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An Alton & Southern painted SD62 rebuild leads an SD70M on UP train MBNAS-26, scooting right along on the UP Springfield Sub. They were held at Elkhart for a northbound intermodal, and they're doing their best to make it into the line's namesake town and state capitol ahead of Amtrak Train No. 21, the southbound "Texas Eagle". Once at Springfield, they'll drop some cars for G&W's Illinois & Midland Railroad.
This train originated at Bloomington, IL and is destined for the A&S Gateway Yard at East St. Louis, IL. This train operates three times a week on alternating days with its northbound counterpart. SD60's based at Gateway are commonly used on the Bloomington train, two of which are painted in the Alton & Southern blue and yellow paint scheme with the "buzzsaw and bar" logo, which pays homage to the time when this St Louis terminal road was jointly owned by the MOP and CNW.
"The Alton Route" is familiar name around here, though its origins don't come from the St. Louis based railroad represent by the lead unit. This stretch of railroad is the former Chicago & Alton, commonly referred to as "The Alton", and eventually came under the control of the B&O. They left a heavy influence on the line in the form of CPL signals that were installed when CTC was put in place. The last of these B&O CPL's made it all the way into 2018 before finally being replaced.
As the years went on, the line passed through several different owners. The GM&O acquired it, and, of course, it eventually became the ICG after the merger with the Illinois Central. The line was divested and then operated as the Chicago, Missouri & Western Railway, which only lasted a couple of years before going bankrupt in 1990.
The line was split in two following CMNW's bankruptcy. The western half through St Louis and into Kansas City became the Gateway Western until being absorbed by KCS and more recently now a part of the CPKC. The Chicago to St Louis line through Springfield was purchased by the Southern Pacific and operated by them as the Southern Pacific Chicago - St. Louis, spelled as SPCSL and pronounced "Spizzle". Ultimately, UP merged with the SP, still the current owner of the line. 4/26/25.
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
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!
BNSF 3940 leads an early morning z train out of Cherokee and into Cherokee Canyon/Peach Springs. Shot taken on 30 June 2018.
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.
CP 2816 leads the Empress, CP 40B eastbound down the River Sub seen from atop the John A Latsch park in Minneiska, MN.
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.
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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519 leads the westbound Borealis through Dakota. A first for me, as I had never shot an Amtrak dash 8 before. Unsurprisingly, people were already camped out at this spot well in advance for 2816's return trip.
Metra EMD F40C No. 601 leads a westbound commuter train past Tower B17 at Bensenville, Illinois, on March 3, 1990. Similar looking to Amtrak’s SDP40F, the F40C has unique corrugated side panels and is built on a standard SD40-2 platform. Bought for commuter service on Milwaukee Road lines out of Chicago, a total 15 3,200 hp F40Cs were built by EMD. The first 13 units were bought by and lettered for North West Suburban Mass Transit District, while the remaining two were lettered for North Suburban Mass Transit District. All 15 spent all their lives working the lines west to Elgin and Fox Lake, eventually working under the Chicagoland commuter authority Metra.
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.
Almost straight out of the camera, slight adjustments to exposure and few little tweaks.would normally have cloned out his I.D. tags but decided not to work to much on this shot as I'm rather pleased with this shot at a slightly lower than required shutter speed and hand held. ISO is quite high, but i was pleased with this shot as juggling two dogs, camera and two leads gets you in a bit of tangle ..lol..
Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) North end of Thomson Brook where it becomes the beginning of Thomson Marsh, Kelowna, BC. Cinna & Bon like the channel, but here they've reached a point where all they can do is turn around and that's not what they want to do.
In my experience, where a pair of CITEs are travelling together, the hen almost always leads.... This also seems to apply with AGWTs....
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.
NPCU #90368 leads an atypical Pere Marquette consist in the form of 4 Amfleets near Michigan City. The PM normally operates with 3 or 4 Superliners.
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43317 leads the 1B58 15.45 Nottingham-St Pancras service away from its booked stop at East Midlands Parkway (along with 43251 and ex-East Coast set NL51). Ratcliffe Power Station dominates the scene which appeared to be operational on this particular afternoon, with discharged steam appearing from the plant's cooling towers. This was rather surprising contemplating that the burning of coal only accounts for a small percentage of the UK’s energy production.
A seemingly popular choice of location over the previous year, I thought I‘d try for a scheduled test train movement. Unfortunately this failed to materialise until an hour later than booked, by which time I had moved to a different spot. However, it's no exaggeration to say I was very pleased with this image.
Taken with the aid of a pole, fully extended to its functional length of 5m.
T448p-111 leads a set of loaded tanker wagons through the sad, brown, wintery fields on the outskirts of Gdynia, just before terminating its short journey of 4 kilometers.
