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A brief 5 mile chase of a backlit C40-8W leader abruptly ends as this SD70M-2 leader in perfect light meets it at Ackerville, thus beginning a 30 mile chase to Fond du Lac.
It’s nice seeing these lead again, as I hadn’t seen one lead in over a year at that point, barely having any useable shots of them in service. Got close about a month before, but CN swapped power on the main because the lead M-2 was having problems
"I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies..."
Taken at Redemption sim.
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Believe it or not, I was about ready to give up photography on this morning. I had fallen out on the rocks of Lake Superior the night before while photographing a stellar sunset, and then on this morning I broke a lens. It was absurd to think that I was so ready to give up the gift God gave me especially after seeing all of His beautiful creation on display. Then He brought me here, let me just say that those feelings of wanting to give up left immediately. I realized my foolishness and simultaneously took in the insane beauty before my eyes. This hidden treasure is actually in a canyon on Minnesota's north shore of Lake Superior. Very few know about it and it is quite difficult and dangerous to get to especially after some decent rainfall. So thankful that God chose to give me this gift even though it can be challenging to carry it out faithfully with a disability.
The black church in Budir is not the oldest church ever built on Iceland, but it is the oldest existing wooden church, built in 1848 and now a protected monument. Budir, Iceland, April 2021
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I was advised by a judge in a club comp. that a similar shot to this was "too blue". I felt that I gave fair warning when I entitled the entry 'Blue Bridge at the Blue Hour' :)
View of the Howard Smith development adjacent to Brisbane's Story Bridge.
Way back in 2018, before I understood the significance of OSR's F units, I passed by the Woodstock station and took a phone pic of the F units just sitting there. That picture has always haunted me as OSR refused to bring out the Fs on freight runs in the years since. Until now. 2 days before Christmas, I was presented with the ultimate gift, a shot at redemption with an F unit at the Woodstock station. This time I properly shot and documented it across the St. Thomas sub as it ran the Woodstock job. So here's OSR 6508 and OSR 102 in front of the very station I saw it sitting at all those years ago!
The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.
Captured using two different focal lengths 90mm for the water to get a little compression and 28mm for the mountains, all Schneider Tilt Shifts. Nice and and easy with the blend due to the perfect horizon. Captured the water early in the morning as the water was so sweet and the wind picked up later which made for nice semi long exposure clouds.
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INPOA was due into Portola around sunset with UP 1982 on point, and 1989 trailing somewhere on the train. Due to this, a buddy and I went up to get the train on the Winnemucca Sub, however, just outside Winnemucca the train snapped, and if I recall right a whole drawbar got pulled out of one of the cars. Regardless of what happened, the situation caused the train to sit for several hours, so it looked like we were out of luck. By this point we were coming into Reno, and by pure luck we found out that the MSPRV had just left Sparks not long ago.
This caused us to race to a shot, though we had unknowingly just missed the train when we got there. Thankfully, the detector at Verdi went off only a couple minutes later, giving us enough time to get ahead of it before Floriston. After shooting it in Floriston, we made our way to Truckee to get this shot of the train in nice evening light. Although we thought about getting one last shot, by this point dinner sounded better.
Remember this shot: flic.kr/p/2niXNVu ?
Well in a fortunate turn of events I got redemption the very next day when the AAPRCO special headed for a rare mileage run out the Okeelanta Branch. But that would mean retracing Sunday's trip out the SCFE mainline south from Clewiston to Keela Jct. where the branch peels off toward the big Florida Crystals owned mill. And this time as they sailed over the small canal just north of the Evercane Road crossing at MP 951.8 (historic ACL mileage measured from Richmond) on the SCFE's mainline I was graced with perfect sun and even a bit of a smoke plume. Yes this will do!
Clean burning (it's fired with used restaurant vegetable oil and this is one of the few times I saw it really smoke s) 148 was built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 1920 at Alco's Richmond Works and served for the FEC for 32 years including operating over the famed 'Overseas Railroad' to Key West until that line was wiped out by the 1935 hurricane.
From 1952 to 1968, 148 was owned by US Sugar for use on their private cane hauling railroad, and then later was sold for use in excursion service on the Black River and Western and Morristown and Erie Railroads. Following that career she languished with different owners for decades until finally being repatriated to Clewiston and restored over a four year period.
To learn more check out the home page of the Sugar Express, the company's planned tourist train operation: sugarexpress.com/history/
And to learn more about the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners check out this link: www.aaprco.com/
Hendry County, Florida
Monday April 25, 2022
After embarrassing myself as told in the story with this post: flic.kr/p/2nESwS7 I vowed to get it right this time. Consequently I had no choice but to return here for my last shot of the day during this, the biggest show in steam of the year.
This third outing of the reincarnated 'Reading Rambles' was once again led by Reading and Northern 4-8-4 2102 which returned to service this year after a more than three decade slumber. Built in the Reading Company's own shops in 1945 the stout T-1 was doubled headed for one trip only with long time steam star 425. Almost two decades older, the high-drivered 4-6-2 light Pacific was built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern. The steam duo is leading 19 cars with a sold out train of nearly 800 passengers headed back to North Reading after a day long outing to Jim Thorpe.
To learn more about these locomotives check out the RBMN's pages on them here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
They are seen here passing the photo line and crossing Molino Road at MP 81.1 on the modern day Reading and Northern Railroad's Reading Division mainline.
Unincorporated Molino
West Brunswick Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday August 13, 2022