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Docked a few feet away from the N.Y. state thruway the Mohawk river and Erie Canal run together and then split under the Mohawk Bridge
This was an amazing sky to start with. The unintended effect, however, was courtesy of my car's polarized windshield. Not entirely sharp, as it was shot from a moving vehicle.
Explore April 17, 2009 (highest position #90)
A trio of BNSF GE's lead loaded CSX oil train K138 as it rolls east over the New York State Thruway in Batavia, New York with a BNSF lettered warbonnet in the lead. The train was interchanged from BNSF in Cicero and is bound for refineries on Philadelphia's east side for processing.
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CSX Rochester Sub
Batavia, NY
CSX K138 (Oil Loads; Cicero, IL to Philadelphia East Side, PA)
BNSF 736 C44-9W Blt. 1997
BNSF 6983 ES44C4 Blt. 2012
BNSF 3901 ET44C4 Blt. 2015
CP Rail SD40-2-5429, Norfolk Southern C30-7-8063 & CP Rail SD40-2-5677 are on track one, at the west end of CSX's Philly Sub, with W/B train Q-403-01. The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Thruway (I-895) and a catenary pole on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor can be seen in the right distance.
Ramapo is a hamlet between Suffern and Sloatsburg, NY. A factory town. Thruway construction demolished much of the town. It still has a few buildings and many empty houses vacated in recent years. Few people live on the edges of the hamlet, The factory is still in use, but the bulk of the area is abandoned.
This is the factory end of the bridge over the Ramapo River.
A trio of Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac EMDs and a former Seaboard System B36-7 roll CSX R191 underneath the Harbor Tunnel Thruway overpass in Elkridge and roll south on the former B&O Capitol Subdivision in 1991.
A light dusting of snow was covering the Maryland countryside and by the next day, this train would be nice and warm in god's waiting room.
CSX CW44-9-9013 is coming out of CSX's Bay View Yard with W/B "Bare Table" train X-301-08. The I-895 Harbor Tunnel Thruway overpass is in the distance along with the T catenary poles on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
In another time, when I was a different human altogether, I used to drive all night between upstate New York and Chicago listening to Radiohead’s Kid A, OK Computer, Amnesiac and Modest Mouse’s The Moon and Antarctica. It was a time I couldn’t even possibly conceive of photographing both bands as I drove all night on the thruway and across the winding curves of Cleveland hoping to not fall asleep and become part of a circle. And so, I’ve changed, the bands have changed, the cities have changed. But, did you know, just like a body turns into a new self after 7 years, so does a city? I came to Chicago 20 years ago and it’s about to completely change over for the third time (Math is fun, don’t you think, Karma Police?) Anyway, on a macro level, we’re all seeing the bulldozers and razed buildings, the rent increases, the humans being kicked to the curb like they never mattered. We all internalize this stuff like an infestation about 100x more detrimental and insidious than Coronavirus. And, on the microlevel, we can feel it too. It’s in all the elements of ourselves and the places we visited, the shows we went to, the restaurants we ate in, the people we bonded with who may not be still breathing. We’re still drinking drinking drinking Coca Coca Cola and we’re still heading down that road. We aren’t going to stop changing, a slow evolution or de-evolution until we die.
I chose October to resume this series for a reason. The main reason is this…it’s scary. Disaster Capitalism is the ghost who never stopped living and who you would never invite into your home on purpose, right? You want to avoid the devastation because it’s hard to function without welcoming all the misfits in your city into your home and calling it a day. You know you are a misfit, too. And, there’s a lot of peeling of surfaces, a lot of taking away from the original form. You know there’s a secret tension between those human made constructions and the others-the trees, the grasses, the nature that will also swallow us whole if given a chance. Just like…you know there’s a secret self who went to hundreds of protests to actively resist fascism when Trump was a more than an existential idea threatening all of human kind. It is terrifying to see all the layers. The more you look, the less able you will be to stop looking. And, it’s still happening. Just look at that abortion ban.
And so, if you see me on the street, my long red hair a chaotic tumble around my camera, please know that I am not insane as I crouch low and high on tip toe, capturing all the urban monsters inside ourselves. We may never be reconstructed because we’re not potential high end real estate. Maybe I’m crazy but, then again, what will that make the rest of this world?
Don’t forget to Refuse Fascism today! It’s never too late…
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NBSR GP31ECO-M 4307 with its Slug Mate GP-CBU 405 trailing on the NBSR-CN Transfer Job as it passes by the Saint John Thruway and under the Main St. Overpass.
Some train tracks in Upstate New York, seen from the thruway last Thanksgiving weekend.
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S/B freight AW5 is leaving Conrail's Bayview Yard with GG1-4853 added to the head end as a tunnel helper. In addition to GP40-3248, the engine consist has two "U Boats" U25B-2632 & U33B-2952 providing the power. At this time, it was very rare to see GE units in Baltimore. Overhead is I-895, the Harbor Tunnel Thruway.
CP Rail MLW M630 4561 was showing off its profile in CSX's Curtis Bay yard in the shadow of the I-895 Harbor Tunnel Thruway steel overpass in Baltimore in 1992.
It had just arrived from Canada with an acid train and would call Charm City home for a few days while the train was being unloaded at a nearby chemical plant.
Village of Perry, NY
Rural, centrally located village is 3 miles from the Perry Entrance to Letchworth State Park and 1 mile from Silver Lake. It is about a 30 minute drive South of the NYS Thruway at Batavia (Rt. 246), between Rochester & Buffalo and adjacent to the Finger Lakes region.
Ann Burlingham, owner of Burlingham Books, Perry, N.Y., is stepping away from the business after 12 years and will turn the reins over to manager Giuseppe Gentile, who has worked at the store for a decade. Plans call for the bookstore to reopen with a new name in June.
Gentile told the Daily News that he plans to carry on many traditions, but when the name changes and the new store opens, likely in June, people can expect to see some changes: "I want to expand the cafe, we're going to have a larger seating area for cafe patrons, faster wi-fi. We're going to keep a lot of the same lines--all of the books are going to stay--but I also want to carry Legos, board games, stuff like that."
He is watching his wife and baby across the busy intersection in Buffalo, NY over near Buffalo Airport
It's November of 1997. I'm a freshman in high school and have a job bagging groceries at the Thruway Supermarket in Walden. The magazine rack there was representative of railfan media at the time, carrying the full slate of Carstens and Kalmbach. So, if I wanted to psychoanalyze things I could say that the Grafton & Upton article from the November 1997 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman stuck in my head because of a church steeple shot in it as I really over time have a thing for cool buildings and gnarly trees in photos. It could also have been because it wasn't written in a "how to model this" tone entirely but included a little bit of the history and operation. It also stuck in my head that the railroad essentially went a short way from the B&A interchange to their lone customer. Fast forward just a shade under 9 years and of the 2 trains I was ever on east of Worcester I was kinda most concerned with seeing the G&U interchange and wasn't really surprised to just see a switch and a track trailing off into the woods (it's my memory, it looks how it looks in my memory).
A decade or so later I'm out in the world and seeing that the Grafton & Upton has been reborn and has an F Unit. My trips east in this time frame are most concerned with Guilford in Maine (Thanks George & Candy) and at that point I didn't really have the network yet to know a person who knows a person who knows what's going on everywhere. February 28th of 2018 I hand a cold Coors Light to Dave Blazejewski at Norden on Donner Pass. He thought we were enemies because of internet shit but he didn't really know me yet.
2020 I get furloughed at CN and decide (it didn't take much deliberation) to do a 7 week road trip through peak covid (china virus released from the wuhan institute of virology which is curiously funded by US sources) and race riots focusing especially on the Reading & Northern. I had time to do everything but my focus was single minded. Early in June I was sick of sleeping in my truck so much and went home to Minnesota. I came back out in October and do ya think I gave a single thought to the Grafton & Upton? Nope.
Next trip east was a 2+ weeker in 2022 for a friends wedding. Guilford had been done, R&N had been done. I'd been in 1 spot for 4 years and homesickness was sinking in. I was looking backwards and the Grafton & Upton was on my radar for the first time in many years. My fall 2023 trip had them on the to-do list but they didn't get done. Sometime in early spring of 2024 Blazejewski posted a photo of Grafton & Upton rolling through a field bisected by stone walls. The G&U went up near the top of the to-do list. Just about a month later Blaze took me there for my first visit. I saw the church steeple at Grafton but didn't want to chance getting to the field and wanted time to set up.so we went to the field and waited for the train for an hour. It was Erie's final spring, I was relaxing in a New England hay field bisected by rock walls and there was a train coming. It was heaven.
This year was a bit different. Blaze & I got up there relatively late after having a long day of MBTA and 3 lobsters for $50 the day before. Nick Palazini was already up there, Dan Lowe would show up a short while later and we posted up in the woods slightly down track from the mill that served as the end of operable railroad when the article was written in 1997.. I started tooting on my Boston Lager purchased in trade for a good parking spot close to the Crows Nest in Gloucester the day before as the G&U got going out of North Grafton. An absolutely cloudless spring morning in Massachusetts and I was there, the church. The steeple, the photo from half a lifetime ago, the article, the hobby and the sound of an non turbocharged EMD diesels ricocheting off the buildings. It's just wonderful.
G&U 1751, Grafton MA.
The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.
CSXT local L022 has 44 empty grain hoppers headed for Selkirk behind CSXT 8854 and 8128 (SD40-2s blt. Aug. 1978 as Conrail 6496 and Aug. 1980 as Clinchfield 8128 respectively) as they sail over the Hudson River at about MP QG 9 on Main Track 3 of modern day CSXT's Castleton Subdivision headed home to the big Selkirk Yard.
They are emerging from the 598.6 main span of the massive Alfred H. Smith Bridge which in total is 5255 ft long and 139 feet above the Hudson River below. In 1921 a contract for the main grading and drainage work and for all the actual bridge construction except its steel superstructure was awarded to Walsh Construction Company, a well-established Iowa-based railroad builder that would later go on (in 22 joint venture with others) to build the Grand Coulee Dam and, still later, to achieve national prominence as a builder of urban skyscrapers. The 23,000 tons of structural steel required for the bridge would be fabricated in Pittsburgh and erected by Bethlehem Steel's McClintic Marshall subsid- iary under a direct contract with the railroad. Physical work began in early 1922 and two years later on November 20, 1924 the first train crossed the bridge. It was named in honor of Alfred Holland Smith, the president of the New York Central Railroad who authorized the construction of this bridge as part of an extensive project known as the Castleton Cut-Off. He died in a horse-riding accident in Central Park in 1924, only a few months before completion of the bridge. He is sometimes confused with Alfred E. Smith, New York's governor at the time who was aboard that first train and christened the structure in honor of the other fallen Mr. Smith.
This bridge is now the southernmost place a train can cross the Hudson River (excepting NYNJ's barge service) and is used by all CSXT traffic heading into New England via the old B&A as well as any traffic direct to New York City via the historic NYC Main, now Amtrak and Metro North's Hudson Line and on a typical day 18 to 20 trains will cross. The parallel structure beyond is Castleton-on-Hudson bridge opened in 1959 to carry the New York State Thruway's Berkshire extension connection to the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Coeymans, New York
Friday Friday November, 2024
Fukmer Creek enters the Moawk River/Erie Canal with the N.Y. State Thruway on the north side looking east towards Herkimer.
We are at Castleton-on Hudson, NY with Amtrak FL9 #487 whipping along the 110 mph area of the Hudson Line with the Lake Shore Limitted, #48, as it passes south under the Berkshire Extension of the New York State Thruway. Now as for this angle? Well, let's just say I have no recollection as to how I got up there, or why I was up there, but obviously I was on the Conrail Boston & Albany's Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge that carries the railroad 139ft above the Hudson, to obtain this shot. If I could afford a drone back then, I probably wouldn't have had to hike up there.
And now back ... to the present day. Socks and I rode up to Suffern, NY. I shot train stuff with the Mamiya 645, and when the film ran out, switched to digital.
Did I mention getting up at 4am to shoot night snowfall pictures? Yeah, did that, too. This area RARELY has a white Christmas, so when the opportunity came (the snow was supposed to get washed away this afternoon), I gritted my teeth, set the alarm, and took it.
The soon to be replaced Tappan Zee Bridge
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s.
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Reminding me of the Gov. William J. Lepetomane thruway toll booth in the movie "Blazing Saddles" which was about as easy to drive around as this arch, this mid century modern looking welcome marker still hangs out over U.S. Hwy. 61 on the state line between the "bootheel" of Missouri, and Arkansas. If this town has a name, I sure can't find it.
Read about the Hwy. 61 arch here:
Used a bit of Microsoft Photo editor for the Canvas Look.
But the rest of the blending and fading in the Pentax ACDsee programme and and the Canon Zoom Browser Stich Photo.
I drive by this place when I take the Thruway to work.
One morning I noticed it from this angle and thought that it could do a nice "Mirrow shot". So the next time I took a few and played around with them till I came up with this one.
There is a note in this photos Set explaining how I have finished these photographs.