A path leads to a 42-meter observation tower, which provides a unique panoramic view of the Saar Loop and the surrounding countryside.

This photo may look similar to the one I posted a few months ago, but it's a view from a different height.

My daughter used to live in the backyard cottage of people who own this gorgeous German Shepherd, Luca. She is now living somewhere else, but we both still miss dear Luca. Such a magnificent and very sweet dog.

Remarks: Tuesday morning December 29th, 2020 Amtrak P42DC number 161 leads the California Zephyr train number 5 seen here climbing to tunnel 1 on the Moffat Subdivision. 15 minutes earlier this entire scene was blanketed in a thick fog; the remnants of the previous nights snow event. Light snow fell over most of the Front Range overnight leaving a light coating of snow just enough for a winter scene worth capturing.

This path leads to a WWII bunker just over the summit. From there you overlook the suburb of North Ward and the Strand. In the distance you can see Magnetic Island. You can tell by the clothes that Winter is very mild here.

down and diagonal composition with 3.0 mm blue leads for MacroMondays theme #LessThanAnInch.

HMM for everybody - FMM para todos !

I wrote a short blog post on my afternoon of shooting building abstracts: brianevansphoto.com/2022/01/04/an-afternoon-of-building-a...

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Delaware-Lackawanna train PO-74 is about to pass the ARMY board west of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley C420 414 leads the way, with a healthy train of lumber loads for Bestway in Cresco and loads for Keystone Propane, as well as a few other customers.

This small forest road leads to an area with a pine forest and two small lakes. This road's name is just a forest road, nothing else. Cars and motorcycles are not allowed here. I usually walk here or ski in the winter.

I know U2 has a song with the same name as my title. Today I don't listen to anything, I breathe silence and look through the window as the blizzard blows the snow with furious force.

Winter tries a new start, in a place where the streets have no names. 👱‍♀️️☃️❄️

Cairo, Egypt

Fishing vessel - Franciscan no 1

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This boat was warming up and preparing to depart Fisherman's Wharf in Steveston.

If you look closely, you may see the outline of the fish boat captain in the wheelhouse.

'The light that leads'

Minutes later this vessel set sail, off into the sunset

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The sun is rapidly retreating on the horizon as BNSF 6540 East leads general merchandise freight HSTOBAR131A across Tower Line Road.

Percipient object

Awareness unity

Classification event

Norfolk Southern's original 'Norfolk Southern' painted ES44AC #8114 leads Birmingham, AL - Sheffield, AL train #329 north on the NA District near Jasper, AL. May 2020.

Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3113 leads an assortment of various EMD locomotive types down the 2% grade from Soldier Summit at East Gilluly, Utah on a spectacular April 11, 1976 morning, 47 years ago.

CN 2423 leads train L501 under the signals at Paris as a torrential downpour takes place.

I followed 501 from Caledonia to Paris with this being my last shot at 0725.

Having CN brings handful of cowls back from the deadlines has been exciting but tough to get one leading...so I'll take it.

CN 2417 leads train 435 under the signals at Paris Junction.

With so many C40-8M's up for sale, stored or going for scrap, having this unit leading was quite the treat.

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BPRR 5019 leads the road train south splitting a pair of former B&O CPL's.

Link to the video from this day:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnT0jKp7_I

NYS&W WS-2 pulls empty boxcars from Belden Brick in Riverdale, NJ, on the Pompton Industrial. NS high hood GP38-2 leads the train past the former Erie Railroad Pompton Station over some sitting water leftover from a couple days of rain in the area.

66591 Leads three more class 66's out of Midland Road depot in Leeds. I was actually here in the hope I would see a Colas class 70 on cement wagons that I saw about half an hour earlier but they never came, I left when it started getting dark.

Cliffs Erie 4210 leads the last pull of the day through a rock cut just out of Taconite Harbor, MN, working up the steep grade towards Cramer Siding on the evening of August 20, 2008. At Cramer Siding, the 4210 would combine these 12 cars to the other two pulls they made away from Lake Superior on this day. They would eventually tie-down for the day up near the tunnel.

Was a great day 11 years ago today on Cliffs Erie with the F-units working in beautiful weather. Kind of bittersweet as we knew we were probably were seeing the last of the F-Units on the Erie Mining during this cleanup effort.

An SD40U leads loaded ore over Maple Grove Rd. as it makes its way to Proctor with a rare SD40U leading. Thanks to Welch for the help getting to this location and all the additional help this past week.

NBSR 6340 leads a New Brunswick Southern Railway westbound freight as the negotiate the hilly terrain of the McAdam Sub, at Cork, N.B. Shot with my 150-600mm lens.

