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100x walks #34
Taken about two weeks ago on my walk to work - love this time of the year as the sun rises earlier and earlier each morning. It won't be long before the sun's rising at half four up here in the very north of England.
A westbound Union Pacific intermodal train races through Buford, WY on June 17, 1989 with four UP SD40-2's and a C&NW GP50 running elephant style.
When this photo was exposed on Kodachrome 25 film the afternoon of May 15, 1988, Union Pacific's remaining fleet of U30C locomotives was dwindling rapidly. UP C30-7s No. 2897, 2917, 2924, and SD40 No. 3118 pull a coal train into Provo, Utah for interchange with the Rio Grande. The four UP units were retired in Feb. 1989, Aug. 1988, Oct. 1988, and June 1991, respectively.
Four UP SD40Ns drag YSP53 through Division Street moments before diverting to the Belt Yard at Hoffman.
GILC-19 is on the UP double track for the quick 20 mile run from Central City to Grand Island. The train was held up for four UP trains at Central City before they got a signal to enter the Overland Route from NCRC's Stromsburg Sub. It's 6pm and the crew is about to finish an 11 hour day after they arrive in Grand Island and tie the train down.
Running four up front and two in the middle, a heavy train is fighting up and away from The Pinnacles as they claw for Searles Jct.
Following right behind an intermodal on the other main, this CP rail train gets underway after a recrew with four UP units on the point. With that, the evening was done.
Heritage & foreign power all around in this image, as in the foreground, UP's annual Toys for Tots special prepares for the weekend's run, spotted in the former intermodal facility site at the west end of Englewood Yard. This train regularly features UP 1943, as it is run in partnership with the US Marine Corps, and UP 1988 is being added for this year's train, as it runs down the ex-MKT Galveston Sub to Ellington Field.
In the background, 3 outbound trains all with notable leaders are lined up beneath the Lockwood Drive overpass: a fresh NS AC44 rebuild, CP 7014 assembling MEWFW-15, and NS 4349 about to depart with MEWOL-15.
Pretty neat to see four UP trains and not a single yellow leader.
Houston, TX 12/15/2022
Four UP road diesels twist and turn on the north end of Soledad canyon with a Brooklyn, OR - Los Angeles, CA container train approaching the Soledad Canyon Rd overpass. I’ve had the hair on the back of my neck stand as the lions and tigers roared while shooting passing trains on the overpass situated next to Roar Foundation’s Shambala Preserve big cat refuge.
The TC&W Saint Paul Turn brings a loaded UP grain train across the ex-CGW lift bridge at Robert Street behind four Geeps and four UP motors. It was the norm rather than the exception for the Saint Paul Turn to go down to South Saint Paul via Hoffman and Belt Yard and return via Robert Street, so this was an extremely rare occurrence for a TC&W freight to take the "correct way" across Robert Street.
Its my first time at the Keddie Wye, and after seeing many pics in magazines and books over the years, I'm surprised to find how accessible it is for photography. This view of a Union Pacific W/B is from the guard rail of CA Rt. 70/89. Four UP SD40-2s-3717, 3661, 3771 & 3608 are in charge. I've been back three more times since.
59101 Village of Whatley, 59203, 66416,and 59204 at the head of 7C77, the 12:19 Wembley - Merehead empties approaching Wolfhall
Although I've seen triple headers before (including one memorable occasion with 2 56s and 47 901), this is the first quadruple header on the Mendip aggregates traffic that I've photographed. Presumably it was an operational move ahead of the following days rail strike
Taken with the aid of a pole
Ten minutes just flew by.
After waiting just under ten minutes for the Auto-train ahead to get some distance, Union Pacific's Long Beach, California to Denver, Colorado Z-train is back on the move on the Cajon Subdivision after connecting in at Silverwood for it's trip to Daggett. The train today is an absolute cruiser, with four up front and one on the rear the short 46 car 3,074 ton train ,all from the ramp at ICTF (no Toyota or Nissan Autos or On-dock traffic) has had no issues getting to the top of Cajon. In between the auto train and the Denver, passing the Summit cut a Yermo, California to Montclair, California manifest train rolled by and can be seen in the background now descending main track two for it's trip down the mountain.
86613 and 86612 set off with 4M45 Felixstowe - Garston but failed in Essex, being collected by 90041 and 90049, running about 6 hours late. Looking good as they sweep through Warwickshire, taking the fast between Nuneaton and Amington Junction.
