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A flanger extra plows up the Animas Valley toward Hermosa. The D&S was hosting their annual winter photographers weekend, and had to run two flanger trains to clear the line. The first ran Friday morning, and then after more heavy snow Sunday night they ran a second Monday morning to clear the way for the Monday photo trains (SP 18 with a mixed and RGS Goose 5).
Number 5 touches the flange oilers near Pinecliff on its way west to California on an early winter’s morning.
How did I do it?
This was a scrapped shot from a series taken prior to a significant upslope snow event that didn’t quite pan out so I stayed and shot anyway despite no precipitation. Later that day was another story. The winter cloudy flat light was begging for a black and white, and with the conditions the shadows were 2-3 times darker than normal and the stops between the light filtering in from the left and the deep canyon in shadow made me look at the possible use of these elements to make a dramatic contrast black and white that can be used to focus on the subject.
I shot on camera to post process to preserve as much detail as possible carefully to not blow out the highlights or crush the blacks. In Lightroom I made 3 independent exposures from the same image a 1/2/3 thing. I layered them and worked between the 2 darker layers to push back the shadows that were already very strong but carefully keeping the detail, dodge and burn, Mr Steinheimer on my mind maybe Ansel Adams too. I especially liked South Boulder Creek it had just enough light coming through the the right side of the bridge and the left to preserve some of highlights on the surface.
The rest is what I use in making an illustration really no different using the light and shadows provided I played them up to enhance the composition. I was especially excited about the bridge with all the details in highlight while the surroundings were dark. It’s tempting but always pulling up the shadows on your images can sometimes take away from the quality keep on the light side of train and watch your framing every scene despite being bad can make an interesting image.
Union Pacific's Flanger train sits on the siding in Truckee, ready for the call to duty. While the train slumbers in the siding, a lengthy westbound intermodal streaks past, ready to assault the stiff climb to the apex of the Sierra crossing at Norden.
A flanger spreader trains heads down the three rail from Alamosa to Antonito. At Antonito the second engine will be cut between the flanger and spreader, and they will head toward Cumbres clearing snow for a following freight. The second caboose is for the MOW folks who operate the flanger and spreader, and have to hand shovel things like switches and occasionally chip ice in the flange way.
Union Pacific 602 hustles an eastbound flanger into Truckee, California, just as the sun begins to set across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Dispatcher 74 took a chance having the flangers follow the MRVRO out of Norden. With only a half hour left before the flanger crew would die on the law, any small problem could have tied up the line for hours. The gamble paid off as the flangers were able to get into Truckee, where a fresh crew would turn the train and head back out. The new crew would work throughout the night, battling the winter weather that makes Donner Pass so infamous.
UP 602 --- WTKTKF --- Truckee, California
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After a long day of rotary action, a westbound flanger races through Soda Springs along the #1 track. As you can see, there was still plenty of snow between the rails that the flanger could clean up.
UP 580 --- 2WTKTKF --- Soda Springs, California
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Another from my trip to Corton Beach in Suffolk, this is a 3 shot focus stack since the rusty flange was so close in the foreground.
47322 negotiates the tight curve through platform 2 at Miles Platting on 23rd April 1988 with, what was presumed to be, a Hope Street to Peak Forest working.
With flanges squealing, BC Rail C44-9WL 4642 strains uphill around the Matteson Loop with a unit sand train from Wisconsin. The steeply-graded, sharply-curved loop has wyes at each end, and connects CN's former EJ&E (here, the Matteson Sub) with its former IC main line, (here, the Chicago Sub) forming a critical link in CN's Chicago-area bypass route. Eastbound trains on the "J" taking the southbound IC, and northbounders on the IC going west on the "J" cross over themselves at the loop, giving a little bit of mountain railroading flavor to the flatland suburbia of Matteson.
A flanger set runs west ahead of Amtrak train #5 over donner pass. Once at Fulda they will run around on the balloon track and head east back to Truckee.
A pair of SP SD9E "Cadillacs" led by 4350 roll west with flanger at MP 191 at Soda Springs, CA on Donner Pass on December 30, 1981.
A partially frozen Hoosic River is showered with falling snow as Greenwich & Johnsonville RS3 4116 rolls into Eagle bridge with flanger in tow and empties for Pan Am.
A dominant male orangutan surveys his domain from a high tree in the Tanjung Putting National Park in Kalimantan Province, Borneo. The dominant males are called flanged males for their prominent cheek pads and throat pouches that are used to as a resonating chamber to attract receptive females. The park affords some protection for this endangered species.
Milwaukee Road X900272 Flanger was taken by Ruben Brouse in October 1998, the location was Nahant yard west of Davenport Iowa.
Since I'm snowed in today, I decided to set some tracks up in the living room and dispatch a flanger/plow extra! Unfortunately, the pilot truck picked a switch and dumped 346 in the "dirt"... Ah well, time to call in a wreck crew.
The 2019-2020 Winter Season in California has started rather late but strong with the first real storm hitting the mountains with heavy snowfalls just before Thanksgiving. I got out to Yuba Gap the day after Thanksgiving for the afternoon, and there was already a good amount of snow on the ground, and several more inches continued to fall while I was out snowshoeing.
