View allAll Photos Tagged up
A westbound BNSF coal train heads up Mullan Pass near Tobin, Montana. Four Montana Rail Link SD40s are pushing on the rear while another mid-train set can be seen in the distance. The head end power can also be seen up the grade.
Saddle Mountain, part two - from Hikes of 2024.
Last year I hiked Saddle Mountain during the peak of yellow monkeyflower bloom, and it was fantastic. You could see the color high up on the side of the mountain - all the way from the trailhead.
Also interesting - there are no photos of the two hikes prior to this one (between this one and Coyote Wall), despite the fact that those two hikes were Dog Mountain and Table Mountain. If you add those two hikes together, I went almost 24 miles and gained 7100 feet of elevation without making a single film photo. The conditions for both of those hikes were bright, sunny days with harsh overhead light and minimal wildflowers around (I was too early for the Dog Mountain bloom). So sometimes it happens - I lug ten pounds of cameras around and never make a photo.
But that means I don't have a photo that directly prompts me to comment on those hikes. Dog Mountain is one that likely needs no comment, and we'll see lots of that one in the future.
Table Mountain, though - that deserves a mention. Prior to this spring, a hiker had to start near at the Bonneville TH along the PCT and slog up 16.5 miles and 4300 feet to the top. It's a long haul, with an absurd boulder field (highly recommend going up that and not down) and a section of trail literally labeled "Heartbreak Ridge" which gains 1400 feet over the course of ONE mile. That mile is of the steepest sections of trail in the gorge.
As of this spring, you can once again park at the Bonneville Hot Springs (for a fee), which brings the mileage down to 8.5 miles but still nets you 3300 feet. It's on my tentative "to do list" soon.
Image made with my Nikon FM.
Originally built as an SW7, UP #96 was one of 55 older EMD switchers (NW2s, SW7s, SW9s and TR4As) rebuilt by the railroad in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an SW10.
From Utahrails.net "The SW10 rebuild program included 645-power assemblies in place of the original 567-assemblies. Also included were all new cabling and wiring, and updated electrical gear, which included a couple module cards with some solid state circuitry. A new consolidated equipment rack for the water tank, oil filters, and other mechanical components was built using parts from retired GP9s. A new radiator section using twin 36-inch electrically-powered cooling fans, also taken from retired GP9s, was installed to replace the inefficient and expensive to maintain belt-driven 54-inch fan that originally equipped these units. The new design also included a large sandbox occupying the front of the unit in place of the original radiator fan intake and radiator shutter assembly. This new, external sand box design did away with the two original, internal sand boxes, with their four difficult-to-access sand traps. The cab interior layout and design also received attention. The new design included a modern control stand, electric cab heating, an electric refrigerator, and other features to bring it up to the FRA-mandated "clean cab" standards. Also as part of the rebuild program, the original friction bearing trucks were converted to roller bearings. The finished, operating weight for the SW10s was 251,200 pounds."
#96 (originally #1243) as retained by the Union Pacific as part of their heritage fleet, where it served as the steam shop switcher in Cheyenne. It was finally retired in 2014 and subsequently donated to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR, where it is displayed today. The engine remains operable and sees some occasional use.
Interested in purchasing a high-quality digital download of this photo, suitable for printing and framing? Let me know and I will add it to my Etsy Shop, MittenRailandMarine! Follow this link to see what images are currently listed for sale: www.etsy.com/shop/MittenRailandMarine
If you are interested in specific locomotives, trains, or freighters, please contact me. I have been photographing trains and ships for over 15 years and have accumulated an extensive library!
This is probably the longest flight that I have ever taken with my drone with just at 2.15KM flown there and back with my little bird. It would have been a lot easier to fly from the grade crossing north of Eudora but the UP MOW trucks had all the parking spots taken.
Nice to see what is now an older EMD leading a train and being trusted as the only unit on this short manifest.
This shot is in between Linwood and Turkey Creek and right in the heart of where the EF4 tornado removed enough trees a few years back to make this shot possible. We just need a few more EF4's to clean more of the right of way off.
This just makes me smile. What a happy looking flower, stretching out and up towards the sun. Looking ahead now to summer...
Medanak, first reversing station of the Khyber Pass Railway. The line continued on the upper left to the next reverse at Changhi and further on to the Afghan border at Torkham where it stopped just a few meters from the border line. The railway was opened in 1925 to Landi Kotal and 1926 to the border - this later section with two reversing stations was already closed in 1932 after only 6 years of use. The Peshawar to Landi Kotal line remained open for regular trafic with one train a week until 1982 and for special trains between 1993 and 2007. It is closed since due to severe washout. Essential reading about this line is 'Permanent way through the Khyber' written by the line's building engineer Victor Bayley. February 1997
Looking up at Magnificent Fregatebirds (Fregata magnificens) flying over us! Suriname RIver, Suriname.
A young Seal, resting up on the beach at Rockend, near Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (This was not in, or in fact near to the seal exclusion zone & was taken with a 400mm lens)
If you like our LEGO UP! HOUSE, help us making it real!! Support on ideas.lego.com/projects/3ea27d70-d12a-47e0-895e-527e7ac3aa13
As a westbound hotshot leaves Pomona on Union Pacific's, former Southern Pacific, Alhambra Subdivision it approaches a Union Switch & Signal searchlight installation at West Pomona. As their numbers diminish at the hands of new LED tri-light signals a precious few searchlights still stand guard over former SP rails in Southern California.
UP 8041 ~ ZG4CI ~ Pomona, California
Union Pacific's Alhambra Subdivision
10.25.2016
Timeline Events WWII pin up shoot in conjunction with the Hanger 11 P-51D Mustang ' Tall in the Saddle" and P-40M Kittyhawk 'Lulu Belle'.
Remember when the adults let you stay up WAY past your bedtime? You could even say it felt like you were allowed to stay up all night! This was taken handheld in extremely low light, hence the slide to pull out every bit of light that could be pulled out with some serious noise reduction thrown in.
CP 119 backs up so that it can perform a tail end lift at the Lachine IMS Yard. EXO 55 is barely seen in the distance at right, making its stop at Lachine Station.
Arriva Kent & Surrey (GL)
GN07 DLJ (3984), LJ59 AAE (T83) & GN57 BOJ (1642)
ADL Enviro200 & ADL Enviro400