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Three rebuilt UP geeps have train LTC 17 southbound on the Albert Lea Sub. I'm a sucker for mini wings on UP standard cabs.
Taken from our stoep where a family of Kudu visited our waterhole every day.
As you can imagine I had to take quite a few photographs to capture the synchronicity between these two Oxpeckers.
Kudu Private Nature Reserve
Mpumalanga
South Africa
One of the great joys in life for me and my wife is walking the beach. For her, it is finding the perfect shell(s). For me it's all about the birds!
One of my favorites is the brown pelican. If I see one, chances are there will be a few (or more) clicks of the shutter involved. They are very graceful in the air, gliding along singly or in groups. Graceful is not the way I would describe a typical pelican take-off. It's more like lumbering - lots of splashing, wing flapping and I guess running to get their bulk into the air. This one started his run in front of me so I could get various poses as it was getting into the air.
Needless to say, I have LOTS of pelican shots to rummage through. They all make me smile!
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I was taking a whole bunch of photos around the outside of this old menswear manufacturing plant, and I decided to go for a steep angle. I got close to the wall and pointed the wideangle nearly straight up. I could hardly believe what I saw. The wind was carrying off the letters pretty quickly. I started shooting like a madman. This was the one with the least lens flare.
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Added to CotC as my most "interesting".
Continued confirmation that I have a "thing " with mixed, light and dark high contrast image taking .
The light through the window blind provided a nice pattern.
I wish it would warm up here ! 😌
The Lookout trail from Stevens Creek County Park will lead to the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve.
Warm morning light covers UP 7019 working at track speed out of the sag between Mohawk and Stoval Az. The sanitization of the Gila Subdivision continues with the loss of H2 Searchlights and now with the removal of the classic code line poles which use to line the right of way on the left side of this image. Progress is not a very photogenic thing.
UP 8091 (C45AH...I think) brings two visitors to town in the form of CSX 748 & 522.
This eastbound City of Industry to Global1 (ZCIG1) is about to stop in Salt Lake City's North Yard for a crew change.
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This Red Winged Black Bird was sitting on the seeds and wouldn't let any other birds come near it. As is typical it puffed itself up and it was very effective!
I didn't know that Kenny Rogers was a conductor for the UP, but you can clearly see his doppelgänger in the left hand chair of this EMD SD70AH-T4 as it rolls east on the UP Kansas Sub just after sunrise this AM.
It was a Tier IV morning around these parts. Shot 2 EMD Tier IV's on back to back trains.
EMD > GE
birthday girl dressing up
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After swapping crews the Z starts to head south for CB though it wouldn't make much progress stopping to allow a MAXX train to head north which would take 90 or so minutes to clear.
UP 2696 (ET44AC) charges through the Jordan Narrows with 15 passenger cars in tow running under the symbol PGJSC1.
This is a close-up HDR photo that I just took of cod liver oil capsules. I placed the capsules in a shallow wine glass that is also reflecting the light from the windows.
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Dashing through the driving snow and howling wind UP 600 sprints west on the #2 track east of Troy with flanger SPMW 326 in tow.
UP 600 ~ WTKTKF ~ Troy, California
Union Pacific's Roseville Subdivision
12.13.2015
So I don't bore you with another UP roster shot, here is GP40X 95 (soon to be renumbered 959) with some other power on the Council Bluffs service track. The MKT power is off of a haulage grain train. And there is a GP30 in the image, so happy Thirty Thursday to you.
1-23-1988
Threading the Humboldt River in remote Palisade Canyon eastbound grain empties ride former Western Pacific iron en route to a crew change in Elko, Nevada. Coming in second place to lay rail through the Canyon WP shared the limited space along the Humboldt with the Southern Pacific, pairing their trackage to create a stretch of double track railroad (eastbounds on the WP and westbounds on the SP). Today the trackage through Palisade serves in the same capacity now under the sole ownership of the Union Pacific.
UP 5747 ~ GSTUSK ~ Palisade Canyon, Nevada
Union Pacific's Elko Subdivision
11.09.2018
On a sunny, summer afternoon, the crew of LHU20 has finished their work and tied down their power just off of UP's Seabrook Industrial Lead in the far eastern reaches of the Port of Houston.
UP 556 was built in April 1975 as UP 2056, a GP38-2. It received its current number in July 2001 and was rebuilt into a GP38N in April 2019.
LHU20 04
UP GP38N #556
UP GP40N #1438
Bayport, TX
September 4th, 2025