Not a bad way to end a the day. The eastbound flanger job passes under the signal bridge just west of Tunnel 35. The crew here had the plows up, and was making good time as they headed back to Truckee.
The Troy Grove Sub runs two 40 to 60 car trains 5 days a week. At Earlville they cross the BNSF diamonds. but the flange on the wheels just rides over the top of the rail. so there No flange cut. This is very weird I'm guessing it safe or they would not do it. Any input would greatly be appreciated.. click to see the short video of train passing over the rail... www.flickr.com/photos/56135304@N00/6664278211/
Framed January 2017 : Canon FX with modified lens flange & Canon lens mount convertor 'A' + STAEBLE LINEOGON 35mm/3.5 lens , FOMAPAN 400 @ ASA 200 developed in ADOX ATOMAL 49 (125ml > 600ml , 15min @ 20*C).Negative scanned to SD card in a JUMBL scanner. I had just been in the Oxfam Charity Shop ; as I left I was surprised to see the sun trying to push through the gloom causing this eerie atmosphere....I got the camera out of the bag and managed three frames before the sun disappeared behind cloud....the pigeon making an upward flight directly above the pedestrian was a piece of sheer serendipity....and I didn't even notice it as I took the frame....always be prepared and you never know your luck!
A flanger spreader train hustles down the dual guage from Alamosa to Antonito. At Antonito it will run around a long two engine freight, place one of the two engines between the flanger and spreader, and then lead the way to Chama. The freight will follow closely behind taking advantage of the freshplowed route. The followind day the snow clearing train will return over Cumbres clearing out the sidings and widening cuts as needed.
On 29 December 2002 SP 572 blasts through the snow at Soda Springs, California on a beautiful winter, snowy day.
A flanger set heads eastbound into Truckee where Union Pacific's snow fighting efforts are headquartered.
UP 602 --- WTKTKF --- Truckee, California
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An SD70M-2 and a Dash 9 ease around the Hi Wye in Durand. The train will shortly back around the Port Huron Wye and into Durand Yard to do some work before coming around both wyes again to continue its journey west. With 3 wyes in town, trains can work Durand Yard from any direction, though these days only 1 CN train regularly does.
Shot with a Minox 35 GT-E
Minox Color-Minotar 35mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak Vision3 250D film
Shot at EI 250
Developed by the Atlanta Film Co. (ECN-2 process)
Scanned on a Super Coolscan 9000ED
Flange greasers provide a clue to how sharp the curve is leading from the swingbridge to the junction with the Yarmouth line. Just to the right of the down signal is the heavily overgrown cutting that formed the triangle with the Berney Arms line.
'My hygge home fires rug 3 by Su_G': in reds & golds with spruce & off-white: 10 x 10 color squares to an 8 inch square swatch. Flanged cushion mockup (c/o Roostery)
Line art
© Su Schaefer 2018
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... "Without a home, everything is fragmentation."
--John Berger, quoted in Louisa Thomsen Brits the book of hygge: the Danish art of living well.
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20160507_8496_7D2-95 Industrial flange and bolts
Uncropped. Just converted to black and white.
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DSNG Flanger Extra 476 works to clean up the track just north of Cascade Canyon, CO, as she runs above the icy Animas River at Cribbed Wall, near Milepost 478.0.
This image was captured during Day 1 of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train, which featured K-28 Mikado #476 with the former D&RGW Flanger OF and Caboose 0540, which today, is a pretty common flanger outfit that is often used on the Silverton Line in the winter. On this particular day, the flanger outfit went as far north as Needleton Tank (MP 484.4), finding only about 6-8" of snow on the ground.
Design Challenge entry: 'Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake' in a flanged cushion mockup (c/o Roostery)
'Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake': My entry in the Food Frenzy Coloring Book Design Challenge - for the Lake interactive coloring app, inspired by a favorite food: lasagna!
Original: Pencil on paper
© Su Schaefer 2018
[I was going to do the Princess & the Pea, with a similar idea of many layers, but once the idea of lasagna came along, I couldn't get away from it!]
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[Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake_flanged cushion_mockup]
'Landscape with bear by Su_G' in a flanged pillow sham mockup (c/o Roostery)
A nature scene in a modern interpretation of fair isle with snowy bear in a white on gray knitted landscape threaded with brown snow-free areas & ribbons of meltwater. A surprise 'guest' bear also makes an appearance. My entry in Spoonflower's Fair Isle Design Challenge. © Su Schaefer 2018
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Here's a more broadside view of a Durango & Silverton flanger outfit as it works north through the site of the 2012 Goblin Fire near Milepost 480.6. This view provides a little better look at the tiny Flanger OF and it's side-mounted wing plows. The flanger operator can be seen in the cupola of Caboose 0540 as he manipulates the air-operated flanger blades and wing plows from that elevated position. Ordinarily, the locomotive would have a pilot-mounted wedge plow, but on this particular day, K-28 Locomotive 476 was a last minute substitution for K-36 Locomotive #482, which did carry a wedge plow, but unfortunately experienced some hot bearing issues in her trailing truck.
This image was captured during Day 1 of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train, which featured the flanger outfit, traveling as far north as Needleton Tank.