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On May 10, 1869 a special ceremony took place in Promontory, Utah, USA where two railroads met that completed a track that went from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific ocean on the west. A span of approximately 3000 miles. This engine is an exact full size and fully functioning duplicate of one of the engines that met on that occasion. Today it was again going to the same location, approximately 200 yards from where this photo was taken as it passed by.
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Combat skills (at least at my base) is a two day course that helps prepare you for combat situations when you deploy. If you go to somewhere more hostile where you'll arm up, they send you through a longer training course, but two days is plenty when you aren't even going to be carrying a weapon at your deployed location. The class is surprisingly a lot of fun, even if it is exhausting. The first day is all classroom instruction with a brief overview of the weapon, refreshing your memory on how painful the low crawl is...that kind of thing. The best part of the course is the last part of day 2 where you actually get to fire off blank rounds. It's challenging and reminds you that "Hey, I really am in the military." I was hoping I would actually be able to take pictures of us in the field the M16 during lunch was all I had. I wish I could say that I'm mad in this picture, I'm just physically exhausted. I'm definitely out of shape...
Cleaning up the last of the shots from my most recent trip to Manhattan.
The Chrysler Building on a cloudy Saturday afternoon.
Looks best on black.
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UP SD70ACe no. 8693 leads a ballast train downgrade from Edgewood, Texas under the Hwy 19 bridge where it will race uphill toward Fruitvale. Photo February 25, 2016.
Ansouis. Portes du Luberon, Fr.
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UP 6310, one of the final five patched ex-SP AC44CWs, is working in DPU service along with two already rebuilt C44ACMs, after being attached mid-train to the MPDRV at Eugene. Recently Union Pacific has announced another order of AC44CW rebuilds from Wabtec that this time seems like it will cover the rest of the entire fleet, meaning the final five will end up in fresh coats of yellow paint sooner rather than later. The location is McCredie Springs, on Union Pacific’s Cascade Subdivision in Oregon. Locomotive consist is UP 7978, 6822, and 9002 on the point, with UP 6310, 5743, and 6278 mid-train in DPU mode. The final five patched SP AC44CWs are UP 6236, 6310, 6318, 6378, and 6379. Picture taken November 16, 2025.
In April 2010, Lachlan Vallley Railway ran 2 trips to Gosford, one on Saturday the other on Sunday, hauled by 3237 with 4701 assisting on the Saturday. 3237 is seen at Eastwood on Sunday morning, working up the grades of the Dennistone bank to Eastwood
So I've been working on her for like 2 hours? She was miserable. and now... she is like, fierce? :D
I'm naming her Adele James, and I'm so entering her on a BNTM! Any spots open for her?
UP 8320 rolls under one of the last remaining ESPEE cantilever signal towers left on the Gila Subdivision. It now controls the
end of double track at Dome Valley Az.
Union Pacific Railroad E8 936 at Denver Union Station on August 26, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Having a received a highball, Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 is steaming up as it slowly moves out of Owosso, Michigan, en route to Alma, Michigan, during the 2009 steam festival. Alas, it was an overcast morning with light rain falling. (Scanned from a slide)
UP 677 RS27 UP 634 U25B at Inver Grove(near St.Paul,MN. 5/68. Before returning to home rails,they did Mpls/St.Paul transfer runs over Milw/GN/NP.
Okay the thing is with my #2 Gil is that his joints were unusually stiff and really emphasised how limited the joints were, especially since I intended for this Gil to wear kimono and kneel a bunch. I expected for a single joint to be limited but the fact is, Gil couldn’t even bend his knees far enough to kneel let alone make it look natural enough.
So I took a knife to the behind of his legs and carved out crescent moon shapes so more of his knee joint was exposed and his leg could bend enough for him to kneel naturally. Unfortunately, his legs are hollow plastic so if you carve out as much as I did, it WILL leave really unsightly holes. But since it’s behind his leg I don’t mind, plus he’s most likely to be wearing yukata to expose the knees.
This actually solved his knee joints being stiff so I carved out some plastic behind his ankle to be able to be en pointe and it’s easier to pose him.
I also took out some plastic from his elbows so he could touch his face better but I didn’t far enough as I wanted because his arms are also hollow plastic and I could see the plastic be really thin, which is sad since normal MH boy arms are hard vinyl.
However, I’m happy my Gil #2 can pose better now. My poor #1 Gil can’t keep up with him.
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recently in world disasters!
They need our help and love.
UP YSA82 is headed westbound passed the SP 794 on display at the San Antonio TX Amtrak station 11-20-23
Union Pacific Railroad GTEL (Gas Turbine Electric Locomotive) 6 at Council Bluffs, Iowa on an unknown day in February 1963, photographer unknown (but it looks like Dick Rumbolz handwriting on the Kodachrome slide mount), Chuck Zeiler collection.