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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.
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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This is a cropped version of the second photo. I wanted to include the stone wall in the other photo, but this looks great cropped like this. NS train 30T, November 17, 2015, Yatesville, PA.
Saturday, 02 March 2013
22058 + 22054 speeds through Mourneabbey with the 0920hrs InterCity service from Cork to Dublin Heuston.
Click here for a picture of the same train taken by the Wanderer.
© Finbarr O'Neill
started at glen doll car park - up to the top of the glen and and down corrie chash to loch muick. the hike-a-bike up from glas-alt-shiel to the waterfall could be swapped for a long ride along the loch side and up the doubletrack. nice singletrack from lochnagar to glen callater where we stayed at the bothy. along the side of loch callater was really nice but then it just turned into a bog! however the track from the top of crow craigies to glen doll was amazing :-) rocky singletrack that went on for ages with plenty of tricky bits :-) definitely have to go back and ride that bit again ... just not sure if i can handle all the hike-a-bike to get there!
I knew it would happen sooner or later, I just sort of hoped it would go for at least a year before someone ran into the nice Thule Doubletrack bike rack that I have sticking off the back of my car. But, on Penn avenue, in heavy traffic, some kid driving a company truck let his mind wander and ran into me.
Man, he was scared. He said he didn't have any money to cover the damage and I said "That's why people have insurance." He said it was his boss's vehicle and I said "That's why companies have insurance". He couldn't find the insurance card and got more and more wound up. He didn't want his boss to find out.
We made a deal, though. I got his boss's information and said that I would go to the bike shop and see how much it would cost to repair and he would send that to me. If he did not, then I would call his boss for the insurance information (and all that implies).
It took a week to get word from the bike shop. $92, a third the cost of the entire rack.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
29014 stands at the bay-platform at Clonsilla with the 1315hrs commuter service shuttle to M3 Parkway.
This service will take a connection out of the 1242hrs commuter service from Dublin Pearse to Maynooth.
© Finbarr O'Neill
These Union Pacific tracks, formerly belonging to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, host trains of Union Pacific, Utah Railway, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Sunday, 20 November 2011
666 days out of service due to a derailment at Laois Traincare Depot, ICR #37 (22 037) went back into service on the 17 November 2011, which it operated the 1725 Heuston to Limerick. However, on Saturday 19 November 2011 the railcar was hit by stones which shattered the windscreen on 22137. The railcar is seen here as it powers through the North Cork countryside at Grange, between Mallow and Buttevant, working empty from Cork to Laois Traincare Depot due to the smashed windscreen.
(c) Finbarr O'Neill
LMS Jubilee class 5690 Leander approaches Rothley station at the Great Central railway during the winter 2010 steam gala. Leander was working a Loughborough-Leicester north service.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
29014 stands at the bay-platform at Clonsilla with the 1315hrs commuter service shuttle to M3 Parkway.
This service will take a connection out of the 1242hrs commuter service from Dublin Pearse to Maynooth.
© Finbarr O'Neill
D5185 is pictured at Woodthorpe on the Great Central railway, the Class 25 was working a Leicester north-Loughborough service during their diesel gala.
Waking up, my legs were argumentative and threatening to cramp on me but the hourly weather report suggested I get my ass out the door and get on trail. Im glad I did as it turned out to be one of the best days I've spent on the bike in years. This was only my second ride on these trails this season, but the conditions were perfect for a few hours. Temps would be trail favorable until about 11 when the crust would turn to mush and I'd be rutting trails so I avoided that. And by the looks of the 7 day forecast, I wont have this opportunity again until next year. Somewhere under the snow in the back yard I have a few canoe's... I'm coming for ya's!
LMS black five No. 45305 is pictured approaching the A6 roadbridge on the Great Central railway hauling a Loughborough - Leicester north passenger service.
Class 27 D5401 is pictured passing Woodthorpe bridge at the Great Central railway with a Loughborough-Leicester north passenger service.
Some business in Fountain City today afforded me the chance to check in on the St. Croix Sub. I knew there was an eastbounder parked at Mears waiting on a turn to cross the Chippewa River so I set up at Nelson. In the meantime this Z-train came roaring up the westbound track. The atmosphere and dust helped add some drama to what I thought was going to be a throw away shot. October 27, 2012.
The incandescent lit intermediate signal at MP 273.7 protects the block as 202 rolls up on the old warrior heading north. This signal, and many others, are serving out their last year or so of service before new LED signals take their place as the Brightline doubletrack expansion project pushes north.