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BNSF 8069 leads a trio of EMDs (to include a former SOO SD60) west through Fargo, ND with the M-NTWGFD (Northtown, MN - Grand Forks, ND).
This was a good day trackside. I also caught the other 'M' train bound for Grand Forks, the M-DILGFD with a nice Bluebonnet leader:
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The 'M' trains usually ran with nice power, but it wouldn't be too long into the future when the widecabs would dominate. I was short-timing it here as I only had about 3 months left in the northern plains before moving to Colorado for my next assignment. I think I left at about the right time when it came to the power situation...
43189 leads 1Z40, the 16.40 Penzance - Marylebone past Cockwood Harbour on 6 May 2018. GWR services from the West Country to London were diverted via Oxford into Marylebone due to engineering work between Reading and Paddington.
Taken with a 5m camera pole.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 17, 2018) - The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) leads a formation of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 5 ships as U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft and U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornets pass overhead for a photo exercise during Valiant Shield 2018. The biennial, U.S. only, field-training exercise focuses on integration of joint training among the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. This is the seventh exercise in the Valiant Shield series that began in 2006. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erwin Miciano) 180917-N-VI515-0825
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CN 2818 leads Q120 as they round the bend at Upper Dorchester, New Brunswick. About 5 minutes before the train rolled by, some low cloud blocked out the sun. At least it wasn't the fog this time. Interesting to see them running 1+1 east of Moncton. That's a rarity for this train.
August 6,2016.
3012 leads 2006 and 2003 on the work train Southbound at NSS Eklutna 739pm 5-17-15. To give this pre-context I had blown a golden opportunity to get this shot with the same power earlier in the week when I made a bad decision to stay put at the Matanuska River bridge. Today fellow railroader-buff Mark Hinsdale and I were parked on the south (rr east) side of the tracks (to be henceforth known as the Hindsale side). We knew this was getting close but figured we could see the signal light up. We hadn't considered the glare from the evening nose-on sun. I was standing next to his drivers side and heard EMD's. The words out of my mouth as I ran across both tracks were ba bA BA BA! BA!! BA!!! BA!!!!. The head end was already past the highway. I had no time to adjust my light meter and was focusing as he was moving quickly into my placement in the frame. After the Caboose cleared I was literally shaking with relief.
Penn Central GE U30B leads the four-unit consist on this westbound train near Rochester, NY, on 1-10-1976.
Balfour Beatty 20 905 leads sister locomotive 20 901 on a light engine move, 0Z20, from Woking to Ashford. During the past week the veteran locos had been used on 'Drain Train' workings in the Ascot/Bagshot area.
The leading loco entered service as D8325 in Scotland's Polmadie depot in November 1967. It was one of the last eleven of the class to be built, and has carried it's present number since 1989.
20 905 carries an early 1980s style 'domino' style headcode panel of two white spots, similar to a 'double 1' domino. This would have replaced the original 4 character headcode blinds.
I was very pleased to capture this working, which I'm guessing would normally have reversed at Redhill and run direct from there to Ashford. Currently though the route between Redhill and Tonbridge is closed for upgrade work, so a route via the south London suburbs was planned instead.
8211 leads 8241 on Pacific National’s 9827 loaded grain from Inner Harbour bound for Gilgandra, seen passing through Wallendbeen. 01/01/2025
Conrail 6291 leads a pair of SD45's, with the 6089 still in EL colors, at CP367 in Rochester, NY on September 15, 1980. The Westbound train is parked on the controlled siding at CP367, waiting for its turn to head up to Goodman Street Yard and do its work. This is another typical wedgie I took on my way to work, using my old Graphlex camera, that I always kept in the glovebox for situations like this.
365502 leads 1P05 , as it slows for the Biggleswade stop on the final weekday 'Class 365' service to London, especially lengthened to 12-cars for the final day.
The Platform Departure Screen displays a special message, noting the fleet's 25 year service from 1996-2021.
BNSF 271 leads a southbound empty flat train through Colorado Springs, CO.
