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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.
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!
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!
This road in Professor Valley leads to many wonders ahead on the way to Moab, Utah, where the Canyonlands and Arches national parks beckon.
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.
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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Those stairs leads to some of my bests memories... Hidden in a secluded part of Uganda, a luxury outdoor style hotel (I don't know how to describe it!), all to myself... A beautiful campfire, some amazing food, a gigantic room all to myself...
And also the WORST food poisoning (and consequently night) of my life.
BNSF 527 leads four axle local power on the Parachute Local approaching De Beque on its its return to Grand Junction, Colorado.
4 October 2023.
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37401 leads 37425 out of Blackburn with the BLS tour to Carlisle on 27/8/2023.
I had intended to see this tour (reportedly the last using DRS 37s ? ) on the Darwen line but saw no point in exploring there in the heavy rain.Very dull conditions here but at least the rain had stopped !
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This little road leads from the harbour into Fore Street, which is what the high street is often called in the south-west of England. St Ives, in the far west of Cornwall, is a very popular holiday resort renowned for its sandy beaches and its quaint narrow streets and alleyways. It has a famous artists' colony and was once an important fishing port. But now it relies mainly on tourism for its income.
A BNSF C44-9W leads an intermodal train westbound out of the Cacade Tunnel at MP 1708.1 on BNSF's Scenic Sub. The big GE built in 1994 wears warbonnet colors of the legendary Santa Fe half of BNSF and looks decidedly out of place in a iconic Burlington Northern location.
The 7.8 mile long bore is the longest railroad tunnel in the United States passing beneath the Cascade Range. Opened in 1929 by BN predecessor Great Northern Railway it replaced a 2.6 mile long tunnel 500 feet higher that dated from 1900 that itself replaced the original temporary switchback alignment over the mountain dating to the GN's 1893 opening.
One particular interesting fact among many is that this monumental tunnel took only three years to construct and the project was led by Frederick Mears. Colonel Mears is best known for being appointed to the Alaska Engineering Commission by President Wilson and then serving as the chief engineer responsible for the construction of that road. Col. Mears saw that railroad to completion and resigned on July 7, 1923 six days before President Harding drove the gold spike in Nenana, AK at the end of the bridge bearing Mears' name across the mighty Tanana River.
This tunnel sits at an elevation of 2881 ft some 1180 ft below the pass that the original switchback route crossed. The east portal is in the community of Berne in Snohomish County, WA while the west seen here is in a location known as Scenic.
King County, Washington
Sunday June 20, 2010
66759 leads a well loaded 4L29 through the Fenland town of Whittlesey on the 17th November 2018. The GB locomotive is named 'Chippy' in remembrance of Clive Chippington, an Assistant Train Manager with GB Railfreight, who unexpectedly passed away.
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.
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.
An Ohio Central tunnel motor leads the G&W Columbus & Ohio River's NKWA turn as it makes its way through downtown Columbus, Ohio and crosses the Scioto River. The train is making its way over the NS Columbus District as it heads towards Watkins Yard for interchange with Norfolk Southern.
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Columbus, OH
CUOH NKWA (Newark, OH to NS Watkins Yard, Columbus, OH)
OHCR 4027 SD40T-2 Ex. OHCR 8277, SP 8277 Blt. 1980
OHCR 3305 SD40-2 Ex. CP 5673 Blt. 1973
OHCR 3566 SD40-2 Ex. NS 3566, HLCX 8154, BN 8154 Blt. 1980
BNSF 5339 and three other GE's leads a westbound stack train towards the small town of Rutledge, Missouri on BNSF's Marceline Sub.
October 17, 2015
The last of the 44 class in revune service, 4497 owned by Qube departs Junee leading 1431 on the shuttle to Harefield on 3-10-22.
With a new intermodal facility about to open at Bomen, north of Wagga Wagga operational are likely to change and could be the last few months of 4497 operating
CSXT 2502 leads what I believe was the J731 southbound through Enfield, IL. Back then it was a one train a day operation. Northbound (geographically west) out of Evansville, IN as far as needed and then back to Evansville the next day. This was once the L&N mainline to St. Louis but was downgraded and truncated to New Memphis, IL and then later to Okawville, IL by CSX . The line was then leased to Evansville Western and traffic has picked up substantially since then with the construction of the 12.6 mile spur to the Sugar Camp mine near Akin, IL. and the opening of the White Oak mine near Delafield, IL. along with additional coal traffic interchanged from the NS at Mt. Vernon, IL. The current EVWR local train MCL based out of Mcleansboro is the replacement for the train pictured. Kodachrome Slide scan.
