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Union Pacific Railroad MP15DC 1369 at North Little Rock, Arkansas on September 13, 1988, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 1369 was built in January 1982 as second MP 1369 ( c/n 817019-14 ). First MP 1369 was a Baldwin S-12. It was repainted to UP 1369 on February 13, 1986 and North Little Rock style block lettering was applied. It became UPY 1369 on March 9, 2006.
While Cade and Grumpy were our shooting a clean consist of power on a train yesterday I decided to stay home with the family and prevent the potential for the start of WW3. I’m still not sure if my diplomacy will be rewarded or if I’ll have to resort to direct action or guerrilla warfare. It’s still too early to tell.
So today I was pleasantly surprised by the M-TPTP local being slightly ahead of schedule and had a matched pair of clean GP60’s in great sun. So I popped the drone up over the trees and hoped that I wouldn’t hit any branches and snagged this image and still managed to keep my truck out of the frame.
I know some folks hate shooting in the winter because of all of the dead trees and the brown landscape, but damn how can you argue with being able to shoot all day long with the low sun angle? This shot was taken at 1000 and we still have shadows twice the height of the locomotives. We have about another 8 weeks of great light before we get too close to the Spring solstice and we only get to shoot mornings and evenings.
I hope all of you had a great holiday and didn’t piss off Santa too much. Because by this time next year we’ll all be in the bread line waiting for our chance at getting a loaf and avoiding a real life Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Val di Sole, Trentino-Alto Adige - Italy
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A line of semi derelict and cannibalised buses at the Network Buses depot.
A little used Bristol RE, a structurally unsound Citaro (now at the bottom of a lake) and two early RH olympians donating parts to the newer incumbents in the fleet
In fact, since this photo was taken the further away olympian has been spruced up for use as a spare bus whilst some pre-summer renovations and servicing goes on.
something a bit different again for me today! these are a few of the shots from the model shoot i did
i was asked to take some shots of some "up-do’s" for a hairdresser friend i know for their books so customers can flick through and choose a look they want etc
i wanted to have a shooting partner so i asked “Elliye” who i was friends with on flickr and twitter and luckily she said yes!
we got a number of shots of the hair, these were slightly different from previous model work i'd done as the emphasis was on the hair and not the face
i also took some candids around the salon to mix in with the more posed shots (these were my faves!)
i kept them all fairly high key and processed them all in the same style so they would work cohesively as a set
so far the feed-back has been great and we may be looking at more challenging projects in the future!
so if anyone wants a fab hairdresser in leeds please go to www.hirstandmiller.co.uk !
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
Despite all the odds, and the incline, this tree just wanted to grow up straight!
I guess there is a lesson for us all in the example the tree gives us.... don't be a tree
5799 westbound with 4347, 4926 and mid-train dpu's 8578 and SP patched 6209 working the curves before Sloan NV with a 11,000 ft KG2LA
UP SD70AH 8875 sits on display for Diesel Days at the IRM. These things look awesome when they're fresh! No, this is not a new donation for the museum either! :)
Union, IL
flickrs 3peaker, taken at a liverpool flickr meet yesterday,not only is he a top photographer he is a top fella too.(thanks for letting me test your lens out mate).
So much has worn me down health-wise this year & I’ve felt so far from myself because of stress.
I’ve finally been able to verbalize and admit to myself that this has been the hardest year of my life since 2010 when my mother died. I knew selling a home & buying in another state would be stressful no matter what. What I don’t think I could have anticipated was a year like 2024 where we both got Covid for the first time (which had lasting impacts) and the genocide in Gaza ravaging the world. I fundamentally changed and that year left me a different person than who I have ever been. Physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Following that with a year that started with 70 days of varying degrees of headache to all encompassing migraines (leading to an MRI and medical action plans).
Then we started in earnest to do the home dance. Allowing people into my home repeatedly with no real control turned me inside out. My agoraphobia sky rocketed and everything felt impossibly hard.
From the start of the year we’ve had to face a new type of nightmare in our news, US domestic government, and life overall. Everything feels surreal most of the time.
I’ve had such a fog in my mind while I more or less had to shut entire parts of myself down and compartmentalize until I could get through other more immediate needs on my energy and time.
The stress, the uncertainty, the discomfort lead to me more or less giving up on having a human body. I rarely drank water, I stopped moving my body entirely, I spent every moment I wasn’t actively doing The Things I Had To Do™️ (or occasionally taking photos) laying down or crying. I could barely wash my face, brush my teeth, or take a shower. I know my photo stream gives one of those picture perfect storylines of how the last year has gone because I am pretty ok at composition and framing (and admittedly take good self portraits).
The reality is I’ve struggled more overall than I had ever let on.
This week I’ve been sorting photos & found some that dusted my brain off. Photos that reminded me of how even when some years like 2017 (the photos with just my torso) when I had just bought my first house with my ex and realized the relationship may not last because my sobriety hadn’t really changed anything between us. Or 2020 (the photo of me lying down in a Skeletonwitch tshirt and the 3 photo collage) the year of Covid and the year I finally ended that relationship after giving it everything I had for 3 more years while that global pandemic was happening.
Both were unimaginably difficult I was still able to lean into reflection, listening to my body and mind, and working to find the life changes I needed to be a happier and more balanced Nix. The photos feel like a talisman or a magical catalyst to remind me of my power. My routines are returning to me and I can feel the joy they bring. I am waking up.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. This is stuff I usually keep for my online blog, but I was feeling verbose and brave and wanted to share here too. I really value the connections I’ve been making being back on Flickr and the site and the people have been one of the bright spots for me through all of this.
primera sesion cover up de la seta de la espalda a ver como va quedando...
by Joako, que adaptó y mejoró mi diseño perfectamente, artistón.
Reflection of damaged cars shot during an outing earlier today. Not too convinced that the water on the ground caused this pile up though.
0-6-0 switcher; built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1920, it's now owned by the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. I shot this photo back on May 9, 2009.
Here is an interesting link with additional information: www.railarchive.net/randomsteam/up4466.htm.
This week's theme: Pin up girl
this is the most revealing photo i've uploaded here, ergo the reservation to hide my face :)
this is a modern interpretation of the pin up girl popularized during the war by betty grable, greta garbo, anita page, etc (to name a few) back in 1910
I'd been meaning to build an autorack for ages, but never got around to it. Part of my dismay had been that the clearance limit at my club (14 high from the baseplate) was too low to look realistic. So here's my 14 high from the baseplate car carrier in UP armor yellow. It's built upside down all the way to the roof. I saw this on brickshelf and had to use that roof. I wanted to do it in metallic silver, but once I found out the price I decided white would be just fine! It's 44 long and well over may scale's 500 gram limit.
