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How the hell'd we wind up like this
And why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
[...]
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror
Someday - Nickelback
Meglio il rimpianto o il rimorso?
Adrian & Blissfield's turn from Mason, MI crosses the CN at Lansing in the charge of SD40M-2 821 (a former SP SD45) and ex-GTW GP9 1751. The crew will work the CSX yard here for the better part of the morning and early afternoon before heading back south with 821 leading and 1751 bringing up the rear.
We waited here for a couple of hours before we finally caught a train, albeit headed in the wrong direction. Oh well, we made do.
As I stood in the road photographing an eagle at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, I kept hearing a "buzzing" noise. I thought something was wrong with my camera's auto focus motor. I eventually realized the buzzing noise was the rattle of a prairie rattlesnake at my feet, only inches away, doing his best to say, "back off!"
It had apparently been sunning itself on the warm asphalt, and because I was so consumed with photographing the eagle, I never noticed its presence. I'm thankful for its patience.
ttv Argus Seveny-five
I must admit that when I shot this I didn't consider the backwardness since all ttv is mirrored. I'm usually a flopper. Not this time.
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"That's odd," thinks this Poppy, "I'm certain I followed the directions Elise gave me... but this sure doesn't look like the Oriental Garden photoshoot. Hmmm, I think I saw a Grounds keeper around here, carrying around a big scythe, I wonder if they'll be able to help me..."
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This was absolutely crazy stuff. I was wandering from one exit of the forest to rapeseed fields at another entry of the forest. When I encountered a moorhen. She was standing in the middle of the road and looked like a crossing guard. Looking left, looking right. So I waited and didn't go nearer. It was a normal hamlet road and the cars drive fast here. What a crazy moorhen. She made some sounds and her chicks arrived. Going back and forth and rather slowly. But finally everybody was on the other side of the road. There is a property with a big pond. And I was able to at least get a photo of one of the chicks on the water. The photos are not good, it was rather dark there, and I didn't dare to get near. But it was a nice moment.
A hot hazy late spring day finds the typical collection of loaded coal trains tied down in Norfolk Southern’s South Yard at about MP 243.2 just west of where the Altavista District ends and it becomes the Roanoke Terminal District. But that is just the modern names for this line that was historically the property of the Virginian Railway. The VGN was a small but might Class 1 that opened in 1909 and was financed by the fortune of Henry Huttleson Rogers of Fairhaven, Massachusetts who was one of the richest men in the world at the time as principal of Standard Oil.
I won’t go into to much history but in addition to oil and pipelines (he first conceived the idea of long pipelines for transporting oil and gas) he had his hand in railroading as a close associate of E.H. Harriman. Rogers sat on the board of many of the great railroads of that era but arguably the VGN would come to be his crowning achievement that he financed almost entirely by himself. The road grew to 600 miles and was an extremely well engineered route designed with one purpose, moving West Virginia coal to tidewater on Hampton Roads in direct competition with it’s larger and largely parallel neighbor the Norfolk and Western.
Profitable and progressive the VGN electrified a 134 mile stretch of its mainline across the mounts from Mullens, WV to Roanoke in 1925. The VGN’s half century of independence came to a close in 1959 when the N&W merged it and on June 30, 1962 the wires were de-energized. But over the ensuing decades much of the VGN mainline remained an important component of the N&W and successor NS in continuing the task for what it was built. And, here more than a half century after the pantographs were lowered for the last time some catenary poles continue to support wires that span the yard here as a reminder of that earlier era.
NS 8099 seen here beneath the concrete arch Jefferson Street overpass is a three year old GE ES44AC delivered in this scheme as part of the NS’ 40th anniversary celebration that saw 20 modern units emerge in historic schemes representing predecessor components of the giant Class 1.
Roanoke, Virginia
Sunday May 31, 2015