The Chicago & Northwestern heritage engine leads UP train GSN19G-26 on Track 75 of the KCT High Line as it crosses the Kaw River Bridge while approaching State Line Interlocking. This train arrived at UP's Armourdale Yard yesterday morning, and it wasn't until earlier this morning that an outbound crew to Parsons, KS was called. After spending most of the morning adding another unit to the consist, that SD70M second out, they're finally beginning to depart Kansas City nearly 24 hours after arriving here.
The USACE's Kansas City Flood Risk Management has progressed a great deal in and around Santa Fe JCT over the last few months. With the majority of the project focused on the Argentine, Armourdale and Central Industrial District flood protection systems, the work and improvements being performed include raising and strengthening levees and flood walls, new closure structures and the replacement of pump stations. Stoplog closure structures are being built on the both ends of the Kaw River Bridge for the lower deck. A new flood wall is being built across the tracks from the KCT towards Argentine, beginning near Airgas and running in towards the hillside as opposed to the current flood wall that continues upstream along 5th St. Yard.
Another project includes replacing the KCT Kaw River Bridge's hydraulic jacks installed to lift the bridge. The current jacks, which can raise the three trusses 10.5 ft, haven't functioned in years, but they need to be replaced to raise the bridge to the height of the new flood walls, raising the trusses 13.8 ft. 7/28/24.
A gravel road leads toward an Albanian farm in th“Albanian Farm Valbona Valley” — A gravel road leads toward an Albanian farm in the Valbona Valley.
This is another photograph from our fascinating but very brief foray into Albania from our Kosovo home base back in the summer of 2023. A member of our “European family” who is from Kosovo took us on a tour u up in to the Valbona Valley where we could see the spectacular Albanian Alps. On our return back down the valley we briefly paused at this spot.
If I’m remembering the event correctly — and not superimposing two separate stops — we spotted a rural mosque across the river in this beautiful valley with the peaks in the distance. I wanted to photograph it, of course, so we all stopped and briefly walked around the area. Just upstream from a bridge across the river I saw this farm — or is it a homestead, or something else entirely.
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The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way
Many times Ive been alone
And many times Ive cried
Any way youll never know
The many ways Ive tried
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Dont leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Dont leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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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.
Camaro and Mustang racecars on track at Watkins Glen.
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43159 leads through Toton yards on Sunday 29th October 1995 with 1V52, 09.40 Newcastle to Exeter, diverted down the Erewash Valley line due to engineering works.
In the background can be seen (L-R) Toton Centre signal box, the Upside hump control tower, and the wagon shops, all of which are history now.
Of note is that 43159 was the rear power car, with 43102 on the front, that created the world diesel speed record of 148.5 m.p.h. in November 1987, which still stands today.
43159 is still operational with 'The 125 group'.
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The path of light leads you on superb journeys even after Sunset and with a little help from tall flora 6 Film Frames
The amount of light and wind was changing the landscape before me. The light was diminishing in illumination and expanding in tone. With some edits here are some samples of the wonders working their ways within my paths.
Tall Flora is not in every picture.
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Soo 770 leads the BN Transfer as it rides above the Mississippi on the Camden Bridge in Minneapolis. This train will use the Loop Track at Shoreham and then will go into Northtown Yard. On the BN at Northtown it will go by the name Soo Shoreham Transfer.
CP has quit running this Humboldt to Northtown transfer in the meantime, but was still a morning fixture 16 years ago here in Nov. 1999.
Those Soo 700 series SDs were cool, with many looking old school Soo without dynamic brakes. Some had them added I believe, while others not by this point in the 90s.
70009 leads 6A65 0600 Oxwellmains to Craiginches Aberdeen cement past the cluster of cottages to the east of the former station at Errol.
May 13th, 2025
September, 2013:
BNSF #8262 leads a westbound rack train through Flagg Center on the C&I. #8262 was one of 25 SD75Ms delivered to BNSF immediately after the 1996 BN-ATSF merger. Rated at 4,300 horsepower, the SD75Ms were a more powerful version of the SD70M; only 76 models were produced.
With new ES44C4s arriving in 2014, the unit was renumbered to #262 and was ultimately rebuilt at Mid-America.
EA2506 leads SP33, the midday Sydney to Canberra Xplorer, through Penrose.
This day out on the Main South was the 'farewell i30 tour' as we took the car out on one final drive and tank of fuel. After 179,000 km of combined ownership covering east coast Australia, we said farewell to the trusty Hoondai i30 “Harry”.
Exeter, NSW.
Sunday, 21 January 2024.
56098 leads 56049 'Robin of Templecombe 1938-2013' as they pass Ribblehead with 6J37 Carlisle - Chirk logs, Tuesday 9/1/24.
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6385 leads four other units and over 100 empty stonecars for Carey west through Medina on the afternoon of 9/25/16.
