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Rode Amtrak out to Colorado for vacation to Glenwood Springs. Had a great family time, so chasing down trains was secondary, but I got a few good images. This is coal load C-WEB2-30 getting underway after adding his mid-train helpers at the Glenwood Springs yard right before sunset. The UP 8805 leads another on the head end, a trio of helpers mid-train and another on the rear. The wildfires and soot made the skies a little thick out there, and thus the orange glow as he heads east toward Glenwood Canyon on a beautiful summer evening.
Loading up the truck, ready to head to the Autosport / Pistonheads show.
The Ferrari FF is already on the truck and the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Roadster is loading up.
Union Pacific Railroad GP40 640 at Denver, Colorado on March 13, 1983, Kodachrome by Jim Altman, Chuck Zeiler collection. Although this locomotive left EMD's plant painted as Rock Island 4709, it was owned by the UP and leased to the Rock. When the Rock shut down on March 31, 1980, all but nine of the original 60 GP40's leased were returned to the UP.
UP Centennial 6936 sits at Illinois Railway Museum in Union for IRM's 60th anniversary. Union Pacific brought in the "Centennial" DDA40X, #6936 for display during Labor Day weekend. My dad and I spent an entire day, and into the night for night photos of several Union Pacific locomotives.
Just a few lingering Hummers are around - hopefully a few more will show up after the storm passes tomorrow. I got up early (really!) to get a few shots in. I decided to try for an "extra" close shot. I didn't want to use the macro and risk scaring them.
I used a 300mm lens with a 2X TC and about 56mm of extension tubes for this shot. Starting with decent light which deteriorated with each thing I added to the lens left me with 1/60th of a second at f/13 even at ISO 640 from a distance of about 2 meters. This bird is in flight and you can see all the little blurry wing action. No crop.
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A rarity on the Marion Branch, two sections of 174 going to Elkhart. The second 174 passes by Fox Station at CP72.
99$... damn how i missed those days... & the fact that one of my cousins worked at champs and hooked it up with a 30% off on top of that....
66065, seen at the coastal path at Fontygarry in the Vale of Glamorgan, heads east along the coastline to Barry, working the 4C46 coal empties from Aberthaw to Tower Colliery.
The "Clean it Up" sign at the footpath stile is perhaps apt as Aberthaw power station, seen to the left, is sadly scheduled for closure in 2023. Apparently, Npower is opting out of the Industrial Emissions Directive. It appears that political pressure and green legislation is impacting considerably on our energy industry - www.utilityweek.co.uk/news/rwe-npower-to-close-aberthaw-a....
Looking up at the tips of the hoodoos through the narrow slot canyon between them. Navajo trail, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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An EMRPS/Timeline Events photo shoot with D832, Onslaught at the Great Central Railway on loan from the Bury Hydraulic Group.
Had to drop my lady friend off at the airport this morning at 5:15 am and I figured I hadn't been up that early in a while so I would walk down the beach and take some pictures. I'm glad I did.
EMD's CP 2209 and UP 4324 lead CP 253 past Lasalle Yard, a nice break from the usual GE's on this and other CP trains.
The telescope in an amateur astronomer's roll-off-roof observatory is looking high up in the sky, while a flaring stallite paints a streak of light in the heavens.
This photo is a stack of two 30-second exposures (Canon EOS 550D, ISO 1600, f/4.0) taken with a 8mm fisheye lens. A time lapse sequence, covering 2 hours and 45 minutes, can be seen here.
For more information about the observatory, and to see the excellent astrophotos taken with this equipment, check out Bernhard Hubl's website.