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The only red GEVO in the lineup, which doesn’t make it any better, but means you’ll only have to close your eyes once ;). In all seriousness, with conditions like this, I mostly just pray it’s not a pissbrick because just about anything else can be managed.
By now, many of you should be familiar with these trains. As of right now, the CP traffic makes up about two to four out of every 10 trains on the Portland Sub. Obviously this number fluctuates month to month, but it’s safe to say that roughly 20% or more of all traffic comes out of Eastport. This number has risen quite a bit in the past few years.
Back in 2018, Canpotex—the company that produces and ships potash out of Canada—completed a $150 million upgrade to Terminal 5 at the Port of Portland. The company said the upgrades would result in a capacity to export up to 7.5 million metric tons of potash annually. In August of 2024, UP published on their website that they had completed a record number of shipments of potash out of Terminal 5 in the second quarter of the year, but it gave no official numbers. The only statistic given was that Portland exports roughly 20% of Canpotex’s annual potash supply, which is “more than 13 million tons.” This didn’t seem to add up, or perhaps they were old numbers on their website, so I did some more digging. On the Port of Portland’s website, I found yearly export statistics going back to 1994. In 2024, listed under “Mineral Bulk Tonnage,” the port exported 7.59 million metric tons (8.37 million tons) to ocean going vessels. This was the third time they have eclipsed 7 million metric tons exported, and the first time since 2019. However, I’m unsure if this includes the soda ash trains out of Wyoming that are exported through Terminal 4, and being unsatisfied with the answer, I did some basic calculations.
Based on information I have, the trains run in sets of 189 (UP’s website says 188, but their computer says 189, so who knows) and are roughly 27,000 tons each. Numbers I found say that they export “more than a dozen trains per month”, which means UP probably exported somewhere between 4 million and 6 million tons of potash through Terminal 5 in 2024. That puts the train count somewhere between 15-18. I’ve also heard Canpotex wants to increase the train length closer to or even over the 200 car range, which would push these trains to 9500 feet in length. I’m a numbers guy so I found this all to be fascinating, though perhaps some of you find this to be rather abhorrent.
As for the grain trains, like the one pictured here, it’s harder to find information. Unlike the potash trains, these do not come from a single customer, and I would assume they come from all over the CPKC system. Perhaps someone out there has more information about how this handoff works or how the contract for these trains work, if that information can be shared.
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December 30, 2024 - 9:37AM
Celilo, OR // UP Portland Sub
DIFficult conditions for DIFs yesterday, but there is something addictive about the challenge of taking these.
See also Cosper Wosper's much more artistic shot: www.flickr.com/photos/cosperwosper/34749761442
In freezing conditions, the driver applies some power as 66168 passes Elmswell in charge of the 6L40 04.52 Mountsorrel Sdgs - Barham loaded stone on Saturday 22 January 2022. Pole shot.
1Y63 Barrow in Furness to Manchester Airport formed of a 3-car Class 185 crosses the Arnside Viaduct as the tide begins to turn, conditions were quite surreal.
We had such great foggy conditions from Hvithamar that I had to edit more shots from this night. This one is from a moment where the sun was completely hidden, extinguishing the warm sunset light, but I think I prefer this color palette.
Wintery conditions, snow, freezing temperatures: No problem for some plants, as for the bamboo shown in the picture.
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Adverse conditions get me trackside in a hurry, especially fog. And when it’s bad out I’m looking for G O O D power. Enter the H53, roaring south outside of Dauphin PA with the never disappointing pair of SD40-2 locomotives.
DB Cargo Shed 66186 heading the 12.25pm Hedon Road Sidings - Masborough FD (6J94) empty steel train has a brief encounter with Northern's 2.24pm Sheffield - Bridlington service (1W47), unusually in the hands of Sprinter unit 150211, at Swinton Station.
Having clouded over it remained a close, humid day and the summery heat-haze was only added to by the exhaust from both trains. Very pleased of course not to be confined in one of those pig pens given the conditions - stifling or what?
2.44pm, 20th July 2018
Death Valley, California
The sand dunes take on a reddish hue as the rising sun attempts to shine through the dust and sand thrown up by high winds that morning. The background slope is the alluvial fan at the base of Tucki Mountain and beyond are the Cottonwood Mountains
Back to the Lake District today, Ashness Jetty at Derwent water.
I could not have asked for better conditions, as we went there in October of 2019 we caught some lovely Autumn colours and those colours were beautifully reflected in Derwent Water that day.
The conditions were perfect, a nice sky and no wind, this and a few others made my day, This is another shot that I have not edited before and now wish I had as I think this will go on my wall somewhere.
