Monorails and People Movers
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I’m sure you can tell, can you? It was very exciting on the day one of our trip. GM’s Renaissance Center is a magnificent structure that is impossible not to notice in downtown Detroit. My mind was going in to overdrive just thinking about the angles from where I can capture it. This was the first location from where I was able to frame it with the very interesting, single track encircling transportation services called “People mover”. What do you think?
The People Mover aka Tommorowland Transit Authority.
Not an easy shot to master. The track will move fast and slow at different times in the ride and about every 10 ft or so it seems to jump in the tracks.
Mike D.
May 2, 2012 - Kearney Nebraska US
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South Central Nebraska, early May 2012. No chasing this day due to work late. Afternoon Storms were predicted that afternoon & evening. Slow movers they were to be.
Off work & I was in luck. The dryline had stalled right over south central Nebraska that afternoon & the explosion of billowing thunderheads erupted. Billowing picturesque Thunderheads. Some of the most photogenic cells I caught in 2012.
Wicked Photogenic Severe Storms developing just to my east and & another batch of developing severe storms right over my head & moving the northeast. What a afternoon of Light & Severe Storms... Click Click Click!!!!
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Adding roads & sidewalks to the park system along the Brazos River, in Sugar Land, TX.
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Following this little Black and White Warbler around with my camera was quite a challenge. He (I think) was behaving more like a Nuthatch - going off in all directions up and down the trees, around the branches, upside down, and right side up. Fast mover is an understatement. As usual when I try for bird photos, I get lots of empty branches - but not this one.
It's a glorious spring morning at Davis Junction, as the IC&E 6416 west, shakes up the dust a little bit and putting on a fine show.
IC&E 6416 West
Davis Junction, IL
Spring 2008
During my visit this year (Oct 2019), earth movers were busily working on new water impoundments along the Kern River Flood Canal just west of the Tule Elk State Natural Reserve near Tupman, California. The Kern River is usual dry with most of the water taken out of it updstream except in wet years that have high amounts of spring run off. The impounds at the end of the river along the flood canal allow for water storage during these wet years and, according to a geologist I talked to, needed groundwater recharge. The sizes of the equipment working on the project were impressive.
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With a 1700 crew from Concordia on board, a pair of UTAH MK50-3's cross Buffalo Creek on the KYLE Concordia Sub with KYLE train KYLLISA. They're just west of the wye at Yuma JCT, and they're creeping their way towards Salina, though this crew won't make far past Beloit.
The majority of the KYLE Railroad from Limon, CO across Kansas is former Rock Island trackage, but the eastern most part of their system is comprised of interlaced former MP and UP branches that zig-zag towards Solomon, using the UP's former KP main into Salina. This is former Mo-Pac rails here, originally built by the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad.
These MK50-3's are slowly riding off into the sunset, which is somewhat symbolic as their fate might be sealed with the arrival of SD40-2's from the RCPE earlier in the week. Of the 6 that have called the KYLE home, only these two were currently in service.
These were both originally MK5000C's built by Morrison-Knudsen. With the intention to compete with both EMD and GE, the MK5000C's featured CAT 3612 prime movers producing 5,000 hp, and for a brief period, both MK and Caterpillar held the title for most powerful locomotive with single prime mover, though they were quickly out shined by GE with the AC6000CW and later EMD with both the SD80MAC and SD90MAC. 6 total were built, 3 in August 1994 for demonstration on the Southern Pacific and three more in August 1995 for demonstration on the UP. Neither railroad was impressed with them, and they were returned after one year of demonstration. The high-horsepower program was terminated by MK Rail, and production was officially halted after the sale of MK Rail in 1996. MK Rail was renamed as MotivePower Industries, or "Boise Locomotive", and they later merged with Westinghouse Air Brake Company in 1999 to form Wabtec.
In 2001, the MK5000C's were tested and bought by UTAH Railway, though the CAT prime movers didn't prove successful for them. The solution was rebuilding them with EMD 3,500 hp 645-type engines, essentially being rebuilt as SD50's. Retaining their distinct cab's, noses and Dofasco trucks, these were designated as MK50-3's and returned to service for the UTAH. In 2017, all 6 were eventually moved to the KYLE.
Though it may be at the very end of their careers, I finally make a trip out here to shoot these engines. In the 8 years they've served on the KYLE, I never got around to chasing them. Not super close to come out here all the time, but also not too far to never make a trip. Thankfully, this spur of the moment trip was very successful. 10/4/25.
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We visited a train tunnel that collapsed leaving a road maintenance machine trapped. It is impressive to see how the cabin, which was the only area of machinery where there were people, only escaped from being buried. You can see on the channel of Abandoned Spain (Youtube) how we enter the tunnel to the machine and know a little about this history.
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I was lucky enough to have last Friday off, and was considering traveling to a few places I need to check off my list. But those plans changed when I learned that I135 was going to have 2 EMD MAC leaders, and I knew what I wanted to do with my day. By the time I arrived in Harper's Ferry after seeing them at Powell's creek, signs of afternoon thunderstorms appeared in the sky, and I settled in to wait on my train. Perched under a shade tree on the banks of the Potomac, using my camera bag as a pillow, fear of missing the train was the only thing keeping me from settling into a nice nap. A light mountain rain began to fall, and the beautiful smell of Appalachian mountain rain was heavy in the air as I happily waited for the scanner to crackle alive. Once they called Weaverton, I grabbed my camera out of its waterproof bag, and dialed in my settings. Experiencing a train come through here as the horns echo deep off the mountains, and the whole town is overtaken by the sound of prime movers, is something that never gets old. Make that horn a K5 and the prime mover of the EMD variety, and well, it simply doesn't get better. CSX 4805 was FRESHLY painted, and looked and sounded amazing taking the train west to Cumberland. I have photographed trains here many times now, and I enjoy it each and every time as though it was the first. After they cleared, the rain began to pick up, and I headed for some BBQ and a cold lemonade. A real dream come true.
This is London, right?
I'm embarrassed to say I can't quite remember. I processed and edited this photo as part of a bigger trip. I'm too lazy to check the EXIF and cross-reference the dates... even though that would have taken less time than writing this sentence. But, instead, I'm saying it like this to let you know that sometimes my memory fades a bit. Some spots I remember perfect perfect perfect perfect... and others fade away and drift into others. I'm not sure why memory works like this... why there are some things that are perfect and some that are fuzzy. The way that memory works in this incomplete way is interesting to me.
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Booth Transport set.
Booth specialises in the movement of bulk wine, juice, milk etc., in food grade tankers.
(1) First up 2014 T409 Kenworth semi (SB-94-JX),
(2) Then a nice black-bumpered 2010 T609 Kenworth B Double (CG-72-PQ),
(3) and finally another B Double 2016 T409 Kenworth (SB-78-KI).
On the Up and Down just north of Yass, New South Wales, Australia.
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The Meathead Movers Invitational on Saturday 26th October 2019 at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA.