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This spot definitely looks better with a little green on the trees and a little clearer looking water in the creek below.
GE T4 GEVO leading a CSX AC4400 on an intermodal train earlier this AM when the sun was still shining bright.
Likely my last 4014 shot of the 2019 season barring something unforeseen is this view crossing Little Papillion Creek on the Lane Cutoff. The Big Boy was starting its homeward leg out of Omaha after wrapping up the 'Great Race Across the Midwest' tour.
A close up of 37800 as it passes through Thornhill on its recent jaunt which started off as the 0E37 0930 Derby North Doc - Heaton.
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Union Pacific Railroad Operation Lifesaver caboose at North Little Rock, Arkansas on July 31, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was known as EAST ONE when it was on the Missouri Pacific. Yeah, I know, I could have framed this shot better. I was not an invited guest, so I grabbed the shot from my car and moved on.
A loaded MidAmerican Energy train passes the long abandoned elevator at Havens on the Columbus Sub. This was the third of five eastbounds I met between Columbus and Grand Island which is basically unheard of in this age of railroading.
And nowhere to go! Pushkar Camel Fair 2016 turned into a sad fiasco after the 8PM announcement of demonetization of currency notes of denominations 500 and 1000. Traders who groomed and decked up their camels found no buyers!
I guess today was the day to shoot all EMD consists on the UP. What a great day to spend time trackside today with what seemed like a decent flow of those great looking and sounding EMDZ.
Here we have the EB version of M-TPTP rolling up the curve just west of Midland at what I would call '140' due to the pipeline marker right at this spot. It looks like out WB leader has been changed out and now we have the 1392 facing west. Which would come in handy later.
Nearly ready for the official shot . BB has the girls lined up with a threat of being zapped if they can't put their best foot ( heel ) forward .. those on the right , those on the left .
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"Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it."
- Walt Disney
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have you ever in life been told to be too old for something? or that you've outgrown that stage when you're watching kids' tv shows? I have. many, many times. and I refuse to agree with people. I think there is no such point in life when kids should be turned into adults, letting go of what they love and changing who they are just because they've reached a certain age. society tells us too much anyways when to grow up, when to no longer watch Disney movies, and when to say good bye to your childish self. to me, growing up is about getting to know how to be responsible about what you're doing, to learn how to handle things yourself. but it doesn't go hand in hand with forgetting about imagination, childhood memories, and just being a child from time to time. I will never in my life stop watching Disney movies, and I will continue drinking hot chocolate out of my 101 Dalmatians mug with a straw, nobody will ever keep me from having fun in bouncing castles, and I will forever laugh about whatever cherishes my mind - I will never say good bye to my inner child, no matter what age I'll turn.
the concept above goes to me so well with growing up and being torn between childhood and the time when we are told to take on responsibilities instead of finding ourselves still in imaginary worlds. we find ourselves being pulled out of that worlds, only few decide to hold on to what they should later think about their most carefree and happiest times of their lives. this is actually the first concept I've been happy with in a long, long time. and yes, it may be grainy and the processing is far from being perfect, but I love it. and to me it brings across exactly what I wanted to say with it.
model: Raúl del Cuadro. thanks Raúl for putting up with what I made you go through that day :D
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UPY GP15-1 722 leads YPRCP west through Franklin Park, IL as seen from the cab of NIRC 6. GP15s are rare on this train, and if you look closely you'll notice the WP and MoPac heritage units 3rd and 4th out.
UP 8967 drops off the cliff on main 1 at Silverwood, the change in grade is marked and easily seen. A BNSF bare table runs parallel on Main2 to the left.
4141 at the end of the track on the Home Plate display across from the College World Series stadium at Omaha. The locomotive and car 'Council Bluffs' were on display for several days following their use in the President George H.W. Bush funeral train.
UP 7350 leading an intermodal train around the corner at Linwood in the dying evening light of Friday night. Sun was moving fast here, in a few minutes you would have need to be on the other side of the tracks for the shot.
UP train YFX82-12 with a "baby wings" SD40N up front is switching industries on the Omaha Main on the UP KC Metro Sub in Kansas City, MO. 12/12/15.
This is what happens when you get greedy and try to push a shot despite having the best intel that you can get. I wanted to setup further back on the curve and shoot this eastbound SD70AH-T4 looking down the tracks with the elevator in the background. That shot didn't happen because as I was climbing the embankment...he was blowing for the crossing at Midland so I had to settle for a hand grab shot as it rounded the curve.
Should have stayed at Alexander or went to the depot.
On a beautiful summer evening, a westbound BNSF manifest freight heads up Winston Hill just east of Montana Rail Link's Winston siding leaving a wake of red FRED dots along its curvy path. A green over red approach signal, and the signal at the east end of the siding can be seen in the distance.
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right next to the old house there is a tree with an old tree house. the boys wanted to play up there but they are just too little yet. maybe someday...
the tree house was build by our neighbour's kids. they are already grown up. the place they used to play at became abandoned just like the old house.
It’s not nice to shoot up a lady’s skirt, I venture a guess it’s a criminal offence in most quarters, but we’re going here for the 3 inches of the bottom of her feet. It’s a signed wooden doll by Canadian folk artist Jean Marc Poirier, carved when he lived and worked as a fisherman in Cheticamp, Cape Breton, in the 1990’s. In the early oughts he returned to his birthplace in the Magdalen Islands and might still be carving there. My wife bought this doll, a fine example in a series of “bag ladies”, at a gallery in Baddeck, Cape Breton, for the tidy sum of C$69.95 in the late 90’s. The doll is reminiscent of the character of Mary Morrison (“Good, dear, good”) created and played by comedic actress Bette MacDonald in the Cape Breton Summertime Revue in the 1990’s. Though I don’t know the artist’s intentions, the doll might even have been inspired by the Mary character. All these wonderful memories dredged up in the rise and follies of Cape Breton Island by the simple “Bottoms Up” assignment for a Happy Macro Monday. -:))