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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.
KCS #4029 leads a southbound manifest past McHattie siding on the 2.5 mile-long UP Rosenberg Sub after getting off the Sunset Route at Tower 17. The south end of the siding is where line ownership changes from UP to KCS.
As of May 2020, 4029 is apparently the final operating SD70ACe in grey ghost paint, likely to be painted into Belle very soon.
Rosenberg, TX 2/4/2018
MC 2011 leads the MBRRE extra down the hill in New Bedford. MC GP9RM 2008 was trailing. The MBRRE chartered this train to go down the lines being rebuilt for the South Coast Rail Project.
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 57303 'Pride of Carlisle' leads the 5E23 12.36 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Doncaster Works Wabtec Ex-GWR Mk3 stock move past Second Drove crossing.
1450 leads its auto trailer towards Crowcombe in a scene that is like something out of the 1930s.
She is a 1P 0-4-2T and looks very happy on the 1340 Wiliton to Norton Fitzwarren on the West Somerset Railway.
20305 leads 20302 off the Harrogate line at Armley Junction, Leeds, with 1Z49 the 'DRS Class 20 Farewell'. This tour certainly brought out the crowds, normally when I’m photographing around Leeds I don’t see another soul sharing the hobby, but yesterday I was jostling for position in a couple of spots.
18th January 2020
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' leads the 1236 2P20 Norwich - Great Yarmouth service with 37716 at the rear into Lingwood.
BNSF 9242 leads a southbound coal train down the grade and out of Palmer Lake, CO.
I initially set out on this morning to catch northbounds out of Palmer Lake in the Greenland Open Space, but when I heard the chugging of a southbound battling the grade, I thought to myself that I would give chase if it was rare power or an ACe...turned out it was this ACe.
For the astute, you'll recognize this road number. BNSF 9242 used to be the unique, Greenface SD60M until the railroad decided to renumber those units to the 8100-series in 2007-2008. I was lucky enough to catch that unit a few times in my railfanning career, but at least it's road number is carried on by an ACe!
BNSF 4141 leads ethanol train K477-02 through the control point at CH Cabin on CSX's Big Sandy Subdivision. Three BNSF units sandwich UP 1988, the MKT heritage unit, as they pass an array of C&O era signals still in service on the 125-mile long line between Catlettsburg and Elkhorn City, KY.
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.
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.
If you’re a victim of Gangstalking, Workplace Mobbing; Violence is not the answer. I know it’s a bitch, but don’t let them break you. Start yourself a daily journal. Document everything, don’t dwell on it. If nothing else; these haters are consistent. You’ll start to see their patterns, their ignorance. This can be used against them. If we ever get someone brave enough; in the FBI, Secret Service, any Law Enforcement; to actually do something. Anything, you know, like telling the truth about Gangstalking, Workplace Mobbing. The Root cause of most, of the Mass Shootings.
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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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.
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.
AMTK 305 leads 392 over the Big Muddy River north of Carbondale, IL. Not a huge fan of the chargers, but I do like this paint scheme.
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.
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.
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.
BNSF 1755, a blue bonnet SD40-2, leads local Y-JOL202 by UD in Joliet for what seems like the millionth time since 2022 when it was first put on the local. This unit will never be boring to shoot as it’s one of the last bits of BNSF fallen flag power on any locals or yard jobs in the area.
Chessie GP30 6934 leads RS97 solo on April 29, 1980. I'm not sure of the exact location of where I took this, but it looks like the straight track at Lime Rock, NY, between P&L Jct. and Leroy. The normal power for RS97 derailed at Lincoln Park, so one of the units used for working Brooks Yard was taken and used to get the train out.
she leads a pack of 6 dogs in Madikwe Game Reserve in
South Africa
She and the alpha male of this pack are collared so the researchers can track their movements in this very large reserve.
