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With the train looped at Dalwhinnie for a few minutes we were able to jump 66421 and the 4H47 05:05 Mossend to Inverness 'Tesco Express' intermodal and get a shot of the working from Crubenmore where the line closely follows the River Truim.
20th July 2021
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Help! This year is running much too fast! It has only just begun and six days are already over! Slow down year!
Hilfe! Dieses Jahr ist einfach zu schnell! Jetzt hat's doch erst gerade angefangen und schon ist es sechs Tage alt! Brems doch, du Jahr, du!
A three unit helper composed of a pair of SD70ACEs bracketing an SD40-2 are at Muir, MP 127.1 on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Sub mainline and the west end of an 8685 ft passing siding. The three units are have just cut off the rear of a westbound manifest that has made the climb to the top of 5702 ft Bozeman Pass and is already in the 3652 ft summit tunnel just out of sight to the left. The helpers are starting back light headed east downhill to Livingston where a loaded coal train is awaiting their assistance for another run up the grades of the old Main Street of the Northwest.
Bozeman Pass
Gallatin County, Montana
Wednesday January 10, 2018
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot of a juxtaposition that caught my attention - captured in January 2018.
The current 'cost of living crisis' is just the tip of the iceberg of coming problems for our society. Ukraine is basically the breadbasket of Europe and together with grain from the invading nation, Russia, we will be seeing massive shortages of staple crops and increasing food prices for all. Millions will be choosing between food and shelter or warmth. The top six energy companies in the UK made £1bn in profits last year and yet energy prices are going through the roof - my own energy bill has risen by 124% and I already strictly keep my energy use down for the sake of our planet!
There is enough wealth in this world to end poverty on this scale. When should a humane society consider that food, water, shelter and warmth are basic human necessities that everyone ought to be entitled to? Instead of taxing wealth, however, we take from the ordinary folks and the poorest suffer. I'm not expressing my politics here and you can draw no conclusions from my thoughts on that, but I am expressing my basic humanity. We are one species sharing one tiny planet in the vastness of space. Why do we not care more about our fellow humankind? When do we consider that we actually need to help each other?
Stay safe my Flickr friends.
As exhaust rises into the illumination of a light tower, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 rests next to the venerable sand tower at Helper, Utah, on the night of October 23, 2007. By this autumnal date in 2007, the aging Tunnel Motor was the last Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the Union Pacific system in its original unpatched paint and road number.
CSX B24809 is on the rear of Q35309 as it passes the S-curves near Salisbury Junction. At this point, the 8554's shoving work is over as the railroad is all downhill from here west to Connellsville. The early 2010s saw classic old EMD power such as SD50s displaced from their long-time helper assignments in favor of newer power. This trip in 2010 was the first and last time I ever shot an SD50 in helper service out here.
- Arthur Helps.
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During most of the days of the pandemic lockdown, we lived in a small town northwest of Arkansas. While it was the perfect place to hunker down, there were few famous landmarks to explore. But while it lacked some of the larger landscape staples, it had a lot of small lakes and forests that we could access.
One of our favorite spots to explore was a small lake near our home. I am still unsure whether I should call it a lake or a pond. While one side of the lake had a small airport, the other side, where wolf creek fed the lake, looked perfect. I used to visit this location often, especially after a storm, hoping to catch a dramatic sky, but the storms there often come with massive amounts of rain that turn the creek muddy. But one time, I was able to be there with clear water while the sky still had some cloud remnants from the storm that passed.
A Utah Railway coal empty is pictured climbing into the Gilluly, Utah horseshoe the morning of Aug. 30, 1998. Minutes out of Provo, the road power experienced a locomotive failure. Two locomotives were dispatched from Martin to rescue the stalled train, waiting at Castilla. A point helper on a Utah Railway coal train is rare in the extreme. I was super lucky to catch it.
Dani ripped tank
By Amias
Maitreya-petite/legacy female/perky/male/Jake/Gianni
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Event Opening Date: September 10, 2023
Event Closing Date: October 5, 2023
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After the Event:
Inworld: Mainstore
Two BNSF helper sets await their next shove at Crawford, NE on Sept. 11, 2000. One this day, four sets were being used, three with four SD40-2's and a fuel tender and one with two SD70MAC's and a fuel tender. The SD70MAC set seemed to be used primarily on manifests while the SD40-2 sets handled the unit coal trains. I was quite fond of this BNSF scheme on the SD40-2's.
Rural Kings County, California
Suffice it to say that anybody who has to ask god to help them, probably isn't going to get help
Doug Harrop Photography • May 11, 1977
Rio Grande GP40s No. 3084 and 3069 shove on train No. 77 at Utah Railway Junction in Price Canyon.
Taken months ago before pandemic. All photos will be from my archives. I want this pandemic to end sooner than later so just doing my part and staying home. I may need a diet when this is over. Like the heron, going thru my snacks--ha, ha!
I've seen a lot of awesome stuff on the MRL, but this takes the cake....
The Laurel to Pasco reported they were having issues east of Lombard and weren't sure they would make Winston Hill. The dispatcher indicated there were no helpers available to run down and no other eastbounds coming and to keep making an effort to get over the hill.
As the Helena Local was finishing their work at Townsend, the dispatcher gave them the news they would be holding at Townsend for a westbound and would follow them up the hill. This gave me enough time to go to the Townsend campground to set up my tent.
Sure enough, as the Laurel to Pasco made an attempt at the hill, they slowed to a crawl and eventually required the MRL 355 and 109 approach and start to shove. Even with the extra power, the train still struggled up the hill. Eventually a "thank you" over the radio acknowledged they made it and were ready to descend into Helena... but not until the dispatcher talked the MRL 355 into the siding behind the Pasco train to meet an empty.
On a side note, the searchlights are being replaced between Logan and Helena Most of the work is done, and it is moving fast. Just a sign of the times, and soon these trains will be BNSF... sigh.
These man made irrigation (rain maker) devices are ubiquitous throughout rural Georgia as well as other areas of the country. Massive in size, they allow the watering of thousands of acres when Nature isn't providing the required water from the skies.
Union Pacific's daily Salt Lake City - Denver manifest pulls into Helper, Utah for a crew change on Nov. 21, 2008. On the right, a set of helper engines await their next assignment.
Rio Grande 5512, one of 17 SD50 units on Rio Grande's all EMD locomotive roster, leads train No. 772 through Lakota Junction, just east of Geneva Steel on a rainy April 26, 1989 in Utah County.
Helpers in a rare appearance at the rear of a train.
The first SD45 that began MRL's fleet of these Loco types.
351 came to the railroad in a group of eight former Burlington Northern 45's from Helm Leasing in 1989. The only one rebuilt in and designated as an SD45M in 1991.
The ACe's sent the majority of their kind to the deadline after 2005.
6-13-10
Honingsvag is the northernmost point of Europe. The area is a fascinating destination with spectacular nature and picturesque fishing villages.
Doug Harrop Collection • November 12, 1977
A Santa Fe GP35 idles near the ATSF freight depot in Victorville, California. This helper terminal is about 25 miles below Cajon Summit in San Bernardino County.
Al Chione duplicate
While negotiating a curve at Horse Creek, WY, C&S 2-10-2 902 ran into a spot of trouble. With the loco off the rails, the crew (and a few spectators) wait for some help in getting 902 back on the track. In the background are some of the dwellings that made up the town of Horse Creek.
Horse Creek, WY
October 25, 1957
Train of the Day
9/9/22
Please tell me it's something more interesting than the immature white-crowned I suspect it of being, please!
Ophir Creek at Tahoe Meadows, Nevada. August 2018.
Dear little Primrose was helping me pick up the last of the windfalls yesterday.
It has been such a bumper harvest year for the apple tree that I am delighted to get all the help I can!
gather up the pieces when the fight is done then you'll find out living really can be fun ...series
______________________
None of you would help me when I baked my bread
Now all of you would help me eat it
I can see that you are very well fed
This indicates that you don't need it
Enough said
Enough said
Stop and let me tell you what tomorrow holds for you
Stop and let me tell you 'bout a plan I have for you
Take all the leaders from around the world
Put them together in a great big ring
Televise it as the lowest show on earth
And let them fight like hell to see who's king
Enoooough saaaaaid...
Gather up the pieces when the fight is done
Then you'll find out living really can be fun
The next thing I say to you will be true
The last thing I said was false
Remember to do nothing when you don't know what to do
Enoooough saaaaaid...
You wanted a world you could figure out
But something happened while you were asleep
You wanted a good life you could brag about
Too bad they took the parts you wanted to keep
Enough said
Enough said
Stop and let me tell you what tomorrow holds for you
Stop and let me tell you 'bout a plan I have for you
Take all the leaders from around the world
Put them together in a great big ring
Televise it as the lowest show on earth
And let them fight like hell to see who's king
Enoooough saaaaaid...
Gather up the pieces when the fight is done
Then you'll find out living really can be fun
Enough said
(Enough said, Devo, 1981)
Tree mushroom in Toronto
Mushrooms are actually the fruiting body of a fungus and late-warning signs that a tree is unwell. By the time there is a mushroom on the bark of the tree, the fungus has already built a network inside and is in the process of consuming the tree from within. Who is asking for help?