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Did anyone not know that UP was bringing 4014 across Nebraska for the College World Series this year? Anyone? I'm guessing not judging by the traffic trackside today. Talk about a stampede.
I had originally planned on going west to catch this large lad yesterday morning as today was supposed to be set aside for a "day" trip to Illinois to catch the westbound roadrailer on the NS. If the rumors are true, the days of that train are very numbered, and this is the last weekend for the rest of the month I'm free. However, the weather wasn't going to make the trip worth it, so I changed my plans and went out for this absolute unit today.
Sam and I both had the same idea: pop him once between North Bend and Fremont and use the extra time with their stop in Fremont to get to out spot in Omaha and get setup before the crowd arrived. I showed up to North Bend an hour before the train would be there and there were already 20+ cars at the highway crossing in town, including two gentlemen chain smoking cigarettes with one foot on the rail.
We had predicted a scene similar to that while talking the night before, so we planned on heading to a farm crossing east of town with the hope that most people would also have the same idea. I'm not going to say it was as bad as it was in town, but we certainly weren't the only ones with that idea, as both the crossings we scoped out already had several cars waiting.
Since the shot was just going to be a wedgie anyway, we set up with the others a couple miles east of town and waited. Unlike everyone else at that crossing, however, we brought our big boy lenses (pun absolutely intended), allowing us a telesmash of the consist with the North Bend elevator in the background.
I'll end this story for now and continue it on the next post.
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" 4014 heads east to the 2023 NCAA College World Series in Omaha on the Columbus Subdivision outside North Bend, Nebraska, June 11, 2023.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~ Thomas A. Edison
66758 The Pavior heads 6D44 Toton to Bescot approaching North Stafford Junction with Mike's second camera already set up for the Kidderminster convoy which was running behind this working. The loco is named in honour of the Worshipful Company of Paviors, who were historically responsible for the pavements of the City of London and, over the years, have been critical to the development of the craft of paving, road making, general construction and infrastructure.
From a hotel room in South Bank, London, UK.
Olympus OM 10 - Zuiko 50mm f1.8 - Kodak TRI-X @ISO 1600
Scansione da negativo. (Epson Perfection 3490)
UP Steam Locomotive #844 at The Dalles, Oregon.
This train hauls ass. I had one hell of a time shooting it today. I was foiled at every place that I stopped by some goofy little screw up. I had a hard time keeping up with it and every stop that I made I had to rush to get a shot.
This was my last shot and I still screwed up on this one too. Because I didn't really know how tall the train would be in my frame I had the camera set up too low. Also, I had made sure that Mount Hood was in the background and the train and smoke block the view.
Anyhow... I saw allot of photogs out there today. I hope that some of my contacts were able to get a good shot of her.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with the train symbol. From the radio conversation with the dispatcher, it sounded like this train runs from Altoona to Adams, picking up cuts of sand from the different plants along the line. The crew left Altoona light and the conductor said they'd be picking up cars at Diamond Valley and Humbird.
Close up ~ 7 Days with Flickr
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This young Barn Swallow allowed me to approach really close in the car so I was able to get a couple of shots off before a cyclist came along the track and made it fly off
It was hard to resist taking these kinds of shot here. Taken while camping for a few days in Redwood National Park. They do look like they're whispering secrets to each other.
Visit there in September...the weather is perfect and there's less people camping once the kids are back in school.
This is from a batch of my old film negatives that I recently had scanned in.
There's almost nothing I dislike more than washing dishes- so I was more than happy to allow these Teddy Bears to help me!
Everything pictured is either re-ment or Megahouse.
Not a fan of hunting
It’s hunting season but I have no interest in participating. I’ll eat wild game, but I’m not going through the trouble of procuring it for myself.
This outfit came out a bit more “hunter” than I anticipated. Don’t worry, the only thing I’m hunting is the perfect stick for Jasper to fetch from the river. For that particular game, you’ve got to camo up and be vewy vewy quiet.
Cardigan, Mossimo (thrifted). Sweater, Joseph A (thrifted). Shorts, Hollister (thrifted). Leggings, Amour. Boots, Ariat. Purse, Rebecca Minkoff. Earrings, thrifted. Belt, Lauren Ralph Lauren (consignment).
The 765 shoots up some smoke as it passes the NKP searchlight in Hammond, IN after a lengthy delay at Hohman.
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starting catch up now . . .
On the ground in tall grass as she worked a tree stump. She was invisible except when she would take periodic peaks to check her surroundings as in this shot.
ADL Enviro E200 37056 is seen climbing Cranford Road with an outbound service 4 to Sunnyside. I've had this shot in mind for some time, so was pleased it worked out.
13.2.21
Canon EOS 700D/ 80-210mm lens.
Sorry, I'm back to Pika posting again. I took quite a few photos of two of these beautiful little Pikas - enough shots to keep me from feeling like going through them all straight away to find a few that were OK to post. So, every now and then, I will dip into the file of photos from that day. When this little animal ran over towards us and froze for a few moments, it gave us a wonderful chance for close images.
On 19 August 2014, I was lucky enough to have the chance to try and photograph a couple of these absolutely adorable little creatures : ) After a while, I was beginning to despair of ever getting any decent shots at all. These tiny Pikas, also known as Rock Rabbits, hardly ever remain still and they are extremely fast! Imagine a mountain hillside covered in sharp, jagged rocks of all sizes and then try to picture how difficult it is to find in the viewfinder the single rock on which one of these Pikas might happen to sit for a second or two, lol! As time passed, I managed to take quite a few photos, though many needed to be deleted. A couple of times, this Pika came bounding over the rocks near to where we were standing and just sat there, long enough to get a few very close shots. They are about 15 to 23 centimetres (5.9 to 9.1 in) in body length, so really are pretty small, especially when off in the distance.
I found this excellent and amusing YouTube video, 3:30 minutes long, It is The American Pika in the BBC's Life of Mammals series.
The weather forecast was not good for that day, but we were so lucky that, apart from a few raindrops, the rain stayed away. The sun actually came out at two locations we stopped at for a short while. Our 18-hour day (from 6;00 a.m. till midnight!) started off with the thrill of seeing these Pikas and ended with a brief sighting of a black Wolf crossing the road ahead of us in the dark. It disappeared into the blackness, but shortly afterwards, we heard three (possibly four) separate Wolves howling way off in the distance. We just stood there, in total awe, listening to this amazing sound. The only wild Wolf I had ever seen before was when I was in Yellowstone National Park two years ago. Friends and I saw two Wolves feeding on a Bison carcass across a huge valley - so they were just distant specks, that became slightly larger specks when my camera was in full zoom.
In between these two highlights, we saw several Deer, a small group of Mountain Sheep on the road, a tiny Chipmunk, a few Cedar Waxwings, Columbian Ground Squirrels, a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk that sat on a branch out in the open for a long time, and two tiny Bats that flew very close over our heads when it was getting dark. We also saw an adult Spruce Grouse with two young ones.
Then, of course, there is the scenery! Blue sky to go with the splendour of the mountains would have been wonderful, but we had been having cold and gloomy weather for a while before this day out. Highway 40 and the Smith-Dorrien/Spray Lakes Trail both run through such spectacular scenery, so it was a real treat for me, especially as I won't drive to those areas myself.
International Space Station at mag -3.4. One video frame, processed with PIPP and Photoshop.
Taken with a Skywatcher Skymax 90 Mak + Canon 600D.