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Ex LMS Jubilee Class, 45699 'Galatea', works hard on the approach to Blea Moor tunnel working the Dalesman 1Z49 York to Carlisle service. 25 August 2015.
I walked 4 miles in the fog and cold rain this morning, just trying to get a decent picture. Only to wind up right back where I started — at the overlook — to get this picture over an hour after sunrise. Earlier, you couldn’t see 50 yards from this point.
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Royal Scot is seen approaching the summit of Dainton on a slightly overcast day. She is heading to Bristol on the 2nd day of the tour having worked the train from Penzance.
5.3.2016. With the gorse in full bloom, GER Worsdell Y14 Class 0-6-0 No 564 slogs up the 1 in 80 gradient from Weybourne station towards Holt.
At this point the line cuts through the Cromer Ridge - sands and gravels deposited during the last ice age.
NNR Gala.
A cinnamon colored black bear slogs along in the fresh May snow dump we got yesterday in Big Sky MT. I saw him as I was driving up our street, right beside the road. I always have a camera in he car even if I am just going to the grocery store and I usually take it along with whatever lens happens to be on it. So this is at the shortest focal length I had (70mm) and I almost couldn't fit him all in! Snow should be gone tomorrow, but we did get about 10" at our house.
After all this slogging it out , out there these two knights will be glad to retire to their respective castles .. I hope their built on sound foundations .
History Alive
Brisbane
Wow it's been way too long, I have been slacking! It's my July 4th resolution to get back into the swing of things and start sharing regularly again. I have quite the backlog.
Here's one from up on Malan's Peak earlier this year. It was quite the slog up as the trail was well packed about half way up but then got pretty soft after that. I foolishly had elected only for Yak Trax instead of snowshoes so I regularly fell through the snow down to thigh deep in this year's huge snowpack.
The trek down was even sketchier as the Yak Trax provided little traction and I was sliding all around some pretty bad looking exposures. But in the end I made it down, and the brief time I spent up there was both peaceful and made for some great photo ops.
Class 47 No. 47674 is probably being pushed close to its limits as it lifts the overnight London Euston - Inverness Sleeper towards Slochd Summit on 26th July 1992. The climb starts at Carrbridge and in the ensuing five miles to the summit the gradient varies between an initial 1-in-60 for about two miles, easing to 1-in-90 for just over a mile, with the final stretch to the summit at 1-in-70. Quite pull, for a single Class 47 on what was always a heavy train. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
LSWR 30120 works uphill past Dickers crossing, between Herston Halt and Harman's Cross. There is currently a p-way slack of 10 mph here, presumably due to the work on the track that was in evidence. However the 1 in 78 meant the engine was still working nicely at a reduced speed.
QJs 7119 and 6977 slog westwards on the Jitong Railway towards lindong with a heavy train of tank wagons. The train arrived before I had reached my preferred position and I had to run to get near enough to the curve to get it into the shot with the train. This was the last photo of the day even though it was only midday, as the line seemed to go into suspended animation after this with no trains until after dark this day. It was a frustrated bunch of photographers that arrived back at the hotel that afternoon.
58041 slogs up towards Kirkby summit on the B.R. built 1972 deviation at Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts. on 1st May 1990.
It was built to end the traffic queues at a level crossing in the town. So many coal trains passed through on the Midland line back then, it caused buses and other traffic to be severely delayed.
The deviation was from just south of where Sutton Parkway station is today, to join the former Great Northern line near where Kirkby Summit signal box was.
At the southern end, close to where today's Kirkby Lane End junction is, a short link re-connected with the Midland down to Pinxton and the Erewash Valley.
No coal trains today, but the line is still used by the Robin Hood passenger services from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop, plus the occasional EMU drags to and from storage in Worksop yard.
On 28th November 1999, 'QJ' Class 2-10-2s Nos.6351 and 6996 slog up the final few hundred metres to Shangdian summit heading an eastbound freight, just three minutes before the sun dipped behind the mountain peaks. Wind was always a problem to be faced when visiting the JiTong line, and that wasn't just from the food either. The drifting exhaust here bears testament to the problems encountered, even on a glorious sunlit day.
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Well, actually the hill immediately to the west of Norbury Hill, which doesn't seem to have a name. Anyway, it was the venue for our final 'official' Wednesday outing of the season. We were blessed with sunshine, but a wind so strong & cold as to risk frostbite on anything exposed to the elements! It was also rather a slog to get to the top. But when we got there we were rewarded with some far-reaching views.
Was visiting some friends in Plymouth who took us to Tavistock for the day - Bumped in to some old friends - The Ragged Victorians.
