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It started with one - Max(middle). He was so adorable.
"Let's get another."
So we did - Katie (left).
"Just one more."
Sam.
They were not for the weak-minded.
They were a mob of tenacious, overbearing, incredibly loud, stubborn, four-legged terrorists, obstinate, robust, highly spirited riot of dogs, and we loved them - The Motley Crew...
A motley young crimson rosella. Snow showers today so sneaking bird shots between standing in front of the fire.
Burlington Northern train Nos. 103 and 13 trade crews at Burke, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. Train 103 with GP39M No. 2830 was in the siding at Burke after delays and picking up cars at Eola created some concern that the crew would not make it to the next crew change at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Instead of sending out a new crew to dog catch the train somewhere, a clever solution of exchanging crews was used where No. 103’s crew would trade places with the crew of a higher priority train. In this way, No. 103’s former crew, with fewer hours of service left to them, would step aboard the hotter train and make the crew change point before “going dead on the law.” The hot train’s crew, with more available hours, would slog along with their “new” train, but they too would make the crew change point before going dead. I’m not sure how the crews felt about the situation, but it was a great way to keep the railroad fluid.
A pair of intermodal trains departed Chicago every early afternoon—Nos. 3 and 13—somedays with train 13 shadowing 3 by a block or two. This day was no different as No. 3 pounded past the stopped freight without stopping. The exchange of crews was going to be with No. 13, which came into view only a few minutes later. After making the crew “exchange,” train 13 took off like a bat out of hell with the hours-short crew. Burke siding’s signal blinked from red to yellow to green, and once again No. 103 headed west, albeit not as fast as the trains in front of it. The dispatcher got two hot trains around a slow freight in single-track territory and prevented a crew from dying on the law, all in one well orchestrated move.
Party Crew
The party never ends. The day fades in a burst of vibrant colors, like a natural light show over the sea. A small boat radiating pure joy, warmth, and the unforgettable spirit of summer.
Party ekipa
Zabava nikada ne prestaje. Dan se gasi u prasku boja i to je poput prirodnog light showa nad morem. Brodić koji odiše radošću, toplinom i pravim ljetnim duhom.
Op 19 Juli 2026 , kon de Crew 2454 vastleggen met een personen trein die bijna aangekomen is op zijn eindbestemming
station Hoedekenskerke ........
Crew preparing their hot air balloon in the early morning at the 2019 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
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After running all the way to the Mexican border at Laredo for a company town hall, the Royal Canadian Pacific (CPKC 41B-25) is eastbound on UP rails through Houston, deadheading back to Calgary. The train splits Winter Street along UP’s Houston Sub Main 1, making a daytime appearance through the city after a ridiculous sequence of delays encountered the previous day & overnight.
With CP 1401 having led the way south, FP9 #4107 was poised to lead back north- a fairly rare occurrence. As the train made its way along the Laredo Sub, 4107’s horn lever broke off. Running restricted speed for a bit, they stopped at an industry wye in Alice, TX to spin the power, and continued with 1401 now in the lead again- so much for shooting 4107.
The train made it to the Rosenberg Sub just after sunset, following right behind the MMX-181 priority stack train. Just after I had flashed both trains at the SP depot in Wharton a bit before 10:30pm, both trains stopped on the main at Wharton siding to allow a southbound into the hole that had barely departed the yard at Kendleton just ahead.
The southbound was KCS 4805 (the first KCS unit to receive the CPKC paint scheme), suffering from a shifted load in its train and major electrical issues which had clogged up Kendleton for several hours. Once 4805 pulled into Wharton siding, 181 proceeded north to start its work in Kendleton, but the dispatcher instructed 41B’s crew to assist the stricken 4805; 4805’s crew had begun to cycle the unit’s lights at random intervals. I jumped ahead to flash 41B again, setting up at a bridge just south of Kendleton… and a 2+ hour wait ensued while 4805’s issues were attempted to be resolved.
