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BNSF M-EVESUM, more famously known as the Sumas Turn, heads north for the namesake border town through Stanwood, WA. The lead GP60M with the trash containers behind them makes for a nice pretend throwback to when these engines would lead the hotshot intermodals across the deserts of the southwest & Midwest on the Santa Fe when they were new. 6-22-23
A 2AM arrival at the Conrail era trilights that act as the division marker between the two dispatching districts on the Lurgan Branch proved to be promising. After 3 trains and some breakfast, a surprise EB lit the approach lit signal green. Of course, I noticed too late and couldn't get a head on shot, so a going away shot was the plan. In the mostly cloudy sky, as the train appeared, the clouds split in direct view of the train and reflected off the units as they passed the signals. Once the motors passed, the sky went back to being overcast with little to no sunlight coming through.
CSX's "RF&P" sub, running from D.C. to Richmond is a busy stretch of railroad, and hosts the premier passenger train in America, Amtrak's auto train. The auto train is very long, and it can be tricky to put it in a place where you really get to showcase the consist. Here is P053, the southbound auto train, as they rocket through Jones crossing just south of Guinea station, VA. Not much holds this train up, as the dispatcher has everyone cleared or in the hole between Lorton and Richmond, ensuring the two P40's on the head end can do every bit of 70 MPH through the fields of Caroline County.
A year ago the hotshot routinely had three units and in this case four. The GP38-2 is probably a switcher from the Tadanac yard heading out for maintenance.
An Overland Route hotshot behind UP SD40-2s and SP Tunnel Motors heads west near Granite Point, on May 3, 1981.
An early morning spent along the former Chicago and North Western in eastern Iowa bagged a bunch of moves in sweet light.
At 0720 hours one of Union Pacific's hotshots was zipping through tiny Calamus, Iowa with SD60M 6333, 6228 and SD60 6079 hightailing the trailers towards Chicago.
Today it is quite rare to see an entire trailer train as most intermodal trains are double stacked containers.
Normally an overnight train on the Lurgan Branch, NS 212 is running about 12 hours behind as it runs over Interstate 81 in Shippensburg, PA. Right behind the locomotives is why this train is a hotshot priority: UPS trailers with UPS Ground packages onboard are being hustled from Atlanta up to Croxton, NJ.
Pentax 6x7, 45mm lens, Ektar 100.
I took this photo after hiking 2.5 miles and 1,200 feet vertically on the trail that was constructed as a tribute to 19 young fire fighters who died tragically near Yarnell, AZ on June 30, 2013. The circle some 500 feet below where I was standing is where a wall of flames traveling at a speed faster than a man can run over took them. I had intended to hike all the way down to the circle, but I was out of time and energy, so this will have to do. A copy of the report of the accident investigation can be viewed at: www.iawfonline.org/WildlandFireAssociatesReportYARNELL.pdf
Penn Central Mail Train #18 has just passed Hartsdale, Indiana Tower and is about to duck under the former NYC "Egyptian Line" back in the summer of 1972. This was a Chicago-Cincinatti shooter! Two E's, flexi-vans, caboose and full crew. A seniority job fo sure!
One of my earliest photographic efforts. Kodak Instamatic, Kodachrome-X and drug store processing. Yeah!!
On a beautiful evening in August, I had ventured out to Lakeland to test my luck. After a few misc locals, signals had lit up for red hot intermodal I044. In less than an hour, CSX I044 came blasting through passing a stopped local with CSX 4409 leading. While a gevo trio might be boring to some, I enjoyed the loud NF 2PC K5HL at speed passing through wabash ave.
Santa Fe 8055 West rounds a curve passing through Heman, Oklahoma, on August 9, 1987. Herman is located in the Curtis Hill area of northwestern Oklahoma between Waynoka and Woodward. The train has just crossed the Cimarron River and will shortly ascend the Curtis Hill grade.
CSX R191 was passing through the Amtrak/VRE station in Alexandria as it continued its journey down the eastern seaboard in 1992.
CSX GP40-2 6241 led a pair of B36-7s and a former Chessie System GP40-2 on the former RF&P main line.
A colorful Q027 brightens up a dreary winter day a bit as they zip through the first spot in Florida on the old Atlantic Coast Line main.
NS 212 curves through Grantham, PA on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch Sunday morning. The priority intermodal train and its colorful lashup are hustling east to Harrisburg and then up to Croxton, NJ.
A very short southbound Z train, with just a few stacks, speeds through Tower 60 in Fort Worth after getting a signal at Tower 55. Photo January 8, 2017.
Es el tercer animal terrestre por su peso (entre 1½ y 3 toneladas), detrás del rinoceronte blanco (1½ a 3½ toneladas) y los dos géneros de elefantes (3 a 9 toneladas). A pesar de su forma achaparrada y cortas piernas, puede superar fácilmente a un humano en velocidad. Se han cronometrado hipopótamos a 30 km/h en distancias cortas. Es una de las criaturas más agresivas del mundo y a menudo es considerado como el animal más feroz de África. Hay aproximadamente de 125 000 a 150 000 hipopótamos en toda el África subsahariana; Zambia (40 000) y Tanzania (20 000-30 000) cuentan con las poblaciones más numerosas.Se encuentran amenazados a causa de la pérdida de su hábitat y por la caza furtiva para conseguir su carne y el marfil de sus dientes caninos.
My wife Sylvia was dismantling one of her floral hanging baskets when she found this bumble bee deep inside. it had burrowed a hole into the middle of the basket presumably to hibernate although it seems to be a little early. He was very docile and not in the least vexed at been woken up! After 10 minutes in the sun he perked up and off he flew no doubt to find another spot to hibernate!