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: ENDANGERED and
population trend: decreasing
lycaon pictus
hyenahond (ongeschikte benaming want deze soort is niet verwant aan de hyena)
lycaon
Afrikanische Wildhund
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37407 Blackpool Tower leads the "Off the Beaten Tracks" mini-tour part of the UK Railtours "Carols at Norwich Cathedral" special along the "Acle Straight" between Acle station and the Branch Road overbridge at Stracey Arms. This section of the tour was the Norwich to Great Yarmouth leg of 1Z40 12.10 Norwich - Lowestoft (via Great Yarmouth), and 20142 Sir John Betjeman and 20189 were on the rear (standing in for 37423, which had failed the previous day with flat batteries). [Pole, 5/6 sections (~6.8m)]
The full tour ran as follows:
1Z39 07.22 King's Cross - Norwich via the East Coast Main Line, Peterborough (reverse) and the Ely West Curve;
1Z40 12.10 Norwich - Lowestoft via Acle, Great Yarmouth (reverse), Berney Arms, Reedham (reverse), Lowestoft Yard (reverse) and Oulton Broad North Jn. (reverse);
1Z42 15.26 Lowestoft - Norwich;
1Z43 16.10 Norwich - King's Cross via the Ely West Curve, Peterborough, Spalding, Sleaford, Grantham and the East Coast Main Line.
The train was operated by Rail Adventure, with 37407 supplied by Europhoenix, and the coaches by West Coast Railways (which had acquired the assets of Riviera Trains a few months earlier, hence the blue and grey mark 2 coaches). 37407 is, of course, no stranger to this line as it was one of the DRS-owned 37s hired to Greater Anglia to operate the "short set" a few years ago.
I'd photographed 1Z39 west of March with the 20s leading, and had planned to chase it to somewhere near Prickwillow, given the schedule included a 43-minute wait on the Ely West Curve. However, with the train being 40 minutes late leaving Peterborough, I expected I'd not make it in time, and decided to drive straight to the other side of Norwich via the A47. I'd never been to this location before, but arrived in plenty of time to park in a nearby layby on the A47, walk a short distance back along the road and then down the path to the crossing.
The cloud was clearing from the north-west, and weather forecasts suggested it wouldn't break here until about midday, and then there would still be some cloud about for the rest of the day - and, as can be seen, this was the case. Those of us stood here were very lucky, because as the train passed Acle the sun was heading towards a cloud, and it began to run along its upper edge - but at the critical moment the sun had hit a "dip" and came out completely on almost the entire train (there's a slight shadow on some of the coaches towards the rear). The train had passed Acle four minutes late.
After this, I headed for the classic spot on the Berney Arms line very close to the former Breydon Jn., where a large gallery was gathering (in fact, it was quite tight parking and I had to tell someone they could block me in). Unfortunately, the train left Great Yarmouth two minutes late, and the sun went behind a cloud as it approached the divergence, but began to clear the cloud seconds before we began to press the shutter - meaning the leading locos were fully lit, the first couple of coaches partly in cloud, and the rest of the train in shadow.
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Union Pacific GP9 No. 299 leads the St. John Local across 3rd North Street in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 29, 1977. It was built by EMD for the Union Pacific in Sept. 1954, equipped with a steam generator and an 800 gallon water tank for system wide passenger service. The steam generator was removed in 1972 and a 2400 gallon fuel tank installed. The 299 was retired from the roster in July 1982 and sold for scrap to General Metals in Tacoma, Washington on December 24, 1982. (Info via UtahRails.net)
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.
A realitivly rare EMD TR4 (SW7 built in a cow/calf set) leads 38 cars east to Menominee Yard in Menominee, Michigan.
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).
NPR 3502 leads a 4 GP35 power pack and a 78-car grain train east toward Fordville, ND on the former SOO Wheat line.
This was a great day of railfanning, one that should never had happened. I was supposed to be picking up a KC-135 from the depot in San Antonio, but it had a leaking fuel tank and would not be ready to go for a few more days. We were able to fly home commercial the evening prior which afforded me the opportunity to chase the Northern Plains Railroad in the morning and BNSF later in the afternoon:
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Unexpected free time is always nice...it's even better when you can add standard cab EMD goodness into the mix!
I just moved into a new apartment. Not the one pictured, but one with a lot of white walls, and a policy that doesn't allow pets! How am I suppose to fulfill my destiny of being a crazy cat man?
Lately I have been feeling trapped, or restricted by the walls I put up. When I feel this way I have to remind myself that I can change the way I think. I can be hopeful, and determined. Rather than pitiful, and gloomy, which leads to stress eating chocolate bars! I've learned that whatever it is I may be struggling with, to not be afraid to call for help.
