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43097 leads set GW06 and 43187 across Brea embankment between Redruth and Camborne forming 2C31 15.55 Plymouth - Penzance on 15 May 2024.
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6007 leads LDP002, X54 and X53 on 7BM7, Aurizon Intermodal from Acacia Ridge to Dynon. Both X class locos had gone up earlier in the week after loco issues on MB7. This impressive lash up is seen crossing the bridge over the M1 on ramp at Cowan with both X class locos online and making a superb sound as they help lift the train up the grades towards Berowra
A filthy 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' leads 90008 'The East Anglian' through Northampton with the 08.42 Norwich Crown Point T.&R.S.M.D to Crewe T.M.D. (E). Mon 23.12.2019.
ARR 4003 leads a beefy Anchorage-to-Fairbanks freight north on Elmendorf AFB as the Chugach Mountains blur in the exhaust.
Well, they all can't be sunny, right? After a week of low clouds, rain, and drizzle, the sun was playing peek-a-boo with the clouds on this particular evening, but by the time this freight started to roll, the clouds were winning.
One of these days I'll get a sunny shot here to knock it off my list. I have 5 chances a week with an almost-constant departure time of 8:06PM to work with!
31601 leads a motley crew through Bromsgrove, with 45060, 33103 & 47701 in tow on route to Okehampton. Running as 5Z31 Chaddesden - Okehampton.
Garrington's Bridge, Bromsgrove.
14/11/2015
N608VSS leads a convoy of buses in Ayr. It was a Mercedes-Benz 709D / Alexander Sprint B25F delivered new to Western in January 1996. The routes in Ayr have changed quite a few times since these days.
XP2010 leads the Daylight XPT from Sydney to Melbourne around the Broadford curves.
The train is in the final stages of its 11 hour journey, with one set down stop remaining until the train will terminate at Southern Cross Station.
#ST23
Broadford, Vic
26/09/2019
The "mini abstracts" are 3.5 inches finished, made from scraps pulled from the trash after a quilt group sew day. Blogged: makeitawonderfullife.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-thing-leads...
185146 leads an unidentified class member forming the diverted 1E72 10:22 Liverpool Lime Street to York past Burton Salmon. 185112 & 185124 are travelling in the opposite direction with another diverted TPE service. 17/1/2009.
47815 leads the Northern Belle stock with 47813 on the rear while working 5V42 Carnforth Steamtown-Southall WCR
BN 1991 leads another nice coal train on the Wayzata Sub. from the 1998 archives. Was visiting the parents in the Twin Cities when I heard BN 1991 leaving Wayzata with a NSPX load on 8/29/98. Caught a break as they took the "Auxiliary Track" at Holden St. to cut off part of its train that was for St. Paul which allowed me to get over and catch it while shooting other stuff at Northtown. If I recall correctly (my notes and many of my slides are still at the parents house) I was able to nab it at Washington Ave., here at Nicollet Island, and again at Harrison Street. Spent about 2 rolls of K25 on this guy before it turned north towards Northtown with half of the train for the Grove Yard.
The 1991 was my favorite BN target, but I always had terrible luck catching it in the lead until later in its life when I finally caught it several times on about a half a dozen different coal trains in the late 1990s.
R711 leads SRVs Gippslander to Bairnsdale away from the Little Moe River at Darnum. This trip would mark R711s first time visiting Bairnsdale - 13/10/24
UP 6830 leads the southbound MNYPU (North Yard (Denver), CO - Pueblo, CO) manifest through Colorado Springs.
This is a little more than a day after a pretty significant snow storm hit the Pikes Peak region which dropped anywhere from 7" to a foot of new snow. The snow started flying Saturday afternoon, trailed off overnight into Sunday and then picked back up through early Monday morning. This shot was taken on Tuesday and, a little unusual for Colorado snow, has stuck around thanks in large part to bitter cold temps coupled with light winds. I didn't think I'd have a chance for snow-covered trees since the time from the last flake until I got out was pretty significant.
