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What can I say? Every time I see a dirt road it reminds me of the movie Rat Race:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXF6itJn1o
This is the road that leads to the picnic area right outside of Saguaro National Park.
On Canadian National's Y&MV lead in Memphis sit two BNSF trains waiting to go south. BNSF 6015 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train while BNSF 4220 (ES44C4) is heading up a string of autoracks.
An ex-Pennsy SD-45 leads a westbound freight through Canton for "Flare Friday", with the assistance of a Santa Fe GE and a blue CR EMD. This CR patch job is actually "more" of a PRR patch job than a PC one. While the unit had been patched with complete PC lettering and herald, it still wears it's PRR number, and I'm pretty sure it's also still wearing the PRR Brunswick Green for the most part. That engine is really that not dirty and I noticed numerous ex-PRR units where the Brunswick Green weathered into that brownish olive color that looks like dirt.
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.
AMTK 167 leads AMTK 182 and the morning California Zephyr through the middle of Arvada. Specifically, the train just crossed Carr Street and is running alongside Oberon Road. The elementary school I attended is located just a few blocks north of this location. When I was kid, I would go out at recess, climb the monkey bars, and hope to see the top of a few Rio Grande tunnel motors leading a train over this stretch of track!
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it leads to more space for new girls...Please meet bigsmudge new girl. She makes me all smiley and happy inside. When i unwrapped her it was like opening my first kenner all over again and for that reason i can only think to name her Bee (not very imaginative but) its like having my first kenner crush all over again...sigh....
i have also decided to stop kidding myself that i can "save" using paypal :-P
5411 Leads a manifest east at Price. Unfortunately this was at a time where I was seeing increasingly dirty units, especially the nose. This was at least 5 years before buying the SP.
NICD 1001 leads CSS job AF-3 with cars for the customers at Olive. Looming in the background is one of the silos of the Gavilon Grain Facility, which is serviced by NS off the Chicago Line.
CBNS 3366 leads the Monday morning westbound CBNS train 305 through the backwoods of Nova Scotia on a partially overcast day.
I spent quite a bit of time at this crossing back when I first started out shooting trains. Realized I hadn't done a proper shot here in quite sometime. Seemed like a good day to do so. Although a longer train would have filled the dip and curve a bit better, but I am still happy.
CBNS 305 power: CBNS 3366 (EMD SD40-2) - CBNS 3365 (EMD SD40-2) - HLCX 7232 (EMD SD40-2)
He leads me up hills, when I think my weight I can’t carry.
He leads me home, when my bones get wary.
He leads me to a better place, when things gets scary.
He leads me when times get hard.
Not caring my body heavily scared.
He leads me from torment and pain.
Probably the only thing keeping me sane.
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Try to find an outlet; read, learn, listen, compose. Reach inside and find something that will take you to a better place. If only in your mind.
Gangstalking and Workplace Mobbing, are the major Motives for Mass Shootings. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Recently; many have dismissed the Walmart shootings, as Workplace Violence. They don’t tell you the root cause of this Workplace Violence. The Root Cause Is Workplace Mobbing. It’s one of the many ways an employer, coworkers; can rid themselves of whistleblowers, union organizers. Anyone that doesn’t go along with the status quo of corruption.
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37175 leads 37254 through the Upper Derwent valley between Crambeck and Low Hutton with the first Sunday running of the 2025 Wold Coast RHTT which continues from Goole to Wakefield Westgate via Knottingley and Featherstone before retracing its steps back to York Works. 3J51, the 09:55 York Works to York Works, October the 5th 2025.
SD45 6553 leads SD9 6191 and B30-7A 4074 out of Northtown with train TCM (Twin Cities - Memphis) on September 30, 1984. This was one of the handful of trains at this time that was still carrying a Frisco inspired train symbol.
This is a Monument to the Immigrant in Woldenberg Park. The white Carrara marble monument created by local sculptor Franco Alesandrini, rests on a series of risers constructed of blue stone and matching white marble. On one side Miss Liberty faces the mighty Mississippi, while an immigrant family faces the French Quarter, where most immigrants lived when they came to this area.
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 Ríos, Argentina.
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Chiltern Railways DVT 82301 leads service 1H33 10.45 Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone out of Leamington Spa station. Class 68 diesel locomotive 68008 "Avenger" was providing power and plenty of beautiful noise from the back.
The passengers are putting those working coal stoves in the coaches to good use on this cold December afternoon as N&W 475 leads the return trip to East Strasburg.
December 5, 1992: SD50 8509 leads a train of "miscellaneous" empties north out of Big Stone Gap, Virginia on a cheerless late fall day. Just ahead lies the Strawberry Patch and the Green, Green Fields of Ole Virginnie.
8509 was part of a 25-unit order of SD50's (8500-8524) ordered by L&N, but not delivered until after the Seaboard System consolidation. These units retained reminders of what they'd have looked like if delivered to L&N -- the cab roof mounted strobe flashers, the headlight in the nose, and a Gyralight between the number boards.
(Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide)
BNSF 752 leads an auto train westbound at Maine, AZ on BNSFs Seligman subdivision in Jun of 2000. From 1997 to 2001 I was stationed at Luke AFB in Phoenix and spent all my time in Northern AZ. Now that I am back at Luke AFB I truly wish I would have ventured further then I did then....I miss those signal bridges!
MILW E73 leads a quartet of EMD GP40's on westbound freight 263 up Pipestone Pass near Vendome, MT. This was a part of John's whirlwind trip through the west in 1967.
Thanks goes to Rob L. for the location and train information.
Scanned Kodachrome slide processed in September of 1968.
Rail Operations Group (ROG) 37510 'Orion' leads 6344 + 8 Ex-LNER MK3s (42122, 44031, 42104, 42161, 42171, 42172, 42219, 44056) + 6338 and classmate 37611 'Pegasus' past Waterbeach, 5Q76 0807 from Ely Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup).
Due to issues with 37510, the train was taken into Cambridge Reception Sidings, where 37611 would run around the train and provide motive power for the rest of the leg to Newport. On attempting to leave Cambridge with 37611 leading, an unsolicited brake application halted the train around the Cambridge South Junction area; as a result blocking all traffic south of Cambridge for around 20 mins. The fault was then rectified to an extent which allowed the train to shunt back into Cambridge Reception Sidings. After further inspection, the fault was fully rectified, allowing the train to finally get underway towards Newport (around 124 minutes late).
Burlington Northern, BN SD40-2 7081 leads several GE's 5099-5526 and three others, with a loaded coal train eastbound on the FW&D at Decatur, Texas. September 8, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff photo©
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An ET44AH leads an ES44AH and an SD40-3 on L303 east across the Thornapple River during a light snow flurry.
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BDKt railcar leads a Komet ABDeh 4/8 unit up the rack and pinion towards Stalden on the 09:29 Fiesch - Zermatt service.
A rebuilt GP30 still in BN paint leads a couple more Geeps on this transfer from BNSF's Argentine Yard to UP's Neff Yard on Main Track 4 of the UP KC Metro Sub at Shelley St. 1/19/18.
BNSF 6041 leads a southbound coal train through the S-curve just south of Monument, CO.
A little more that a month after a thumb wound/surgery has rendered me virtually one-handed and unable to use my DSLR for a bit, I'm still able to get out and push my old, obsolete Canon 300HS point-and-shoot to its limits. The trick was turning off as many of the dumbed-down auto features and taking manual control as best I could. The biggest upgrade was with the white balance setting. I shed the auto white balance and opted for the daylight setting and it's made a huge difference. Overall, for the limits in equipment and being one-handed, I'm pretty happy with the results!
Amtrak 24 leads the westbound Southwest Chief past the tiny town of Watrous, minutes away from its next station stop at Las Vegas, NM. The semaphores that protected the east siding have long been replaced, so the only classic "prop" here is the Santa Fe era station sign.
NWP 1501 leads a 12 car train EB on the Brazos Sub passing an barn and winery at McGill, just south of the Wingo bridge.
We got very lucky with this one. While driving up to west Marin, we were around San Rafael when I got a text saying NWP had died on hours the other day on their way back to Schellville and they would be doing a short BPT-SCH run midday before heading over to do some switching in Petaluma with the 2611. We arrived at the Ignacio wye just as they were picking up the 12 cars and we then headed East for a 3 spot chase at Black Point, McGill and Schellville. Just after the past the barn conductor Ryan indicated to his dodgers hat implying that it was better than the giants hat I was wearing which had been an ongoing argument every time I wore it.
1/6/21.
Leads an intermodal train with NS 1069, the Virginian heritage unit trailing. Here is another angle...
Trailhead of the Old Juniper trail. It leads to an old juniper tree believed to be the oldest in Utah and is estimated to be 3,200 years old. This trail head is at 5,400 ft. elevation. The mountain peak in the background is just over 9,300 ft. Best viewed large.
This photo is a four exposure HDR photo that was required because of the bright sunlit mountain and the deep shade in the canyon and was the only way I could get any detail in the trees without blowing out the mountain and the sky.
GP38-2 PC 8050 leads a former Reading unit under the MP 18 signal bridge at Ambridge, PA on the Fort Wayne Line.
PC 8050. Ambridge, PA.
May 1976. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
I got tipped off that 61E left the BRC and was heading to the Waukesha.I managed only one shot,but it was well worth it.I even got a bird in the shot!
UP 1066 leads the UP LSE59-07 local back toward St. Louis after running light power west to the U.S. Silica plant in Pacific MO. Leading the train back east is one of only a very small handful of patched Southern Pacific locomotives left on the Union Pacific roster now.
UP 1066 has been around the St. Louis area a little while now, and when I saw the LSE59 run west to Pacific earlier that afternoon and 1066 was in the consist and would lead the eastbound trip I knew I would have to set up somewhere for it. The Sherman Beach bridge came to mind right away, and would be maybe the only spot for the entire late afternoon eastbound trip that would have enough light for a decent shot. Once I arrived, some hiking, and trailblazing got me down to the water, and I set up. After about 40 minutes of waiting and hoping the rapidly lengthening shadows wouldn't screw up the shot, a westbound stack train rolled by, I assume ZDUNP-07. Not 30 seconds after the last car cleared the LSE59 ran across the bridge. Not 5 minutes later the entire bridge was in shadow. A lot of well timed events had to take place for this shot to happen, and given the tough sun conditions with a late afternoon eastbound runing on east-west trackage I think this turned out nicely.