The fuel base number 21 in Dębogórze is a fun thing to see whenever you are in the area of the Polish northern Tricity (Gdynia+Sopot+Gdańsk). Its railway track is completely detached from the urban part of Gdynia and instead runs through the fields on its outskirts, which makes for a nice atmosphere (at least in summer...), which almost lets us forget that it's not a real full-scale unelectrified railway line.
The rolling stock of PERN, which is stationed at this base almost reminds us of the Czech Republic or Slovakia. They have two T448p locomotives and (since August 2023!) S200-289, only a Brejlovec and Barodtka are missing for the full experience. The newly aquired six-axle S200 locomotive was one of the main targets of my stay in Gdynia for the winter holidays, as I didn't manage to see it in action during summer. Until recently it was the only broad gauge S200 in Poland, because it served trains from the east at the base no. 13 in Zawadówka.
The whole railway network of the fuel base is comprised of two stations, one of which is used as a pickup point for other railway carriers - mostly Orlen, and the other for loading the tank wagons. They are connected by a track with around 3 kilometers of length. The fuel base itself has a direct pipeline connection to the harbour in Gdynia, from which it takes its entire supply of liquid products for storage and later shipping into Poland.
If you ever do decide to drop by, you are almost destined to see some traffic, as there are up to 3 pairs of trains during daytime. I wholeheartedly recommend coming here for some almost-branchline vibes with lots of diesel action... until it gets really monotonous.
Sadly I once again failed to catch the S200. Well, better luck next time I guess.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
nature trails, when she leads, nature trails, where she leads... series
__________
What it is, heaven knows.
Where the trail leads, well who can say?
Pick up the scent, it's stuck to your skin
Before you know it the chase begins
Nature trails, where she leads
Like a pet at her feet
Don't be sad, you'll be set free tomorrow
Some foreign place or distant shore
Cover the traces, lock all the doors
Those brighter lights confuse the eyes
But there's still one thing you recognise
Nature trails, when she leads
Come on, give up, you're on your knees
One mistake and you'll be there forever
Caught like a leaf in the wind...
When Nature trails you had to follow too
Open the door and look inside
It's as you left yet it not quite right
The fading scent says something's wrong
Someone has been here, someone has gone...
Nature trails, where she leads
Like a pet at her feet
Don't be sad, you'll be set free tomorrow
Nature trails, when she leads
Come on, give up, you're on your knees
One mistake and you'll be there forever
Caught like a leaf in the wind...
When Nature trails
(Nature Trails, The Comsat Angels, 1983)
BNSF 7211 leads the relatively new Q-PTLALT (Portland, OR - Alliance, TX) south near Monument, CO.
This train started running on 12 Sep between the Pacific Northwest and Dallas-Ft. Worth, but this is my first time actually shooting it. Early on, the train lengths were maybe 12 or 13 cars, but it's been slowly increasing in length as time moves forward.
Oh, that guy in the lower right? A fellow railfan who inadvertently wandered into the shot! If that was you, sorry about all the GEs on this particular morning...
LTEX 4465 leads a westbound KYLE train approaching Kanorado Kansas. The train is rolling trough "Kanorado Hole", a decent hogback three miles east of town.
37218 leads two wagons and 68008 on a serious of test runs between Derby/Stenson and Stoke
missed out just on some sun
didnt know what was working this till it appeared
novel new warning here a box plays a train horn when the train is approaching
this was a strange sequence of test runs with the 68 and two wagons going to stoke with the 37 following and attaching at stoke to lead back towards Derby
The Canadian Rockies create a beautiful backdrop as CN 3253 leads stack train Q180 east towards Jasper along CN’s Albreda Sub.
A two-car Norfolk Southern inspection train passes the home of the Cleveland Browns, FirstEnergy Stadium, in dowtown Cleveland. SD70ACe 1073, the Penn Central heritage locomotive, leads the train.
Greater Anglia 90006 'Roger Ford' leads the 1P37 1230 Norwich to London Liverpool Street past Dagworth (Stowmarket).
An ex ATSF SD45 leads CSX autorack train Q236-08 through the S curve at Acworth,GA into some sweet evening sunlight.
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Špania Dolina is a village in central Slovakia, near the city of Banská Bystrica. Although its permanent population does not exceed 200 people, it is a picturesque historic village consists of a unique set of miner houses built of wood and stones. The former mining village is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful in Slovakia. Copper and silver ores were mined here in the past. Along with the walled structures once owned by the mining administration a substantial part of local architecture is formed by houses of miners mostly built of logs on stone foundations. The tall tower of the church of Conversion of the Lord built on Romanesque foundations dominates the wonderful panorama. In order to reach the fortified church, one can choose to climb 160 stairs of a roofed staircase. The entrance is situated in a little park with the Renaissance building of the former klopačka from the 16th century. A walk over the mining nature trail in a beautiful nature is a nice experience.
