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BNSF 1826 leads a northbound Pikes Peak Local around the frozen waters of Palmer Lake, CO.
This was my first dedicated railfan outing in nearly 4 months...what a nice 'Welcome Back'! The PPL runs north out of Colorado Springs on its return trip to the Denver-area every Tuesday and Friday mornings. It's always a nice catch as it's typically sporting solid, old(er)-school power. Today's H1 SD40-2 was no exception.
BNSF 9244 leads a northbound empty up Main 2 in Spruce, CO while a southbound empty on Main 1 gets ready to continue as the single-track main south of Palmer Lake has cleared up.
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.
GWA001 leads 2182S ORA Grain from Tailem Bend to Pelican Point through Monteith on a sunny Saturday morning. 2/07/22.
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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.
Rio Grande SD50 No. 5513 leads an 80-car EUCHQ through Price Canyon at milepost 634, just west of Lynn, Utah the afternoon of Sept. 13, 1992.
... It is covered with dead leaves and I don't know where it leads - I can barely remember whence it comes, indeed. Veils of thick mist are concealing the landscape - if there really is one beyond the narrow limits of my vision - and my mind is wandering freely into this mysterious translucence. Memories come to the surface of my soul and float there like fallen leaves on the calm water of the river. Yes, there should be a river here, just beyond the fading trees - but no, there is nothing but a milky nothingness and a deafining silence. The track is waiting for my weary steps, with its promises of unknown lands. My only certainty is the feeling of the damp ground under my boots - there still is a center, after all. The track is waiting for me - it is calling for me to leave my footprints upon it, a new chapter of the tale.
Maybe the track ends just there, and the glowing mist marks the outer boundaries of the world - maybe there is nothing beyond that misty walls.
Then, suddenly, a swash shattered the deep silence - a moorhen plunging herself into the water to fish? And a bird's call. I awakened as from a dream. Life was still teeming all around me, just beyond the veils of mist. So I gathered myself together and set forth toward my unknown destination, whatever it would be.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp.
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."
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.
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.
The door to the right as you enter the basilica leads to the crypt, a series of eerie vaults at the bottom of 50 steps, with tombs guarded by monoliths representing Mourning and Eternity. Among those at rest here are Cardinal József Mindszenty.
The path of this growth is through suffering: “Unless you suffer, you do not grow” (LW) “All misery, all exile that one bears willingly for the love of God is agreeable to Him and draws us close to the totality of His nature” (L.II.)27
--Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th Century), WOMEN MYSTICS IN Medieval Europe, Emilie Zum Brunn and Georgette Epiney-Burgard
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.
BNSF 9752 leads a Hibatc load past East Chub Lake in Carlton, MN on the morning of Sept. 30, 2017. The SD70Mace is leading 180 loads for Allouez Yard in Superior as they work past the east end of Chub Lake. With the Keetac loads running not too far ahead this ore load would tie down at Vet's Crossing with congestion ahead at Allouez.
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
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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.
CSXT 5327 leads UP train ZDUNP west thru Pacific, MO. I pulled up to the crossing with about 10 seconds to throw the car in park and get out and get the shot. I didn't expect to have to cut it that close, but it happens. The train is seen here flying down main track 2 of the Jeff City Sub, coming into downtown Pacific.
Conrail 5087 leads an all GE consist of multiple paint schemes with a Westbound at Pleasant Drive in East Palestine, OH on January 29, 1994. This is the location of the catastrophic NS derailment on 2/3/2023. The Leake Oil Company that was affected is out of view to the right at about where the signal bridge is.
A steady rain falls as CSX 911 leads B410 east under the former Norfolk & Western mainline. CSX 5236 with DPU's CSX 3187 and CSX 312 are also helping haul the 220+ car loaded coal train.
Waters of the Susquehanna are high on 15 March 1986, forcing train BUEB to tiptoe around flooding on its arrival at East Binghamton Yard. Ex-Lehigh Valley GP38-2 No. 7317 leads B&M GP40 No. 329, P&LE GP38-2 No. 2038, and B&M GP39-2 No. 365.
DC Rail Freight 60046 'William Wilberforce' leads the 6Z18 0833 Middleton Towers to Ravenhead Sdgs loaded sand train past Black Horse Drove.
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CSX 4419 leads L422 by the CPL's guarding the west end of Medora on the Indiana Sub. Jul 20, 2022 And here is a shot from April 2018 of the track geometry train at the same spot from ground level. www.flickr.com/photos/kevinthekrazy1/43042903671/in/album...
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.
CSX SD40-3 #4011 leads a pair of SD40-2's with autorack train Q211 through Tunnel Hill, GA on a crisp autumn morning.
KCS #1 leads the special past the MFA elevator in Higginsville, Missouri on 8/25/2017. The special took about 9 hours to carry guests across the former Gateway Western from Kansas City to St Louis where they watched the Indy car race the next day.
C17 967 leads the Mary Valley Rattler works up the grade at The Dawn bound for Amamoor having left the Historic Queensland town of Gympie.
An SD70MACe leads CSX G769 as it heads south on the CC Subdivision with grain loads from Michigan bound for North Carolina. As the train rolls through Ryland, Kentucky, it splits the L&N searchlight signals at the Ryland control point, which was once the location of a crossover on the double track between Spring Lake and Visalia.
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CSX CC Subdivision
Ryland, KY
CSX G769-26 (Grain Loads; LSRC - Wixom, MI to Monroe, NC)
CSX 4713 SD70MACe Ex. CSX 4713 SD70MAC Blt. 2003
CSX 212 AC44CW Blt. 1996
CN 2449 leads two other Dash 8s into the yard at Proctor, MN on the morning of March 9, 2018. The 2449 had to hold north of the scale while section worked on the switch into the A Yard. Temperature was 8F so it was probably frozen as we're in the thaw/freeze part of the season. The delay allowed me to get in position on the St. Louis River Road bridge to shoot the U714 yarding and also allowed the DMIR 215 to nudge into the scene, while it works the E Lead Switch.
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.
KCS 5012 leads the southbound MKCVN towards Valley Jct in East St. Louis, IL, seen here along Monsanto Ave with the Gateway Arch in the background. I somehow don't have too many good shots with trains and the arch, so I felt this was necessary to do, even with the power being pretty standard.
CP 7020 leads train 199 west through Milwaukee on a wet and gloomy day.
This is the first time I can remember in the last 5 years that this train had power that was interesting leading the way.
56034 'Castell Ogwr Ogmore Castle' leads 7o83, the 1209 Whatley Quarry to Fareham stone train past Norton Bavant, south of Warminster on 18th April 1989.
After the arrival of Foster Yeoman's class 59s in 1986, Mendip stone traffic was hauled by both the new private sector GM interlopers and by British Rail traction. Class 56s continued to operate lost such trains until the arrival of the ARC/Hanson-owned class 59/1s in November 1990.
My image of the same train in 1992 ( flic.kr/p/2hHwWPn ) was taken from the bridge in the distance; Scratchbury Hill from where I took the image flic.kr/p/2hGGJxX rises steeply behind the trees on the right.
In 2019 while stone trains continue to run from Whatley Quarry to Fareham, they pass through the Wylye valley before 6am. This view is somewhat compromised by mature trees along the railway's fence boundary on the left.
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Euro Cargo Rail Class 66's 66062 Leads 66045 past Isham with 3J92 Toton TMD - West Hampstead. 17-10-2012.
Harry Needle's Railfreight liveried 20118 nears Shireoaks at the business end of 3S13, the 09.24 water cannons from Sheffield to Woodburn Junction via Gainsborough.
The picture taken in upper jigran, This is one of main source of jigran nala after crossing this pass the trek leads to burwea and ratti gali
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Orange Beach, Alabama
Photo taken on March 1, 2023
Sometimes our objective is clear. Sometimes a pathway leads us right to our goal. Sometimes our goal is better than we had hoped. At this point we just sit in awe of what we found.
This could be happiness.
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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.
Orange G&W Freightliner 66623 leads the 6M01 1751 Chesterton Junction Fhh to Tunstead Sdgs through Waterbeach.
With stormy clouds across the Missouri River Valley, a hole of sun breaks through just as the Montana Rail Link’s Helena Local approaches the control point at the summit of Winston Hill in Winston, Montana as it returns towards Helena with cars from Townsend. MRL 355, the last operating SD45 on the railroad, leads the charge and is paired up with one of MRL’s ex Northern Pacific GP9’s.
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MRL 2nd Subdivision
Winston, MT
MRL Helena Local (Local; Helena, MT to Townsend, MT Turn)
MRL 355 SD45-2M Ex. IMRL 355 SD45, MRL 6558, BN 6558 Blt. 1971
MRL 109 GP9 Ex. BN 1710, NP 210 Blt. 1955
CSS 2006 leads a westbound freight through Ogden Dunes, Indiana in sweet evening light as the crew makes a run toward Burnham. A lengthy wait at the yard in Ogden Dunes for multiple commuter trains and a coke train almost spoiled our chase of this guy, but the dispatcher turned him loose just in time for a few shots before sunset.