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8F locmotive No 8624 pictured passing through Quorn and Woodhouse station hauling a freight train at the Great Central railway.
CN's A417 manifest freight trundles west at restricted speed, following on the block of the westbound preceding it past the Cox Pit quarry. For most of this year, slow orders in the area of the new doubletrack project between Hampton and Glen Valley have created a daily traffic jam of westbounds in the afternoon, queueing up for their turn to pass across the Matsqui Prairie.
during stage seven of the 2010 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held in and around Oak Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa on the 27 March 2010
Photo by Sven Martin/SPORTZPICS
We're just turning off the road onto prime Thai singletrack. Our ride in Northern Thailand consisted of 10% paved road, 40% dirt or primitive road, 40% doubletrack (4 wheel drive) and 10% singletrack.
during stage seven of the 2010 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held in and around Oak Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa on the 27 March 2010
Photo by Sven Martin/SPORTZPICS
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
View of the works at the former goods yard at Rathpeacon, which will see all the track lifted in the yard.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Sunday, 16 October 2011
View of the two manual level crossings at Ballyhea, south of Charleville, looking towards Mallow.
© Finbarr O'Neill
I rode up to Cathedral Park in St Johns for this week's coffee outside. From there I headed south to the Portland Farmers Market to get my breakfast burrito from Enchanted Sun.
As always I took a mildly circuitous route through alleys — some paved and some unpaved doubletrack. I rode some singletrack, sort of, through former industrial areas and even passed through a Superfund site.
I have this ride up on Ride with GPS: ridewithgps.com/trips/94537423
I rode up to Cathedral Park in St Johns for this week's coffee outside. From there I headed south to the Portland Farmers Market to get my breakfast burrito from Enchanted Sun.
As always I took a mildly circuitous route through alleys — some paved and some unpaved doubletrack. I rode some singletrack, sort of, through former industrial areas and even passed through a Superfund site.
I have this ride up on Ride with GPS: ridewithgps.com/trips/94537423
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Union Pacific Railroad
Geneva Metra Station
Geneva, Illinois
CI-E600-05172011-064
Mountain biking a TransAlp route from Zillergrund to Mayrhofen, Tirol. The Trail #45 coming down from Zillergrund is a mix of singletrack, doubletrack, and occasional asphalt.
Judging only by the CTC system, and doubletrack main with 155lb welded rail, you'd think this was a busy mainline. Far from it, this steam era relic only watches between 2 and 6 movements per day.
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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#AlpsDivide
#whatevertheweather
#bikepacking
#weitradeln
#ViaSale
#Rain
Resident to the GCR is Britannia class 70013 Oliver Cromwell and pictured passing Woodthorpe bridge at the Great Central Railway. The lcomotive was working during the railways Winter steam gala 2009, and was hauling a service to Leicester north.
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.
.
.
#AlpsDivide
#whatevertheweather
#bikepacking
#weitradeln
#ViaSale
#Rain
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.
.
.
#AlpsDivide
#whatevertheweather
#bikepacking
#weitradeln
#ViaSale
#Rain
I rode up to Cathedral Park in St Johns for this week's coffee outside. From there I headed south to the Portland Farmers Market to get my breakfast burrito from Enchanted Sun.
As always I took a mildly circuitous route through alleys — some paved and some unpaved doubletrack. I rode some singletrack, sort of, through former industrial areas and even passed through a Superfund site.
I have this ride up on Ride with GPS: ridewithgps.com/trips/94537423
Coal train approaching Clydeport Hunterston Wagon Loading Station, Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2015
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The map at the parking lot for the park is out of date. Trail names have changed, as have various allowed uses on some of the trails. There don't seem to be any equestrian only trails currently in the park. The Wildhorse Trail is now known as the Elderberry Trail - it is open to mountain bikers -. The Cedar Grove Trail is closed to bikers and horses, but bikers need to use a portion of that trail to connect with Elderberry and Black-tailed Deer trail in the south-west corner of the park. Mount Hood Trail is open to horses and hikers, as is the Wild Hawthorn Trail. The Black-tailed Deer Trail is the trail that begins at the junction of the Cedar Grove and Mt Hood Trails and goes south to the Springwater Corridor entrance. The Meadowland trail is closed to bikers, and signed as such at the junction with Old Holgate Trail. How do mountain bikers access the Elderberry trail from the north side? The Meadowland trail is a road on the portion between Goldfinch and Elderberry Trails. Confused yet? Many of the "trails" follow old access/service roads and are called doubletrack by mountain bikers to differentiate between singletrack trails.
This photograph captures a rare and precise moment: the passing of two Amtrak California Zephyr trains. Taken from the perspective of an Eastbound Zephyr (headed toward Chicago), looking past the top of a modern GE P42 locomotive, it captures the complete Westbound consist (headed toward Emeryville) as it approaches a curve at Nielsburg, California.
The image is notable for its sharp focus on the passing train, led by Amtrak P42DC locomotive No.54 , while providing a sense of motion through the blurred foreground perspective. The Westbound train is navigating a curved section of double track, surrounded by dense evergreen and deciduous trees typical of the Sierra Nevada foothills. The consists include a mix of Superliner coach and sleeping cars, showing the full length of the long-distance train. The scene is well-lit by late afternoon sun, which catches the metallic sheen of both locomotives and cars.
The entire image is framed by a stylized white and red double-rule border, giving it a classic, collected feel.
History & Context
This photograph was taken on December 26, 2010, near Nielsburg, California.
The location, Nielsburg, is a strategic passing point in the dramatic and historic terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a few miles east of Auburn and west of Colfax, California. This area is famously part of the original First Transcontinental Railroad route, completed in 1869. The steep grades and winding tracks here are essential for the passage of the Zephyr through the rugged Sierra Nevada, and this stretch is owned and maintained by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The 'California Zephyr' is one of Amtrak's most scenic routes, operating between Chicago, Illinois, and Emeryville, California (serving the San Francisco Bay Area). It traverses the spectacular Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and vast stretches of prairie and desert. A passing meet between the eastbound and westbound Zephyrs (often referred to as trains 5 and 6) is a scheduled event but rarely happens in such a picturesque, photogenic setting with both consists fully visible. This date (Dec 26) is also noteworthy for potentially featuring extra cars and demand due to post-holiday travel.