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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.
BNSF 9294 leads a westbound Clay Boswell coal empty through the fields of western Minnesota near Crookston.
As good as the leader looks from the perspective of 14 years later, the second unit was what the foamers were out for. There was a chance the merger scheme'd SD60M, BNSF 9297, was going to be leading this train, but, it wasn't meant to me. Neither was me ever catching it leading... but it wasn't for lack of trying.
Dual-window SD60Ms in BN whiteface were by far my favorite unit and paint scheme to catch, so it wasn't like I was heartbroken the 9297 wasn't leading. I'll take a whiteface SD60M all day, e'rrrday...
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
50007 leads a Alstom SWR unit from Derby for storage at Worksop
Due to the unavailability of the usual 47s and 56 the class 50s were used for a few days on various unit moves
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
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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 1953 leads the Rapids Local down the double track, approaching MP 15.9 a few minutes before sunset on the cold afternoon of December 27, 2017.
The 1953 and 1964 are running down the Lakes Sub. on the blocks of a loaded COB coal train that also ran west out of Superior towards Cohasset.
DMIR 206 leads a late afternoon Limestone North into the setting sun at Munger back in November 2002. The Missabe usually ran this Minntac limestone out of Proctor in the afternoon and on the shorter days you sometimes had to eeek it out. On this day, the Limestone North had DM&IR 206, 416, 417, and 58 cars.
Besides the obvious difference with the motive power, a few other things have changed at Munger. Above the fifth side dump is the double searchlight in place as the approach signal to Carson and the Munger Shaw crossing further back is still protected by crossbucks.
The Wabash Heritage Locomotive leads sand load BNSF Train U EOLSWR0 18T past the former station site of Courtney on Main Track 1 of the BNSF Marceline Sub. into some subtle evening light thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Imra passing through the area. They'll ease up at Cement City before crossing from 1 to 2 in order to let a KEY Train around them. Thanks to a timely heads up earlier in the afternoon, this kind of fell in my lap.
Locomotives: NS 1070, NS 5458
9-13-17
Sugar Creek, MO
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.
Colas Rail Freight 70805 leads the 6E92 0634 Oxwellmains Lafarge Colas to Seaham Harbour Colas Rail past Newcaste.
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
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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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A CN SD60F leads UP Train MTTPB 11 as it pulls away from a crew change at North Dexter on the UP Chester Sub. Canadian National purged their fleet of SD60F's from their roster in 2017.
Locomotives: CN 5528, UP 2332
5-11-08
Dexter, MO
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.
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!”
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CP #8163 leads KCS #4806 (which has become common practice across the new CPKC system) across the 3,920 Joso High Bridge built in 1914 by Kelly-Atkinson of Chicago, IL on a spectacular Summer evening. The track passing underneath carries Watco's "Great Northwest Railroad". Joso spans the mighty Snake River.
The "Lyons Ferry" road bridge in the distance carries WA-261 over the Snake River
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.
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
CP 8931 leads Canadian Pacific loaded grain train 356 southbound through the downtown area of Bellevue, IA on a chilly, early February afternoon. We're overlooking the town at Bellevue State Park, and unfortunately, nature has reclaimed much of this view. There's only a small pocket of space where the trees don't totally obscure the angle nowadays.
Taken on the Canadian Pacific Marquette Subdivision on 2/4/23.
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.
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:
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door
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
Here we have Mist, Paddy & Elk sufferring the indignity of having to wear a lead! We'd travelled down to Bleinhiem Palace near Oxford for the Countryfile Live Event that was running for a day or two .. dogs on leads was the rule in the grounds ... my 3 are very rarely are on the lead as we travel the fells (they know how to behave with sheep and livestock cos i've told them the rules). The other thing with the show was the thousands of other dogs there .. to Paddy's delight (every doggie is a potential playmate), Elk on the other hand managed to cope very well given her bi-polarism but her control was beginning to fade after day 3 with a constant eye and head swivelling looking out for bandits at 2 o'clock and every other clock! (I heard one young boy asking his dad "what's wrong with that dog dad?" .. "Looks like a bit of 'collieitus' son" - that was the moment when at least 10 dogs were approaching, her senses were being assailed by barbarcued beef, beefburgers and sausages and little children kept appearing out of nowhere .. as said she did very well but you could see her visibly relax when we reached the fields leading to the campsite. Mist, by the way was completely aloof and ignored everything as being non relevant ... unless it was a ball or we got close to the river!
Rebuilt SD38-3 #1235 leads an EB passenger extra to Silver Bay back on July 12, 2010. This special for Cleveland-Cliffs execs is approaching the Cliffs Erie underpass in just about the middle of nowhere, MN on NSM's mainline between Babbitt and Silver Bay, MN. An interesting consist here with 1235 leading 5482 and five cars out of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's collection
The passenger cars would stay around Silver Bay and be used by Northshore Mining to run passenger trains as part of Beaver Bay Days later in the month. Unfortunately they didn't keep 1235 down there and both ends of the train had leased SD40-2s, with no NSM markings or lettering (5482 and 655). Guess thinking back almost 10 years ago, it was cool they ran these passenger trains at all.
Was the only time I've seen or shot the blue 1235.
LSL 47712 leads 5Z48 Carlisle - Crewe H.S. past Shap Wells with 47805 in a lucky sun spell on January 19th, 2023. Pole shot.
43058? Leads 43059 with 1Z46 away from a red after catching up with Tornado. Interesting livery, almost like Midland Mainline crossed with GWR
Canadian National C40-8M #2410 leads Norfolk Southern train #291 out of Atlanta bound for Jacksonville on Independence Day 2014.
