9602

Painted Turtle

Sunset in Penghu's Shihli

Went for a ride yesterday. Get some pictures before the leaves are gone.

Gemme rosse....di Melograno

花蓮清水斷崖

Cingshui Cliffs Hualien, Taiwan

Behr's Metalmark (Apodemia virgulti). Mission Trails Regional Park.

Grasmere early morning

Loch Lurgain - Cul Beag

Les Rousses

Surf Tandem

6-18-88. Original Kodachrome slide. Fred Krause photo, Matthew Griffin collection.

Having coffee this morning in the backyard while watering the plants. Nice clouds and sky.

Paris

Taking off from R/W34R ～ シャープなウィングレットが美しいエアバスA350。

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✈️N514DN - Airbus A350-941 - Delta Air Lines - DL276

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✨Taken at Haneda airport terminal 2 on October 21st, 2020

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📷Canon EOS-1D X Mark III

🔭EF500mm F4L IS II USM

⚙️MANUAL・F8.0・1/125th・-2/3EV・ISO100(AUTO)

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Weymouth, January 2022

CP AC4400CWs 9602 & 9762 roll slowly into the west end of the Harvey, ND yard with a unit tanker train on May 2, 2007.

Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT

Canon EFS 18-55mm lens

Saguaro National Park sunset.

Painted Turtle

Rebuilt by MK/MPI in the late 90's, the Houston Port Terminal Railroad Authority once had a fleet of 32 MK1500D locomotives (24 owned by PTRA, 8 owned by HB&T/BNSF). However, by 2023 they were being phased out in favor of leased GP38-2's from GATX/GMTX.

Now in 2025 all the MK1500D's have been sold off, though several still reside as plant switchers for some of the many customers along and around the Houston Ship Channel. For example, Frontier Logistics in Pasadena acquired eight of the locomotives. Here is one of them, PTRA 9602, with its PTRA logos patched over.

PTRA 9602 was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad as GP9 PRR 7003 in October 1955. It later became PC 7003, and eventually CR 7003 in 1976. In the 90's Conrail traded the locomotive into EMD and it would later be sold to Morrison-Knudsen for rebuild, emerging as PTRA 9602 in July 1996.

PTRA MK1500D #9602

Pasadena, TX

April 13th, 2025

Mangalajodi wetlands, odisha