The necessity to run the power around the balloon track at the Council Bluffs yard to get 1943 facing the right way meant any hope of getting light on the departure faded.

I settled for a blue hour shot of light power (again...) closing in on Heritage Park.

There's only a couple of occasions that I consider shooting up a tree. 1) If there's a well built female tree surgeon working above me. 2) Fall foliage with good light that allows for a nicely exposed blue sky above. Unfortunately, I had to settle for option #2! LOL. In all honesty, I know these types of shots are a bit over-done, but, not by me....yet. I'll use any excuse to capture the beauty of nature...cliched shot or not.

San José, Costa Rica

UP GP40-2 No. 1480 leads train LBU51 at St. Francis, WI. The train will serve customers further south on the Milwaukee Sub. 2/6/2023

Just bear with it, Teddy!

A pair of Union Pacific SD40Ns are moving through the switches at the east end of Canadian Pacific's Bensenville yard. After collecting their train, the 2 UP veterans will head back to Proviso yard.

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"up the pirates", gift for a friend.

[posca marker on metal tin cover]

for Caturday. got a quick shot of Alby when he jumped in the tub to play.

Can you smell the paint?

Bailey yard diesel shop, October/1984, moments after hostler uncoupled unit after moving from the paint track. Looks sharp, every detail, including the horn, receiving attention.....wait; doh...missed a spot...cab awning!. Disclaimer; about 90% sure of date, but I know it's in fall of 1984. Sold for scrap to Southwest Railroad Car Parts, Longview TX 4/02/87

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The trail leading up the bluff from the 2016 High Plains Rendezvous to Fort Atkinson SHP.

Roxborough St. Pk. With elevations ranging from

5,900 to 7,600 feet, Roxborough’s

landscape beautifully illustrates a

Front Range transition from plains

to mountains. On the west border

of the park, the rugged granite

of Carpenter Peak is flanked by

elegantly layered gneiss. The red

sandstone spires of the Fountain

Formation accent the foothills as

they dip away and into the scrub

oaks. The Roxborough landscape

is characterized by two more

sandstone hogbacks: the Lyons

and the Dakota, before rolling into

prairie grasslands to the east—

encompassing over 1.3 billion years

of geologic time

UP 7217 (AC4400CW) leads an eastbound manifest out of Global 3 past the Rochelle Railroad Park in Rochelle, IL.

UP Local Freight Train secured in Apex, NV with a pair of SD40N’s in charge

After taking the winter months off Union Pacific FEF3 #844 returned to the mainline on April 10th, 2017 for a 'break-in' run between Cheyenne, WY and Greeley, CO. On the return leg of its journey 844 is working up grade towards Speer, WY with a train of support cars in tow. Diesel 2760 spent most of the day in various dynamics notches simulating a load for the big ALCo to pull.

UP 844 ~ PCYCY3 ~ Terry Bison Ranch, Wyoming

Union Pacific's Greeley Subdivision

04.10.2017

The bottom of a rose with a very different color is my contribution for this weeks Macro Mondays.

UP GP60 1038 leads a very large KD local west out of Belvidere, IL.

Being a relatively low priority move, the Spirit only made it as far as the first siding south of Omaha at Murray before being instructed to take the siding to meet three northbounds. Here they creep past the old wooden elevator in town to the south end of the siding to kick up the feet for a while.

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UP coal train CCDJK9 (Cordero Mine-Jeffrey, KS) approaching Antelope Rd. on BNSF's Orin Subdivision. 8/25/2022

UP 5395 climbs east near Bealville with the QRVWCB-13 on the drawbar on a blazing hot summer day.

172 of 365 - Happy Father's Day to you dads out there.

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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

pile me up? :)

Some close up fence!

HGGT!

50mm @ f2

UP LTA41

UP 7474 heads east at Cienega Creek on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route

UP SD70ACe #1996 was on display during the "Pacific Railroad Days Festival" in Pacific, MO over the weekend of September 16/17, 2017. I wandered out Sunday afternoon under cloudy skies.

-UP SD70ACe #1996 (Southern Pacific Heritage)

-UP (ex-MoPac) Jefferson City Sub

-St. Louis St & Columbus St, Pacific, MO

-September 17, 2017

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Everyone has their opinion on the Wall....

UP 3392 east is using track rights on the BNSF Trans-Con, passing the new connection at MilePole 185 in the Spring of 1998. Single boxcar must have been high priority to be on a stack train.

Westbound UP local crosses Rock Creek near Bennett TX, April 1999.

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New scheme UP 6483 leads this Long Beach bound manifest at Delano.

I wanted to take a pic "looking up" at something for Maelia's fun 7DWF group, so I put a Star-6 filter on the lens and went for it. I'd never used a star filter before and was surprised at how the pics came out!!

Some lights had no star effects, others looked like this pic. Not really a "star", but you can see the 6 star-ish flares coming from the light. (It's a 5 fixture LED lamp, so the other flares are spilling over from the other LEDs.) Interesting. I'll have to experiment some more. Such fun. :-)

p.s. I was just reading about star filters.. so interesting!! I think I got this effect because I was so close the the subject. "Subject-to-lens distance: The closer you are to the light that is producing the star effect, the larger the star effect will be in your frame." Plus using a smaller aperture, plus etc!! I'll have to print the article to read more. ;-)

Woodie up in a tree in Echallens, Switzerland

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Overlooking the boats down at Keyhaven this morning which are often lined up in an orderly fashion.

Met up with talented photographer and fellow Westonian, Simon (Rep001) for a sunrise shoot followed by coffee and croissants. Not the most vibrant one but very moody with some interesting light and lots of possibilities.

Thanks Simon for coming over my way so early and sharing some helpful tips it was great to meet you :)