Well, I wasn't expecting this one at all. When I heard a horn blow on the Air Force Academy, I knew it was something different, but I wasn't expecting this nice H4 leader to pop into view.
I shot BNSF 271 one other time, back in 2005 in North Dakota when it was BNSF 8271. Interestingly, it was the subject for the second time I ever experimented shooting RAW. Funny how you can remember details like that yet trying to remember what you had for lunch yesterday can be a challenge...
60047 Faithful leads the Lynemouth to Newcastle leg of the Branch Line Society's "Tabs on the Tyne" through Newsham (one-time junction for the line to Blyth, in later years serving Bates Colliery). 66190 Martin House Children's Hospice is on the rear. [Pole, 4/6 sections (~5.4m)]
The tour ran as:
1Z27 07.26 Doncaster - ECML - Tyne Yard - Tyne Dock;
1Z28 12.15 Tyne Dock - Newcastle - Newsham - Bedlington - North Blyth Battleship Wharf (reverse) - Lynemouth (reverse) - Bedlington - Newsham - Newcastle;
1Z29 18.20 Newcastle - King Edward Bridge - East Boldon Up Loop - Hartlepool (Cliff House Up Loop) - Darlington (reverse at platform 3) - Doncaster.
For my final shot of this tour, I decided to try to include some of the mechanical signalling rather than get a shot of the train crossing one of the girder viaducts, as the line closes during August for the completion of track alterations and resignalling in preparation for the reinstatement of a passenger service and when it reopens the semaphores will have been removed. I initially thought about the triangle at Marchey's House, going into the field to get a shot of the signals south of Marchey's House Jn. (which I've done from the other side), but then it was suggested that this spot would be easier to get to if you were chasing the train; I'd attempted to photograph this signal a number of years ago, stood on ladders beside the level crossing and using a telephoto lens, but had not managed the shot in sun. So I came here (arriving with loads of time to spare as I'd not photographed the train leaving Lynemouth - which would have been possible), but hadn't checked the sun angle: by the time the train arrived, it was off the front - and it would have still been on the front at Marchey's House... But at least I have a picture of this signal, as freight trains on this route are not very common at the moment because the biomass trains stopped running again towards the end of May, having only restarted about five or six weeks earlier.
There were several people here to see this, some of whom were local residents.
Newsham is, of course, pronounced News-um (silent "h") not New-shum.
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46100 leads the 1Z29 Kingswear to Bristol Temple Meads Torbay Express passing along the Teignmouth seawall.I wasnt going to upload this as I have been having problems with my camera again but after alot of work in Lightroom it's not to bad,just waiting for pay day to get something new.
NS SD50 #5424 leads train P26 through Atlanta on its Sunday run from Chamblee to East Point while classic Georgia evening thunderheads form in the afternoon sky. 5424 is the last of the Conrail SD50's in operation, and will eventually become an SD40E after going through the Juniata rebuilding program.
323222 leads 323206 out of Bromsgrove with the first ever electric train under its own power after the long awaited electrification works were finally tested after working 5T78 1909 Soho L.M.D. to Bromsgrove. It then worked the 5T79 2011 Bromsgrove to Birmingham New Street.
66013 leads the 2nd DB stone train out of Cowburn Tunnel in 15 minutes working 6E95 Dowlow Briggs to Boston Sleaford Sidings.
66161 ran up 10 minutes earlier with a similar load from Peak Forest Cemex to Limbury.
At this point with no mobile phone signal i headed east to Hathersage and was fortunate to catch 66742 on a late running 6G75 1849 Tunstead Sdgs Gbrf to Washwood Heath Up Sdg Gbrf after the tango shed working the opposite way into Tunstead.
GLLX 4433 leads GLLX 3002 and a 25-car train of mixed freight, approaching the Colonial Ave overpass south of Newaygo, MI.
VTR 432 leads the westbound GMRC 264 past the old Rutland RR freight house at Gassetts, Chester, VT on a beautiful spring day.
E207 leads with CSXT 1902 (Clinchfield) at the beginning of the Logan sub where old C&O signals still stand this set of signals is very interesting because of the rust that’s on them compared to all the others on this line.
