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UP 8780 leads a short intermodal train west past the flag barn.
It's just too easy to shoot here with the drone and the barn makes a great photo backdrop.
The lineup stretched around almost the entire block, starting at the entrance to an electronics store — which wouldn't open for another hour.
A visiting UP GEVO brightens up Norfolk Southern 18G which makes an early-morning appearance the Lehigh Line across New Jersey.
A UP Westbound Vehicle Train is seen here passing through West Memphis, AR. With a CSXT SD70MAC leading
10/21/2016
With a colorful consist up front and a threatening sky overhead westbound tonnage departs Green River, passing the old Green River depot. Meanwhile a pair of SD70s stand by in 'short-8' awaiting their turn to head for the 'patch'.
UP 8962 ~ MNPRO ~ Green River, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Evanston Subdivision
09.29.2017
Looing up the central atrium, in the recently renovated Whitney building in Detroit. It really is a most impressive place.
CSX power actually leading a CSX train seems to be a rarity these days, at least in the East St. Louis area. From a vantage point in the city park at Caseyville, IL, one can see CSX Q687 pulling hard for the hill up out of the Mississippi river floodplain. Note the rear of the train to the far left, passing the signals at Black Lane while it departs Exermont. 30 January 2016.
The calmly flowing waters of a swollen Kickapoo Creek gently touch the concrete footings currently supporting the passage of this heavy, 131-car, southbound Union Pacific coal drag as its two, lead, AC six-axles ride their dynamic brakes, coasting downhill across a combination deck plate and lattice through truss bridge along the former C&NW "SI Line" outside Bartonville on a gloomy July morning. This train of loaded aluminum BethGons -- symbol CNAPW 14 -- are topped out with over 18,000 tons Wyoming's finest black diamonds; Filled at Peabody's North Antelope Mine in the state's rich Powder River Basin, these hoppers have only a few short miles left to travel before reaching their destination at NRG Energy's Powerton Generating Station near Pekin. The train will soon cross the Illinois River drawbridge and immediately make a right turn onto the IMRR and down into Crescent Yard for interchange where they'll tie down and the loads will wait for an Illinois & Midland crew to spot the cars at the plant for final dumping. Slated for decommission come the end of 2028 due to the country's relentless insistence on "cleaner" energy alternatives, Powerton is the sole remaining, actively burning coal-fired power plant to still remain standing in the greater Peoria area, outliving the facilities at Havana, Hennepin and Canton's Duck Creek (2019), and eventually the E.D. Edwards Station at Bartonville (2022). Once closed, it'll be another major hit in activity levels for a route that is already down in traffic. Twice weekly scheduled manifest service between Peoria and Clinton, IA, as needed coal, grain and ethanol unit traffic, and seasonal ballast trains are pretty much the bulk of what traverses this line.
For southbounds, this is the final, and most dramatic, crossing atop a snaky Kickapoo Creek which twists and turns beneath the rails of the Peoria Subdivision in six different locations within just about a short, two mile stretch of track. Just about a half mile back from this bridge, the train is still working through the CTC controlled interlocking at "Peoria JCT" where the Peoria Sub main to South Pekin splits from UP's "Low Line," which routes trains for Peoria area interchange into and out of their small Adams St. Yard just a short distance away on the city's southwest side. The single-tracked Peoria Subdivision, which runs south out of Nelson away from the busy Geneva Sub, uses a combination of CTC, TWC and ABS infrastructure to route what little traffic runs down this line and is also the only class 1 of four that has a "through route" through the city. A line that does not get much attention from photographers, an older "winged" EMD SD70ACe on the point of a well timed coal load just was enough for me to grab the camera and quickly pick it off at this very seldom shot location.
I sure could do without that walkway.
An eight car UP passenger train operated for the railroad's engineering department rolls through St. Francis, WI on the Milwaukee Subdivision. The train was running from Minneapolis to Proviso under the symbol PSEGD2. 7/13/2016
150 empty cars are on their way up "The Hill" at Herndon, as U87 takes them to storage on the ex-Virginian PD District. This section of rail was mothballed in 2015, but for one day in 2020 a train once again traversed the rails between Elmore Yard and Clarks Gap to put 150 cars in storage. Whether or not this will be the last moved every over the famed hill remains to be seen. The train is seen here chugging up the 2.07% grade, passing a set of Virginian searchlights.
With the Swan Ranch Industrial Complex in the background westbound tonnage follows a trio of EMDs into the big curve at Speer, WY. Speer is the junction between Union Pacific's cross-country Overland Route and their Greeley Subdivision to Denver. In the lower foreground is the west connector to the Greeley mainline, allowing trains from the west to head directly south to Denver.
UP 1995 ~ MNPPC ~ Speer, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
01.06.2019
Reproduced 35mm Slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Omaha, NE in June 1984
On June 14, 1984 we were aboard the California Zephyr, eastbound for Chicago when Dad shot Union Pacific GP9 215 with UP caboose 25530 at Omaha, Nebraska.
UP 7656 snakes it's way eastbound through Ligurta Az. The Gila Mountains provide the backdrop. On the other side of them lies Yuma Az.
A Male Wood Duck was flying up to a wall to perch. It's a very gloomy day outside today, the virbant color of this wood duck will brighten up anybody's mood. They are probably rivaled only by a Mandarin Duck; since we don't get them here in Canada, Wood Duck will certainly be a top contender for most handsome duck in Canada. Up until a few years ago I didn't know that Wood Ducks nest in wood cavities and they are as comfortable sitting high on a tree as they are in water. High Park, Toronto.
With the sun making angles awkward, 60046 William Wilberforce is seen up close, leading 6Z43 Acton Yard to Burton-on-Trent West Yard towards Wilnecote.
Sometimes I don't put up an image because I can't think of a title or worry it isn't good enough . I sit here, paralyzed with indecision so the image remains in my "to upload' folder.
Doh!
Anyway, you are welcome to name this one.........or not :)
UP 6706, a survivor of the CNW paint scheme, rolls through Flagg, IL on 1-5-19 and into Global 3. This was the unlikely sole power on the train this day.
St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands - Sunset over the island of Guernsey. I didn't have my camera so it was the Galaxy s5 'phone that came to hand! It turnes out that this day' June 30th 2014 has been the hottest day in Jersey's history - coming in at just over 33 degrees!
Lamp seen on Pont de Bir-Harkeim. I got the impression that by the way the glass has stripes, it is still the original one which would be than about 115 years old.
The “line_up“ is a paperwork series I developed since 2010. The “liners” are made out of paper (Din A3/A4),
oil paint and graphite. The theme is the hermetical laws of polarity and movement. There is no ending and no beginning in any direction, just an endless movement. You have the possibility to arrange the papers like you want and that makes it an endless playground for my photo-work and the eyes of the viewers.
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