This building is so interesting. It really is curved in an extraordinary way. Not that it's easy to prove that in a photograph. Taken with the iPhone, and edited (some creative effects applied) in the flickr app.

UP-I7612 Ilyushin IL-76T (0003425746) Eastern Express, wfu at Osh, Kyrgyzstan on 12/07/19

BNSF 6183 is here at Ostrom and is about to shove back to Binney Jct after the train ahead pulled a drawbar.

UP 5940 heads downhill at Gold Run.

Here I go again. Trying to fly. In theory, levitation shots are easy. In reality, pulling it off and having it look as awesome as I want it to be, is extremely harder than it looks. This one isn't too bad, yet it still is not to my exacting demands.

I guess I'll just have to keep at it...

Tilikum swims up...SeaWorld, Orlando.

he is the big bull orca here.

The only way I can 'capture' these is with the camera set on 'sports' mode....works in daylight okay....they move so fast, any other setting and you would miss it

Project Soul Pancake - Week 7: Stay up all night

The latest Soul Pancake challenge was to stay up all night and I knew that while I could remember and reminisce about nights that I was still awake when the sun came up, I knew I could not complete the challenge now. I love my sleep. I get about 8-9 hours a night, so staying up all night sounds like pure hell to me.

When I was younger, It was fun and crazy and it didn't affect me the next day so much, but If I were to stay up all night now, at 41, I would be paying for it for days. So the only way I would stay up all night at this point in my life would be if I just could not sleep. Not voluntarily.

There are nights now where I get very little sleep if something is on my mind or I or one of my peeps are sick or something, and then I toss and turn and start to get very aggravated. The more I can't sleep, the more frustrated I get, making it harder to relax and fall asleep.

I know there will be challenges I can't totally 100% complete. But I can depict them in photos and think about what it would be like and toss things around in my head that normally might not be there and this is what I dig about this cool group.

Union Pacific Railroad E8 934 at Cheyenne, Wyoming on August 27, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 934 was built in April 1953 (c/n 17786) on EMD Ordert 2052, sold to PNC in September 1972, re-sold to the C&NW becoming 508. While still on the UP, the prime movers were upgraded to 12-567C's, producing a 2400 horsepower E8. As C&NW 508, it was assigned to the commuter service pool, the steam generators were removed and replaced with a Detroit Diesel HEP unit. On December 31, 1977, C&NW 508 was sold to the RTA and leased back for operation, retired by the RTA on May 2, 1983, final disposition unknown.

(Random close up wild flower seen on Shoreham beach. No idea of name......)

Welcome to red rock country!

Union Pacific 4730 & Ferromex 4077 form the motive power of train LDG-451-B; the sundays only Potash Local on the Cane Creek Sub.

Een stukje voorbij Moab, aan de Colorado river, staat een mijn, waar Potash gedolven wordt; een zoutachtige substantie die veel in kunstmest gebruikt wordt.

De Potash mijn wordt normaal gesproken enkel op zondagen bediend. Op andere dagen wordt de spoorlijn bij Moab namelijk geblokkeerd doordat op de lijn vrijwel de gehele dag een containertrein staat. Die trein vervoert een belangrijker goedje; namelijk met uranium verontreinigde grond en heeft derhalve voorrang. Maar goed nieuws voor de liefhebber; aangezien zondag de enige mogelijke rijdag is van de Potash local, is de kans groot de trein ook daadwerkelijk te treffen.

Na echter ruime tijd gewacht te hebben in de Bootlegger Canyon moest ik op een gegeven ogenblik opgeven; het begon serieus te regenen én ik kreeg honger. De trein was dan ook al serieus een paar uur te laat. Terug bij de auto...u raadt het al...passeerde hij echter alsnog.

Gelukkig is de snelheid op het traject naast de Colorado River erg laag; een mijl of 10 per uur, harder zal het niet gaan. De trein is dan ook snel ingehaald.

Een eerste fatsoenlijke foto toont de Union Pacific 4730 (EMD SD70M) en Ferromex 4077 (EMD SD70Ace) met hun trein LDG-451-B van Grand Junction naar Potash naast een gruwelijk groot rotsblok.

Al had ik een paartje GP40-2's verwacht...ik was al erg blij dat de trein toch kwam opdagen!

26 april 2015

UP 1995 Oak Park IL.

lackadaisical's interest in Readmore inspired me to upload all my photos of his graffiti. See them all here.

UP SD70M 5025 at Silver Bow, Montana on September 3, 2014.

Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT

Canon EFS 18-55mm lens

Parasol lit up

Today I had some time to work on my Up house. I finished the yellow wall section above the bay window. I tried 3 or 4 different ways to construct the wall section, this one is the final one, but I'm not sure if I'm 100% satisfied about it. Still need a shit load of pink bricks.

hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go

ever wondered how BR MK1 coach E4325 came to be stranded in the original platform 2 at Huddersfield station?. well, it was craned in on a sunday afternoon. here it is, about to lined up for going back on it's bogies. It was a right job getting it under the canopy, the coach roof banged against it at the last moment and there were a few creaking sounds, but nothing broke. the crane driver couldn't see a thing, a skilled radio operator talked the operation through and it was amazing seeing it done. 25th November 1985.

Norma of Crankbunny's PikaPackage contributions -- pop-up cards! Look here to find out more!

UP SD40-2 3098 sits in a small yard in West Chicago, IL. There are sometimes SD40-2s sitting in this yard, and others have shot them, but I can care less! A UP snoot nosed SD40-2 in 2010 is defiantly not worth passing up no matter what the circumstance!

ilustración para www.pinkit.cl

UP 6000 4-21-12 Clyman WI 2nd Sand Train of the day

Close up of "Create For Yourself" doodle.

Close Up Close Up Close Up

Eastbound freight rounding the bend near Crates, a couple miles outside of The Dalles, Oregon. The Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge is in the background.

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.

The real UP 9900.

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 aí está.

caneta de Nanquim + Lápis de cor

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Leica M3

Leica Summicron 2.0 35

((subconscioussubliminalcontext))

UP SD60M 2247 heads light through Homewood, IL after cutting off of YPRCN.

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.

geaux.etsy.com

Karolinenviertel - Hamburg

UP coal train above Santa Fe Junction at Kansas City, KS 11/24/05

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.

Here is my new white seamless backdrop. kind of limited on space but i can make it work. learned a lot tonight, never shot with a backdrop before. lot more to learn.

set up for this shot

for those who are curious, HERE is how I mounted the backdrop.

UP #4014 rolls through Silverwood on UP's Mojave Subdivision before entering onto BNSF's Cajon Subdivision.

April 28th, 2014

UP 9000 was also included in the photography session at Pomona last night. Here's a ground view of 9000, which involved laying down on the ground.

August 17th, 2013