BAR 360 leads an eastbound grainer through the Walla Walla Valley in July of 2007. Its destination tonight is Stateline, WA, on the border between Oregon and Washngton States. The crew will carry the train to this point, and return with an already loaded outbound the next day. Meanwhile, above in the hills, hundreds of windmills stand like naked trees, generating power for homes and businesses on the "green" side of the state that doesn't have to look at them.
Nikon N80, Nikkor 75-300 D, Kodak T400-CN, exposure unrecorded. Just east of Touchet, Washington, July 20, 2007.
EMDX 802 leads the westbound Devils Lake Local out the BNSF Devils Lake Sub in Emerado, ND. This train would switch some rock cars in town before processing west.
In the mid-2000s, Grand Forks had locals that ran in all cardinal directions out of town. The Devils Lake Local as well as the Mayville Local were the ones that came west of town. All of these locals were pretty much always powered by 4-axle Geeps. I never really minded these EMDX leasers as they just added to the variety of colors you could see. As prominent as they seemed to be, they disappeared just as fast. I did see them in CO after I moved there from ND, but it seemed like they were gone in the blink of an eye.
43046 leads 1Z15 05:18 Barrow-in-Furness to Paignton charter past Preston Sands on Saturday 21st May 2022. 43049 on the rear
Yet again, CN 2897 leads the daily '406' westbound freight, as it crosses Park Road, the entrance to 'K-Park', at Torryburn, as it starts it's descent down into Saint John, New Brunswick. There, it will yard it's train, switch ends, grab their traffic, and make the return trip back to Moncton, New Brunswick. CN 2865 was working mid train.
Happy Halloween.
October 31, 2015.
SCOUT: “Come along Jago.” *Leads Jago by the paw into the dining room.*
JAGO: “Where are you taking me, Scout.”
SCOUT: “You’ll see Jago! It’s a lovey surprise!” *Giggles.*
PADDY: “Welcome Jago! Please come and join us for elevenses!”
JAGO: “Goodness! What a wonderful selection of delicious treats!”
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “There are some fruit mince tarts, and some shortbread biscuits for us to enjoy Jago, all made by hand by Daddy.”
BOGART: “And there are some jam fancies too Jago, and even though they are shop bought, they are delicious.” *Rubs tummy vigorously.* “Grumbly tummy, Jago! Grumbly tummy!”
SCOUT: “I have a grumbly tummy too!” *Rubs tummy vigorously.* “Grumbly tummy, Jago! Grumbly tummy!”
PADDY: “Cousin Paddington, would you please pour the tea.”
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “With pleasure, Paddy.” *Lifts teapot.* “Jago, would you please pass me your cup. You may have the first cup of tea from the pot.”
JAGO: “Oh thank you, Cousin Paddington.”
BOGART: “I like sitting next to you, Jago.”
JAGO: “Why is that, Bogart?”
BOGART: “Because you are nice and soft and snuggly.”
JAGO: “Why thank you, Bogart! You are lovely and soft too.”
BOGART: “Thank you, Jago.”
JAGO: “Do you have elevenses like this every day, Paddy?”
PADDY: “Oh no, Jago!”
SCOUT: “No Jago. Sometimes we have even more extravagant elevenses!”
JAGO: “You do?”
PADDY, SCOUT, COUSIN PADDINGTON and BOGART: “Yes we do!”
JAGO: “Goodness! How lucky I am to find such a nice new home. It is nice and clean, everybear is so welcoming, and there is enough food for everybear to eat!”
SCOUT: *Puts paw to mouth.* “Was there not enough food for you at Mummy Junie’s?”
JAGO: “Oh there was plenty of food, and so much love at Mummy Junie’s, Scout. No, I was just surprised that there is anywhere in the world quite as lovely as there.”
PADDY: “Well, now you are here Jago, we hope that you will want to stay.”
BOGART: “Oh yes, do stay Jago!” *Snuggles up against Jago.*
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “Yes, please do stay, Jago. We can talk about home over tea with you. I know Paddy and I would enjoy that very much.”
