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Racetrack Playa , a mostly dry lake off the beaten track in Death Valley.
About the "migration" of stones there are some different explanations. However, so far no one has been able to observe.
After all, the phenomenon of the wandering stones does not seem to be so rare. In California alone, it should give them to 16 points.
Shot shortly after sunrise (march,29, 2011, 7:32 am)
Racetrack Playa, ein meist ausgetrockneter See abseits der üblichen Routen im Death Valley.
Über die "Wanderung" der Steine gibt es einige, verschiedene Erklärungsversuche. Bislang hat es jedoch noch niemand beobachten können.
Immerhin scheint das Phänomen der wandernden Steine nicht so selten zu sein. Allein in Kalifornien soll es sie an 16 Stellen geben.
Aufnahme kurz nach Sonnenaufgang, 29.03.2011, 7:32 Uhr
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After a long bone rattling drive down a 27 mile dirt road. We finally arrived at the Racetrack in Death Valley. This is the "Grandstand" located out on the flat of the Playa. This is a 14 image panorama that ended up just under 60 megapixels and I had to scale it down to 30% of it's original size just to get it to upload. During the scaling process the image softened up a bit, proving that there is such thing as too much of a good thing. One things for sure, I won't have any problems with large print files. It occurred to me while trying to post this shot, that if you only had a ten megapixel camera and you find on awesome composition, you could shoot a square pano and end up with a much more printable file than shooting just one frame. Believe it or not, Wayne and I lit this whole scene using two light panels.
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From Death Valley National Park's "Racetrack." See it larger here:
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Edit: as I understand it, these rocks slide across the desert floor during or after rainstorms when the ground is soft and wet. Extremely high winds and gravity create this phenomenon.
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The mystery of the moving rocks in this remote area of the park was solved in 2013. With sufficient rainfall the playa can form a shallow lake. Under cold conditions, the lake freezes into floating ice sheets that break apart and can move the embedded rocks in a strong wind. This results in the moved rocks leaving their characteristic slide marks in the soft playa surface.
Note the heat generated mirage forming in the background at the playa/mountain contact.
Looking south from the Grandstand area of The Racetrack.
The Racetrack is a dry lakebed formed roughly 10,000 years ago when the climate changed from wet/dry periods to mostly dry. The fine sediment is the result of erosion from the Cottonwood Mountains on the east and the Nelson Range to the west. The accumulated playa is approximately 1,000' thick, running north to south. The grade change is only about 1.5 inches higher at the north end of the playa than the southern end, a distance of roughly 3 miles. The width of the Racetrack varies from 1.75 to 2 miles wide.
It's called the Racetrack for a reason I suppose. A few years ago now, ECXCBTM0-60B raced an outbound Metra coming in for a stop at Highlands. When I lived in La Grange, Highlands was one of my favorite spots to take in the afternoon rush. On this beautiful and warm spring afternoon, a visiting DanK and I were lucky enough to actually see a race.
The Racetrack Playa, or The Racetrack, is a scenic dry lake feature with "sailing stones" that inscribe linear "racetrack" imprints. Nestled in a remote valley between the Cottonwood and Last Chance Ranges, the Racetrack is a place of stunning beauty and mystery. The Racetrack is a playa--a dry lakebed--best known for its strange moving rocks. The Racetrack is a playa (dry lakebed) about 3 miles long and 2 miles wide. At least 10,000 years ago this region underwent climatic changes resulting in cycles of hot, cold and wet periods. As the climate changed, the lake evaporated and left behind beige colored mud, at least 1,000 feet thick.
Another E9 doubleheader, this time still working on the BN, and in passenger service as EMD intended. We have the 9924 and 9906 rounding the curve at Lisle IL with westbound train 1247 on 28 June 1989. Typically two trains a day operated with tandem units, to rotate protect power at Aurora.
Wilbur shoots a "sailing stone" and it's track in the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.
According to Wikipedia: "The sailing stones are a geological phenomenon found in the Racetrack. Slabs of dolomite and syenite ranging from a few hundred grams to hundreds of kilograms inscribe visible tracks as they slide across the playa surface, without human or animal intervention. Instead, rocks move when ice sheets just a few millimeters thick start to melt during periods of light wind. These thin floating ice panels ice shove the rocks at up to five meters per minute."
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The moving rocks in this remote area were a mystery until 2013 when scientific monitoring of the rocks discovered how they moved across the playa leaving a distinct trail. With sufficient rain, the southern end of the playa becomes a shallow lake. In winter, the surface of the lake freezes into a floating sheet of ice enclosing the rocks. When the ice sheets break apart, a steady strong wind catches the floating ice sheets pushing them along with the embedded rocks leaving their marks in the soft playa. The rocks are now at a new location until the next similar event which may take several more years.
