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“Cumulonimbus Capillatus Incus” (Redux) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Cum-u-what? Yeah, that’s Greek, I mean Latin for the ominous anvil cloud formation that hangs over the elevations of the pristine-pine-covered Coeur d’Alene National Forest, having the potential of delivering the blow of a pounding thunderstorm that would make Thor proud. Closer to the ground and the action at hand, the former Northern Pacific rails upon which a newly re-minted pair of second generation BNSF Geeps peen and ply are weather beaten and hammered beyond recognition not only having bowed laterally but kinked and buckled at the joints from over 100-years of usage and eventual non-usage and disrepair. A sorry state of affairs that does little justice to their past and present owner’s proud heritage. Post Falls, on the Coeur d'Alene branch, is just across the border from Washington in the Panhandle. Once served by several railroads, notably the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Milwaukee Road, and Union Pacific (and their respective predecessors), is now a monopoly. The zenith of service over ten decades slowly, steadily tapering off from hard usage to a trickle: once a week. Down from as many as five days a week not too long ago. It is doubtful that branchlines like these will weather many more storms before succumbing to abandonment rendering images like this to the annals of railroad antiquity. Get your pictures while you can! If not this branchline, then one close to you. As rail enthusiasts, we have the responsibility to document these scenes for future generations of railfans. (27Jul16 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #bnsfrailway #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #thunderclouds #thor #color #nationalforest #milwaukeeroad #coeurdalene #pnw_rrshots #artofrailroad #trb_express #pastel #sonyalphaclub #sunset #crepuscular #eveninglight #magiclight #intheevening #lastlight #zenith #cumulonimbus #thunder #abandoned (at Post Falls, Idaho)

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Continuing #bluetrainweek with CEFX 1032 leading a CP train through the sleepy town of Chaplin, Saskatchewan in August 2008. CP leases a fair number of CEFX units and they are often seen on their trains. The grain elevator here is a former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator, now used for seed storage, I believe.⠀ #trb_express #railroad #tv_transport #railway #pnw_rrshots #pocket_rail #rsa_theyards #jj_theyards #ptk_vehicles #total_vehicles #got_vehicles #rail_barons #everything_transport #railwaysofcanada #train_chasers #train_nerds #trains_r_the_best #end_of_track #artofrailroad #railmarkable #railfans #railfans_of_instagram #railfannation #railways_of_america #railways_of_our_world #railways_of_germany #ig_trainspotting #trainspotting #north_american_rail_pictures via Instagram http://ift.tt/2nTEwZX

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"After the Storm..." ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ There is something aesthetic, like eye-candy in the iconic EMD design and style. Here, case-in-point, Ninety-two Ninety-eight West and her crew leave the storm behind and charge 'round the superelevated curve into the rapidly receding day's rays just west of Lamphier beginning their descent down Sprague Hill into its namesake township and along the expansive namesake lake en route to Pasco and beyond. (30Mar17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #bnsfrailway #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #keen #wrangler #zeisslens #sunshine #sunset #sd70ace #pnw_rrshots #easternwashington #storm #stormclouds #clouds #afterthestorm #intheevening #iconic #aesthetic #color #magiclight #orange #black #descent #artofrailroad (at Sprague, Washington)

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"Calling Paducah '8325'" ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Former Illinois Central Paducahbilt GP10, rebuilt from Union Pacific GP9B 160B, now in service with the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad. (17Mar17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #railroadphotography #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #keen #wrangler #zeisslens #paducah #illinois #pendoreille #priestriver #idaho #black #smalltown #pnw_rrshots #rustic #numbers #unionpacific #rust #artofrailroad #industrial #oldschool #oldiron #locomotive #trb_express (at Priest River, Idaho)

