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Springtime at the Colorado River; Union Pacific's 4730 leads the LDG-451-B towards Potash!
Het is duidelijk voorjaar op de oevers van de Colorado River. Union Pacific's 4730 leidt samen met Ferromex 4077 trein LDG-451-B van Grand Junction naar het eindpunt 'Potash'.
26 april 2015
I was removing my red queen's face up and I took that pic.
She looks so different with and without make up :O
Sculpt: Minifee Chloe mod.
Name: Akatsuki, the Red Queen
Face up made by me
A close up of Talking Barbie and Ken (in my favourite 'Town Turtle' from 1969). I searched for a decent version of 'Little Bow Pink' with the tights for years, and can't believe I forgot to photograph it! The colour is actually a much deeper pink than it looks here. They are the grooviest couple at the Barbie Family House!
Canary Wharf Underground Station, London
It involved fending off a busker but it was worth it...
I'm not entirely sure if I had any less right to be down there shooting (on an 'illegal' tripod) than he did but he certainly wasn't happy about me lining up this shot in front of his position.
Relatively clean UP 6644 rolls up to a stop at the signal at Loring as it leads a short train of company material cars. These repainted AC4400CW's look pretty good.
Hiking up a little elevation on the Appalachian Trail in the North Georgia mountains, and I mean a little, compared to so much of the AT in Georgia
The sun has set into the western wildfire smoke haze as a westbound stack train twists its way through farm fields.
I happened to look up and thought what a great sky I just had to try to capture it.
I've given the raw file a boost in Topaz clarity to get it close to what I saw.
Let's hear it for the more subdued hues of the female Common redpoll (Carduelis flammea).
Redpolls survive harsh winters with an enlarged esophagus. This allows them to store and digest seed while they sleep during long, cold nights.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 70-200mmf/2.8, 1.4x (240mm)
1/1000 sec; f/4.0; ISO 800
manual exposure, monopod
Thanks for looking!
15.03.17 - Line up at Galashiels Interchange consisting of Enviro300 67774, Enviro 300 67763, Versa 11305, Solar 65749 and Gemini 32676.
Phil and I are continuing our autumn send off at the end of October when we headed upstream on the St.Vrain dam road, but would end up in the mountains above, instead Rottenbuck Reservoir. There was no rush as warming is slow in this skinny canyon. We are pretty well familiar with the territory and had nothing particular in mind but here we are at the bridge, lower left, over the trickle down Sleepy Lion trail. It appears new; it was rebuilt after the big flood a decade back. You can see the glorious day we had. Slowly, the normal clouding is starting to gather over the Divide. Here is where we turned up the Sleezy Lion Trail.
In this up canyon scene, the misanthropic Longmont KKK era dam can be seen! Now, the stream trickles left, around the unfinished dam. Boy, it was in a stupid location to start. No wonder it was never finished. Perhaps too many grafty NYC contracts were awarded to Trump's father to continue. Maybe the misbegotten project can be restarted under Trump's renewal of KKK hatred. KKK is too emboldened under Trumpism to hide any more. Otherwise, this is always a grand trek with a camera. There are always good like-minded folks exercising along the dam road and ready for a meet and greet. This view is up the river and shows the slow ripple in tree shadows. I think that we better head up the trail on this classy day.
The entire canyon, above the old Longmont reservoir is deep and a glorious slice in the Rockies' crust all the way to Wild Basin along the Peak-to-Peak Highway at the southern end of Rocky Mountain National Park. The river in its valley is a quarter mile down below the Taylor Mountain. Taylor is the source of many shots in my photostream. Should I jump in here and cool off in 50 degree water? I better set the camera on the bank. I found this shot on the St. Vrain awaiting edit in my working directory.
At least the running stream keeps the place cooled down every day. Get used to escapism because the environment will be getting worse according to all the scientists not on the Koch payroll. The orange revolution is on the way but it was still cool up here.
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) looks more like a very small telescope in this image! From this perspective, it is difficult to make out the silhouettes of the VLT’s four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes, which sit atop Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1713a/
Credit:
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
When UP got a waiver to use foreign power on the Geneva Sub across northern Illinois to operate detoured BNSF trains due to flooding, it even used foreign power on a couple of its own trains, as evidenced by this Ferromex unit leading an empty well train at DeKalb on 3-26-19.
Union Pacific Railroad GP9 226 at Kansas City, Missouri on an unknown day in April 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 226 was built in January 1954 ( c/n 19112 ) and retired by the UP in June 1983.
As you enter the quaint town of Paint Bank Virginia, you pass by this set of old gas pumps located in front of the local Postal Office. The last visible price on one pump was $0.39 per gallon....
Much better seen large.. View On Black
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A soybean load out of Minnesota left UP rails a few miles back in downtown Omaha and is now on the BNSF Omaha Sub starting a trip to Hastings, NE via Lincoln, NE to return to home rails.
While I was taking this, I was hoping they would lower their beaks just a little to form a heart, but didn't happen. Shot at the Viera Wetlands in Melbourne, Florida.
after spending a few days at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum the UP Big Boy makes it's way back to Superior across the BNSF's Grassy Point Drawbridge
Union Pacific's Sinclair local rolls into its namesake town on a sunny, albeit cold, morning in February 2015. Power for the local was provided by SD40Ns 1823 and 1865, former UP CA8 25561 can be seen in the background on display at Sinclair's 'railroad' park.
UP 1823 ~ LDA01 ~ Sinclair, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
02.24.2015