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UP 1705 heads west over the Mississippi River with 7 cars from East Minneapolis. An often morning run through here was a delighted afternoon run as the crew had to dog catch the train at Plymouth before collecting the day's cars out of East Minneapolis.
Bringing up the rear of this southbound coal train, DPU UP 7015 is pushing hard.
Union Pacific Railroad
Chester Sub
near Valmeyer, IL
Rolling across the desolate Smoke Creek Desert, detoured tonnage (which originated at Englewood, TX) split the old WP searchlight signals west of Sano. In a few more miles this westbound will start up the 1% grade to Sand Pass.
UP 5550 ~ MEWRVD ~ Sano, Nevada
Union Pacific's Winnemucca Subdivision
09.04.2023
Finally caught the DRGW heritage unit in the wild! First time railfanning the LA&SL in more than a year, and I forced myself to go out. There were a couple trains I observed in the pre-sunrise hour, so I set up at Nipton. The trains met at Calada, and then I heard the westbound was UP 1989 on the North Platte! I picked the perfect day to end my dry spell for sure.
UP 6723 East rolling past West Linwood on the UP Kansas Sub this AM. First time I've used the Nikon in quite some time.
UP 555 was in the perfect place with the sun to not take a photo. A remnant of early flight navigation is visible up on the bluff in Mounds Park.
Sonoran Preserve, Phoenix, AZ -
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 40mm Distagon f/4
Film: Kodak T-MAX 100 developed in Rodinal 1+50
Seen in Leonard Harrison State Park, Tioga County, Pennsylvania
www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/LeonardHarrisonState...
Fluffing up for winter. Cloudy in the shade. terrible light though this robin even allowed me to touch him as he carried on fluffing up his feathers and pruning this morning. dropped shutter to 1/100 at times to get the iso down. Monopod did the job when robin stayed still :-)
Another version of yesterday's muted sun chase of UP 6508, this shot as it rolled up on Alexander just east of Turkey Creek.
Needs a slightly bigger shield.
A lone UP U50C sits in the old Barstow East Yard narrows, which affords us this great top down roster shot of the unique beast.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black- John Black Collection. 1671
In the twilight hours of a winter evening, CN 2225 heads up the north leg of the wye in Squamish, BC as it makes its way towards the port and terminals.
This little one was puffed up this evening in late sunshine light and temperatures around freezing. Recommend zooming in large to take in those feather details.
Not as much nose light as I would like, but the side is lit up perfectly and the sky looks great as this SD70ACe leads a stack train eastbound on the UP Kansas Sub just east of Midland.
It's also the first nice photo with my new lens. We'll see how this goes..
Tier 4 C45AH's aren't common on the UP except on the west coast where they are generally stuck, so when I saw a couple en route I figured I better get em.
I was planning on shooting this guy at Ames, NE passing the old tin-sheathed wooden elevator, but alas, upon arrival all that remains is some broken up concrete from the foundation. Darn it. I had time to head over to Schuyler to shoot it at some of the more formidable 'vaders in that town. The lesson, as always, shoot that stuff while you can.
Yesterday Sam and I spent some time along the UP Blair Sub. I've been screwed by UP enough to know not to go in blind, and the tracking software worked wonders yesterday. We ended up never having to wait more than a few minutes for each train.
Some of the old timers might not be able to place this shot because this track didn't exist until late last year.
This is the MNSNPX at Arlington.
A trio of GEs, led by 'big 6' rebuild 7049, power through the curves at Cable with an eastbound 'I' train. Note the restored former Union Pacific caboose at upper left, it is currently a nicely done Airbnb 'room' for rent...I would sure like to wake up to the view from that property :}
7049 ~ ILTLBB ~ Cable, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Sundivision
04.17.2023
While we waited and waited for 6706 to finish building the train, we watched the sun dip behind a line of clouds on the horizon, taking away our sunset light for the evening. Unfortunately, we didn't get a kiss of light for the rest of the evening and it quickly got dark as the CBDM finally made their way north out of town toward Benos, where they would have to wait for another northbound to get ahead of them before they were cleared.
After getting a dark street running photo of the train leaving the yard, we hauled up to Benos to wait for them and to try and get one last shot. Our light was all but gone at this point, though, so Sam came up with the idea to try to drag the shutter with the drones. Good call.
These are the only two usable shots from the day. Why nothing from the ground you ask? Well, besides the lack of a quality shot from the whole evening, my camera still was set to the smallest file size possible from some contracted work I had a couple weeks ago. Not that the photos were that great anyway, but there isn't much for information to work with in editing. Might be the one time I'm fortunate I didn't get a good photo.
UP ex-CNW AC44CW 6706 leads a manifest eastbound on the Omaha Subdivision outside Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 27, 2026.
This is probably the most colorful old gas station I've ever seen! Just had to have a few shots of it...
The Huron & Eastern's 765 job shoves 89 cars out of the yard with SD40-2 #3486 and GP38-2 #3509. With on-going track work between Durand and Saginaw, the railroad is all kinds of messed up. Normally a daylight turn job, the 702 from Bay City has been arriving in Durand at or before sunrise. Instead of turning, the outbound train will sit in the yard until the night yard job, 765, comes on duty. Instead of their usual yard duties, 765 has been taking the train north to Bay City.
...like 747 Heavies landing at O'Hare, these bees are attracted to the sugary solution in the hummingbird feeder for which it's meant. So far, no hummers. Not complaining though, since we suspect that the bees are far more endangered than those tiny birds, and without the bees, well, you know how that goes!
This is NOT a multiple exposure!
In case you didn't know: Bees produce honey by collecting nectar, a clear liquid consisting of nearly 80 percent water and complex sugars. The collecting bees store the nectar in a second stomach and return to the hive, where worker bees remove the nectar. The worker bees digest the raw nectar for about 30 minutes, using digestive enzymes to break down the complex sugars into simpler ones. Raw honey is then spread in empty honeycomb cells to dry, reducing its water content to less than 20 percent. When nectar is being processed, honey bees create a draft through the hive by fanning with their wings. When the honey has dried, the honeycomb cells are sealed (capped) with wax to preserve it.
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