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On the day after Thanksgiving A&O made a rare daylight run to Heaters WV, here’s Z711 going past the ghetto guard CPL at Tygart Junction. This was the last train to pass this signal as replacements have been put up and the original CPLs have been removed from service
Like most of us in the northern hemisphere, I'm done with winter. Happens every year around this time. As we enter March, there's a growing impatience with winter cold, snow and ice. But even though the cold lingers, the increasing presence of the sun is a source of comfort. The change in the past few weeks is nothing short of dramatic. The sun rides much higher in the sky now, and the heat emitted is that much stronger. I really notice it driving in my car on a sunny day, the greenhouse effect that send the interior temperature to 80+ degrees even when the outdoor temperature is below freezing. Photographically everything has changed now in terms of light and shadow. Winter photos are still feasible, but the character is simply not the same as December and January. This is one reason I spent so much time outdoors trying to capture the sun at its nadir. The strange shadows caused by the low sun angle fascinated me. Noon-time shadows reaching out toward me that could not form until early evening on a summer day. Also the diminution of the sun to little more than a small glow spot on the horizon. A light source that could actually be photographed in the same frame as the surrounding landscape with everything properly exposed. Almost mission impossible with the blazing bright sun of a July afternoon. A sun so bright you could barely even look in its direction. I yearn for that sun, but in the depth of winter all that really matters to me is trying to capture whatever light emerges from the darkness. This scene appeared before me near the end of several hours hiking around on a freezing cold winter day. A point at which my mind was no longer functioning quite the same way as when the hike began. Not sure why I lingered so long, perhaps intuition kept me from returning to the warmth of my home. That's when the sun emerged from the thick clouds that had shielded it all afternoon. The scene before contained all of the elements of my idealized 'snow noir' vision. Long and dark shadows, contrasted by a bright but very contained sun. backlighting, killer clouds, and as if to ice the proverbial cake, snow flurries falling from the clouds still directly over me. Brightness emerging from darkness, both held in a delicate balance, and the moment frozen in time.
Sunrise over the winter landscape with the soft winter light characteristic of this time of the year.
CN L549, aka the West Toronto Turn is seen here in the early morning hours of June 4th as they head north out of Lambton Yard using the Galt/Mactier connecting track after about an hour and a half of work. They will run on the Mactier for about half a mile, then switch onto the Weston Sub via the CN connecting track and hightail it back to Mac Yard from there. Since 549 is a competing train, once they are on CP tracks they are effectively the lowest priority train in the area, therefore any CP train in the vicinity that needs to run will be able to go before them. This was exactly what I had hoped for, as 549 having to wait for multiple CP trains on the trip to and from Lambton lead to them being a daylight run on the trip back north as you can see here. Seeing this train in daylight is something I’ve been looking for ever since I heard about 549s existence, and finally the stars aligned for it to happen. Perseverance pays off!
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I don't remember ever seeing such a strikingly clear view of the moon in daylight....
NS 28J heads east through the siding between Bremen & Sewell for a meet with the southbound Crescent. Leading is the UP’s Southern Pacific heritage unit. 7-29-24
One temporary bonus to the time change is that for a few days, sunrise once again coincides with the morning dog walk.
4 weeks before and after winter solstice the sun rays just hit the mountain slopes and not the valley below.
Angel of mercy, how did you find me?
How did you pick me up again?
Explored |Feb 24, 2009 #77
Fortress of daylight, caught me on standby
Waiting to catch the quickest plane
Fly me to nowhere, it's better than somewhere
That's where I've been and nothing's changed
All I wanted to say, all I wanted to do
Has fallen apart now
All I wanted to feel
I wanted to love, it's all my fault now
A tragedy for sure
- Mercy, One Republic
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Yesterday was a great trip down memory lane chasing the empty ethanol train reminding me when weekend daylight extras on the P&W were common. During 2007, coal business with Pan Am- Guilford was at its peak, as we were shipping to both NE Utilities in Holyoke and to PSNH in Bow, NH several times per week. In a classic P&W scene 3 assorted P&W GP38s and dash 2 models including 2007 2011-2009 and 2006 wheel 60 loads of Indonesian coal through River Street yard in Woonsocket, RI on November 11, 2007.
Sunset in Kerry Park, every one visiting Seattle knows about the place, so full of instagramers and random fellows. Heavily photoshop, I must accept, but otherwise looked boring. Aaaand I am talking to myself again.
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UP 1996 holds short of the signals at Devall near Rickenbacker, OH, leading NS 851 for Portsmouth, OH. The crew are waiting for their ride back home after reaching their maximum hours of service. A fantastic sunset ensued behind, while the '96 idled away in the bone chilling cold. What a way to end 2017!
Running a now extremely rare daylight path out of Melbourne, an SSR quintuplet of S302, S317, T363, P16 & S312 accelerate away from Newport and power past the Altona Junction with empty grain train 9197 to Manangatang. 13/2/22
Somewhere in the recesses of the Guatemalan Jungle: 1100 hours
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