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UP 1983 leads leads a M CYDVX 09 (Cheyenne to Denver manifest) through the Greeley subdivision's namesake town. With a 15:30 call out of Cheyenne, hopes were high for an evening chase into Denver. Unfortunately, there were 5 southbounds, 1 northbound, and 2 locals that caused this train to make it less than 50 miles in 6 hours. Here the train is seen pulling out of Greeley siding after waiting for a grain train to run around it roughly 45 minutes after sunset.
CP 6069 leads 3 other standard cab EMDs on a freshly loaded Herzog train from Swansea as they drop rocks on the Windermere Subdivision heading north out of Fort Steele.
N455 leads the up 8081 Swan Hill Pass out of Bendigo from Melbourne's Southern Cross on a sunny Christmas morning. 25/12/22.
East Midlands Railways (EMR) 43274 leads the 1B23 0634 Leeds to London St Pancras International service past West Hampstead Thameslink, with classmate Intercity swallow liveried 43102 / 43302 'The Journey Shrinker' at the rear
Picturesque Church Lane leads up to the Hellfire Caves just a short walk away and the Dashwood Mausoleum and church which crown the top of the hill behind me.
Beyond the rooftops of this very pretty National Trust owned village can be seen the trees of the romantic 18th century landscaped gardens that surround West Wycombe Park - the stunning home of the forever infamous Dashwoods.
The light after the rainstorm saturating the autumn colours.
Chessie Cat 4017 leads SR94 at pole number 21/30 at Limerock, NY on September 12, 1985. The designation on the pole stood for MP21, pole #30. Bill will correct me if that is wrong. That looks like it could be Wendell & Don in the lead unit. Possibly Jesse in the 2nd unit. Been a looonnnggg time.
IORY 3491 leads a trio of G&W corporates by the Bam Bauer Fertilizer & Seed complex just south of Jackson Center, OH with the day's northbound Lima South Local on a smoky, hazy evening.
Mmm...the smell of wildfires and fertilizer...
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
BNSF 6577 leads a northbound loaded ballast train (U-LAJGUE) heading towards Castle Rock during the first hour of sunlight. Note this northbound is reverse running on Main Track 1 which is the dedicated southbound track of the Joint Line.
CREX 1522 leads potash train B730, as they head over to Courtnay Bay in Saint John, New Brunswick to set off their potash loads. They will return to Moncton lite power a few hours later. This is a nice spot for some extra light to make the shot possible.
November 11, 2018.
BNSF 8283 leads a coal train out of the tunnel at Blossburg the top of Mullan Pass. It was quite the explosion of noise and smoke when they exited the tunnel. 7.05
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
43054 leads 91122 with the new OHLE test train enroute to Peterbourgh to do a test / calibration run on the ECML prior to being used for testing the new 25kv electrification on the MML the power cars are required as need to get up to to 125mph to do the testing
One of DB's 'Belmond British Pullman' liveried Skips, 67024, leads a matching rake through Laceyfields working 1E02, the 08.46 departure from London Victoria to Chesterfield.
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 ;-))
This grass covered field road leads to a hay field that has supplied much nourishment for this old barn. Now it just dreams of hay fields as it soaks up the sunshine. Winter will be a different story.
C&O 2765 leads a special from Orrville, OH to Pittsburgh, PA at CP43 in West Pittsburgh, PA on August 22, 1993. The NKP 765 was dressed and lettered specially for these runs. There was no chance of even attempting to chase this between New Castle and Pittsburgh, so I just picked a spot and waited for it. The train did stop at New Castle Yard, so there was always the opportunity to catch it there and then somewhere out on the road.
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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BNSF 8091 leads a northbound coal empty on Colorado's Joint Line between Larkspur, CO and Castle Rock, CO, on Oct 30, 2019. 6" of new snow had fallen with temperatures in the upper teens.
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.
RhB Allegra 3502 leads a train to St Moritz up the Brusio spiral viaduct on the Bernina line.
A downhill train heading for Torino is visible in the distance, emphasising the winding trackage and steep grades of up to 7% employed this railway. The two trains will cross at Brusio station which is behind the church tower in the upper middle distance.
Like clockwork. After all, this is Switzerland.
13 Jan 20 2020, Brusio, Switzerland
CN ES44 #2805 leads and endless string of loaded grain cars west at Leney Saskatchewan.
Running in a 1X1 configuration, the train would stall on the hill near Bigger later in the day.
A colorful locomotive consist leads Burlington Northern Santa Fe HKCKPAS westbound through Rock Creek between Bonita and Clinton, Montana, over MRL’s Third Subdivision on October 15, 2000. MRL No. 301, a former Clinchfield/CSX SD45-2 leads the train. Trailing are BN SD60M No. 9214, BNSF GP39M No. 2876, former Santa Fe SD45-2 No. 6471 and GE B40-8 No. 8616. The empty grade between the train and the Clark Fork is Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension right-of-way. For 35 years until 2018, Rock Creek was popular in some circles for its annual ‘Testicle Festival’ known as ‘Testy Fest’ each summer at the Rock Creek Lodge, that featured a wild celebration surrounding music, beer and consumption of ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters.’ Their advertising once stated, “You’ll have a ball! If you miss it, you’re nuts!”
This title sprang to mind when looking at this image and the lyrics to 'The long and winding road' flooded my head, and look set to stay for at least a couple of days!
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney (Wiki). The band broke up in June 1970 after this song was released as a single.
Lyrics:
The long and winding road, that leads, to your door
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before
It always leads me here, lead me to your door
The wild and windy night, that the rain, washed away
Has left a pool of tears, crying for the day
Why leave me standing here, let me know the way
Many times I've been alone, and many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know, the many ways I've tried
And still they lead me back, to the long winding road
You left me standing here a long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to your door
But still they lead me back to the long winding road
You left me standing here, a long long time ago
Don't keep me waiting here (Don't keep me waiting), lead me to your door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
An SD50 in DRGW paint leads UP Train MPRPB 23, and is seen here blasting out of Dexter, MO on the UP Chester Sub. after making a crew change at North Dexter.
By this time the former Rio Grande SD50's were singing their swan song on the UP. This one was hostled onto the head end of the train a day before in South Pekin, IL by my good friend Dave Sanderbeck after the Dash-8 in the back of the consist came up lame. That mostly SP painted SD40T-2 trailing was a nice touch as well. These units aren't far from home here, as this is former Cotton Belt Trackage.
This particular DRGW SD50 only made a couple more revenue moves before being retired and sold less than 3 weeks later. To catch one on the point and a tunnel motor trailing was certainly worth the effort on Dave's part.
I'd also shot this train in Dupo, IL almost 24 hours before and 165 miles up the track. That would have put this train's average speed for the preceding day around 6.9 MPH. This was back when the word "velocity" was still heard in the UPRR vernacular, and at one time they were pretty proud of the number. You almost never hear it spoken today at any railroad. It's too embarrassing to even mention.
UP 9859 was built in 9-1984 as DRGW 5515, builder and frame number 847022-15. It was patched to 9859 on 9-18-2002, and retired along with 16 siblings on 6-15-07 upon expiration of lease and sold to Progress Rail. They were collected at Metro East Industries in East St. Louis, IL, a handful were sold to short lines, and I presume the rest were scrapped, including this one.
Locomotives: UP 9859, LTEX 8231, UP 9457
5-25-07
Dexter, MO
66505 leads 90048 and 90041 at Thurston working the diverted 4L97 04.57 Trafford Park F.L.T. - Felixstowe North F.L.T on Saturday 4 February 2023.
UP 6379 leads the GSPFRM-03 through CP Z067 in Topeka, KS on 2/5/23.
This one caught me by surprise, as I had come out to photograph the train two ahead of it, and as I was on my way home, Cade let me know that this was headed my way. Yeah, I definitely had to turn around and get the shot. There aren't many SP-painted engines left running, and to get one on the point, when you're already out with the camera, and there's (kind of) sun is a win all around.
BNSF 3930 leads a northbound manifest through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while a majestic Pikes Peak looks on from ~25 miles away.
Well, this is it. This is the shot my Canon 70-200mm f/4L was taking when it died after 15 years of service. It fired off a sequence of three shots; this was the second frame. And that's all she wrote. It threw the "Err 01" code, but the contacts are clean (and it threw the code of two different bodies). I think the internal wiring/electronics of the lens just gave out after a decade and a half of use. Depsite not being an ACe, not a bad image to go out on.
Beyond the still image here, I also whipped out my video camera for the first time in more than 5 years to shoot video of this train. You can here my lens die around the 1:09 mark in the video:
BRM001, leads 602, 4532 and 4904 on loaded grain train 3476 to Newcastle, seen here at South Goulburn.
2020-06-14 SSR BRM001-602-4532-4904 South Goulburn 3476 100mm
UP 9073 leads an eastbound stack train grinding uphill through the S curves near Newkirk, NM. To the left can be seen historic Route 66, which parallels this former joint Rock Island/Cotton Belt line between Tucumcari and Santa Rosa.
37901 leads 37418 through Bessacarr Junction with 6Z37 1255 Doncaster Up Decoy to Derby RTC. I was a bit late getting here after being on nights so never even had chance to get my steps out. Not the brightest image but its the first time I've photted 901 since October 1998!
24th October 2022.
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BNSF 8258 leads a SD60M and Clay Boswell empties south down the Hillsboro Sub in Merrifield, ND.
Not all SD75s kept their Warbonnet scheme, but it was still nice to catch DC-powered coal trains at the end of 2007.
I caught this train coming in to Grand Forks with an Oakway second out (www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/11356039513/), but that unit got left behind in the yard for a later train.
UP 2371 leads UP train MPRPBV-10 southbound thru Columbia, IL, just outside of Dupo, IL, on the UP Chester Sub. Having waited over 7 hours for this thing to finally show up, it's good to see a nice result and that the lead power didn't change on the way here.
Freightliner 66555 leads an empty CWR train past Little Downham, working the 6Y90 0955 Westerfield to Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf engineers.
TRRA slug 307 leads TRRA 100 South through East Saint Louis, IL. They will they shove into the A&S Gateway yard.
CSXT 1869 leads train M218 (Selkirk to Philadelphia Greenwich Yard unit auto racks) out of the south portal of the 2640 ft long tunnel into a light rain after passing beneath the plain inside the United States Miltary Academy at West Point, which is also the oldest continuously occupied military post in the nation. Situated at MP 47.2 besides modern day CSXT's busy River Sub mainline the first West Shore train passed through this bore on June 4, 1883.
The Gothic stone portal of the tunnel blends in with the imposing crenellated parapets of Thayer Hall which rises above, the creation of which was the result of a 1903 design competition to improve and expand the Academy at West Point. The successful design proposal, won by Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, created Thayer Hall as a riding arena, the largest masonry indoor riding facility in the world, at that time. By the end of the Second World War, horse and mounted Calvary training was obsolete and no longer relevant to the mission of West Point. Between 1955 and 1959, the riding hall was repurposed to house 350,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratories, assembly spaces and academic offices.
It is named for Sylvanus Thayer, the 33rd graduate of the academy in 1808 who was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. In the War of 1812 he commanded the defense of Norfolk, VA and built the installations to defend the port. After studying and touring Europe he returned in 1817 and was made the 5th Superintendent of the Academy by President James Monroe, a post he held for 16 years in which time he created the first college of engineering in the United States.
United States Miltary Academy West Point
Highlands, New York
Saturday May 31, 2025
Classic green BN EMD power leads intermodal over the Gassman Coulee Bridge. With the F-45, SD40-2, and SD-45 lashup, all I can say is right leader! Also love the original UPS, Rock, and ICG pigs on the head end.
CSX 4732 leads M369, a new symbol since the Howard St. tunnel project, through downtown Ashland. The full power was a MAC leader, a YN2 AC44, a GEVO, another YN2 AC44, and a CM44 rebuild, pretty good for 2025.
73138 leads 1Z05 Derby RTC-Grove Park, passing Barby Nortoft on the 5th of December 2011. 31465 is on the rear
Amtrak P42DC #161 dressed in its Phase 1 50th Anniversary paint leads train #19 'The Crescent' westbound through Tallapoosa, GA on Norfolk Southern's Birmingham East District.
U25C 2500 leads U23Cs 2301 and 2300 as the 7 AM Hill job is about to cross over Highway 41 on the return leg of its second trip of the day on September 3, 1981.
Arizona Central 3413, a former SP GP9, leads the railroad's remaining roster, GP7s 2279 and 2164 back toward Clarkdale after dropping off cars at the BNSF interchange in Drake. Since they didn't take back any cars, I tried some angles where the lack of train wouldn't be apparent, and I think I ended up with some decent shots.