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“All Night Train” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Working through the night, here, in the smallest moments of midnight, droplets of a warming spring rain bless the new day as a grain-laden Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad eastbound necessarily, but ever so momentarily disturbes the peace as Engineer Bruce Butler nimbly rumbles his train through Creston, Washington where some 200 sleeping souls reside, giving notice of the train’s arrival and just as quickly, its departure at each of the don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it town’s six proximate grade crossings though there isn’t a living soul waiting to cross any of them save his conductor whose constant vigilance ensures the train moves over mile-upon-mile of right-of-way safely and efficiently conducting repeated trackside inspections as the train moves from town-to-town while spotting empties at or picking up loaded covered hoppers from under the myriad grain spouts along the line whether rainy morning, mid summer’s day heat, or dead of night. Such is the business of a railroader: foregoing, even sacrificing any normalcy to his private life. (06Apr17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #railroadphotography #ipulledoverforthis #fstoppers #nightshots #nighttrain #nightmoves #pnw_rrshots #rain #raindrops #midnight #tracks #trackside #lights #nightshift #railroader #soul #living #deadofnight #night #black #smalltown #grain #sacrifice #mile #longhours #crossing #trainspotting #inspection (at Creston, Washington)

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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object." - Albert Camus ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ (12Mar17 ©) #pnw_rrshots #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #keen #wrangler #zeisslens #zwielicht #twilight #bluehour #sonya6000 #sonyalpha #bnsfrailway #sunset #crepuscular #eveninglight #magiclight #intheevening #lastlight #sonyalphaclub #rising #aviary #lightroom #climbing #ascending #truth #beautiful (at Beatrice, Washington)

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“Delta Dawn” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Dawn begins to break into a new day as the sun pushes the darkness ahead of herself pressing the ever-shifting layers of Jovian-seeming clouds like curtains of the night aside finding the searching deltoid beam of a westing Eastern Washington Gateway empty glinting off the railhead on the more than 125-year-old right-of-way. Having dipped down from the gradually flattening 1.20% grade at Hanson five miles yonder with two units and an abbreviated file of PS2’s and ACF’s it now bears down on the bearly-stirring 150-soul hamlet eponymous of early settler John Hartline (German, Anglo-Saxon for strong or bold). And though the crew has no work here today, Engineer Ted Curphy will signal their “just-passing-through” as he chimes the iconic Nathan-crisp two longs, one short, one long twice: once at Range Street just a stones through from the Assembly of God Chruch where the “light” is, still, always on and shortly thereafter at Main-Chelan Street where between, butted-tightly along the tracks, stand the sky-scrapping elevators of grain. (07Mar17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #dawn #daybreak #morning #church #assemblyofgod #german #anglosaxon #pnw_rrshots #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #keen #wrangler #zeisslens #light #adobelightroom #somnambulist #jevoistout #easternwashington #clouds #golden #deltoid #blue #crepusculo #crepuscular #newday #night (at Hartline, Washington)

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“Hang-Ten-High” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and freezing morn, still, the stars on high pierce the thinly nebulous veil with their delicate primordial, lightyears-since immitted, scintillating luminescence. Minutes later – stars following – the train is on the move swinging out onto the 3,950-foot-long, some 175-feet-high Latah Bridge into Spokane Washington and points east disappearing into BNSF's vast reticular rail network. (28Feb17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #bnsfrailway #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #manfrotto #keen #wrangler #zeisslens #nightshots #nighttrain #nightmoves #longexposure_shots #stars #clouds #bridge #pnw_rrshots #vast #spokane #lightyears #delicate #freezing #network #disappear #primordial #columbia #junction #pierce #veil #piercetheveil (at Spokane, Washington)

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I’ve had this image ready to post for several weeks all the while ruminating, pondering its backstory, even asking family and friends for input yet every attempt to alchemize “words” produced no auric compound, only lead. In the small, still, still-black hours of this morning I simply let it go and resigned to the immutable fact that some images need no words for they – mere words – would diminish the raw, undressed image as it stands. So I’ll let this image, entitled “Crucible,” speak for itself. (24Jan17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #crucible #railroadphotography #railways #jevoistout #mementomori #pnw_rrshots #nighttrain #nightmoves #ipulledoverforthis #fstoppers #nightshots #gold #words #alchemy #lead #letitgo #darkness #midnight #snow #cold #deadofnight #speak

