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Simple wooden bridge now leads to a hidden destination. It is a foggy morning in the fall season. The leaves of the willow tree have yellowed and some have already fallen on the bridge.
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BNSF #6630 leads a westbound oil train in golden light as it snakes along the Clark Fork river on the former Montana Rail Link's 4th subdivision.
BNSF 9078 leads a northbound coal empty into Castle Rock, CO as a snow-covered Pikes Peak looks on.
I love late-May, early-June shots here where the sun has swung far enough north in the mornings to catch northbounds with a still-snowy Pikes Peak contrasting against the greens of Spring.
KCS 1 leads the Southern Belle, symboled BLRKC22, making the run into Houston on UP's Sunset Route, splitting the ex-SP searchlights at CP Eureka west of downtown.
Shots of this train's southbound deadhead move the previous weekend were unfortunately not meant to be, as UP held the train in the first siding outside of the terminal for over 7 hours (yes, for that long!) due to congestion. This time, with executives on board for the northbound trip to Kansas City, UP gave them the railroad all the way from Rosenberg to Beaumont, making for a good excuse to skip class this morning.
Houston, TX 2/23/2022
CP 8834 leads Chicago bound marine stack train #148 east across the swing bridge over the mouth of the Shuswap River at Sicamous, BC.
During the summer months, this bridge is constantly opening and closing for tourists navigating some of the over 200 rental houseboats that call the lake home in and out of the marina. The towns along Shuswap Lake swell in seasonal population as visitors mostly from the urban centers of British Columbia, and Alberta flock to the region for its warm temperatures, beaches, and watersports.
Until 2014, Sicamous was the junction with CP's Okanagan Subdivision branch line, which diverged south from the main just past the left edge of the image. CP leased the line to shortline operator Omnitrax in 1998. After the largest shipper on the line closed in 2008, the shortline folded. The right of way was sold to the regional district in 2014 for a rails to trails project.
CSRX 252 leads the 216 and the 7470 back from Hazen's to N.Conway. They are about to cross Route 302 in Faybans. This shot was taken from the parking lot at a nearby church. It just so happens they planted flowers on the embankment next to the tracks, to spell out "Hail Merry" and it made a perfect shot possible.
Up 8630 leads the MCBIT north through Coon Creek, passing by the former Foley Blvd grade crossing and getting ready to embark on the trip along the Hinckley Sub. Not sure if I like this style of paint scheme UP is doing, but sure for a different leader on this train.
37424 leads 37407 past the gallery of photographers at Thurston on 09/10/21 on 3S60 08:37 Stowmarket to Stowmarket.
This shot has been on the 'to do' list for the last 3 years, good weather had never tied in with being free. Looking at the forecast for today and having a crap diagram at work meant I put in for lieu leave yesterday morning last minute and luckily got today off and the weather played ball!
GMTX 2233 leads a sunrise New Brunswick Southern Railway extra westbound, as they head through Clarendon, New Brunswick, with the sun rising, shining nicely on the empty woodchip cars.
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April 14,2017.
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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MRL SD35 leads the Gas Local East along the Clark For River near Eddy, MT. I really enjoyed a number of chases with this trio of SD35s. This is scan number 1,800. While I am enjoying scanning these and posting them I will never finish. Shot in Oct 2004
NS 8104 leads an empty coke train towards Granite City, IL through a massive snowstorm. This train will load at the US Steel Granite City Works facility. These trains don't have much life left to them as the company announced plans to restart the blast furnace in April of 2026. So far, everything is on track for that goal.
BNSF 6058 leads a northbound coal empty passed the long abandoned stock pen at Greenland, CO on Jan 19, 2025.
CSX 8383 leads G933 up the former Atlantic Coast Line Main to Montgomery, Alabama, on a spotless early spring afternoon. This rare SD40 leader was a great surprise coming north. We had followed a train down to the siding in Dillard, Alabama, from Montgomery most of the day, and when this appeared on the other side of the southbound we were ecstatic. This shot is just south of the town of Brundidge, Alabama. With no meets in the way until Scott siding some ways north G933 would make a perfect target all the way thru sunset...
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43179 leads 43026 with the 1B30 1248 Inverness to Edinburgh past Aldclune south of Blair Atholl. At this point the line line runs parallel to the River Garry which is the source of many a fine highland malt whisky.
The Grampian mountains are rising in the distance and make a fine backdrop to this scene.
