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This photo was taken from the California Zephyr as it exits tunnel 35 in Gore Canyon..
Gore Canyon for a lot of people is one of the hi lites of the train journey between Chicago and Emeryville ( San Fransisco Ca ) The geotag information in thie series of photo's is not exact- but as they are all in Gore Canyon i have spread them out along the canyon
Gore Canyon
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The Colorado River in Gore Canyon, showing the Denver and Rio Grande Western mainline
Gore Canyon is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. The steep and rugged canyon, approximately 3 miles (5 km) long, was carved by the river as it passed the northern end of the Gore Range southwest of Kremmling. The Colorado descends from approximately 7300 ft to approximately 7000 ft over the length of the canyon. The steep walls ascend approximately 1000 ft on either side. The canyon effectively marks the southwestern end of the Middle Park basin in north central Colorado.
The canyon is roadless and inaccessible by most traffic, except for the mainline of the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad). Despite the short length, the canyon presented a formidable obstacle for the railroad and the building of the line through it was considered a monumental engineering achievement in its day. Although the canyon is not directly accessible by roads, it is possible to view part of the canyon from the Grand County road that passes along its southern rim, as part of the Colorado Headwaters Scenic Byway. Amtrak's California Zephyr passenger train also travels through the canyon.
Gore Canyon is also famous for its wild class V whitewater. "Captain" Samuel Adams considered it unnavigable by boat during his expedition in the 1800s. The construction of the railroad has added boulders and other hazards that have since made the river even more difficult.
Today, expert kayakers frequent the canyon, and now even hold a river festival including races and other river celebrations. The Gore Canyon Whitewater Festival is held every year on the third Saturday of August and is also the host of the US National White Water Rafting Championship. Gore Canyon was first rafted in the 1970s, and now is even available as a commercial river raft trip. Most outfitters agree that Gore Canyon's whitewater is the wildest commercially available whitewater rafting in the state of Colorado, and perhaps in the nation. If you are brave enough to raft or kayak Gore Canyon, you will run rapids such as Pyrite, Tunnel Falls, and Gore Rapid. This is true wild water, so unless you are an expert river runner, Gore Canyon is considered a very dangerous section of the Colorado River.
To be fair, I had to build EMD's Tier 4 test loco as well. Although this is billed as a Tier 3.5 loco, UP and EMD hope to learn much about Tier 4 possibilities through this unit. UP calls it an SD59MX; a rebuilt and modified SD60MAC. It was just funky enough to draw me back to the Armor Yellow. I didn't have to order a single part for this build, but I did borrow a few pieces from my son (Thanks Bo!). It was a nice challenging distraction from all those ES44ACs and SD70ACes I've been building lately.
Estudo de Pin up, mais uma da série com cores extravagantes... Eu gosto dessa coisa meio fantasiosa, fazer cores que não se combinam combinarem... =]
Meu scanner zoou um pouco as cores, mas aà está.
caneta de Nanquim + Lápis de cor
Made from a XXL Men's plaid cowboy shirt.
Includes pockets, quick tear away snaps, and a sewn in elastic.
modeled by the ever spunky juliet.
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N467 The "City of Stawell" embarks down hill out of Moonee Ponds with 8322 UP Shepparton Pass
Friday 13th December 2013
The UP 1972 leads the same COKNS that I saw at Blodgett Southbound on the fill at Bensenville, IL minutes away from arriving at Proviso yard.
UP #4014 rolls through Silverwood on UP's Mojave Subdivision before entering onto BNSF's Cajon Subdivision.
April 28th, 2014
Extra Union Pacific Railroad GTEL (Gas Turbine Electric Locomotive) 30 at Roscoe, Nebraska on May 31, 1962, Kodachrome by Dick Rumbolz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Trailing Number 30 are two SD24B's, one SD24, and a caboose, followed by the rest of the train.
Third time caught this week! MSSAL blasts through Roberts with former Southern Pacific AC4400CW #6367 in lead.
An impressive line up of Spitfires at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. All aircraft were capable of flight and ranged from a Mark 1 to a Mark 19
Looking up though an Industar 50-2 f/3.5 pancake lens.
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Another emotional picture of Nelson looking up. The colors are a bit strange due to the reflection of the window...
UP 8894 leads a detoured Z train through the Feather River Canyon due to a derailment on the Nevada Sub.
Don Quintana (aka Ol' Snipe Eyes) can see birds when no one else can. Here he is showing Jerry Kirkhart something I could not even see.
This is Kellie Wulfsohn's 'A little birdie told me' Mini quilt from my book Whip Up Mini Quilts. The applique design is very flexible.
May 1989 finds the UP 8444 just entering the Oregon Trunk Sub on the BN. This was a great chase day, we got photos at several locations without being jackasses. (But it was hard not to be....this was my first exposure to big steam on the high iron! Many thanks to the gang at Vancouver from back then for teaching me a little etiquette ahead of time!)
Hint: If you look at the large view you can see the first rays of sunlight hitting two of the pillars.