Aiken, SC
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Located in the Mojave National Preserve close to the Lava Tube.
This Cinder mine was abandoned in 1990.
Camera:Canon Eos 7D
Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM
Focal Lenght: 24 mm
Aperture: f/10
Shutter Speed: 1/100
ISO speed: 100
The Chessie Safety Express, with C&O 614, ran from Silver Spring, Maryland to Philadelphia and return on September 20, 1981. Anticipating an unchaseable train with a long layover in Philadelphia, a friend and I shot the steam excursion outside of Baltimore (why didn’t we go to Perryville?) and spent the day railfanning the Baltimore area. Returning home to Pennsylvania in the evening, we stopped at Aiken, Maryland, where we found an eastbound B&O TOFC train with a single GP40 for power. The engineer agreed to cooperate with us for a nocturnal image, and verified that the 614 was only a few minutes away. After taking the photo, we watched the magic of a 4-8-4 with a heavy train making track speed in the darkness.
A shot of Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 next to the main office, reflecting in the pond that formed from the previous night's rain storm.
Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time. This is also a somewhat rare move as the crew normally works the other side of the yard. But on this day, they had to work a spur at the end of the line. This allowed me to get a good sunny side shot of the GP30 on lead.
The GP30 is a former BNSF and ATSF unit. It's wering a paint scheme styled after the old Great Northern, just using different colors.
The Greenville & Western Railway owns and operates just under 13 miles of former CSX track in Anderson, SC. It is former Piedmont & Northern track (later Seaboard Coast Line) that was up for abandonment in 2006 when it was bought by the Western Carolina Railway. The Greenville & Western connects the small villages of Belton, Cheddar, Williamston and Pelzer and also gives the Pickens Railroad a second connection to a Class 1 carrier, CSX, in Pelzer.
The AIKR local passes the nicely restored Aiken passenger depot as it exits the former SOU AB line with its Kaolin load from two facilities located near Aiken.
The Engineer of Aiken Railroad doing a routine walk around the locomotive before starting work.
Location:Aiken, SC
Date: 3.16.2017
The 1820 Aiken-Rhett House was a home of William Aiken, Jr., a governor of South Carolina. Earlier it was a home of his father, the railroad magnate William Aiken.
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Due to the previous night of rain, a substantial reflection pond was created, allowing for this shot of both Aiken GP30s.
Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time. This is also a somewhat rare move as the crew normally works the other side of the yard. But on this day, they had to work a spur at the end of the line. This allowed me to get a good sunny side shot of the GP30 on lead.
The GP30 is a former BNSF and ATSF unit. It's wering a paint scheme styled after the old Great Northern, just using different colors.
The Greenville & Western Railway owns and operates just under 13 miles of former CSX track in Anderson, SC. It is former Piedmont & Northern track (later Seaboard Coast Line) that was up for abandonment in 2006 when it was bought by the Western Carolina Railway. The Greenville & Western connects the small villages of Belton, Cheddar, Williamston and Pelzer.
Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time. This is also a somewhat rare move as the crew normally works the other side of the yard. But on this day, they had to work a spur at the end of the line. This allowed me to get a good sunny side shot of the GP30 on lead.
The GP30 is a former BNSF and ATSF unit. It's wering a paint scheme styled after the old Great Northern, just using different colors.
The Greenville & Western Railway owns and operates just under 13 miles of former CSX track in Anderson, SC. It is former Piedmont & Northern track (later Seaboard Coast Line) that was up for abandonment in 2006 when it was bought by the Western Carolina Railway. The Greenville & Western connects the small villages of Belton, Cheddar, Williamston and Pelzer and also gives the Pickens Railroad a second connection to a Class 1 carrier, CSX, in Pelzer.
An Aiken Railway GP30u (former Santa Fe) heads back into town after working W.R. Grace & Co. on a beautiful November afternoon.
The Aiken job comes past the Visitor's Center on the SB line after serving a customer further down the line.
Model | Miranda Bang
Assistants | Julia Aiken & Haley Lorenson (Hclphotography)
MUA | Gabrielle Macgregor
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The place I live is a winter training ground for Thoroughbreds before they are shipped north in the spring to begin their racing careers. Every spring, we have a celebration, called the Aiken Trials, where these young race horses get to perform in front of a local crowd before shipping off. The local jockeys who have been working with the horses all winter get to run them in a real race, in front of their friends and family. This year was the 74th running of the Trials and, as usual, was great fun!
