The scenic road Akamina Parkway leads steeply and at an altitude of 1646 m opens up views of beautiful Lake Cameron, nestled between the majestic mountain peaks of the Akamina Ridge. It is named after Donald Cameron (1834–1921), a British officer and diplomat.

The lake, in addition to the beauty of the coasts, is known and the wealth of fish, and grizzlies are often seen on the far slopes.

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Canada, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta.

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Все цвета горного озера

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Живописная дорога Акамина драйв круто взмывается вверх и на высоте 1646 м внезапно открывает вид на озеро Камерон, расположенное между величественными горными пиками Акаминского хребта. Названо в честь британского офицера и дипломата Дональда Камерона.

Это озеро, помимо красы берегов, известно и богатством рыбы. А на склонах берегов нередко встречаются гризли ...

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Канада, Национальнй Парк Уотертон Лейкс, Альберта.

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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.

CN 5716 leads westbound train 406 through another snow bank as they head by Nauwigewauk, New Brunswick, the day after the first major snow storm of the year.

January 8,2017.

Imitation leads to certain disaster :-)

Gertrude Käsebier

Season's Greetings! Best wishes to one and all, take care :-)

French hydrangea, 'Ayesha', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

CN C40-8 2010 leads ore loads South through Culver, MN.

...that leads to your door, will never disappear

Love Now & Forever

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The Bangor & Aroostook heritage unit leads a large eastward freight towards Brownville Junction, Maine. The trio of CMQ SD40-2Fs look great in the morning sun on a warm Sunday in February on the Moosehead Subdivision. Central Maine and Quebec was recently purchased by Canadian Pacific and sights like this at Moosehead will likely soon go away, but the line's future is much more secure than it was in the wake of the tragic Lac Megantic runaway disaster. The cold waters flowing underneath are from Moosehead Lake and will reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Kennebec River.

* Life living on the edge of a cliff with thousands of other birds inevitably leads to some lively interaction. Not sure if this contact between these guillemots and the puffin was aggressive or not. The second puffin clearly did not want to get involved. Taken at RSPB Bempton in East Yorkshire

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AVR 4001 leads a short 9 car train down the ex-B&O on a sunny December day. Built in 1910, the former Experimental Mine of the U.S. Bureau of Mines makes for a nice photo prop along the route. The building is now part of a larger facility for the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

CN SD60F 5538 leads two UP motors and Thunder Bay coke empties down Steelton Hill six years ago on April 16, 2016.

Up ahead at Pokegama Yard, CN would take the cowl off, and the empties would continue down the Hinckley Sub. to the Twin Cities with a UP crew and yellow 4205 leading.

The Thunder Bay coke trains still run via UP-CN during the shipping season but of course, it's no longer possible to get a cowl leading like this. Despite being taken in the middle of the excruciatingly long brown season up here by Lake Superior, I think this one has aged better than some. CN retired its fleet of SD60Fs the next year.

The road cleared of snow leads to Renge Hotsprings that is a trailhead to climb Mt. Shirouma-dake (白馬岳 2,932m). Yellow vehicles parked by the road is for snow clearing.

The red overpass is for National Road No. 148 that is the arterial road connecting the Japan Sea coast with Hakuba and Azumino Valley. Many sections of the road are in tunnels due to the scarcity of flat terrains and to spare the efforts for clearing snow. The overpass in the photo connects two road tunnels. Long road tunnels are a horror for cyclists like me.

Hiraiwa (平岩) is a small community of Itoigawa city with a few hotsprings inns. Mountains behind the settlement belong to Otari village of Nagano prefecture. There is a gold mine in the mountains.

A well worn path leads through granite, grass, and bracken, up to the Bassett Monument at Carn Brea. A great place to look out over the North coast and the Atlantic beyond.

Hugh outcrops of weather worn granite surround the area. A Neolithic settlement was discovered in the 1970's that showed that it was occupied between 3700 ad 3400 BC....

I'm very grateful for all your visits and would like to thank you now for stopping by, and any comments you may leave. Much appreciated, John...

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CN 2454 leads eastbound train 306, as they head along the countryside, crossing the trestle at Saint Eleuthere, PQ, in Fall's full force. Of all the trips I've made here in the Fall, this is the most colorful that I've seen it.

October 6, 2018.

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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 5771 leads a 4 pack of SD75I's on a heavy northbound manifest up Steelton Hill. As you can imagine, four EMDs hauling over 10k feet of train over a 2% grade sounded glorious. Even though the Iron Range has its own charm, my visit to the area started, and ended, on Steelton Hill. It's a fun diversion for sure.

Percipient object

Awareness unity

Classification event

SD40-2 #6819 leads BN train #48 under the Iris Street rainbow bridge on May 31, 1995. This train was a late evening/early morning departure out of Midway in St. Paul, and could hit the C&I in Savanna sometime around dawn.

The Iris Street bridge is now long gone. But, intermodals (now Z trains) still fly across the hogbacks of the C&I in northern Illinois.

This would have been the last rainbow bridge westbound on both the C&I and the Peavine. I think the only open one left on the C&I is Columbian Road west of Oregon. They all disappeared within a 5-10 year period.

43124 leads 1a81, the 0741 Penzance to Paddington while descending Dainton Bank south of Newton Abbot. Aggregate Industries’ Stoneycombe Quarry, which extracts limestone is visible to the left.

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.

