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Metra Union Pacific West Line Train 38 kicks up the snow dust as it sails past an idling freight train in wintry Wheaton, Illinois.
Union Pacific Railroad ~ Geneva Subdivision ~ Mile Post 25.50
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 400, f/8.0, 300mm, 1/2000s
Union Pacific locomotive 7850 leads a westbound stack train past the CHS Agricultural Grain Cooperative in Maple Park, Illinois.
Union Pacific Railroad ~ Geneva Subdivision ~ Mile Post 47.50
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 140, f/11.0, 26mm, 1/500s
CP 8957 Canadian Pacific Railway GE ES44AC Diesel Locomotive leaving the Chapleau Yard with a train heading west from the Town of Chapleau in Chapleau Township in Northeastern Ontario Canada.
CP8957 Canadian Pacific Railway GE ES44AC Diesel Locomotive
Model: GE ES44AC
Manufacture: General Electric
Built as: CP8957 (ES44AC)
Serial No.: 60711
Order No.: 1980
Year Built: 11/2011
Power Type: Diesel
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
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Machines of war fall into formation behind the high command of BNSF orange, spearheading eastbound military special U FTLPAD1 15M across the causeway at Cold Springs Landing near Lynxville, WI. The tall bluffs that line the Upper Mississippi River Valley loom large at the train's back as it moves down a rather scenic stretch of the railroad's Aurora Subdivision on a crystal clear spring morning. This 5800 foot cross-country convoy of military equipment is operating between the Army bases at Fort Lewis, WA, near Tacoma, and Fort Knox, KY, via the P&L at Paducah. With lines in, a couple of local fisherman try their luck in the calm waters below hoping for a bite, completely oblivious to both our presence and the passing train behind them.
After leaving Roseville in the early evening, this rather short eastbound approaches Donner Summit as it travels through Norden. Trailing behind the freshly painted AC44 is a brand new set of Siemens products for Via Rail. Siemens assembles the chargers, venture coaches, and other rail products in Sacramento less than 100 miles away. After leaving Sacramento, the Union Pacific will take it halfway across the country before handing the set off to another railroad to take it the rest of the way to Canada.
Arizona Eastern's Lordsburg to Miami freight crosses a wooden trestle south of Peridot in the last light of one of the longest days in the year. Despite spending nearly 30 minutes switching an industry in Thatcher and passing Pima several minutes later than on the 27th (www.flickr.com/americandiesels/50054630558), the train somehow made it to this spot nearly an hour earlier. This Mon-Wed-Fri job generally departs Lordsburg between 0900 and 1100L, runs trackage rights on UP to Bowie where they turn north and recrew at Safford, then on to Miami, AZ.
A southbound Canadian Pacific locomotive and a departing Japan Airlines airliner become, for a moment, 'One World' in Bensenville, Illinois near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/11.0, 42mm, 1/500s
SRT Locomotive Shops ~ Chatuchak District ~ Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/10.0, 38mm, 1/400s
BNSF 6150 leads a northbound coal empty through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while a snow-covered Pikes Peak rises to the sky some 25 miles away.
This is my first train photo taken with my actual camera gear in almost 11 months. Why the delay? Life stuff, interest in other things, and a general apathy for the hobby anymore to be quite honest. I thought it might be a phase I was going through with not getting out trackside, but as more and more time passed, I realized I just didn't care.
With that being said, I did enjoy this particular morning and had myself a nice little chase of a train with much better power than this ubiquitous GEVO!
Loaded coal train C765 heads south on CN's Chetwynd Sub at Tacheeda British Columbia. The coal traffic comes form a loadout nears Falls, and is a welcome addition to traffic on the former BC Rail line.
The morning after a big snowstorm over the Front Range of Colorado, UP 6463 wearing the new Union Pacific paint scheme leads a southbound military train down the Joint Line passing Sedalia, CO.
While I was expecting the arrival of eastbound CN freight 416 at Wabamun Lake, I didn't know there would be this much power on the head end. Nine units is a little tough to frame into the shot, but taking a page from the Book of Grumpy, "At least the leader's clean!"
The day after the Moffat shut down on account of too much snow and trains running into mechanical issues, the MGJNY 15, with the Continental Divide behind, drops downgrade into Crescent. With too much snow clogging the mainline (just to the left of the train), trains here are running through the siding.
A coal train cuts through freshly fallen snow in Wheaton, Illinois.
Union Pacific Railroad ~ Geneva Subdivision ~ Mile Post 24.94
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 1000, f/8.0, 195mm, 1/4000s
CN's Grande Cache Subdivision crosses the Wapiti River south of Grande Prairie Alberta on a large steel trestle.
Getting close enough to the trestle to photograph proved to be more difficult than expected.
Route A was shelved due to the lack of ownership of a lifted "Rig Rocket" pickup truck. Route B was selected, however the latter did not get us as close to the bridge as initially intended. An almost 2 km flight of the chicken was required to produce the shot you see here, of train A458 heading northbound. he first thing that came to mind when I laid eyes on the bridge was "Damn that's big!" and getting the bird into position in time to frame the train on the massive structure proved to be yet another challenge.
