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I'm not sure what train this is but I saw the same power doing the same thing two days in a row so I suspect it's a local transfer job of some sort. At any rate, this pair of UP Deuces is heading north out of Fort Worth and soon to go over the Trinity River. 5/18/18
East of Buford, Wyoming, Union Pacific's original transcontinental line utilized a convenient, natural sloping ridge in the landscape to ascend the Continental Divide. This feature was known as "The Gangplank", and is still used by the modern UP in its ascent of Sherman Hill- one of the few places where route changes over the years have not taken the rails away from their original 1860s location. In evening light, a westbound intermodal cruises up the 'plank- though this is a relatively easy grade for a what is technically a mountain railway, the power still gets a workout on the hill here with today's extremely long PSR freights.
Before DPU was introduced, UP was known for very long locomotive consists. Nowadays such configurations became rare, but they are still possible. A nice 5x consist lead by AC4400 #6391 passed Devils Slide. With GP38 #531 even a standard cab unit was part of the story, unfortunately only in position five.
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(my grandson Eli through his dad's lens, edit by me)
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Sydney harbour bridge and The famous Sydney Opera house....from a cruise moving at very high speed...the night breeze...through Sydney harbour waterways.
A shallow depth of field view up a jack pine (Pinus banksiana - Pinaceae) with peeling bark and a pleasant bokeh in northern Wisconsin
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Taken around 30 minutes after the sun broke over the horizon.
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I took this image some time ago but this is the first time I have uploaded one. This tree was washed up onto the beach during a huge storm. It's still there now, but is now further from the water.
Turning away from the playa of the Smoke Creek Desert at Sano, the rails of Western Pacific's Fifth Subdivision start up the east side of Sand Pass. Highlighting the route, with over 13K feet and 20K tons, a westbound North Platte, Nebraska to Fresno, California manifest makes the climb to Sand Pass.
UP 8439 ~ MNPFR ~ Sand Pass, Nevada
Union Pacific's Winnemucca Subdivision
04.10.2024
Tagebaunachfolgelandschaft
Naturparadies Grünhaus; Seit 2003 lässt der NABU hier auf 2.000 Hektar Fläche ein Naturparadies entstehen. Es leben hier mittlerweile mehr als 3.000 Tier- und Pflanzenarten.
Open pit successor landscape
Grünhaus natural paradise; Since 2003, NABU has been creating a natural paradise on an area of 2,000 hectares. More than 3,000 animal and plant species now live here.
Quite the Show
We saw a day’s worth of trains within 8 minutes. The timestamp between me shooting the DPU and shooting the head end of the potash local was 4 minutes. Surprisingly, there were three units on the potash local, and one of the units, a crusty AC44, was set out at Brendel. This left a tagged 70M as the leader for the return trip, a unit I had absolutely no interest in shooting, but without any other ideas, we started the drive towards Moab to do…something? Whatever our goal was, I got word there was a crew to be called out of Helper for the coal train, so we changed course. In my infinite wisdom, I neglected to do research on Solider Summit, assuming I wouldn’t end up there. It probably cost me a better shot than the one I got, but I can’t change it now. Like I’ve said before—I often enjoy all the aspects outside of shooting more than I do dealing with the photos I’ve taken. I tend to only see the flaws in the photos I take and can’t enjoy them much anyway. The chase and the experience don’t allow time for me to sit and think, just time to be present, and a chronic over-thinker comes to appreciate that. I have, however, come to realize how pointless the hobby becomes if I never post the pictures I take. I enjoy looking at your photos, you enjoy looking at photos, but if everyone thought the way I did, there would no photos to look at. So in spite of the fact I wish these could post themselves, I do my best to share them.
I know I already said it, but thanks again to those who helped me along the way. Your generosity altered the direction of our trip for the better.
CWELB9 06
September 6, 2024 - 11:59AM
Thompson, UT // UP Green River Sub
Somewhere in Utah
Any normal person would say it’s the middle of nowhere, but to a few of us, it’s definitely somewhere. Only a railfan could make a destination of somewhere completely devoid of people, something I think makes the hobby all the more interesting. Here on the former Rio Grande main, traffic still exists, though not without considerable gaps between trains. With its helpers removed at Colton, UP 3038 and company notch up to speed once again with their load of West Elk coal in tow. They departed Grand Junction sometime around 9AM with an easy run across the desert, meeting Amtrak in Ruby Canyon and an empty coal train somewhere west of Green River. With a little over 60 miles left of double track, they don’t look to be stopping anytime soon.
CWELB9 06
September 6, 2024 - 6:04PM
Colton, UT // UP Provo Sub
Having just worked the Nevada Goldmines facility at Jayhawk (Newmont) the paired track local hustles west towards their last customer, MI Swaco in Battle Mountain. Elko and Winnemucca based locals and yard jobs are still powered by EMD/NLR SD40Ns, as demonstrated here by 1635 and 1620.
UP 1635 ~ LRG55 ~ Argenta, Nevada
Union Pacific's Elko Subdivision
01.20.2025
This male ruddy duck is all dressed up in his finest breeding plumage and sky-blue beak, ready to woo some lady duck. Good luck, Mr. Ruddy.
With the Wasatch mountains forming the backdrop an eastbound Union Pacific stack train, with the Western Pacific heritage locomotive leading the way, works through the Henefer Valley on the approach to Echo, UT.
UP 1983 ~ IPAG4X ~ Henefer Valley, Utah
Union Pacific's Evanston Subdivision
07.01.2017
Sandstone, quartzite, sky, in Coire Mhic Fhearchair, Beinn Eighe, Torridon, Highlands.
From a transparency original taken with a Nikon FM2n camera & scanned with a Nikon LS2000 SCSI film scanner. Tonal refinement & dust spotting in a legacy version of Photoshop.
Sunrise finds a pair of coal trains on Union Pacific's (ex-Western Pacific) mainline over Silver Zone Pass. Up above a load of export coal has just muscled its way around Arnold's Loop and only a few more miles at 1% separate it from the summit at Silver Zone. Below, the eastbound Valmy buckets hold the siding at Clifside, awaiting the arrival of another westbound.
UP 8009 ~ CC4PF9 ~ Clifside, Nevada
Union Pacific's Shafter Subdivision
07.06.2024