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Encuentro en la luz
Preparando otras fotografías, ocurrió esto..........
Meeting in the light
Preparing other photographs, this happened ..........
About a decade ago, I bought a local auction lot that included some HO gauge USA/Canadian rolling stock and locomotives. I intended to sell them on but instead I started to collect them as and when they came up locally. It's still a very small collection.
I have a small number of 'B' units, description here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%80%93unit#:~:text=A%20B%20unit....
The only UK example I could think of was the Class 13:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13
I'm guessing this is a Santa Fe loco, given I saw an identically coloured A-B-B-A loco set on YouTube pulling a long rake of Santa Fe box cars.
The eastward move of Z631 is a 25-car interchange run off the CSX at Clifton Forge. The cars are destined for short line Shenandoah Valley RR who will distribute them to their customers in their namesake valley. In the distance is the North Mountain ridge where the old C&O passes through Buffalo Gap marking the passage between the Cowpasture River and Middle River water sheds.
Lead unit number 5 was built for the Penn Central, later working for Conrail and then ironically enough the Ohio Central before coming to the BB. It's ironic in that employment wise I got to the BB via the Ohio Central as well.
An Ashton, Iowa to Port of Stockton, California unit ethanol train rumbles along a farmer's ditch in Echo, Utah on April 8, 2023. ue top warm weather, Utah's abundant snowpack was melting quickly!
2019 Spartan ERV Pumper Unit 51 Timmins Fire Dept parked in the Canadian Tire parking lot in Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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When putting together a modular model, I always make a small test to see how the units, usually with different colors, have to be connected to form a corner.
This is how it looks like and this shape gave me the idea to use the striped paper for this model of which I showed you the single flat units all together yesterday, (See first comment box)
It reminds me of a kind of spaceship ;-))
Have a nice Thursday!
Model: origami X-Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in the BOS booklet #31: 'More 'igami' by Jeff Beynon
Paper: 3 rectangle (1:2) pieces of kami paper, 7,5x15cm
A Kusudama, for those not familiar with the term, is a modular papercraft origami model, where multiple units may be glued, sewed or connected with themselves using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape.
The word "Kusudama" literally means "Medicine Ball" when translated from Japanese. They were originally used for incense and potpourri.
Here you see 3 units connected together. A first step for assembling another kusudama, that I will show you tomorrow, have to make a photo first today ;-)
Wishing you all a lovely Tuesday !!
In the above photo are 12 units.
Can you count them?
Model: origami X-Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in the BOS booklet #31: 'More 'igami' by Jeff Beynon
Paper: 12 rectangle (1:2) pieces of Freudenberg paper with line-pattern, 7,5x15cm
Final size: 7,5x7,5x7,5cm
This is not a black and white. Look into the distance. Everything is just covered with a light dusting of snow and I am on the darker side of the trees. Makes it look b/w. Better large.
BHS' first unit train for Cargill was a success. 85 cars were received from NS, loaded, and returned back to interchange in less than 24 hours. Two of our three MP15s have 13 loads in tow as they climb the hill form the dock to the yard.
Single-car unit heading south on the Cumbrian Coast on 15/7/2015.Taken from a lower position than the steam shot alongside
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There was a phenomenon in the Eighties and Nineties among Western railroads including Burlington Northern to convert road locomotives into cabless boosters. This practice also extended to some yard switchers. Witness the home made SW1000 cow-calf set of No. 437 and booster 442 working the yard at Galesburg IL
on 19 August 1990.
A spot I've wanted to try for a long time that comes with it's challenges. There's not much traffic for one challenge and it often is on one of the tracks up against the wall as this one is. Most of the through traffic on NS bypasses this line due to it not having high enough clearances for stacks and auto racks. And then there's the Gingko trees which bring a lot of shadows with the color they bring in the Fall. The normal train to shoot here is the Allegheny Valley's daily transfer to NS. After shooting that returning to Glenwood on this same track I heard about this empty 861 hopper train that was in Conway and would come this way with a crew called for 2:30. With sunset being at 5:03 that seemed like it would be enough light to be worth a wait. It ended up being a 3 hour wait showing up at 4:58 with pretty dark skies. Fortunately the Gingko's light up the scene enough to salvage it. Pittsburgh's North Allegheny Commons Park West 11/13/2024.