Aurizon unit 2350D leads 2348D head west across Stockwhip Creek heading for Port

6720 leads a couple more bigs on the way tp Escanaba with loads near Rock on August 24, 1984. Mike Hoff photo, Chuck Schwesinger collection.

On a perfect summer evening, UP 6664 leads the Spokane to Hinkle freight across the massive Joso Bridge over the Snake River in eastern Washington. Completed in 1912, the bridge is 3,920 feet long and stands 260 feet above the Snake River.

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.

A former ConRail SD60M leads southward 15T past the N&W-era signals that govern movements to the 5842-foot long siding. The shadowed shoulder of the Blue Ridge provides a nice backdrop.

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.

The MKT Heritage engine leads the ILAG3 12 through Kaysville, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019.

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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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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.

4210 leads a westbound Cliffs Erie train away from Cramer Tunnel on the afternoon of October 16, 2008. The clean up trains of 2008 were almost finished here as they cleared out the remaining ore and even some limestone from the Taconite Harbor dock. Twelve days later the 4210 and friends would arrive Hoyt Lakes for the last time with the last train.

The dreary, late fall weather seems fitting in retrospect for my last CE sighting. On this day, some stubborn leaves cling although their end is near. Same could be said for the A-B-B-B-A set of F9s that hung on for over 7 years even after the LTV plant closed. But all good things come to an end. This shot 10 years and one day ago would be the last time I would shoot the Cliffs Erie and the F units on home rails.

At least the trailing F9 and one of the B-units survive at the LSRM. The leader lives looks great in Indiana on the Vermillion Valley. The Cliffs Erie tracks remain quiet except the far west end that is sometimes used for car storage.

56078 leads the 6Z88 Drigg - Port of Workington pass Nethertown. 56113 was on the rear. 27 March 2023.

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NS 8101 leads train 224 west thru Benton City, MO, on the NS St Louis District. It is seen here passing the Wabash Era searchlight signals that are still guarding the siding.

BNSF 9143 leads a southbound coal load at Palmer Lake, CO, on June 15, 2022.

3892 leads the road train south by the Approach to Mount Jewett.

DRGW 5771 leads the Ski Train at Crescent, CO, on Mar 10, 1984.

911 leads M209 south under the B&O cantilever at Deshler as it blocks two Garrett Sub intermodals.

Please take a moment of silence for Jack Hannon, who did not make it back in time

BNSF 1832 leads one of the Superior-region locals around the curves in the State Line vicinity, just over on the Minnesota side. The pipeline crossing offers an open gap to grab evening light. I want to say this is the Kelly Lake Local. I was wrapping up a hike near Jay Cooke and heard a train approaching. After seeing this was the power, I decided to rush to State Line where things looked sunny. Viola!

BNSF 5358 leads the way as S-LPKSCO1 makes its way west through Kingman Canyon. Over 10,000 feet of train stretches back to the rear DPU's from the three GE's on the point.

One could easily spend an entire day roaming the walls of Kingman Canyon finding a different shot for every train that passes.

With snow covered tailing piles in the background, B&LE 906 leads L568 south through Virginia as it continues its journey to Proctor Yard.

she walks into the light. her shadow knows the way.

GB&W C424 (314) leads the northbound local from Plover over the WCL crossing at Wood Street (WCL depot/operating HQ in background.) This is another view showing the manual interlocking at the "west" (eventually the "north") end of the WC's Stevens Point yard. The dispatcher who controlled it sat in the office on the second floor at the opposite end of that building - known to some as WC's "galactic headquarters" to differentiate the operational HQ from the corporate one in Rosemont, Illinois. If a train departed from the yard (coming at the camera in this view) and encountered a red signal here, often the rulebook four blasts of the whistle would result in a cleared signal at "Stevens Point West", and such clear signal would be acknowledged properly with two short toots. If the DS wasn't occupied with urgent matters at his desk (and he/she often was as things got busier and busier), a turn and wave from the DS through the window confirmed the highball and the crew was on its way to join the fray on the mainline...or, as I often said in the spirit of Jethro Tull's song, "Bungle in the Jungle."

A winding path leads the eye toward a weathered stone crossing—Lincove Bridge—quietly nestled in the folds of Eskdale, Cumbria. The land breathes in deep greens, rising in soft, sweeping slopes that seem to cradle the sky. Low clouds drift heavily above, their muted greys dissolving into the hills as if the earth and sky are in quiet conversation.

The bridge itself feels timeless, its stones worn smooth by countless crossings, a humble link between past and present. Beside it, a restless stream threads through rock and grass, its movement the only sound in an otherwise hushed world. Scattered ruins linger nearby, whispering of lives once lived in this remote stillness.

It’s a place where solitude feels sacred—where every step along the path is less about reaching a destination and more about dissolving into the landscape itself.

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Seven leads from a ribbon cable with their “push” male connectors. Under 3 inches.

Every road leads somewhere, sometimes where we want to go, other times, where we are not wanting to go yet ..

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To ♣Cleide@.♣

Scene on the large lawn in the park of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) behind the main building (14e)

Paris, France 30.05.2022

Wer führt wen?

Szene auf der großen Wiese im Park der Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) hinter dem Hauptgebäude (14e)

Paris, Frankreich 30.05.2022

DC Rail Freight 60046 'William Wilberforce' leads the 6Z18 0833 Middleton Towers to Ravenhead Sdgs loaded sand train past Black Horse Drove.