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I was thumbing through the William Price "Western Maryland Steam Album" book with the intent of gaining some day dreaming time, instead I found myself pondering what it would be like to stand on Helmstetters curve when a big 4-8-4 Potomac class came up the grade. Most of my journey through railroad history (and my photo descriptions as a result) tend to lean into a yearn to see railroads in their glory years. This photo then popped into my mind. After being in service for 2 years, I just started shooting the 2102 at Reading and Northern that summer and fall. I did 3 outings to see the thing and enjoyed all of them. The 2102 is big enough to produce power, but not powerful enough to have a seamless run with whatever train you throw at it. The T-1s were built in house by the Reading company using some select parts recycled from other engines. Some call them "rebuilds" because of this. The T-1s were some of the biggest and baddest engines on the Reading minus the light mallets the road rostered. At the end of steam, 5 survived into Reading Rambles excursion service (with one being scrapped for parts during this time period before 1964). Since then they lived on in various states at various places. 2102 runs up the former Reading trackage into the anthracite region and over the former CNJ branch from Haucks to Jim Thorpe in the present day. The run has various grades, bridges, tunnels, and obstacles. North of Tamaqua the trackage starts a hefty climb up to Hometown where it crests downhill to Jim Thorpe. At mile marker 99, at the searchlights installed within the past 10 years, the train's dig into the grade has already begun. You can hear the beating on the rails from lightyears away, it becomes oh so closely sounding but continues to trick the mind. The bellless crossing next to the signals activates. Lights stream around the corner. Then the sounds, A long, a long, "OSJT, Clear signal, 99", a short, a long. The engine, shooting smoke at high velocity out the stack, thunders at the trees and removes their leaves. The approach lit SB signal lights up, rails squeel, the bridge takes on the weight of the engine... you can no longer hear anything... A static takes hold as the exhaust has produced enough sound to pierce your ears. Its loud but silent, the camera clicks away without a detectable sound. Decibels rise, you cannot hear yourself think. You take the camera down and get the friendly wave, they have ear plugs! The shrill passes and then slowly fades. The rail squeals as the clickety clacks fade back in like a studio mix on a 60s hippy song. Marker lights on the rear observation car conclude the show. The crossing lights conclude their flashing, the railfans scurry back to their cars and leave in a hurry, the signal goes back to darkness. Peace has returned to the Schuylkill Valley.
...is coming.
Steadily, stealthily, he weaves his way through whatever is in his path. Nothing deters him. He's steadfast and resolute in purpose.
Where he's going or what he'll do when there, you'll find out on Halloween.
Happy Shocktober.
For whatever reason the good storms have been avoiding the Tucson area this year, depriving me of the opportunity to get good lightning shots!
This is about the best that I've got so far, the storm was about 14-15 miles east of us. Really lighting up but the lightning was pretty much all cloud to cloud. With any luck and a sacrifice to the weather gods I'll hopefully be able to come up with something a bit better!
BTW, the light spots up above the clouds are not hot pixels but stars!
more info about my outfit: see my blog post exploringslwithdido.blogspot.nl/2014/03/tabita-whatever-g...
June 13, 2016
Traipse:
[treyps]
verb (used without object)
1. to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal
verb (used with object), traipsed, traipsing.
2. to walk over; tramp
noun
3. a tiring walk.
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I'm not entirely sure why this caught my eye today, maybe it's the way the tree the framed the path or perhaps it was the lines from the window frames and bricks.
Whatever it was, it stood out enough that I pulled my camera out of my bag and fired a couple shots.
Nothing else really caught my eye today, so looks like this is the winner.
Hope everyone has had a good Monday.
Click "L" for a larger view.
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again
However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again
However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you
Location: Salmson Isle.
Mom had to move the family to new digs after a few days of heavy rain.
Normally, one to four young are born in each litter, but the largest possible litter size is eight. Newborn grey squirrels weigh 13-18 grams and are entirely hairless and pink.
Second posting of a capture from this series.
8/5/2017
Thank you for the visit!
This giant has succumbed to whatever was ailing it. Too much drought? Old age? Some kind of pest? The wind did the rest.
Highlighting the Alba Skirt and Top by NOCTH. This stunning latex set is so modern and sexy. Get it at the Mainstore.
Alba Skirt - Reborn - [NOCTH]
Alba Top - Reborn - [NOCTH]
Wanna add something cute to your look? Wanna check out your nails?? Get the OMY Nail Diva Fidget and Typer Set. Get them now at Equal10 and after at the Mainstore.
OMY Nail Diva 1 Typer
also used the OMY Paloma 2 for body pose (at Mainstore.