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“Furnace Hephaestus” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Cooling twilight has set in and lighting conditions for an image are just as bleak and brutal as the terrain. Never to be denied, I’ve reluctantly jacked the ISO to compensate, focusing my barrel straight down the cut on the green target. Aft of me, on its Olympian rise up the Washy from Hinkle Oregon to Spokane Washington, I perceive the on-and-off again growling of a laboring Union Pacific northbound manifest as it ducks in-and-out of numerous short and shorter tunnels along the Palouse River gorge that debouches less than four miles south into the Snake River Canyon which the train has sailed across via the massive 260-foot-high, 3,920-foot-long Joso Bridge some 15 minutes ago, belying the time-exposure effect while betraying its speed – rather lack thereof. Pounding, pound-upon-pound, passing, its volcanic 500-degree exhaust blasts upward, heating my face as four gaping GE stacks slip out – one-by-one – from under the petite Palouse Falls State Park bridge I’m set up on. Foot-by-fought-for-foot, the deafening diesel din in the vise-grip of the basalt cut is compressed and forced skyward drowning out the roaring 200-foot-high Falls less than a thousand steps to the right. Exposure imminent, I quickly review my settings and release the “shutter” anticipating the result. […] As if emanating from the subterranean furnace of Hephaestus – master craftsman of the gods; aka Vulcan, god of fire, blacksmiths, metallurgy, and volcanoes – like the lava that once flowed freely here a mythological train spews forth from the prehistoric womb of this primordial landscape, pervasive of this expansive region: eternally formed by the fire, ice, and water of the gods. Dedicated to my Son Andrew. (12Nov16 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #railroadphotography #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #trains_worldwide #manfrotto #trb_express #volcano #pnw_rrshots #easternwashington #hephaestus #blacksmith #fire #snakeriver #twilight #vulcan #primordial #ice #water #gods #mythology #craftsman #metallurgy #shutter #furnace #master #longexposure_shots #unionpacific (at Palouse Falls State Park)

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"Big Black Rubber Hose" ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Just like the mobile pipeline it is, a Union Pacific unit tank car train slips through Sunset Junction as if it were a big black rubber hose snaking through the city as some of the painted people and faces neath it appear to embrace it while others seem rather tentative, leery, even concerned. Such is the controversy of shipping petroleum products and such by railroads. Regardless of your bent on this heated subject, railroads remain the most efficient form of ground transportation man has ever invented, thus shipping volatile, indispensable products and resources by rail is and will always be the safest, most economical way to do so. Debate aside, the image turned out quite surreal. (14Oct16 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #railroadphotography #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #trainphotography #trains_worldwide #manfrotto #nighttrain #nightmoves #longexposure_shots #pnw_rrshots #unionpacific #sunset #spokane #pipeline #oil #petroleum #blackgold #adobelightroom #color #intheevening #sonyalphaclub #zeiss #sonyalphagang #sonyvisuals #sonyalpha #blue #painting #people #faces (at Sunset Junction)

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“Somewhere East of Eden and West of Creston” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ A long way from their former home in the land of fruits and nuts; even further from their windy birthplace a duce of once bloody-nosed 45’s make 26 unkempt, soon-to-be-loaded with dark northern wheat “scoot” cars follow the undulating “CW” grade laying frozen-prone under drifted snow betwixt the rolling “hills” of Eastern Washington on the steps of the mighty Columbia from which 4,090-foot Johnny George Mountain and Whitestone Ridge of the Columbia Range rise into the brewing Jovian-like atmosphere preparing another thick blanket of white-cold down even before darkness displaces the diffused luminescence and envelops the near dormant, bitter cold opaline land. (07Jan16 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #railroadphotography #pacificnorthwest #ipulledoverforthis #sonyimages #fstoppers #easternwashington #railways_of_america #thenorthface #dickies #pnw_rrshots #manfrotto #trb_express #pastel #shadow #sonyalphagang #jupiter #atmosphere #columbiariver #snow #cold #wheat #jevoistout #mementomori #trainphotography #lightroom #blue #mountains #zeisslens #trains_worldwide (at Creston, Washington)

