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Mass Coastal Railroad GP9RM 2008 (ex CN blt Apr 1956) is on the South Dennis line at about MP 1.7 as measured from Yarmouth Junction and the mainline to Hyannis. This is the east switch for the trash transfer station which is the sole freight customer on this branch and its only reason for survival. In just about 0.3 miles ahead of them (and behind me here) at the former Station Street crossing the rails come to an abrupt end and the bike path begins.
However, from 1873 until 1960 the line continued a full 45 miles further to the very tip of Cape Cod at Provincetown. That year abandonments began and the line was successively cut back until just this 3 mile stub remained. I love the feel of this weedy and slow freight only branch as it gives of vibes of what the rest of the line must have looked like in the latter years of the New Haven and even into the Penn Central era. In fact until about 1997 the Bay Colony went three more miles or so to service Mid Cape Lumber in South Dennis and I got the chance to ride an excursion out there over the little Bass River bridge just once shortly before the end.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Friday June 26, 2020
A local crew works at the west end of BNSF's Willmar Yard with three EMD's for power. I'm sure the local residents didn't appreciate them blocking the crossing here for well over 20 minutes, but I enjoyed the sight and sound of them working on a beautiful fall afternoon.
It was so lovely to photography the daily routine of a working station and the extra bonus was the fog. Olga
Washington DC 2008
DC Black Pride, Rock Creek Park, Francis Field
While I was shooting from this side, Elvert Barnes was on the other side getting some shots.
We're working on a magazine article on White Pocket, so I'm finally getting around to editing more of my images. I'll give you two shots for your Friday - both were taken on the same day. I don't recall it ever raining, but the sky was sure moody and we got some great light breaking through from time to time.
CSXT's weekday West Springfield based local L012 has paused on its way east to Palmer to pull and spot Construction Services located just off the main at MP QB89.8 on CSXT's Boston Sub (ex Boston and Albany mainline). Ex Chessie GP40-2s 6227 and 6245 will drop their train on the single track main and duck into the stub ended siding at left, one of only a handful of customers remaining that is served directly off the mainline.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Wednesday November 27, 2024
Captured fellow flickerite Graham Stirling in action a few weeks back when it was slightly warmer.
Exposure of 2 seconds at F12.
Check out his stream here: www.flickr.com/photos/grahamstirling/
A GP16 of Atlantic Coast Line heritage in Family Lines System paint works an industry in Hickory North Carolina on the Caldwell County Railroad
speaking of air traffic... the willow-tree is singing again! / als je 't hebt over luchtverkeer... de wilg zingt weer zachtjes!
After tackling the climb up to Holytown from Mossend 66089 is seen passing through the station with a lengthy and fully loaded 4M30 to Daventry. The weight of the train evidently put some strain on the loco as it was making quite a racket as it passed.
This working switched to Class 90 haulage from Mossend for a time, however this was short-lived following some failures. Whether it goes back to Class 90 haulage is anyones guess at this point, though I wouldn't complain if it did.
After a boring couple CSXT trains on the east end of the old Boston and Albany and a swing by Greendale for a couple parked trains on the Worcester Line I started back down 146 to RI. A quick check of the requisite FB groups showed a report by someone that a Providence and Worcester train was seen with a single covered hopper southbound through Uxbridge. I figured it must be a WX job making a quick run down the mainline to Woonsocket yard so hopped off the highway in my old hometown and made the quick detour over to River Street. Sure enough I found the crew pulling and spotting cars and grabbed a few shots around the yard and one of them leaving before heading on my way. A nice little bonus indeed.
PW B40-8 4002 (blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4008) in current G&W orange and
B40-8W 4005 (blt. Feb. 1992 as ATSF 561) is one of three of the model on the railroad and the only one still wearing original colors, do a little switching for Ralco Products who unloads plastic pellet cars here at about MP 16.5 on the mainline.
In the background can be seen the connecting ramp track up to the Slatersville Branch whose bridge I'm actually standing on to take this shot. This 4 mile long line stretches west (to the left) to it's namesake town, where incidentally I grew up. Alas the branch no longer has any customers and has been silent for nearly a decade, although when I was younger it had three active and busy customers and was served at least three nights a week.
This bridge I'm on is one of only two places in Rhode Island where two rail lines cross each other on grade separated right of ways.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday July 8, 2022
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Created for Magnificient Manipulated Masterpieces:New Challenge 174 ~ HISTORY
His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone and tilting his head. In the original, unmodified 1898 painting, the dog was listening to a cylinder phonograph.
Wikipedia
By Francis Barraud - Victor Talking Machine Company, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1793229
On the left are seeing eye dogs ...
Seeing Eye Dogs, a part of Vision Australia, have been breeding, training and supplying world-class dog guides for over 60 years to help Australians who are blind or have low vision.
seeingeyedogs.visionaustralia.org
Original photo
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Esitors: GIMP, Fotor, Picasa
Getting away from well known areas of Venice is very rewarding; these are not posh gondolas with all the glitter, but the view reveals real working life, so often hidden from the tourist's eyes.
Website: beatamoore.co.uk
Working hard for something we don't care about is pain. Working for something we believe (with or without tomorrow) is a blessing.
Peel Street and Centre Street. 2012.
Close up of the words of the old Working Lads Institute on Whitechapel Road. This building held inquests into some of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888.
Nikon F4. Ferrania Orto 50 35mm B&W film.
2019-10-15 -2012-CR2-L1T1a
As you can see there really isn't a nest here but this is the tree that the eagles have chosen to try to build a nest in. This has been going on now for two weeks. The eagles keep bringing branches into this "Y" of the tree and every one of them have fallen to the ground. They are very persistent though. I would like to climb up there and nail a few branches in and give them a head start, but I think they will figure it out on their own.