This area is a draw for photographers, I had already got to the Ashness bridge early to shoot that, as we were leaving a minibus turned up and a bunch of togs got out, that was the time to go.
I was crouched behind my tripod here when all of a sudden another tripod was plonked against mine in this small area, I said to the guy could you just give me a few moments to take my shots, one of us could have had a wet day !!!.
One of the draw backs of shooting a honeypot spot I guess .
Look out for stormy conditions tomorrow when storm Chandra drops in to say hello.
Conditions here with the snow and umbrella color almost make this scene B&W right out of the camera.
The subdued light reflections in the windows of the domed roof are a indication of surrounding smoke haze conditions.
Under beautiful white out conditions, CSXT 348 south crosses Clinchfield’s Boones Creek trestle with loaded coal train N369-17 (Shelby, Ky - Wateree, Sc). Based on a few sources, my educated guess is this train was loaded on the Pompey Spur at Castleton Commodities LLC’s “Slones Branch” loadout in Millard, Ky.
February 18, 2015.
I haven't been here for a while, waiting for proper winter conditions.
I always loved the shape of the Blondin support tower, the aerial ropeway system that lifted carts of slate out of the bottom of the quarry. I'm not sure where the other end was secured to on the opposite side of the quarry but it must have had equally substantial fixings.
There are some climbers, slightly below centre of this shot.
conditions not to good
a bit murky ....
10 days isolation just one visit in the middle for a food scavenge
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Chasing the Bessemer usually ain't that hard if one step's on it a bit but I wouldn't recommend chasing in these weather conditions. After sliding thru a stop sign sideways & getting stuck behind people driving more sensible than me, this shot was had at Pennside with about 20 seconds to spare.
Black Redstart / phoenicurus ochruros. Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. 21/10/22.
'GREY BIRD, GREY DAY.'
If it looks as though this beautiful female Black Redstart was photographed in foggy conditions, she was!
She was favouring the lighthouse garden at Flamborough Head, accompanied by another female plus one male. They were newly arrived migrant birds and moved on after a couple of days.
TPE unit 397005 heads north up Beattock Bank on 18/4/2023 with 1S66 14.04 Manchester Airport to Edinburgh
The GB XV should have followed minutes later but 46115 had been failed at Lockerbie !
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This is the second part of two shot on a Sunday afternoon in rather threatening weather conditions that quickly turned to fine drizzle, then real rain.
Out of camera jpeg with no edits apart from some slight sharpening.
Olympus Pen E-P5 with an early 1950s C mount movie camera lens, the Kern Switar 25mm f/1.5 (approx 50mm equivalent on MFT). I was curious to see what it would make of the nature scenes and the conditions.
I still think it's one of the nicest lenses I have. But scarcely usable on APS-C (strong vignetting) and not at all on full frame.
Background Story: I took this photo on Nov 23rd, 2013 from my dining room window first thing in the morning. The atmospheric condition was a combination of light snow and fog caused perhaps because the ground was still warm. I was fascinated by this scene because it looked mysterious and beautiful, something i don't often encounter in my area. I live on Lake Ontario, Canada.
Tinto Lens and C-Type Film.
Conditions de prises de vue extrêmes, peu de luminosité des installations, pas de pied, vent, je pense que le résulat n'est pas trop mal!
Le parc est créé dans le cadre de l'exposition internationale Emscher Park. Localisé sur le site d'une ancienne sidérurgie, le parc paysager est l'un des points d'ancrage de la Route européenne de la culture industrielle et de la Route de la culture industrielle (de) de la Ruhr. Le quotidien britannique The Guardian classe le parc parmi les dix meilleurs parcs urbains du monde aux côtés du High Line (New York), des Buttes-Chaumont (Paris), de Hampstead Heath (Londres) et du Parc Güell (Barcelone)1. En 2016, le parc accueille 1 019 391 visiteurs et plus de 800 événements.
Les installations industrielles sont mises en scène tous les jours à la tombée de la nuit jusqu'à 1 h avec un éclairage coloré par Jonathan Park.
Extreme shooting conditions, little light from the installations, no feet, wind, I think the result isn't too bad!
The park is created within the framework of the international exhibition Emscher Park. Located on the site of a former steelworks, the landscape park is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Culture and the Ruhr Route of Industrial Culture. The British daily The Guardian ranks the park among the ten best urban parks in the world alongside the High Line (New York), Buttes-Chaumont (Paris), Hampstead Heath (London) and Parc Güell (Barcelona)1. In 2016, the park hosted 1,019,391 visitors and over 800 events.