Rubik's clock has four turning dials and four up-down pins. The aim is to set all 18 clocks (front and back of puzzle) to point to 12 o'clock.
The corner clocks, unlike the other clocks, rotate on both sides of the puzzle together and cannot be operated independently. Thus the puzzle contains only 14 independent clocks.
Each pin is arranged such that if it is "in" on one side it is "out" on the other side of the puzzle. The state of each pin determines whether the adjacent corner clock is mechanically connected to the three other adjacent clocks on the front side or on the back side.
Since there are 14 independent clocks, with 12 settings each, there are a total of 12^{14}=1,283,918,464,548,864 possible combinations for the clock faces.
The world record for a single solve is 2.87 seconds......Wikipedia
Sydney
Electronic additions made to an inexpensive Epiphone: from MC Escher, a Munsell Color Chart, a painting by Zdenek Sykora, and hieroglyphs from a scan of Dudge's Book of the Dead.
My final contribution from 2024.
On New Year's Eve, METX #14 is at the far end of Track #7 at Ogilvie moments before pulling into Lake Street interlocking to set out more coaches on Track #5.
#14 is the former UPY #728, one of four UP GP15s based out of M19A that were recently acquired by Metra and the first to get repainted into Metra livery and reporting marks. Just a sign of things to come on the former C&NW commuter routes.
A fresh blanket of snow covers the scene that fell overnight as more snow continues to fall. Seen here, three of four UP SD70ACe and AH's take coal empties west up the 2-percent grade at Pinecliffe, Colorado on January 08, 2016.
On the 4th of July in 1982, four UP slogan "Cabeese" (25680-Safety Reigns On Our Train, 25656-America We're Pulling For You, 25896-I Follow The Leader, & 25335-Safety Reigns On Our Train) are parked in the yard.
Four UP motors lead a 10,000-ft MGRDV (Green River-Denver manifest) along US-287/US-30 just north of Laramie, Wyoming on March 17, 2017. The train will make a pick-up at Laramie, but the train will have to be split in two because of a length restriction on the Greeley Subdivision to Denver.
Four UP units, the leader being a recently repainted C44ACM, leads this UP oil train west along the south edge of Big Ten Loop. The train will go in the siding at Eisele (Clay) to meet an eastbound BNSF oil load that is on the main, waiting.
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Three of the four UP RS27 models at RI IGH engine house St.Paul,MN. May 1968. RI 1211 GP7 looks on. Trivia: they did make a couple trips to Mpls. on Rocket transfers before returning to home rails. Looked really cool at Milw Fordson Jct.
Three GP38-2s and a GP40-2 from UP lead NS train 297 down Track 79 of the KCT North-South Corridor under the 12th St. Viaduct. This train is bound for UP's 18th St. Yard in Kansas City, KS.
These four UP Geeps were previously on UP train YFX53-25, a transfer from UP's Quindaro Yard to NS's Avondale Yard. The NS power that was originally on this train was pulled at 10th St. near Block 224 and these were then added so they could return home. 9/27/19.
This started simply enough: the idea that an orange Gerbera Daisy with a black center and a Prairie Smoke wildflower seed bent into a semi-circle on the surface of water might appear – if properly aligned – like the accretion disc around the event horizon of a Black Hole. Or maybe, the artistic depiction of such a thing.
Many attempts were made. It didn’t quite turn out that way; in the end, it became its own thing. I still believe it lives up to the name “Event Horizon” which was the original inspiration.
This image was tricky to set up, specifically to get a near-perfect semi-circle from the Prairie Smoke wildflower seed. Not all seeds bend that way, and it was clamped just below the surface of the water hoping to achieve this geometry. Here’s the “behind-the-scenes” image, this time annotated: donkom.ca/bts/_1090420-annotated.jpg . We’ve got a classic refraction/reflection setup here with the Lumix S1R in high-resolution mode and excessive cropping, no focus stacking required to do amazing macro work with this camera and kit lens! Lighting provided by the Platypod Max Macro bundle, currently available at a discount here: platypod.com/tripods/max-macro-bundle . “Third hand tools” readily available on eBay or Amazon. If you happen to be driving by an industrial park in Calgary AB, you might find some puffy balls of seeds along a fence line. That’s where I found these seeds.
The hardest part about water droplet refraction photography isn’t the photography. The bigger challenge is creating a subject worth photographing. When I teach workshops in this area (2020 dates are now posted, by the way: www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/ ), the photographic process is easily learned by everyone, almost like a simple magic trick. Beyond understanding lighting angles, alignment and focus, it becomes realized that you’re an artist on two fronts – first a droplet sculptor, then a photographer.
There were many attempts at this. Some I didn’t quite like because the droplets didn’t behave perfect, the symmetry was off, the seed wasn’t perfectly flat to the focal plane, there was some movement, etc. You’d be surprised how quickly these seeds move – they animate when wet, and even while the “spine” is clamped, the hairs will still move, constantly changing. For fun, here’s a four-up of my attempts prior to getting this one to work. Not bad images, but they didn’t meet what I had envisioned: donkom.ca/bts/event-horizon-attempts.jpg . Those were just the attempts I cared to take a closer look at. Each of them has merit – and some features like distorted reflections that I find valuable. Maybe it even makes a good image on its own, showing four views of the same concept.
“Prairie Smoke” is the same wildflower used in my image “Essence of Reverie”, which was selected for the cover of my upcoming book on macro photography, where I share all of my secrets: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un...
Slip Switch Saturday. I was fortunate to see slip or puzzle switch early on as the C&NW has them at Nelson, ILL near where I grew up. So needless to say I have a fascination with them. Since they cost money to maintain they are not as prevalent as they once were.
One of the first westbounds of the afternoon Milwaukee Road Line rush clumps across the four mains of the UP former C&NW West Line. There are four consecutive slips here where Milwaukee track 3 crosses the four UP mains. The other eight diamonds have moveable point frogs but do not allow for a route change.
Four up in the bazaar. The driver is wearing a crash helmet - so that’s OK then.
Agra, India. November 2019. © David Hill
Our native BC maple trees have leaves varying between a ladies size six (this one) all the way up to a men's size ten. The UK equivalent is size four up to eight.
"D&RGW westbound coal empties pass "Finger Rock" @1145 headed by four UP SD40-2, Rio Grande SD45T-2 (according to notes.) Train for delivery to UP, when loaded, for export." If this train was indeed headed to the Union Pacific for export, as said in my notes, it would possibly return to the Denver-Salt Lake City at "Orestod" near Bond, where the engines would have to run around the train to continue westward on the Grande's "Dotsero Cutoff" to a EwePee connection at SLC. The sight of foreign units on the Grande was rare at the time, and of course this time it was prophetic. Finger Rock was a prominent "volcanic plug" along state highway 131 and the former Denver & Salt Lake and it seemed to be the intention of every peripatetic Rocky Mountain foamer to get a train going by it. At a slide show I attended in Boulder I recall a whole series of "Finger Rock" images. Needless to say, the sun was "all wrong" but I was determined to get it. Even if the only Rio Grande unit was on the rear of the consist!
Taken from Wikipedia:
The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.
The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray. The name, which is pronounced stane-is in Orcadian dialect, comes from Old Norse meaning stone headland. The stream is now bridged, but at one time was crossed by a stepping stone causeway, and the Ring of Brodgar lies about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) away to the north-west, across the stream and near the tip of the isthmus formed between the two lochs. Maeshowe chambered cairn is about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to the east of the Standing Stones of Stenness and several other Neolithic monuments also lie in the vicinity, suggesting that this area had particular importance.
The Stenness Watch Stone stands outside the circle, next to the modern bridge leading to the Ring of Brodgar
Although the site today lacks the encircling ditch and bank, excavation has shown this site was a henge monument, possibly the oldest in the British Isles. The stones are thin slabs, approximately 30 cm (12 in) thick with sharply angled tops. Four, up to about 5 m (16 ft) high, were originally elements of a stone circle of up to 12 stones, laid out in an ellipse about 32 m (105 ft) diameter on a levelled platform of 44 m (144 ft) diameter surrounded by a ditch. The ditch is cut into rock by as much as 2 m (6.6 ft) and is 7 m (23 ft) wide, surrounded by an earth bank, with a single entrance causeway on the north side. The entrance faces towards the Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement which has been found adjacent to the Loch of Harray. The Watch Stone stands outside the circle to the north-west and is 5.6 m (18 ft) high. Once there were at least two stones there, as in the 1930s the stump of a second stone was found. Other smaller stones include a square stone setting in the centre of the circle platform where cremated bone, charcoal and pottery were found. This is referred to as a "hearth", similar to the one found at Barnhouse. Animal bones were found in the ditch. The pottery links the monument to Skara Brae and Maeshowe. Based on radiocarbon dating, it is thought that work on the site had begun by 3100 BC
FOUR UP FRONT.