TT1101 leads loaded stone train 2196 through Bargo, TT106 was on the rear in the usual Distributed poster setup these trains run in.
2020-08-31 Pacific National TT110 Bargo 2196 TT106 on rear
PL5 leads 48137 and PL7 towards Maitland with an empty Austar coal train.
These trains have ceased running as of December 2010, with Austar (the owner of the Pelton mine) having completed an upgrade project on the former SMR to allow heavier axle loads to run on the line. The PL and 48 class have been set aside to be replaced with leased CFCLA EL Class locomotives, running in pairs.
The 48 class will likely move over to grain working, or into storage, while the PL class will likely be set aside due to their continued unreliability and not being popular with crews.
The clark cortez swings leads with a converted milk truck through the broken odometer miles of a clear Nevada night. With morning we pull up by a half full (half empty?) resevoire for camp coffee, granola and the last of the sandwhiches. The gathering crows almost seem familiar with the accordion but shy from the clarinet. We’re all in good spirits the nine of us laughing like we’d never be going back. Next stop Elko.
A final walk to shake off the RV stiffness, a few polaroids and were ready to go.
It’s melinda’s turn at the wheel of the cortez – a quirky girl who drives and smokes like a trucker and endearingly sneaks a look now and again to see if you’re catching her work with the clutch. She’s an arialist – no net. When I explain to her why this one reminds me of the famous Capa photograph of Federico Garcia she just rolls her eyes and quips “this ain’t Spain, there’s no rifle and I’m not dead”. I try telling her that it’s a kind of oblique poetry, that it’s not literal. she goes so far as to accepting the possibility of the not literal part and makes a point of adding that she doesn’t consider it the most flattering of angles .
it’s a long stretch to the ocean and a time we're having
BNSF 2697 leads the southbound Pikes Peak Local in Colorado Springs, CO with a sister Geep and 3 covered hoppers.
I had a spare few minutes before I had to head to work, and when I looked at ATCS to see if anything was coming, I saw a SB coming out of Monument. When the train hit Academy and fit between the sidings on the ATCS display, I knew it was the PPL. Unfortunately I didn't have the greatest sun angle here at Woodmen Road, but I'm not going to pass up the chance to shoot a standard cab unit in this day and age!
CP ES44AC 8781 leads a late Train 142-23 across the Moosehead Subdivision on 11/23/2021.
This would be the maiden voyage of the 8781 to Maine, since then it has made periodic visits. The unit was painted for the Hapag-Lloyd partnership with CP at Saint John. However on this day the "Saint John Express" was hardly an express of any sort. With plenty of 10 MPH speed restrictions, chasing was easy.
Canadian Pacific
Train: 142-23
11/23/2021
Long Pond Twp, ME
CP Moosehead East Subdivision
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.
A GE/EMD combo leads a northwest Ohio to LA stack train through the curves of the Gallup Sub east of Holbrook. The NS 4431 came out of Ft. Worth in March 2021 after being rebuilt from NS 9218, a D9-44CW, built in April 1998. The second unit, NS 1107, is a newer ACe from February 2014. This train was running 2x2x0 with a pair of BNSF GE's about 2/3's back in the train.
Pere Marquette 1225 leads its first ever photo freight south past the Carland elevator on Great Lakes Central rails back in the spring of 2007. This event marked the first time since its initial restoration that 1225 was returned to its late 1940s in-service appearance with no white striping, flying number boards and visor-less headlight. The white flags signifying "extra" were a cool touch, too!
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BNSF 5603 leads a southbound coal load down the Joint Line near Monument, CO.
This was the end of Daylight Saving Time for 2017, but it appears that I not only fell back an hour but also fell through some sort of time portal to the '90s to catch this duo.
About a year ago, I mentioned that the background here would be changing soon. Well, see for yourself:
leads to this: random, colorful circles on ma face.
Tonight I'm attending the opening of a dear friend's month-long art collaboration, called 25 Days of Building. I'm excited. I will wash my face first.
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37518 'Fort William/An Gearasdan' leads 47854 on the 5Z55 Carnforth Steamtown - York Holgate Siding e.c.s. move through Giggleswick. 22112013.