[Aaron28]

got to hang out in the yard these things are caged in......K-1.....fa31......af360fgz.....cactus v6ii

[pbancr]

Are you unsure?

Yep..unsure.....I think it’s an A-H...am I right?

[Racer X 69]

Yep..unsure.....I think it’s an A-H...am I right?

Why yes you are. It is an Austin Healey 3000. I don't know them well enough to say what vintage, but it is a left hand drive car, and in very nice shape.

[pkboy]

Here is a relevant reply

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Air Force Thunderbird at the 2009 Jones Beach airshow. K-10D and FA 100-300mm.

[jquill]

Anastasi with a deck load of sponges. Tarpon Springs

[steamloco76]

Coal on the move, November 29, 2020. Indiana County Pennsylvania.

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[BigDave]

Coal on the move

For train pictures, 3 and 4 are the best, with 4 being the best composition of all. I know these shots are hard. Not like you can "pose" the train!

[steamloco76]

For train pictures, 3 and 4 are the best, with 4 being the best composition of all. I know these shots are hard. Not like you can "pose" the train!

3&4 are the only two places on the fifteen mile line where the light is on the correct angle. Most of the time the train is eastbound with the sun behind to the west. Time was between 13:30 and 14:30.

[Martin Stu]

Coal on the move, November 29, 2020. Indiana County Pennsylvania.

as far as I know, the largest coal deposit is concentrated in Pennsylvania

[steamloco76]

as far as I know, the largest coal deposit is concentrated in Pennsylvania

Indiana County had been one of the largest coal producing counties in the entire United States from 1900 through the early 1980s. We have four coal fired generating stations. Three were originally mine mouth operations. Those mines played out between 1977 and 1990. Coal was then trucked in from many smaller local mines. Most of those mines are now closed and coal to the three former mine mouth plants is brought in by truck and train from mines in Washington and Greene Counties on the W.VA border. The fourth generating station, originally constructed in the late 1940s, was rebuilt to burn all the waste coal gob or boney piles in the area. All four plants have ultra modern emissions scrubbers installed. Large amounts of pulverized limestone is used in these scrubbers, most delivered by train.

[subsea]

One of the Blue Angels performing in the 2010 Jones Beach Airshow. K-10D and FA 100-300mm.

[subsea]

Another shot of the Thunderbirds performing at Jones Beach in 2009.

[Neuse River Sailor]

Hard to believe something like this still exists in 2020, but it is in a rural, mountainous county that is off the beaten track and not yet on the radar of state regulators. There must be 10 acres of cow pasture covered in junk cars, with even more pushing into the surrounding woods. While there is a building and sign proclaiming that this is a salvage operation, I'm not sure that it isn't more like an eccentric man's collection. I've seen plenty of these helter-skelter junkyards in my life, but none in a good many years, even the one I use is now all cleaned up, with a nice showroom in front and a very corporate feel. I've got to take my grandson to see this, it will be like the window cranks in my truck, something he will remember from his youth long after they are gone from the face of the earth.

[scratchpaddy]

Anastasi with a deck load of sponges. Tarpon Springs

Before I looked at the full size, I thought those bags of sponges on the deck were HUGE individual sponges.

It blew my mind when I learned in school that natural sponges are animals, too.

Hard to believe something like this still exists in 2020, but it is in a rural, mountainous county that is off the beaten track and not yet on the radar of state regulators. There must be 10 acres of cow pasture covered in junk cars, with even more pushing into the surrounding woods. While there is a building and sign proclaiming that this is a salvage operation, I'm not sure that it isn't more like an eccentric man's collection. I've seen plenty of these helter-skelter junkyards in my life, but none in a good many years, even the one I use is now all cleaned up, with a nice showroom in front and a very corporate feel. I've got to take my grandson to see this, it will be like the window cranks in my truck, something he will remember from his youth long after they are gone from the face of the earth.

I love junkyards. They're like museums where you can take apart the exhibits.

But, all the yards in my area are quickly either closing completely, or closing to the public, operating online instead. The internet has made it much easier to find buyers for more of the good parts remaining on any given car, and much faster, too. If it's just sitting there, it's not making money.

I'm afraid the experience of busting your own knuckles in a field of someone else's cars will be a thing of the past before long.