Death Valley National Park is filled with unusual spots to visit and the Racetrack Playa may be one of the most bizarre. This is the place to see those mysterious sailing stones…the large rocks that somehow glide over this dry, muddy surface, leaving imprinted trails behind them.
When we first arrived at the Racetrack Playa there were a few groups of people enjoying the playa flying kites and taking pictures. I suspect they were thrilled about having survived 26 miles of bone shaking on the Racetrack Road and gathering courage for the return trip!
It's a snowy New Year's Day evening as pair of CN SD75Is on symbol M337 pull out of Hawthorne Yard for headroom, at Lavergne where the Freeport Sub crosses above BNSF's Chicago Sub "Racetrack".
We drove up on the mountain side to get a look of the Racetrack Playa after leaving it. This playa is located in a very remote location of the Death Valley in California. To reach it, you drive almost two hours on a terrible dirt road. It's worth while though with the moving rocks on the playa.
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This was another take on the crazy wild trip to the Racetrack with my homeboys Jave and
James. We all came back with some nice images on this night, check out Jave's image and then when you get done picking your jaw off the floor, check out Jame's shot. You'll probably need to slap your self a couple times, once you get done looking at these images. Talking about sensory overload!
Passenger and freight race each other into Clarendon Hills, IL during the morning commuter rush on Burlington Northern's "racetrack".
Hot on the tail of a westbound intermodal train, BNSF 8855 leads a Westbound crude oil train through La Grange, IL
Abandoned racetrack. Also perched on the front edge of the grandstand roof is the photo lab--you know, photo finish. All that remains of the gear are a couple of empty plastic chemistry bottles, one labeled "Paper Fix," and this line with clothes pins for drying prints.
The first thing that struck me about the Grand Stand when I arrived at the Racetrack Playa for the first time was that it looked like an island in the desert. Surrounded by mud playa in all directions, it seemed that just the top of submerged mountain had managed to peak above the encroaching mud.
Sadly, I was clouded out on my first attempt to shoot the Milkyway above the Grandstand a couple of months ago, and with the Milky Way season now officially underway, I knew my chances to catch the full arch of the Milky Way above the Grand Stand were going to be limited. I had a billion other things that I should have been doing, but last Saturday, I threw a couple of bags into the FJ, picked up Eric Gail on the way out, and headed to Death Valley.
As we drove down into the valley at sunset, we were treated to some of the most bizarre conditions we had ever seen in Death Valley. The wind was howling and picking up the entire area surrounding the Mesquite dunes and throwing it into the air. In addition to the massive dust clouds, one of the cumulonimbus clouds had just laid down next to us creating a bizarre combination of fog, dust and wind with golden hour sun now blazing in from the West.
We booked it strait down to the Cottonball Basin first in an attempt to grab some color, but we got skunked just as the sky was beginning to light up.
After failing at Cottonball, we set off for the Racetrack. About an hour and half later we bounced into the small valley where the Racetrack is located and found that we were the only two photographers there. On a Saturday! During Milky Way season! We spent the next 6 hours or so shooting the Grand Stand and the sailing stones before heading back. I pulled into my driveway some 20 hours after leaving, exhausted, but grateful for the opportunity to hang out in Death Valley for the night. Kudos to Eric for lending me a jacket after I scoffed at the idea of it being too cold on the Racetrack in May. It was 54 degrees when we packed up at 4 AM.
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Every Indy team station has three of these fire extinguishers perched on the cement barrier, in anticipation of track action.
But the skies look a little foreboding.
I am up at 5 AM and back to my volunteer position in the credentials area. Every so often, I take a break and walk the grounds to shoot images. Tomorrow, the racing actions starts. Yippee.
~~Sheree~~
Tardiness has become more the norm than the exception for FEC train 109 lately, with this one pulling into Hialeah Yard late on a Thursday afternoon. To put the icing on the cake, the three EMD lashup whereas EMD power occasionally seeps into the 109-210 pair. The overpass in the background is a walkway from the Metrorail station to the Hialeah Racetrack, a signature radio location on the FEC channels. "Racetrack single track in" is a common call over the radio for trains like this. To the left of frame, the east leg of the old wye that spun dedicated passenger trains going to the track. It served Gilda and two lumber customers until the last decade where it now sits rusted awaiting its fate.
A pair of BN U28B's former Burlington units, are rolling an empty coal west at Berwyn IL. April 1973.
A rock at The Racetrack in Death Valley National Park.
A few of us did a two day trip through Death Valley. We came in on Saline Valley Road and camped out in Saline Valley the first night. The next day we drove up Lippencott Road, a 4 wheel drive road up into the Racetrack Valley. There We visited the Lippencott Mine, before heading over to the Racetrack.
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Elevation: 3708ft / 1130m
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