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Nice walk yesterday along the dunes and sea grass ~ sometimes you need to climb!!
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Union Pacific Olympic Torch Relay #2001 makes a run up the eastern slope of the Tehachapis with the westbound ZLCLT.
UP 2001 ~ ZLCLT ~ Mojave, California (MP377)
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
08.10.2011
Windig ist es im rauen Norden Norwegens eigentlich immer. An manchen Tagen fiel sogar das Gehen schwer, an einem Tag hat mich der Wind umgeworfen, an einem anderen meinen Fotorucksack 1 m in Richtung Abgrund befördert. Dass dies so ist, wusste ich. Aus diesem Grund wollte ich mein robustes Stativ "iFootage Gazelle TC" mitnehmen, aber 22 kg Gepäck für eine Foto-Wander-Camping-Reise in den Hohen Norden, da muss man Kompromisse machen. Und so hat mich mein "Manfrotto 732CY Carbon-Basalt" mit dem kleinen Kugelkopf begleitet, mit Kugelkopf und Schnellwechsel-Platte nur 1.200 Gramm schwer. Ja, es ist nicht ganz so stabil wie das große Stativ, es ist in den Funktionen etwas eingeschränkt und es ist kleiner, aber ich bin auf meiner Reise wieder mal erstaunlich gut damit zurechtgekommen 😊.
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It's always windy in the rough north of Norway. On some days it was even difficult to walk, one day the wind knocked me over, another day it carried my camera backpack 1m towards the abyss. I knew that this was the case. For this reason I wanted to take my robust "iFootage Gazelle TC" tripod with me, but 22 kg of luggage for a photo-hiking-camping trip to the far north means you have to make compromises. And so my "Manfrotto 732CY Carbon-Basalt" with the small ball head accompanied me, weighing just 1,200 grams with the ball head and quick-change plate. Yes, it's not quite as stable as the big tripod, it's somewhat limited in its functions and it's smaller, but I managed surprisingly well with it on my trip 😊.
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A UP grain train struggles uphill as it heads east at Hermosa Road on Sherman Hill ahead of an approaching storm. 30 seconds after I shot this photo the light was gone.
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!
Union Pacific Railroad GP30 869 at Council Bluffs, Iowa on an unknown day in January 1963, photographer unknown ( but it looks like Dick Rumbolz handwriting on the Kodachrome slide mount ), Chuck Zeiler collection.
She has now mastered pulling herself up to a standing position. You can see by her expression just how proud she is about it!
A foreign waffle iron leads grain loads through Newtonville, pelting Moose and I with some fresh snow.
UP 4613 was built by Pullman in 1927 as 313. In the 1940, it would be renumbered 3613. The car would be modernized in 1948 and again renumbered to 4613. It would be retired in 1968 and transferred to UP's MOW department in 1972. In 1987, the car was donated to the Hall County Historical Society in Grand Island. When the Golden Spike Tower opened in North Platte, the car was moved there and placed on display.
North Platte, NE
6/12/22
Train of the Day
6/22/22
My seagulls and other birds album.
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Gannet looking for a safe landing spot. There was a very strong easterly wind on Friday. These birds are complete masters of their environment, but coming into land with such a strong wind was proving difficult. Made for some interesting images though.
While most others went to Columbus to see 4014 stopped I jump straight to my spot at Schuyler. After a long wait 4014 rolled through with a decent amount of steam.
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A spry and determined Downy Woodpecker caught in mid-jump as it pushes its way up the tree's trunk-bark.
After packing up and heading north, I beat feet to an old favorite location at Shipley, just south of Nevada where the train would turn to head west towards Omaha on the E/W Mainline.
The mercury was pushing triple digits on a toasty July afternoon as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train snakes through the curves approaching Cable on the west side of Tehachapi. On this occasion the train was being escorted by Union Pacific between shows in Phoenix, AZ and Fresno, CA.
UP 5117 ~ SPXFR ~ Cable, California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
07.02.2014
I was up early this AM and had my run completed well before the sun started to change the colors on the horizon. It's the last full day of summer and it's gonna feel like it as we shatter the record today and make a run at 100 degrees.
I was checking things out on the scope when Grumpy texted that Amtrak #4 was at Lawrence and there was a Tier IV EMD on the UP so I got out of the house and promptly watched #4 roll by at De Soto without any sunlight on the nose about maybe 2 minutes before it would have been fully lit. Doh. Even had YMP at the throttle with a friendly salute.
Jumped across the river which is no easy task with the school traffic and the stupid new stoplight at Kill Creek and setup for a shot here at 24.25 for the EMD Tier IV. Good thing I was shooting the nose of this thing, the conductors side looked like every other UP out there. Dirty AF. But it was nice to shoot a train right at sunrise as the shadows were moving east almost as fast as the train was moving.
Yes, I did chase this one just a bit east and popped him with the bird and it's not dirty on the engineers side. That's for later.
UP 640 making a setout of loaded cement hoppers and picking up the empties at the cement plant in Bonner Springs, KS last week when the sun still shined around here.
I think next weekend will be the peak for fall color around here. It's been so dry the colors are probably going to be a but muted.
BITHBOX # 131
It features what has to be one of the most blistering horn sections ever recorded in popular music. Remarkably the track failed to chart in America though the single was a big hit in the UK.
One of the units that started a purchasing wave. Former SD40X demonstrator with a fresh coat of paint.
9-10-75
A westbound stack train sails through the snow at DeKalb, IL, on 1-15-18, kicking up snow and soon covering the photographer in a layer of white.
UP 5516 leads a grain train around the corner at Linwood with some pseudo storm light in the background as a couple of little cells or rain briefly popped up while I was out this afternoon.
Typical UP. There were no less than 4 eastbound that I could see on the scope between Linwood and Z10, but only 1 westbound and I had to drive about 8 miles further just to find a spot to shoot him with all the crossings blocked. UP still equals Unlimited Parking.