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A quintet of Montana Rail Link 45-series EMD’s roll downgrade after pushing a westbound BNSF freight over Bozeman Pass, glinting the day’s last light west of Livingston, Montana, on October 10, 2005. MRL F45 No. 390, along with a SD45-2 and a trio of SD45s head back home for the evening.
Dry Weather
My friend, we are not going through a good time, here the relative humidity of the air is very low and there are many fires in the forests (Environmental Protection Area). Criminal fires, very sad...
Meu amigo, não estamos passando por um momento bom, aqui a unidade relativa do ar está baixissima e com muitos focos de incêndio nas florestas (Area de Proteção Ambiental). Incêndios criminosos, muito triste...
Little creatures like this are dying,
fewer and fewer animals in the wild...
Sagui-de-tufos-pretos
Mico-estrela.
Black-pencilled Marmoset, Black-tufted-ear Marmoset.
Callithrix penicillata
Ordem: Primates
Família: Callitrichidae
Animal Silvestre
Animal Livre
Lago Sul
Brasília, Brasil
Again taken at Marwell not easy to get through the wire but this Tiger had 3 cubs so you have to give it a go.
Jumping spiders use their legs to pounce on their prey, which is typically other insects. Amazingly, jumping spiders don't have special leg muscles, like grasshoppers, to help them leap. They propel themselves by suddenly changing the blood flow in their body. Terminix
Jumping spiders or the Salticidae are a family of spiders. As of 2019, it contained over 600 described genera and over 6000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in courtship, hunting, and navigation. Wikipedia
As exhaust rises into the illumination of a light tower, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 rests next to the venerable sand tower at Helper, Utah, on the night of October 23, 2007. By this autumnal date in 2007, the aging Tunnel Motor was the last Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the Union Pacific system in its original unpatched paint and road number.
Happy Telegraph Tuesday
Actually, this medivac helicopter is returning to it's base at the Lakeville, MN airport.
HTT
The Crawford Helper set returns westbound as seen from Breezy Point. Four SD60M's and a fuel Tender = an experience not to be repeated.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 11, 1977
Rio Grande GP40s No. 3084 and 3069 shove on train No. 77 at Utah Railway Junction in Price Canyon.
Two BNSF helper sets await their next shove at Crawford, NE on Sept. 11, 2000. One this day, four sets were being used, three with four SD40-2's and a fuel tender and one with two SD70MAC's and a fuel tender. The SD70MAC set seemed to be used primarily on manifests while the SD40-2 sets handled the unit coal trains. I was quite fond of this BNSF scheme on the SD40-2's.
Little creatures like this are dying,
there are fewer and fewer animals left in nature...
Save nature, save the world!
Sagui-de-tufos-pretos
Mico-estrela.
Black-pencilled Marmoset, Black-tufted-ear Marmoset.
Callithrix penicillata
Ordem: Primates
Família: Callitrichidae
Animal Silvestre
Animal Livre
Área de Proteção Ambiental
Água Mineral
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Brasília, Brasil
Analogica con Nikonos III ( 1975 ), fotocamera subacquea priva di esposimetro, messa a fuoco su scala metrica, Nikkor 35 mm 2.5 f, Kodak color 200 asa.
Montana Rail Link helpers cut out of a westbound BNSF freight at Elliston, Montana, on September 17, 2012. A member of the helper crew lines the switch back for the main as the helpers get in the clear, and he will direct the front half of the train back together with the rear portion.
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Doug Harrop Collection • November 12, 1977
A Santa Fe GP35 idles near the ATSF freight depot in Victorville, California. This helper terminal is about 25 miles below Cajon Summit in San Bernardino County.
Union Pacific's daily Salt Lake City - Denver manifest pulls into Helper, Utah for a crew change on Nov. 21, 2008. On the right, a set of helper engines await their next assignment.
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Tardfish Santa Little Helpers Kawaii Secret . .
PBR VER | A COUNTER VER
Tardfish Mainstore . .
Soliac Bodysuit/Hat Amren Mainstore . .
Color Hud included
Rigged for: Legacy | Reborn | Maitreya - Includes Hat
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Rio Grande 5512, one of 17 SD50 units on Rio Grande's all EMD locomotive roster, leads train No. 772 through Lakota Junction, just east of Geneva Steel on a rainy April 26, 1989 in Utah County.
Bronze statue about shipwrecked family. Made by sculptor Robert Stigell in 1898. Located in Tähtitorninmäki, Helsinki.
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...............unfortunately, the Heron was in no mood to grant a pardon. E-M1 MKII/100-400mm.
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I've seen a lot of awesome stuff on the MRL, but this takes the cake....
The Laurel to Pasco reported they were having issues east of Lombard and weren't sure they would make Winston Hill. The dispatcher indicated there were no helpers available to run down and no other eastbounds coming and to keep making an effort to get over the hill.
As the Helena Local was finishing their work at Townsend, the dispatcher gave them the news they would be holding at Townsend for a westbound and would follow them up the hill. This gave me enough time to go to the Townsend campground to set up my tent.
Sure enough, as the Laurel to Pasco made an attempt at the hill, they slowed to a crawl and eventually required the MRL 355 and 109 approach and start to shove. Even with the extra power, the train still struggled up the hill. Eventually a "thank you" over the radio acknowledged they made it and were ready to descend into Helena... but not until the dispatcher talked the MRL 355 into the siding behind the Pasco train to meet an empty.
On a side note, the searchlights are being replaced between Logan and Helena Most of the work is done, and it is moving fast. Just a sign of the times, and soon these trains will be BNSF... sigh.
With less than 1 hour to go before sunset, West Coast driver Mick Kelly on 60103 Flying Scotsman crosses the viaduct over the River Eden with the return Carlisle - Liverpool charter train. Always a bit of a dilemma where to place the engine with this type of location, but I personally chose the slightly longer smoke trail, fortunately this also helped in hiding the first of the three pullman coaches in the rake.
Incredibly my last visit to this location was in November 1988 with 8F 48151.