Anyway, I was railfanning a bit crippled on this particular morning as I had been out in the storm both on Saturday and Sunday. The inside and back of my wheels got coated with packed on snow and ice and, with no way to warm them up to melt that stuff off, my wheels were horribly out of balance so whenever I got up to about 50mph, the car would start shaking pretty bad. As such, I wanted to avoid the Interstate to the max extent possible so I stayed as close to home plate as I could.
With no way to tell what was coming other than ATCS, which only showed that something was coming, I was railfanning blind. So imagine my disappointment when this leader rounded the bend. I know I trash faded H2 MACs and GEVOs, but a faded, UP GE with its nose number boards, low-slung ditch lights, and teeny tiny nose herald is waaaaaaaay worse! Making matters more intolerable, when I lived in Colorado Springs previously, the MNYPU would consistently run with a trapped UP 1989 (the Rio Grande Heritage unit) many times leading the way. The problem then was that the MNYPU was a nocturnal move running between Denver and Pueblo in the middle of the night so I never caught it. Nowadays, it seems to be running in the morning daylight...but there's no more UP 1989, instead, it's faded junk coal power leading the way! But, hey, beggars can't be choosers and there's not that many opportunities to catch trains with snow-covered trees hence why it made its way onto my SD card!
Once upon a time, before Queen Victoria was on the throne, there was a little man who planted a little tree on the edge of what would become a little lawn where a little Priory had once stood, near the little gate that leads to the Cathedral in the little ancient City of Winchester.
People passing said what a nice little tree it was, and the little man liked his little tree too, so he lovingly tended it while it grew, gave it a little water when it was a little dry and weeded the little patch round it so it did not get a little overgrown.
After a little time it grew into a little sapling, time passed and after a while the little man, who was now getting a little old, left the little tree to grow on it's own. while other little men and little civic dignitaries went to little meetings in the little old medieval barn that stood behind the little tree.
And little children played around the base of the little tree where the last veterans of Waterloo and Trafalgar sat under it's shade and told them their little memories of their past exploits and how they had defeated a nasty little man from a Country far away who had wanted to own the the Continent containing the little Country that the little tree grew in.
A little time passed and the little tree grew a little stronger every year, until it became a little bigger, and little birds came and sang in the branches of the little tree while Sundays the little people riding to the Cathedral tied their little horses to it or let them graze on the little lawn in front of it while they went and said their little prayers and sung their little hymns.
And other little children now played around the tree, until they too grew up and went off to make the little Empire bigger or fight in the little wars in little places like Crimea or South Africa.. Little artists came and made little sketches or water colours the little tree, or sat in it's shade and had picnics in the summer warmth.
Gradually, while the little tree grew bigger, the little Queen grew old and died, so her little Son Edward sat on the little throne, and little birds built little nests in it's little branches, where they laid little eggs which hatched little fledglings, and the passing little College boys looked at the little tree as they passed and remarked on how big the little tree was getting..
And as the little tree continued to grow bigger all the Cathedrals little Priests and Bishops noticed it's growing spread and told their little congregations how marvelous it was that their Creator had made the little tree that grew on the little lawn close to their Church, although now no-one now remembered the little man who planted the little tree, or his name.
But little later, as the branches on the little tree grew a little longer those little College boys became little Soldiers, and kissed their little girlfriends goodbye under it's little branches before they went off to get a little slaughtered on the Somme for little King George, who had succeeded little King Edward, and their little grieving girlfriends and little widows leant on the little tree and wept their little tears.
And a little bit later still a little house that had been built on the end of the little old medieval barn behind the little tree became a little school for little Choristers and Choirboys and when little King George's reign was over and his little son Edward was crowned King the little Choirboys sang and danced on the little lawn next to the little tree on his coronation day.
However while the little tree now stood tall and proud by the little lawn, little King Edward found a little lover who had been married before and all the little Bishops and the little Politicians said this was little naughty and he had to stop being the little King and let his little brother George have a go at being King instead.
