May 15, 2019 – Evansville Western Railway local, with 3840 leading, passes the CountryMark Co-Op LLP Refinery area at Mount Vernon, Indiana as works its way to their small yard just past the refinery.
May 15, 2019 – Evansville Western Railway local, with 3840 leading, passes the CountryMark Co-Op LLP Refinery area at Mount Vernon, Indiana as works its way to their small yard just past the refinery.
March 26, 2019 – Crews work to get Cass Scenic Railroad Shays 4, 2, and 11, ready for a new day of work at Cass, West Virginia.
June 5, 2019 – CSX Z901-03, a rerouted BNSF loaded coal train due to flooding, snakes its way through the “S” curve, as it makes its way south on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky with BNSF 8526 in the lead.
June 5, 2019 – Yeah, some days the timing is just off, like with this meet between J732 and Q025 just south of Oak Hill on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky. When it happens, you just move on because there’ll be another meet somewhere, sometime!
June 4, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 9058 leads a loaded coil train westbound on the Louisville District at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, bound for AK Steel at Rockport, Indiana.
May 25, 2019 – CSXT 262 leads a northbound mixed freight as it prepares to pass the Chesapeake & Ohio 5828 diesel on display at the C&O Museum in Clifton Forge, VA, on CSX’s Allegheny Subdivision.
May 27, 2019 – Like trains, I enjoy photographing old barns when I find them, such as these. However, I really enjoy it when I find something out of the ordinary to include with the barn such as this shot of the Green Bank Telescope just outside of Cass at Green Bank, West Virginia.
According to Wikipedia: The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. The Green Bank site was part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) until September 30, 2016. Since October 1, 2016, the telescope has been operated by the newly separated Green Bank Observatory. The telescope honors the name of the late Senator Robert C. Byrd who represented West Virginia and who pushed the funding of the telescope through Congress.
The Green Bank Telescope operates at meter to millimeter wavelengths. Its 100-meter diameter collecting area, unblocked aperture, and good surface accuracy provide superb sensitivity across the telescope’s full 0.1116 GHz operating range. The GBT is fully steerable, and 85% of the entire local celestial hemisphere is accessible. It is used for astronomy about 6500 hours every year, with 20003000 hours per year going to high-frequency science. Part of the scientific strength of the GBT is its flexibility and ease of use, allowing for rapid response to new scientific ideas. It is scheduled dynamically to match project needs to the available weather. The GBT is also readily reconfigured with new and experimental hardware. The high-sensitivity mapping capability of the GBT makes it a necessary complement to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Expanded Very Large Array, the Very Long Baseline Array, and other high-angular resolution interferometers. Facilities of the Green Bank Observatory are also used for other scientific research, for many programs in education and public outreach, and for training students and teachers.
The telescope began regular science operations in 2001, making it one of the newest astronomical facilities of the US National Science Foundation. It was constructed following the collapse of a previous telescope at Green Bank, a 90.44 m paraboloid erected in 1962. The previous telescope collapsed on 15 November 1988 due to the sudden loss of a gusset plate in the box girder assembly, which was a key component for the structural integrity of the telescope.
May 25, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 847 leads 22A west as it pulls through the Montgomery Tunnels east of Christiansburg, Virginia. The Tunnel is a Twin bore tunnel near Christiansburg, VA and during the steam era O. Winston Link took several photos here of the Norfolk and Western Railway as part of his B&W night series. One such image was a wide angle version of NW 708; Train no. 3, westbound at Montgomery Tunnel. Mr. Has and his son, Dan were standing watching the train as it exited the tunnel at night.The tunnel was built in about 1890 and are currently on the NS Christiansburg District.
May 27, 2019 – Found this neat old, haunted looking house, on the road after leaving the Cass Scenic Railroad bound for home. We actually drove past it and then turned around and went back to shoot it. It is located outside Dunmore, West Virginia. I’m sure in it’s day it was a magnificent place!
May 27, 2019 – Canadian Pacific 8867 pulls CSX V752-26 empty grain train westbound on the Kanawha Subdivision at Marmet, WV.