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Add one more train to the Canyon Subdivision. With the re-opening of the Empire Mining Gypsum Plant in Gerlach, NV, UP now runs a unit gypsum train to the San Joaquin Valley. The unit Gypsum train is rolling west down the canyon near Virgilia, CA.
I was in this small town of Watkin's looking for another landmark and saw the tracks and elevator. When I didn't find it I went to the next town - and did not find it there either So I headed back and I saw the train coming in the distance and outran it to get back in time for this shot.
Yes - I pushed the speed limit on the back roads and funny thing was just as I turned the corner to take this shot the Sheriff was there sitting trapped on other side waiting for the train to pass. I get lucky once in a while.
Following the annual CSX Santa Train has become one of my favorite railfan traditions. The weather is often not the best but it is such a cool operation and it's great to see and meet many of the internet names from Flickr and FB. This year CSX timed one of the first runs of it's latest mullet heritage unit with leading the Santa Train. And engineer Scott 'Scooter' Steffey timed his last run before retirement with running this year's train. What a way to go out. He appeared to be having a great time often playing the best rendition of Jingle Bells that a GEVO horn can make. Here the train is pulling into Elkhorn City, KY at 7:01 AM for it's first stop on the former Clinchfield. Sunrise on the date would have been at 7:17 on this cloudy day. So it was quite dark taking this shot. I've often said that these modern cameras see better in the dark than I do and this shot proves it. Other than blowing out the headlight (I have to get wider), I'm pretty happy with it.
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BB 22344 tractant le train forum "Saveurs et Santé" sur le segment Annecy - Lyon (Châbons, 7 octobre 2016)
Steam train crossing the estuary bridge in Malahide this morning.
I've just discovered date/time settings in my camera are all wrong - the photo was taken around 10:40am, not 23pm.
TTI B36-7 5827, a former CSX and Seaboard System motor once trusted to the top intermodals is now surviving by hauling the low-priority coal along the Ohio River.
Wearing one of TTI's many paint schemes, the old Seaboard TOTE Boat was looking good in Maysville back in 2010.
Casablanca.........it was an eventful 24 hours, i will never forget.
in the event of looking for a cafe to get some rest and get some food, i was held under a knife point.
the story goes... i had my backpack (my new camera bag) in front of me, like carry it backward. it was a pretty big bag so it basically came up to my chin. i rested my arms on top of the bag my right hand is holding my little baby Ricoh.
A 6'-0" + tall man came up to me and try to take my Ricoh and point a knife at me. Lucky i did not get hurt, my Ricoh is also safe with me. i might be just lucky, or people around me was nice enough to help me out by telling the guy to leave us alone. in any case even now i can't imagine what he could have done to me with his knife.
the next morning we decided to leave Casablanca because we were little uncomfortable and beside there is really nothing there to see. ... Remember even the famous movie "Casablanca" did not even film here.
We headed to the train station early in the morning, an elderly woman who pretended to help us, while we don't need any help, she tried to take our ticket away by telling us we were in the wrong class.
Was it because it was 2 Asian females traveling, or am i being careless. Or do i have to say i need a "boy" after all.
btw, my first meal in Morocco was in the Hyatt Hotel, the safest place and the closest place we found.
Train trip #23
Jasper National Park
Canada
A large number of passengers got off the train at Jasper, most were from a tour group (about 40 people) who'd been on the train since Toronto. They'd be spending about 4 days in Jasper and Banff before heading by bus to Vancouver then Victoria. The train would seem quiet without this group of Brits, Aussies and Americans.
Jasper is supposed to be a 1.5 hour stop but since we were 24 hours behind schedule they cut the stop down to 45 minutes. It was plenty of time to take some pictures and go across the street to some gift shops and a little sandwich shop for something to tide me over til dinnertime.
When lately I saw news that "The Flying Scotsman" had been refurbished, I remembered of another steam train I had seen when visiting Scotland. The Jacobite is a steam locomotive-hauled tourist train service that operates over part of the West Highland Railway Line in Scotland. It has been operating under various names and with different operators every summer since 1984. (Wikipedia)
Edited in Gimp 2.8 using Advanced Tone Mapping - 5% blur, 75% opacity blurred layer, 90% opacity merged layer, 5 copies of merged layers.
MG train still have that retro railway atmosphere with incandescent lamps and their warm glow in the nights.
BR Standard 73156 passes Kinchley Lane on the Great Central Railway with a short train of tank wagons. Seen during a Timeline Events photo charter.
Locomotive: British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 73156.
Location: Kinchley Lane near Quorn on the Great Central Railway, Leicestershire.