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Another truck find at the Wigwam Motel on Hwy 66 in Arizona! The large looking rock is a chunk of petrified wood!
Happy Truck Thursday!
Back when the Ford Line was still in use, CP would occasionally bring equipment to higher ground during the Spring thaw to avoid the rising Mississippi River which has the potential to flood St. Paul Yard. Here five engines bring a handful of gons up to the Ford Yard for storage. I remember this bridge used to really creak and grone when a train passed over head.
Soo 4424 leads a morning Ford Hauler under Dayton's Bluff and into St. Paul Yard back in June 2000. I always preferred getting Soo power on the Hauler compared to the bandit MP15ACs that usually worked this job but didn't really catch it all that much. Being a west-side Twin Cities resident, I never gave the Ford Hauler the attention I should have.
After getting scooped by 306 and taking on a new crew, all 848 axles of CN B730 are on the move past McCowans, these "new" 3900's are alright!
What I'm wearing
☆ Eleven Mini Shorts Set [8]
☆ Eleven Mini Top Set [11]
☆ Belle Poses - Yuria Pose No2
☆ Truth Curious Brunette
☆ Dazzling Charlie Boots Fatpack
This past Saturday, I had the great joy of seeing Western Maryland 1309 for the first time in operation. The incredible restoration and fundraising efforts that went into bringing this magnificent machine back to life were Herculean, and all worth it in the end. Seen here is 1309, originally built for the C&O in 1949, pulling the WM Frostburg Flyer around the famous Helmstetter's Curve. This iconic American railroading location is still special, and there is truly nothing like big steam.
Well preserved snub nosed diesel; someone has applied fresh paint and put them out to pasture for display.
A pair of Pan Am (MEC) SD40-2's sandwich a Canadian Pacific SD60 on Norfolk Southern train 14R. The red, white and blue trio are heading north on the Buffalo Line between North and South Ferry, pacing a FedEx Ground tractor-trailer as they both haul freight.
DiB 03/15/16
Soooo happy I found these finally!! So beautiful!!
Wet n Wild's-
"Speak when spoken to"
"Born into privilege"
&
"Bow in my presence"
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viewed at Fairgrounds during the annual Trykes & Treads Car Show......Lawton, OK
The GLC's OSTN is coming through Howell past the former Ann Arbor depot with a former MRL SD35 on the point. 11/28/2020
Having just crest the summit in the Oregon Coastal range, Portland & Western's well know "Toledo Hauler" makes its way downgrade and eastbound along the Mary's River drainage enroute of a final destination of Albany, Oregon. This well known route between Toledo and Albany, Oregon for a connection to a paper mill along the Oregon Coast offers a more secluded and dense coastal forestry scene that has since overgrown the tracks since they were first laid here in the late 1800s. With heavy moisture pouring off the nearby Pacific Ocean, majority of this route is overtaken with Douglas fir, Cedar, Alder, Bigleaf maple and much more making photography up and close with the G&W EMD's that have ran this route for the past few decades.
Blodgett, Oregon.
Roadside Scene ~ The Ozarks ~ Mountainburg, Arkansas
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 58mm, 1/320s
Colas Class 56 No. 56094 departs Britton Ferry in South Wales on the start of its journey to Chirk in North Wales, in charge of a loaded timber train (6Z51).
The Blue Angels are in town for our local airshow - Thunder Over Michigan. I could hear them up practicing today so headed toward the airport to see if I could get some shots. Fortunately I found a good place to shoot from, and was able to snap a few keepers.
Hauling on those country roads keeps all in sync for the farmers who need the job done just right.
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul....Darrell.
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Thank you to everyone for your visits to my photo-stream....very much appreciated !
Another oldie from long ago in a past life. Here is the caption I wrote at the time:
It was still overcast and dreary in the 49th State and didn't look much like spring, but there was a touch of warmth in the air and the snow was just barely hanging on. Earlier in the year one of the ARR's longtime gravel customers, Quality Asphalt Paving, was awarded a very large contract for a runway expansion at the Anchorage International Airport which necessitated one of the earliest start ups in the history of ARR gravel operations with the first train running only the day before. This shot is of the second 150W train of season as it curls south splitting the signals at CP1140 in downtown Anchorage. Trailing two SD70MACs are 86 loaded 100-ton steel hoppers, another first for gravel operations, as operational changes allowed for the consist to grow from the 80 cars that was standard in prior seasons. The train is about to knock down the clear aspect on the main while the red signal guards the yard lead at the south end of the Anchorage classification yard. In the distance the high bluffs of Point Woronzof jut out into the cold tidal waters of Cook Inlet.
Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday April 17, 2010
The eastbound Toledo Hauler rolls through Flynn, OR, almost back to the home terminal at Albany, OR. The eclectic consist and good scenery make this a great chase. July 2017.
Union Pacific's North Platte - Roseville train curves into Henefer, Utah at Main Street on Feb. 5, 2025.
After going to a very frustrating Seattle Mariners baseball game, David and I debriefed by heading up to Edmonds, WA to catch this southbound BNSF maintenance train. These MOW vehicles are coming back from a stint on Stevens Pass where BNSF has setup an extensive maintenance base in Skykomish.