Sydney Train’s K80 & K66 thunder out through Heathcote on 888C ‘Silver to the sea’ tour organised by Historic Electric Traction returning to Central from Kiama

26/7/25

Grumman S-2 Tracker, Oshkosh 2024.

Dan Hatala Dirt Track Dreams 100 0piece jigsaw puzzle made by Masterpieces, Inc.

Here is another shot I captured, at Bathurst railway station.

Kepler Track, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

Langjökull, Iceland

A late Amtrak 8 is trying to make up time as he rounds the curve at New York Mills, while a coal empty passes on the westbound main. In a few minutes he will clear his warrant at Wadena, then stop at Staples a bit later.

Track to Hollyhill Wood

This trail was created by Mrs Albertina Choules in the woods local to her remote home.

She was tragically murdered and set alight in 2016 during a robbery attempt on her home.

News item - www.thesun.co.uk/news/1403130/albertina-choulesfirst-imag...

For photos of the full trail is my album ... flic.kr/s/aHBqjAuyDU

123 in 2023: #105 tracks

So... The ŁM-50 tracked front-end overhead loader model in 1:13 is finally finished and Johanna Gambolputty is ready to present it ;) . Pre-Christmas frenzy, however, is not the best time to film/photograph a new model so for now - just this one family photo. The other models are old, very old, but I've just overhauled them and will probably film them together with the ŁM-50, for the first time in decent quality. They deserve it, methinks, for nostalgic reasons if not anything else.

Skagit Valley, Washington.

Not my usual positioning of a photo (it's normally in the middle of a road!) but I took this quickly whilst walking across a crossing at Spellbrook. I like the converging tracks and in black and white seemed about the right treatment.

Tractor tracks

Explore #20

Train tracks outside of Picher Creek.

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Micheldever Wood, Hampshire. In search of early sun at the end of the track I came away with this soft and slightly misty light instead.

Olympus XA2

Fuji Acros 100 in FX39

These meandering tracks in the damp sand at low tide are more shallow and narrow than those of the periwinkles in the two photos posted below on my page, "Off to the Races" and "Periwinkle Road Map," and there were no critters in any of these. What creepy-crawly creature made them remains a mystery to me. They remind me that, as mathematicians know, a random walk tends to always return toward its starting point.

The Overland Track ends here. One of Australia's premier hiking tracks starts at Cradle Mountain and finishes at Lake St Clair. In the old days people could make the trek in both directions, but in these days of regulation and user pays it is a register, pay and travel in one direction only track. As you'll see from the official link below it takes 6 days to make the 65 kilometre trek and will cost you $200 for the pass:

parks.tas.gov.au/explore-our-parks/cradle-mountain/overla...

A number of private companies have taken to promoting the trek and provide an all-inclusive guided service for several thousand dollars. I won't provide any links here, but you can find them online if you have the cash. As a former Australian Prime Minister once said, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

In 1931 fur trapper Bert Nichols created the Overland Track and by 1935 it was consolidated and used by independent walking parties. By 1937 it was officially named the Overland Track and the track had been upgraded to be used for guided tours and pack horses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Track

The Overland Track can be a very dangerous place to be, certainly with the very changeable weather in the region. So the fact it is well monitored and regulated is a good thing. In 1965 there was a disastrous school hike that claimed the lives of a student teacher, Ewan Scott, and a student David Kilvert. The heroism of Scott as he tried to save the life of Kilvert in blizzard conditions is remembered in this article: www.examiner.com.au/story/3068014/heroism-defined-in-moun...

Sandhills near Talia Beach, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

The only thing I hear, here, is deer.

A stunning sunset at Clonsilla, Train Station, Dublin, Ireland

Managed to get a few shots in the fog on my way to work this morning. This was the last shot before I had to fly away up the road, see the colour just coming through in the sky as I was leaving.

Berlin Südkreuz (D)

...of the Hespertal Railway at Lake Baldeney in Essen (NRW, Germany)

Railway tracks on the Inlandsbanan that go to northern Sweden! July 2021, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden!

I was on an overpass of the rail line feeding the railroad bridge that crosses Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River in Decatur, Alabama. Imagine my surprise when this strange consist passed underneath. It turned out to be FRA DOTX 219: A Track Geometry Car operated by the US Department of Transportation and hauled around the country to check the geometry -- and condition -- of rail.

Right place at the right time!

6q59 southall-rugby at northampton

Mercier Kilo TT Black Frameset

Velocity B43 White

Sugino Messenger

Nitto Pearl 10 Stem + Nitto Handlebar

Brooks Red Team Pro NACCC Boston

These lines are just suggestions.

Long Bien birdge, rail tracks at center lane, on old bridge over hundreds years old, cầu long biên, đường ray, tàu lửa, tàu hỏa, trên cầu Long Biên

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