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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The map at the parking lot for the park is out of date.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.
Great Western Hall class No. 6990 Witherslack Hall makes an appearance at the Great Central railways diesel gala. The steam hauled dining train is still steam operated even on diesel gala weekends. The GWR machine was seen at Kinchley lane.
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.
The fast-paced action continues as Green Frog’s cameras take you deeper into Norfolk Southern’s throbbing Rathole line from Oakdale, Tennessee, to Somerset, Kentucky.
Watch trains highball over the busy track, through spectacular deep cuts dug in the early 1960’s. some now being widened for doubletracking. Most tunnels have been daylighted or bypassed, but trains still roll through Tunnels 22 and 24 and across the long high bridge between them at Nemo, Tennessee. Highlighting this video is a few minutes of train action on the connecting Kentucky & Tennessee Railway, an old time short line, and the affiliated Big South Fork Scenic Railway at Stearns, Kentucky. Enjoy vintage steam scenes on the K&T! Take a cab ride in the Big South Fork train, pulled by an Alco S-1 equipped with a steam Whistle! We also visit a now defunct partially reconstructed coal mine.
Running time- 55 minutes
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.
Friday, 03 May 2013
ICR #22 (22 022) passes Glounthaune with the 0715hrs commuter service from Midleton to Cork.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Mountain biking the Teocalli Ridge Trail southeast of Crested Butte, Colorado. This 10 mile loop has a stout climb on doubletrack and singletrack through meadows and pine forests below the namesake peak. The final climb along the ridgeline is followed by a fast steep descent.
For more information, please visit: www.trailsource.com/scripts/four.asp?ID=5923&TYPE=BIKE
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 evidently don't get down here often enough as I managed to backlight an eastbound train. When standing in the shadow of the bluff it slipped my mind that I came here in the past for afternoon westbounds since the tracks bend southwest.
With the IC&E busy switching at Marquette we crossed over to Wisconsin for a few BNSFs around Lynxville. October 9, 2011.
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Fuji Provia exp 1990s
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Bike ride in Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, formerly a very busy coal mine and town, now ghost town with interpretive center and just plain nice place to hang around and stare up at the big California sky and down at frogs, snakes, grasses, and broken trails