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FURX #7289 is crossing the short bridge at MP 4.9 on the Oregon Trunk.. The north switch Moody is right behind my back.. He is 5 miles into a 152 mile journey to the next crew change at Bend, Or.
Taken with my new Canon Digital Rebel XTi with 18-55mm "kit" lens. Saved as a Large/Fine (10.1 MP) JPG, then cropped, resized, and sharpened a little. Cloudy day, no adjustments to white balance, color, brightness/contrast. Image edited with digiKam under KDE and Mepis Linux 6.5.
Detouring UP 5689 South pauses for a quick crew change at Bend, OR. My first train photo with my new Canon Rebel XTi, and a "grab" shot at that. Taken as a RAW image, resized and converted to a 90% JPEG. Too bad I was on the shadowy side of the train.
UP 5280 South stops at Bend, OR, for a quick crew change. This is a detouring train caused by the Jan. 19 landslide at Frazier on UP's Cascade Sub. While the UP has trackage rights over the BNSF's Oregon Trunk subdivision south of Bend, they haven't used them in almost two(?) years. This is...
BNSF 4900 leads three other matching C44-9W's (rare to see a matched set of anything here on the OT) as they sit shutdown waiting for a crew at Cascan yard, Bend, OR.
What is most interesting is that this same set of power came back through town northbound three days later (see my previous...
4449 in "restored" Freedom Train colors clears her cylinders in preperation for an early morning departure from Bend back home to Portland. Rob Jacox photo, March 24, 2002.
4449 in "restored" Freedom Train colors clears her cylinders in preperation for an early morning departure from Bend back home to Portland. Rob Jacox photo, March 24, 2002.
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