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Big Baldy summit cairn (8750 ft) with Mount Timpanogos summit (11,753 ft) in the distance. The summit shack is just visible as a tiny smudge of pixels.
Battle Creek to Big Baldy summit; Pleasant Grove, Utah; June 2016
The 10,221-foot-high summit of the former Rio Grande main line over Tennessee Pass sits quiet and rusty today, with heavy trains no longer grinding through the lofty 2,550-foot tunnel beneath the Continental Divide. Still “railbanked” by Union Pacific more than twenty years since the last passage of a train, the future of the route still hangs in a precarious balance. In this view looking at the west switch of Tennessee Pass siding, I’m not sure which I find more disturbing—the graffiti on buildings at this remote mountain location, or the decapitated signals that will never highball another train.
The summit Cairn of the Munro Cairn of Claise and the wall which marked the old county boundary.
This bike trip takes me to the summits of two Munro's, Carn an Tuirc & Cairn of Claise. Carn an Tuirc is at a height of 1018 meters (3339 feet), while Cairn of Claise is sightly higher at 1062 meters (3484 feet). It took me four hours to drag myself (and my bike) up there, but because of the bike, it took less than an hour to get back to the car. Total distance covered was 26.5 kilometers (16.5 miles) and starting at 370 meters, I had an altitude gain of over 700 meters (2296+ feet) - that was a big one!!
An iPhone photo from this afternoon. The plateau summit of the Lakeland hill High Street apparently gained its name after the Romans built a long distance road straight over the summit. I believe that horse racing also used to be held in an annual event and the hill was also referred to a Racecourse Hill for many years.
Like the nearby Ben Lomond, the summit of Mount Barrow consists of several peaks that rise above a large plateau. These plateaus were carved by glacial activity before the end of the last ice age around 14,000 years ago. One of the features of infrared landscapes is that we tend to lose a lot of the depth perspective. But you can still enlarge this and look around at the detail.
The darkness concealed everything but the stars in the sky. Then the moon started to raise and we silently watch as its light danced on the snowy summit of Mount Rainier in the distance.
Coquihalla Summit (elevation 1,244 m or 4,081 ft) is a highway summit along the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) in British Columbia
A southbound Illinois Terminal Belt (ITB) loaded grain train crests a small hill just south of Heyworth, IL on a dreary spring day. "It's all downhill from here boys!"
The ITB was officially approved for start up in October 2019 and runs between Clinton and Heyworth on a leased 11 mile portion of Illinois Central's original Charter Line, the "Mainline of Mid America." Power is MRIX GP10s 8317 and 8344, and MP15AC 1477. The grain will be interchanged with CN at Clinton.
On the left, the pole line marks the former right of way for the Illinois Terminal.
Summit Lake, Alaska, along the Richardson Highway, about 195 miles from Valdez and 167 miles from Fairbanks.
Delaware Lackawanna PO74 emerges from the fog at Pocono Summit, PA with a four pack of ALCo/MLW locomotives.
After bad weather, luckily we could enjoy a fantastic day to climb the Elbrus' summit. We woke up at 1:00 am at Barrels Camp. After a quickly breakfast we went with a ratrac to Pastukhov rocks (4600 metres) and following we began to climb up to the summit.
The day began wonderful, the weather was absolutely perfect.
Visible to the northwest from Thorp Mountain are Lemah, Chimney Rock and Summit Chief mountains. While more to the north are Mount Hinman and Mount David.
Deloitte Summit is a 24-storey office tower in downtown Vancouver made up of several clusters of four-storey steel-framed cubes stacked on top of each other to create a sculptural effect.
Such a beautiful morning on Mt. Evans! We left at 4 a.m. to get up the mountain for a sunrise shot. I had scouted out another site, but the flowers there had wilted, and the mountains to the west were hazy. So it was back to Summit Lake to try there. We weren't disappointed. Calm mornings are not typical, so such a nice reflection was a bonus!
The summit of Bidein a'Ghlas Thuill, which is the highest of An Teallach's Munros, and translates from Gaelic as 'the peak of the grey hollow'.
It’s hard to imagine this river began with a single drop of water. The length of this river fueled by the slow, but certain melting of mountain glaciers. All along the braids formed by pools, back eddies and gravel bars, the river's floodplain slowly delivers each drop of water from the mountain summits to the sea.
This photograph is an aerial view taken over Skeiðarársandur in Southeast Iceland. Seem from above, a vast plain of sand and ash serves as a canvas for small river channels to branch into abstract patterns in the sand.
back home after a gorgeous but also exhausting 3-weeks-trip to NZ's North Island. Paku summit is just a few steps from Anton&Mary's B&B.
Sunrise over the Jura mountains, shot from top of the Vogelberg (Passwang) 1,204 m (3,950 ft), Switzerland.
Due to the howling gales and rain i apologise for taking a blurred shot of this beautiful view! The small island in the distance at the tip of the headland is Puffin Island.
Five elephant-style Delaware & Hudson EMD’s and a contrarian Conrail B23-7 lead a northbound D&H train through Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The front of the train has just crested the heavy grade out of Scranton, and will have an easier time the rest of the way to Binghamton. The bridge in the background is the final one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension.
Union Pacific GP35 753 leads two DD40AX's, a GP30B, and an ABA set of E's west at Cajon Summit on a trailer train in the winter of 1973.
Greg Stader Photo
Luke Renish Collection
NJT ALP-46 4609 "Ride with Pride" leads train 6320 out of Summit, NJ, passing the YD-41 protect and a cut of loaded stone cars in the yard. This was its first revenue train wearing its near vinyl wrap, sponsored by Hackensack Meridian Health to show support for Gay Pride Month.
My walk finished with a visit to the Chiltern Summit. At 267m this is the highest point in the Chilterns. This cairn was erected in 1977 to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
Strung out down the pass S-LHGMEM1 is notched out climbing Cajon on track three with 5 GE's on the head end. These insanely long stack trains really stand out more than any other trains on the pass and can be seen in so many places at once.
Down there is the River inn, as it flows from Austria to the North to then later end in the Danube at Passau.
Chiemgau, Germany
Here we catch a glimpse of the summit of Mount Wellington (1,272 metres), Hobart, Tasmania, in the early morning light. The apartment buildings in the foreground were constructed in the 1960s.
the highest point on the Isle of Man.
There are wide-ranging views over the Island and across the Irish Sea to the coastlines of neighbouring countries. There is a well-known saying in the Isle of Man that on a clear day
you can see seven kingdoms: Mann, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, and rather more fancifully, Neptune and Heaven.
For the record, the modern day countries are quite close:
* 31 miles (50 km) to the Mull of Galloway (Scotland)
* 51 miles (82 km) to Scafell (England)
* 66 miles (106 km) to the Mountains of Mourne (Northern Ireland)
* 85 miles (137 km) to Liverpool (England)
* 97 miles (156 km) to Dublin (Republic of Ireland)