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Encuentro en la luz
Preparando otras fotografías, ocurrió esto..........
Meeting in the light
Preparing other photographs, this happened ..........
KCS BRUDY heading through Grannis, Arkansas towards Mena so Santa can deliver presents to the local children from his sharp looking ride of the KCS OCS set.
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.
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!
Union Pacific C40-8 No. 9289 pulls a 38-car SCOG train up Cherry Hill near Kaysville, Utah on May 22, 1994. While this merely a transfer of cars between Salt Lake City and Ogden, catching a train on the Salt Lake Sub with a single unit was a rare catch in the 1990s.
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
Alongside Loch a'Chuilinn with an Inverness-Kyle working on 2/5/2014.The plan had been to get steam on the GB tour here but it was diesel-hauled and I misjudged how long it now takes to get to the position ! Still it was worth checking out for future use - there aren't many better locations on the line
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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.
Mass Coastal 2011 (ex-NH FL9M) crosses the Cape Cod Canal with a passenger special on the 544’ long vertical lift bridge built in 1935 for the New Haven Railroad.
47727 seen dragging Anglia unit 720581 at Sawley with the late running 5Q90 0923 Derby Litchurch lane - Wembley Intercity depot.
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.
Utah Railway MK50-3s No. 5004 and 5003 pull a unit train of tank cars through Price Canyon at Castle Gate, Utah on Sept. 12, 2008.
The tanks will be loaded with Uintah Basin "waxy" crude oil in the Utah Railway yard at Martin, Utah.
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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UP C40-8W No. 9388 pulls an APOA along the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake east of Burmester, Utah on Sept. 12, 1992. In deep shadow are the Oquirrh Mountains which divide the Salt Lake and Tooele Valley areas.
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.
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.
I don't know why, but this reminds me of Randy Johnson eyeballing the signal from the catcher before he heaves a bit of chin music to the plate.
156402 & 150107 are seen at Buxton URS leading the 2B12 0920 Manchester Piccadilly - Buxton 8/2/23. (Taken using a pole)
Loaded unit ethanol train B619-17 has come a long way off the CN in Chicago, into the much less frigid Florida this December. The two SD70AC rebuilds and P&LE heritage unit were moderately anticipated, bringing a few familiar folks trackside at the usual north Florida mainline spots; I was trackside at Bryceville with three others for the shot. A railfan blog states the water tower in scene was once used for steam trains that would stop at the out of frame 'Bryce House' to the left: trainsandtrailsofnassaucountyfla.blogspot.com/2015/05/csx...
350377 is seen appoaching Rugeley North junction working empty stock, 5A02 0526 Wolverhampton - Rugeley Trent Valley 4/7/23. (Taken using a pole)
In 2024 QUBE Logistics took delivery of 12 American built QE class. QE001 leads QE004 and QL011 hauling 50 grain loads.
The train originated from the QUBE load point at Coonamble and was destined for the QUBE owned unloading point at Port Kembla.
QUBE currently operates 4 export grain sets and 1 domestic containerised barley consist in NSW.
On the morning of December 28, 2024, it was reported that Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, with Phase IV Heritage Unit 164 on point, broke down somewhere way out west and Union Pacific stuck a freight unit on the train to drag it into Chicago. At that time, the train was running over 2 1/2 hours late, which would've put it into Chicago by mid-afternoon.
On this day, I had just started to recover from being sick from the previous two weeks, including Christmas Day, and I needed to get more medication. So I wanted to catch the train when I went to get more meds.
The train continued to lose time due to the reduced speeds of the freight unit. With long lines at the pharmacy, I went for the train first. But the Amtrak app was not updating, and I waited in the cold far longer than I thought. By the time the train passed me in Sandwich, IL, the sun had already set and was now well over 4 hours late into Chicago.
Not only would this be my last train I caught in 2024, these would actually be the last photos I took in 2024. Ironically, standing out in the cold for over an hour waiting for this was actually soothing to my sore throat, and the sickness finally broke the next night.
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
CP's Executive train at Hopkins. Here to ferry people to the Ryder Cup in Chaska MN. Not parked in the best place but still had to shoot it.
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.