N O T F O R C R O | On its second day of revenue service in its new British Columbia Railway paint, CN 3115 is at the helm of daily Toronto-Halifax box train 120. It is seen passing the former connection with MMA/CMQ/CP's Saint-Guillaume subdivision, which has not been used since at least 2015. Consist : CN 3115, CN 3274, CN 3818.
CN 327 with CSXT 3194 in the lead (with its white and blue nose) is being passed by a blue and white Nissan as both cross the Beauharnois canal on the Larocque Bridge.
Ferrosur AC44CW No. 4414 is leading a loaded auto train from Aguascalientes, Ags. towards the port of Veracruz, where the vehicles will be loaded onto ships for export. The train is coming out of tunnel 23, at SC-292+480 between the sidings of Acultzingo and Mezquite, and is about to enter a 270-degree left-hand curve that will take it to the track seen middle right. Export autos are a significant chunk of Ferrosur's traffic with several pairs of autorack trains running daily.
My Athearn Genesis BNSF ES44DC No. 7652 in HO Scale sits under the sun as the real version of it leads the H-SLADEN running northbound across the Palmer Divide.
Passengers board VIA 35 at Dorval Station during a brief sunny period last February. Snowy VIA 903 brings up the tail end.
The Pine Pass in North Eastern British Columbia is a relatively obscure pass through the Rocky Mountains. While Canadian Pacific gained fame with their crossing to the south, Pacific Great Eastern's grade gained little attention outside of the province when constructed.
To this day very few railfans venture to this are of the country, now under the helm of Canadian National and operated as the Chetwynd Subdivision. One of the more iconic locations is the southern portal of the Azouzetta Tunnel at mile 597.9
On this September morning we witness southbound loaded coal train C765 assault the pass with 2 of General Electric's newest locomotive models in Run 8. Five sets later and the Chetwynd Sub became a new favorite line to photograph
BNSF 1044 leads it's train towards Castle Rock, CO as the 14,115ft Pikes Peak looms in the background.
The West Virginia shadows start to cast over the Irish Cemetery near Rodemer, West Virginia as 6 AC traction GE’s muscle a 115 car “drag” for Newport News up Cranberry Grade.
BNSF 7999 leads a long manifest train over the North Fork of the Feather River, and under State Route 70 at Pulga, CA.
Smokey Touchdown of the Atlas Air Boeing 747-400F on the Polderbaan, Schiphol.
The Polderbaan is one of six runways at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.
Type 747-47UF
First flight date 03/02/2000
Plane age 26.3 years
Engines 4 x GE CF6-80C2B5F
Union Pacific Train running through Mojave National Preserve.
13Aug2016
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CSXT 7880 leads a westbound empty coal train heading up towards Tunnel 1 into Plainview, CO with 8 other units trailing behind.
With fresh red, white and blue paint CN 3115 stands out in a snowy landscape east of Edmonton Alberta
UP 6900 leads a welded rail train northbound from Pueblo, CO heading towards Denver during the last hour of light.
Recently, Amtrak's new Phase IV heritage unit had been released and made its first runs on the California Zephyr. Everything was fine on the first trip, but the second one ended in disaster. While on the Provo Sub,164 would start suffering traction motor problems which eventually led to the unit not being able to load. The trailing unit, 54, had already been suffering from loading issues due to a broken radiator. With the train now stranded in Utah, UP 7719 came to rescue the train hours later. Since there was only one fully working unit they were forced to add another locomotive at Sparks. The original plan was to add UP 5537, but this did not happen and the 6376 was added. Now departing Sparks over seven hours late, the former SP made its way west over the famous Donner Pass in the evening as it made its appearance at Yuba Pass in perfect golden light. With a friendly crew on board, this was about to be a short but fun chase in the last moments of light.
So sinful.
The obvious choices for a better lead locomotive were very obvious, as this BNSF Z-train rolls over the Summit of Cajon Pass on a spectacular March morning..
TTI B36-7 5815 and four other motors bring a stone train alongside Strodes Run Pike south of Maysville, Kentucky.
A look back to the winter of 2009 when power consists like this on Q102 were the norm. I'm still a little miffed at myself for cutting off the train on the left side of the frame.....
UP 7514 leads an eastbound manifest through Applegate. This scene is interesting as the train comes out of a tunnel just to go through another tunnel that isn't even a tunnel.
The fun continues for Altamont. Train X76 kicks up a notch as it crosses Cut Bank Creek. Another one of these oddballs would be met at Shelby for a return chase.
5497 is one of three B32-8 demonstrators BN tried but couldn't see worthy of buying.
10-11-87
A BNSF eastbound manifest blasts out of a tunnel in the Columbia River Gorge east of Cooks, Washington. A 2013-built CREX ES44AC leads the train.
CN Train Q116, with the BC Rail Huuuritage unit in charge, rolls past "Millionaires Row" at Wabamun Lake Alberta. I've been told the cabin owners had permission years ago to build on the lake side of the tracks, and to this day CN has made no attempt to prevent them from accessing the lake. This could change in the future, as CN is busy adding a second track to most of the Edson Sub, with work well underway east and west of this row of "cabins".
I'm sure the lawyers will get richer from the double tracking of this section of line, since most of the cabins are passed down through generations of owners rather then listed on the open market. Last i checked property on smaller lakes in Alberta was just shy of a million bucks, so CN may need to get the big cheque book out to get what they want!