Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: rail

(That would be Maintenance of Way.) Stumbled on these loud fellows on the Amtrak main yesterday, round 'bout Galesburg. They were eastbound--which is to say, going from right to left. Grabbed the camera and snapped a couple shots. There was a third component to the set but circumstances kept me from photographing it. Definitely not my best photography ever, but sometimes you just go with what you find....

(That would be Maintenance of Way.) Stumbled on these loud fellows on the Amtrak main yesterday, round 'bout Galesburg. They were eastbound--which is to say, going from right to left. Grabbed the camera and snapped a couple shots. There was a third component to the set but circumstances kept me from photographing it. Definitely not my best photography ever, but sometimes you just go with what you find....

From our walk on the Whaleback Trail, near Leland, a few days ago.

Port Huron.

Joan's parents' farm, July 4, 2006. The ramp and the sidewalk were perhaps two weeks old; we were building the patio.

Two Harbors, Minnesota; August 1990. Another broad view of the Missabe Road's Two Harbors yard. DMIR's ore jennies were (are?--most likely) lashed together in sets of four (called "mini-quads"), which makes it easier to manage them operationally; effectively, what looks like a four-car set is actually one car with sixteen trucks (& four hoppers for carrying ore). Yellow stripes make the divisions obvious. That pile of "dirt" is actually a pile of taconite pellets. The railroad likes to have a stockpile on hand at all times; one reason is that winter's weather makes the railroading and mining difficult long before the shippers quit running ore carriers on the Lakes. Odd, but true; not so true that either completely stops, though. In the distance, the ore docks (One, Two, and the remains of Six) extend far into Lake Superior. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

One last Portland picture, for the time being.... This fine old Pratt truss bridge crosses the Grand just south of the Lookinglass . It's now part of a bike trail . One of these days I'll have to ride that trail. The Ionia & Lansing Railroad reached Portland late in 1869 or early in 1870; it would be promptly absorbed by the first of a succession of railroads with Detroit and Lansing (or Grand Rapids) in their names. The last of these would become part of the large merger which formed the Pere Marquette in 1900. This bridge was apparently constructed in 1899.

Think I took this in August of 1990, likely with my Chinon Genesis III. Never really liked that camera, but it took some good photographs for me. All that gear in the background is the Escanaba ore dock's shiploader. In the distance, you can sort of see Lake Michigan.

Escanaba's old iron ore dock was "the largest wooden structure in the world." It was replaced with an elaborate conveyor dock which doesn't rise far above the waterline. Much of the mechanism which moves ore from the yard to the ship shows in this photograph. 1990, at Escanaba, Michigan; taken with my Minolta Freedom camera.

Rails, of course: The Pere Marquette mainline from Mulliken, Michigan. Long since part of the Chessie system, and now also in regular use by Canadian Pacific

The highway bridge, the rail bridge, and the bridge of the (ship) St. Clair; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, on Engineers Day, 2005. This is a technically dreadful picture--I shot it though the windshield, from the passenger side--but the composition's interesting enough that I thought I'd share it. Seem to be doing that a lot this week.

Last December 21 our area caught the edge of the storm the Weather Channel christened Draco . I mostly stayed inside, though I ventured outside for the 366 Snaps session. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for December 21 .

I'm behind, and playing catch up. Some days you just know what the daily photo will be; last June 16 the collapsed Chief Wawatam loading structure was that photo. This is just painful . More discussion in the (flickr) comments to the 366 Snaps photo. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 20 Title of " roll :" Wawatam Light Other photos taken on 6/16/2012: We wandered along the beach, north of town, and walked the St. Ignace boardwalk. I managed about 600 pix in the process.

Taken a year ago, on my birthday, from our hotel in Traverse City. In color because, well, I wanted to post it in color. Mom often complained that I kept taking the same photographs, which she considered wasted duplication. I'll certainly admit I've taken this photograph many times, but I'd insist that no two are the same. The light differs, the snow comes and goes, sometimes there are birds, and the clouds are remarkably variable. The vegetation changes. The water level changes. Sometimes the ice shelf extends far into the bay. And I change cameras, and lenses, and camera setups with just appalling regularity. The similar photographs are really not all that similar. But, really--it's beautiful here in Traverse City, and that's reason enough to make photographs. I've taken several more versions of this photo already this weekend. ========== One of the things I like about Pointes North is the hotel's rails. The halls are exposed, and every room's got a balcony. My 366 Snaps photo from a year ago was an attempt to capture the hotel's chutes and ladders look. This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of " roll :" Rails and Balconies Other photos taken on 2/27/2012: I took 20 pictures with the Cybershot. Most were of the room and the bay; a few were of Mackinaw Brewing Company, where we dined.