Industrial facilities are staged daily from dusk until 1 a.m. with colored lighting by Jonathan Park.
Icy conditions remain in the Appalachian Region of northeastern Kentucky. The Cabin Creek Covered Bridge sits at the eastern edge of Lewis County in a remote and hilly area.
Last month conditions were so nice at river Amstel near Amsterdam. My drone could go just above the fog, the Windmill and Amsterdam are clearly visible. A moment later, two birds just checked out my drone very closely, an awesome experience.
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I shot this fence from the other side last year, under very similar conditions (sunset, fine weather), so apologies for the repetition if it looks familiar!
Happy Fence Friday
The ferry Hamnavoe decided because of the weather forecast that it would not be possible to operate the scheduled 16.00 sailing from Stromness to Scrabster, so her captain decided (the same as Pentland Ferries on the other side of the Pentland Firth) to depart early to get out through Hoy Sound because it was going to be Wind against the Tide and what you see is the Sea Conditions in Hoy Sound as she heads over to Scrabster.
The return journey went from Scrabster along the North Coast of Caithness/Scotland towards Stroma (almost Gills Bay where the Pentalina ferry goes to) before then crossing over towards Orkney and Scapaflow coming back through Hoxa Sound and on up to Stromness.
There will be NO crossings from either of the 2 ferry companies on Saturday, 16.11.24, because of the sea conditions. The next expected sailings will be on Sunday afternoon, 17.11.24, weather permitting.
In very murky conditions former London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Black 5 No. 44871 thunders past Lower Moor having just departed Evesham with The Cathedrals Express charter en route from London Victoria to Worcester Shrub Hill.
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Lighting conditions couldn't be worse, as TO51's train passes us at Silver Lake with a darn near perfect consist of EMD cowls.
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Great conditions (temporarily!) on the north Glen Shiel ridge, looking towards the Five Sisters and The Saddle.
In conditions that I can only describe as perfect, IC 2716 approaches Warroad after a crew change at the Middlebro/Warroad border crossing for a clear run south of Lake of the Woods to Baudette and Rainy River. I absolutely loved the frost covering everything. Conditions like these held up for only a little while longer. The frosty conditions diminished further east towards Roosevelt and Williams making this shot one of the day's best.
When conditions are met (rain, temperature and light), in spring, there's an explosion of colors emerging from the dormant seeds below of the desert of Atacama, to transform it as a garden where endemic flowers with different colors and shapes.
In the right conditions, with the ideal balance of light and shade, bluebells thrive. Their favourite habitat is a coppiced woodland. This is where the tree cover does not become overcrowded and is cut back in a well-manged way throughout the years. The canopy this creates allows light through to the forest floor but maintains a level of shadiness that bluebells tend to prefer.
Death_Valley, usually hotter than humans can handle in the Summer, was a tolerable temperature in January. #ThroughHerLens
American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) in preparation pose for breeding. It is a true balancing act and the windy conditions did not help on Reed Lake in southern Saskatchewan near Morse, Canada.
21 May, 2016.
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Absolutely wonderful conditions in the New Forest yesterday which I very nearly missed! I had set the alarm for 04.15, however a quick glance out of the window suggested that the dawn might not be that special so I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
Fortunately I woke again at 05.00 and by then the Moon could be seen through some thin cloud with a hint of mist forming. I hurriedly got ready and headed into the ‘Forest deciding to see what conditions were like at Mogshade.
I’m so pleased I made the effort as mornings like this don’t come around that often. A classic case of; ‘if you don’t go, you don’t know’!
Conditions calmed down as sunset neared after a wet and windy day around Glencoe, although the low cloud and drizzle hung on for a few hours before the next batch of showers came through in the night
10am here, blowing snow in a bitter wind and dark as night, but exultant inside as the votes in Georgia continue to roll in... feeling brighter already
It was challenging winter conditions for a photo outing that morning: freezing temperatures of - 29 C, gusting winds of 40 km/h and three feet of snow. However, for us proud and true Canadians, cold temperatures and rapidly changing conditions throughout the winter are the norm for most of us.
Congratulations Team Canada on your GREAT win yesterday in Boston!
Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, Canada
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Les conditions hivernales étaient difficiles pour une sortie photo ce matin-là : des températures glaciales de -29 °C, des vents soufflant à 40 km/h et trois pieds de neige. Cependant, pour nous, fiers et vrais Canadiens, les températures froides et les conditions changeantes tout au long de l'hiver sont la norme pour la plupart d'entre nous.
Félicitations à l’équipe canadienne pour sa GRANDE victoire hier à Boston !
Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, Canada