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BNSF 7418 leads Tacoma to Chicago Intermodal train east at Grizzly Montana. The train is in the siding as it heads east, meeting 2 Westbounds at the same time.
NS 1067 leads the 384 across the Mississippi River at Camden in the final minutes of light. With this shot being nearly 100% backlit, I am fine with the way the shot came out. Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse. Worth the drive and wait after a long shift at work? Probably not, but hey, what else am I going to do?
Santa Fe SD40-2 #5059 leads four Burlington Northern engines on a Southbound loaded coal train with WFAX cars.in February of 1990.
This was taken at Husted which is located between Monument and Academy sidings on the Joint Line South of Denver.
BNSF 9094 leads a northbound coal empty through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while Pikes Peak stares on from 25 miles away.
Well. Finally. I've shot this angle plenty of times over the years, but I've never been able to bag an ACe here...until this particular morning. It seemed like all I could ever catch here was H3 GEVOs or UP trains. I actually spied this guy down on the siding in Monument and knew I had the sun to work with as I had been at this spot the previous day (shooting a UP train, naturally). So, another item off the bucket list!
I never get tired of this angle; no matter how many times I go here, the spot just says "Colorado" to me...
This wooden boardwalk leads from a parking lot through forest and down to Combers Beach. Early on a September morning, I was alone, moving quietly, alert for bears and wolves (unfortunately I didn't see any). A sea fog had drifted up between the trees, and it became thicker as I got closer to the shore.
Nothing much happened that morning. A few ravens teased the resident gulls out across the clean pale sand. Waves curled in: the endless rhythm, like breath. A slow, shallow stream trickled into the ocean. I had broken camp and was preparing to leave - all trips must end - and was feeling relaxed and good about the week's photo efforts; this was just a final taste. Sometimes the path is the destination.
Photographed in Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2013 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Rail Operations Group (ROG) 57305 leads Ex-London Northeastern Railways (LNER) Class 91s, 91129, 91113, 91126 'Darlington Hippodrome' and 91102 'City of York' past Abbots Ripton, 0Q76 0745 from Doncaster Belmont Down Yard to Newport Docks (Simsgroup).
All 4 Class 91s are seen here being dragged to Newport for scrap, what a waste in my opinion; despite the recent fiasco with LNER's new plastic fleet of IEPs!
In the darkness of night, New York, Susquehanna & Western 3808 leads train SU-100 under the former Erie coal tipple in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. This location once hosted a repair shop and yard.
Strobist info:
6 Yongnuo Speedlites, full-power. Four camera-right, two camera left.
CP 6042 leads a refreshing trio of GMD products grasping at their CP employment, wearing fresh red dip and looking mighty fine with a clean looking set of number boards. Complete with their air conditioning on full blast, these WWA consists featuring groups of revived and mostly refurbished SD40-2's are hard to beat these days. 9/9/2024, Wyocena, Wisconsin.
WCOR 3346 leads the empty GW-1 salt train on the old G&W main at Taylor, between Caledonia, NY & York, NY, on December 29, 2017. I was hoping to get in one more chase of the loaded train with the flare leading, but the train was running later than usual and did not get to the mine until sunset.
BNSF ES44DC 7458 leads a westbound BNSF empty grain train through Parkville with a very distinct (to say the least) look on its nose. Back in 2013, BNSF 7458 was involved in a wreck that had caused damage to the nose and plow that needed to be repaired. After a quick fix and paint match at Topeka, BNSF 7458 was back out on the rails. However, 11 years later, the quick patch job has turned into a fading mess that has begun to show the original brown and grey primer once again.
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BNSF Saint Joseph Subdivision
Parkville, Missouri, USA
November 11, 2023
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
2023 River Gabbert
37419 leads 37407 on the 1413 Blackpool North to Derby RTC Network Rail as it heads towards Carnforth and Moreccambe. The shot taken in pouring rain whilst we were in transit between Settle station having photographed the staycation and chasing the Mountsorrel to Carlisle up the line.
