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Taking the long way to Englewood Yard, MFWEW 03 creeps down UP's Galveston Sub, aka the GH&H, east of downtown Houston.
Sunrise Success
It’s now 34 minutes after the sun has risen over the east horizon, the temperature near 20 degrees. My hands are frozen, my face is freezing, but my ability to press the shutter button still remains. It’s not always a guarantee I capture what I imagined in my head, but I definitely capture something. Here is a decent something. It’s one of 87 T4 ACes on the roster, and it is in charge of the daily Portland - North Platte manifest, today’s version being very short and overpowered.
The new scheme has stopped growing on me and I’ve decided I will never recover from the disappearance of the beloved wings. Considering the rather dreadful pace at which UP repaints their units, there is a good chance the wings return down the road long before the current ones ever disappear. Eventually two negatives make a positive.
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February 11, 2025 - 7:49AM
Rowena, OR // UP Portland Sub
I know there's plenty of nice railroading and scenic places in Nebraska but this scene with the narrow strip of corn between the UP main and US Rt 30 describes the state for me. At the time I thought it strange to take advantage of every possible piece of land for planting corn. Now I read that it's not only that but leaving a few rows of corn by a highway (or railroad) act as a natural snow fence. Clever. I haven't been to Nebraska to railfan yet. I was passing through on a 2 week family trip from Ohio to North Carolina for a family reunion then to Aspen for a conference where I gave a talk. (4 kids from 4 to 10, 4000 miles in 2 weeks in a minivan. Great time) Not much railfanning but in Nebraska we took the slightly slower Rt 30 across the state to see the trains that UP was running. Having the best SD40 of the group leading helped this shot. July 15, 1995 east of Kearney, Nebraska
Stacks at sunset from the outcrop known as Point of Rocks near Potter, NE.
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5-20-1994
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.
Canon Sureshot 90u
Ilford XP2 400 super @ 400
Home developed in Tetenal C41, Epson V 850 scanned.
My German Shepard Marco, on a walk with the Canon sureshot 90u point & shoot,& some XP2
A gorgious sun-rise on Akimoto ko.
Captured with the new Nikon 19mm f4 T/S.
The day I took this picture tragically ended up being the last day I had the chance to see a very good friend of mine, as I found out months later.
Falling behind 90% of the massive pace line after the Havens stop; compounded by two separate sections of single lane construction areas on Highway 30 meant there was no chance of winning a race to the Columbus servicing stop, so I settled in for a slow drive into town. As I'd planned, I used the service stop to get ahead to Schuyler for my third shot. Shockingly, I was alone when rolling up to one of the signature Columbus Sub shots at Schuyler's twin Wagner Mills elevators. Only three other photographers and a few locals were present by train time.
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Union Pacific C30-7 2426 leads an empty grain train east along the Columbia River at Heppner Jct, Oregon on August 3, 1989.
Seemingly freshly minted Hoover, 50008 'Thunderer', lives up to its name as she makes a spirited start from Totnes station up the infamous Rattery Bank - one of the three significant inclines on the route between Exeter and Plymouth collectively known as the South Devon Banks.
While it's not particularly visible in this view Rattery Bank starts almost at the end of the platform and lasts for just over 4 miles varying between 1 in 45 and 1 in 80, before easing to 1 in 90 and then increasing to 1 in 65.
The route was such a challenge in steam days that an extra loco was required for the heavy expresses, and later even the diesels wouldn't treat this route lightly with any weakness potentially a source of delay, or worse, an embarrassing failure. It wouldn't be the first time I've ridden up where, even under clear signals, the train was barely doing 10 mph over the top.
Given the apparently relaxed ambience of the driver looking out of the side window, I'm presuming on this occasion 50008 was as good 'under the bonnet' as she looked externally. Or maybe he was just waiting for the right-hand curve a few hundred yards up the track to look back and check he still had eleven on!
Despite being withdrawn from BR service in 1992, 50008 has lived on under private ownership and has even hauled a few freight trains around the network over the last 12 months.
I'm guessing I took this from Malt Hill over-bridge before the A381 'Western Bypass' was built impeding the view looking the other way.
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31st July 1979
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There is only one contemporary artist – Haegue Yang from South Korea – who works with geometrically shaped blinds. I saw a large-scale installation in the Tate Modern (2015, London), another at a central place in Centre Pompidou (2016, Paris).
The remarkable installation that Yang is now showing in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is called 'Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun'. By adding light and sound, an orchestrated form of time is created. Whoever opens up awaits a theatrical experience. While various light sources skim unpredictably along the metal grid, Isang Yang's plaintive 'Double Concerto' carves itself ever deeper into the soul.
This artistic encounter between Haegue Yang (1971, Seoul) and Isang Yun (1917-1995) could be called a leap in time. Yun wrote his 'Double Concerto' (for small orchestra, harp and oboe) in 1977, when Yang was just a little girl. The rendezvous (the meeting) expresses a long-standing wish, namely the reunification of North and South Korea.
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