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UP 3896 leads an eastbound auto train out of Herman, Missouri on UP's Jeff City Sub.
UP 3896
UP 4819
March 26, 2016
On a gloomy late Sunday morning a pair of consecutively numbered geeps rest tied down in Norfolk Southern's small stub ended Hazleton Yard. These units are for local H98 that serves industries in the area. Both are rebuilt GP38-2s that began life as Penn Central straight GP38s - NS 5665 in Aug. 1969 as PC 7745 and 5666 in Jun. 1969 as PC 7698
This small former Lehigh Valley yard is reached by the winding Ashmore Secondary climbing up from the upper Lehigh Line at M&H Junction (Penn Haven) deep in the Lehigh River Gorge. This is the last Class 1 railroad presence in the Hazleton area that was once served by the LV, RDG, PRR and CNJ. The small locomotive shop dates from LV days and was once home to the famed four packs of MUed LV pups that ruled on the 'Hazleton Man.'
Hazleton is the heart of the eastern middle coal fields of the Pennsylvania anthracite region and became fabulously wealthy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1818, anthracite coal deposits were discovered in nearby Beaver Meadows. Less than two decades later some of the earliest railroads in the country were built to connect the coal fields to the canal system. What would later become this LV line up from Penn Haven was part of the first steam powered (as opposed to incline plane and gravity) railroad in the area. Hazleton would ride the wave of coal mining and see its population bloom to 14,000 in 1891 the year it incorporated as a city to a peak of 38,000 in 1940. When anthracite fell out of favor as a fuel in the post WWII era Hazleton suffered a deep decline with it and today the population is around 23,000.
The large building looming in the background downtown above of the unitS harkens back to Hazelton's glory days. The 11 story concrete Markle Bank and Trust building dates from 1910 and the brick building partially visible to the right dating from 1880 is the 10 story Altamont Hotel.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Sunday August 24, 2025
I know I have often said this, but zebras are my favourite African animal. Whilst you may think that you see them everywhere on the plains of the game parks, sometimes you can go for a few hours without seeing them.
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These are the crocuses from my "Buried Treasure" image, flic.kr/p/rmLVsb the ones that were growing sideways after being buried under snow and leaves. They began to grow straight, though a few looked mangled and warped...they were happily growing.
Alas! More snow! The poor things...after finally being uncovered, get buried again. But that's life, isn't it? Full of ups and downs...
"Sometimes you're flush, and sometimes you're bust. When you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on." - Fred Jung, 'Blow'
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Have a wonderful Wednesday, my friends!
The classic BLE tunnel motors are seen doing the helper honors up Byron hill on the CN. Manned helpers and cool power on a class 1 is a great combination
A triple set of UP GP60s run around their train in the town of Annapolis, MO before shoving back into a plant.
Z CIBP 13 rounds the curve eastbound at Yost in East Galesburg, IL with a former Southern Pacific locomotive leading. This UP trackage rights train is using the BNSF Chillicothe Sub to reach the CSX ramp at Bedford Park, IL, traversing the Indiana Harbor Belt and the Belt Railway of Chicago briefly for the last few miles. Ditchlights are overrated, but as an old head once told me; "I don't care, but Uncle Sam might."
2/16/17
this is an old shot, ...... can't believe I was actually there, would love to go back there again one day.
text from Wikipedia...
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a Doric column in the City of London, near the northern end of London Bridge, that commemorates the Great Fire of London.
It stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 ft (62 m) tall and 202 ft (62 m) from the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2 September 1666. Another monument, the Golden Boy of Pye Corner, marks the point near Smithfield where the fire was stopped. Constructed between 1671 and 1677, it was built on the site of St. Margaret's, Fish Street, the first church to be burnt down by the Great Fire.
The Monument comprises a fluted Doric column built of Portland stone topped with a gilded urn of fire. It was designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Its height marks its distance from the site of the shop of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor), the king's baker, where the Great Fire began.
The top of the Monument is reached by a narrow winding staircase of 311 steps. A mesh cage was added in the mid-19th century at the top to prevent people jumping off, after six people had committed suicide from the structure between 1788 and 1842.
You may have seen a similar image to this posted yesterday as the Grumpster was standing right next to me as this train was making up time rolling east on the UP Kansas Sub after hitting a slow order near Turkey Creek.
Four views of Union Pacific 1616 which is on display at "Home Plate" for the NCAA College World Series which starts this Friday.
This small bridge is on the west approach to UP's Missouri River bridge at Blair, NE. The track in the foreground is the lead to the Blair Industrial Park.
UP 2655 rolls east as the first rays of sun light up the morning scene at MP 24.25 on the UP Kansas Sub. This is about as close to first light as you can get. The sun has just risen above the horizon when the train came around the curve.
Try doing this with your Kodachrome 64 speed film...
Caught another UP Tier IV EMD this morning as I heard this train calling the foreman for a track gang just west of here. Got a little glare here and the sun was muted with all the dust and smoke in the air so it isn't as crisp as I would like.
I'm amazed at the growth of the vegetation next to the tracks here. This winter is definitely going to require some work with a chainsaw to get rid of some of these trees. Can't even see the signal now!
UP SD70M 5017 heads back to Kansas City southbound on the St. Joseph Subdivision outside Rushville, Missouri. 09.19.2021.
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