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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.
Two Union Pacific GEs bring up the rear of the crude oil train we've been chasing thus far, helping to push it up the steep grades of the former Rio Grande as it twists and turns along the Colorado River.
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.
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.
As you can see, the tiny Goslings are all grown up and the Canada Goose families are growing bigger! All are enjoying a sunny, summer's day on the Ottawa River!
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.
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.
...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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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.
'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
A little climb up the side of this hill and I thought this might just work for today!!
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November 2019, this might have been the last portrait shoot I did.
Konica 160 Pro, Pentax 645N. V800 scan.
Seeking sanctuary in the archive today, after spending hours waiting for the rain to stop. Unfortunate we have already used up our average of 5 days of sunshine this mouth in Somerset...!
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