DADDY: *Pops head into the dining room.* “I’d be pleased for you to stay as long as you like, Jago. And I hope that that is a very long time indeed.”
SCOUT: “Yes Jago! You should stay forever! This is my forever home and I love it! Please stay!”
JAGO: “Well, with such a wonderful new family, and delicious elevenses,” *Picks up a jam fancy.* “How can I refuse?” *Takes a bear size bite contentedly.*
This beautiful nursery tea set is made by the Shell China company in the 1910s. It features six cups, saucers (not all the set is being used today) as well as a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, all gilt and featuring different nursery rhymes including: "See Saw Margery Daw", "Jack and Jill", "This Little Pig Went to Market", "Taffy ws a Welshman", "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", "Little Jack Horner", "Old Mother Goose" and "I Saw a Ship a Sailing" amongst others. It is the prequel set to the Shell China nursery and faerie tale tea sets I have from the 1920s and 1930s. The designs are very Edwardian and the set is made up of smaller pieces.
My Paddington Bear came to live with me in London when I was two years old (many, many years ago). He was hand made by my Great Aunt and he has a chocolate coloured felt hat, the brim of which had to be pinned up by a safety pin to stop it getting in his eyes. The collar of his mackintosh is made of the same felt. He wears wellington boots made from the same red leather used to make the toggles on his mackintosh.
He has travelled with me across the world and he and I have had many adventures together over the years. He is a very precious member of my small family.
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
Jago is a recent addition to my ever-growing family. A gift from a dear friend in England, he is made of English mohair with suede paw pads and glass eyes. He is a gentle bear, kind and patient who carries an air of calm about him. He is already fitting in with everyone else very nicely.
Travelling all the way from London, Cousin Paddington was caught in transit thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic. After so long here he has decided to stop with us permanently. That makes me happy, as the more I look into his happy, smiling face, the more attached I am becoming to him.
Bogart has travelled all the way from Georgia, via Alabama as a gift to me from a friend. He has lovely Southern manners and seems to be a fun and gentle soul with an inquisitive nature.
37409 leads the Short set into platform 6 at Norwich with ECS to form 2P32 17:36 to Great Yarmouth, which was cancelled due to the stock arriving late! The set then shunted into another platform to form 2J91 19:02 to Lowestoft(!) Friday 13th September 2019.
60012 leads a well laden 6D65 10:07 Doncaster Belmont - Immingham past Knabbs Bridge. Melton Ross. 02-03-2001.
BL31 leads 9783V Sadleirs Van Transfer from South Dynon to Spotswood at West Footscray. 9/4/21
This work was lost by PN to SCT in September 2021 and the vans seen here are now scrapped.
When I took this photo I had forgotten to change my settings so it was horrendously overexposed. After 2.5 years I tried to save it, I think it looks alright. Please let me know if there's something else I can do to improve this photo.
20314+096 leads S stock sets 21536+21535 with 20132+107 on the rear as they pass the gravel pits at Wichnor while working the 7X09 1142 Old Dalby - West Ruislip LU stock move on 6th April 16
IC 3108 leads the southbound L588 out of the siding at Bois, IL after meeting a northbound back in February of 2022.
The gardens are a popular spot for wedding photographers the world over but when you've got to get back to the reception hall at a certain time you need to increase the pace.
N472 leads its 5 car train through the junction at Kilmore East on a Shepparton Pass.
The signal post was soon to be replaced by a standard galvanised steel post arrangement.
#8365
Kilmore East, Vic
09/11/2018
ONT 2103 leads train 214 out of Englehart and over the Englehart River on their way to North Bay.
I must say standing out on the highway bridge for this photo was one of the sketchier things I have done...the bridge was really bouncing and I was knocking concrete off the guard rail with my hands!
Also admittedly not my best work...shot as JPEG so I think I kind of salvaged it.