But as the little Tree got a little bit older another nasty little man in a little Country far away decided that he too would like to own the little Continent containing the little Country that the little tree grew in, and lots of the little people went away to fight him and save the little tree and the little country.
And a lot of those little people who became little Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen did not come back again, so another generation of little girlfriends and little widows came and wept as they passed the little tree, perhaps remembering when they had been so happy courting under it's shelter from the little raindrops or in the shade of of its little leaves.
But in a little while the survivors of the little conflict came home and as King George passed away and his little daughter Elizabeth became Queen so the little boys from the little school behind the little tree again sang and danced on the little lawn beneath it's branches.
And a few times over the years little Queen Elizabeth came through the little gate leading to the little close where the little tree stood by the little lawn and in passing saw how big and mature the little tree had grown over the years that had passed since the little man had first planted it.
But times passed, and a little bit later little Queen Elizabeth also grew old and died, and the little leaves on the little tree by the little lawn in front of the little school quivered as the little bells in the Cathedral tolled to mark her passing, for no longer would she pass the little tree and wonder how long it had stood there.
Then Elizabeth's little son Charles became the next King, but even before his coronation, when the little boys from the little school would have again sung and danced on the little lawn, some little men with little clipboards came and looked at the little tree, shook their little heads and made some little notes.
And a little bit after that there came some little men, with little chainsaws, who climbed up ropes into the little tree and sawed off lots of the little branches, where the little leaves had grown and the little birds had nested for over two centuries, and threw them down to the ground before chopped them into little tiny pieces.
So now, just a very little time afterwards, the little people passing the stark remains of the little tree stop and stare at the bare stumps of the branches and wonder if they will ever grow back again and will the little branches for the little leaves to grow on regrow?
Will the little birds sing again from the little tree in the spring and nest in its branches? Will lovers again embrace under the little tree's canopy late on a summer's evening? And will the little boys from the little school sing and dance on the little lawn by the forlorn remains of the little tree on King Charles coronation day?
Or will the little tree, that had grown so big over the space of over two hundred years stand there stark and shorn until it starts to rot and it's bark starts to peel back or will the little men with their little chainsaws come back again and cut the mighty trunk down, rip out it's roots, saw them into little pieces and reduce those to wood chips, so that the only reminder that little tree ever existed will be those little sketches and water colours done by those little artists so long ago?
And then, after a little more time has passed, will the little people passing the little lawn in front of the little school remember the little tree which stood there for generations?
The little tree that grew there as their Great Great Grandparents and their offspring were born, lived their lives and passed on, Monarchs came and went, and many of the events that shaped our modern world took place?
For although these things took place over a long time to us little people with our short little lives, they occurred in just a little time during the long lifespan of the little tree that became a great big tree.
A mis-matched numberboard'd Oakway leads a Clay Boswell coal empty south on the Hillsboro Sub through the subdivision's namesake town. This train was at full track speed, which is hard to tell in a photograph, but you can get a sense of speed by looking at the exhaust shimmies above the quartet of EMDs.
This was another banner day of railfanning eastern North Dakota. Before this shot, I had chased the M-GFDNTW south with a dual-window SD60M providing the power. This coal train seen here was meeting a coal load on the siding behind me which had 3 SD70MACs providing the ponies. That all-AC-powered coal train was a glimpse of things to come. EMD 9054 and its 3 DC-powered sisters were on the way out by this point in time, but you could still catch them more often than not.
BL32 leads the NR class leader NR1 while working 6MP5 up the Callington curve on the morning of 28-12-1996
A CSX SD50 leads two GE's west through Creston at track speed on a warm first day of November. I was set up for a shot of this train further down the street away from the crossing at first to try and get some of the nearby houses in the shot, but some oblivious woman on her phone kept on driving right past me after I waved for her to stop hopefully a little short. Oh well. I'll try it again next weekend.
57305 leads 3S01 11:50 Norwich to Lowestoft through Buckenham on 29/10/12. As can be seen by the black clouds in the background the weather had really closed in by the time we'd got to Buckenham, but as the 57 whistled up for Strumpshaw Fen crossing a small gap appeared in the cloud over head and the sun managed to come out for 30 seconds as 3S01 passed us!
C502 leads C508 and VL362 in an all-EMD assault on the Cullerin Ranges with 8992 loaded El Zorro/AWB Limited export grain from Parkes to Port Kembla Inner Harbour. Since the demise of El Zorro, the CFCL Australia owned C502 and C508 have seen little use, usually on spot hire to various operators to replace failed motive power.
BNSF 676 (ATSF Warbonnet) leads the Q CHIROB on the BNSF Topeka Subdivision. Here it is rounding the curve before Gardner Road near De Soto, KS. You can’t ever turn down an ex-unit when it’s on it’s former territory.
37405 leads the 'Short Set' through unusual territory as it passes Eccles Road. The 37's are working 'The EACH Express', which was another successful charity railtour for GA and the East Anglian Children's Hospice.
Hindmarsh Island.
Our access to Hindmarsh Island from Goolwa is via the bridge which opened in 2001. The bridge is 319 metres long and 19 metres high. Hindmarsh Island leads to the Murray River Mouth beside Mundoo Island and the start of the Coorong. It is 15 kms long and about 6 kms wide and roughly one third of the island is now part of the Coorong National Park. In 1990 the SA government passed an act of parliament allowing the developers to construct a bridge so that the developers could create a marina and housing development on the island. But the SA government accepted legal liability for the financing of the bridge. The bridge became one of the great fiascos and controversies in South Australian history. Some members of the Ngarrindjeri people objected to the proposed bridge in 1994 on the basis of the water channel being part of “secret women’s business” and it being a sacred site. The controversy ended in a Royal Commission and the decision that “secret women’s business” was a fabrication. The Ngarrindjeri group then took their case to the Supreme Court in Canberra which doubted that “secret women’s business” was a fabrication but did not endorse it. The Keating federal government then banned construction of the bridge because of this Supreme Court finding. A few years later the Howard Federal government legislated for the bridge to be constructed. The controversy became a conflict point with much conflict and many competing interests. It involved state and federal governments, locals and outsiders, white and non-white Australians, men and feminists, developers and anti-development people, lawyers for and against it, anthropologists for and against it and much secrecy about the significance or otherwise of the bridge site. This conflict point mainly had direct impacts on the local people – the town of Goolwa was divided over the issue as were the inhabitants of Hindmarsh Island, the Ngarrindjeri women were divided as some opposed the concept of “secret women’s business” and others said it was nonsense. The main people to gain were the developers who had eventual success with their marina and housing estate. The “outsiders” including professors, archaeologists, anthropologists, politicians, bankers and lawyers all made gains – in monetary, publicity or humanitarian rights terms. Their moments of glory seldom acknowledged the difficulties the whole controversy had caused for the Ngarrindjeri people. Ngarrindjeri people have accepted the outcome of the conflict point and whilst they still maintain that the area is a sacred site for Ngarrindjeri women and their “secret business” they allow their people to use the bridge to gain access to their cultural lands.
Captain Charles Sturt on his epic voyage down and up the Murray River in 1829/30 named Point McLeay after one of his officers on their rowing boat and Point Sturt after himself both on the edges of Lake Alexandrina. The large island near the Murray Mouth was named later by Captain John Blenkinsop after the first SA Governor Sir John Hindmarsh. Captain Charles Sturt later became an early settler in Adelaide. After he resigned his commission with the British Military Service he was granted 5,000 acres in NSW in 1835 near what was to become Canberra much later. He purchased a further 1,950 acres in NSW at Mittagong. Two years later he purchased a further 1,000 acres near Sydney where he intended to make a new home. He then overlanded cattle from NSW to South Australia in 1838 to revive his fortunes. This did not work but he was feted in Adelaide as a hero and so he sold all his lands in NSW to accept a government appointment as Commissioner of Lands in South Australia in 1839. He was soon after demoted by the Governor to Assistant Registrar. In 1844 Sturt led an expedition to the Barrier Range area of NSW and he went further trying to cross what was named Sturts Stony Desert. When he returned in 1846 he was made Colonial Treasurer which was a much higher paying position. He returned to England in 1847 to receive the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in London for his inland explorations. Sturt returned to SA and lived on his 380 acre farm and orchard on the Port River near Grange Beach. This was where he had built Grange cottage in 1841. He returned to England permanently in 1853 so his children could be educated in England. The Grange was sold by members of his family in 1877 to finalise his estate as Sturt had died in 1869.
