Amaneceres, atardeceres y nocturnas (AAN)
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Down on their hands and knees a trio of Union Pacific AC locomotives struggle a load of export coal up the 1% grade that leads to the summit of Western Pacific's Pequop crossing at Hogan.
From this vantage point you can see the sidings at Sage (the west end of which is still being rattled by loads of coal), Shafter, and Silver Zone. A sharp eye will spot the eastbound BNSF Valmy coal buckets pulling towards Silver Zone, having met a fleet of four westbounds at Shafter.
Shafter lays at the base of the eastbound grade to the summit of Silver Zone Pass and the westbound grade up over the Pequops. Shafter was also the location of the Nevada Northern diamond, which carried the NN across the WP and towards Cobre, Nevada and the Southern Pacific connection. Today the NN diamond is gone but their tracks nonetheless remain.
UP 5702 ~ CC4PF9 ~ Sage, Nevada
Union Pacific's Shafter Subdivision
06.19.2024
Redshank group.....
The redshank is a large sandpiper with long, bright red legs. It is a typical wader, feeding in shallow water around lakes, marshes, mudflats and coastal wetlands. It breeds on open marshes, mires and saltmarshes, particularly in Scotland and northern England. Look for it typically posed on top of a post, fence or rock in wet grassland or farmland areas.
When I got home yesterday, I found this inside the caterpillar enclosure. It took nine days for the chrysalis to turn into a beautiful butterfly. Photographed in Ferguson, Missouri. "New Beginnings."
Where Eagles Dare.
For more photos and the story from this trip: highlux.co.nz/blog/2012/08/central-darran-mountains/