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Railways in the holy land stamps by israeli designer Asher Kalderon (1929–2018), dated 13/12/1977

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".

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 😒

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