This gateway leads into the Capitol Gorge area of Capitol Reef National Park.
As we viewed sheer cliffs in many places on this trip, like the cliff on the left, we wondered what massive force(s) would make an almost perfectly flat slab of vertical rock loosen itself and fall. Just one of the many things that come to mind when beholding such natural marvels.
The term reef in this context had puzzled me because I normally thought of a reef in an aquatic setting. Wikipedia, however, comes to the rescue. In a dry land setting, “… reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.”
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DL #414 leads PO75 westbound by Elmhurst through the dark of the night with the remaining snow from the first storm of winter on the ground.
Freightliner 66555 leads an empty CWR train past Little Downham, working the 6Y90 0955 Westerfield to Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf engineers.
A view of Rannie Road which leads to Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: I hadn't been to Pitt Lake in so long, so I packed up my 2 dogs and drove to Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows near Vancouver, BC, Canada. This area is so beautiful and out here you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere as there is hardly anybody around and hardly any cars around even though you are only about 15 minutes away from a fair size town. On the way there I just had to stop on the side of the road to take a photo of the road that leads to the mountains because I love this view! There was some low hanging clouds as well.
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Some information on the Pitt Lake area: Pitt Lake is located in Grant Narrows Regional Park in Pitt Meadows which is about 45 minutes east of downtown Vancouver. Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, being about 53.5 square km (20.5 square mi) in area. It is about 25km (15.6mi) long and about 4.5km (2.8mi) wide at its widest, and is also one of the world's largest tidal lakes, its confluence with the Fraser being only a few miles upstream from that river's estuary into the Strait of Georgia. Its southern tip, where the Pitt River resumes, is 40km (25mi) east of downtown Vancouver.
The upper Pitt River valley is a typical U-shaped glacial valley in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. The over-deepening of the lower end of the valley over the span of the Wisconsin glaciation created a trough over 140m (462ft) below current sea level. After initial glacial retreat at around 13,000 years ago a saltwater fjord occupied this basin when relative sea levels were still ca 120m (396ft) to 140m (462ft) above current levels in the region. Unlike neighbouring Indian Arm and Howe Sound farther west this fjord basin became cut off by sedimentation of the lower Fraser River by ca 10,500 years ago and is now considered a tidal fjord lake.
The community of Pitt Meadows occupies the marshy lowland at the southern end of the lake, some of which has become drained and is known as the Pitt Polder. Just southwest of the lake is the community of Port Coquitlam, which is across the Pitt River from Pitt Meadows. At the north end of the lake is a locality named Alvin, which is a transport and shipping point for logging companies and their employees. The Upper Pitt, meaning the valley upstream from the lake, is considered BC's best fly-fishing rivers and one of its best steelhead streams.
The lake is popular with boaters and canoeists, but is prone to heavy winds and rains as well as big waves (due to its great depth). The mountain range on its east flank comprises Golden Ears Provincial Park, its basin to the north is in southern Garibaldi Provincial Park, while the mountain range on its west, northeast of Vancouver's Coquitlam Lake watershed reservoir, is Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. The waterfront and foreshore of the lake and river are public-access and include extensive migratory wildfowl habitat. There is a destination golfing resort in the Pitt Polder area called Swan-e-set.
The area along the east side of the lake is somewhat famous for being the reputed location of Slumach's lost gold mine, the location of many failed and sometimes disastrous searches for the alleged murderer's lost gold mine. (Info from Wikipedia)
DB Cargo UK 'Delivering For Our Key Workers' liveried 66113 leads the 4Z71 1500 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Peak Forest Up Sidings through Ely.
A colorful EMD consist leads D&RGW's first double stack container train through Provo, Utah on Feb. 28, 1989. The Rio Grande and Southern Pacific operated Sea Land container trains between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California via Tennessee Pass from 1989 until 1992. Regular service began as D&RGW train No. 143, changing to SP alpha symbols BNSZT/CHSZT in 1990.
E656-294 leads a train of museum equipment north towards Messina where some of it will head back to the mainland. The equipment was used the day before on a pair of excursion trains from Catania. I had stayed in Catania the night before and was hoping the equipment would go north the next night and when I got to the station sure enough they were shunting the train together. The problem was that it would be a long wait for the next train for me to get to my desired photo spot. Thinking surprisingly quickly I checked the bus schedule and saw indeed, there was a bus leaving in just a few minutes. I arrived at my spot in Letojanni and amazingly the heavy cloud cover cleared off right before the train. I think this was the only time I was disappointed to see a E656 on the trip as I was hoping the trailing E646 would lead. However the E656 will likely soon be scrap metal while the 646 should be safe. Note, I removed alot of graffiti from the front of the loco, it was tempting to paint back the FS logos that have been missing for atleast a year but thats too much fakery.
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."
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.
90012 leads 90041 on the 4L91 02.10 Trafford Park F.L.T. - Felixstowe North F.L.T on the 16 June 2021.
Taken with the assistance of a pole.
MBTA 1071 leads Fall River-bound train 1915 southbound in Bridgewater. 1071 is painted in the colors of the former New Haven Railroad. The locomotive is right at home running on the Middleboro Line, which is part of the Old Colony Lines that the NH once operated on. A friendly wave out the window and the train rushes past the camera and over Titicut St.
Utah 5004 leads a Kyle eastbound between Robertson Siding and Norton Kansas. Here, the train is running through the cut approaching the Hwy 383 overpass. This section of track was part of a mainline relocation project back in the 60's to complete Keith Sebelius Reservoir at Norton Kansas. Both the Rock Island and CB&Q had their line's relocated.