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8f 48773 slogs up the Lickey incline at Finstall with The Midlander.
Saturday 2nd January 1999.
Rescan and edit from a previous upload.
We've had rain every day for weeks now, and it's really getting old. The forecast for the next 10 days? 50% or higher chance of rain every...single...day.
43357 is working hard at the head of 1S51 Plymouth to Glasgow Central as it powers up the Lickey incline, according to the NR signage 1 in 38 at this point.
Continuing with this cloudy but colorful fall chase, Vermont Railway train 263 is seen working its way east as it passes a string of boxcars to be loaded at the Magris talc plant and approaches the East Hil Rd. grade crossing at MP 25.5 on the Green Mountain Railroad's Bellows Falls Subdivision. This line traces its history back to 1849 when the Rutland Railroad's mainline from the Connecticut River town to Burlington opened by way of its namesake community.
Leading the way, with an SD70 and two blue geeps trailing, is VTR 208 a GP38-2 purchased from LLPX. The unit was originally blt. in Aug. 1972 as Penn Central 8028 then passed to Conrail until being picked up by Union Pacific at the end of its 15 year lease where it spend a half dozen years before ending up in EMD's lease fleet for a time.
Village of Smithville
Ludlow (town), Vermont
Sunday September 29, 2024
After slogging up the hill through Stilwell and into Bucyrus, this thing was now going 45mph. The conductor is giving me a dirty look and for good reason.
CNRTU 22
Wagstaff, KS
April 23, 2024 6:38PM
at Happy, Alaska.
Flashback Friday.
ca. mid-late 1980s.
Mush was not really our dog, but he did live with us off and on for a while. We met while Chance was still a puppy and Mush's person at the time was my cabinmate. We shared a dry cabin, no phone, no electric and about a tenth of a mile off the one lane, pothole filled, dead end dirt road. Judy had rescued him from a remote town, Kotzebue, above the Arctic Circle. People often talk about rescuing dogs, but Mush and Judy’s story is unique and a very literal rescue.
Judy was living in “Kotz” doing, if I’m not mistaken, graduate work. I’m sure she had seen Mush before, but one day while he was harnessed and in team, she heard yelling; his owner pulled a gun and was about to shoot him dead. Evidently Mush was a fighter and was not receptive to being told what to do by this person. This method of training, shooting a dog in harness while his teammates look on was meant as a lesson to the other dogs that they better behave. Truly misguided and cruel – “training” through fear and intimidation. But things were different in the bush and some people could not afford to keep a dog that not only did not perform, but also harmed other dogs in the team.
Judy intervened, “don’t shoot that dog!” And the person reluctantly acquiesced, warned her about his behavior, and said, “get him the hell out of here.” (or something to that effect).
Judy returned to Fairbanks for University studies (where we met and became roommates), of course she loved that dog with all her heart, with all her being, and he no doubt loved her as well, realizing maybe not that she saved his life, but that she got him away from a bad person.
It was said that Mush was ½ wolf. I usually take such claims with a grain of salt, but with Mush I believed it. Huskies can be very aloof, and arguably most or all of them can be traced to some wolf heritage, but Mush was the most aloof dog that I have ever experienced. Also, he did not like men, any wonder. But he tolerated me and eventually we became as close as he would allow. Later Lenore came around and she fell for him and he preferred to live with her in her little cabin. He provided her security and comfort. But I jumped ahead a bit.
Judy and Mush moved in when Chance was still a young pup, he was not aggressive with the rambunctious puppy, but as a matter of training and demonstrating who was boss, he would sit with seemingly all his weight (he was big) on Chance the pup. Chance learned. In his time with me Mush was a strong freight dog, helping haul firewood locally and supplies out to my remote cabin site. I even named a stretch of trail after him, “Mush’s Misery,” as it was a long uphill slog and he would put his head down, lean into his harness and march ahead without complaint.
Later Mush disappeared and some weeks or months later I was surprised to see him at a friends cabin. This was not near where Lenore or I had lived. The friend was surprised that I knew him, as surprised as I was to find him living with her. She said he just appeared on her porch one day and stayed, as if he lived there. She was involved in a separation and felt alone and vulnerable too in that place. She was convinced that Mush sensed this, and intentionally appeared to protect her and provide comfort. They had not met before. I didn’t really feel like it was my choice, so he stayed. Eventually he disappeared from her too, and that’s all we know.
JS8190 works hard as it exits the active western part of the open pit at Sandaoling with another load of coal destined for the wash plant. Pretty much the last steam show on earth. It has been reported that the steam trains will run until 2020 or until the engines begin to fail - www.sy-country.co.uk/qjc/news.htm. Xinjiang Province, China.
