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MEC 377 leads ED-NM upgrade approaching route 140. Looking back these were good times on the old B&M.
While Venus Line leads to the highland plateau of Utsukuchigahara, there is another road called Azalea Line that branches off from Venus Line to Matsumoto city. It is a refurbished logging road and named after the flowers that blooms in early summer along the road.
Karamatsu or Japanese larch trees, which were almost withered in Kirigamine, were at their best of colouring when I passed by. The mountain is part of Utsukushigahara volcano.
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 fĂĽhrt wen?
Szene auf der großen Wiese im Park der Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) hinter dem Hauptgebäude (14e)
Paris, Frankreich 30.05.2022
Colas Rail Freight 'Wylam Dilly' leads the 6C60 1007 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Ripple Lane Signal 807 engineers through Waterbeach, with classmate 66850 'David Maidment OBE' at the rear.
“The guide leads you to the doorway, then waits for your return.”
Happy Summer Solstice 🌞🌞🌞
An ES44AH leads the CSX Southbound Coal Train, as it powers up the grade at Emerson, GA passing the updated signals at North Emerson on the CSX W&A Subdivision.
KCS 1776 leads 255 through Donehower. The locomotive is on its second revenue assignment after being released from Wabtec about a week ago.
MEC 371 leads POED, after the previous crew sat at Athol Station for almost three hours waiting on a "live recrew". Finally the crew showed up and with the high hood in lead position, the train throttled up on Track 1 and headed west towards East Deerfield. At one time this was a much busier yard than just a parking lot for MOW equipment. Interesting to see six units on this train, the entire consist was; MEC 371, MEC 515, MEC 379, MEC 617, MEC 601, and LTEX 6528.
On a cloudy afternoon, Trona 2006 leads a train into Searles. Here the crew will pick up a coal train to return to the plant in Trona.
Taken in April of 2025, in less than a year so much has changed for this railroad. At the time it was known that Trona was looking for replacement power, and later that year they would lease two SD60s and an SD60M from UP. The addition of SD60s to the roster would see the former UP SD40s getting scrapped. Around the same time, the lead motor in this photo would get sold to a leasing company, though it is currently still at the railroad's shops being repaired. While it certainly seemed like the replacements were coming soon for the rest of the roster, or so one would think, a completely unexpected turn happened.
As a lot of you may already know, rumor has been recently going around Trona will be ceasing operations in the coming months. With global competition and other economic challenges, such as government regulations, both soda ash and boric acid production at Searles Valley Minerals has become much more expensive. With energy costs being around half of the cost of production for the company, and rising prices, SVM has to permanently lay off hundreds of employees. To my understanding, the main plant employs about 540 people, 300 or more will be laid off. With this also comes a huge cut in production, and in an announcement it was stated this would cause the shutdown of Trona and the Argus Cogeneration Plant. Unfortunately, it seems there is really no way out for Searles Valley Minerals, and unfortunately this might be the nail in the coffin for the town. With most of Trona already being a ghost town, and the company being in this state, I can only pray for the best for the residents.
43055 leads the Midland Pullman set over Whalley Arches with the 07.02 Crewe – Carlisle LSL test run on Tues 11th May 2021.
Note: the light dipped a little just as the train was passing over the viaduct, and the shot has been corrected in PS by a friend who is far more skilled in that department than me.
37401 leads a generator coach and a break first tailed by 20107 down Rannoch moor towards the station at Rannoch on the morning of Monday july the 14th 2026. The ensamble had visited Fort William in support of Locomotive Services Limited 'The Chairmans Train' over the weekend of July the 11th and 12th before heading back to Carlisle Upperby depot as train 5Z12, the 08:15 off Tom na Faire depot, Fort William.
BNSF 7887 leads a westbound vehicle train through Lake Park, MN along the renowned Staples Sub.
This particular day, 17 Apr 07, was an epic day, to say the least. It was one of those rare days where everything just kind of comes together and you're left years later wishing you could have another day as fulfilling as this one. Interestingly, at the time, this train was viewed as kind of an, "Eh, I'm here; I might as well shoot it" type of shot. Today, though, catching something like this would be coveted.
Anyway, here are the shots I've previously uploaded to Flickr from this day, all of which have EMDs leading, BTW:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/32096114671/
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/35466105284/
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/15141376504/
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/49574735377/
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/11092466175/
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/15381821670/
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What a perfect time capsule for what northern plains railroading was like back then! Anyone else miss it?
PN013 leads 82P5, a Townsville bound Pacific National freight train, along Denison Street, Rockhampton.
Queensland's North Coast railway line includes this section of 2 kilometres of street running which sees 28 train movements a day, including the Spirit of Queensland Tilt Train and various freight trains. Train speeds are restricted to a leisurely 25 km/h along the section.
Rockhampton, QLD.
Tuesday, 26 July 2022.
BNSF power leads CP Train B92-13, better known by its former job number "Run 20" passes through Kansas City Union Station en route from KCS Knoche-CP Joint Agency Yard to BNSF Argentine Yard on Main Track 2 of the KCT East-West Corridor.
This Ex-BN SD40-2 showed up roughly a year ago, and I'd been trying to get a decent lit shot of it since.
Locomotives: BNSF 1693, BNSF 1747, BNSF 3954, BNSF 3973, BNSF 3852
10-13-19
Kansas City, MO
Follow the path, wherever it leads
Care for sweet nature, as ti slowly bleeds
Under the winds of misfortune and pain
That torment its trees, again and again
That fill the skies with blue and with grey
As the path of happiness, we walk every day
Looking for peace, enjoying sweet love
As the clouds rain fate, down from above
Fate that places hope into every eye
Fate we see filling the infinite sky
You need to wait the next photo in line.
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43146 leads the 1A81 11.30 Edinburgh to Aberdeen Scotrail Inter7City service past Pettycur Bay, Kinghorn, with the seaside town of Burntisland in the background, 14th June 2023
Photograph taken with Caravan park owners permission.
At WB Jct. on the NS Kansas City District, the Central of Georgia Railway Heritage Locomotive leads NS Train 48T in a freezing drizzle as it waits to get on the congested BNSF Marceline Sub.
This was only my second time seeing the CG Unit, the last time was by happenstance on the BNSF in Iowa while storm chasing several years ago.
Locomotives: NS 8101, BNSF 7205, BNSF 6837, BNSF 5182, BNSF 8567
4-3-20
Carrollton, MO
NS 8103 leads 21N on a muggy early summer afternoon. Here we see 21N arriving upon its final destination of Rickenbacker Yard on the south side of Columbus, Ohio. This edition of 21N reached just over 2.5 miles long making it an interesting task yarding the train. During the process of pulling two and half miles passed the yard, just to get the bottom of the train on an available track, two north-bounds and a southbound were held up on the main while 21N was put away.
CSX GP40-2 #6394 leads the Cedartown turn L810 down the Cartersville Sub at the rural community of Portland, GA in the fall of 2023.
Rail Operations Group (ROG) 37884 'Cepheus' leads Ex-London Overground Class 317/7s 317729 and 317732 past Waterbeach, working the 5Q87 0951 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Eastleigh Arlington (Zg) scrap move.
Rail Operations Group (ROG) 57312 leads Ex-Greater Anglia 317345 past Waterbeach, working the 5E46 1109 Ilford E.M.U.D. to Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings.
BR Green 37667 (D6851) 'Flopsie' leads the 5Z22 1053 Watlington to Norwich T.C. leg of Jeremy Hosking's private railtour towards Littleport. This was the second day of Hosking's private tour; the first day running from Edinburgh to Orton Mere via York and Lincoln Central. Over the next 3 days, the consist would visit parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent. Trainload Construction liveried 37688 'Great Rocks' was at the other end of the train.
N455 leads the up 8081 Swan Hill Pass out of Bendigo from Melbourne's Southern Cross on a sunny Christmas morning. 25/12/22.
519 leads train 1333 out of Lake City on a warm summer evening. Nice to see 4 cars instead of the normal 3, but it's likely just because one of the cars is bad ordered. Since the train only spends a short period of time in Chicago each day, they usually don't have enough time to add and remove a car without causing a delay.
The road that leads to the Vallejo House in Sonoma is seen here in golden resplendence. It's not exactly the road referenced in the title though. The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion was the first song on the Grateful Dead's first album. The song was an attempt to capture the hippie scene in Haight Ashbury during the summer of love (1967). It invited everyone to "come and join the party every day." Don't ask me why I mention it here.
Happy U.S. Thanksgiving everyone. Don't eat too much.
Here's the tune:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDjA3DqbcM
Sonoma CA
NICD 1000 leads a power move West through Michigan City, IN in what would be my final shot on 11th Street before it closing less than two days later. This iconic piece of railroad will be missed and I'm glad I got plenty of shots of it.
The Missouri Pacific Heritage Locomotive leads UP Train CNANW1 26 up the hill and through CP Y141 Charleston Jct., from the UP Chester Sub, to the Hoxie Sub. on a coal load bound for interchange to the MNA Railroad at Diaz Jct., AR and forwarding to the Entergy Independence Power Plant at Newark, AR, also located on the former MP. Former GECX warranty protection unit UP 7000 was their DPU engine on the rear end.
Coincidentally, I was down here near the ancestral homeland and found myself within striking range to get this engine passing through Dexter southbound on the MOP for the first time. This unit was unveiled during the summer of 2005 and I'd never been able to shoot it here facing this direction; which is something it's only done about 4 times prior, and at least half of those times were at night, one of them on the same coal cycle about 6 days prior at 0200.
So, 20 and a half years later, I finally got my shot of the Mo-Pac Unit passing the almost inexplicably still standing genuine GRS G-Heads protecting where the CA&T once split off for Birds Point, Missouri. Once in a while it works out.
Locomotives: UP 1982, UP 7966
2-27-26
Dexter, MO
NBSR 6319 leads a New Brunswick Southern Railway westbound freight, as they round the bend at Tracy, New Brunswick.
Railpictures.net Upload: www.railpictures.net/photo/591629/
October 5,2016.
UP 1766 leads the YSPBN as they duck under Dale Street, shuttling cars from East Minneapolis to the Belt Yard. Its been a really cloudy March so far, it was reliving to see sun out for an hour this morning.
SP 7851 leads a northbound at Valley Jct. in Sauget, IL on Union Pacific's Chester Sub. This Southern Pacific train, which consisted of a little bit of everything (intermodal, auto-racks, manifest), is operating on trackage rights that historically gave Cotton Belt/SSW access to the St. Louis market via the Missouri Pacific. In 1994 it was SP operating over UP. Today, of course, it's all UP. 7851 has just passed a classic MP-era cantilever signal bridge that I believe still stands today.
SP 7851 B30-7
This beautiful dirt road lined with poplars, still partially bare in the early Spring, leads to the farmstead called Mugnaga (which in the Milanese dialect is the word for "apricot"), a large farmstead producing milk, cheese, honey, corn, wheat, and other agricultural products (and hosting a nursery). It was still lockdown time, and I allowed myself a brief sunrise session while going to work. I was lucky enough to find a man and his dog strolling along the dirt road towards the farmstead, in the distance, bathed in the golden light.
In this area there are several traditional Padan farmsteads, which are still inhabited and active - in the Padan plain there are so many dead relics of our rural history... - some of them are fairly ancient, dating back from the 19. or even the 17. century and they are often protected as they have historical and/or artistic value. Italy is quite rich in cultural heritage but well, protection often means, say, that a building of interest cannot be demolished, but can be abandoned to its own (sad) fate. The people who are still living and working in these farmsteads are preserving the memory of generations upon generations of peasants who were the workforce of what had long been the most advanced agricultural region in Europe. They lived in the landowners' farmsteads and worked in the attached fields - families upon families who were payed-in-kind (milk, butter, corn, flour...) and were so poor that when they transferred from one farmstead to another the whole (and quite often numerous) family plus their scant belongings could easily fit in a cart.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. Raw files processed with Darktable.
My good old Hanhel tripod caused much trouble on that morning - I had to painstakingly offset against slight horizontal deviations between the five shots of the exposure bracketing, ranging from 3 up to 7 pixels. Luckily it was just a simple horizontal deviation, and I was able to compensate for it. I have just grabbed my new tripod (Rollei C6i carbon), can't wait for trying it! (Incidentally, I have just confirmed the rule that we talk about our poor tripods only when they cause trouble ;-))
BNSF 8502 leads a southbound coal load at Greenland, CO on Dec 21, 2025. The land you see is preserved from development, the only area in Douglas County with this much open space.
B&P 3101 leads GW1 as it begins to work up the grade in Warsaw, NY. There are a couple of old box cars stored on either side of the old station. The siding they are on is no longer connected to the main track, and I assume they are for MOW storage. Compare to this view from 40 years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/85501582@N03/35340784925/in/album-7...
WNYP 643 leads a quartet of Bigs, headed North through Eldred, PA in the evening of June 22, 2019. The crew had made the Driftwood Turn, and was returning to Olean as light engines. This day marked the start of huge crowds chasing the WNYP, with at least 30 fans out chasing. After the stone cars were dropped at Turtlepoint, everyone else bailed, and I found myself all alone as the power made the run to Olean.
KCS 1 leads the Southern Belle business train down the north slope of Rich Mountain toward a crew change and a fueling of the power at Heavener. In a few miles they will be crossing into Oklahoma. Thanks to Mike Biehn and Brian Plant for coaxing me to go on this trip and to a few others with keeping tabs on this train.
BAR 95 leads a dogs breakfast of flares along the Canisteo RIver at Browns Crossing, NY on January 28, 1989. You never knew what the next D&H train would have for power back then.
This little park leads to the river from my kids school, I walk through here all the time and it's lovely in the morning with squirrels and lovely birds.
This is HDR 'ish', I say 'ish' because it's one image copied twice, and then the exposure/colour/contrast changed on 2, and then merged in photomatix. A real HDR image would be with 3 seperate images taken with the camera.
I've not done this much, only twice before, so any tips and advice would be appreciated. I know some of you are experts at this, pardon my attempt! xx
NO INVITES OR GRAPHICS PLEASE! XX
M420 #2045 leads Delaware Lackawanna's PT97 back west after swapping cars with the NS at Portland. The train is seen here about to pass under the Lackawanna Cut-Off, a high speed, largely grade-separated route built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR in 1911 as a faster route into New York City for their passenger trains. I believe the line saw its last trains in the 1970s or 80s and is currently abandoned. PT97 is on the original, and much less direct DL&W mainline.
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CP 6644 leads 286 as it crosses the KK River lift bridge and ducks under the ex-Milwaukee Road searchlights at the control point known as KK Bridge. Everyone was up on the bike trail getting backwards-facing searchlights while only me and one other person got this shot.
UP 8173 leads a blade train south off the Palmer Divide as it leaves Palmer Lake, CO behind.
Apparently these were some sort of new, larger blades, and they were making their first trip via rail on this particular day. No matter how many times I see it, I'm always in awe of how they transport these things like they do...