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Killwinning station, North Ayrshire, Scotland, in 2014. The station opened in 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and was built as an interchange with traffic coming from Glasgow, Ayr and Ardrossan - later Largs.
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A westbound BNSF TOFC (piggyback) train led by ES44DC 7288 approaches the crossover at East Siberia on the Needles Subdivision, Southern Transcon, 25 June 2011. 7288 was built in 2009 and carries GE serial number 58032.
8F locmotive No 8624 pictured passing through Quorn and Woodhouse station hauling a freight train at the Great Central railway.
At first glance, this may just look like another one of the many rock trains headed to Houston each day to feed the immense demand for concrete. However, a second glance may notice the train is rolling through a railroad crossing with the gates up! At the time, UP was bringing the new "Main 1" of the Glidden Subdivision into service, which necessitated a suspension of all signals and railroad crossings over a roughly 7 mile portion of busy main line. So, flaggers were positioned at each of 13 crossings to protect cars from oncoming trains all day and all night for several days.
Eastbound Loaded Rock Train
UP SD70ACe #8754
UP C44AC #7185
Sugar Land, TX
May 23rd, 2016
Killwinning station, North Ayrshire, Scotland, in 2014. The station opened in 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and was built as an interchange with traffic coming from Glasgow, Ayr and Ardrossan - later Largs.
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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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LMS Ivatt class No. 46521 heads a southbound freight as BR Standard No. 78019 heads north with a local passenger service. It almost could be a scene from the 1950s, but was taken during the Great Central railways 2014 January steam gala.
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
(EX-CNW Locomotive)I went across the tracks to take a picture of the train with the boxcars and this comes along. Direct Light
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.
Coal train approaching Clydeport Hunterston Wagon Loading Station, Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2015
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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.
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.
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
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Union Pacific Railroad
Geneva Metra Station
Geneva, Illinois
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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.
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.
Friday, 03 May 2013
ICR #22 (22 022) passes Glounthaune with the 0715hrs commuter service from Midleton to Cork.
© 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
Upwards towards L'Authion in the Alpes Maritimes on an awesome off-road track below the ridgeline with my bike. During the Alps Divide Ultra Challenge in September 2024.
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.
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 including the provision of a new footbridge, a new up line and a new up Platform 2 at the station (to the right of the picture) was completed on 8th April 2013.
Photo taken from the new footbridge on 24th May 2013.