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Believe it or not, this was meant to be a warm up build for a summer of building. Then I kinda stopped building.
Here's the annual tropipoc build, I guess. Not quite finished, never going to be. Just wanted to get this photographed because I'm gonna scrap it soon. I got a few other things I wanna do before I go back to school, but that means taking this apart. Maybe there'll be detailed images on my insta, maybe there won't.
With the San Gabriel Mountains looming large in the background eastbound Union Pacific tonnage eases down the Cajon grade at Lugo behind a solid consist of EMDs.
UP 8912 ~ MWCNP ~ Lugo, California
BNSF's Cajon Subdivision
01.10.2015
"A heavenly view from above
Lifeless skies embrace stars
With the enveloping heat of the sun
And with the light that blinds us
The smell of cosmos is all around
Going up to the life pedestal
Something new is about to come
It was close, now it's gone..."
Motorama: youtu.be/HzTmUHOz1a8?si=GKPRpND3DYeCVish
Explore position: 84 on Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Teilhard always took his questions seriously. Their intense pursuit was a way of life. And, to attempt to answer them, he was ever attentive to Matter's advice: “bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent; struggle in its currents and drink of its waters.” 9 These words rang in his ears and stirred in his heart as he struggled with one question after another. They provided him with an image for how to proceed.
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
Old trees with hollows make wonderful nesting places for the birds and this Sulphur Crested Cockatoo seemed to be enjoying the trunk, the top part of which was chopped off. Ballarat
Part of the Esjan mountain range, if I'm not mistaken.
This view was like a 5 minute walk from where I stayed in Reykjavik. Those people are spoiled.
Street art from, perhaps appropriately, the Graffiti Wall at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Artist unknown.
Not the most elaborate piece down there and, like most of the work, maybe a language I'm not in tune with - but the eye-catching combination of bold lines, palette and graphical design, very much appealed.
iPhone13 mini
14th February 2025
Still wearing its 'as delivered' red frame stripe, UP 5444 and a trio of SD70Ms, drop down grade between Allard (Bealville) and Caliente with westbound tonnage bound for Roseville, California. This photo was taken from above tunnel 1, in the distance a sharp eye will spot the train's rear DPU which is approaching tunnel 2.
This was an early attempt at getting away from the more 'traditional' Tehachapi locations that I had grown up with :}
UP 5444 ~ MWCRV ~ Tehachapi Pass, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
07.31.2010
Eglwys y Grog (Holy Cross Church), Mwnt, Ceredigion
Mwnt is a beautiful secluded cove on the Ceredigion coast, just north of Cardigan. Above a sandy beach that has been rated amongst the finest in Europe is a picturesque whitewashed church dedicated to the Holy Cross.
Though the present church building dates to the 14th century, there has been a church in this spot since the Age of the Saints (roughly 410-700 AD). The dedication to Holy Cross is probably a reference to a tradition that a tall stone cross once stood atop Foel y Mwnt, the conical hill that rises directly behind the church. The cross would have been used as a focal point for preaching the Christian message.
The cross would also have been visible for many miles, attracting pilgrims who drew their boats up on the sandy beach at the base of the cliffs.
Mwnt gained such a reputation amongst early Christians that it became a stopping place for the bodies of saints being transported to Bardsey Island for burial. Mwnt's location also made it a convenient resting place for pilgrims en route to St David's, further down the coast.
We do not know exactly when the present building was erected; it may have been as early as the 13th century. That's the date of the stone font, made of Preselau stone, that stands at the west end of the nave.
On the north wall is a small lancet window, now blocked, that may have allowed lepers - who were not allowed inside churches - to view the high altar during services.
All Fluffed Up
A Savannah Sparrow at dawn braving the single digit temperatures and gusty winds at Bombay Hook NWR
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This is the train I had intended to shoot that morning before the EC-4 car changed the timing. When the intermodal train departed Council Bluffs, it was under high sun and haze. Oh well, I'm out here, might as well shoot it anyway. I liked the Golden West boxes on the head end.
Big (Boy) news from Cheyenne...
On May 2nd, 2019 the City of Cheyenne was witness to a Big Boy under steam and moving under its own power for the first time in 60 years. Having made several back and forth moves in Cheyenne yard (both on May 1st and 2nd) the real 'trial run' began as 4014 shoved east onto main 3 at W508. Getting a signal at 508 the '4000' is seen moving west into Cheyenne with diesel 8937 on the rear of the support train consist. This history making trial run will ultimately see the 4014 run south to Greeley, CO.
UP 4014 ~ PCYGR2-02 ~ Cheyenne, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Sidney Subdivision
05.02.2019
A cooperative Black-billed Cuckoo fluffing its feathers. Wood Mountain Regional Park, Saskatchewan, Canada. 23 June 2016
Skiing up towards our eventual camp site. Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta. Scanned from a 35 mm slide
Made it on to Flickr Explore - March 12, 2016
The WP Heritage unit UP 1983 leading the Spirit of Union Pacific unit UP 1943 on the IKCLB-26 train as it comes around the corner to go through 18th Street as it rolls off the UP Metro Sub and on to the UP Kansas Sub in Kansas City, KS.
Low afternoon light as 158824 takes the Cambrian Line at Sutton Bridge Junction, Shrewsbury with 1J19 to Aberystwyth. Meanwhile the RHTT is parked on the down line with the driver changing ends ready to head back into Coleham after another marathon journey around the network.
Colas Rail's Type 5, 56087 is in view, with 56094 on the rear. Saturday 24.11.18.
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