If the PRR had survived into the 21st century it might look like this. The latest AC power passing under the classic signal bridge in Tipton, PA at MP 225 on the Middle Division with NS run-through power trailing. Train 507 is a Carney's Point, NJ to Shire Oaks, PA empty hopper train.
In special livery to celebrate the re-opening of the Borders line,a 170 heads to Tweedbank on 30/9/2015
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BNSF 3855 leads 121 petroleum coke loads over Fish Creek as it heads west. The unit coke train had originated in Helena Montana and was to be exported through the Roberts bank terminal.
The petroleum coke is a by-product from oil refining.
After cutting Helpers off at the top 3154-5356 became the dynamic duo as they brought this train down the west side of Soldier Summit. 3.01
Going big on this F-unit Friday. Santa Fe's hundreds of red and silver F's are the face of American railroading, and the tradition continued in the second generation with the purchase of nine massive FP45 units from EMD. These 20-cylinder, 3600 hp, six motor, steam generator equipped cowl units were the epitome of streamlined aesthetic, melding the earlier era of industrial design with the more utilitarian look of the modern era. Only 14 units were built, with the others going to the Milwaukee Road. Here is the preserved ATSF 95, seen in July 2008 on display at Barstow CA.
Interesting to note that the FP45s were constructed only three years after E-unit production ended.
37800 is seen at Uffington working the 5Q76 0951 Ely Papworth sidings - Newport Docks. It sees units 317342 & 317515 going for scrap 27/5/22. (Taken using a pole)
BNSF 6022, one of the 25th Anniversary "sticker" units, powers the westbound Denver to Provo, Utah, manifest train around the big curve at Leyden, Colorado, about 13 miles west of Denver on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Photo by Joe McMillan, July 14, 2023, 11:05 a.m., MDT. Two DPU ACes are shoving on the rear.
TKEN GP28 9434 trundles south and timetable east on the outskirts of Finley, TN with three tank cars retrieved from Tokai Carbon in Hickman, KY, the northernmost point on the railroad. The crew still has a good 30+ minutes to go until they reach the railroad's HQ at Dyersburg.
9434 is one of three of these rare units on the roster and the last in the road's former paint scheme.
An aging widecab GE leads a southbound empty phosphate train through Englewood, TN in the late afternoon sunlight.
Rio Grande train No. 199, a unit grain train from Denver, Colorado, has exited Spanish Fork Canyon and gains momentum through Mapleton, Utah on June 10, 1989.
The recent 470 Club trip between NoCo and Fabyans provided some great opportunities with the pair of recently restored/repainted B&M F's leading. Several photo stops were made along the way for the riders and the units ran great (they're F's in 2022, that is a big win). I made several stops but once they get down the mountain on the return there isn't much to shoot that isn't backlit. I decided to pull over into Gove's bridge since it was vacant, it was better than nothing I suppose
350377 is seen appoaching Rugeley North junction working empty stock, 5A02 0526 Wolverhampton - Rugeley Trent Valley 4/7/23. (Taken using a pole)
A Chesapeake and Ohio F7 (originally Milwaukee Road), a Western Maryland F7B (originally Clinchfield) and a Western Maryland FP7 (originally Canadian Pacific) recreate a classic A-B-A set of classic covered wagons in Elkins.
They may not be original, but they are better than nothing.
With the Pennsylvania heritage unit in charge, NS 126 heads east through Salem, Va. The train has just a few miles left of its journey, as it terminates in Roanoke.
CP's executive train, deadheading to the Twin Cities for the Ryder Cup as 040B-23, passes one of the remaining elevators at Sawyer. This trip saw some wild weather, starting out with thick fog, to pouring rain with lightening, and now towards being sunny. Surely, this was due to the late Bud Burglin being in attendance, aka the human high pressure system.
This was my first trip to North Dakota and my first time seeing the CP Fs. Between the long drive and tumultuous weather, this trip was a blast. And I am still extremely grateful to have gotten this opportunity. Thanks again to those who made this happen.