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Walking Beccles Fen leads to the Waveney Footpath and part of the Angels Way. By this time the snow was falling in waves and drifts creating blizzard like conditions with the wind driving the snow horizontally causing very poor visibility. Again Muntjac could be seen darting here and there into thickets and reed beds to get some cover from the driving snow. I finally made it back to Beccles Quay and then home and by this time the wind had dropped but the snow flakes got really big and over the afternoon a good couple of inches laid. We made snow men and watched out of our front window seeing cars skidding, coming to a halt and people walking and sliding and making their way home. I took many photos on the walk that will be posted soon and with more snow forecast for the next couple of days maybe more to come. Awesome.....
MRL001 leads 2186 loaded aggregate out of Mittagong, with MRL005 at the rear.
Later this day an SSR cement train would suffer a major derailement at New Berrima, resulting in a national suspension for SSR operations.
It has since been partially relaxed, however PN, Aurizon and SRS continue to operate various services where SSR is still prohibited.
(4/7/26)
RM1713 leads many redundant buses including Routemasters, Leyland Nationals & DMS's. Some were sold for a further life & others went for scrap at AEC Southall Works 26/4/87
One of DB's re-geared fleet, 66652 (ex-66164), adds a splash of colour as it rolls past Oatfield Lane with a late running 6E01, the 10.05 steel hoods from Wolverhampton Steel Terminal to Boston Sleaford Sidings.
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!
33207 leads 33029 rasp away from a signal check approaching Winwick Junction with 5M43 10.19 Southall WCR - Carnforth Steamtown with 10 blue and grey Mk2's
Thursday 6 February 2025.
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.
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
CSX 539 leads M369 west on the Garrett Subdivision, proudly wearing the classic YN2 paint scheme of the 1990s and early 2000s. This scheme is becoming increasingly difficult to find as time goes on, so it's always nice to shoot one of these leading in good light- and it's nostalgiac for me!
OMLX 4006 leads a long 86 southbound trough the small community of Baconton Georgia. As seen in this photo you can see the past paint jobs are bleeding through this almost 50 year old GP40-2. It was originally built in 1977 for the Boston & Maine and as you can see on the top of the nose the blue BM trying to peak out.
A path that leads away from the marked Aiplspitz trail, and sometime later this path ends, and you have to just climb by crossing an ever steeper getting meadow till you reach the ridge.
In the background to the right is the Wendelstein (1,740 m).
Tour: Geitau – Heißenplatte
You can view this tour here:
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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!
BNSF 7856 leads a z-train through Skykomish, WA as it passes the rear dpu of an empty coal train waiting for its turn up the Cascades. After making the slow trek across Stevens Pass, the is now on flatter ground & gets ready to make the sprint for Everett & it’s eventual destination of either Seattle or Tacoma. 6-24-23
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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"Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky." Sonia Gandhi.
On our second day in Doolin, we returned to the Cliffs of Moher to wander through other areas beyond the most famous part next to the visitor center. After hiking its southern area in the morning, we returned to Doolin for lunch and quickly made our way to the cliffs to photograph them again at sunset.
This time, we chose the incredible view from the area known as Pollboy Lockout, located on the coastal path that leads to Doolin along the edge of the cliffs heading north. An area in which we must take even more precautions, due to the risk of landslides. After immortalizing the immensity of these rock walls with my camera from a lower position, I decided to fly the drone to get a more global view of the area. From the sky you can see even better the small rocky beach under the majestic cliffs, in addition to the O'Brien Tower and the Sea Stack in the center of the image, and then continue with your eyes until you reach Hag's Head at the bottom. We could not have dreamed of a better ending, with a wonderful warm light illuminating these giants that we were lucky to explore during two unforgettable days in front of the ocean.
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"Juntos podemos hacer frente a cualquier desafío tan profundo como el océano y tan alto como el cielo." Sonia Gandhi.
En nuestro segundo día en Doolin, regresamos a los acantilados de Moher para pasear por otras zonas más allá de la parte más famosa junto al centro de visitantes. Tras recorrer su zona sur por la mañana, volvimos a Doolin para el almuerzo y rápidamente nos dirigimos a los acantilados para fotografiarlos de nuevo al atardecer.