BNSF 7073 leads a westbound stack train through downtown Fargo, ND along with BNSF 100, a rare-for-the-area GP60M.
This was the first day I was out testing my then-new, recently-arrived Canon 70-200mm f/4L. It was a good day of testing which also yielded this personal fav:
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But I'm sharing this photo now because just 4 days prior to uploading this shot (5 May 20), that 70-200mm f/4L died while shooting a manifest in Greenland, CO. Fifteen years and she served me well. I'll definitely miss my first "L-series" lens, but her exact replacement is on the way!
Todays walk took us past this small stream at the bottom of the hill behind our home. We have to keep our dogs on their leads or they would be into it in a flash!
Large logo Railfreight grey 20118 'Saltburn-by-the-Sea' leads GBRf liveried 20901 through a leafy Burton Joyce with 0Z20, the 13.32 loco move from Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Worksop Down Yard.
Everything in this modest image leads to the Gassendi crater. Seeing was definitely not my best ally; The image of the Moon on the computer screen swayed from side to side as a result of atmospheric fluctuations. A lunar photograph does not remotely live up to the view through the eyepiece of my maksutov telescope; The poor vision that was evident with the camera was not noticeable to direct view and all was calm in the soft, deep contrast of the telescope. An intense glow towards the lunar terminator and then, the deepest darkness.
Gassendi rises above the Mare Humorum crowned by a circular rim, barely distorted here by the effect of foreshortening, and a small crater that breaks the edge, generating the visual idea of a diamond ring; Cracks come and go between cliffs and fissures forged in stone and lava millions of years ago.
Perhaps due to the turbulence or my own inexperience, the photograph is far from being a good lunar photo, but it preserves the spatial mystery and the indecipherable sensation of silence of a mythical lunar wasteland.
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Telescope: Maksutov Cassegrain "Explore Scientific" 127, f/15.
Camera: Player One Neptune-M (monochrome).
Filter: Player One IR685.
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ3.
Stacking: AutoStakkert
Preprocessed: AstroSurface.
Post-processing: Gimp.
February 21, 2024, 01:16 UT.
Zona rural, Concordia, Entre RÃos, Argentina.
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The D-GUETOP1 26 leads a large power move of GE C44-9W’s towards Topeka at Lakeview, KS, a small community just northwest of Lawrence. This train originated in Guernsey, WY.
The consist was as follows, with the actual power in a 2x1 formation:
BNSF 5130 7445 677 1074 639 4345 1036 5122 686 1085 1023 1109 987 653 990 4739 982 1042 1024 4415 640 4418 4352 5435 976 1080 4374 7420
Video can be found here: youtu.be/pTW_PxptsnA
NS 5622 leads Pittsburgh Line local NS C42 westbound through Mill Creek, Pennsylvania, along the Middle Division of the NS Pittsburgh Line.
1756 leads 1751,1754,1755 and 1753 south with 25 cars on train 4 about a mile north of Bellevue Trestle on Sept. 26, 1997. Starting the next fall the WC started sprinkling in SD45's, F45's and GP40's with the F's or replacing them entirely on some trains in canyon service due to the length of the trains. This job was struggling to make track speed and the crew was grumbling a bit as train 2 was catching up to them fairly rapidly on this spectacular afternoon.
IAIS 701 leads the SIBI east around Convent Curve in Tinley Park. I saw this train going slowly by the next station over from my neighborhood and thought he was going to stop for a crew change in downtown Tinley, So I grabbed my camera and raced down there. Enroute, I noticed he went right back up to 30, I thought I lost him. Fortunately I was able to catch up to him, and lets just say I had to do ludicrous speeds down Oak Forest Avenue to get this shot... 4/15/16
ARR 4011 leads a 6-pack of MACs into Anchorage, AK with an empty coal train fresh in from Seward. This is our fifteenth entry in the Alaska Revisited series.
