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Between Peach Spring and Yampai is the curved double track Nelson tunnel. It is the only tunnel on the former Santa Fe Transcon in Arizona. This is train Q-LABH a priority intermodal from Los Angeles to Birmingham using the Avard connection with the BN (former Frisco). This was in 1991 well before the Santa Fe/BN merger Power from both roads was typically used. In 1991, we were able to drive across the track in Nelson through a clearly never-closed gate and use former ROW that had been bypassed in 1923 when the tunnel was built to get to tunnel. I've read that the lime plant in Nelson has closed that off in recent years and getting to the tunnel is difficult.
High on the Ridgeway overlooking the Thames Valley stood a soliarity tree in the middle of a field of corn...
I recently bought a field monitor to sit atop my camera to assist my aging eyes, knees and back in getting low perspective shots of small critters. In theory, the larger screen will help me as I track small birds and mammals like the prairie dog shown here. I say in theory because I did not get the chance to use it while we were in the Black Hills. These guys are very skittish (with good reason as I will post in the near future) and will typically run and slide back into their burrows when I even think about pointing a lens at one. Rather than get everything set up with the monitor, I decided to get out of the car to see if their skittishness would continue. Sure enough they all scattered - except for one. As you can tell from the facial expression and body language, it was not happy with me at all. Sorry bud!
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I am happy to share here my first mountain landscape photo made in.... France, my native country! Travelling a lot and living abroad for a long time has given me the possibility to look at my home country differently, and I can see and appreciate more some beautiful things and places, and, on the contrary, get upset or disappointed by other issues that I was not seeing before.
(France, Haute-Savoie, May22)
Front right paw print of a European brown bear discovered on muddy track between agricultural fields this afternoon. See how the bear's claws have sliced through the mud.
Explored December 1, 2021
Crossing the tracks at Goathland station waiting for the next train to take us to the next stop on the lines I couldn't resist a chance to get a shot along the lines to and from the station.
123 Pictures in 2023 #105 "Tracks"
I had originally intended to use actual bear tracks, but we were not able to get off the boats we were using for a bear viewing trip. (we could get fairly close to the bears while the hunted the fish, but could not go into their land based territory. So I used these painted track at Rust Flying Services in Anchorage, who flew us to the lodge we used for viewing bears. THey lead from the lobby waiting area to the restrooms in the other building.
I went to shoot a sunset over Brightwell Barrow but foolishly hadn't really done a recon before and the angle I planned just didn't work, thankfully a couple of tracks in the crop provided a plan B.
Image on my way trail running to the highest point on the Kepler Track Great Walk - the Mount Luxmore Summit (1472m) in the very south of New Zealand. Cloudy conditions so views moody and muted. I’ve done this route many times but always such a joy. Feeling very grateful.
An inquisitive cow wondering what I'm doing holding a little black box to my face in the middle of a farm in Dorset.
Isle of Purbeck, UK
I always liked those grand red arches.
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This photo was taken at The Crossing Memorial in Auburn, Colorado, U.S.A.. Where, on December 14, 1961 a school bus was struck by a train.
Update, this image appears on the cover of "Train to Nowhere."
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