41B eventually pulled, arriving in Kendleton just after 1am. A new crew had been called at 11pm, and was on board by 1:30 for the run over UP rails through Houston. 181 had just completed its work around the same time, and had been lined out from Kendleton up to the turnout onto the UP in Rosenberg. 41B would continue to follow 181, and both trains were lined up to McHattie siding, immediately south of the UP turnout at the Tower 17 interlocking.
I jumped ahead to Richmond for a 3rd & final flash attempt, but despite both trains being ready to go, it soon became apparent that UP’s TD2 dispatcher wasn’t ready to bring 181 (and by extension 41B) onto his main at Rosenberg. Once a UP eastbound was lined through Tower 17, I called it a night and made it home a bit after 3am, assuming 41B would be long gone by sunrise.
Well, after the eastbound UP ZLBHO came through, despite no other opposing trains between Rosenberg and Houston, 181 and 41B kept sitting at McHattie… for over 4 hours.
By sunrise, 181 had bumped up to Richmond siding, just on the opposite end of Tower 17 from McHattie. Judging from this, it appeared that the pair of trains would finally get moving… but only now, UP decided to run a fleet of FIVE westbounds out of Houston toward Rosenberg.
Delays for CPKC traffic over the UP in Texas aren’t anything new, and it wasn’t unforeseen with 41B being a deadhead move, but why the business train along with their highest priority stack train were held up for this long is anyone’s guess. A working theory is that UP had some issue in the Houston terminal to where they didn’t want any inbound traffic, but I guess the world outside the Spring Dispatch Center may never know.
Once this westbound fleet ran through, 181 got on the move east, and after waiting for over six hours, 41B finally swung onto the UP at Rosenberg, heading into Houston in prime morning sunlight. Smooth sailing now… right?
Well by this time, the 2300 crew on board was getting close to running on their HOS; making the next crew change point in Beaumont had long gone out the window. After running no more than 35 miles from Kendleton, 41B stopped once again in west Houston for a crew swap, which was done in around half an hour.
I had woken up a little after the train pulled from Rosenberg, and after getting ready for a later start at work that day, I found I could swing one more shot of 41B making its way through the terminal. I pulled into the pseudo-street running along Winter Street as the tail end of the 181 was passing, and a short wait later, I had bagged 41B again after flashing it just 14 hours earlier, merely 40 miles down the line. We chased the train up to Belt Junction, where we got cloud-banged.
With a crew onboard, 8114 (ES44DCi), 9115 (ES44ACi) and 9433 (C44-9W) lead a loaded iron ore train bound for Cape Lambert. The train is seen here at Harding around the 42 km mark.
When Rio Tinto first introduced its 100-strong fleet of General Electric ES44DCi locomotives in 2008, the first 19 units (8100 to 8118) were delivered in the all silver paint scheme seen on 8114.
Harding, Cooya Pooya, WA.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026.
EN On the weekend of July 18/19, 2026, the Stoomtrein Goes Borsele (SGB) organized its first multi-day event in several years: Spoor vol Avontuur.
Among the guests was the Plan U trainset 151 from the 2454 CREW foundation. Running as train 508, the diesel multiple unit has just departed Hoedekenskerke heading towards Goes.
NL In het weekend van 18/19 juli 2026 organiseerde de Stoomtrein Goes Borsele (SGB) sinds enkele jaren weer een meerdaags evenement: Spoor vol Avontuur.
Te gast was onder andere het Plan U treinstel 151 van de Stichting 2454 CREW. Als rit 508 is de dieseldrie zojuist vertrokken uit Hoedekenskerke richting Goes.
NL Het was op 3 oktober 2026 fijn fotograferen bij de Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele (SGB). Op deze museumlijn was een fotorit georganiseerd met de 2454 van de gelijknamige Stichting 2454 CREW en enkele goederenwagens in de hoofdrol.
Te Langeweegje werd de trein -toevallig genoeg allemaal van Franse origine- opgewacht terwijl deze van Kwadendamme richting Hoedekenskerke bewoog.
Met dank aan Clint, CREW en SGB voor de prima georganiseerde dag!
