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Greenland, CO
April 15, 2023
A very foggy flocked snowy spring sunrise at Greenland, CO under the Palmer Divide.
This 14'x16' cabin was built in 1867 by George W. Palmer who lived in it with his wife and 10 children. Between 1875 and 1880, a 10'x12' lean-to was added to the rear of the cabin. They continued to live in the cabin until 1895 when it was sold to Lawrence & Ida Mumford Epard who lived in the cabin for nearly 40 years.
Winds howl through the treetops blowing autumns leaves and melted snow down into the path of lugging GEs. Exhaust and sand do their part to further fill the atmosphere physically as the bark from a pair of 7FDL-16 power plants fill out the rest of the available airwaves. Soon to follow will be the squeal and groan from dozens of "fines" making their way to Eagle Mills and eventually Marquette.
Harpagonella palmeri, Palmer's Grapplinghook is a small diminutive plant, rare in the United States. It’s populations are limited to central and southern Arizona and southern California. Also found in northern and central Baja California and northwest Mexico.
Full frame. Dedicated Vintage Macro film lens. No crop. No post processing.
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With freshly snow capped peaks of the Talkeetna Mountains standing above, Alaska railroad 4005 leads the AS&G gravel train down the siding at Matanuska junction to meet the northbound MEX. The peaks of these mountains were just about bare when we arrived the week prior to this and as you can see they got a good dumping of fresh snow in that week. The line to the right in the photo is the Palmer branch where the AS&G loads just a couple miles up the line and is the only train to traverse the branch these days. The mainline is out of view and hidden in the woods to the left. The AS&G and QAP gravel trains run in a 1x1 configuration these days cutting out the need for a shoving platform or a run around move even though the AS&G will still shove down from the load out using the wye here at the junction to prevent having to change ends.
It's a gorgeous early winter morning as CSXT train M436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) pauses on the controlled siding to make a set in Palmer Yard about 1.4 miles west of the diamond at CP83 on CSXT's Boston Sub mainline (the once and always Boston and Albany Railroad). They had an interesting assortment of power on the head end this day in the form of two CSXT AC4400s leading an SD40-2 and two Union Pacific visitors.
Palmer, Massachusetts
Friday December 30, 2022
Here is another from the way back machine and the caption I wrote long ago back when I posted on railpictures.net.
On a cloudy Sunday afternoon ARR's Palmer Turn (train 140W) can be seen running light engine underneath the CPP (Central Paving Products) gravel tipple located on the nearly two mile long gravel loop track which is located about 2.5 miles up the ARR's Palmer Branch. The crew is using the loop to turn their locomotive (MP15DC 1552) and run around their short train before shoving up to the end of the branch with its loads. Rising to the south is the mighty Chugach Range.
**Note: since the date of this photo much has changed. The MP15s were sold off. The ARR stopped running Palmer Turns and elected to transload the last customer's (JD Steel) freight in Anchorage and pay for trucking. CPP was sold and this gravel pit shut down shipping by rail and the loop was eventually taken out of service. And the outer end of the Palmer branch itself beyond the fairgrounds and the airport spur were also taken out of service leaving only seasonal gravel trains and the 10 or so Fair Train specials to use the branch with it being entirely shut down in winter.
Everything changes...shoot it now.
Palmer, Alaska
Sunday June 15, 2008
CSX B740 arrives in Palmer from West Springfield with a huge train for the NECR and Mass Central interchange.
A loaded coal trains slowly heads south for an eventual destination at a Texas power plant. The track in the foreground is the BNSF Pikes Peak Subdivision, while the track it is on is the UP Colorado Springs Sub. just to the south is the single main that both BNSF & UP share between here & Colorado Springs. 9-6-21
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With 60 loads in tow the veteran U30C's work hard to climb up through Palmer line junction for Eagle Mills yard.
Mass Central train PA-2 rolls south with both the railroad's GP38-2s along Route 181 in Palmer. The foliage this year wasn't that impressive in most places but for whatever reason this little stretch of railroad along the Quaboag River didn't disappoint. I figured a return trip to the Mass Central was in order as my previous visits were always during stick season.