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I have made a working LEGO pull string puppet for Innovalugs fourth assignment: no exposed studs. Also my entry for the Iron Builders competition; to use the minifigure leg element for his nose. So no Pinocchio here. :)
A trio of Norfolk Southern SD80MACs pull a loaded South Fork coal drag eastbound through Cresson, PA.
RC-1 pulls back across Clearview Road with a few empty centerbeam cars from Hope Depot. December 20, 2017.
The afternoon summer sun is picking up speed toward the horizon,as C&NW 6904 west begins to pull it's train west. They will pull by the crossover and then the 4144 will tack the caboose on the rear for the trip west to Adams.
Butler WI Summer 1988
K81 starts its day off by pulling stacks off of and onto the Taylor Yard intermodal ramp. Following this they will start there way south down the Sunbury working various customers. The prize on K81 was NS 1632 an EX N&W Highhood that is a veteran of the railroad having been there from the beginning. The only reason the unit even made a return to K81 was due to the SD60E in Taylor craping out a few days prior.
This red-tail hawk is pulling up grass in hopes of finding the prey that it went down on. Alas, there was no prey there. There is at Cherry Creek State Park, in the meadow below the old main office, in the turn-out there.
With a 3 hour plus wait between the logs and the southbound steam on the S&C, there was ample time for a trip across to the WCML at Shap to record this scene.
Taken from Shap Wells, 90043 & 90045 make easy work of Shap bank, passing Salterwath with the 12.13 Daventry - Coatbridge 'liner on Mon 19th June 2017.
It's a shot I've tried for a few times previously and failed for various reasons, so was pleased to have at least got something from this effort!
CN 5244 has hell of a time with the 904 and 906 to get over the hill. 790 axles and three dead engines makes this no normal ore train.
I took this shot a while ago, and forgot about it.
This bulldog did not look happy when a police officer asked him to pull over.
Any idea what happened there? Why do you think he was pulled over? :-)
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RAF Panavia Tornado GR.4 ZA472/031 as MARHAM35 pulls out of low level at Bwlch Exit, Mach Loop in spectacular style.
That Grande Spirit
From one year ago today here is a view from high above Thistle, Utah looking down at a loaded westbound coal train dropping down the 1.59% grade on the old Denver and Rio Grande Western Utah Division near MP 682 on what is the modern day UP's Provo Subdivision.
The Thistle Tunnels date from only 1983 through the railroad through here goes back a century further. The first narrow gauge rails passed through the bottom of the valley in 1879 when the Utah and Pleasant Valley Railroad was opened. By 1883 the U&PV had been absorbed by the D&RG which had completed a "transcontinental" narrow gauge main from Denver to Salt Lake City. By 1890 the route was standard gauged and gradually grew in importance. By 1983 the Grande was a profitable powerhouse and over 20 trains a day rolled across the Utah Division mainline.
But all that changed on the morning of April 13, 1983 when the the unstable rain soaked hillside downstream of the town and south of the railroad and the the Spanish Fork River began to move. The slow motion land slide would plug up the canyon, damming the river and inundating the town, railroad, and highway. The last train to pass through downtown Thistle was the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr, on April 14, 1983 at about 8:30 p.m. That night, both US‑6/US‑89 and the rail line were closed. One westbound freight train that had already left Denver was turned back.
I won't go into all the history of the infamous Thistle Slide here, but if you want to read more I direct you to this wonderful link. It really is worth your time.
utahrails.net/drgw/thistle-vanished.php
With their mainline severed the Grande was effectively out of business for all it's lucrative cross country business and was relegated to a coal hauler and local railroad. This couldn't stand and the tenacious road got right to work.
I will pull this one fabulous quote from the linked article that shows their spirit. D&RGW General Manager Bob Nance stated, "Hopefully, we will be building the tunnels in conjunction with the state or Federal government. We don't really care; we just need the tunnels built." I think that spirit is summed up in this great little political cartoon from Salt Lake's Deseret News on July 8, 1983 four days after the first train passed through the new 3000 ft tunnel beneath Billy's Mountain and less than three months after the last!
In this photo you can see the natural dam that flooded Thistle as the smooth green hill that seems to be plugging up the canyon off to the right side.
Thistle, Utah
Sunday May 12, 2019
At about 20 minutes past 1PM, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Summerville Special arrives at the depot in its namesake town of Summerville, GA. Since these trips don't happen every day, the arrival of these trains is a bit of a special event for locals and railfans, who often gather at the depot and in the park behind me, where the big turntable sits. On this day, there's just a single locomotive to be turned, that being Southern Railway Mikado #4501. A couple of times a year, the TVRM will double head these trains, adding Southern Railway Consolidation #630 to the power train, making the event a bit more spectacular and adding some complexity to the turning operations here in Summerville. The train typically lays over here for about an hour, giving patrons time to either watch the turning operations, grab a little lunch, or take a walk around town.