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A westbound UP manifest led by an AC44 heads through Rochelle in the evening light. The park has changed alot since my last visit in 2015. The searchlights on both the BNSF and UP have been replaced, the crossings in Rochelle are now Quiet Zones, and the diamond has been replaced, making trains go faster through the park now.
i gave her a bit sad and serious expression and new make-up and chips,
i'm often sad and when somebody near me is sad too i try to cheer this person even if it's a doll and this makes me feel better
UP 7526 rolls past the signals at MP 24.5 on the UP Kansas Sub into the remnants of the sunshine from this evening.
This should have been a shot of a minty fresh GE in the new paint scheme but the usual UP BS stopped all that from happening. Instead you get a barely lit ISO 1000 shot of a stack train with a garden variety faded piss brick on the point.
I might post one of the better ones later.
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UP 844 rolls under a signal bridge in McCammon, ID as she transfers off the Pocatello sub and onto the Ogden sub.
This Union Pacific train (which is about to cross the BNSF at Claremore} is northbound on the Van Buren Sub. Directional running rules apply here on this former Missouri Pacific line north of Wagoner, OK. Southbound UP trains out of Kansas City run on the former MKT main some 20 miles east of here. The BN diamond at Claremore is just behind me here.
UP Westbound Freight Train passes through Rochelle, Illinois with UP SD60 5964 leading the way, a former C&NW SD60 before becoming UP SD60 5964, then HLCX SD60 5964, NS SD60 6543 & ultimately got rebuilt into NS SD60E 6940 at Juniata Shop in Altoona, PA.
UP 4014 West rolling towards Loring on the UP Kansas Sub earlier this morning. I’m a one shot pony for this chase today. Too many people for my liking.
Since it looks like these will be coming off the UP roster soon, I figured I would post some of the ones I caught last summer when most where pulled from storage.
UP 1996 and its business car special lean into the superelevated curve through Millard in western Omaha past a patch of sunflowers.
I noticed over the weekend that most of the windows in the building at the southeast corner of 116th and Lenox Ave. had been boarded up. The deli on the ground floor has been closed for about five years.
I am always surprised at how many people get up before dawn to see the sunrise. For me I think its understandable because I'm taking photos, but a whole bunch of other folks show up at this ungodly hour, park their cars, and walk out on to the pier, takes some of photos and then just turn around and leave. I'm not sure why I find that so interesting, maybe it's just the realization that there are others doing the exact same thing as me. That's hard to believe. I'm not really sure what to make of that, I suppose its a good thing.
I started playing around with five-wide Lego cars more than 14 years ago (!). Lego has progressed a bit since then and so have I, as a builder. New brackets, nicer wheels and various curved slopes have made this a bit easier.
A westbound salad shooter rolls into Fremont, where it will leave the ex-CNW trackage it has run across since leaving Chicago.
A glorious summer day at RHS Wisley, Nr Guildford, Surrey.
Looking up through a rose bower at changing vapour trails and clouds in a blue sky.
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.
View On Black or View Large in Black
9th shot on EXPLORE. #72 :-)
We both know what's happening now
I just want you to be strong and be ready.
Don't give up, we love you.
Cheer up, doc!
Cheer up :-)
Union Pacific Railroad caboose Class CA-9 25607 at West Chicago, Illinois on July 10, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
di: MARZOCCHI ERNESTO
Particolare del Castello di Ferrara simbolo indelebile della grandezza e magnificenza della Famiglia D'Este.
Detail of the Castle of Ferrara, an indelible symbol of the greatness and magnificence of the D'Este family.
UP #1019 and #1481 hustle the Westbound Potash Local between the sidings of Agate and Cisco in Eastern Utah.
The boys final figured out what is wrong with UP 4714. Seems one of the wires to the traction motors is broken. (AKA pickup wire on the lead truck.)
UP 6839, UP 5790 & UP 5719 leads a empty hopper train west towards Buffalo Mine in Wyoming through Washington, Missouri on Union Pacific's Jeff City Sub.
March 22, 2014
I found these fungi fruiting bodies along the Cedar River in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A shaft of light through the trees lit them up, so I couldn't miss them. Their bright orange matches the color of the deer hunters clothes in the area.
The fungi mycelia are busy beneath the surface digesting dead roots and maybe leaf litter. When conditions are ripe, it is time to reproduce, and they send up these spore producing mushrooms. I don't think these are edible. I don't know their names either.
I didn't have my macro along, so I fully extended my Pentax 18-135mm and made the image.
orange mushrooms
pushing up through the forest floor
in a hemlock forest
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
The Dartford Crossing on the River Thames seen from 14,000 feet up aboard my Norwegian Airlines Boeing 737 Flight to Oslo
Here the QEII suspension bridge spans the river - mostly taking the Southbound traffic across, whilst unseen, the original double bore tunnels service those going Northbound
In the event of high winds or traffic issues the Tunnels usually revert to their original configuration of North and South
A second crossing downstream is now on the cards and is badly needed as although the crossing here was automated recently the huge amount of traffic using it often causes huge jams on both approaches
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