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Pingree Grove, the RR Switch that is. The Burnidge/Paul Wolff Forest Preserve has some nice walking/hiking trails that go right by the Canadian Pacific's Pingree Grove control point and switch in unincorporated Elgin, IL Now, this marks the point where the Metra/CP doubletrack goes to single track. I believe (others who know more pls chime in) the Pingree Grove CP was somewhere else during the Milwaukee Road Era. This is 6 portrait oriented photos digitally stitched together.
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Sunday, 16 October 2011
GM 222 hauls the 1400 Heuston to Cork towards the level crossings at Ballyhea, south of Charleville.
(c) Finbarr O'Neill
Friday, 03 May 2013
ICR #22 (22 022) rolls of the Midleton branch with the 0715hrs commuter service from Midleton to Cork.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Union Pacific's Roper-to-Helper train (it changes from manifest to local to manifest again almost monthly) crawls out of the Kyune Tunnels on 14 May 2022.
New in 2025: YoY 06/10/2024 15h48
On September 25, 2024, Walibi announced the name of the new single-rail coaster under construction; YoY. Walibi director Mascha Taminiau announced this during a presentation at the IAAPA Expo Europe amusement park fair in Amsterdam. Next year, the amusement park will open a double roller coaster from the American manufacturer Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC), with two different tracks.
The logo was also presented. YoY is pronounced like the English word joy. A single-rail coaster is special because it uses a single track, the so-called raptor track. Trains are therefore particularly narrow: all passengers sit in a straight line behind each other.
The attraction consists of a green and a blue track: the green track - including inversions - is intended for daredevils, while the blue track, which does not go upside down, is suitable for families. This concept is also reflected in the logo, where the two Y's both symbolize a track. The slogan is "Ride the other side".
Walibi said it was looking for a powerful, unique term that conveys the message and that is easy to pronounce for international visitors. The chosen name is indeed unique: no roller coaster in the world is called Yoy, or Joy. The roller coaster Joyride in the Finnish amusement park PowerPark comes closest.
Walibi wants to open YoY in the spring of 2025. In Biddinghuizen, work has been going on for weeks on the track and the supports: a large part is already standing. The station building and the depot are also already visible. YoY is the first single-rail coaster from RMC in Europe. Competitor Intamin delivered its own version for sister park Walibi Rhône-Alpes in France this year.
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Walibi Holland
Slogan: # HARDGAAN
Coordinates: 52°26′24″N 5°45′45″E
Owner: Compagnie des Alpes
General Manager: Mascha van Till-Taminiau
Opened: 1971
Previous names: Walibi World (2005 to 2010) - Six Flags Holland (2000 to 2004) - Walibi Flevo (1994 to 1999) - Flevohof (1971 to 1991)
Operating Season: April - October
Rides: more than 42
Roller Coasters: 8
Water rides: 3
The 'Builder takes off from its Columbus, WI station stop on a perfect summer evening.
While making our way home across Wisconsin I checked in with "Julie" and was pleasantly surprised to find the Builder just far enough off the advertised to reach Columbus 10 minutes after us. So with the whole family out on the bridge my 5 year old daughter was thrilled by the friendly toots and waves we recieved as #7 lifted off. A perfect highlight to the long drive across the state. August 14, 2011.
Train 7 consists of two Nippon-Sharyo single level MU's and is captured departing the newly constructed 11th Street Station from sixty feet above. This is CP 33.5 on the South Shore Line in Michigan City Indiana.
November 11, 2023
Fall foliage is gone from the Mississippi River valley, but low November light makes up for the loss of color. A visit to the St. Croix sub yields prime late afternoon sun and only one train in 2.5 hours.
Cochrane, Wisconsin
November 6, 2022
Chasing "Somewhere New" on a rough doubletrack up a side canyon we'd not noticed before we encountered the opposite of peace - a hunter sighting in an elephant gun. No idle plunker or latino blowing off steam through firepower, this was a man at a serious exercise. With his rifle laid across the hood he'd loose a startling explosion of serious velocity - we'd see the muzzle flash and the puff of dirt behind the target before we heard the report, though he was only a hundred yards away - then move a few steps to his right to check the sighting on a tripod-mounted spotting scope. He'd set up safely enough, using the canyon wall as a backstop. We've seen some excellent examples of unsafe shooting - we still won't go back to the Rio Rancho badlands - but this felt fine and with his serious intent I knew he wouldn't be at it long. When we returned from our exploration (cut short after finding nothing but a few hills of bentonite and a demoralizing wind-chill) he was already gone. Peace restored to the canyon, deer and elk beware.
2nd 1864 C&P (Cleveland and Pittsburgh) PRR bridge over Tinkers Creek at Bedford OH. in 1902 it was replaced by a doubletracking project and buried in the fill of the new line. only the top of the arches are visible today.
I've got a new car, a 2008 Honda Accord. And because I don't want the back of the car all chewed up like as happened to my 1997 Accord I purchased a new bike rack. A Thule 990XT Doubletrack.
