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A fine sunset last week in the central Lake District, overlooking Blea Tarn from Standing Crag. This is one of my favourite 'non-Wainwright' summits in the National Park, though it is a subsidiary peak of the nearby Ullscarf which is included in Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. This crag certainly offers a more impressive vista than the parent fell though, with this aspect towards the remote water of Blea Tarn and the distant Bassenthwaite Lake being the main focus. Starting from Dob Gill car park on the shore of Thirlmere Reservoir, there is a multitude of scenery on the ascent including forests and the lovely Harrop Tarn, although the last mile or so involves some bog-trotting to say the least.
For this shot I used the curving foreground rocks to frame the bottom of the tarn, and I photographed vertically to include much of the stunning clouds above. Most of the sky was blanketed in a layer of higher cloud, but a gap on the horizon provided just enough room for the sun to make a brief appearance just before dipping behind Grisedale Pike in the distance. The mountain of Skiddaw can also be seen to the right.
I think this Tarn might be my second favourite after Blea Tarn. It has a very secluded and wild feel to it! I came across this Tarn by accident about 4 years ago, and I’ve been back numerous times since! This one was taken last Autumn on a particularly bright day!
……A good short walk, a steep climb up past Dobgill falls to reach the tarn - bijou but still worth the climb, an easy route returns down the forestry track to Thirlmere & the car park. .…
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…We always book our Cumbrian break a year in advance and always in the hopes we get the timing right for a good Autumnal show, the right amout of turn whilst still having leaves left on the trees - I think we were spot on again this year. This was taken on the easy route down from Harrop tarn.…
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…Not the falls itself but the outfall from Harrop tarn on its way down to Thirlmere reservoir..…..
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…Harrop Tarn is a small tarn above Thirlmere that is well worth the short climb up though it is best to return by the forest road. I’ve cropped the top & bottom off the shot, there’s myriad shots to be had here in every direction.
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Doug Harrop Collection • August 10, 1969
With a pair of "Sky Blue" painted SDP45s in the lead, Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder, train No. 32 swings around a gentle curve just west of Browning, Montana. The Rocky Mountains and Glacier National Park rise to meet the Big Sky on the left.
GN's Empire Builder train 32 was a Seattle, Washington, to Chicago, Illinois (via St. Paul, Minnesota) daily with premium, no-extra-fare service. The train included a full-length "Great Dome" for passenger viewing of the stunning scenery along the route.
Doug Harrop Photography • January 25, 1989
Average snowpack for the state of Utah on New Year's Day 2026 was only 57%. There is time for that average to improve, but the trend is for continued drought conditions.
In January of 1989, Mount Ogden was packed with an average snowfall when American President Lines containers rushed through Strawberry, not far from Doug's home in Mountain Green, Utah.
Looking across the Dean valley to Blaze Hill in Bollington. My walk to Harrop Woods is only about four and a half miles round trip - but with an elevation gain of over 670 feet, it's a good hike!
Doug Harrop Photography • January 5, 1986
Mr. Harrop braved wintery temperatures, fog, and near whiteout conditions to catch the Park City Local at Peterson, Utah.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 10, 1983
Rio Grande 3124 leads train No. 146 through Spanish Fork Canyon at Rio, Utah. Train dispatchers often vocalized the station as Ree-oh, but train crews called it Rye-oh. Both seem to be correct.
Train 146 was typically stocked with lumber, a connection from the Southern Pacific at Ogden, originating in Eugene, Oregon, via the Modoc Line. At Grand Junction, Colorado, the train will go over the hump and sort into Denver and Pueblo cars.
D&RGW train number and other insight from an overworked and sleep deprived Mark W. Hemphill. I'll leave you alone . . . for now.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 17, 1981
Canadian National 5333 west crosses the Fraser River on the 810 ft. long x 220 ft. high truss arch bridge at Siska, BC.
Out of view, behind the photographer is the equally impressive Canadian Pacific trough truss bridge, which also crosses the Fraser and ducks under the Canadian National bridge.
Tom Brown Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • December 1971
A quartet of Spokane Portland & Seattle Alco FA-1 locomotives pull a Burlington Northern train westbound on home rails at Washougal, Washington. After the merger, BN renumbered them into the 4100 series. I don't believe any FA-1s were repainted Cascade Green.
