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Here we view Canadian National's most sought after heritage unit, the EJ&E 661. It has just bypassed some maintenance-in-the-way traffic and is heading west, back to Griffith yard.
ACB4405 & ACB4401 back in action and back where they along in WA! seen on 5049 loaded MRL ore from Mt Walton seen here at Wattleup. These units plus ACB4401 were recently transferred back from Hunter Valley NSW to WA to come back on real trains to help out due to shortage of locos
Back to the seemingly endless rolling hills and gentle folds of the Palouse, Washington landscape. It really is a magical place, almost one of a kind, especially when you view it from above - where the true shape becomes apparent.
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The Three Sisters, Tongaporutu, New Zealand.
In a big storm in 2003 one of the Three Sisters disappeared. A few years later a new third sister popped out of the eroding cliff face (right).
After rushing back down out of the power plant we catch the train heading into the coal mine to take the last load of the day back to the power plant.
Life may be hard, things might not be going your way, but at the end of the day, all you really need is someone who loves you and always has your back.
Didn't do as much traveling I wanted to do last summer, but a highlight of Summer 2015 was time spent in St. Cloud during August. Was a fun week down there with the family, visiting friends in the area that didn't migrate away after college. Lots of great times away from the tracks, but carved out a little bit of railfanning too. One of the railfan goals was to revisit shooting a morning train on the Mississippi River. So got up early on this clear, hot Friday and headed downtown.
BNSF 2623 and PRLX 704 ease a dozen or so cars over the former GN bridge in St. Cloud, running east from the yard to the Staples Sub. mainline on Aug. 14, 2015.
This reminded me of the East Locals I used to shoot back in the day in Cloud, a leaser Geep in the consist pulling boxcars. Although back in the day these cars would have been paper loads out of the Sartell Mill.
Much more traffic to contend to when getting on the mainline now. This Friday edition of the local crossed the bridge here and headed for the red signal at the east leg of the wye. Once stopped there, the DS told them it would be several hours until they got out, so they backed back through downtown St. Cloud to the ex-GN yard. Three hours later they proceeded back east towards the Staples Sub. again.
Never saw anything like that in the late 90s. On a busy day, they would wait for maybe one or two trains before proceeding east on the mainline.
841 has just arrived back at Dry Creek South from Nuriootpa and has detached from its empty ballast consist on 7-8-08
Photographing Bakersfield and its surrounding, this image is prove that there is beauty everywhere. You just need to open your eyes and mind to it.
After testing at the National Research Council Canada facilities in Ottawa for over two months, part of VIA Rail's new Siemens Charger set is heading back towards the Montreal Maintenance Centre. It is blasting through Dorval with a Siemens Charger locomotive bringing up the rear and is running as VIA 628.
Looking back toward Boulder City with the River Mountain Trail switchbacking between Red & Black Mountains. An easy trail, mostly because of the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935-1937. They built quality, and they built to last.
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Just walking about on a snowy day. This machine shed was at the back of the farmyard.
I chose the title for this shot for two reasons: one, this beautiful tiny pond sits on the property of a preschool called Back To Basics Childcare in Lebanon, Maine and two, because as I was pondering poetic words for this photo, I realized that the serenity in the image reminds me that sometimes we just have to get "back to the basics" of life; air, water, breathing -- to achieve harmony in our lives.
Yes, that would be my car. I went to camp this afternoon with Julia to pick up Brandon. I saw him in the playground a few feet away from where I parked. I ran over to talk to him and just as I met up with him, we heard what sounded like fireworks. As we turned around to see, we watched as a huge pine tree fell and crushed my car. LOTS of damage, yet somehow drivable. I haven't stopped laughing since it happened. It's keeping me from crying. :)
(told ya my life was full of excitement!)
To often we do not look at the back of the beautiful creations in nature; to see the intricacy that creates the wonders of nature.
The City of Long Beach reflecting the morning sun back at me on a wonderful morning on the Queen Mary.
The modern towers of the Back Bay seem to grow out of the old brick city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Las modernas torres de Back Bay parecen surgir de la antigua ciudad de ladrillos de Boston, Massachusetts, EEUU.
Black-backed woodpeckers forage in dead trees (especially recently burned trees up to eight years postfire) looking for wood-boring beetle larvae. The yellow crown patch indicates this is a male. The white underneath is smudged gray from the soot.
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