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Wrapping up #winterrailweek with train NBEC 403 heading north out of Miramichi, NB back in January 2007 with a rare sundog overhead.⠀ ⠀ Thanks to @gneo.s and @asartsev and @justdavegray and @purplepaisleycat and @vexyn_ and @ischimyt and and @perromalnacido and @derek_soanes for playing along! :) ⠀ #train #train_nerds #train_chasers #trains_worldwide #trb_express #railfan #railwaysofcanada #rail_barons #daily_crossing #pocket_rail #artofrailroad #pnw_rrshots #north_american_rail_pictures #splendid_transport #tv_transport #railwayphotography #kings_transport #canadianrailway #rfa_theyards #railfannation #fr8porn #chasingthesetrains #rollingsteel #eisenbahnfotografie #hdr_transports #nbec #miramichi #newbrunswick via Instagram http://ift.tt/2jML06K

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A bright red caboose for #redtrainweek - an ex CN caboose in service on the Hudson Bay Railway between The Pas and Churchill, Manitoba. I spotted it in Thompson, MB in March 2012.⠀ #trb_express #railroad #tv_transport #railway #pnw_rrshots #pocket_rail #rsa_theyards #jj_theyards #ptk_vehicles #total_vehicles #got_vehicles #rail_barons #everything_transport #railwaysofcanada #train_chasers #train_nerds #trains_r_the_best #end_of_track #artofrailroad #railmarkable #railfans #railfans_of_instagram #railfannation #railways_of_america #railways_of_our_world #railways_of_germany #trainspotting #north_american_rail_pictures #caboose via Instagram http://ift.tt/2oeqEtw

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“A River Runs Through It – A Horse Alongside It” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ While spending priceless moments with my Son Alexander these past few days, we decided to check out Palouse Falls knowing that it would be a spectacle thanks to the wettest year on record. We were not disappointed. As we hiked up-down-up-around-in-and-out to the immediate vantage point where the nestled falls break and spill over its basalt ledge plummeting 198 feet into the 377-foot-deep Palouse River Canyon drowning out every other sound with its white noise of a mosaic kind, the sun was already hastening her descent and long shadows began to reach across the spring-sprouting green-topped, stone-faced gorge. Photographic light was of the essence. Only a bit earlier, as we were starting our trek, did I mention to Alexander that it would be cool to catch a train from the Falls side of the Canyon. Enter timing and what might be called sheer luck. Call it what you will as I hadn’t any recce at hand. We had no inkling of and almost missed this Union Pacific southbound with a “Thoroughbred” DPU carefully corniching and tunneling its way down the “Washy” alongside the prehistoric hydraulic-caved-crevasse where four miles hence it and the flood-stage flow will debouch the Canyon crossing the Snake River on the spectacular Joso Bridge; the torrent below emptying into it. Maybe it was my train aficionado instinct that kept me spying the right-of-way further north when sure enough, as if deus ex machina, we had just enough time to set up, compose – at Alexander’s direction – and capture the resultant image. (26Mar17 ©) ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ #palousefalls #shadows #thoroughbred #alexander #compose #light #prehistoric #pnw_rrshots #manfrotto #sunset #ipulledoverforthis #fstoppers #sonyimages #sonyalpha #sonyalphaclub #zeisslens #recce #pacificnorthwest #railroadphotography #railways #trainphotography #adobelightroom #dickies #deusexmachina #southbound #essence #trek #canyon #washingtonstate (at Palouse Falls State Park)

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This #redtrainweek photo is of NBEC 1819 at the head of an ore train in Bathurst, New Brunswick back in May 2008. The unit is still in its CP colours but has been patched for the NBEC.⠀ ⠀ The New Brunswick East Coast Railway (NBEC) ran a ore train between Brunswick Mines and Belledune until the NBEC was taken over by CN. The mine closed a few years after that so the ore train doesn't run any more. Fortunately this particular RS-18 has a third owner and operates today in Quebec.⠀ ⠀ #trb_express #railroad #tv_transport #railway #pnw_rrshots #pocket_rail #rsa_theyards #jj_theyards #ptk_vehicles #total_vehicles #got_vehicles #rail_barons #everything_transport #railwaysofcanada #train_chasers #train_nerds #trains_r_the_best #end_of_track #artofrailroad #railmarkable #railfans #railfans_of_instagram #railfannation #railways_of_america #railways_of_our_world #railways_of_germany #ig_trainspotting #trainspotting #north_american_rail_pictures via Instagram http://ift.tt/2mPiyHC