Doug Harrop Photography • October 11, 1991
Amtrak's westbound Pioneer train 25 overtakes a Union Pacific soda ash empty at Kanda, Wyoming, a rarely photographed bend in the right of way five miles west of Rock Springs.
Kudos to Mark Hemphill for help identifying the UP train.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 29, 1992
CP Rail 9015, 5971, and 6037 pull grain empties at Stephen, Alberta.
Francis Wiener Photo • Doug Harrop Photography • May 11, 1976
Soo Line F7 No. 2229-A leads a perfect A-B-B-A quartet of F-units at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The yard featured extensive car shops where Soo built its own boxcars and maintained locomotives.
North Fond du Lac yard was later operated by Wisconsin Central and today, Canadian National. The former Soo Line yard tower, roundhouse, and turntable still stand.
Doug Harrop Photography • October 5, 1994
A fresh GE C44-9W leads a Santa Fe container train eastbound at West Quinlan, Oklahoma on October 5, 1994. The train is descending the 1% Curtis Hill grade.
This route through the red clay hills of north central Oklahoma was becoming a bottleneck on Santa Fe Transcon. In 1995, it would be double tracked, completed just in time for the BNSF merger.
Doug Harrop Collection • June 1969
Western Pacific 3511 leads an eastbound manifest freight through Williams Loop on the Feather River Route in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. Note the timing of this photo.
Doug Harrop Photography • October 4, 1994
With an Utah Railway coal train stopped on the westward main, a Southern Pacific Kansas City - Roper manifest breezes by at Castilla, Utah in Spanish Fork Canyon. US Highway 6 is in the background.
John F. Bjorklund Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • Oct. 8, 1976
As short line railroads go, it's hard to beat the New England charm of the Claremont & Concord Railroad. Chartered in 1848, construction began in the New Hampshire capital of Concord. After numerous bankruptcies and acquisitions, the 55-mile route connected with the Boston & Maine in Claremont, New Hampshire.
Mr. Bjorklund captured this stunning view of GE 44-toner No. 18 rumbling along city streets on a rainy day in Claremont.
Check out the gas prices . . .
Doug Harrop Photography • October 28, 1992
A CP Rail SD40-2F, aka a "Red Barn", leads a unit grain train west through a deep cut near Stephen, Alberta. CPR 9010 would be retired and sold to the Central Maine & Quebec Railway.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 27, 1976
The first in a fine series of photos as F9A 808 leads a point helper on Burlington Northern train 172, departing Essex, Montana.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 7, 1979
Mr. Harrop captured so many stunning photos of UP trains with Mount Ogden, It's nearly impossible to pick a favorite.
Doug could easily have walked from his home in Mountain Green to capture this fine view of the San Francisco Zephyr, passing the signal tower that elevates ABS 9760 at Peterson, Utah.
Doug Harrop Photography • December 1986
With less than eight months of service on the roster, Union Pacific SD60 No. 6006 leads eastbound merchandise through Peterson, Utah. Looming above the railhead are the flanks of Doug's favorite Wasatch peak, 9,579 ft. Mount Ogden.
Tom Brown Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • March 1970
Near the mouth of Feather River Canyon lies a rail bridge rarely seen by anyone but train crews. Western Pacific's spectacular North Fork Bridge is an engineering marvel. With a length of 1,100 feet and rising 200 feet above the river, it stands as the largest reinforced concrete rail bridge in the United States.
Construction of the bridge began in 1957, just east of Tunnel 8. The bridge and 23-mile line change (including five new tunnels) was constructed due to the creation of Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville.
Doug Harrop Photography • June 25, 1993
In the early to mid-1990s, when Soldier Summit was populated with nearly 30 trains per day, the DVRVF was a unique catch.
Most DVRVF trains were assigned quartets of EMD GP60s with paint schemes representing the three roads that combined to become Southern Pacific's new "Spirit that Won the West".
Mr. Harrop was on hand to catch SSW 9689, SSW 9638, SP 9716, and D&RGW 3154 pulling the DVRVF-25 along the meandering Price River at Kyune, Utah. Those were the days. Gone much too quickly.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 5, 1984
Union Pacific DDA40X No. 6917 and a trio of SD40-2s pull a manifest freight west between Ogden and Roy, Utah.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 26, 1992
It has been an honor to scan slides from the collection of the late Doug Harrop over the past 12 months. For me, this one is stands out among the nearly 1,400 images I have scanned thus far.
