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A historic water wheel at Cape Leeuwin, WA 07/12/19
The wheel was built in 1895 to supply water to the workmen building the nearby lighthouse.
Apparently, you are not allowed to refer to this as just the "Edisen Fishery."
Photo taken with a long zoom from Daisy Farm.
A beautiful kauri building which was originally in the Athenree Gorge and it was relocated (eventually to the Athenree Historic Homestead site) when the railway line was closed in 1978. It is now a tea room which we intend to visit when Covid dies down a bit and it all reopens to the public on 12th April.
The historic 1905 Fine Arts Building in Detroit was demolished in 2009 but it's brick facade was delicately maintained with an extensive steel framework support in anticipation of future development. Louis Kamper architect.
Of all the shots in Kansas City this location was probably tops on my list. The amazing amount of surviving warehouses and industrial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this neighborhood offer such visual appeal. Coupled with the snaking trackage, elevated vantage point, lack of fencing, ease of access, substantial train traffic and variety it is truly a superlative location that simply begs to be photographed!
Located immediately west of downtown at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers it is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. Historically the bottoms was an area of trade for Indians and French trappers, thus prompting the original name, 'The French Bottoms.' Construction of the first railroad in the city began in 1863 and only 15 years later so many new lines had been built to and from the city that the many fledging roads chose to build a union depot. The location chosen was right here in the West Bottoms which had rapidly blossomed as a commercial center after the Kansas City stockyards were established in 1871.
The gorgeous Gothic Revival station located here soon turned out to be in a less than ideal location, and after it was swamped by a devastating flood (the area is called the bottoms for a reason after all!) in 1903 the roads all came together to form the Kansas City Terminal Railway and build the new route and even grander Union Station on higher ground that I wrote about earlier. After the present station opened in 1914 the old station here was razed a year later.
But the junction and associated area was still called Old Union Station, and the bottoms continued to flourish as a commercial and livestock center. To learn a bit more about Old Union Station check here: kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/bottoms
A devastating flood in 1951 decimated the bottoms and led to the closure of many businesses that never reopened, though the stockyards recovered partially and stayed in business until 1991 (though I'm unsure when the last livestock moves by rail were). That flood also swept away the old wooden interlocking tower here, and the brick one seen in the background replaced it that year. Still owned by the KCT, I'm unsure when it was closed, but it makes a great background prop nonetheless.
A couple noteworthy buildings rise behind the train. To the left and above the train and tower is one of the oldest buildings in the bottoms, the circa 1879 Deere, Mansur and Company building. The company manufactured plows, cultivators, planters, stalk cutters, hay rakes and other implements and was the Kansas City branch of the John Deere Moline Plow Works. Holsum Food Products, whose faded name still adorns the brick, later occupied the building and now the structure has found new life as artist studios.
The architecturaly significant seven story masonry structure to the right is the circa 1902 Avery Manufacturing Company building. If it seems to have a spooky air to it that would be logical as it was last used as The Chambers of Poe haunted house. I was amazed to learn that the haunted house industry has led the way in the revitalization of this area that has only just recently begun. To read more check out this: www.kcur.org/community/2013-10-31/how-haunted-houses-help...
But anyway, you're here for the trains and this was a nice one. An unidentified BNSF manifest curls north on the 80 Track near MP 9.5 on the KCT north south corridor led by boring gevo BNSF 5896. But trailing were two nice quarter century old units flying the BNSF's predecessors' colors albeit a bit battle worn. BNSF 9592 is an EMD SD70MAC blt. Apr. 1995 as Burlington Northern with the same number only a few months before the merger. Trailing is BNSF a GE C44-9W blt. Sep. 1997 some two years after the merger but nonetheless delivered in the famed Santa Fe red and silver warbonnet scheme.
Historic West Bottoms
Kansas City, Missouri
Saturday August 28, 2021
A visitor to the ruins of Fort Santiago in the old town (Intramuros) of Manila checks her phone.
Pentax MX / Kodak Portra 160 / SMC Pentax 50mm f1.4
Just above the doors, there are several small crosses. They call on "Santa Barbara" for protection against the storms.
#piodão
A wider take on this scene that is one of the most well known railfan photo spots in the Nutmeg State.
I haven't spent nearly as much time as I should have shooting in Connecticut and generally I've eschewed the Hartford area. But for the second time in two days I made the 90 min drive over from the capital of the Ocean State to the capital of the Nutmeg State. Saturday my GF and I made the trip to visit the CT Science Center, hit a couple breweries, take a walking tour of downtown's historic buildings and wrap up with a good meal and a comedy show....all in all a fabulous day! But naturally I opportunistically took about 10 minutes and photographed two trains at this same signature spot I'd shot at just the day before.
Moments after CTRail train 6456 (a northbound New Haven to Hartford train) deadheaded through the Hartford 'Tunnels' into the clear, Amtrak train 57 (the southbound St. Albans to Washington Vermonter) emerged here at MP 37 on Amtrak's Springfield Line main with weirdly clean nosed P42DC AMTK 99 in the lead.
