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I passed through Summerhill twice in the same day, both times taking a brief pause to see what was passing through the small town on the Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line. With Positive Train Control systems being installed on the busy line I'm assuming this intermediate signal bridge will be a fallen relic. It's an uncommon setup on the old Pennsylvania Railroad; because of the bridge through town that crosses the tracks, the signals for eastbound trains are raised up so crews can see it at a distance. Timing allowed this frame of NS 26T with plain jane power passing through a pocket of sun on an otherwise rainy, cloudy day.
Doug Harrop Photography • Oct. 18, 1976
Doug and his trusty camera were in the Tehachapi Mountains when he composed this spellbinding photograph of two eastbound trains. Southern Pacific 8953 East emerges from a side track, sanders fully engaged, as SP 8652 East waits on the main line at Rowan, California on Oct. 18, 1976.
As is often the case, timing is everything.
I drove up to this roadside waterfall for the first time after the heat wave of June 2021 and the waterfall was barely a trickle. This time the flow was respectable and the light made nice beams as the sun popped over the top of the cliff.
... hatten die beiden Fotografen an der Werksbahn Fieni-Moroeni um den Frühling voll einzufangen.
L45H-038 tuckert gemütlich in Richtung Fieni mit ihren beladenen Wagen und verlässt soeben Moroeni.
Auch wenn es schon der 3. Besuch an der Strecke war, ist man doch immer wieder zu anderen Jahreszeiten vor Ort und die ganze Strecke wirkt gleich ganz anderst.
Class L45H-038 with his cargo train from Moroeni to Fieni.
Christmas Eve day....Central Texas had it's first ever blizzard in recorded weather history, which started in 1889. Remarkable timing. Hope you had a great Christmas!! *HuGs*
Timing is everything - this light lasted for just a few moments and the red glow was gone. Taken at National Trust Watlington Hill
This weeks Snap Happy theme of 'feathers and fur' was chosen by Margaret.
A very timely pair of images as this little caterpillar was one I saw just be chance while out walking my pooch last week, and the feather was a tiny little one, about the size of my little finger nail that landed ever so delicately on my geranium leaf in my garden. I couldn't go past both of these for this week's theme.
I had no sooner finish saying to Kevin that we hardly see pheasants any more when I looked over and saw this casually strolling by.
SUNSET ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
Winter ~ Ibis ~ Boynton Beach, Florida
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
*[Well...almost everything. LOL Half-mile away]
*[Small Ibis-flock flying left/south over-the-sun]
Purple Martin. View Large On Black Purple Martins are aerial insectivores, meaning that they catch insects from the air. The birds are agile hunters and eat a variety of winged insects. Rarely, they will come to the ground to eat insects. They usually fly relatively high, so, contrary to popular opinion, mosquitos do not form a large part of their diet. IMG_6764
Before the annual fireworks show in Detroit, several old warplanes out of Willow Run were doing fly-bys on the river. I had to time my shots as they passed behind openings in the skyline.
My favorite train in one of my favorite places - but timing and outside factors needed to line up.
The Empire Builder runs along the former CB&Q mainline towards St. Croix where it will divert off the BNSF St. Paul Subdivision and make a run down the Minnesota side of the Mississippi River. The train lost time in northwestern Montana and was unable to recover, so the lateness sunk, floating just under eight hours. However, that lateness was making it possible for an afternoon shot in the Grey Cloud Dunes Scientific & Natural Area, but that was depending on the will of the dispatcher.
I arrived Grey Cloud Dunes well in advance of the Empire Builder arriving St. Paul Union Depot. In the meantime, I was happy to get some eastbound BNSF intermodal traffic while I waited, additionally watching the clouds come and go and hoping dispatching would route the train on the more scenic BNSF St. Paul Subdivision route winding along the Mississippi River in Cottage Grove, Denmark Township, and briefly in Hastings. At 4:16pm, the Builder departed Union Depot and the hope of seeing it at Grey Cloud was strong. To my surprise, the clouds broke off and the sun proudly shined on my scene - I now just needed the train! Nerves built around the prospect of getting 'the shot,' fingers crossed, but there was still a 50 percent chance the dispatcher would send the Empire Builder straight through Cottage Grove along US 10/61 and avoid Grey Cloud Dunes altogether. My nervousness turned to delight when the distant rumble of eastbound traffic became evident. I should note, too, that I had no idea what power combination would lead this particular run of the Empire Builder. I was just hoping to see it in any form. I was surprised to see this unique pairing of 203 and 301 through the lens as it passed into my scene.
Glorious!
Timing is Everything
Running like clockwork...
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Despite having a proceed aspect at the signal at Bena Corral, the engineer waited a good 10 minutes before re-starting his train after waiting the passage of a northbound.
It's almost as if he wanted me to get the golden shot.
Thank you Sir, whoever you are.
Bena CA, 15 February 2023.
UP 2658 GE ET44AC
UP 6188 GE C44AC ex-SP 146
UP 7934 GE C45ACCTE
A long exposure, landscape image of waves crashing over the rocks at sunrise at Sandend in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It took nearly 10 years, but I finally managed a properly-lit photo of the Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit. All previous attempts were on overcast days. So here we have NS 8102 leading 25V west through Bound Brook in nice afternoon light, with a haze of exhaust hinting at the train's speed. But it almost didn't happen. Seconds after this photo was taken, 25V met an equally fast-moving 62V right next to me. Timing is everything.
NS 25V:
NS 8102 ES44AC "Pennsylvania RR"
In my current life I have to plan pretty far in advance to work in a backpacking trip, which makes it challenging to time an adventure to coincide with shoreline blooms, since that timing varies each summer too. And I never really know until I get there anyway. So I was very pleased to see the color here last summer.
Long time without water drops :p
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My timing has been off every time I go out to Thor’s Well. Usually the tide is too low but Sunday it was the opposite.
I thought hitting the coast at high tide would be perfect, but with recent storms and the atmospheric river that just pounded us it was way too high and I couldn’t get close enough for a decent picture. While I was waiting for the tide to go down I headed over to Devil’s Churn. I have no idea what’s going on here. The water was thick like I’ve never seen it and it stuck to the rocks like melting wax. And as luck would have it, three hours later Thor’s Well was still inaccessible.