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Looking the other way at flag barn with the UP 7804 East coming up to the intermediate signal at 24.5.
This is the today's last picture for My Dal Princess Contest round 2 with the theme "Second Photo- Future Job = Your DAL(s) has grown up and needs to work a job. Take a photo of your DAL doing her dream."
Fullmoon : I wanna be a CUTE STUDENT forever and ever! Because as long as I'm a student, my mom will pay everything for me,aren't you?
Me: OMG =[ ]=!!!
In this picture is Fullmoon,my Dal Puki,with her new wig which just arrived last Tuesday!
She's very cute and I think this will be her LAST wig XD
Hope you all love her new look <3
Seeing this old mine up close is certainly a reward for making this trek, but the views from the top are just as breathtaking. From 5,000 in elevation, you get an unobscured view of the rolling Boise Foothills and a look at your accomplishment of climbing the hill on your way to Lucky Peak.
Just a boring little beach shot that I tried to spice up through processing.
Hope you all had a great start to the week!
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Union Pacific C41-8 #9471 leads a pair of Chicago & North Western SD60's, #8029 with an Opeartion Lifesaver logo and #8003 in Zito yellow along with UP ex-MOP B23-7 #131 Southbound at Coal creek Jct. in Sept. of 1995.
Burlington Northern's Gillette Road switcher is seen in the background. Not sure how good those buffer flat cars would protect the engine and caboose in case of an explosion:}
All I could think of was some entertainer (athlete, musician, emcee, etc.) trying to stoke up a crowd.
One of the gems from earlier this week was catching a very clean rebuilt low number board and winged GE AC4400CW on the point of a manifest train at flag barn. One of 2 great looking units that were running back to back. Almost felt like the UP of old for about 30 minutes.
Happy Birthday to em WoAA :). Hope that my wish for you is moderately conveyed by this image :)
Been tied up these days. Will catch up with you guys soon :)
This is a close-up photo of patterns in a sheet of river ice that I placed in my kitchen sink in front of an acrylic abstract, and illuminated with an LED light.
As the Big Boy heads west, the crowd begins to cheer and applaud. Next stop is Pacific. And I probably got my last look at 4014 - for this year.
I wish I could look at this flock of birds, circling above the city, forever.
This picture is a reminder to myself to keep looking at the world in my own very way. Even when I'm no longer a teenager anymore after today.
Shortly after sunrise at the big curve at Krieder with the long shadows off the empty coal train rolling west on the Kansas Sub.
With 4500 HP more on this train than it had last night when it stalled, they got it going again, but it still wasn't a perfect liftoff. The last GP40 slipped a couple times and then took off wildly creating a spectacular show in the process.
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.
Pomegranate seeds sparkle in the autumn sunshine as they sit piled up on a market stall on Split's green market.
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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.
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