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Alaska Railroad's 120S Whittier Turn rolls up to Girdwood for a meet with the Northbound Glacier Discovery. Powering the train is three of the railroad's SD70MACs pulling a healthy cut of TOFC & Manifest for the barge in Whittier. Shoutout to the crew for parking it in the perfect spot.
Did You Hear About The Dog Who Gave Birth At The Side Of The Road?
She Was Ticketed For Littering...arr arr...ahem.
Trucked 71 miles from a closed up Bed and Breakfast outside of Chena Alaska south of Fairbanks to the Chena Hot Spring this "train set" will be used again. GP35U 3021, 4 passenger cars, a tank car and a Caboose now join the eclectic collection at the Chena hot springs and will be refurbished and used as more and unique lodging. Looking rough in this state and having just arrived a couple days earlier soon the train set was all back together but I have yet to see a photo since our visit. If you haven't visited the Hot Springs I 100% recommend it, it was by far the most relaxing thing I have ever done.
Vandaag was het wederom een mistige dag. Ik moest rijden bij de voetbal en dan zit je altijd te niksen tijdens de voorbereiding, dus even erop uit om wat rond te kijken. Leuke motieven gevonden waaronder deze. Met zon was het natuurlijk veel mooier geweest, maar goed.
Edit: potdikkeme, iemand is me toch voor geweest. Dit shot had ik ook in gedachten voor een volgende keer...
Hier passeert een onbekende Arriva Spurt als RE30 van Apeldoorn naar Winterswijk net na station Ruurlo.
The seemingly endless sunset of the summer solstice allows for some stellar evening shots if the clouds aren't around...
One of the famous Alaska Railroad trains makes their way back to Anchorage.
While wandering around the hillside in search of the elusive Ptarmigan we encountered some stunning views into Coire nan Arr with the steep sides of Beinn Bhàn and Sgùrr a' Chaorachain prominent - time to switch to landscape mode.
This image is available printed, framed or on canvas here.
Another frame of this scene from long ago seemingly in a past life of the only time I shot a train working here despite living only a couple hundred yards away for 10 years! An Alaska Railroad yard job is switching out the two stub ended warehouse tracks accessed via a diamond over the Roundhouse Lead that is right beneath me under the bridge I'm standing on.
This view looks down from the sidwalk of the C Street Bridge as an ARR yard job with GP38u 2005 (blt. Aug. 1969 as a straight GP38 for the Penn Central as their number 7752 and purchased from Conrai and rebuilt in 1986) in the 1980s Alaska bold scheme switches out cars at the warehouse. The building on the left houses the ARR's stores department and they still regularly ship and receive company material by rail. Track components (spikes, anchors, etc.) come up by barge in foreign line boxcars while various other company material is shuttled around the system on flats, gons, or in boxcars. Beyond the train can be seen the bustling port of Anchorage and then the blue waters of cook inlet. On the horizon is the 4396 ft peak of Mt. Susitna, known locally as the "Sleeping Lady" for the mountain's resemblance to a woman in repose on her back. To the right is the abandoned warehouse, which is one of the oldest structures in the Anchorage yard complex and whose fate is uncertain, though I do believe a dozen years later it still stands.
Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday May 23, 2009
This single flower and bud presage what I hope will be a Dwarf witch alder bush full of blooms soon.
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A T-45 Goshawk returns to NAF El Centro after a training sortie over the nearby ranges on a recent weapons det.
ARR (Average Regular Robot) is just trying to lead a normal life in a normal world... he's just a normal dude who doesn't want any trouble.
4th Installation in... I have to start getting more creative!
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