Penn Central ex New Haven Railroad FL-9 locomotive # 5010 leads a short eastbound passenger train on a platform track near tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1972. On the right the traffic on highway I-95 is very light but it sure didn't stay that way. In the background is a small portion of the city of Stamford. The first two coaches seen on the train were originally roomette sleeping cars built by Budd, however; later the Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilt many of these cars into coaches. It appears that the engineer is waving at Bob from his cab window. Bob Hughes took this photo from tower SS38.
NS 9176 leads train 12T across the Portage Bridge in Letchworth State Park on 3/28/2015. The tree's have been cut and the view on the South side of the bridge is now open, but only until June 1, when this part of the park will be closed to the public. NS will then begin construction of the new replacement bridge. After the new bridge is complete, then, according to one of the Parks Employees, this bridge will be torn down.
Road that leads to Heaven is never Clear || Shuwali, Surat
Today being a day off gym, I just gazed at the sky and saw some clouds, opened up the calender and saw that high tides are timed at 6.35pm, decided this is the best time for long exposures, something I always like, rather then wasting the day. Quicky i left for Shuwali and reached just 10mins before Sunset, I had this place already in my mind, and I raced to that place without much looking around, and started framing my pics, the tides were now settling, so after every 2 mins I had to lift the tripod move a few steps further and frame again, after about a few failed tries I got what I wanted. This is perfectly what I imagined back home, extremly happy with the outcome, and YES Shuwali looks absolutely beautiful at High tides, just a bit dangerous to go into the water.
Thanks for Looking.
this path leads to underneath a very, very old beech tree at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum.... it is so magical being 'inside' the heart of this tree and we always enjoy entering... but this day it was closed.... maybe due to weak branches...
Happy Fence Friday and I wish you all a great weekend!
Ian Alcock leads a convoy of Club Cars at the North Wales Austin Healey Clubs "Welsh Weekend".
Beautiful cars in a stunning townscape. Llandudno Cream of Welsh Resorts at it's best.
Shot on Kodak film with an Olympus OM2. 50mm f1.8.
Jen leads the way: steady stride, sensible hat, and a backpack that’s probably packed better than your entire life. This isn’t just a jungle walk, it’s a slow-motion encounter with time. The light breaks through in patches, soft and high-contrast. Ahead: Indigenous Kogi families in full white, beachgoers in activewear, and the ghost of colonialism lurking just off frame. Tayrona does not do neutral ground.
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CN 2016 leads an ore train down the grade to Two Harbors, MN, where the cars will be pushed onto the ore dock and dumped to fill the pockets on the dock in order to load the lakeboats.
43040 leads the 09:15 Paddington - Swansea service passing Cardiff Canton, 15th April 1978.
Locomotive History
43040 was built at Crewe Works and entered traffic in December 1976 as part of seven car HST set 253020, part of a batch of twenty seven HST sets built for Western Region services to Bristol, Cardiff and Swansea. 253020 (43040/41) was one of five Western Region HST sets transferred to Midland Main Line duties in 1982. With the completion of East Coast Main Line electrification in the early the East Coast Main Line and Midland Main HST fleet was reorganised and 43040 returned to the Western Region in September 1991, although allocated to West Coast Main Line duties. In practice the Western Region used any of its fleet on these West Coast duties and this was reflected in April 1993 when the “dedicated” West Coast duties allocation was abandoned and 43040 has remained on Western Region services since. In June 2007 43040 entered Brush, Loughborough to be “re-engineered” and has had its original Paxman Valenta engine replaced by a MTU unit. It re-entered service on Great Western Main Line services for First Great Western in September 2007.
Withdrawn in September 2023 it was exported to Nigeria for further use in November 2023.
Praktica LTL, Ektachrome 200
CN 3234 leads M340 south up Hawthorne Hill on CN's Superior Sub. on June 25, 2019. The new "CN 100" unit along with two UP units (one mid-train) have the heavy manifest up to 12 MPH over the detector here at MP 443, between the switches at Hawthorne, WI. A few miles south the train will be off the grade and they'll start to run track speed with their 127 cars.
CN double-tracked the busy Superior Sub. here last year and the yellow/red boards are for the work going on to double track this busy line 6 more miles all way down the hill to South Itasca.