I was expecting this train a little later in the day, but it had finished unloading the evening prior and was ready to roll as soon as the crew was called. I was hoping to give chase up the Turnagain Arm, but the sun angle wasn't cooperative with such an early run. No bother, though, as I was able to catch it when it made the turn into the yard.
The mountains you see in the background are part of the Alaska Range which are more than 60 miles from where I stood to take this photo. They look a lot closer thanks to insanely clear skies coupled with the telephoto effect from the lens.
An SD40-2 leads an AC4400 through the falling snow on Q329 with dynamics howling. The heavy train is slowing from 40 mph to 25 mph for the remainder of the journey into town over the Grand Rapids Terminal subdivision. Pretty cool to see unmolested SD40-2s like #8096 leading a train on a Class 1 in 2019!
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IC 6251 leads taconite ore pellets from Utac south along the Missabe Sub.
My plans to catch this train in some great afternoon sunlight would be squashed by some serious cloud cover and a trio of northbounds that would have them hold the siding at Alborn. Luckily, the fall color here added some character to a fading light shot.
Eventually, they would continue their southbound journey to Proctor Yard and then prove to be elusive for me over the following days.
Something about the white safety stripe on the IC 6251 makes this more appealing that the yellow stripers.
I suppose the obvious caption to this shot would be "The Two Ronnies"!
Rail Operations Group's 57305 leads one coach and classmate 57312 into Tamworth working 5M60, the 14.08 from Cardiff Canton Pullmans to Derby RTC.
So, in tribute to Messrs. Barker and Corbett......"It's goodnight from me", "And it's goodnight from him!"
A P42DC dressed in Amtrak's last Phase VII livery leads a Siemens Charger on Amtrak Lincoln Service Train No. 318, running 16 minutes late out of Kansas City's Union Station on its trip across Missouri and Illinois to Chicago. Here, they've left Kansas City Terminal Railway trackage at Rock Creek JCT and crossed over to Main Track 1 of the UP Sedalia Sub for the next station stop at Independence.
Why is a P42 leading the usual Charger this morning? Well, last night, the Charger suffered mechanical issues near Hermann, MO while leading Amtrak Train No. 319 westbound from CHI to KCY, and while it did make it all the way into Kansas City last night, the decision was made to remove the lead unit off this morning's No. 4 and add it to this morning's No. 318 to prevent any further service disruptions. I'm sure you're thoroughly shocked to hear a Siemens Charger nearly broke down again.
The Phase VII colors really pop with the snow, which fell yesterday morning. Definitely a nice way to bring in the month of December. 12/1/24.
BNSF 7161 leads a southbound light power move down the Hillsboro Sub and on its way out of Grand Forks, ND. The larger wagon wheel nose logo was always welcome on these H2 SD40-2s
I was about 1 month into ownership of my Canon Digital Rebel XT. I was still trying to figure out not just how to best use the thing (and its kit lens) but also trying to figure out the lay of the railroad land as I was still new to the area. As such, I have no idea where this power move was headed...best guess would be to the grain facility in Alton.
But, more than 17 and a half years later, we can look back and see what became of each of these EMDs:
BNSF 7161: Built as BN 7161, became BNSF 7161, then HLCX 7161, then GAVX 7161 (Gavilon?), and finally TDCX 7161 (The DeLong Company, parked as best I can tell in Avalon, WI).
BNSF 8015: Built as BN 8015, became BNSF 8015, and as best I can tell, is still on the roster as BNSF 1666.
NS 5404: SD50 built as CR 6708, became NS 5404, and was rebuilt as NS 6321 (SD40E).
BNSF 1474 leads up today's Superior Northtown train. They had a break in two between West Saunders and Boylston. after getting things back together the conductor got a ride to CTH C wheer he got back on the locomotive and they were on their way to the Twin Cities in White out conditions. BNSF 1474 has the distinction of being known as the "Great Pumpkin" I'm not sure how that name came to be but it's definitely one of a kind.
BNSF 8207 leads a repainted sister SD75M west with empty coal through the trench and under a wooden vehicle bridge just east of Hawley, MN. This location on the Staples Sub was always a favorite as the shooting possibilities were numerous.
This particular day was meant to be spent in the Lake Park/Hawley areas, but I found myself stuck in the Fargo-Moorhead area shooting all the action. I've already uploaded a couple of other shots from earlier on this particular day, one of a Warbonnet SD75M and one of a Bluebonnet B23-7:
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The mid-2000s was a great time to be out by the tracks in the northern plains!
66847 leads 10 tanks past Risehow as 6S48 Port of Workington - Aberdeen.
Could've been better but it ran early and I only got half the pole up!!
43207 leads the 1V50 06.06 Edinburgh-Plymouth service (hauling what I believe to be coaching set XC01) into Taunton on the 1st April 2022. With many HST diagrams truncated over several months due to industrial action, this was my first CrossCountry HST photo of 2022.
Some booked diagrams even continue to be covered by voyagers, 1V50 being a FO HST working at present. Rumours continue to persist about whether these old workhorses will remain in service for much longer, so it was a pleasure to capture one in action in the fine early-afternoon sunshine and, in the process, try out a different angle.
Taken with the assistance of a pole.
NS ES44AC 8027 leads eastbound autorack train 18N downgrade at Bennington Curve. Back in 1947, The Pennsylvania Railroad's Red Arrow derailed near this spot, killing 22 of the 200 passengers on board the train.
Getting ready to work the cows with his dad, this little buckaroo leads his horse out of the trailer.
43066 leads a northbound Midland Main Line express into Leicester, 15th June 1983. Midland Main Line HST duties commenced with the October 1982 timetable change using eight seven car sets (five from the Western Region and three new sets that were originally for Cross Country) allocated to Neville Hill. Over time the power cars used would be any from the Eastern Region fleet.
Locomotive History
43066 was built at Crewe Works as part of HST set 254006 for East Coast Main Line services and entered traffic in October 1977. Following the completion of ECML electrification in 1992 43066 was one of thirty one Class 43 power cars allocated to Neville Hill for Midland Mainline services and pounded up and down to London St Pancras from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire for twenty eight years. Since the end of Midland Main Line HST duties it has been used to power the DATS overhead line test train during 2021 43066 has been fitted with a Paxman VP185 engine in lieu of its original Paxman Valenta.
Canon AT1, Agfacolour CT18
CSX 530 leads, presumably, Q637 west at Rushsylvania, OH. The short train is on the ascent by this point and will top the grade at Bellefontaine. The ex Conrail Tri-lights at QI130 are just north of town on Route 274.
CSX 8027 leads Q241 south under the soon to be extinct "modern" B&O CPL Gantry at Hamilton, OH.
With easy access and over 40 trains a day, Hamilton is a popular spot to view trains, made even more desirable in recent years thanks to its cluster of active B&O era Color Positioning Lights.
CSX over the course of several years prepped the area for eventual signal conversion. This week's visit proved to be somewhat depressing, as signal crews laid electrical wires and prepositioned machines to hoist new signals into place. Hamilton may remain a popular spot, but the "classic" feeling will no doubt be long gone.
Gollum leads Sam and Frodo towards a treacherous path into Mordor.
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Union Pacific SD70M #2002 leads Norfolk Southern intermodal train 23N through Hiram,GA on its way to Memphis,TN from Atlanta. The #2002 was painted specially for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics more than a decade ago and still carries the torch throughout the country.
66415 leads the delayed 6Y14 12.59 Shenfield - Whitemoor Yard L.D.C. GBRf with 20 autoballasters and 66512 on the 23 February 2020. 66415 was named 'You Are Never Alone' at Ipswich on 21 November 2019.
This was my first encounter with an Orange liveried 66 and not sure I could have asked for better conditions.