Nee dit is niet de Kippenlijn, maar het enkelsporige deel tussen Deventer en Olst. Het leek me leuk om de rondrit op 22 november 2025 daar vast te leggen. Per toeval kwam het daar perfect uit met de zon. Die straalde precies op het stukje spoor op dit tijdstip.
Treinstel 904 gehuurd door Keolis rijdt nu onder CREW's vlag een donateursrit van Amersfoort naar Amersfoort via Zwolle, Deventer, Arnhem en Utrecht.
Hier de passage bij de Overstichtslaan in Deventer.
On a cold, wet Saturday night in Bathurst, up SSR Dubbo to Botany Fletcher's service 8148 lead by FIE001+FIE002+FIE003 is seen standing at the platform whilst a crew change is taking place.
The crew of Wisconsin Central train 219 poses with the train’s lead motor, recently-repainted WC EMD SD45 No. 6554, at Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 6, 1995.
Grace Harwar,"the last full-rigger afloat", photographed by Allan C. Green in Australia. The 266 ft 7 in ship was built in 1889 by Hamilton & Co (Glasgow) for W. Montgomery in London, and sailed for the original owner until 1913, when she was sold to the Finnish Delfin Company in Helsinki. Three years later the Åland Islands (Finland) shipowner Gustaf Erikson bought Grace Harwar.
My restoration and colorization of the original image in the Victoria State Library archive. No date is given, but the library also has a photo of the crew by Green, including a life buoy with the text "Grace Harwar, Helsingfors" (Helsinki), which could indicate that the picture shown here was shot in 1913 - 1916.
Here is a quote from Georg Kåhre´s book The Last Tall Ships (edited by Basil Greenhill) published by Conway Maritime Press in 1977:
"Grace Harwar was never rerigged as a barque, as were so many other full-riggers. She has been called the last full-rigger afloat, and she deserves this honoured title, if one takes into consideration her world-spanning sailings. In 1935, there were, admittedly, a score of fully-rigged training ships and floating museums left in the world, besides the American Tusitala ex Inveruglas, which was laid up, and Calbuco ex Circe, registered in Chile, and Maipo, owned by a guano company in Peru, which are reported to have sailed with cargo at least occasionally. But Grace Harwar was the only one to carry on the traditions of world-wide commercial deep-water sailing to the very last."
Grace Harwar made her last voyage from Australia to the UK in 1935. On 16 July - 11 days after arrival in the UK - she was towed from London to Charlestown Firth of Forth, to be broken up.
A new crew boards Amtrak SDP40F No. 631 on the head end of train 87 the Silver Meteor at Tampa Union Station on 23 April 1981. Curiously they will only take the run a short distance around the bay to its destination of St. Petersburg.
British Railways Two Tone Green Livery Brush Type 4 D1935 (47805) "Roger Hosking 1925 - 2013" heads south at Woodacre on 5z48 1412 Carlisle - Crewe Holding Sidings on 16/01/2023
What a beautiful site this morning along the Blue Ridge Parkway (MP 95) as the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon mission, Crew-2, with four astronauts headed for the International Space Station flew by. It was very cool to see. If you would like to read more about it, check out this link from my friends at SpaceFlight Insider:
www.spaceflightinsider.com/.../crew-2-dragon.../
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Day Two of the Grand Central Crew Training to Blackpool North,DB Cargo Class 90 90019 "Multimodal" with Mark 4 DVT 82231 on the rear of 5p51 0919 Crewe CS - Blackpool North,training is in readiness of the new operator running a Blackpool North to London Euston ,photographed at Kirkham on 05/03/2020
On nous a annoncé une nouvelle date de départ ! Ce n’est pas la première fois qu’elle change... et peut-être (sans doute ? ;)) pas la dernière... en tout cas maintenant on vise le 20 avril.
An updated launch date for #Crew2 announced: no earlier than 20 April, it might change again, but launch is near!
SpaceX Crew-2 in training at Hawthorne, California 11 January 2021. From left: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Credits: SpaceX
Sitting on the line out of hours, awaiting a new crew to head for Greensboro. Seen in Thomasville, NC.