Private Varnish
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Amid some of Spanish Fork Canyon’s early autumn color, an eastbound Union Pacific Board of Directors special passes through Castilla, Utah, on September 30, 2000. Powering the 15-car passenger train over the grades of Soldier Summit is new EMD SD70M No. 4167 and three E9s.
Happiness is catching a streamlined passenger train dashing through new snow. UP's Provo, Utah - Council Bluffs, Iowa officer special is on the old D&RGW near Bluffdale, Utah on April 5, 2023.
Desert storms, microorganisms, and soil create dramatic and colorful paintings on canyon walls. I added a little of my own artistic drama.
The Union Pacific can sure put together a nice looking business train as witness the P-GJDV 22 descending into the Denver area this afternoon. The 11-car train, powered by the 4533 and the 3001, is shown approaching Blue Mountain crossing between Plainview and Eisele, Colorado, about 22.5 miles west of the Mile High City. Photo by Joe McMillan, September 22, 2021, 3:24 p.m.
Union Pacific Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe No. 1989 leads an eastbound Operation Lifesaver special east of Payne on Colorado’s North Fork Subdivision on June 14, 2009. Behind 1989 is UP E9B No. 963B, and on the other end is GE AC4400CW No. 7250 used as lead locomotive on westbound trips on the branch.
Another view of the Wire Pass Slot Canyon. It's so narrow when people coming from the other direction approach they wait in alcoves for room to continue. In this area the walls are streaked with desert varnish.
The Empire Builder accelerates west after its station stop in Shelby, Montana. Railroad location is Teton, where the Sweet Grass Sub branches off the Hi Line toward the Canadian border. October 6, 2000.
Here, the BNSF 3696, a very clean ET44C4 is at Tecumseh, KS on the home stretch of its trip with the O-BIRTOP. This is on the east side of Tecumseh, at Shadden Rd., which is the first town east of Topeka.
Video of the train can be seen here: youtu.be/OKx43-L6aXg
In October 1983, an eastbound Golden Arrow Lines passenger train is east of Cross Plains, Wisconsin, on a Spring Green to Middleton excursion on Central Wisconsin Railroad Company’s affiliated railroad, the Wisconsin Western Railroad. The train is powered with a former Rio Grande EMD F7 that was recently used on the defunct Chicago, Madison and Northern. Glen Monhart’s ACL E3 No. 501 is on the other end and led the westbound leg of the trip.
Temporary loss of Insanity
no wait... I mean a permanent fracture of sanity.. anyway...
Title is a joke for a friend
I'll have to fix this later but for now, what ever you do, don't look at this!:
With a whopping 18 passenger cars in the consist, a Union Pacific Office Car Special grinds upgrade as they head west at the site of daylighted Tunnel 28. This train is rumored to be traveling Utah's Cane Creek Branch later this week before continuing to Salt Lake City.
B40-31 shoves back through Airline Junction into joint KCS/CP Knoche yard after dropping down from Ottumwa on CP's Laredo and Kansas City subdivisions.
The cars from this train will soon be tacked on the end of the KCS business train, already tucked away in the yard, for a run south to Texas and Louisiana the week of 6 June.
Thanks to WR and ER for the heads-up on this early-morning run. Although I got CF-ed in Chillicothe, I am somewhat OK with this crap high-sun shot. First look for me at a CP heritage unit.
Members of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society ride in Car Northland behind DM&IR 332 near Palmers.
The annual AAPRCO Autumn Explorer on the Vermont Rail System passes Crystal Lake in Barton, VT on the Washington County Lyndonville Sub on a Fall afternoon in the Northeast Kingdom.
Varnished and colorful (like toffee apples)
(Amanites tue-mouches ou fausses oronges - Amanita muscaria)
This afternoon, I was able to catch the UP 4533 leading the PCBST 31, a business train that was running from Council Bluffs, IA to Santa Teresa, NM. It was definitely occupied, and running on quite the aggressive schedule today.
