Jun 1, 2025
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Railways in the holy land stamps by israeli designer Asher Kalderon (1929–2018), dated 13/12/1977
source: israel philatelic federation
Paris, June 2025, Rue de Rome, Saint Lazare railways, Canon EOS 550D, Canon 10-22mm, 10,0mm, f8.0, 1/1000s
As someone who's been taking tylenol since before I was born I can't even begin to explain how cool great lake freighters are. It really is one of those things where you just need to have the right (defective) neurological pathways to just get a dopamine hit every time you see one. I mean like, just look at, right? Like hgggdfuck, GOD it's so cool.
Here's the John G. Munson, built 1952 on B&W. It literally is only 6 years younger then the camera I shot it on. I got to watch it pull in and be loaded at Marquette Michigan's upper docks, I could not have been blessed with a prettier ship for this. It is a classic design with a pilot house at the front and engines in the back, exactly how I like 'em 👅.
The SOUNDS of THOUSANDS of pellets of Iron ore is literally just something I can not describe, it can be felt from across a bay. They shipped 6.6 BILLION tons of Iron ore between 1900 and 1999. For my Chicago pals that's the weight of 29,793 Sears towers. Including the 3.7 billion and 1.9 billion tons of coal and stone respectively, that makes 12 billion tons of cargo in those 100ish years. For the pals who are more Michigander in mind that's 12,043 Mackinaw Bridges.
Oh, if this already "Hell yeah" material, they load these via train. I mean of course they do because that would take a lot of trucks but this is special. This is the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroad, while their railroad's locomotives are kind of boring by railfan standards their ore cars are not. Some of these (a concerning amount, actually) were built pre attack of Pearl Harbor (ya know, what got us into world war two?) It's kind of weird knowing those are being tugged by basically new GE locomotives (RIP their old ALCO power) but either way, cool to see these hunks of history. A real railroad of "If it ain't broke don't fix it".
That's all the content I'll show for now, because I'll probably make another post soon anyway. I am DEEP down this rabbit hole in a book about this stuff right now, and have memorized not just the classic Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) but even digging into other lake freighter shanties like Red Iron Ore by Bob Gibson. Whatever god is up there, just let me on ONE freighter during a violent storm, just ONE, please PLEASE.
The local tram operator in the area around Heidelberg/ Mannheim „RNV“ just announced that
these old Trains will be removed from service by the upcoming months!
So I thought that after about 50 years of service (average would be around 30) they deserved a farewell post 🥲🥲🥹
And me personally, I really appreciated them.
….at least way more than the new ones that will replace them 😒
I-93, 2025
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Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are promising a radical expansion of the GO Transit network if re-elected, but many doubt a line cutting
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are promising a radical expansion of the GO Transit network if re-elected, but many doubt a line cutting through midtown Toronto will ever materialize. Before the election was called, the PCs announced a so-called GO 2.0 plan, instructing Metrolinx to explore the construction of a freight rail bypass that would help keep commercial rail off routes used by passenger trains that have to use tracks owned by CN Rail and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway (CPKC). This week, as part its campaign, the party took GO 2.0 further, announcing a PC government would create a midtown Toronto GO line. That line would run along a route owned by CPKC, according to the company's network map.
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