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Amid some of Spanish Fork Canyon’s early autumn color, an eastbound Union Pacific Board of Directors special passes through Castilla, Utah, on September 30, 2000. Powering the 15-car passenger train over the grades of Soldier Summit is new EMD SD70M No. 4167 and three E9s.
Happiness is catching a streamlined passenger train dashing through new snow. UP's Provo, Utah - Council Bluffs, Iowa officer special is on the old D&RGW near Bluffdale, Utah on April 5, 2023.
Desert storms, microorganisms, and soil create dramatic and colorful paintings on canyon walls. I added a little of my own artistic drama.
The Union Pacific can sure put together a nice looking business train as witness the P-GJDV 22 descending into the Denver area this afternoon. The 11-car train, powered by the 4533 and the 3001, is shown approaching Blue Mountain crossing between Plainview and Eisele, Colorado, about 22.5 miles west of the Mile High City. Photo by Joe McMillan, September 22, 2021, 3:24 p.m.
Union Pacific Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe No. 1989 leads an eastbound Operation Lifesaver special east of Payne on Colorado’s North Fork Subdivision on June 14, 2009. Behind 1989 is UP E9B No. 963B, and on the other end is GE AC4400CW No. 7250 used as lead locomotive on westbound trips on the branch.
The eastbound UP transfer (turtle now on the roof) out of East Minnie gets underway just after 0630 hrs. As they stare down a highball and pull up to East Hump's board, the morning Builder comes around the corner from Rollins Avenue on the Midway Sub with some private varnish on the rear.
The Rio Grande had full faith in its ability to get freight trains over the road in a timely fashion. Train 87 left Denver about an hour ahead of the Rio Grande Zephyr, and didn’t expect delays to the varnish. Here 87, powered by four GP40 variants, pours it of as it rolls through Glenwood Springs, just minutes ahead of the RGZ. Train 17’s extended station stop will allow 87 to rebuild its lead.
The Empire Builder accelerates west after its station stop in Shelby, Montana. Railroad location is Teton, where the Sweet Grass Sub branches off the Hi Line toward the Canadian border. October 6, 2000.
Here, the BNSF 3696, a very clean ET44C4 is at Tecumseh, KS on the home stretch of its trip with the O-BIRTOP. This is on the east side of Tecumseh, at Shadden Rd., which is the first town east of Topeka.
Video of the train can be seen here: youtu.be/OKx43-L6aXg
The wishes of the dead
Follow the light of the living
The freedom to breathe
Fights with the need to forgive
The longings of the heart
Can deepen our prayers against anger
But words unsaid and hurts remembered
Battle with our need to let the past go
Forgiveness can be difficult to reach
But the sweet silence of peace
Brings a balm to the soul
And a healing to the hereafter
*****
This simple wooden cross that marks the grave of a vicar of Glynde in Sussex, UK, who passed away in 1965 aged 84, was once a serving officer who joined the 1st Gurkha Rifles seeing service in India and Palestine during the Great War. He was invalided out of the army in 1923 and was eventually ordained at York Minster in England in 1932.
Alexander returned to India as a clergyman, serving as an Army Chaplain in Delhi during the Second World War. On returning to England he became at one time the Vicar of Glynde 1951-55.
The Inscription on the cross reads:
“In memory of Rev Lt Col: A.F. INGLIS. Vicar of Glynde 1951-55 died September 9th 1965 Aged 84 years.
Also his wife Anne 1888-1983.
His ashes, along with those of his wife, are buried under this simple cross in the churchyard at Glynde. He lies here with other war dead of the First World War.
What is so incredibly poignant, is that this memorial cross is carefully looked after, varnished and maintained against the weather, and has been all these years. On the anniversary of his death, there is often a posy of flowers laid at the foot of the cross.
For me, Alexander must have found a way to reconcile what he witnessed while serving as an officer and the forgiveness required as a clergyman. His faith must have been of great solace to him and such understanding that we are all humbled in the face of death meant that all he required was a wooden cross, rather than any other more ornate memorial, at the time of his passing.