I remember seeing these pretty frequently back in the late 1990s and early 2000s working around East Texas. Though I didn't realize what I was looking at till the late 2000s and early 2010s. This is the first SP painted GP60 that I remember shooting, though I know I've seen a couple in the past.
To my count the number of remaining patched Southern Pacific units is down to 16. Broken down by 3 AC4400CWs, and 13 GP60s. The GP60s are broken down into 8 Cotton Belt (SSW), and 5 Southern Pacific.
507 leads RUPO as they trudge along the Rumford Branch at the Dead River Trestle. I was scoping out a different angle from the one that I normally do from the Route 106 bridge. I walked off the beaten path to this spot which I liked except for the overgrown brush and branches. That tree in the front of the locomotive was unappealing. And the one under the cab window can go to. I could have taken down the one under the cab window, but the hill was slick, and the train was nearing. I need to get some brushcutting equipment and put it in the trunk hahaa.
66740 leads 73698 and 1Y11 2115 London Euston to Fort William sleeper portion across the Gaur and up the short ramp to Rannoch station.
May 21st, 2025
CBRW 652 leads the Connell Turn north towards Warden, WA under cloudy skies.
After watching the interchange at Connell, WA, we decided that despite the larger storm clouds above, chasing them north would probably be a good idea anyway since I wasn't sure the next time I would be back on this line. The rain wasn't pouring, so most of the dirt roads through the farmlands weren't totally destroyed into mud yet so we drove north and got a couple of shots. I'm not sure why, but I decided to try to use my 35-16mm lens the whole time so I ended up with most shots looking similar to this one, although I was able to find a couple different angles. At this location, I kind of just jumped out of the car and went wide, trying to get the house in the back in the shot, not much else to it.
6/13/22
Storms move east over the Continental Divide in the background as BNSF C44-9W No. 5273 leads a 4 hour and 50 minutes late California Zephyr with two Amtrak P42DC's trailing as the train heads west out of Granby, Colorado along Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on September 4, 2016. Three Iowa Pacific Private Cars bring up the rear of the train.
CP 8577 Leads CN C731 Northbound At Piper On The New Westminster Sub. It’s Nice To See These Older GEs On The Coal Loop As It’s Normally Dominated By 87,88 GEVOs.
66568 leads 4L87 09.31 Tees Dock - Felixstowe North across the flooded Welney Washes (between Manea and Ely). 66557 was on the rear, but out of sight in this picture.
This was the first outing for my new camera, named as though it were the mark 3 version of what I'd been using for almost the last eight years (the mark 2 version), but in reality a new camera as it has been upgraded in so many ways. I'd been working in Ely, so took my camera with me in anticipation of a session here at sunset. The sun was still some way above the horizon when this appeared, not long before 4pm, but it had dropped into the cloud on the horizon by the time the usual train for sunsets appeared (4E20 from Felixstowe, over twenty minutes later) and the sky had lost its colour.
Unfortunately, for some reason the battery had run down on my monitor and, although I managed to set up the pole and take a couple of test shots, the monitor kept switching off. So I decided to do the shots from ground level, something I rarely do here now. I photographed both front and rear locos, changing the angle for the latter to include the girder bridge but not the trees on the right. However, with no containers right at the front (there were plenty everywhere else, including at the back) and the loco fitting perfectly between the sun and the small tree, I much prefer this one - and it's slightly different from others I've uploaded.
Manipulation notes: none at all - not even any straightening, cropping, lightening or darkening, increasing (or decreasing) the contrast, or enhancing the colours: it's straight off the camera! I had, however, set the camera to under expose by 1.3 stops based on the meter reading.
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G531 leads G541 away from Highett, as #9558 Up steel train bound for the Melbourne Freight Terminal.
The Pacific National train operates daily, transferring steel coils from the Melbourne Freight Terminal, to the Bluescope works in Long Island.
Highett, Vic.
15/11/20
A wagon wheel Grinstein SD70MAC leads BNSF Train H TULGAL1 09A as it crests the grade in Centennial Cut on the BNSF Brookfield Sub. This cream and green MAC has made several trips through the KC area lately, but today I ran across it completely by accident while headed east on 210 Highway. Looks right at home on Ex-BN rail.
This portion of railroad is the CB&Q Centennial Cutoff, 49 miles of which was opened in 1952 and cut 22 miles off the old Hannibal & St. Joseph route to Kansas City. The train is dropping down out of what is known as "Million Dollar Cut".
Locomotives: BNSF 9671, BNSF 6502
3-10-20
Richmond, MO
CEFX SD9043MAC #115 leads a CITX SD40-2 east around the curve west of Fox with haulage-rights CP train X500. While CP had many of these leased, this was the only one I ever saw on 500.
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