The rack sits out quite a bit further which, at first blush, is going to make parallel parking very difficult. However, I learned to parallel park with my grandfathers 77 Bonneville which was a full yard longer than the 97 Accord and is still 30 inches longer than the 08. With the rack it's similar in overall lenth. I'm just going to need to practice a bit.
Also, with it sitting so far back I want to get some reflective tape to make sure that people stay back.
A couple Conrail GEs chug up to the top of Byron Hill with an eastbounder back in the days when major construction was underway putting the second track in from Valley to Byron. Still a bit messy at this stage but it did alleviate a major tree tunnel that had grown up around the tracks.
Norfolk Southern Linwood-Chocowinity train 350 is eastbound entering the joint NS-CSX doubletrack at Fetner(Cary)in March, 1993. My photo.
BNSF 1093 rolls east with a unit train of oil tanks at Nelson, WI. 16 years on, the first BNSF paint scheme still wears well and remains a favorite. If a train has to have an orange DASH9 on the point make mine an H1. October 27, 2012.
While the sun sets in the distance, a green signal beckons an oncoming westbound on the Sunset Route southwest of Houston. At this point in 2015, UP was adding a second main track to the Glidden Sub west of Houston.
Stafford, TX
May 29th, 2015
Saturday, 03 March 2012
View of the curved route of the MGWR line from Dublin Broadstone to Galway, seen here approaching Pike's Bridge outside Maynooth.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Ex LMS Fairburn tank no 42085 seen here at the Great Central railways steam gala event with a freight train to Leicester North from Loughborough passing Woodthorpe bridge.
Monday, 18 February 2013
GM 219 emerges from Cork tunnel with the 1400hrs InterCity service from Dublin Heuston.
© Finbarr O'Neill
As UP crews work to tie-in the new Main 1 of UP's Glidden Subdivision to the former Sugar Land siding, the signals protecting the siding are being removed. This is likely the last picture taken of this old SP searchlight; its eastbound counterparts had already been removed by the time this photo was taken.
Sugar Land, TX
May 23rd, 2016
Resident gecko of St. Louis Botanical Garden's Climatron. Pentax K-x and Kodak Enlarging Ektar 100mm lens on Novoflex doubletrack bellows.
The crossing signals on both sides of the tracks cast red stop indications but the freight on A446 keeps on moving. True to a lot of the tonnage on the CN mainline, a healthy portion of this train was lumber from western Canada. As testament to this pipeline, I saw packs of lumber on this train wrapped as little as a week before. Lots of 2x4s, but this BCOL flat had 2x10 12 footers and 14 footers going up the hill. July 20, 2024.
CN train 341 rolls along back in 2003 with horn blaring through the now-doubletrack quiet zoned town of Grayslake, Illinois.
Construction work to reinstate double track on the 5.25 mile section of the South Wales Main Line from Cockett West through Gowerton, Swansea to Duffryn West, Carmarthenshire was completed on 8th April 2013.
The new up line and the new up Platform 2 are to the right of the photo which was taken from the new footbridge on 24th May 2013.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Viewed from the level-crossing, 29014 can been seen at the bay-platform waiting to form the 1315hrs shuttle to M3 Parkway, which will be a connection out of the 1242hrs commuter service from Dublin Pearse to Maynooth.
The line to M3 Parkway and Hansfield station can be seen in the background.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Varnessa is in the Lakes district on Lake Como. The town is served by a rail line the runs along the eastern shore of the lake. This northbound has pulled into a stop and the conductor is out on the platform overseeing the deboarding/boarding process. The train, shoved by an E 464 class in push mode will soon depart to serve other towns along the line. The E 464 class was built by Bombarier and was a popular model in Europe with over 700 units produced.
Alta Via del Sale. In torrential downpour. For the whole day from 9 am to nightfall.
It was Alps Divide Day two for me. This weather was forecasted, but the extend and intensity was extraordinary. And it’s not me saying this. This came from quite a lot of very experienced people. Even people living in the UK and in Scotland and who have participated in events like Silkroad Mountain Race. E.g. both @Jennytough and @nielcopeland said this rain had broken the scale.
And wow - I literally rode through rivers running across the trails. At times just one side, at times on both sides. And it was chunky. As usual, the photos don’t do the real roughness of the surface justice. It was no mellow riding. It wouldn’t have even on good gravel surface as I did 3.400 meters of climbing on that day. But indeed it was a constant search for rideable lines over the chunky trails. Right through the middle of the streams running down the trails or next to it.
As long as I was moving and moving upwards the temperature weren’t that much of a problem. But for the descending parts the wet body had few reserves. Still not at the halfway mark, after quite a bit of a descending part and still 20 km from the next rifugio (i.e. more than 2 hours away) I was shivering so hard once stopped. Luckily I found a small opportunity to pull out my puffy jacket under a bit of shelter and put in on under my rain jacket. It took a while to stop shivering after staring to move again, but I finally could comfortably „swim“ all the rest of the Via Sale. It took me until well after dusk, when the rain finally subsided a little above Tende but gave way to dense and wet fog.
This was quite the experience.
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