The weather had been steadily improving since lunch time giving more sunny photo opportunities than in the morning.
A recent SD70AC rebuild from CSX's Huntington shop leads intermodal train I161 west around the long connection from the Big 4 to the B&O at Greenwich, Ohio, on May 14, 2024.
IANR 3806 leads CRWA-26 as it pokes forward as it serves the grain elevator on the east side of Vinton on a dreary post-Christmas day - taken on the IANR Cedar Rapids Subdivision.
With just one week left of Iowa Northern's independence, the parachute foamers will certainly rain down across the system in a desperate last-ditch effort to capture some Iowa Northern action over this upcoming weekend. Being stuck in Iowa City during the week has kept me from documenting the last several months' worth of action, but I do hope to get out there this weekend too. Let's play nice, fellas. From the sound of it, last weekend was nothing more than a fart sniffing contest, all brought about by the coolest of the cool from the Chicago region. The Iowa Northern power will likely stick around at least for a little while, so let's cut the hysterics this weekend, sound good? Alright, enough of my soapbox PSAing, no one asked for that, but I did it anyway. It sure feels good to act all high and mighty like I have any sort of real control over the hooligans that show up and ruin things for everyone who actually lives in the region. For real though, just be chill.
CNW 8551 leads an empty coal train across a pair of diamonds at Deval. The train is already crossing the WC and is just hitting the diamonds with the Harvard Sub. The train appears to be an empty from Pleasant Prairie based on the cars and the coal trains for Waukegan and Oak Creek would need a unit equipped with ATS which is pry the only thing this dash 8 doesnt have. At one time this unit was used in the U.P. on ore trains and was set up for distributed power. By the time this photo was shot the UP may have removed this equipment. I want to say this photo was taken late 1995 or early 1996.
View from Gebhardsberg
Here the A14 leads over the Bregenzerach
Bregenz 2025
Nikon TW Zoom 35-80 mm, Kentmere Pan 400, Kodak D-76
Print onto Fomaspeed Variant 311 RC, Moersch ECO 4812
More black and matched "NW" dip leads a westbound freight through the interlocking known as "The Puzzle", just west of the East 55th Street yard. This is the former Nickel Plate Road "High Speed Service" mainline. One thing I always thought was wild (and great for railfans) about the N&W guys is that they really seemed to love their geeps! More often than not, you'd get that geep leading the newer power.
NS 1072 leads Pan Am Southern train 16R out of the 4.75 mile long Hoosac Tunnel into daylight in Florida, MA. This is one of the more interesting locations on the west end of the PAS Freight Main. It has interesting history to say the least.
The S&A Heritage Locomotive leads NS Train I39 past KCT Tower 14 at Adams Street Interlocking on The Inbound as it prepares to enter UP Armourdale Yard. This was my first time seeing the Savannah & Atlanta Railway unit in its Southern Tuxedo paint scheme. It's a nice looking engine.
About 30 minutes earlier my new Canon 6D Mark II and Sigma lenses were delivered so this was a nice train to fire off a few test shots on.
Locomotive: NS 1065
1-31-19
Kansas City, KS
Greater Anglia 90006 'Roger Ford' leads the 1P37 1230 Norwich to London Liverpool Street past Dagworth (Stowmarket).
NS high hood GP38-2 #5109 leads an Atlanta, GA to Memphis,TN bare table train past the 94.3 intermediate signal at Seney, GA on Norfolk Southerns Atlanta North District.
NS 1055 leads empty coal train NS 591 west through the small town of Summerhill, PA on a warm June afternoon. The PRR signals that once stood here have been taken out since June of 2019.
BNSF 573 leads the southbound Pikes Peak Local just south of Monument, CO while snow showers loom to the north.
The B40-8 wore the H1 paint scheme better than any other unit, in my opinion, so it's great to still catch one running the rails these days. The PPL is a good bet to catch classic EMD standard cab power, but a standard cab GE in H1 paint is more than acceptable! This was a great afternoon along the Joint Line as just before shooting this train, I caught a KCS ACe leading a southbound military train...
Big GE 655 leads a Binghamton bound Lanesboro Detour train at the old Erie coaling tower in Susquehanna, PA on 12/28/1985. This was supposedly the last Lanesboro detour train, so the Lanesboro helpers that assisted in the run around move on the Penn Division were left on the end of the train for the trip to Binghamton. The newly rebuilt tunnel was open for train traffic and the first train would pass thru it later that afternoon. After New Years, the Lanesboro detour was used again for a couple of days so that some final finishing work could be completed on the tunnel. Once the tunnel work was complete, the D&H Penn Division was gone forever. There were a few railfans on hand for the final move on the Penn Division, most notably the late J.J. Young Jr., and his photo essay from that final train was featured in an issue of Railpace as I recall. This day in December was my last hurrah however, and the last time I was ever at this location.
GE leads the EMD's on this northbound "Worthville Turn", which would be empties on the way back to DeCoursey Yard and then on to the mines.
We were really happy the L&N seemed to be on a mission painting stuff into the Family Lines scheme, as it wasn't too bad at all for a gray scheme. While the loss of any yellow nose power hurt, the repainting was wiping out the gray ghost dip units that had become so dominating after L&N dropped the yellow nose, and that was nice to see IMHO.
NW 611 leads the Friday afternoon Shenandoah Valley Limited through the farm fields of Swoope as it heads towards the siding at LaGrange to conclude the inbound trip
*Taken with land owner permission
BNSF 6040 leads 266 eastward down the Sandusky District after holding for 11E, with the 4718 still wearing a scheme remnant of predecessor road Sante Fe trailing behind. In the past month or so there have been two of these that came down on the 266, then lead 267 the next day- both of which I was unable to shoot. Either way, solid angle in great light. I guess I'll take it.
BNSF 7037 leads a trio of Cascade Green SD40-2s and a long manifest west toward Hawley, MN.
This is just the more telemash'd version of my previous upload. If I remember correctly, I was on my way to grab lunch when a westbound SD60M was on its way so I stopped to shoot it. This train was not far behind, and while I don't remember having a heads up on the power, I stuck around to shoot it. Good choice, I'd say...lunch can always wait!
SD30C-ECO 5023 leads the Northfield across the former CGW lift bridge at Robert St in St Paul, MN on a beautiful winter afternoon. It's too bad more trains don't use this bridge as it's really photogenic and really easy to get to.
I'd sure like to see shots of CGW SD40's using this bridge. CGW anything for that matter.
The entryway gate leads to the many temples in the Temple of Heaven complex in Beijing, China.
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CSX 5370 leads an eastbound Herzog ballast train through the curves of the Yakima River Canyon at the former timetable location of 'Hillside'.
Hillside was once home to a 4,400ft siding which lasted from when the Northern Pacific first built through the canyon in 1887 until 1971, one year after the Burlington Northern merger. The sidings at Hillside, nearby Roza, and Umtanum were removed in early 1971 as the newly formed BN began rationalizing its trackage, and downgraded the Fourth Subdivision to a secondary route. When the June, 1972 timetables were issued, these locations were no longer named places.
When BN shifted the majority of through trains from the ex-NP mainline across the Cascades to the former GN and a portion of the ex-SP&S, they quickly realized that four sidings in 23 miles of track were completely unnecessary. Only the longest of these passing tracks in the canyon at Wymer was retained.
Traffic on the Stampede, and Yakima Valley Subdivisions can go from almost none in a day, to several trains in the span of a few hours. All traffic over the Stampede Sub is eastbound, consisting of empty grain, and crude oil trains.
When heading east on Interstate 90 late on the evening of the 27th, I intercepted a transmission from a defect detector 20 miles ahead of me, announcing the passing of a short, 164 axle train. Clear roads ahead of me allowed me to eventually catch this ballast train near the south end of the Yakima Canyon. With summer vacation traffic over for the year, and a week early for the surge of fall fisherman, I was the only car on the road. In addition to aiding my speedy travel, the absence of vehicle traffic allowed for the headlights of the train to be the only major light source in frame. The glow of the Roza dam around the next bend in the river is visible as well.
This image is a composite of four 30 second long time exposures, stitched together in Photoshop. I underestimated how slow the train would travel through this section, and grossly misjudged my camera settings for the exposures. I typically would set up well in advance, and take several practice images before the train arrived, but the train's head start on me and chase down the canyon prevented this.
LSL 37521 leads Greater Anglia 720531 and 37688 'Great Rocks' with barrier vehicles working 5Q19 Derby Litchurch Lane to Wembley Inter City Depot pass Kibworth on 9 December 2021.
The 37's were on hire to GBRailfreight from Locomotive Services Ltd due to a shortage of traction.
7021 leads 586 as it is about to crest the hill at midway and glide down the steep grade to St Paul.
