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5/13/2021 ©Mike Orazzi
Simsbury vs Southington track & field on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at Southington High School.
My friend Daniel and I went exploring to get pictures of the snow and such.
Love crawling under/on top of trains. :)
Almost as much as i love bridges...
Home is where the hideout is! Boy, talk about building green! These high coutry bangaloes may disappear to true green soon enough. The hillside above shouts rocks and Rocky Mountains not to mention autumn. This new series is not a replay of last year with new edits, I can always sneak out more edits of last year's work any time but not now. In later September, eDDie and Olivia grabbed me and zipped up Boulder Canyon eventually to old and new haunts. This series is from this autumn's captures. This haunted series may include more houses, unseen. These are once again at and near the Moffat tunnel through the great divide. The housing will show up again when the leaves are gone but will you be there? More than that, how will I manage even more fall excursions next year?
The employees and Station Agent (another movie title) for the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel had short walks to work. The D&RGW RR (Dangerous & Rapidly Growing Worse RR) provided housing for him, his family and other crews allowing short walks to work. I have no idea why someone would need to drive this track to their house instead of walking the equivilent of walking a half a block. Otherwise, I can imagine stumbling around in the deep snow after the night shift, especially for that bottle that was stashed on the way to work. I bet that bottle would never freeze, being antifreeze itself! "Pure stategery," according to Boy George and all other Englishly-challenged. Boy, is Trump making Boy George look like an Einstein! I could recognize nothing of Papa George from his recent tributes. Could they find nearly enough hate to go around? Talk about Chief of Staff, he needs Stormy Daniels to sit in on his staff!
Direct transportation was readily available to Tolland, Rollinsville, Denver and the western slope towns for the odd shopping spree. Here is some housing hing in the aspen. Unfortunately the T-Rump fired all the help up here. They were only jobs. That's OK, they can grab three of Trump's wealth of jobs and still fail to make ends meet. The tunnel facade remains as it was built in the twenties.
D&RGW used to operate the tunnel and the big coal mines (before being taken over by the Koch Bros) near Somerset and Paonia on the Western Slope even though it was D&SL RR (Denver & Salt Lake RR) that inspired the tunnel after years of winter snow fighting campaigns over the Hill Division on the Continental Divide. See my recent Rollins Pass series. Coal shipments will be taking a major hit if we want to come even close to global warming commitments. Denverites were always envious of Southern Wyoming and wanted their own transcontinental route to fuel its growth. D & SL RR operated the big standard gauge Mallets over to the Western Slope and ran many trains over the divide. This shack was a curiosity probably built to accompany the tunnel. It sat in a meadow to the north side of the portal and it caught my eye. My walk turned back toward the portal so I figure it was probably used for the crews that operated the portal in the early days before total automation and all the Magic Underwear shipments to Salt Lake blessed by the Holy Ghost. The crew probably would be ill advised to tip a few before heading home, especially at night! I wonder how soggy the meadow got in the past years.
Walking track through mainly red beech (Fuscospora fusca), Mavora Lakes Conservation Park, Southland.
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Some rare track for passenger stock as Locomotive Services Limited Class 47s, 47593 "Galloway Princess" and 47853 (carrying former number 47614) lead the ECS for the following day's Statesman Rail Settle & Carlisle circular (from Scarborough) via the freight avoider lines at Crewe.
The pair of Sulzers are seen heading across Salop Goods Junction and onto the Down Manchester Independent as they make their way to stable overnight in York as 5Z39 11:48 Crewe Holding Sidings to York Holgate Siding.
Crewe Alexandra F.C.'s ground, Gresty Bridge, is in the background.
Full consist: 47593 47853 + 3348 3344 3426 3384 1211 3312 3229 8004 33188 3438 17056
Locomotive at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Locomotive au Steamtown National Historic Site, Ã Scranton, Pennsylvanie
Scranton was the first stop of our trip to Pennsylvania. The Steamtown National Historic Site is a wonderful place full of photographic opportunities. Unfortunately the rain kept us inside, in the museum part of the site, but I managed to get a few shots outside between showers. More pictures to come one of these days...
Scranton était le premier arrêt de notre séjour en Pennsylvanie. Le Steamtown National Historic Site est un endroit merveilleux qui offre beaucoup de possibilités pour les photographes. Malheureusement la pluie nous a forcé à rester à l'intérieur, dans la section musée du site, mais j'ai tout de même réussi à obtenir quelques clichés à l'extérieur entre deux averses. D'autres photos suivront un de ces jours...
Railroad joke: Two drunks were walking upgrade between the railroad tracks. One of them said, "this is is longest stairway I have ever been on." To this, the other replied, "It's not the stairs that bother me, it's the low banister."
♪ ♫ Music/Musique : Peace Train by/par Cat Stevens
The Race Track is a remote area of Death Valley N.P. well worth the bone rattling rough drive. This area is know for the rocks that "slide" around on the surface in winter. The wide angle tilt-shift lens provides an extreme DOF that reaches from mere inches to infinity. (The rock is about 3' away.)
Saturday photoshoot.....+2 in comments
The light was so beautiful that day.....Sammy had the best time ever and behaved so well...We took some pictures and went for a long walk down the train tracks....till it got dark, then it got kind of scary because we couldn't see anything but we did get to see a family of deer and a little fox....what a fun day it was
This was one of those shots I took then forgot about for a few days, then had to drag the colors kicking and screaming into the light.
I'm kind of glad I did for this one. :)
HDR'ed, with a bit of Topaz Clarity and Simplify thrown in for good measure.
September 6 - 250/365
Looking North East towards Thorne North Station along the rail tracks at the crossing point along the Ashfield bank.
Best viewed large to see the detail in the distance... bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=3893568066&size=large
"The tracks" as we called them when I was growing up. We would walk along them to get to various places within the neighborhood. There was no commuter rail back then so "the tracks" were much less busy or dangerous than they are today.
Track 2 at Wilson on CTA's North Side Main Line has been removed in preparation for rebuilding. Its new alignment will go straight south from where the present route curves. In the background, a southbound Red Line train approaches the new platform (out of sight to the left) on Track 1.
The tracks on this deserted farm place no longer lead to an active barn but rather away. William Shakespeare once said: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.." The longer we live, the more the roads lead away.
This interesting piece of railroad equipment was captured in Gordonsville, Virginia while it was repairing old track. The flat bed is tethered to it.
Mike Druckenbrod, now that I'm looking at this equipment again, it does not appear that it could be used on the road as the one you captured could.
5/10/2022 © Mike Orazzi
Track & Field, Shepaug, Litchfield High School vs Northwestern Regional High School in Winsted, Conn.