T.G.'s Photography Blog

Looking southeast at the Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge.   The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge was built in 1908, and spans the Lamoille River near Walcott, Vermont. It was built by the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad. It saw use as a railroad bridge until 1994. Today, the bridge is being converted for recreational use as part of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. The northeast side of the bridge and the Lamoille River.   The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge is an example of Itheil Town's lattice truss design and features a double-web lattice. A lattice bridge uses small, diagonal supports that form a lattice. Town's lattice design distributed the load across all of the supports, which allowed for the use of lighter-weight wood. The bridge is one of four surviving double-web Town lattice truss bridges in the United States. The other three bridges are Pier Bridge, Wright's Bridge, Contoocook Railroad Bridge. The other three bridges are all located in the state of New Ha...

  The last time I captured a view looking over the forest in my neighborhood, the trees were bare, the ground covered in snow, and more snow was falling. This week with spring in full bloom and the sky filled with some great-looking clouds, I sent the drone up again to capture the view. Looking northward toward the Seneca River at an above-ground-level altitude of 225 feet. Ash Trees and the Emerald Bore   A lot of the trees in this forest are ash trees. Many of them are infected by the Emerald Ash Bore (EAB) and are either dead or dying. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the EAB, a type of beetle, is an invasive insect that most likely arrived in wood packing materials from Asia approximately thirty years ago. The EAB, as its name implies, bores holes throughout the tree, resulting in the tree's death. When the ash trees become infected by the EAB, an increased presence of woodpeckers occurs. The beetles are a food source for woodpeckers. The ...

UP 6838 - KCT Highline Bridge - Santa Fe Junction - Kansas City Union Pacific 6838 is on the point of an eastbound coal train that is rolling across the upper deck of KCT's Highline Bridge. The train is crossing over the Kansas River, and is nearing the Kansas-Missouri state border, at Santa Fe Junction. The train is approximately 1,000 feet from the state line, where it will cross into Kansas City, Missouri from Kansas City, Kansas. Photo taken: November 9, 2007. Kansas City, Kansas.

Union Pacific 5976 is working as the DPU on this south bound load coal train, which is crossing over the Kaskaskia River on UP's Chester Subdivision. March 3, 2006. South of Modoc, Illinois.

Little Rock skyline - Junction Bridge Looking out at the Little Rock, Arkansas, skyline from Junction Bridge. Junction Bridge is an old railroad bridge that has been converted to a pedestrian bridge. The bridge features a lift span that is now permanently raised, to allow river traffic to pass underneath. The bridge has stairs and elevators at each end of the lift span, so that people can get from the ground up to the lift span's pathway and back down to the ground. Junction Bridge offers pedestrians a unique and easy easy way to get back and forth between Little Rock and North Little Rock. October 13, 2016. North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Tank cars on a northbound Union Pacific freight train roll across the bridge over the Kaskaskia River, just south of Modoc, Illinois. I took this photograph from a boat ramp that is down river of the bridge. March 3, 2006. South of Modoc, Illinois.

Union Pacific 6502 is the lone unit on this westbound empty coal train, rolling along side the Missouri River at Jefferson City, MO. In the background the dome of the Missouri capital building can be seen. June 1, 2011. Jefferson City, Missouri. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

UP 9055 and CN 2412 - Modoc, IL and Ellis Grove, IL Union Pacific (UP) 9055 and Canadian National (CN) 2412 lead a manifest freight train north over the Kaskaskia River, on the Union Pacific's Chester Subdivision. The Kaskaskia River bridge is located about a mile north of Kaskaskia Lock and Dam site. The lock and dam site is about a mile up river from the confluence of the Kaskaskia River and the Mississippi River. March 3, 2006, between Modoc, Illinois, and Ellis Grove, Illinois.

UP 7142 - Sherman, MO Leading an empty coal train west over the Meramec River on Union Pacific's Jefferson City Subdivision is UP 7142. The train was heading to the Power River Coal Basin for another load of coal. While, I was on the wrong side of the bridge to get the best light, I'm still fairly happy with this shot. This was taken with an older Canon 20D. Sometimes, given the age of that camera, it amazes me what it could pull off. January 8, 2006. Sherman, Missouri. Photo © Tom Gatermann. All rights reserved.

This view is looking out at Rock Island in Lake Mead. You can see, from the lighter colored rocks, how the water level of the lake was significantly lower than in years past. August 18, 2010. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada.

Maid of the Mist A Maid of the Mist tour boat nears the Horseshoe Falls, at Niagara Falls. The Horseshoe Falls is the largest of the three water falls that comprise Niagara Falls . In the upper right corner is a Gull Island, and next to right of the island is the scow barge that has been lodged above the Horseshoe Falls for over a 100 years. Photo taken: July 8, 2013. Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Two sailboats glide across Lake Michigan, under a cloudy and Moon lit sky. Photo taken: August 13, 2008. Chicago, Illinois.

Lake Granby While driving up US 34 from Granby, Colorado, to Rocky Mountain National Park , I stopped off at Lake Granby. This view is looking eastward out over Lake Granby, toward Rocky Mountain National Park. This location is, approximately, six miles (10 km) north of Granby. Photo taken: September 4, 2013. Granby, Colorado.

Hoover Dam A view looking down, from the top of Hoover Dam. The dam is 726 feet tall, and weighs more than 6.6 million tons. At the bottom water from the Colorado River and Lake Mead are being released. On the back side of the dam, large intake towers feed water into the dam's turbines to produce electricity. Photo taken: August 18, 2010, at Lake Mead National Recreational Area.

August 13, 2008. Chicago, Illinois. Photo © Tom Gatermann

American and Bridal Veil Falls A view, looking toward the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, with the Rainbow International Bridge in the distance. The bridge spans the Niagara River between the United States and Canada.The green tower between the bridge and American Falls is the Niagara Falls Observation Tower , which is part of the Maid of the Mist boat tour complex. Photo taken: November 23, 2010, from Niagara Falls, Ontario

August 13, 2008. Chicago, Illinois. Sailboats gliding across the lake on a calm and warm summer evening.

Niagara Falls In this view from the Skylon Tower's observation deck, you can see the American, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe Falls that comprise Niagara Falls. The Skylon Tower's observation deck offers great aerial views of Niagara Falls . Photo taken: July 2013, at Niagara Falls, Ontario.

October 10, 2016. Little Rock, Arkansas. While out for a walk during our visit to Little Rock a few years ago, we saw these new bridge spans for the Broadway Bridge being constructed on barges floating in the Arkansas River. The barges are on the North Little Rock side of the river. If you look at the far left of the photograph you can see the old Broadway Bridge supports being demolished. Photo © Tom Gatermann

October 23, 2005. Gasconade, Missouri. Union Pacific (UP) 4294 and Norfolk Southern (NS) 9841 lead an eastbound train across the Gasconade River Bridge on the UP's Jefferson City Subdivision. Photo © Tom Gatermann.