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CN L506 passes over Snelling Avenue in Arden Hills en route to the BNSF Northtown Yard. If I had a magic wand I would remove the excess paint and graffiti from the Soo Line lettering.
Next up is train 76 from Candiac. The interlocking tower on the left was closed decades ago, but is nicely preserved today as a museum.
A westbound freight train passes an Amtrak special at the Mott-Azalea crossover near Mt. Shasta, California. The Amtrak train had taken a trainload of passengers from Sacramento to the Railroad Days in Dunsmuir. After turning on the wye at Black Butte, it was returning to Dunsmuir to load passengers for the trip back to Sacramento.
A passing glance reveals a world of interest.
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The road across Rocky Mountain National Park - Trail Ridge Road - had just opened for the season 2 days prior to my going up. Going up later in the afternoon provided an interesting mix of passing thunderstorms, dramatic lighting, and snow covered mountains.
We were waiting at Muir for a BNSF manifest to clear up because the Montana Rail Link local out of Livingston was behind it. As we waited I met Ray here, who had the job of digging out the cattle grates after the grader came through, smoothing out the dirt roads. I got the feeling he thought we were a little nuts driving all the way from Pennsylvania just to take pictures of trains, but he was polite enough not to say it.
UP ILTSIR-28 rolls into Sylmar passing a local landmark: the Los Angeles Aqueduct's Cascades. Through freight traffic isn't all that common on this line, but a maintenance closure of the Palmdale Cutoff brought a number of freight trains through on this Memorial Day weekend.
Passing Milepost 528.0, just thirteen miles out of Denver on the Brush Subdivision at the US 2 Highway overpass west of Barr Lake, Colorado, a solid string of trailers on flatcars trail the power on BN Train #63, (Chicago-Denver TOFC). July 20. 1988. Train #63 primarily handled TOFC for Omaha, Denver and connecting service with D&RGW Train 101 at Denver for forwarding to the SP at Ogden, UT. Departing Chicago at 7:00 p.m., it was scheduled into Denver at 7:40 p.m. the following day.
Rolling along on the former CB&Q’s Chicago-Denver mainline, the high priority speedster is led by two three-month-old leased General Electric LMX B39-8’s, the 8596 and 8597, (both built in April, 1988). Also noteworthy is BN Fuel Tender FT50 tucked into the middle of the consist to eliminate fueling stops thus speeding up operations along the route. Due to problems with stress related cracks to their frames, fuel tenders were phased out by the early 1990’s.
Pair of trumpeter swans and mallards swimming opposite direction on Mississippi River.. Anoka County, central Minnesota.
Visitors: Invited to explore my photostream for seasonal images of wildlife/landscapes/flora of North America.
On the last day of Coronation Special runs on the Piccadilly Line on the bank holiday Monday, the LT Museums preserved 1938 Stock runs into Ruislip Station past the disused but preserved signal box. We'd gone into Uxbridge to do some shopping for a forthcoming holiday so we timed our shopping trip to catch the '38 stock coming and going on a couple of runs into the station through the day. I got this shot on our way back home, reaching Ruislip station just in time to see it approaching.
Standard 4 tank 80080 is seen passing the Mountsorrel branch at Swithland during a Timeline events photo charter on the Great Central 8/3/22. (Taken using a pole)
The play of light and shadow moves like a living rhythm through the forest — a fleeting moment caught in motion, where the calm of the trees meets the blur of passing time.
Fun fact
Did you know that pine forests like this one are designed by nature to let sunlight reach the forest floor? Their tall, slender trunks and sparse canopy create shifting light patterns that change with every hour of the day.