Early pastoralists recognised the value of Hindmarsh Island as a well-watered spot surrounded by water supplies so Dr John Rankine of Strathalbyn took out occupational licenses on most of Hindmarsh Island in 1844. He had a boat as a ferry at Clayton to cart his sheep back and forth across the channel. But in 1851 the Hundred of Alexandrina was declared and surveyed into 80 acre sections for sale to farmers. The land was quickly taken up when made available for sale in 1854 and the wealthy of Strathalbyn including the Rankins, Gollans and Maidment family bought some land. One of the early farming settlers was Charles Price. Price and his family arrived in Melbourne in 1853 when he was aged 48 but he decided he did not like Melbourne and he voyaged to Port Adelaide. From here he took up land on Hindmarsh Island in 1853 against the wishes of Dr Rankine and he was the first to import cattle from his home county Hereford in 1866. He was also the first to import Shropshire sheep from the neighbouring county of Hereford earlier in 1855. He ran his Hereford cattle stud on the island from 1867 till his death in 1886 and during this time he sold prized stud cattle to George Fife Angas and John Riddoch. His 983 acres were sold at £5 per acre and his son moved on to Eyre Peninsula. Charles Price was buried in the Island Cemetery. Not far away is the Hindmarsh Island School which started in 1880 and closed in 1954. The building is now a part time café of sorts. Next to that is the island butter factory with grand buttresses. It operated from the late 19th century until 1936. Not far away is the Murray Mouth. There was also a Wesleyan Methodist Church on the island which opened in 1857 and closed around 1887 and was then demolished.
The local residents erected a stone cairn memorial to Captain Charles Sturt on the island in 1930 one hundred years after his discovery of the island in 1830. It is also a memorial to the other early explorer of these parts Captain Collet Barker (1784-1831) who explored here in 1831 just after Sturt. As a military officer he had served in India and explored areas in WA including King George Sound where Albany is located. Here he was in charge of the settlement at Raffles Bay with a group of convicts to control. His name was later used for the inland settlement of Mt Barker north of Albany. He was recalled to Sydney with the convicts in 1831 and Raffles Bay settlement was closed down. The Governor of NSW told him to explore the Fleurieu Peninsula region on his way back to Sydney. In SA he climbed Mt Lofty which had been named by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802. Barker named the Sturt River which he discovered. Collet Barker then explored areas from Cape Jervis to the mouth of the Murray River. Here he was speared by local Aboriginal people. There is a fine memorial to Collet Barker in St. James Anglican Church in Sydney from his fellow officers. Barker’s journals were especially important as they convinced Sturt that the mountain he had seen from Lake Alexandrina was not Mt Lofty but another mountain. Sturt altered his maps and charts and named the second mountain after Collet Barker. This was done by Sturt in 1834.
CSX 1776 leads coke train B157 across the Monongahela River as viewed from the Homestead, PA side on March 30, 2024. I'm not a big fan of the CSX specially painted GEVO fleet, but since I was in the area, and it was there, I made an effort to catch it. Later that day the CSX Conrail heritage unit came through leading a freight. Too bad they couldn't do more with the front of the cabs on them instead of the standard CSX scheme.
Incidentally this is the site of the famous Pinkerton Strike. On July 6, 1892, striking steel mill workers and their families engaged 300 Pinkerton guards in a fierce 12-hour gun battle at the mill pump house. After the chaos had settled, seven employees and three Pinkertons were killed, leaving the community stunned and devastated. There is a commemorative plaque at the pump house, which is just to the right of where I took this photo. This spot is now a nice little park with parking where you can sit in your car and then just walk a few feet to get a train photo. Too bad CSX traffic volume is way down from past levels.