DOUX - Cleo Hairstyle [S/Short]
REBORN by eBODY v2.0
Shiny Things - Ori Gloves
sacrilege . melenie eyebrows / 1
{maledictus} Lacrimosa
-SU!- Sacrilegium Nails
HEAD / lel evox / MADRID 4.0
:::SOLE::: SA - Armtech Mk.7 (Black)(R)
:::SOLE::: SA - CK implant (White)
:::SOLE::: SA - Implant Visor (Black)
Gshade used and Frame added with BeFunky
Listen, when things get a little too hot, sometimes you need to make a break for it... and break a few things in the process! Take it from the O.G. space cowboy himself.
☆The Warehouse Sale Featured Items☆
✦ Hotdog → Grazer Blazer
✦ [SAC] → SACCATO P Pistol
Go get your goodies at TWS, ☆HERE☆, open now until March 18th! Links to respective stores have been provided, so that you can find the items after the current round of TWS ends! ♡
Largely unnoticed (despite very large size) public space decorative art - but it probably works on a subliminal level. Life is sure better with colours :)
so. if you saw my shot yesterday 'U' is for 'Under', then you know I took a pic of myself in the couch.
Seems the kids wanted to be involved and this was the outcome.
No, my daughter is NOT dramatic at all, why do you ask?
Random doodles from when I was in the hospital earlier in the year.
(I am just happy to have internet connectivity again!)
Jacket - SEUL
Top+skirt - SEUL for Sat sale
Hair - MIWAS
Necklaces - DAE + Magnoliac
Hosiery - ROULY
Tattoo - Premium by Vze
A perfect day high above Grand Marais for a scenic look...Artist Point to the left and the lighthouse to the right for those of you who are familiar with this area...color peak-not-quite-there but it doesn't matter for that north woods atmosphere.
'Prior to inhabitation by French Canadian settlers and prior to Minnesota's statehood, Grand Marais was inhabited by the Anishinaabe indigenous people, the thriving woodland people also known as the Ojibwe. The Ojibwe name for the area is Gichi-biitoobiig, which means "great duplicate water," "parallel body of water" or "double body of water" (like a bayou), a reference to the two bays which form this large harbor of Lake Superior.[9]
The area was a bustling fur trading station since the 1700s, and the French Canadian Voyageurs termed the settled village ‘Grand Marais’ which is French for "Great Marsh", referring to a marsh that, in early fur-trading times, was 20 acres (8.1 ha) or less in area, nearly at the level of Lake Superior, and situated at the head of the little bay and harbor that led to the settlement of the village there. Another small bay on the east, less protected from storms, is separated from the harbor by a slight projecting point and a short beach.
Grand Marais is a gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), with the Gunflint Trail, historically a footpath for travelers and fur traders from inland lakes to Lake Superior.' - Wikipedia -
Thank you for your visit, flickr friends, enjoy the new week!
Pat...xo
*******I am feeling 'rescued' with Biden's victory but the voting process still needs to be completed and whatever follows afterward.
... some leaves just hang on giving us a small splash of colour in a white world
Smile on Saturday... BiColora
Coat hanger with faces (Or: three octopuses with diamonds in their eyes)
Botanischer Garten, Nymphenburg, München
🎼 Avril Lavigne - Bad Girl (feat. Marilyn Manson)" 🎼
"Choke me because I said so
Stroke me and feed my ego
I've been a bad girl, don't you know?
(Don't tell me what to do)
Come get it now or never
I'll let you do whatever
I'll be your bad girl, here we go
(One, two, three, four)
Miss me, miss me, now you wanna kiss me
Baby
You know I want a little taste, taste
So let me take you all the way, way
You know you'll never be the same, same
One night
You won't forget the rest of your life
So come on over to the wild side
Buckle up and, baby, hold on tight
Miss me, miss me, now you wanna kiss me
We both know that you love me 'cause I'm so bad
(You f*ckin' bad girl)"
A brush of brighter light strikes to each side of a sharper ridge and highlights the delicate curving lines and textures of Rattlesnake Slot Canyon, near Page, Arizona.
I really enjoy taking detail and texture shots when I'm out with the camera, though I don't often end up posting those images for some reason. In these wonderful red sandstone slot canyons of the American southwest, interesting details and plays of light are everywhere among the sinuous striations exposed in the narrow canyon walls. Sky Matthews and I were lucky the morning I took this shot to be one of only a half dozen or so people in the whole of Rattlesnake Canyon, so we had plenty of time to really look around and focus on whatever features caught our interest--a rare experience for me compared to my visits to some of the other, much more well-known, and crowded, slot canyons near Page.
Rattlesnake Canyon gets quite narrow in places, much more so than in the public sections of the nearby Antelope Slot Canyons, and it also has all these cool little dimples and bumps in the walls in many places (a few small bumps are visible in this image). I'm not completely sure, but I believe those bumps are concretions of iron oxide that, once the sandstone around them fully erodes away and the little part-iron spheres fall free, are known as "Moqui marbles", which you often see scattered anomalously on the desert slickrock throughout the southwest.
Thanks for viewing!