Spania Dolina lies in the southern part of Low Tatra Mountains close to the town of Banska Bystrica in Central Slovakia , 782 m above the sea level. It's an old mining town and there is a beautiful Catholic church. A covered stairway leads to this fortified church.
Špania Dolina is een Slowaakse dorpje in de regio Banská Bystrica. Hoewel de permanente bevolking niet meer dan 200 mensen overschrijdt, is het een pittoresk historisch dorp dat bestaat uit een unieke set van mijnwerkershuizen van hout en stenen. Het voormalige mijnbouwdorp is ongetwijfeld één van de mooiste in Slowakije. Koper en zilveren erts werden hier in het verleden gedelfd. Samen met de ommuurde structuren die ooit in handen zijn van de mijnbouw, wordt een wezenlijk deel van de lokale architectuur gevormd door huizen van mijnwerkers. De hoge toren van de kerk domineert het prachtige panorama. Om de versterkte kerk te bereiken, kan men kiezen uit 160 trappen van een overdekte trap. De ingang is gelegen in een klein park met het Renaissance gebouw uit de 16e eeuw. Een wandeling over het het natuurpad in een prachtige natuur is een leuke ervaring.
DM&IR 411 leads a northbound empty Minorca through Virginia, MN back in July 2004. CN had merged the Missabe out of existence a couple of month prior, but things still looked pretty much the same on the Iron Range. I remember more times than the daily train for the Minorca Mine during this late Missabe/early CN era would be in the late afternoon, but here a morning train.
The CTC searchlights here were installed on the DWP from Shelton Jct. to Minorca Jct. when the Missabe obtained trackage rights over the Peg to serve the newly opened Minorca Mine in 1977. This short stretch of CTC remained the only signals on the former DWP until CN put signals north of Virginia in the mid to late 2000s. Now the entire former DWP/DMIR all the way down from the border through the Iron Range to the Twin Ports is CTC with searchlights long gone.
50049 'Defiance' leads an immaculate 66737 'Lesia' past Milton Malsor working the 0Z60 1506 Kidderminster S.V.R. to Stewarts Lane T&R.S.M.D.
The pair are due to work a private GBRF charter on 05/06/21 from London Victoria to the Severn Valley Railway.
04/06/21
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.
73107 leads 5Z73 0743 Eastleigh Arlington to Waterloo ECS on the approach to Clapham Junction. The train is formed of 4TC unit 8028 and 73201 is on the rear.
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.
7990 leads Train 51 on the Chicago Central with 9 units at East Cabin in East Dubuque IL September 13 1991. Wish this was still around.
Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
That might prove useful and yet never proves,
That never fits a corner or shows use,
Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
These are your riches, your great store; and yet
For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
In the slow float of differing light and deep,
No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
Nothing that's quite your own.
Yet this is you.
Ezra Pound, "Portrait d'Une Femme" (l. 16.30). 1912.
Wilbur leads the descent down the steep slope to Twin Lakes. Normally I make every effort not to step on wildflowers. But there were so many, and the incline so precipitous, I had no choice but to trample them.
BNSF 8208 leads a Clay Boswell coal empty out of the yard and around the wye for the Hillsboro Sub as it departs Grand Forks, ND.
I had previously caught this train thundering west across the border in Minnesota:
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This was typical power for northern plains coal trains in the mid-2000s (SD75s, Oakways, SD60Ms), but there was a period in 2007 that saw a glut of AC-power leading coal...a harbinger of things to come. Soon, the era of DC-powered coal trains would come to an end.
Ice clings to the grass as LTEX 4465 leads an eastbound KYLE train between Edson and Brewster. The jointed rail and train glint the setting sun as golden hour falls over the frozen plains. NW Kansas faired pretty well from what was predicted with Winter Storm Blair. I was hoping for some winter action but minimal snowfall and freezing fog is all we received.
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.
43093 leads 2P16 13.15 Penzance – Plymouth through the reverse curve at Trenowth between Truro and St Austell on 17 November 2025. 43198 is the rear power car.
Doug Harrop Photography • August 30, 2005
A new GE ES44AC leads a stack train eastbound at ABS 9484 at Baskin, Utah in Echo Canyon.
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.
Hind wings are very thin, about half the wavelength of blue light!
The tip of the forewing of Heteroptera is fairly thick (~1.2 microns), thus there is no color iridescence visible (brown curve). The base is even thicker and leathary. This is the origin of the name "hemiptera" which means "half-winged". The newer name Heteroptera means also "mixed-wings". This leads to the typical "X" structure of the closed wings in dorsal view, which is an easy means to identify "true" bugs.
Hind wings in contrast, are much thinner (~0.2 microns here), which leads to a brillant blue-violett if illuminated coaxially.
Wing-thickness- analysis goes here
Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x NA 0.42 tube lens:Raynox 125mm
Illumination: Coaxial