Picture in my town

[George K]

@Mik said in Picture in my town:

Morning walk? Lovely.

Nah. Just some pics someone posted on FB. These are different days, of course. The second picture shows the bridge from which the first picture was taken.

[Horace]

The first picture reminds me of a good place to scan the city, in search of crime to thwart. I'm always on the lookout for those sorts of places.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K Beautiful pictures!

[George K]

[George K]

[George K]

You can see Chicago in the distance.

[George K]

It was really foggy here last night.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Picture in my town:

It was really foggy here last night.

Nice one! Very nice indeed!

[George K]

A slightly different take:

And what it looked like in about 1875.

[Copper]

[George K]

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Picture in my town:

Nice separation.

[George K]

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Picture in my town:

Holy shit that's a great one.

Did you trainspot to get that one?

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer not my picture!

Some guy in my town's FB group posted that.

I live on the BNSF "raceway." There are literally dozens and dozens of trains that pass through here every day. For example, the Metra (which you see in this photo) runs from Aurora to Chicago. There are 44 trains that make that trip, and the same number back west. That's 88 trains.

Add to that a dozen Amtrak trains (California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, Carl Sandburg ) for another 6.

We're up to 94 trains a day, and I haven't counted freights headed in and out of the Cicero yards.

I would guess there's about 150 trains a day coming through town.

[George K]

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Picture in my town:

That one yours?

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer nope. I just steal 'em.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Picture in my town:

@Aqua-Letifer nope. I just steal 'em.

Oh okay cool, because here's how I would've edited it:

[George K]

Yup - that's a bald eagle.