Four Chessie System GP9s (6418, 6671, 5951 & 6453) are on the point of an E/B coal drag crossing the north fork of the Blackwater River as they come into Thomas, WV. Wait til you see whats in the middle and on the rear.
Four UP SD40-2s (3637, 3137, 3662 & 3773) on lease to the Utah Railway are W/B with a loaded coal train.
The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray. The name, which is pronounced stane-is in Orcadian dialect, comes from Old Norse meaning stone headland. The stream is now bridged, but at one time was crossed by a stepping stone causeway, and the Ring of Brodgar lies about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) away to the north-west, across the stream and near the tip of the isthmus formed between the two lochs. Maeshowe chambered cairn is about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to the east of the Standing Stones of Stenness and several other Neolithic monuments also lie in the vicinity, suggesting that this area had particular importance.
The Stenness Watch Stone stands outside the circle, next to the modern bridge leading to the Ring of Brodgar
Although the site today lacks the encircling ditch and bank, excavation has shown that this used to be a henge monument, possibly the oldest in the British Isles. The stones are thin slabs, approximately 300 mm (12 in) thick with sharply angled tops. Four, up to about 5 m (16 ft) high, were originally elements of a stone circle of up to 12 stones, laid out in an ellipse about 32 m (105 ft) diameter on a levelled platform of 44 m (144 ft) diameter surrounded by a ditch. The ditch is cut into rock by as much as 2 m (6.6 ft) and is 7 m (23 ft) wide, surrounded by an earth bank, with a single entrance causeway on the north side. The entrance faces towards the Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement which has been found adjacent to the Loch of Harray. The Watch Stone stands outside the circle to the north-west and is 5.6 m (18 ft) high. Once there were at least two stones there, as in the 1930s the stump of a second stone was found. Other smaller stones include a square stone setting in the centre of the circle platform where cremated bone, charcoal and pottery were found. This is referred to as a "hearth", similar to the one found at Barnhouse. Animal bones were found in the ditch. The pottery links the monument to Skara Brae and Maeshowe. Based on radiocarbon dating, it is thought that work on the site had begun by 3100 BC
I'd walked across this design, set in the forecourt of Cromer pier, several times before realising that it didn't simply portray the sun, with a few random rays shining out.
No, instead, it's... "A permanent installation on the Cromer Seafront promenade to celebrate Cromer’s lifeboats. Twenty-four up-lit granite 'standing stones' are positioned in an arc looking out to sea and pointing in the direction of a rescue by a named boat. These are surrounded by flint pebble walls up-lit with brush strokes of soft, coloured light."
For a better account, with details of those rescues, see:
The hum of dynamic brakes fills the air as four UP diesels guide their Brooklyn, OR to Los Angeles, CA intermodal on a rare eastbound run through Soledad Canyon.
It is a gorgeous summer afternoon as four UP units lead an empty grain train into the canyon along South Boulder Creek in Pinecliffe, Colorado on July 9, 2017.
86628, 86639, 86614 & 86637 are four up on the 4A96 Crewe B.H to Wembley Reception at Cathiron on June 13th 2020. Typically the cloud was about to cover the sun so this tele shot was taken to try and get the train in the sun!
A pair of Helm Leasing SD40-2s belonging to the Comstock Mountain Lion Railroad roll west through the sage brush past four UP road units, including an untouched SP AC4400 sitting at the interchange at Iron Springs at MP 20.3 on UP's Cedar City Sub. The CML locos will soon swing around the west leg of the wye and begin the 15 mile steep climb up the Comstock Sub to the top of Iron Mountain.
To learn more about the history of this obscure branch line and now defunct railroad check out the lengthy narrative accompanying this post:
And for the loco nerds amongst you into motive power #6079 was built originally for the Missouri Pacific in January 1970 as their #762 and #6060 was built for the Union Pacific in October 1966 as their #3059. Both were straight SD40s that were rebuilt by Helm Financial in the 1990s into SD40-3s.
Iron County, Utah
Friday May 2, 2014