En esta ocasión, elegimos la increíble vista desde la zona conocida como Pollboy Lockout, situada en el camino junto a la costa que lleva a Doolin por el borde de los acantilados en dirección norte. Una zona en la que hay que extremar las precauciones aún más, antes el riesgo de desprendimientos. Tras inmortalizar la inmensidad de estas paredes de roca con mi cámara desde una posición más baja, decidí volar el dron para conseguir una vista más global de la zona. Desde el cielo se puede observar aún mejor la pequeña playa de rocas bajo los majestuosos acantilados, además de la Torre O´Brien y la Sea Stack en el centro de la imagen, y luego seguir con la mirada hasta llegar a la Hag´s Head al fondo. No podíamos haber soñado un mejor final, con una luz cálida maravillosa iluminando estos gigantes que tuvimos la suerte de explorar durante dos días inolvidables frente al océano.
Leads, 5Z67 09.53 Longsight-Walton Old Jn (MSC sidings)
through Earlestown P5
With thanks to ( www.flickr.com/photos/sjpowermac/for the heads up on this move ;-))
KCS 1776 leads its lengthy train (CPKC 253) over the UP at Fifth Street in Clinton, Iowa.
After seeing KCS 1776 parked at Heinz before work on Thursday night, I received word that it had only made it to Nahant overnight. Having to get the kiddo going and to daycare, KCS 1776 got a head start on me Friday morning. I was able to get the advantage as they once again stopped at Camanche. The UP sent three trains through before the CPKC northbound was given permission to advance around shortly before 10 a.m.
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.
BNSF 7314 leads its train through Pipestone, Minnesota and leaves the iconic water tower behind. The water tower has a twin in Brainerd. Pipestone is one of Minnesota's most unique communities, rich with history, and the site of the Pipestone National Monument. Four railroads once passed through, but only the former GN, now BNSF Marshall Subdivision, remains in town.
Original Railroads in Pipestone:
-Great Northern
-Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
-Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
-Chicago & Northwestern
the James River Valley is one of the scenic highlights of the CP/Soo in North Dakota..cp9830 leads eb 498
An Alco RS11 leads the way as the Falls Road Railroad brings the second Dimensional Extra train of the day east with a transformer load bound for Medina. The train is crossing over the Erie Canal on the "upside down bridge" in Lockport, New York with five buffer cars between the locomotive and the load to help distribute the weight while crossing the bridge.
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FRR Falls Road Line
Lockport, NY
FRR Dimensional Extra (High & Wide Load; Lockport, NY to Medina, NY)
FRR 1802 RS11 Ex. WW 863, NW 2863, NKP 863 Blt. 1959
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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NS 1069 leads a high priority intermodal train as they round a curve near Macomb, Missouri on the BNSF Thayer North subdivision.
Union Pacific 8766 leads the five day old MNPRV out of Tunnel 39 at Cisco. Feet of Sierra Snow covering Tunnels 4 and 39 are evidence of recent winter storms. Those storms caused washouts along the Feather River Route causing this MNPRV to detour via Donner Pass.
UP 8766 --- MNPRV --- Cisco, California
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CSX C39-8 7487 (ex-Conrail 6019) leads a southbound manifest freight on the River Line at Iona Island, NY, on July 19, 2003.
PL42 #4008 leads a westbound evening express train up the middle track crossing Hollywood Ave in Hohokus NJ, July 11. 2023. The tall redwood tree in the background is the mobile phone industry's attempt at disguising their antennas. The damned thing even has "bark" on the "trunk". It is indeed very silly and fools no one.
Ilford HP5+ at 800 ISO
Nikon F
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.
A real ATSF Warbonnet Dash-9 leads BNSF Train H KCKBAR9 07L down the BNSF Emporia Sub. Main Track 2 just east of MP 24. Engineer Mel Wilson has these "elderly" GE's in notch 8 climbing the hill out of Kansas City, and this train is down to a crawl.
They will take this shuttle power to Emporia where the train will be put in away in the yard while it waits for road power to continue west. You never know when the last time will be to shoot authentic red and silver power on the Santa Fe, so this trip down here was well worth it.
Locomotives: BNSF 642, BNSF 663
5-7-17
Olathe, KS
Heavy Haul Rail 59001 'YEOMAN ENDEAVOUR' leads 66957 'Stephenson Locomotive Society 1909-2009' out of Woodborough loop working 6A50 10.26 Whatley-Hanwell on 19/06/26.
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).
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.
168 leads Long Island Rail Road train 8737 west into Sayville, NY the Montauk Branch. As of the date of this photo the days of MP15ACs and GP38-2s in commuter service were numbered, with the first DM30ACs already on the property.
