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LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45231 The Sherwood Forester about to crossover onto Platform 3 at York Station with the Empty Coaching Stock comprising 5Z33 the 15:59 York Thrall Europa to York.

Awaiting the locos late arrival on Platform 3 and subsequent departure were the returning passengers bound for London Kings Cross.

This was The London to York Christmas Market tour promoted by Steam Dreams and operated by Locomotive Services Ltd (LS).

Out of the three former LMS engines to visit York that day, 45231 was the only one turned on the NRM turntable in readiness for a smoke box first departure.

Would you want to have this kind of landscape around you all the time?? Every day for years and years???

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In Colorado National Monument in Mesa County, Colorado, on August 21st, 2022, Fruita Canyon as viewed from the "Fruita Canyon View" overlook along Rim Rock Drive.

There are Rim Rock Drive, the outskirts of the city of Fruita in the Grand Valley of the Colorado River, and the Book Cliffs in the distance.

The vertical cliffs at the left and right are Wingate Sandstone of the Glen Canyon Group, formed from Sahara-like dune deposits, ~206.7 to ~199.8 million years ago in the Mesozoic era, during the Rhaetian age of the Late Triassic epoch and the Hettangian age of the Early Jurassic epoch.

Rock identification is per this map and its accompanying text, and per Macrostrat.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Book Cliffs (2187205)
• Colorado Plateau (general region) (7030678)
• Fruita (2015633)
• Fruita Canyon (2341884)
• Grand Valley (2358463)
• Mesa (county) (2000230)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• canyons (300008763)
• cliffs (300008749)
• Jurassic (300391259)
• Mesozoic (300391255)
• national monuments (300007037)
• overlooks (300008186)
• rain (300055377)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• roads (300008217)
• sandstone (300011376)
• scenic byways (300263169)
• scrublands (300386891)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• Triassic (300391257)
• valleys (landforms) (300008761)

Wikidata items:
• 21 August 2022 (Q69306528)
• August 21 (Q2823)
• August 2022 (Q61313034)
• Book Cliffs (Q4942933)
• Colorado National Monument (Q1111312)
• Colorado Plateau (Q925906)
• Colorado Plateau shrublands (Q97999941)
• Colorado Plateaus (Q60140385)
• Colorado Plateaus ecoregion (Q2984378)
• Colorado Western Slope (Q5148981)
• Deserts and xeric shrublands (Q1246061)
• Early Jurassic (Q284787)
• Fruita Canyon (Q49803289)
• Glen Canyon Group (Q5567629)
• Grand Valley (Q5595214)
• hairpin turn (Q1130302)
• Intermontane Plateaus (Q6047552)
• Late Triassic (Q917293)
• Rim Rock Drive (Q7334333)
• Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands (Q113680068)
• Uncompahgre Plateau (Q7882885)
• Ute Removal Act (Q113985596)
• Wingate Sandstone (Q8025150)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Canyons—Colorado (sh85019842)
• Cliffs—Colorado (sh89004791)
• Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) (sh95008815)
• National monuments—Colorado (sh85090029)
• Parks—Colorado (sh85098140)
• Roads—Colorado (sh89006077)

Sure is getting busy.