Finally made it up to the Gornergrat Bahn.
After the long slog on the MGB up from Visp, the GGB climbs from Zermatt (1605m above sea level) by cog to the summit at about 3089m, where you get a good view of the famous Matterhorn (4478m) and 28 'other' peaks over 4000m.
Opened in 1898, it was the highest railway in Europe until the 300m taller Jungfrau line opened in 1912.
As with everything, they are in the process of getting fancy new Stadler Polaris rolling stock.
Note the twin overhead and side-by-side pantographs - the GGB is one of very few remaining with three-phase electric power (the track forming the third conductor).
3 April 2023. Riffelberg, CH.
Stillingsön – Det finns inga dokument, som beskriver hur och när badortsidéerna slog rot hos Bernt Nilsson. I familjen berättas att Bernt Nilsson hade många släktingar, som gärna kom och hälsade på sommartid. Med tiden tyckte han det blev för trångt i stugan så när Myckleby skulle få ny prästgård och den gamla skulle rivas köpte han den byggnaden, som revs och byggdes upp igen nere vid strandkanten på Stillingsön. Huset kom att heta Sjövik och kan sägas vara allra första början till badorten Stillingsön. 1862 eller 1863 lät Bernt Nilsson bygga ett tvåvåningshus, det sk. Gamla affärshuset inte långt från Sjövik. Av arvsskifteshandlingarna efter Bernt Nilsson framgår att det fanns badhus (det senare sk. varmbadhuset) och bassäng. Troligen uppfördes dessa också i början av 1860-talet. Kanske var det en slump att badortsrörelsen startade på det här sättet men det kunde kanske också vara så att Bernt Nilsson som den framsynta person han var insåg vilken potential som låg i den framväxande badortsrörelsen.
Home for the night after a slog up to Haystacks with a full pack, so I had to take the obligatory tent shot about an hour or so after sunset. Buttermere and Crummock water in the middle distance.
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88006 slogs up the last part of the climb to Shap summit at Shap Wells, in stunning Autumn light. A class 397 can just be seen behind the first wagons, having narrowly avoided ruining the shot.
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Well, Tony & I slogged up from Plymouth to Northallerton in North Yorkshire for a few days, mainly to catch the Joe Cornish Gallery before it closes for good 😮 but also to see what images we could make in the glorious surrounding countryside.
In a rare break in the relentless stormy weather we found a view of Roseberry Topping which pleased us, not a great view admittedly but in homage to Joe and in the interests of getting something, anything, we piled out and did what we could.
Pretty pleased really.
On my long slog up to see the Maroon Bells (a pair of mountains) outside Aspen, Colorado, shortly after finally being able to see them, I looked back from whence I came and snapped this photo. Note the falling leaves dotting part of the sky.
Having slogged my way up The Band and reached the lower eastern ridge of Bowfell the time was right to stop for a few photos.
48151 makes a stirring sight as it slogs it's way to Cowburn Tunnel with 5Z53 Burton Wetmore-Carnforth ECS on 26th August 2019.
It's mid March in 1998 but there's not even a hint of spring in the air. But after all, it is Wisconsin and sometimes winter can last all the way into May. There's also no hint of sunshine as it was snowing, windy, and only 25 degrees. My notes say that this was also Friday the 13th. Surprisingly, it was also the first time I had been out with the camera that year. This is the Wisconsin & Southern frame train with GP20s, 2001 and 2002, both ex Cotton Belt units, headed west through Slinger. They had been siting awhile waiting for Wisconsin Central #46 to finish picking up and then getting out of town. My notes also said that I froze to death, but that appears to be incorrect....I wonder where that old Milwaukee Road switch stand wandered off to?
Jubilee 'Alberta' approaches Ribblehead in a little ray of sunshine, a snow-topped Pen-y-Gent broods in the background. Steam does have a certain something, though I don't go out especially for it; I don't think a diesel would give quite the same shot here (not unless it was in serious trouble!).
60011 slogs through Horton in Ribblesdale with the SO Gascoine Wood - Carlisle house hold coal working on 30/08/97. We had sat under cloudy skies in the Barnetby area on the morning. After confirming with my Mother that the weather was good in the west we made a dash for the S&C and this working, arriving in the field with just a few minutes to spare.
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We'd just slogged up Wall Ditch, a steep pull up from Mill Dale before descending down Larkstone Lane to Weags Bridge in the Manifold Valley. Wife and No.One son realised their brakes weren't too good on the way down, on the 1 in 4 zig-zags near the valley bottom.
This is looking back from where we'd been