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I’ve always had admiration for the working dogs. Border Collies and Aussies are great herders, Labs make great seeing eye dogs. German Shepherds are awesome guard dogs, and who doesn’t love those St. Bernard’s with those casks of brandy. I decided to put our dog Kenzie to work. I offered her a choice of professions and she seemed drawn to waiting tables. The only problem is the only waiting she does, is waiting to be fed. I raised a beggar instead of a waiter. I guess she'll never get one of those green service dog vests. Sigh....
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Another normal scheduled freight train to Kurkimäki has arrived with empty timber wagons and class Dr18 leading the empty train. Now, the diesel is going towards the other end of the train, and it is having a sightseeing while working.
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Framed with two concrete whistleposts from the NF&G days, Rainelle Shifter R202 arrives in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia with their first cut of loads. They’ll tie them down on the main and return to Bellwood for the second cut. The Hawley Creek Industrial track used to branch off just west of here.
RLHH 2111 is on the point of SOR 597 as they switch Nicholson and Cates lumber.
The cars on the left were storage cars being paid to sit there by Procor. The cars in the background is actually 597's train.
I did this one a few weeks ago with several others. I think it's kinda sexy so thought I'd post it before it gets lost.
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At our Amish Neighbor Ray's Third Annual Charity Event.
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Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
He was working the Research Farm Paddock early this morning looking for a meal for her while she is in the nest.
IC 6256, BLE 906, and CN 2029 are in charge of dumping a loaded Taconite train at the docks in Duluth, MN on an overcast day.
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On the hunt for trains southwest of Mankato, the classic three point of light was spotted down the tracks west of Lake Crystal. Two GP40 variants, UP 1360 and UP 1474, pause from their work at POET Biorefining. POET processes corn into ethanol and livestock feed.
An Alaska Railroad crew is working Whittier yard with a pair of SD70MACs getting ready to double up a big 120N freight of mixed manifest and intermodal traffic off the AML barge up from Seattle that they will take north to Anchorage a little later.
Whittier is the ARRC's main port for interchange of both containers and railcars which arrive via the weekly AML barge from Seattle. The containers are stacked on racks two or three high above the main barge deck which contains 8 tracks for interchange of railcars to and from the BNSF & UP. The concrete structure rising beyond is the long abandoned Buckner Building, once the largest building in Alaska. And the single track at left and the tent structure beside it is the ARR's passenger 'station' which mostly serves passengers walking directly across the street to and from waiting cruise ships.
If you'd like to read a bit more about the history of Whittier and this fascinating structure check out these links:
www.alaskarails.org/historical2/whittier-history/index.html
www.army.mil/article/193996/discovering_wartime_whittier
www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/abandoned-buckner-building...
www.adn.com/features/article/shadow-abandoned-buckner-bui...
www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alas...
Whittier, Alaska
Wednesday June 21, 2017
An Excellent photograph taken by the late Alfred Palmer in 1942 that depicted the role that many women took on by working at our military defense plants during WWII. Their significant contribution, combined with our brave military forces and allies eventually led to the success of defeating the Axis powers. I took this image off the Internet and thought it was worth sharing once more, and highlighting the role that so many women played during that period. In this particular photo, the woman is taking a well earned coffee break, and doing so sitting next to a piece of some plane fuselage, possibly a C-47 military transport. Many of these women earned the moniker of "Rosey the Riveter"
And I think I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the unseen Grandma's, and their contributions. Many of these young women workers had children, and who watched those kids when mom went off to work at the defense plant, none other than Grandma! The unseen, and often unmentioned heroes for their contribution to the whole!
During World War II, Douglas joined the BVD (Boeing-Vega-Douglas) consortium to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress. After the war, Douglas built another Boeing design under license, the B-47 Stratojet turbojet-powered bomber, using a government-owned factory in Marietta, Georgia.