45145 leads a Sheffield – London St Pancras via Nottingham express round the curve from Lenton North Junction and on to the Down Main at Mansfield Junction whilst a class 47 and its train of empty oil tanks waits on the Down Goods for its turn to head east into Nottingham, 28th February 1978. In the foreground is a traditional stencil type speed sign (45) long since replaced by the current “roundels” similar to those found on the roads. However this type of speed sign might make a comeback as its speed indication is less likely to be lost due to graffiti vandalism.
Locomotive History
45145 was originally numbered D128 and was built at Crewe works, entering traffic in November 1961. In 1973 the Midland Main Line services started to migrate from steam heating to electric heating of the coaching stock and D128 was one of fifty class 45 locomotives selected to have its Stone Vapour 4625 steam heating boiler replaced with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator) and emerged from Derby Works at the end of 1974 as 45145. It was to spend virtually its whole career on Midland Main Line duties being initially allocated to Derby, followed by Cricklewood and Toton where it would remain until its final transfer to Tinsley in November 1986. 45145 was withdrawn in February 1988 and was broken up by MC Metals, Glasgow in December 1991.
DF4 No.3937 leads the way through the recently erected electrification masts having passed Meng Jia Wan, west of Zhongwei, China. This area, shown in the China Quail map as 'The Ramp of Zhongwei', was previously worked by QJ steam locos, often triple headed due to the gradients. Unfortunately, by the time I got here, it was mainly DF4's, but even their days are numbered due to the forthcoming electrification. Taken on 8th March 1995.
A coal loop escapee leads priority intermodal train 100 through the double track near Carseland. The cars seen sitting in the distance on the south track are from the Carseland local, who has gone to quickly service Stella-Jones.
8030 leads GML10 into McIntyre loop whilst dumping ballast on 7M22 QUBE Logistics ballast train from Western Victoria - 2/9/2013
XR558 leads XR553 into Mangalore with 9324 UP Tocumwal Grain train to Tottenham. There the train will run around and form 9223 to Geelong for tipping
Saturday 1st March 2014
Norfolk Southern operated N&W streamlined J-class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 611 leads northbound Railfan Excursion Train, with a local freight train approaching on the other track while crossing a truss bridge in Tennessee, October 1989. A crew member is standing on the oncoming freight trains EMD diesel locomotive's front platform. The Railfan Excursion Train operating on the former Southern Railway main line that was part of the Rathole Division. You can see a couple of photographers taking photos ahead.
A former West Yorkshire Bristol VR LUA719V leaving Otley with a 732 for Leeds chased by an Olympian 5178 from Bradford. Both buses ( and routes ) long gone including the Peugeot learner driver car no doubt. Makes you realise how little Firstgroup have left in terms of work from the 1989 take over of Road Car especially in Leeds.
67023 CO with 67027 CO Leads the 1Q52 08:18 DERBY R.T.C - DERBY R.T.C Test train through EAST MIDLANDS PARKWAY on the last leg back to Derby after testing on the MML today , Thursday 13th April 2017
A reflection of Tiananmen Gate
This gate (across from the famous/infamous square of the same name) leads to the Meridian Gate, the Southern entrance to the Forbidden City in central Beijing.
The Tiananmen or Tian'anmen (simplified Chinese: 天安门; traditional Chinese: 天安門; pinyin: Tiān'ānmén), the gate of heavenly peace, is a famous monument in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is widely used as a national symbol. First built during the Ming Dynasty in 1420, Tian'anmen is often referred to as the front entrance to the Forbidden City. However, the Meridian Gate (午门) is the first entrance to the Forbidden City proper, while Tiananmen was the entrance to the Imperial City, within which the Forbidden City was located. Tian'anmen is located to the north of Tiananmen Square, across the street from the plaza from Chang'an Avenue.
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Gate
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