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LORAM RG404 Maintenance of Way Rail Grinding Train on Iowa Interstate Chicago Sub. rails in Bureau Junction today.
Repairing the ravages of a cold winter. Our storage collapsed due to excessive snow load. I am now building a new store of wood. Hope the new store will carry any 1000 year snow load. I may be on and off from Flickr but you all are in my thoughts.
Outfit:
Max - Beige for bebe and TD
by Cherry tot
out now at the boys room Event
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Hoverboard M Pack ( M3 Pose)
by Something New Props & Poses
Maryland Midland's UBHF was climbing upgrade nearing Highfield with the Pride of the MMID leading.
The Heritage GP38-3 had a trio of G&W painted SD40M-2s helping out on the former Western Maryland main line.
Spring colors are emerging along the Blue Ridge mountains and it was a great day to get out of the "cornteen" as the Baltimorons would say.
...feelin' a little under the weather. spent the morning sleeping in...making bookmarks(cause i'm a dork like that)...reading... and drinking lots of tea.
*work tonight. ugh! sux! k, nap time.
[EXPLORE #112]
November 06, 2014
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
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Yet another crazy, non-stop day at work. Followed by an evening out of the house, but my car is not winter ready and the oil has been changed.
Nice to have that off my to-do list.
Just a quick shot today that I snapped while walking back from French class. I've walked by this spot a few times and this piece of art has always caught my eye and today I actually remembered to grab the right lens.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.
One of the first spots I fell in love with on the mainline was this S-Curve near MP149. Once I could see it in sunlight the love affair was put on hold as the 430pm lighting was dead nose-on. However this would be the day that a heavy NRFF lost their 3rd engine and ground their way to White Haven Tunnel on the 1.23% at about 8mph. The snails pace not only made for 4 different photo angles in about 5 miles but also caused an hour delay off the normal which was enough time to allow the light to swing to the side for this shot. It's the 21st of May and the leaves still haven't popped but at least it's sunny.
Keeping with the CNJ theme today we'll take a look at the former CNJ portion of the Lehigh Division. R&N acquired what was kinda referred to as the middle portion of Conrail's Lehigh Line in 1996. A collection of mostly LV track from Lehighton to Mehoopany. The exceptions are the former CNJ for about 40 miles between White Haven and Laurel Run which was kinda folded into the LV's mainline when the CNJ pulled out of Pennsylvania in the 60's. The other exception being the former DL&W from Pittston to Scranton. The LV portion of the line is spectacularly scenic through the Lehigh Gorge and the descent towards Pittston however it has become at times simply hard to access and at other times very, very grown in. Many classic shots along the LV have been destroyed in ways that could only be undone by a massive wildfire and others are currently blocked or otherwise marred by stored oil cars. The former CNJ portion of the line does a whole lot of aiming into the sun for the current afternoon NRFF schedule between White Haven and Mountain Top (Solomons Gap) with plenty of access, a tunnel, searchlights, restored mileposts, a yard and even a signal bridge. So today we'll take a look at that as well as the twice-weekly (Mo-Th I think...) Crestwood Drill which rates a single SW8 and serves the only active customers between Lehighton and Pittston from the yard in Penobscot.
I got to tag along on a work trip to California with my wife a couple weeks ago. She had the weekend free so I convinced her she'd enjoy riding around Cajon Pass in a jeep watching the action. It was fun to actually go through some mud puddles and enjoy comfortable temperatures compared to previous trips where it was hot and dusty. She really enjoyed hanging out at Hill 582 where they do a great job maintaining the landscaped park despite a rough ride to get there. Shortly after arriving in the morning a northbound Union Pacific freight came along grinding upgrade. In the background are the San Gabriel mountains covered in fresh snow.
Cajon Pass, California
April 21, 2024
Impressed that I not only was able to get this through the fence pretty clean, but to also be able to reach the entry to the Inner Loop here. Granted, early morning and cool fall temps helped as there was no thermal activity radiating yet but still... kind of ridiculous when I compare to previous outings and gear used.
Finally having a chance to start editing photos from a myriad of events over the past month using a rented EOS R5. I was also able to rent the 100-500mm but will initially be focusing on what the 800mm has to offer on this camera. Thoughts and impressions welcomed.
2021 - GT World Challenge America
Watkins Glen International
Photo for grinding.be - via imgfave.com/index.php?action=shownotice¬ice=22014, original via www.outdoorexposurephoto.com/photoblog/events/159/
LS&I's 7 Tilden Grinds up hill, slipping all the way with 60 loads from Tilden as it rolls past the search lights at Eagle Mills Junction and through some thick Fog.
A 11,500' 188 car Canadian National M338 manifest train grinding up the 1.4% grade on the top portion of Raymond Hill, just East of Raymond, Iowa. This train noticeably slowed down until a good portion of it had crested over the hill, and was pulling the rest over it. This hill starts about where the first cars are visible on the right side of the image, and about where the small trestle is, it increases from 1% to 1.4% This is almost 3 times the 0.5% grade that the trains climb out of the Fox River Valley and up to Munger siding/IL59 (Sorry Llanuza it aint a 1% grade) A Canadian National Police Officer came hauling a** down the gravel road to the grade crossing this photo was shot from. He then did a U-turn and hauled a** back to old US20 to continue pacing the train EB The CN seems to take security pretty serious and many times, trains have CN-PD escorts in/out of Waterloo.