Today is National Elizabeth Day. My hubs and I were going to name our daughter Elizabeth. That was the plan for years. We changed our minds at the last minute. This bridge was signed by an Elizabeth, maybe, maybe not. idk

#America Has a Hot-Steel Problem
A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of #traintrack in the #UnitedStates. Heat makes #steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often, #roads, #powerlines, and even batteries are in danger.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/08/america-infrastructure-climate-change/679458/ #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

I made this image of my son one evening while we waited for a table at a nearby restaurant.

1435 and 1000 mm multi-gauge, 11kV AC 16.7 Hz.
#Chur #Graubünden #Switzerland
#TrainTrack #mountain #Smartphonephoto

An #urbex video from this abandoned Magnetic Levitation test track: https://youtu.be/LFvJ0l099cs

Abandoned MagLev traintrack (Transrapid Lathen) Germany Mar 2022

How many others before me went down this track, with a friend, an enemy, a lover? How many memories in the nostalgia filter were made, and faded sepia tone into the mists of time, like the fall of the leaf into this, Lake Champlain? Lo, "Whispers in Autumn".

appearing silently
with increasing vibrato
westbound train

Have a good Saturday

Near home
be by me

#FreeHaiku #haiku #sunrise
#Morning #Saturday #sky
#red #train #track #TrainTrack #vibration
#GrainElevator #grain
#country

"Passing By"

Here is an earlier #acrylic #painting of mine from 2015. I used the following reference: https://wallhere.com/en/wallpaper/131229