Burlington Northern 2877, 2830, 8025, and 7811 pull train No. 106 through Red Eagle during the height of the Golden Week on Marias Pass in the Rocky Mountains of Montana.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 30, 1991
A Rio Grande SD45 leads the hot DVROT (Denver - Roper, Trailers) through Price Canyon at Royal Road near Castle Gate, Utah.
Doug Harrop Photography • August 15, 1978
A trio of Union Pacific DDA40X locomotives and a single GE pull eastbound train CN, the Colton Fruit through Uintah, Utah. The train is ascending a 1.14% grade on a line change completed in 1916.
Train symbol courtesy Mark W. Hemphill.
Doug Harrop Photography • August 8, 1975
Canadian Pacific trains meet in the prairie village of Cowley, Alberta.
Sadly the iconic elevators are gone now, but the CPKC trains roll on.
Doug Harrop Photography • February 19, 1978
A wintery setting in Weber Canyon features a pair of eastbound trains at Strawberry, Utah. It appears the engineer of UP 8014 is in position to give UP 8052 a roll by ahead of the nearby crossovers.
Doug Harrop Photography • March 1988
It comes as no surprise that Doug caught the first Union Pacific C40-8 locomotive leading a train through Weber Canyon. Mr. Harrop and his family lived nearby, in beautiful Mountain Green, Utah.
Doug Harrop Collection • April 2, 1974
CPR 5643 leads an "Extra East" out of Kamloops, British Columbia.
The name Kamloops is an anglicization of the Secwépemc (Shuswap) word Tk̓emlúps, meaning "where the rivers meet," referring to the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers. This name highlights the historical and cultural significance of the location for the Secwépemc people, who have long inhabited the area at the junction of the two waterways.
Doug Harrop Photography • August 2, 1978
With a pair of SLSF "Frisco" U30Bs visiting from Springfield, Missouri, UP 6916 leads the CN east on track No. 1 at Uintah, Utah.
UP 6916 is on display at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 21, 1988
Mr. Harrop ventured into the Great Lakes region of northern Michigan where he captured this fine Kodachrome image of Lake Superior & Ishpeming's "Hill Job" along Marquette Bay.
LS&I 2402 and 2404 are Alco RSD-15 locomotives, acquired secondhand from the Santa Fe Railway.
Doug Harrop Photography • January 5, 1984
Just another spectacular Harrop photo captures the Park City Local as it rolls east through Peterson, Utah.
While EMD GP30s reigned supreme, on occasion a GP35 or an SD40 would be temporarily assigned to this iconic local freight.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 27, 1976
A pair of EMD F9s and a GP9 shove Burlington Northern train 88 east through Marias Pass at East Java, Montana.
Glenn Courtney Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • May 18, 1986
A colorful trio of British Columbia Railway locomotives roll north onto a side track at Williams Lake, BC.
All three are wearing a new coat of red, white, and blue paint. The BC provincial government adopted these colors in 1983, and it was applied to all manner of provincially funded railroad equipment and vehicles, including the BC Transit bus fleet.
Doug Harrop Photography • January 25, 1998
Southern Pacific AC4400CW units power a unit coal train past US&S Style-B lower quadrant semaphores at Polly, New Mexico.
Doug Harrop Photography • March 8, 1978
A set of five new GE C30-7 locomotives, wearing their factory original but short lived 2900 series numbers, pull Union Pacific's ACUE iron ore empty through Peterson, Utah.
The ore cars, from United States Steel's Geneva Works near Orem, Utah are moving east to the USS iron ore mine in the Wind River mountains near Atlantic City, Wyoming.
Looming above is scenic Mount Ogden, reaching skyward 9,579 feet above sea level, and more than 4,700 feet above the track.
Doug Harrop Photography • May 24, 1998
Amtrak's Southwest Chief and Santa Fe 555 pull east along an undulating track profile just west of Winslow, Arizona. It appears Interstate 40 is even more up and down, with the distant San Francisco Peaks nearly 60 miles away obscured by desert haze.
Doug Harrop Collection • October 20, 1995
While on a public relations tour for the newly minted Willamette & Pacific and Portland & Western railroads, Southern Pacific 4449 pulls a short revenue freight across the South Yamhill River near Whiteson, Oregon. It appears most every SP fan in the PNW captured this unique train on film.