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Taken at the end of the Piako County Tramway in Waiorongomai Valley. All of the forest around this tram track and back up the slopes of the valley were cleared back in the early 1880's in the hopes of mining the gold in the Kaimai mountain range. Didn't work out so well for the miners apparently. The rock proved too hard to mine effectively so it was all shut down in the early 1900's. Fortunately for us the forests have regenerated quite fast and we're left with all these mining relics strewn across a valley clad in native bush.
Two of the break heads and 5km of the track are still in tact. Well the bit in the photo is looking pretty rusted though. If you're reasonably fit and its not too wet you can walk/climb/crawl up Butlers incline, one of the three inclines on the track.
6 exposures (no idea why 6 instead of my usual 7 or 9)
Photomatix
Deghosted in Photoshop and fixed the sky.
Photo caption: Grizzly bear tracks in Alaska. Photo by Kirt Curell, natural resource specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2012 Formula One Barcelona Test Day Two
Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
2nd March 2012
Heikki Kovalainen, Caterham F1 Team. Action.
World Copyright:Andrew Ferraro/LAT Photographic
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Shot this one last fall. Got nice color to the foliage off in the distance. I have a fascination with railroad tracks. Maybe it's the little boy inside me.
More track work had started on the Hillside and Northern! Today, with help from Mike Broshears, I got the spline built and placed for the back loop to get to the engine shop. I also got the engine shop lead connected to the placed switch!
A warmer day brought a small animal out from under the snow along the long driveway. The tracks just stay in a small area in the ditch then disappear back under the snow. It isn't weasel tracks so I think it must be a pocket gopher, they sometime push dirt up under the snow and it probably popped up to see the sun.
Track plan for the layout. Created with Track Designer (an oldie but a goody) and edited in Photoshop.