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My love is not one that will lose it’s worth
my speed is like that one you knew
when you lit
Up the sky
Up the sky
Your light is that of my sweet breath when weaving
I am the iris of your pathway leading
To the sky
As the sky
Come back to senses in the space between us
The small blue of your open eyes is as vast
As the sky
As the sky “
Sandrayati.
A westbound North Platte, Nebraska to Roseville, California manifest struggles up the east side of the Pequops with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas heritage locomotive leading. The MNPRV's EOT is still in Utah with the UT/NV state line just around the curve in the distance.
UP 1988 ~ MNPRV ~ Tecoma, Nevada
Union Pacific's Lakeside Subdivision
02.10.2025
This is a close-up photo of rusting, weathered details on an old train engine at the Railway Museum in Musquodoboit Harbour.
Sort of a mixed bag of results from this AM. Drove way too far for some decent shots but in the end it's worth it when you can get a clean one on the point.
Probably the only train worth shooting on the whole subdivision this morning was this loaded coal train with the UP 8522 leading with on of the new repaints with the large shield on the nose.
This shot is between Midland and Lawrence on the UP Kansas Sub as it makes the bend around the curve to head south towards Lawrence.
This Carolina Wren was bouncing around in the flowerbed and went into the cone flowers. I thought it was cute how it popped out in the middle. My backyard, Central Bucks PA.
I have a good number of Willughby's leafcutter bees going about their busy bee lives in my garden in the summer, but I met this lovely female nectaring on common restharrow at St Cyrus NNR. I love the distinctive pose that leafcutters adopt when nectaring, pointing their (often pollen-laden) bottom up! ... so Bottoms Up for a happy weekend everyone!
In my garden taking pictures of little birds at my bird feeding place, this jackdaw with an attitude was so close that my 600mm prime lens could only take a close-up of this black bird species.
CP H23 returns to Lambton with a totally random UP SD70ACe leading away, this certainly caught me off guard.
1111 and 1979 are the power on the Valley Turn running West on the UP Omaha Subdivision.
For sure standing where we weren't supposed to be, the crew didn't seem to mind.
It was a pretty good morning chasing some trains on the UP as they actually ran some eastbounds with clean paint back to back. I was going to go longer west but a quick check of the parked train at Linwood forced me back east in a hurry. I've been wanting to catch one of these new image units for a while now and I have been out of town the other times they came through.
New image UP 8366 rolling east at MP 24.25 on the UP Kansas Sub this AM shortly after sunrise with a loaded coal bucket. I'm still not sure what I think of this scheme so far. I like the look of the 'medium' sized shield on this one vs. the larger shield on some of the others. Kinda reminds be of the endless fleet of SD40-2's back in the 1980's.
Another shot from last Friday evening down at Princess Pier, Torquay where James Prestwood & Keith McFarlane were Flyboarding. This was a shot of James carrying out a 360 back flip.
Railfirst B80 and VL353 use the Fast Line through Warragul, operating Qube's 9476 Maryvale Paper Train from the mill to Melbourne's Victoria Dock.
B80s time being leased to Qube and ownership with CFCLA may be up, as it has been rumoured that it has been sold.
Giddy Up pair of old leather stirrups waiting to be attached to the right saddle, just another of the odd things I have found, shot in North Carolina.
Harkening back to a time when waves of armor yellow painted SD40-2s were standardizing road power on Union Pacific's portion of the Overland Route, a trio of North Little Rock 'rebuilds' burst out of Hermosa Tunnel with the newly introduced 'Laramie Hauler'. Still a match for the task the trio of EMD workhorses still look right at home against the snow dusted granite faces of Wyoming's Sherman Hill.
UP 1905 ~ LLZ51 ~ Hermosa Tunnels, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
03.16.2019
Having executed a perfect 'rolling meet' at Bealville the Mojave Sub Dispatcher has kept an eastbound BNSF Z moving up the mountain, while Union Pacific's ZLCLT and its colorful headend consist continues on its quest for Northern California.
UP 1988 ~ ZLCLT ~ Bealville (Allard), California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
05.12.2015
Union Pacific SD40-2 3625 leads the westbound HKLA (Hinkle - Los Angeles) manifest westbound through Devils Gap at Uvada, UT on November 21, 1987.
Under muffled clouds, 20K tons of California bound manifest has a quintet of road jacks (3x2xFRED) down on their hands and knees just below Cobre, Nevada on what was once Southern Pacific's portion of the Overland Route. There are still several miles before the worst of the grade will be achieved at Valley Pass, giving the crew plenty of time to name the sagebrush along the right of way ;)
UP 1988 ~ MNPRV ~ Cobre, Nevada
Union Pacific's Lakeside Subdivision
02.10.2025
Story time: On our way to the LS&I in Marquette, MI, we spent the night in Saint Paul. The next morning was spent catching various trains around the Twin Cities. We were driving along the river and we noticed the UP bridge was down and signal was lit. We barely missed the head-end of the MSSAL on the bridge and decided to make our way to the walking path in the event of a nose-out DPU. There was another photographer already there and he asked how we were planning on shooting this train. We replied that we were hoping for a nose-out DPU and he said, “there is. It’s the 1943 as a manned helper.” Needless to say we were completely shocked when, sure enough, 1943 came around the curve, headlights on, shoving the train.