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UP 8378 in DPU mode helps brake a heavy and slow moving coal train down Cajon pass and across Drawbar Flats in the early morning mists.
A business train returns to the Omaha area after a trip south. The 103 year old 'Shoshone' is visible 3 cars back, second oldest in the Union Pacific fleet. It's always good to see it out and about.
A hike up the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon is still one of my favorite hikes in the Sedona area. It's good to have lots of memory space in your camera and an extra battery along as photo ops abound. Weekdays are the best times to go when there are a lot fewer noisy humans intruding on the serenity.
- Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness, Sedona, Arizona
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EMD Tier IV UP 3044 leads a mixed manifest train around the long curve coming into Loring this morning. If you only get a chance to shoot one train in the morning then you better make it a good one.
Just a tad bit too much tree on the lead truck than I would like, but maybe that tree will get removed soon too. Who knows. We’re not in a National Forest, yet.
These Tier IV’s are starting to get the UP piss brick treatment. Look at the roof of this unit and you will see just how dirty they are starting to get. It won’t be long and they will look like the EMD SD70M second out. Hot garbage.
Last Monday and I'd got on to the wrong bus and ended up near Waterloo. I was dying to use up the film to see some other pix on the roll so I just blew a couple of frames down Leake Street.
Fujichrome Astia 100 RAP
The barn swallows at John Heinz NWR are growing up and getting their first-time adult plumage. They're still dealing with a mix of feathers but don't seem to bothered by it.
She may have caught the ball but the rider has to get pass the pylon with his feet up for it to count ! They made it !
Looking the other way at flag barn with the UP 7804 East coming up to the intermediate signal at 24.5.
UP Westbound Local Freight Train secured at Apex, NV. waiting on a fresh crew with a pair of SD40N's in charge, the 1899 is former C&NW SD40-2 6933.
This cheetah shot is just the way I shot it and is NOT a crop.
Shot at about 300-350mm. Yes we were close.
Hand held. 20D W/ 100-400mm lens.
UP 2619 leads a northbound manifest freight past the south switch at Springfield Junction. The track to the right gave northbound trains access to the Siskiyou Line, but is no longer used. Now all trains entering the line originate at the Eugene yard and are routed via the north switch. One of the many SP trestles over the Willamette River is in the background.
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
This weekend we went out to make trip to Mount Sniezka (Poland). Just when we got off the lift, some paragliders were about to get in the air. I took the chance to take some pictures...
I like to believe that I do eat healthy and one thing that I do is eat lots of fruit! Sliced up a beautiful water melon ~ my source of dietary fibre!!
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Its the 5th of December 2015, and after landslides and floods on the West Coast mainline, the entire line north of Preston had been subject to major delays and cancellations. Seen here, DRS 37688 Kingmoor TMD had left Kingmoor at least 30 minutes early, and was sat on the up road for some time. The loco was going to Carnforth on line clearance but never left the station. The loco completed her journey south to Carnforth Jn the next day.
Out of the 6 pictures that I took, this was the best. Not the best quality, but while being pelted with rain and facing gale force winds it was the best I could manage. Thanks to our train being cancelled, we had enough time to photograph the loco while we tried to work out a way home via Newcastle. Needless to say, 688 was one of my last 37 that I needed, well worth braving the weather for!
Female Goosander exiting the water to get onto the fallen tree in the pond in order to do a bit of preening.
An art installation just sitting in an obscure courtyard, right in the middle of Girona.
The city is full of beautiful little gems like this, just off the beaten path.
A close-up view of the U.S. flag deployed on the moon at the Taurus-Littrow landing site by the crewmen of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. The crescent Earth can be seen in the far distant background above the flag. The lunar feature in the near background is South Massif. While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module "Challenger" to explore the lunar surface, astronaut Ronald E. Evans remained with the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS17-134-20466
Date: December 12, 1972