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And there's a small meteor in the middle of that Milky Way.

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.

Springtime sunrise over the chilly Atlantic Ocean.

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

Looking up & down the street in Strathcona.

The Tulip Staircase, at The Queen's House, Greenwich, London.

My first upload for a long time. 2018 has been a hectic year with various activities, some planned and some not so. It is nice to be picking up my camera again.

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UP! - Taken at Grandhome Moss, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Carl Fredricksen's flying house.

I loved the movie and while it's unrealistic I loved the image of the flying house, just carried by balloons.

My supply of colourful bricks is very limited, so I went with a scaled version and I'm more than happy how it turned out.

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I photographed these litter of fox cubs back in May when they were cute bundles of fur and fun... now some 8 weeks later they could almost be mistaken as adults... they do grow up fast.... IM sure it won't be long before they are off on their own adventures and mischief.... but maybe I'll try for one more visit before that happens....

I tagged along on a caribou hunting trip. We were camped out along the Denali Highway. Unfotunately there were way too many hunters and too few caribou. In our down time I shot a few pictures of the tundra and surrounding area. We mainly ended up picking the blueberries, low bush cranberries, and crowberries.

After a head scratchingly slow trip through Council Bluffs and Omaha, 1943 heads for points south with an engineering special just after glorious morning sunshine was obscured by high clouds moving in from the south. Things that make you pull your hair out!

Utah did not see much of snow this year. Two days after a limited snow storm, there is at least some powder along UPs Weber and Echo-Canyon route. UP #5781 (AC44CWCTE) along with three other GEs storms uphill at Peterson just mnutes after the sun had touched the ground.

A little climb up the side of this hill and I thought this might just work for today!!

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Grackle fluffing up its shining, iridescent plumage

54" for Norden…between 00:00 on Monday January 9th and 00:00 Tuesday January 10th 54" of fresh snow fell at Norden at the top of Union Pacific's Sierra crossing. While not the most snow recorded in a 24-hour period (top 2 or 3) it did showcase Union Pacific's snow fighters, who kept the Sierra open to commerce under the ever growing snow pack. A few days after the big dump a eastbound Union Pacific manifest climbs through Norden moments from entering the west portal of 'the big hole' (tunnel 41).

UP 8842 ~ MRVRO ~ Norden, California

Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision

01.15.2017

The UP CSNBM heads west through a pop up snowstorm at Grand Island, NE.

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to see"

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Two ratty looking geeps drag UP 4141 and the casket car up from the BNSF Gibson Yard. On it's way back from being displayed, the UP has to pass though Gibson Yard and use the mainline to get back to home track.

Although George was actually trailing, the crew left the lights on making this shot actually look decent.

A cold but nice and sunny afternoon to take pics yesterday. I been wanting to try a from below POV in winter, so here it is.

I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D

'Route of the Streamliners' via the 'Mainline through the Rockies'.

17 of Union Pacific's finest hold-outs from the 'Streamliner' era are surrounded by the Pagodas Canyon's ruby red cliffs on the former D&RGW Dotsero cut-off. The special train is making a round trip run between Denver-Dotsero-Denver and is now returning eastbound having just highballed Dotsero, CO a few minutes previous. Today the breathe-taking scenery found on the former Rio Grande in Colorado (and Utah), including this narrow passage in the mountains which the Colorado River and railroad share space, can still be viewed daily from onboard the California Zephyr….albeit Amtrak's California Zephyr.

UP 8952 ~ PDVDV1 ~ Red Canyon, Colorado

Union Pacific's Glenwood Springs Subdivision

05.29.2015

Eastbound tonnage bound for North Platte, Nebraska climbs the Sierra just below Troy. The center foreground was once the #2 main track right of way that pierced Sierra granite via tunnel 40. After the decision was made to abandon tunnel 40, the new alignment followed the original CP (track 1) alignment around the outside of the mountain.

UP 8907 ~ MRVNP ~ Troy, California

Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision

07.15.2023

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179/365 Norah showing a bit of twin love and trying to cheer up Benny who was feeling a bit under the weather.

UP 3035 leads a westbound manifest train around the curve near MP 59 on the UP Kansas Sub this evening. Another EMD Tier IV leading a train in the humid evening air with the smoke of the wildfires in the west giving the sunset a different glow.

Red rhododendrons bloom in my front garden.

I'd went out to the Pacific Northwest in June of 79 and was really working on getting BN Alco's with mixed results at best between the weather and Alco's being buried in consist. The motel I stayed at for a few nights was in The Dalles just across the Columbia and downstream from Wishram. After the second night it became obvious that not to long after sun up there would be at least a pair or even three eastbound UP hotshots roll by just across the street from the motel. I was really locked in on the Alco's across the Columbia and didn't come out here to shoot the UP. That was something I could do a lot closer to home in WY or NE.. Our last day there with a BN lineup in hand and nothing on it until after 10AM gave me some free time and I shot the UP hotshots as Fast forty 8019 leads 6943 and 6924 east with 57 cars at The Dalles. A rescan

North of Touhy, I missed a turn, which ended up being a blessing and lead us right to this shot from the highway. Bonus points for getting the whole train.

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Sandwich Harbour dunes, Namibia

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This squirrel was sunning his backside on a maple tree branch. It was about 30 feet up the tree.

Taken through the window of the house.

LNER 43272 pushes set EC64 away from Newcastle working the 1E11 Aberdeen to London KX service, with 43302 up front.

With its work on the Mina Branch done, the Wabuska turn is on its way back to Sparks behind geeps 1516 (originally SCL GP40 1575, later rebuilt by MK as SP 7138) and 1068 (ex-SSW 9669).

UP 1516 ~ LSP60 ~ Hawes, Nevada

Union Pacific's Mina Subdivision

10.27.2023

Looking up at bare trees against a blue sky. The fact that these trees are still so bare demonstrate just how late Spring is this year.

If one can't find anything interesting to photograph directly infront of them, changing POV and looking up will often provide a solution!