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Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad. Steam locomotive at a stop as it hauls an NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) excursion train on the Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania, USA. Here, it has halted in Lewistown. The locomotive, numbered 2082, is the D16sb model of the PRR D16 class of steam locomotive. Locomotive 2082 was in use on this railroad from 1936 to 1940. The Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad, a small country line, operated for 47 years from 1893 to 1940, running the 15 kilometres from Belleville to Reedsville. This photograph, from the collection of David H. Cope (1913-2001), was taken on 1 August 1937.

The Moon, showing part of its far side, photographed from the Apollo 16 spacecraft after its landing on the Moon in April 1972. The dark patches at upper left are some of the lunar seas (maria) which are characteristic of the face it presents to Earth. The heavily-cratered region at right is on the far side of the Moon, which is never seen from Earth. The Moon always presents the same face to Earth, as it rotates on its axis in the same time that it orbits around Earth. Such gravitational locking of an orbit is common amongst satellites.