Dec 11, 2025
writing tip #4005:
whenever you get stuck, consider that maybe you like being stuck and it's okay actually
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writing tip #4005:
whenever you get stuck, consider that maybe you like being stuck and it's okay actually
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Five prototype “DC to AC” rebuild locomotives gathered together on the circle tracks in front of the #Juniata #Locomotive Shop’s newly installed turntable for a family portrait in Altoona, Pa, on February 2nd, 2019. Our DC to AC conversions increase reliability and freight hauling capacity, and reduce capital spending. From left to right: AC44C6M #4005 (rebuilt from GE D9-44C 8867 at Juniata Locomotive Shop), AC44C6CF #8520 (rebuilt from GE D9-40CW #8946 at Roanoke Locomotive Shop in conjunction with CAF), SD70ACC #1801 (rebuilt from EMD SD70 2548 at Progress Rail-Muncie, IN), AC44C6M #4000 (rebuilt from GE D9-40C 8799 by GE/American Motive Power, Inc), and AC44C6M #4003 (rebuilt from GE D9-40C 8839 at Roanoke Locomotive Shop). #teamwork (at Altoona, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtwZfdaHwoV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t9uledymg63c
A Lovely Couple by Eric Freas Via Flickr: M0N (extra 10N) works east near Union Furnace, crossing the Little Juniata River with NS 4000 and 4005 for power.
A busy patch of the Great Attractor
A busy patch of space has been captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the background.
Located on the border of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle) and Norma (The Carpenter’s Square), this field covers part of the Norma Cluster (Abell 3627) as well as a dense area of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
The Norma Cluster is the closest massive galaxy cluster to the Milky Way, and lies about 220 million light-years away. The enormous mass concentrated here, and the consequent gravitational attraction, mean that this region of space is known to astronomers as the Great Attractor, and it dominates our region of the Universe.
The largest galaxy visible in this image is ESO 137-002, a spiral galaxy seen edge on. In this image from Hubble, we see large regions of dust across the galaxy’s bulge. What we do not see here is the tail of glowing X-rays that has been observed extending out of the galaxy — but which is invisible to an optical telescope like Hubble.
Observing the Great Attractor is difficult at optical wavelengths. The plane of the Milky Way — responsible for the numerous bright stars in this image — both outshines (with stars) and obscures (with dust) many of the objects behind it. There are some tricks for seeing through this — infrared or radio observations, for instance — but the region behind the centre of the Milky Way, where the dust is thickest, remains an almost complete mystery to astronomers.
This image consists of exposures in blue and infrared light taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw
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