This historic route was chartered in 1833 as the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, and was the very first railroad built in the state of Connecticut. It opened between its namesake cities in 1839 and five years later reached Springfield. These cut and cover stone arches are 56 ft long and pass beneath Main Street and Albany Ave. / Route 44. Dating from 1871, one of the tunnels is now bereft of rails due to Amtrak's single tracking of the route in the 1990s. Just north of the tunnel old New Haven HART tower (SS214) once guarded the south throat of the Windsor Street freight yard, a portion of which remains in use as the hub of CSO operations, and additionally the Springfield Line expands to three main tracks for two miles north.
The track diverging to the left is the connection to the Central New England Railroad's Griffins Secondary an 8.7 mile long state owned route that is the last surviving portion of the historic Central New England Railway.
On the right side of the scene rises the 130 ft tall Keney Tower built in 1898. The Collegiate Gothic style freestanding structure was built of locally quarried red sandstone with four clock faces and a bell that chimes every quarter hour. Constructed per the will of Henry Keney a locally prominent merchant who owned a wholesale grocery business the tower and small park it sits on wad deeded to the city in 1924 and the tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 2018 a group of UConn engineering students restored the clock and chimes as part of a senior project after decades of being non functional.
Hartford, Connecticut
Saturday February 11, 2023
© Billy Wilson 2011
This is the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Building on 63 Temerance Street in Toronto's Financial District.
The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.
This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.
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Gatorland is a theme park and wildlife preserve located along South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, FL. It was founded by Owen Godwin in 1949 and still privately owned by his family today.
Orlando, FL
Canadian Pacific GP20C-ECO 2261 on CPKC train G-18 is making a switch move on the weedy yard track beside the big Blue Seal Feeds mill which has been a stalwart customer for as long as their has been a railroad here. In fact the first mill was built by the Southeastern Railroad as an outlet for Canadian grains. In there was a great tragedy here when the mill, then owned jointly by the Canadian Pacific and Boston and Maine and leased to Quaker Oats, exploded killing 13 and destroying 75 freight cars. Damage was reported at $400,000 or just under $10 million equivalent today!
Rebuilt, the mill belonged to Quaker Oats until 1941 when the Lawrence, Mass based H.K. Webster company acquired it to produce its Blue Seal brand of feeds. Blue Seal was acquired by Varied Investments Inc. which also owned Kent Feeds of Muscatine, IA. Operated as separate companies until 2010 when they were merged to become KNG (Kent Nutrition Group) their products are still marketed regionally under their historic brand names.
This facility was once much busier and into the 1980s even rated it's own dedicated switcher and was a bastion of Alco power including the home of one of the five RS2s on the roster purposely built for service on CP's lines in Maine and Vermont. Today it remains one of only three customers CPKC presently serves on its Vermont lines and is direct link to the long and storied past of this once important route. To read all about the history of this line see the earlier post of this train at the border crossing.
Richford, Vermont
Friday June 21, 2024
Historic 17th century Newton House among the autumnal trees viewed from the 12th century Dinefwr Castle near Llandeilo,Carmarthenshire,west Wales,UK.
Key West Harbor - Key West FL U.S.A.
Cruise Ship ~ Carnival Cruise Line
Vessel: Carnival Victory ~ Florida Keys
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The historic town of Stevensville, Montana is most fortunate to have the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge in its own backyard, and I take advantage of that fact on a regular basis.
I myself roll through the place at least once a week and am never disappointed at the splendor of the marvelous wetlands, the very definition of a jewel of a place, right here in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana.
I managed to bump into a fabulous, favorite scene on a gorgeous weather day, where the clouds and a rapidly lowering sun provided lovely illumination to the landscape.
Those would be the iconic Bitterroot Mountains in the background, and my favorite half-frozen Metcalf creek in the foreground.
All in all, a marvelously enjoyable day was had by all of the lucky attendees. Basically, just me.
The Swell, one of British Columbia's most historic ships, was purpose built in Vancouver BC Canada for the Victoria Tug Company, incorporated by George McGregor and Capt. Dan McPherson in August 1912. The Swell was their new, coal-fired steam tug. The year 1912 was a booming one for the economy of the new Canadian settlements on the coast. Victoria, the oldest city, had been around in one form or another since the 1840s. Victoria Tug Company had eight tugs working full time back in the early 1900's, Swell is the only one still in use. In 1954, Swell’s power was converted to a 400 horsepower diesel engine. In later years Swell has become an expedition ship and underwent a 3.5 million dollar refit in 2004, it now accommodates 12 guest's in six comfortable deluxe suites and does a variety of cruises in the inside passage, the longest is a cruise of eight nights/nine days. The 'super tug' is moored at a public marina in Ladysmith BC Canada, a fitting town with it's history as well.
Specs:
Length over all: 88 feet
Beam: 22 feet
Propulsion: Diesel engine
Water maker: 3600 gallons per day
Cruising speed: 7 to 10 knots
Registration: Canada
Crew: five
Early morning shot of the historic Anchor Bankside pub on the south side of the River Thames.
I thought I would take the opportunity to grab a shot, as despite the early hour the pub lights were on and there was no delivery van parked outside, which is often the case at this time. To get an unobstructed shot in the evening is practically impossible, as both pub and the nearby Bankside/Clink Street areas are very popular indeed these days.