Here, it's see rolling through CP Z067 in Topeka, shortly before turning onto the Topeka Sub towards Herington.
The Union Pacific engineering special from Mason City to Proviso passes the former Chicago & North Western depot in Clinton, IA.
July 19, 2017.
Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4533 and EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3001 lead this eastbound 11-car OCS train through East Cliff along South Boulder Creek on September 22, 2021.
PGJDV 22
Pinecliffe, Colorado
…By It’s Suitors, Even.
A very old wooden cupboard door being stripped of ancient layers of paint and varnish, transforming it into a gallery-quality artwork.
Homage to Marcel Duchamp.
#Flickr21Challenge 10. #Artistry
These keys used to be busy with our children practicing piano lessons, but now it sits idle and provides me photo opportunities.
Desert varnish or rock varnish is an orange-yellow to black coating found on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments. Desert varnish is usually around one micrometer thick and represents nanometer-scale layering. Rock rust and desert patina are other terms which are also used for the condition, but less often.
Valley Of Fire State Park, Nevada.
Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
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Interesting Story About This Photo: This photo illustrates desert varnish (the darker red and black vertical lines) , a phenomena present in the American Southwest and in many other places in the world. I posted this photo on my personal Woodchuck Images site and it was found by an author , Dr. John Rakovan, who was preparing an article for Rocks and Minerals Magazine. His article and my photo and were published in the article in the September/October 2006 issue. From the magazine: "Figure 1: Streaks of desert varnish formed on a rock wall where water commonly flows during rainstorms in Capital Gorge, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. The black coloration is due to hirnessite, (an oxide mineral of manganese) as the dominant pigmenting agent." Elsewhere in the article: The coatings of desert varnish are thin, usually less than 0.5 mm, and their rate of formation is slow , taking as long as two hundred thousand years to form in some cases.
Synchronicity strikes again! I wasn't thrilled about the photo of moi we had posted on GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/care-for-katharine (no makeup, bum lighting, no photoshopping) and was kind of wracking my brain with the thought 'Who do I know who is a professional photographer?!' when a message came in from Candace Freeland, a woman I knew years ago when we both lived in a small town in Iowa. I had not seen her in decades. She lives 20 minutes from our house. She is a professional photographer!!
She was very happy to come to our house (bringing makeup with her ... I no longer own any), and then lit & photographed me, and photoshopped an image after the fact that I feel good about because it brings out more light and life. This is it. Either this chain of events was a wildly unlikely coincidence or my guardian angel is exquisitely alert and responsive. I lean toward the latter. Thank you, Candace!
On a pleasant Sunday afternoon, I had free time in my day to run up to the St. Joe Sub and photograph this southbound BNSF business train, led by the 7183. This lengthy train was the O-SPOTOP (Office, Spokane-Topeka), and was simply a deadhead move back to the Shops, so it wasn't running with any sort of authority.
Here, it's just north of the siding at Halls, where they put the train in to meet another. Unfortunately, this is where I had to call off my mini-chase, but I'm happy to have seen and photographed this one!
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We are about to varnish the floors & Etta has had surgery to remove more suspicious lumps... so empty room & Etta with stitches.
Daily Dog Challenge: Be Creative
Or, what I did on summer vacation retirement. Still in progress as there is one more wider bookcase to be assembled once varnishing is done.
another of the ugly black rocks I found a long time ago, in a place far away! this is the most curious of the lot, with lots of color............
The old Standard Varnish Works on Richmond Terrace near the Bayonne Bridge in Elm Park, Staten Island, NY. Which had open vats of liquid chemicals and solvents stored in its yard during the nineteenth century touching off an explosion and five alarm fire. The raging inferno could be seen out over Newark Bay in the evening and fire departments from New jersey were called in to extinguish the massive blaze which had spread on to the water and threatened shipping docked nearby.
Standeat Varnish continued in operation thereafter and became Standard T Chemical operating until 1982 when it closed down and the property sold. It has since become a NYC Landmark.