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Western Pacific Heritage Unit heads a 3-loco consist in Dupo, IL. The train is stopped for a crew change.
Sorry, I'm back to Pika posting again. I took quite a few photos of two of these beautiful little Pikas - enough shots to keep me from feeling like going through them all straight away to find a few that were OK to post. So, every now and then, I will dip into the file of photos from that day. When this little animal ran over towards us and froze for a few moments, it gave us a wonderful chance for close images.
On 19 August 2014, I was lucky enough to have the chance to try and photograph a couple of these absolutely adorable little creatures : ) After a while, I was beginning to despair of ever getting any decent shots at all. These tiny Pikas, also known as Rock Rabbits, hardly ever remain still and they are extremely fast! Imagine a mountain hillside covered in sharp, jagged rocks of all sizes and then try to picture how difficult it is to find in the viewfinder the single rock on which one of these Pikas might happen to sit for a second or two, lol! As time passed, I managed to take quite a few photos, though many needed to be deleted. A couple of times, this Pika came bounding over the rocks near to where we were standing and just sat there, long enough to get a few very close shots. They are about 15 to 23 centimetres (5.9 to 9.1 in) in body length, so really are pretty small, especially when off in the distance.
I found this excellent and amusing YouTube video, 3:30 minutes long, It is The American Pika in the BBC's Life of Mammals series.
The weather forecast was not good for that day, but we were so lucky that, apart from a few raindrops, the rain stayed away. The sun actually came out at two locations we stopped at for a short while. Our 18-hour day (from 6;00 a.m. till midnight!) started off with the thrill of seeing these Pikas and ended with a brief sighting of a black Wolf crossing the road ahead of us in the dark. It disappeared into the blackness, but shortly afterwards, we heard three (possibly four) separate Wolves howling way off in the distance. We just stood there, in total awe, listening to this amazing sound. The only wild Wolf I had ever seen before was when I was in Yellowstone National Park two years ago. Friends and I saw two Wolves feeding on a Bison carcass across a huge valley - so they were just distant specks, that became slightly larger specks when my camera was in full zoom.
In between these two highlights, we saw several Deer, a small group of Mountain Sheep on the road, a tiny Chipmunk, a few Cedar Waxwings, Columbian Ground Squirrels, a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk that sat on a branch out in the open for a long time, and two tiny Bats that flew very close over our heads when it was getting dark. We also saw an adult Spruce Grouse with two young ones.
Then, of course, there is the scenery! Blue sky to go with the splendour of the mountains would have been wonderful, but we had been having cold and gloomy weather for a while before this day out. Highway 40 and the Smith-Dorrien/Spray Lakes Trail both run through such spectacular scenery, so it was a real treat for me, especially as I won't drive to those areas myself.
A UP SD70M leads a NS Train thru the curve and past the Ma & Pa Kettle Estate on right at Fostoria,OH on the old NKP line and past the new Railroad Park.
British artist Alex Chinneck has worked with the carmaker before, yet this time his project is something out of this world. Dubbed “Pick yourself up and pull yourself together”, the collaboration with Vauxhall Motors turns a parking space on its head, peeling back 15 meters of arching tarmac to turn a one ton car upside-down as the vehicle grips the curling road with no visible support.
Very clean 6151 leads a double stack train around the big curve at Lenape on a great almost spring day.
Why can't they all be this clean? Heck, I consider the second unit clean by UP's standards.
These Poppys may possibly be the cutest Poppys ever... I adore them both! They are modelling jewelry sets by me.
I got out of the house again, when I'm headed in the direction of Ladysmith I use the schedule of L520 as motivation. I strive to reach Ladysmith by 8am when the local off the Barron Sub usually starts the trip to Stevens Point. Despite getting there by 8 I missed L520 by 5 minutes and they got the route onto the Superior Sub as soon as they asked for it. After grabbing a breakfast sandwich before continuing on I took a glance at ATCS, L520 was on its way to a meet down at Sheldon but another southbounder was up at Murry with the route to follow L520. I decided to roll the dice and run up to County Road A and intercept this mystery train. The ubiquitous GEVO isn't all that inspiring but I like the sag here climbing away from the Thornapple River (through truss bridge visible in the distance). February 28, 2020.
A westbound autorack train, with a few open racks, has cleared the junction and will enter Hermosa Tunnel shortly.
UP sent a monster lashup east on yesterdays MDMPR. The train had 10 units, UP SD70M, LLPX GP38-2, UP SD70M, HLCX GP40-2, unpatched SP AC4400, SOO SD60, ICE SD40-2, UP SD70ACe, UP SD70M, UP AC4400.
Near the "golf-course" entrance to Shepherds Bush an unusually active EYR skipped from branch to branch. Possibly searching for nesting materials.
The passenger special pulls into St. Louis at the end of the day's run up from Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
EXPLORE # 243 - February 15, 2009
Belated Happy Valentines!
Taken at UP Diliman, Quezon City
Event: 50MM Shootout at UP
got up early and went out on bike along the bridgewater canal into lymm.
first frost of the winter and and was lovely also found a mobile phone along the canal so rang the first number in the contacts bit and it was the man's who had lost its wife she was from down south and her husband was staying up at his sisters just round the corner from ackers pit as he had buisness to do in liverpool anyway i got it back to him and he gave me a nice bottle of red wine
Part of a "Looking Up" series. The stunningly detailed old Prudential building in Portsmouth.
Beautiful brickwork and architecture.
"They don't build 'em like they used to"
Me and my girlfriend decided to take a walk around the park during the night after the snow storm. The temperature was a "comfortable" 8 degrees Fahrenheit (-13c). I figured to grab the camera while we enjoyed the weather.
Night Tour on the Hop and Hop Off bus. When I got there the queue was so long I didn't think I would be able to stand for that long. One of the guys who organises things and tells you where to go, took pity on me. Told me to take his arm and he lead me the front of the queue. Said I reminded him of his grandmother and we have to look after older people. I was worried someone might take offence but no one did. I was a lot older than most people there!
I couldn't get many good shots as it was too dark and bumpy. I have kept most of them in as they are memories of my one and only day in New York.
New York City November 7, 2018 USA
While the Denver Metro Area lights up, so does the UP as the eastbound Roper Yard-Denver manifest train snakes through Big Ten Curve approaching Rocky, on September 29, 2018.
With the College World Series wrapping up on the north side of downtown, the CWS train has departed the display track. It is skirting the Missouri River, seen here passing Heart of America park in downtown Omaha.
Archiv 2009
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