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Aiken, South Carolina
"Aiken is the most populous city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. According to 2020 census, the population was 32,025, making it the 15th-most populous city in South Carolina, and one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area.
Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the South Carolina Railroad. It became part of Aiken County when the county was formed in 1871. In the late 19th century, Aiken gained fame as a wintering spot for wealthy people from the Northeast. Thomas Hitchcock, Sr. and William C. Whitney established the Aiken Winter Colony. Over the years Aiken became a winter home for many notable people, including George H. Bostwick, James B. Eustis, Madeleine Astor, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, Allan Pinkerton, and W. Averell Harriman.
Aiken is home to the University of South Carolina Aiken." (Wikipedia)
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I have photographed this railroad before? However since I can't find my previous pics and I was in the area, I shot it again.
Built in 1820 by merchant John Robinson, the Aiken-Rhett House is nationally significant as one of the best-preserved townhouse complexes in the nation. Vastly expanded by Governor and Mrs. William Aiken, Jr. in the 1830s and again in the 1850s, the house and its outbuildings include a kitchen, the original slave quarters, carriage block and back lot. The house and its surviving furnishings offer a compelling portrait of urban life in antebellum Charleston, as well as a Southern politician, slaveholder and industrialist. The house spent 142 years in the Aiken family's hands before being sold to the Charleston Museum and opened as a museum house in 1975.
Biography: Lucy Rucker Aiken, Neddie Rucker Harper, and Hazel Rucker are members of a distinguished and politically active Black family in Georgia. They are the granddaughters of Jefferson Long, the first Black Congressman from Georgia, and the daughters of Annie E. Long and Henry Allan Rucker, who after appointment by President McKinley, was for 13 years collector of internal revenue for the state of Georgia. The three sisters attended public school in Atlanta and graduated from the normal department of Atlanta University. Lucy Rucker worked in the Civil Service in Washington and married Walter Aiken in 1920. In 1921 he began his own real estate business in Atlanta. Mrs. Aiken worked with him in the management of the business from 1925 until his death in 1965, and still administers the company's rental division. Neddie Rucker married Lawrence Harper, a physics teacher at Atlanta University. In 1929 when he became dean of men at Paine College, they moved to Augusta, Ga. After her husband's death, Mrs. Harper returned to Atlanta. Hazel Rucker began teaching school in Atlanta in 1918. She received a bachelor's degree in 1932 from Morehouse College and a master's degree from Atlanta University in 1945. She retired from teaching in 1964 and lives with her sister Lucy Rucker Aiken.
Description: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981. With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century. Photograph taken by Judith Sedwick
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Black Women Oral History Project
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Union Pacific Extra 801 East meets Extra 45 West at Aikens, Kansas, May 16, 1965. Aikens is on the Kansas Division between Topeka and Marysville.
The Aiken-Rhett House stands alone as the most intact townhouse complex showcasing urban life in antebellum Charleston. Built in 1818 and greatly expanded by Gov. and Mrs. William Aiken, Jr. in the 1830s and 1850s, the house has survived virtually unaltered since 1858. Read the full history of the Aiken-Rhett house here.
Here is the first view I shot on the day (and my parting Christmas day edit); it's without the warming flare of the sun. This is the Aikens barn east of I-25 in the Front Range. I primarily liked the hanging branches to add a spooky feel. The scene has untracked snow; this is the agricultural year's dead season. Still January, today may make the 60s while tomorrow is slated to be up to 70. Many don't believe in global warming but get ready for a burning summer anyway. You'll have to crank up that air conditioning fired by coal.
Some of us gathered on Christmas day and headed east out on an EddieTrek. This location is the first of the outing after we headed out Eisenhower Boulevard, east of I-25. This year this area was the recipient of a white Christmas, if slight, as you can see on this frosty morn. Today brought us highly filtered but enveloping light seldom with patches of sky. This image should convey the chill across the land. It is unlikely the barn is being used for agriculture anymore. Development is creeping here. The windmill remains a nice touch in this wintery scene.
This should be a day of photo discovery if this lighting continues for the morning. We need to beat a hasty retreat later for the Christmas meal.