To forgive we have to be humble. To be humble is to walk away from war and your pride and begin to truly live.
Never Forget.
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In October 1983, an eastbound Golden Arrow Lines passenger train is east of Cross Plains, Wisconsin, on a Spring Green to Middleton excursion on Central Wisconsin Railroad Company’s affiliated railroad, the Wisconsin Western Railroad. The train is powered with a former Rio Grande EMD F7 that was recently used on the defunct Chicago, Madison and Northern. Glen Monhart’s ACL E3 No. 501 is on the other end and led the westbound leg of the trip.
Given the news of the day regarding the donation of a large amount of Union Pacific equipment to the new museum complex in Silvis, IL (railfan.com/up-donates-two-steam-locomotives-to-non-profi...), I thought that I'd rehash this image of mine from 2008.
Here, UP's Centennial #6936 is leading a Wimmer Inspection Train eastbound through Topeka, KS on the Kansas Sub. I seem to recall that it had just come off of the Golden State from Herington, but perhaps I'm misremembering this.
Unfortunately, I was photographing with an early, point and shoot digital and deleted the full-sized image, but this at least works well for the Web, and I'm happy to have this memory. This was a NEAT engine to see out on the road, and hopefully, the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America organization will get it out on the high iron again.
Temporary loss of Insanity
no wait... I mean a permanent fracture of sanity.. anyway...
Title is a joke for a friend
I'll have to fix this later but for now, what ever you do, don't look at this!:
Minutes later about to enter shoo fly on Main 2, Hiawatha with Mars swinging,exhaust blasting high and four 567 prime movers sounding all the decibels possible. Looked back, as caboose of Mpls Transfer on Main 1 was just disappearing. Slick dispatching by LaCrosse and execution in the field by the CTC operator down at Chestnut St.Tower ensuring the varnish will arrive at Milw Depot ahead of transfer at South Mpls. The experience was certainly more worthy than the photo. Note: the smokestack of the old Ancker Hospital back at W. 7th St. grade crossing. An overpass is in the near future. Also the home signal governing Fordson Jct. is visible. Gritty not pretty.
With a whopping 18 passenger cars in the consist, a Union Pacific Office Car Special grinds upgrade as they head west at the site of daylighted Tunnel 28. This train is rumored to be traveling Utah's Cane Creek Branch later this week before continuing to Salt Lake City.
Scoresby Sund, Greenland
Tar streaks on the rock cliffs facing Scoresby Sund in Eastern Greenland. I was drawn to the rock face with complex strong lines and the contrast with organic shapes of tar marks.
Members of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society ride in Car Northland behind DM&IR 332 near Palmers.
The annual AAPRCO Autumn Explorer on the Vermont Rail System passes Crystal Lake in Barton, VT on the Washington County Lyndonville Sub on a Fall afternoon in the Northeast Kingdom.
This afternoon, I was able to catch the UP 4533 leading the PCBST 31, a business train that was running from Council Bluffs, IA to Santa Teresa, NM. It was definitely occupied, and running on quite the aggressive schedule today.
Here, it's see rolling through CP Z067 in Topeka, shortly before turning onto the Topeka Sub towards Herington.
The Union Pacific engineering special from Mason City to Proviso passes the former Chicago & North Western depot in Clinton, IA.
July 19, 2017.
Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4533 and EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3001 lead this eastbound 11-car OCS train through East Cliff along South Boulder Creek on September 22, 2021.
PGJDV 22
Pinecliffe, Colorado
On September 7, 1964, 60 years ago today, Rock Island Train No. 18, the TWIN STAR ROCKET, is at Union Station, Houston, Texas, awaiting a 4:35 p.m. departure for Minneapolis, Minnesota. The train will be cut back to Kansas City-Minneapolis in just a few weeks. On the next track, Santa Fe Train No. 66, the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL, behind Alco PAs, is due out of Houston at 6:45 p.m. for Clovis, New Mexico, with connections west.
If you were standing at this spot today, you would be in the middle of a baseball stadium––photo by Joe McMillan.
