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A pair of new EMD's swing empty coal hoppers off the Elkhorn River bridge at Arlington on a nearly perfect afternoon.
I feel like giving up. Yesterday was not a great day (well, OK.... it sucked). Today started out alright but started heading south.... and this SHOULD be my vacation week in Maine... as you can see... I am NOT in Maine... and I am NOT happy... about a number of things.
I went out and ran this morning and I was tired and my feet and legs were tired and around 2 this afternoon I started thinking that I would go run a 5K. There aren't many that I can run because I work every weekend (every freakin' weekend) ...and it was a Flag Day run for homeless veterans and their families... so I figured that I should go....and maybe be happy for a bit, even though I knew I was really too tired to run it well... and I would have to go alone because I have only 2 friends that run and how do you ask someone to go run with you and then say.... be ready to go in 2 hours.... Ok, well I did ask one of them, but she had to work... I didn't ask the other... because they don't know me all that well... and they don't know that I do things like this with no prior thought or planning ( they don't know I'm crazy... although, they may have an inkling... but it isn't confirmed... yet. And they are way too fast anyway!) So, I went alone... which is probably just as well. And I rocked the first mile.... got a cramp before I hit two miles and had to walk for a bit... which was not unexpected because I ran this morning too, and ...really... I'm not a runner.. and never really will be. But... my time wasn't horrible.... and I finished strong, sprinting (Ok... MY version of a sprint... but it was my fastest...lol!) through the finish line. And there was Italian Ice... and I wore my awesome red, white and blue sneakers...and I love them... and I ran behind awesome people that were running while carrying full size American flags. It was good.... 34:08 minutes of good... the time is unofficial. ; )
I didn't give up. But I am buying lottery tickets this weekend... because there are a number of things that I would like to give up...
Roxborough St. Pk. With elevations ranging from
5,900 to 7,600 feet, Roxborough’s
landscape beautifully illustrates a
Front Range transition from plains
to mountains. On the west border
of the park, the rugged granite
of Carpenter Peak is flanked by
elegantly layered gneiss. The red
sandstone spires of the Fountain
Formation accent the foothills as
they dip away and into the scrub
oaks. The Roxborough landscape
is characterized by two more
sandstone hogbacks: the Lyons
and the Dakota, before rolling into
prairie grasslands to the east—
encompassing over 1.3 billion years
of geologic time
bottom right is the entrance - we went to 3 different ice caves
unten rechts befindet sich der Eingang - wir gingen in 3 verschiedene Gletscherhöhlen
In a rather odd pairing, the brand-new C&NW UP Heritage unit is back-to-back with a GP30u relic in the TRRA Madison Yard.
This is by far the most special car I have ever gotten to take pictures of. It is my first Saleen I have ever seen up close..and there was a red one sitting right beside it :) More pics soon!
All comments / criticisms are very much appreciated.
She was off investigating some rotting seal pups, tangled up in the seaweed line, but of the man and dog team, I was a little higher up the beach looking for flotsam with goose barnacles on it. We both spotted the bright yellow fishing net float at the same time and went that way, to discover a wooden pallet tangled with a plastic and foam float, tangled net, and rope, the whole encrusted with now dead goose barnacles. Ironically there was torn shopping bag in the tangle "proudly proclaiming 100% recycled plastic bottles"
I knew most of this little collection came from far away, perhaps Portugal, Spain or Morocco, as Goose barnacles are found there. Perhaps the bag remnants originated with a British tourist in one of those countries............ But I was more intrigued by the wooden pallet. You know that there is a conservative estimate that there are over 5 billion pallets worldwide. 5 BILLION !!!!! I suspect there are far more, judging by the junk lying around local crofts and cities and our countryside. But what was the thinking of the person who put this pallet in the sea to let it wash up on the beautiful white sands and pristine waters of Sanna bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula of Highland Scotland ?
Haven't we got enough junk on this planet? Look around and you see wooden pallets lying around all over the place. They are a real blot on the landscape. It may surprise you to hear some of the major pallet manufacturers actually employ staff to locate idle pallets that have fallen out of their systems. I would suggest they have an insurmountable challenge to get all their pallets back once the pallets are unloaded. The fact that they lie, abandoned all over the planet is proof of that. Of course many are chopped up and burnt as firewood, or just burnt to destroy them, and that's not good for the planet either. Of course there is a solution for this, and for responsible, environmentally conscious businesses it's PalletEarth.
UP GP40-2 No. 1480 leads train LBU51 at St. Francis, WI. The train will serve customers further south on the Milwaukee Sub. 2/6/2023
The sun is losing the battle with early morning clouds as an eastbound manifest crosses the West branch of Papillion Creek with a Tier 4 70 up front.
Originally built as SP 9763 in 1991, this GP60 became UP 2062 in the early 2000's. In late 2018 it got a new coat of paint and a new number, becoming UP 1171.
Here, this well-traveled Geep lays over at the former MKT Eureka Yard in Houston after bringing in a transfer from UP's Englewood Yard.
UP GP60 #1171
Houston, TX
January 6th, 2024
UP 3392 east is using track rights on the BNSF Trans-Con, passing the new connection at MilePole 185 in the Spring of 1998. Single boxcar must have been high priority to be on a stack train.
The aftermath of the EF4 tornado that wiped out a good portion of the rural areas of Douglas and Leavenworth County can clearly be seen with all of the mangled trees here as this train works around the curve coming up on MP 31 on the UP Kansas Sub.
This was the first time I've popped the drone up in this location and I think I will be back and scoping out a couple other shots I've found on Google Earth.
Went mad and put up the tree today!
Might do some twiddling between now and Christmas, but this is basically this year's effort. I usually add another bauble or two each year (this year it was two little teddies) so it's getting a little crowded.
Montana Rail Link's M-LAUMIS1-18 crawls up Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, Montana. Two new SD70ACe's and a GP35 headed for Logan, leads the manifest freight. A rather large plume of smoke is rising above the area from a pretty nasty forest fire south of Livingston. Thankfully the wind was blowing the smoke way from where the train was heading.