World War II was a major boost for Douglas. Douglas ranked fifth among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. The company produced almost 30,000 aircraft from 1942 to 1945, and its workforce swelled to 160,000. The company produced a number of aircraft including the C-47 Skytrain, the DB-7 (known as the A-20, Havoc or Boston), the SBD Dauntless dive bomber, and the A-26 Invader.
The Photographer:
As a young man, Palmer traveled around the world as the official photographer on several different cruise lines. When he returned to America, Palmer set out across America documenting everything that captured his interest. Around this time, he was chosen to head the photography department of President Roosevelt's Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Their goal was to rally and inform citizens about the use of their tax dollars via vividly captured photo stories. Palmer developed his gritty style on these assignments, capturing the geometry of mechanical form with the emotional range of men and women at work.
This eventually led him to the Office of War Information and later the Farm Security Administration. Palmer’s emphasis was on the typical American hard at work on the home front. His photographs were also an integral part of the campaign to change the public attitude toward women joining the work force. He showed women as patriotic, glamorous, and capable, working on fighter planes as well as assembly lines. Palmer also focused on the dedication and dignity of the black labor force and worked with the chief of the News Bureau Negro Press.
Palmer’s belief in promoting the strength of the people permeated his entire career. His works were praised for their symbolic power, conveying the courage and determination that Roosevelt sought to arouse in the nation. Alfred Palmer passed away in 1993, leaving a legacy of photographic work.
Providence & Worcester train WONR makes a pickup at the siding near Polar Beverages in Worcester Yard before heading south towards Putnam to swap cars with the NRWO crew. This days power was two B39-s and a GP38-2 all wearing proper paint. I still find it fascinating it now takes two crews to move this train the 40 miles between Worcester and Plainfield.
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Chalk Art Competition and Exhibit sponsored by Classic Lawton Chevrolet Dealership...Lawton, OK
Mermaid Tail - Work in progress
Artist Credit: "Mommy" & Cynthia S.
C&BL 104 shoves three cars of steel wire into the warehouse at Johnstown Wire Technologies, completing another successful delivery to the railroads most important customer.
CPKC's Duluth based job JS12 with a lone GP20C-ECO is seen spotting boxcars at the Valley Worldwide Logistics warehouse in the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Complex across Helberg Drive from the small former Soo Line yard that CPKC retains on Rices Point that this job and at least one other are based out of.
Historically the Northern Pacific was the dominant railroad in Duluth and they had massive facilities here, though multiple competing Class 1s also served the city which even today is reached by four of the remaining six mega systems. In addition to Soo and NP, the Omaha Road (CNW), and Great Northern maintained smaller yards here on Rices Point which had connections to Superior via the NP's Minnesota and Wisconsin drawbridges as well as the dual rail/road Interstate Bridge.
Rices Point was once laced with a truly astonishing amount of rail infrastructure and though greatly diminished you can still find CPKC and BNSF jobs working the area daily and can catch the UP making a trip over from Superior twice a week.
For a sweeping overview here's a shot of mine of this same job from a visit the year prior: flic.kr/p/2pwy6Z3
Duluth, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024
Pair of 360 units lead by 360111 is seen arriving at Kettering working the 1Y64 2108 Corby - London St Pancras International. First pic of them since they moved from Anglia 19/11/22.
This female Yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) was a day later but in the same vicinity as the other two woodies at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center. It was a bright day so I added the 1.4 extender to the big lens. You can see all the holes around the trunk that provides sap for her. This is only the second time I've seen this species, we are on the edge of the non-breeding to migration range.
Providence & Worcester train PR-3 switches the Plastics Group of America transload at Woonsocket, RI.
the tactor working the field producing the dusty residue as it truddles along. I tried to get closer to use a shorter lens, however the was not possible.
A dizzying prospect. After you finished this side, can you please cross the road and do the other side. Four really hard working workers trimming the grape vines at a seemingly endless job. I expect they try not to look at the bigger picture and concentrate on the vine directly in front of them. Double click to view the details. I'm sure my drone humming in the air 100 feet above them was a welcome distraction. At least no one shot it down............... yet.