a picture a day....

Unloading a 20’ Container in the Valmeyer IL. Caves last Friday 

geysergazer posted:

"The Royal Gorge":

         

On the left, IN Royal Gorge. On the right, climbing towards Tennessee Pass.

The train always stopped for 10min in the Gorge so people could get off and look around. Directly overhead and a thousand feet above was the highway bridge over the Gorge. I have an early childhood memory (age 4) of walking across that bridge and looking straight down through the steel-grate deck. It is a suspension bridge and when a car crossed I remember feeling the bridge bouncing  a bit. 

My wife and I rode that last June, such an amazing ride!

For today: " In the still of the night."

I took this yesterday

Lee, that is a superb photograph!  Catching the engine between the trees is absolutely outstanding!  You don't those trains or trees here in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia!!!

Lee, I agree with Mark. Superb photo. It took split-second timing to get that shot. 

Mark, Lew, thanks for the kind words!

We're having excellent weather this week, and I took the day off from work, to go hang around with a few train fan pals of mine, all keeping our proper distance from each other. We hung around at the end of a bridge just north of Winlock, WA. It's just shy of the crest of the 1% grade on Napavine Hill. Lots of trains coming back and forth. This photo was taken at the second to the last train that I saw before I left.

I just happened to see the Gap in the trees, and tried for the shot. It turned out to be the best one all day.

That was the northbound Amtrak coast starlight. That, the southbound of the same train earlier and the one Cascades train had no passengers to be seen in the Windows.

I got a few other shots on the bridge, but most were uninsupring.

For today: " As the sun rises in Patsburg."

The end of a hard day's work on the Island of Sodor.

"UP, Santa Fe, Rio Grande":

UP Domes from a UP Dome:

Santa Fe Superdome with San Fransisco Peaks in background:

CZ Dome on the Rio Grande:

A busy day on a small railroad!

Just for the Easter holiday without festivities this year...

More photos with natural sunlight: