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BNSF 709 leads the northbound H-SLADEN up the Palmer Divide as seen from the famous railfan hump in Palmer Lake, CO.
The hump was loaded up with 5 of us on this particular day getting our shots and video of this pair of Warbonnets (and another unit) leading the way, something not too common to see in 2021. Of the two red and silver units, despite the leader being a Fauxbonnet, it was the correct choice as it was much less faded than its trailing sister.
An AC44 leads a westbound grain train alongside the Crowsnest River.
This was just a grab shot as I was on my way to Calgary after work; I didn't even know what was leading, just that something was cleared to a few miles west of me. On my descent down to the tracks, I slipped, fell and figured that I was done for. My life didn't flash before my eyes; my only thought was how unfortunate it was that I would die in my Save-On-Foods uniform. Miraculously, I walked away with only a few scrapes and my camera was fine.
All that for an AC44 covered in coal dust.
An overhauled EMD SD75M leads BNSF Train X ARKLMS9 26S past CP Rose just west of Parkville on the BNSF St. Joseph Sub. These aren't very common leaders in this area, so it's always nice to catch on on the point. Better than another orange GE. I think these look really slick in the "Heritage 4" paint scheme with the black trucks. I wish they were all painted this way.
Locomotives: BNSF 269, BNSF 4609, BNSF 8514
2-28-20
Parkville, MO
Orange G&W Freightliner 66623 leads the 6M01 1751 Chesterton Junction Fhh to Tunstead Sdgs through Waterbeach.
BNSF 8990 leads a coal empty north through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO.
Couple with my previous upload, I did the same exact sequence of shots in Spruce and Greenland here last Spring. This time, though, both units were ACes.
The big rock on the left there is Pikes Peak, which has shed much of its snow in the recent weeks. With Colorado Springs tying the all-time high temperature in the city of 101F, it's been quite toasty in the Pikes Peak Region lately...
From the Ante-Chapter-House a curved passage leads to one of the most admirable areas of Spanish Renaissance architecture: the Chapter-House of the Cathedral. It was begun in 1558 under the direction of the architec Hernán Ruiz II and was finished by Asensio de Maeda in 1592.
The layout of this area is elliptical so that all the members of the cathedral chapter were perfectly visible at their meetings where the problems of the spiritual and material government of the church were brought up and discussed. The oval vaulting in one simple unit helps the voice to carry and has exceptional acoustics. The need for hearing and seeing required in the meetings of the numerous clergy was thus satisfactorily solved, but at the same time the wall decoration of the Chapter-House consists of a complex series of pictures and figures to emphasize the virtues expected of those who came to meet there so that their exchange of ideas and opinions would take place in an atmosphere of harmony and concerd. The walls therefore show a moral code for the canons to observe in their chapter meetings. The composition of pictures and figures designed by the canon Francisco Pacheco includes a seies of sculptures ans paintings with Latin inscriptions referring to the meanings of the images. All this decoration appears in the second section of the Hall, and the first to be seen between the pedestals of the columns are painted versions of the Virtues, among which Justice, Charity, Faith, Compassion and Hope can be identified. These virtues are female figures, some of which represent Saints at the same time, such as St Barbara, St Katherine, St Lucy and St Agnes. These paintings were carried out by Pablo de Céspedes in 1592.
The authors of the large vertical reliefs between the columns are Juan Bautista Vázquez el Viejo and Diego de Velasco who made them approximately between 1582 and 1582. They show The Assumption of the Virgin, Two Miracles of St John the Evangelists, The cleasing of the Temple, The Heavenly Father with the Vintagers, The seven Angels calling the Damned, The Ectasy of St John Evangelist and The Allegory of the Mystic Lamb. The rectangular reliefs were carried out by Marcos Cabrera around 1590 and show The last Sermon of Jesus Christ, Daniel in the Lions´Den, Christ´s Baptism, The Storm in the Sea of Tiberias, The Parable of the Sower, Christ,s Agony in the Garden, St Peter contemplating the unclean Animals and Christ washing the Feet of the Apostles.
In the vault there is a magnificent series of paintings by Murillo who was commissioned by the Chapter in 1667. In a splendid carved frame everything centres on La Inmaculada, which may be considered among the most beautiful the artist made of the subject. Painted on circular canvases around the vault there is a series of eight Seville Saints who can be identified by the name on the signs. They are San Hermenegildo, San Fernando, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Laureano, Santa Justa, Santa Rufina and San Pio. The Chapter-House centres on a magnificent mahogany armchair which was carved by the sculptor Diego de Velasco in 1592. Before it there is the secretary´s bench, also of excellent design by the same artist.
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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.
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.
MILW #32A leads the Gourmet Express back towards Minneapolis after making its stop in Glencoe, Minnesota. Built in April of 1956 as MILW #202A, the #32A was donated to Friends of the 261 by WSOR in 2019 and was beautifully repainted into orange/maroon to match the rest of the passenger car fleet.
Southwestern Railroad No. 28 leads a westbound Cimarron Valley Railroad freight at milepost 4 west of Dodge City, Kansas, on the afternoon of February 29, 2000.
BNSF 3009 leads a short local down the 1% grade at Eagle Falls near Baring, WA. This train was called as an extra out of Delta Yard to switch customers in Monroe and then head up Stevens Pass to Skykomish to grab a bad ordered coal car. To my friends and I surprise, BNSF 3009, a rare BN whiteface GP40E, was in consist. Lining up perfectly with a planned weekend on Stevens Pass, we were able to shoot the 3009 returning from Skykomish, providing us with a very rare opportunity.
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.
CR B23-7 2005 leads PW-SE (Providence & Worcester to Selkirk, NY) westward passing Quaboag river on this Spring early evening.
In my opinion this is one of THE locations on the 'Boston Line', the old textile mill and waterfall say New England all the way around.
Photo taken on March 21, 1985
Scanned from a K64 slide
© Robert C. Barnett 2023
Rich Barnett collection
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.
CN 3115 leads CN A421 through downtown Hamilton on a brisk Saturday morning.
I would have liked to have chased this train but I had CN 1439 on my mind and didn't want to miss out on a GMD-1 opportunity...GEVO's will be around for a while still.
CN 2844 leads train 306, starting it's descent down across the trestle at Saint Eleuthere, PQ.
June 29, 2019.
CN 8012 leads an empty rack train for Flat Rock south around the curve at Rattalee Lake Road just south of Holly, Michigan on the Holly Subdivision.
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.
2606 leads a colourful stack downgrade at Creston Junction. Completing the consist are 8992 and Norfolk Souther 9365. My understanding is that Union Pacific have recently acquired a few former Norfolk and Southern locomotives.
43127 leads 43125 over the Findhorn viaduct, crossing the river of the same name which drains out into the North Sea at Findhorn! This viaduct is however at Tomatin and the train is descending from Slochd with 1H05, the 07:00 Glasgow Queen Street to inverness. July the 20th 2021.
This great EMD lash leads the manifest SUPNTW south and west over the Hinckley Sub over the Net River trestle through Holyoke.
Catching a green SD60 leading has been on the list for some time, and even though the weather was awful, I'll take it.
BNSF 1475
BNSF 1463
GN 3704
BNSF 9940
BNSF 1511
Doug Harrop Photography • April 8, 1977
Santa Fe 5581 leads a well powered eastbound train through the world famous "Tehachapi Loop" at Walong, California.
From Wikipedia: "The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Rising at a steady two-percent grade, the track gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation and makes a 1,210-foot-diameter (370 m) circle. Any train that is more than 3,800 feet (1,200 m) long — about 56 boxcars — passes over itself going around the loop. At the bottom of the loop, the track passes through Tunnel 9, the ninth tunnel built as the railroad was extended from Bakersfield."
It is a cloudless, muggy, August day in 1980 in south-central Texas, as Santa Fe SD40-2 5118 leads the Coleto Creek coal train at mile 15 north of Shiner on Southern Pacific's Shiner Branch of the San Antonio Division. Photo by Joe McMillan.
The coal train originated on the D&RGW in Colorado. The Burlington Northern hauled it from Pueblo to Fort Worth, where it was handed off to the Santa Fe. It traveled down the Fort Worth and Galveston Subdivisions to Caldwell and interchanged to the SP for the final leg of the journey.
The Coleto Creek power plant is located west of Victoria, Texas. The facility was brand new at the time of this photo, but plans are being made to close it in a few years.
For beer lovers, Shiner, Texas, is home to the Spoetzl Brewery, home of Shiner Beer.
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...
EL55 leads EL62 42103 CLF1 C501 GM10 & CLF4 on SSR’s 3MC5 empty grain from Appleton Dock to The Rock at Kilmore East - 01/11/2022
AMTK 517 leads the Chicgo-bound Borealis out of Saint Paul underneath Mounds Park. Several inches of snow fell to create a glorious winter landscape. The snow is now getting blown off as the train gets up to speed.
New-paint Amtrak 75, running about 20 minutes late, leads train #1105, the westbound Winter Park Express, through Arvada, Colorado, at 07:45, December 20, 2024. This is the first seasonal run of the popular ski train, which started earlier this year and will soon have more than the five cars shown here. The train carries skiers from Denver to the Winter Park Resort, about a two-hour journey.
Mile 9.5, UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.
43058? Leads 43059 with 1Z46 away from a red after catching up with Tornado. Interesting livery, almost like Midland Mainline crossed with GWR
BNSF 8512 leads a southbound manifest at Spruce, CO and past the rescue unit that is stationed there to help stalled trains make it up the grade to Palmer Lake.
A solo ex-GM&O GP38-2 leads a train of Ford frames and 86-footers through the famous DT&I "arches", a remnant of Henry Ford's electrification project in the 1920s, on its way to the sprawling Rouge Complex in Dearborn.
This country lane leads from Brixworth, north towards the site of what was possibly the most important battle of the English Civil War - the Battle of Naseby in 1645. The Royalist army suffered a heavy defeat and never really recovered. These days, the peaceful countryside is given over to farming.
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.
DL #3602 leads PO74 east around the curve at Henry’s Crossing as snow continues to build up in the heart of a storm.
A BN painted Geep leads the "Kearney Turn" BNSF Train R HLA4561 21F as it drops down off the Georgia-Pacific Lead onto the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub. after getting authority to enter Main Track 1.
The GP28M is the last Geep assigned to Kansas City still wearing Burlington Northern paint. The candy cane striped anticlimber dates to when this engine led the Springfield Division Santa Claus Express in the early 1990's.
Only about a half dozen other six axle EMD's populate the city along with it, and several are assigned hump and bowl units at Argentine. On the rear of the train is BNSF 2550. Usually the power is split in order to switch the branch.
Locomotive: BNSF 1506
2-21-20
Randolph, MO
An SD70ACe leads BNSF C NAMPAM 050A past the E MONNAM 008A at Napier Center waiting its turn to come west on the BNSF St. Joseph Sub.
Coal used to be king on this stretch of track, and depending upon the day it still is. Today was one of those days with plenty of Wyoming black diamonds going east and the empties headed back to the mines for another load.
Locomotives: BNSF 8996, BNSF 9653
4-11-21
Napier, MO