Long Island 8737:
LI 168 MP15AC
MassDOT blue GP40MC 1137 leads Keolis/MBTA train 223 thru the crossovers from Main 2 to 1 at CPF FR (Frost) at MP BW26.7 on modern day CSXT's Portland Sub mainline as they accelerate away from their station stop at the high level platform in the background. This is the former Pan Am Railways Freight mainline (original Boston and Maine Railroad) which is owned and maintained by the T as its Western Route (Haverhill Line) mainline but dispatched by CSXT from their former PAR facility in Billerica.
At right is the famed Ayer Mill Clock Tower, with the world’s largest mill clock. Its four big glass faces are only 6 inches smaller than Big Ben in London. It is the treasured icon and landmark of the community, a hard luck post industrial city that was once an industrial powerhouse trying to reclaim a bit of its past glory
Lawrence was formed in 1843 from land purchased from Methuen and Andover by successful business men from Lowell to establish a new textile manufacturing industry on the banks of the Merrimack River. Periods of boom followed periods of financial difficulty for the huge mills that attracted immigrant workers from all over Europe. By the 1890’s a solution to stability appeared to be consolidation and in 1899 under the direction of Frederick Ayer, eight textile companies merged under a new trust: The American Woolen Company.
In 1906, president of the American Woolen Company, William Wood, Frederick Ayer’s son-in-law, completed construction of a huge new mill intended to produce all the yarn for the company and named it the Wood Worsted Mill. Just one wing of this new mill was half a mile long. The mill spun the fleece of 600,000 sheep in just five hours, but even with this capacity Wood soon realized that it could never produce all the yarn requirements of the company, so he began construction of the Ayer mill, named after his father-in-law, in 1909.
The Ayer Mill, built to spin and dye yarn, was opened on October 3, 1910. Its grand, illuminated clock tower immediately became the architectural focal point of the Merrimack Valley. Decades later the competition of synthetic materials, the migration of the mill companies to southern states, and the end of war-time demand for woolen blankets and clothing doomed northern mills, and The American Woolen Company closed in 1955. Without regular maintenance, the Ayer mill clock soon stopped working. As thousands of residents lost jobs the city fell into major decline and the grand old clock, its disrepair visible to all at 260 feet above street level, became a symbol of the Valley’s economic troubles.
After 36 years, the community rallied in 1991 to restore the clock. Over $1 million was raised and artisans were called in to bring it back to life. Clemente Abascal, a realtor and community activist working on the effort, saw the restoration as a harbinger of hope. “Once the economy starts turning around, the city of Lawrence will come back stronger than ever. That clock symbolizes people at work”, he said. The original bell that had called thousands of people to and from work throughout the city, had been lost for years and was replaced by a beautiful replica.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Friday December 5, 2025
A still looking fresh AC4400CWM leads a short train 468 downhill out of Dewinton and towards a crew change in Calgary.
CN 3877 leads train Q120 as they crest the grade and begin their descent down at Folly Lake, Nova Scotia. The sun has just risen over the mountain. The sun was playing peekaboo most of the time, and at the last second, decided to pop out. At the last second, I decided to try and partially hide the sun between the trees. I'm glad the shot wasn't a waste.
August 24, 2019.
Flushing (Cornish: Nanskersys) is a coastal village in the civil parish of Mylor, west Cornwall, UK.
The village was founded in 1661; there is disagreement about whether there are any houses of the late 17th century.
Originally named Nankersey, meaning valley of the reed swamp, the village was given its name by Dutch engineers from Flushing in the Netherlands who built the three main quays in the village. The grand houses on St Peter's Hill, the road that leads into the village, were owned by captains of the packet ships (mail-boats) that docked in nearby Falmouth.
This is a typical winter scene in Cornwall - sunny but cold
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.
BCOL C44-9WL #4643 leads CN SD75I #5677 & NS C40-9 #8822 on CSX K661-11 southbound on the W&A sub through Acworth, GA on a mostly cloudy morning.
BNSF #9669 leads N800 north (east) through Bangor. The train is seen here passing the restored former Pere Marquette station, which now houses the Amtrak station, a coffee shop, and some other small businesses. Amtrak's Pere Marquette makes daily stops here, morning and night.
BNSF SD70MAC #9669
BNSF SD70ACe #8756
130 cars
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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.
Northern Rail 195007 1E70 16.15 Chester-Leeds
Just for the record, the dog is a Yorkie, ( Yorkshire Terrier )
and Leeds is in....... Yorkshire ! ;-))
This bridge leads to anywhere you want to go that you can imagine. The restrooms are to the right.
View on black or I will throw you down the well. Its to the left.
Our Daily Challenge: Bridges
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