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Heading downhill at a good clip is Montana Rail Link’s Helena local bound for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana, on the afternoon of July 7, 2022. MRL EMDs Nos. 109 and 355 have the local past milepost 214 and are about to cross Kimber Gulch Road between Winston and Townsend. In today’s railroad world, seeing a GP9/SD45 combo out on the high iron is a vintage treat of goodly proportions!
For a second I thought the ladder might be a "Vertical Cattle Guard" so the cattle couldn't sneak out the back door :>)
For those not familiar with a cattleguard:
This road runs between Hyattville and Tensleep Wyoming. This photo was taken in Big Horn County just a little north of the Washakie County Line. Boy, was I social distancing!
Rose Hill
Kamloops, B.C.
When I was a kid, a teenager, there used to be a horse stables somewhere around here called, not surprisingly, Rose Hill Stables. They had a few ads on the local TV station featuring a couple of people riding horses through waving golden grass with a fantastic view like this behind them. Their slogan, for lack of a better term, was "Ride the High Country". That's always stuck with me.
I used to ride here and I don't remember ever thinking how beautiful it was. All I thought about was how beautiful the horses were! You know kids -- single-minded and I was a bit horse crazy back then.
The entrance to what's left of old farm features this setup(a cattleguard,Thanks Warren!) that's supposed to keep the cows in.Most of these were made of metal,I haven't ever seen one made of wood before.It's held up pretty well and is extremely photogenic...
Happy fence Friday all!
" When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. "
- Erma Bombeck
A welcome entrance with a beautiful sky.
Fence and cattle guard, used to keep the cattle in yet let the vehicles travel on the road. It does the same job as the barbed wire fence. Cattle seem to know better than to try to walk across one of these; humans don't know better and I have seen more than one person get their foot lodged in those cracks. Ending with a major sprain or break.
Texture: my #39 bright sun which I manipulated. HFF
Explored #369
cattle-grid
noun
a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered.
textures thanks to Sarah Gardner and texturetime by Evelyn Flint.
In 1915 William J. Hickey, of Reno, Nevada filed patent # 1125095 for what would become known as the cattle guard. In other parts of the world it is also known as as cattle grid, stock grid, Texas gate, stock gap, or cattle stop. There's a ranch south of Chinook, Montana that has one and you will often see cattle loitering near its entrance. This is a photo I took with some of their herd on the other side of the cattle guard.
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Looking across a cattle guard in the warm light just before sunset towards the red dirt and blue skies of Monument Valley, near the Arizona/Utah border. A shot from my archives, taken a few years back.
Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite lies on the highside of a fault along the Owl Creek Btidger Mountain Front near Boysen, Wyoming.
Near Whizbang, Oklahoma.
The top of "Model T Road", a steep grade that, back in Whizbang's glory days, was a common area for highway robbery.
Checking me out closely. Out this weekend leaf peeping and as always watching for wildlife. I found some, and this is a new one for me, so it gets first post honors today.
A good size train of mostly storage cars called for a quick trip to get the shots of everyone's favorite ALCo powered shortline in the Southwest. After bringing 57 cars into Holbrook on the northbound run, they did a quick turn and burn with 46 cars to go back south with. Here they are about to split the cattleguard at the Hwy 377 crossing with 2 loads and 44 empties trailing off into the Little Colorado River basin as the ALCo/MLW duo bark up the hill.
Sitting still was definitely not on the agenda, with the wind making the camera and big lens move difficult, I was happy to come away with this shot. The wind died down for just a split second, and the weasel finally stood still to take a look at what I was doing.
Kodachrome Basin State Park in Cannonville Utah includes 67 monolithic stone spires called sedimentary pipes and miles of beautiful multihued sandstone layers that reveal 180 million years of geologic time. The park was named in 1948 by a National Geographic Society expedition after the popular color film. Print Size 13x19 inches. Happy (late) Fence Friday
US 93 splits from I-40 in Kingman and heads north to the Hoover Dam. Chloride is located off this highway, and Santa Claus is on the western side, about 24 km before the Chloride Road intersection. US 93 enters Nevada where Interstate 11 begins: on the Hoover Dam Bypass. That segment opened on October 19, 2010, in the area of Hoover Dam; it replaces a segment of US 93 over the dam that had been closed to truck traffic due to security concerns since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
She came out of the woods, crossing right to left and, oddly, stopping and sitting down where the road met the weeds met the cattle guard. We inched closer to get a picture, then stopped. She watched us and watched, her expression changing from watchful to coy to disinterested until finally she gave up waiting for us to leave and ducked into her den - right between the grates of the cattle guard!
What an ultimately safe (if occasionally noisy) place to raise a family!
This wraps up the first leg of the summer trip, from here we'd have to go home and stage for a trip to Pittsburgh. Not a happy trip but we'd be on the road again in a week, this time a loop into Colorado.
Photos of that will be starting up soon.
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Summer 2014 1st leg: "Many Rivers"
June 19: Bradfield CG to home.
Human activity in the Grasslands campground dwindles after October 1st - really, you almost have to be insane to think this is a good time to camp on the northern prairie - so when I'm driving by I scan for wildlife. A cattleguard prevents bison from entering, but I sometimes find smaller mammals there: ground squirrels, porcupines, etc. On this occasion, a prairie hare (aka white-tailed jack rabbit) was hunkered down in a sheltered spot, enjoying some of the year's last warmth.
I used the rolling red car blind for this one, cushioning the 500 mm lens with a bean bag over the window sill. Unlike the cottontails that also live in this park, these hares turn white for the winter. It appears that this transformation has just begun. By December, they will be almost invisible against the snow-covered prairie.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
A setting looking to the east-northeast while taking in views across the high desert setting in this northern New Mexico location and looking down the county road. This is just inside the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area entrance and sign. With this image, I wanted a leveled-on, balanced view with the horizon and the road look ahead. I decided to include the cattle guard as I felt it added a little bit of foreground interest to the image.
The sky had been dark with rain clouds all day
but at sunset the sun burst through below the
dramatic sky and gave a glorious golden glow
reflecting off everything it touched.. the cattle
guard took on a golden glow as did the fence
and the road with the Texas flag silhouetted
in the shadows... this time instead of a silver
lining it was a golden one... gorgeous ending
to a beautiful day even with the rain as it is
what is in the heart that really matters & on
this day my heart was full of love, memories,
and joy at what blessings the day had brought!!!