Engineer Rengo leads a morning bird around the bends at 65 a couple months ago during our first real snow of the year.
BNSF 9527 leads an empty Detroit Edison coal train down Norfolk Southern's Sandusky District in Columbus, Ohio.
Covarrubias es una villa y municipio español, situado en la Comarca del Arlanza, provincia de Burgos, en la comunidad de Castilla y León.
En el siglo X el conde de Castilla Fernán González y su hijo García Fernández convirtieron a Covarrubias en la capital del Infantazgo de Covarrubias y cabeza de uno de los más importantes señoríos monásticos. Por este motivo esta población es conocida como «La cuna de Castilla».
Presenta un entramado urbano bien conservado, unido a un patrimonio monumental amplio, en la que destaca el Torreón de Fernán González, la única fortaleza castellana anterior al siglo XI que se conserva.
Turísticamente, forma con las vecinas localidades de Lerma y Santo Domingo de Silos el llamado Triángulo del Arlanza.
Covarrubias, desde el siglo X conserva su nombre con muy pocas variantes, su etimología es de fácil explicación si tenemos en cuenta las numerosas cuevas de color rojizo, cuevas-rojas, que se hallan cerca del casco urbano, mirando al río Arlanza, en la carretera que conduce a Salas de los Infantes, pasando por el derrumbado Monasterio de San Pedro de Arlanza. Como etimología no estaría mal valorar rubias como posible significado como vado, o río, del prerromano ibi. Cerca del mismo tenemos el río Ura (ura significa agua en vascuence).
En el siglo XIII, se convierte el nombre en apellido toponímico de una de las familias más linajudas del lugar.
Sus habitantes son conocidos como racheles y rachelas, gentilicio que proviene del nombre hebreo de Raquel, la mujer de Jacob, que significa bella (rajel), empleado para designar a la gran cantidad de damas hermosas y mansas que han habitado Covarrubias a lo largo de los siglos. En castellano antiguo este nombre era escrito con "ch": Rachel.
La villa de Covarrubias, llamada también Cuna de Castilla, está situada a 40 km al sudeste de Burgos, integrada en el Triángulo del Arlanza, junto a la orilla del río de mismo nombre. Localidad situada en la Ruta de la Lana y en el Camino del Cid, ruta del destierro de El Cid. Por Covarrubias pasa un camino de Santiago.
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Covarrubias is a Spanish town and municipality, located in the Arlanza region, Burgos province, in the community of Castilla y León.
In the 10th century, the Count of Castilla Fernán González and his son García Fernández made Covarrubias the capital of the Infantazgo de Covarrubias and head of one of the most important monastic manors. For this reason this town is known as "The cradle of Castile."
It presents a well-preserved urban fabric, together with a wide monumental heritage, in which the Torreón de Fernán González stands out, the only Castilian fortress that has been preserved before the 11th century.
Touristically, it forms with the neighboring towns of Lerma and Santo Domingo de Silos the so-called Arlanza Triangle.
Covarrubias, since the 10th century retains its name with very few variations, its etymology is easily explained if we take into account the numerous reddish caves, red-caves, which are located near the urban area, overlooking the Arlanza river, in the road that leads to Salas de los Infantes, passing by the collapsed Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza. As an etymology, it would not be bad to value blondes (“rubias”) as a possible meaning as ford, or river, from pre-Roman ibi. Near it we have the river Ura (ura means water in Basque).
In the thirteenth century, the name became the toponymic surname of one of the most ancestral families of the place.
Its inhabitants are known as racheles and rachelas, a name that comes from the Hebrew name of Raquel, Jacob's wife, which means beautiful (rajel), used to designate the large number of beautiful and meek ladies that have inhabited Covarrubias throughout the ages. In old Spanish this name was written with "ch": Rachel.
The town of Covarrubias, also called Cradle of Castile, is located 40 km southeast of Burgos, integrated into the Arlanza Triangle, next to the bank of the river of the same name. Town located on the Ruta de la Lana and on the Camino del Cid, the route of the exile of El Cid. A road to Santiago passes through Covarrubias.
BNSF 8412 leads a northbound coal empty through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO.
You can barely see Pikes Peak on the left side of this shot through the haze-filled sky. Things have been pretty hazy along the Rampart Range for about a week leading up to this shot thanks to wildfire activity in Montana and the Pacific Northwest. There have been days, particularly down south, where you cannot even see the mountains through the haze. But around here, we'd much rather have the smoky haze than the actual fire!