RP upload: www.railpictures.net/photo/639286/

November 27, 2017.

BNSF 8222 leads a trio of elephant-style Warbonnets with Clay Boswell coal east/southbound through Fisher, MN.

Well, now...this is something, ain't it?! It wasn't every day you got to catch a trio of SD75M Warbonnets in 2007, but it happened on this particular afternoon. And with this being an eastbound in the afternoon on a northern plains winter day, there weren't many shooting options to have any sort of light on the nose. But I knew the tracks turned southerly out east in Fisher, so that's where I headed after this train departed Grand Forks...

A road leads towards the mountains along the Utah/Nevada border at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

IAIS 516 leads a trio of ES44AC's west across the Mississippi River on the Government Bridge with BICB. Also crossing the Mighty Mississippi are Lock & Dam 15, the Centennial Bridge, and the Crescent Bridge.

July 19, 2023

0.7 mm each

Former EL SDP-45 #6687 leads an interesting set of power for "Flare Friday" as she heads a westbound freight over the Vermilion River. Helping out are two ex-PC units, an SD-40 and a U-25B. Given the nice patch job, definitely the right leader in my book.

The Fichtelberg railway (German: Fichtelbergbahn) is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) narrow-gauge railway that leads from the

standard-gauge international line at Cranzahl to the ski resort of Oberwiesenthal in the Erzgebirge mountains in eastern Germany. It takes its name from the Fichtel Mountain near Oberwiesenthal.

After the railway from Chemnitz to Chomutov via Annaberg and Vejprty was opened in 1872 (consisting of Chemnitz–Flöha, Flöha–Annaberg, Annaberg–Vejprty and Vejprty–Chomutov sections), plans were made to also connect the former mining town of Oberwiesenthal to the Saxon Railway system. The requirements and qualifications to build a narrow gauge railway from Cranzahl were met by 1884, but it wasn't until April 6, 1896, that construction started. The railway opening took place on July 20, 1897.[1] By the end of that year, 67,756 passengers (and 57 dogs) had already traveled on the new railway.

Passenger count increased in the following years, and tourism played an increasing role in the passenger count. Freight traffic also increased significantly. Until 1906, freight had to be transloaded in Cranzahl; since then transporter wagons made the extra cargo handling unnecessary. The biggest cargo customer – even until the mid-1990s – was the quarry in Hammerunterwiesenthal, requiring around 30 freight cars daily.

After 1990 the railway lost its status as the most important carrier into Oberwiesenthal (which is the highest town in (Germany)), and in 1992 freight service was terminated. After 1994, the Deutsche Bahn became the new owner, and planned to either dismantle the railway, or sell it.[1]

For the 100-year anniversary, the communities along the track, together with the operators of the Pressnitz Valley Railway and the Lößnitzgrund Railway organized a festival week that drew 40,000 visitors. With different rolling stock of narrow gauge railways from all over Germany; a train schedule of extra and regularly scheduled trains meant that there was a train on the track almost every hour. Fun fairs along the track and historic trains ensured the success of the event.[2]

New thinking started after the success of the event, and the district of Annaberg prepared to acquire the railway. On June 1, 1998, the operator BVO Bahn GmbH, since 2007 Saxon Steam Railway Company took over operations from the Deutsche Bahn, and renamed the railway to the catchier Fichtelbergbahn. The new operator aligned operations with the tourism in the surrounding area, and within relative short time achieved country-wide recognition. Especially during the winter months the railway now has similar significance as in its heyday, as winter sports tourists in the towns of Neudorf and Cranzahl can reach the ski areas of Oberwiesenthal with ease and in style.

The railway starts at the standard gauge station Cranzahl at 653 m (2,142.4 ft)[3] of the Vejprty–Annaberg-Buchholz railway. The passenger trains start on the same platform as the standard gauge trains. The former freight yard and its loading ramp for the transporter flatcars is on the northern end of the station. The narrow gauge trains leave the station in a left turn and follow the right side of the Sehma valley through the village of Neudorf.

The first stop is Unterneudorf, followed by Neudorf. The following stop Vierenstrasse is a popular starting point for hiking into the Fichtelberg area. Leaving Vierenstrasse, the track follows a long incline (1:33 or 3.03%)[3] through the densely covered Fichtelberg forest. The next station Kretscham-Rothensehma is used to allow valley-bound trains to pass. The track continues to climb, reaching the watershed of the Pöhlbach river, arriving at the next stop of Niederschlag.

The tracks now lead downward into the Pöhlbach valley, crossing the Bundesstrasse 95, and run along the border with the Czech Republic uphill to the Hammerunterwiesenthal station. Leaving Hammerunterwiesenthal, the valley becomes so narrow that there is only room for the state road and the railroad tracks, steep meadows on the right hand side, and a steep forest to the left on the Czech side of the border.

After the next stop Unterwiesenthal, the track unwinds itself from the narrow valley, and the peaks of Fichtelberg on the right, and Klínovec on the left become visible. After crossing the federal route again, the railway leads over a 110 m (360.9 ft) long and 23 m (75.5 ft) high steel viaduct, and reaches the terminus of Oberwiesenthal at 893 m (2,930 ft).

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UP 6780 leads six CP units through the Greves Street curve just west of downtown Milwaukee with a lengthy manifest. The gaggle of CP power includes an SD70ACU, two SD30C-ECOs, an SD60, and a pair of AC44s.

After their 14 week stint on RHTT duties in East Anglia, Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37069 leads classmates 37059, 37038, 37422 and 37218 past March, 0M05 1100 from Stowmarket D.G.L. to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs).

Union Pacific SD9043MAC No. 8255 leads a KLTG1 05 through Echo Canyon at Emory, Utah the morning of June 6, 2009.

2471 leads the Westlander into Graceville

Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37716 leads 3x RHTT sets (642050 + 642036, 642044 + 642011, 642041 + 642019) past Barway, 6Z37 1135 from York Thrall Europa (Holgate Works) to Stowmarket D.G.L, in preparation for the Autumn RHTT season. These 3x RHTT sets were taken back to York Holgate Works on the 10th, to receive additional wheel maintenance before beginning the 2020 RHTT season.

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CN 2329 leads westbound train '406' shortly after departing Moncton, heading for Saint John, New Brunswick. With the BCOL in the consist, I wanted to do more of a side shot. There's not to many good areas for shooting wide shots here, so I decided to make good use of this piece of farm equipment in the foreground.

August 23,2016.

SD9043MAC leads eastbound manifest down GN Hill. (Yes, winter's coming soon.)

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Shot @ my apartment terrace.

It was shot wide open with my Opteka 12mm f/2.8 lens.

I liked the image for the contrast & distortions in the corners , which kind of creates a blurred vision when some one approaches light from darkness.

The track leads through the sacred Tōpuni area of the Hooker Valley, which has special significance and values to Ngāi Tahu iwi, towards Aoraki/Mount Cook.

From the first of three swing bridges along the way, enjoy the views over the Mueller Lake and listen for the rumbling of avalanches from the distant Mount Sefton. Try to spot them before they crash into the Mueller Glacier below.

66423 leads 66426 past Castle Bromwich with the 4Z71 08.37 Tees Dock to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal liner.

The footprint of the old station is clearly visible here.

The HS2 cranes are busy in the background.

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The Great Glacier Trail mountain route leads up a narrow winding path and beyond the forest slopes offers a view of an unusual glacier, the outlines of which resemble a bird's paw ...

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View from the Glacier Crest Trail to the Illecillewaet Glacier.

Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada.

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See my new photos in the "My Travels" album:

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В поисках ледовой птичьей лапы

Горный маршрут Great Glacier Trail ведет вверх по узкой извилистой тропе и за лесными склонами открывает вид на необычный ледник, очертания которого напоминают птичью лапу...

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Вид с ледового горного маршрута на ледник Illecillewaet.

Национальный парк Глейшер, Британская Колумбия, Канада.

Charger #310 leads the Empire Builder down Short Line Hill.

They took about 2 hours to get from St Cloud to MSP (while I stood for almost an hour on the cold and windy bridge).I can only assume they set out an engine at Midway. A bit frustrating since I usually time this pretty well.

66426 leads 66423 round the Low Hutton cuves alongside the Yorkshire Derwentr returning to York with a Saterday VSTP Scarborough line railhead treatment train, November the 20th 2021. Train 3Z51, 10:00 York Thrall - Scarborough, York Holgate. Then 3Z52, York Holgate 12:55 to Hatfield and Stainforth via Knottingley and return to Thrall.

GWA001 leads 2182S ORA Grain from Tailem Bend to Pelican Point through Monteith on a sunny Saturday morning. 2/07/22.

A B32-8WH leads the Pennsylvanian west on the Pittsburgh Line at Cove, PA. For a window between around 2012 and 2014, the B32s held a near monopoly on these trains, a welcome reprieve from the normal P42s. Previously I tended to ignore Amtrak as both west and eastbound trains passed Harrisburg in the high sun hours, but I'm glad I made an exception for these trains. This was the first train I shot on my then-new Canon 7D body, which became my regular camera for the next 8 years.