Desert varnish or rock varnish is an orange-yellow to black coating found on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments. Desert varnish is usually around one micrometer thick and represents nanometer-scale layering. Rock rust and desert patina are other terms which are also used for the condition, but less often.
Valley Of Fire State Park, Nevada.
Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
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Interesting Story About This Photo: This photo illustrates desert varnish (the darker red and black vertical lines) , a phenomena present in the American Southwest and in many other places in the world. I posted this photo on my personal Woodchuck Images site and it was found by an author , Dr. John Rakovan, who was preparing an article for Rocks and Minerals Magazine. His article and my photo and were published in the article in the September/October 2006 issue. From the magazine: "Figure 1: Streaks of desert varnish formed on a rock wall where water commonly flows during rainstorms in Capital Gorge, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. The black coloration is due to hirnessite, (an oxide mineral of manganese) as the dominant pigmenting agent." Elsewhere in the article: The coatings of desert varnish are thin, usually less than 0.5 mm, and their rate of formation is slow , taking as long as two hundred thousand years to form in some cases.
Union Pacific train PALBN2 04 passes through the former CNW signal bridge at Bain, Wisconsin. The train began at Altoona, Wisconsin and will overnight in Bloomington, Illinois, before visiting points south of there.
Synchronicity strikes again! I wasn't thrilled about the photo of moi we had posted on GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/care-for-katharine (no makeup, bum lighting, no photoshopping) and was kind of wracking my brain with the thought 'Who do I know who is a professional photographer?!' when a message came in from Candace Freeland, a woman I knew years ago when we both lived in a small town in Iowa. I had not seen her in decades. She lives 20 minutes from our house. She is a professional photographer!!
She was very happy to come to our house (bringing makeup with her ... I no longer own any), and then lit & photographed me, and photoshopped an image after the fact that I feel good about because it brings out more light and life. This is it. Either this chain of events was a wildly unlikely coincidence or my guardian angel is exquisitely alert and responsive. I lean toward the latter. Thank you, Candace!
On a pleasant Sunday afternoon, I had free time in my day to run up to the St. Joe Sub and photograph this southbound BNSF business train, led by the 7183. This lengthy train was the O-SPOTOP (Office, Spokane-Topeka), and was simply a deadhead move back to the Shops, so it wasn't running with any sort of authority.
Here, it's just north of the siding at Halls, where they put the train in to meet another. Unfortunately, this is where I had to call off my mini-chase, but I'm happy to have seen and photographed this one!
Dark streaks on red sandstone in the desert southwest are pretty common. The prevalent name for them is desert varnish. A Google search for this phenomenon reveals this:
"Desert varnish, the dark coating found on rocks in arid regions, is primarily formed by the interaction of water, microbes, and minerals over long periods of time. Water flowing over rocks allows microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, to grow, and this, in turn, allows windblown clay dust to adhere. Microbes, particularly those that oxidize manganese, play a crucial role in transforming soluble manganese and iron into insoluble forms, which then cement the clay and other minerals to the rock surface, creating the varnish."
This image of the varnish comes from Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona. For perspective, these streaks are around 200 feet long.
Canadian National business train P36091-25 twists its way up Scales Mount hill in far northwest Illinois as it leaves the Mississippi River valley east of Galena. The train began in Sioux City the day before and spent the night in Dubuque. The officials riding the train will finish their day in Battle Creek, Michigan, and continue on to Port Huron the next day before the equipment deadheads back to Homewood in Chicago.
another of the ugly black rocks I found a long time ago, in a place far away! this is the most curious of the lot, with lots of color............
The old Standard Varnish Works on Richmond Terrace near the Bayonne Bridge in Elm Park, Staten Island, NY. Which had open vats of liquid chemicals and solvents stored in its yard during the nineteenth century touching off an explosion and five alarm fire. The raging inferno could be seen out over Newark Bay in the evening and fire departments from New jersey were called in to extinguish the massive blaze which had spread on to the water and threatened shipping docked nearby.
Standeat Varnish continued in operation thereafter and became Standard T Chemical operating until 1982 when it closed down and the property sold. It has since become a NYC Landmark.