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Shay #5 - Bald Knob Summit, Cass, WV by tim_1522

As the sign says, upon reaching the Station Platform, we will be sitting at 4700ft. The Bald Knob Summit is the 2nd highest point in West Virginia.

-CSRR C-70-3 Shay #5
-Cass Bald Knob Passenger Train
-“Titans of Logging” Weekend
-Cass Scenic Railroad, Bald Knob Summit
-Cass, WV
-May 2, 2026

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(NEW) Eirwen in Blue Fur Coat and Land Rover by jacklowry47

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At the Hatton Court Hotel, Upton Hill, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Tuesday 5th December 2023.

About the photograph.

I booked Eirwen for a two hours photo-shoot in and around Gloucester, and the photo-shoot was split into two sections.

The first section lasting an hour, was an outdoor photo-shoot done outside the Hatton Court Hotel, just outside of Gloucester, with special thanks to the hotel staff for letting me use their location.

My idea was to take photos of Eirwen, dressed in a smart evening outfit and different fur coats outside the hotel. The photos would be used as graphic design assets, illustrating a hotel advert.

Here, she is wearing a blue M&S Collections faux fur coat, and getting out of the rear passenger door of the Land Rover Freelander, as if had arrived at the hotel.

After the first section was done, I drove to a studio on the south-west side of Gloucester, for the second section, where I booked an hour at Studio Five Photography, for the indoor photo-shoot.

About M&S.

Marks and Spencer, often commonly abbreviated as M&S, was formed in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds, as a penny bazaar.

Over the next many years, they moved to different towns and cities, and had many market stalls around the North West of England. Spencer passed away in 1905, and Marks died in 1907.

Michael Marks’s son, Simon Marks became the chairman, acquired other penny bazaars, and the company grew into a retail empire.

They sold textiles and food, they also sold clothes under the St Michael brand, which was then dropped in 2000. M&S often sells quality food and clothes.

About the Freelander.

In the United Kingdom during the later 1980s, British Aerospace bought the Rover Group. The Rover cars team and the Land Rover team, each wanted to put forwards a new idea. Rover cars wanted to pitch for an idea of an MPV, inspired by the Renault Espace. Land Rover on the other hand, wanted to put forth an idea for a compact 4x4 lifestyle SUV, based on the Suzuki Vitara.

The Rover and the Land Rover teams worked on their ideas separately until they were co-housed together, and it became known as the Pathfinder Project. British Aerospace wanted a collaboration with other car makers to save on costs, and Hyundai joined as development partner. The project was then renamed as Oden, and it stumbled on for a while until 1993.

In October 1993, at the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota showed off its new RAV-4 model. Inspired by the RAV-4, the Oden project team came up with a prototype, and it was given a codename of CB40.

By 1994, the German car maker BMW bought the Rover Group. BMW could see a potential in the CB40 project and encouraged Land Rover team to develop it further. Land Rover wanted CB40 to be the kind of Land Rover for new customers who never before thought about owning and driving a 4x4. It was to be developed into a compact SUV that feels like a car while on road, but can do light and simple off-roading, for the kind of drivers who don’t want to do extreme off-roading.

The CB40 had gone through various engine designs, mostly those build for Rover cars, like the K-Series and engines supplied by BMW, like the BMW M47. It was also designed to come in either a 3-door or 5-door variations, both with a side-opening tail door. The 3-door Sport models also came with either a hard top or a soft top.

The Freelander was originally going to be called Land Rover Highlander, but another company owns the trademarked name, so the production management had to think of another name, and thus the Freelander name was born, just in time for its launch in 1997.

An infrequent guest by Toprus & Chester

SU42-513 is the only locomotive at PolRegio's depot in Krzyż. It is exclusively deployed to haul regional trains if there is a breakdown on the railbusses working there. Today (14.05.2026) it unexpectedly came to Chojnice with an afternoon train from Krzyż. A few minutes after the picture was taken, the loco would start with the regional train ROS 58333 from Chojnice back to Krzyż.

In the background are the buildings belonging to one of PolRegio's other branches. Famously, they can never get along well which results in vast disproportions between them - while Krzyż is barely able to keep an active fleet, Chojnice is filled to the brim with railbusses in working order.

I never got a chance to post a picture from the station at Chojnice itself. It's a really huge knot point with railway lines coming out in 6 directions - and none of them have been electrified. 2 directions are on the historical Ostbahn - Berlin and Königsberg. The other branches lead to Runowo Pomorskie (150km), Kościerzyna (70km), Działdowo (formerly 200km, as of now the part between Brodnica and Działdowo is closed for traffic) and Oleśnica (310km).

Chojnice used to lie almost at the center point of the Ostbahn and during the interwar period it was the border station (on the Polish side) for transit trains running between Berlin and Königsberg. Here, for the next 90km or so, the trains were overtaken by a Polish loco and crew, before being returned back into German hands at Tczew.

Photo by Piotrek/Toprus

99004 GBRF Seen here arriving into Corfe Castle with its 5 coach passenger service. by Robert.Cutter

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20066 Now arriving into Corfe Castle after its departure from Norden during the Swanage Diesel Gala 2026 by Robert.Cutter

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390001 @ Colton Ln (Rugeley Trent Valley) by A J transport

1F28 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street. Class 390 Pendolino in Avanti West Coast livery seen here heading north on the WCML at Colton Ln (Rugeley Trent Valley)