Class 47 D1924 leads the "Portsmouth Harbour Statesman" past Potbridge. The train is a Doncaster to Portsmouth dining excursion. 47593 "Galloway Princess" is on the rear. This was part of a very productive half hour, with three interesting workings due to pass this spot.
Locomotive: Brush Type 4 Class 47/4 D1924/47810 "Crewe Diesel Depot".
Location: Totters Lane, Potbridge, between Winchfield and Hook, Hampshire.
PC 1783 leads Cedar Hill-Oak Pt turn GB-2 through Noroton Heights CT on a gray day in the early 1970's.
The transition period from NH to PC is a special time for me as I was developing my own interest in trains aside from what I inherited from my father.
This year January 1 2025 would have been my fathers 99th birthday.
I chose to post this picture because on similar gray day my father, my brother Don and I chased an almost identical lash up on I-95 North from New Rochelle NY, were we first observed the train coming off the Hell gate Line.
Many of the local NH fans weren't enamored of the PC at all, so there are not as many photos of this period, when hand me down F7's and GP9B units were based in Cedar Hill.
I also remember seeing them run north on the Hartford Line as well as into NYC.
In the early post-merger NH days before the inception of the Metropolitan Region, there was still a fair amount of local freight being gathered up in the Bronx, Bridgeport and the towns along the line to NH.
GB-2 would not only forwarded this freight to Cedar Hill , on the weekends it also ferried local yard power to and from New Haven resulting in monster lash-ups on Saturday morning and Sunday evening.
The train also ran reliably in midday ...until the Metropolitan Region focus on passenger operations pushed it to an over night -early morning schedule.
Special thanks to Rob Pisani for providing me a copy, and Jim Bruno for taking this amazing shot and preserving a version of a core childhood memory
for me.
Noroton Heights Main Line New Haven Line -New Haven Division Northeastern Region PC
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C&NW GP50 5073 leads a UP EMD and GE on an eastbound at Elmhurst IL. The people are out to see Nickel Plate Berk 765 running on an excursion. I took my Dad out to see 765, since the NKP Berks were his favorite steam engines. He was battling cancer at the time and it would be the last steam engine he would see, appropriately enough. We sat in the shade and watched the big Berk pull in and then depart. It brought a smile to my Dad's face and that made it worth it! September 7, 1985.
Leads the CHITAC west through Rochelle, IL. Thanks MP36er for the head out I mean the heads up on this train!!!!
UP 4193 leads "The Bird" past Nelson,IL Eastbound toward Chicago.
This is Train ZSCG1, a Hot Shot priority from Salt Lake City,UT to Global 1 at Chicago,IL. There are two different "Bird" operations East and West. One is the Salt Lake City - Chicago and the other is the Portland, OR - Chicago with reverse operations also known as the "Bird" between these
terminals.
KCS 2025 leads J42 westward over the Withrow Subdivision back to Humboldt Yard. The KCS GP38-2 is reminiscent of the Dodgers (local trains) seen running around the south, making this a de facto Twin Cities Dodger.
CPKC J42 crosses 37th Avenue and into the city limits of Minneapolis. This short train is in three communities and three counties at the same time - Minneapolis (Hennepin), Columbia Heights (Anoka), and St. Anthony (Ramsey). I enjoy thinking about the different layers of political geography at this spot.
BNSF 634 leads the "Ayer turn" though the searchlights at CP E002 in Attalia, WA. This train originates in Pasco yard and switches the interchange in Wallula. After that it continues northbound on the UP Ayer subdivision to the Great Northwest interchange at Ayer yard.
Leads a couple of container flats and 66749 through Luffenham on 4L20 from Hams Hall to Pterborough Virtual Quarry
FURX 7240 leads a westbound grain train on the Dickinson Sub in Medora, ND. The second unit is BNSF 9277, the only EMD widecab unit to ever wear the H1 paint scheme.
I only had about 45 minutes to railfan in the dodgy sun and clouds on my mini-vacation to Medora, but I was able to catch two trains, the one above and this one:
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Interestingly, that other shot was led by BNSF 9242, the Greenface SD60M, so in those two trains, I was able to catch two of the SD60M oddballs!
DL 2461 leads BR-1 into Scranton LHF after a grain run to Cobbs Gap siding a couple miles up line. They went up with helpers and head end power so ended up returning to Scranton with quite the bit of power.
ARR 4319 leads the daily Coastal Classic along the shores of the Turnagain Arm north near Potter, AK.
This is our 23rd entry in the Alaska Revisited series, and it shows how well ARR's yellow and blue is the perfect scheme for The Last Frontier. The Coastal Classic was my favorite passenger train mostly because of its matching scheme...