass west) end to wait for a meet with a loaded southbound U789 counterpart.
This is a region that should need no introduction to even the most casual fan as the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway is in a word legendary. I won't bore you with pages of history as I couldn't do the road or region justice anyway. It simply needs to be experienced for oneself. But I will direct you to two resources. Absolutely check out the fabulous historical information here: www.missabe.com/
And for a fabulously well written overview of modern CN operations find yourself a copy of the April 2023 edition of Railfan and Railroad right now! shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr-202304
Biwabik, Minnesota
Friday May 12, 2023
25.7.2011
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A shot I forgot to upload that I took on 7/3/17 of L-CHI101 approaching Mazon, IL with an unpatched ATSF C44-9W.
Going back (again) to my Alaska 2008 trip. I'm on a tram in Juneau overlooking this little boat called a YACHT. :)
Sometimes it's fun to go back and re-edit pictures that you took when you were 16. I'm seriously craving some creative picture taking time. Focusing on class and graded photo projects can really take the creativity and fun out of making art. My goal for this upcoming break is to take photos just because, with no reason other than to marvel at the beauty and goodness of God.
1934 Brewster Town Car
The Brewster was immortalized in the Cole Porter song, "You're the Top" and is the only American to ever win the Gold Medal at the Paris International Exposition, a gathering of Europe's finest coachbuilders.
I've been re-watching The Mandalorian as I’ve been building lately and I was reminded of a few photos I took for Blocks Magazine Issue 72 back in 2020 that I never posted online before.
For this image, the Jawa are at it again! This time a tribe of them are spaceshipjacking Din Djarin’s beloved Razor Crest for parts in the mountains of Arvala-7 (maybe they intend on selling them on BrickLink). Good thing he has his trusty Amban Phase Pulse Blaster with him.
This is my Throwback Thursday post for this week. This photograph was taken from the beach that is located at the point parking lot in the Cape Henlopen State Park. It was a very special sunset with the lines of cloud formations.
My dad behind the wheel, my sister on the passenger side, my next older brother in the middle and me standing up in the rear.
I believe this is a '28 Chevy and I would guess, by my size, that the year taken was about 1948 or 1949.
A throwback Thursday shot to one of the many cool lashes that CP 277 graced us with over the years.
Nothing but great standard cab variety. It seems like it was so long ago...
SOO 6037
Here's a throwback to 2012, when State Line power plant still stood, and Norfolk Southern's heritage units were fresh out of the box. It may be front-coupled, but I thought NS 8103, the Norfolk & Western unit, looked pretty sharp sitting in Colehour Yard on the Chicago Line, right along the Illinois/Indiana border. A maintainer's truck passed by during this long exposure.