Here I sit in the foot or more of frozen precipitation profiling my favorite Big Boy in heavy snow this is a bucket list thing. .
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Otto Perry among others in the past took this sort of thing for granted. The moment my friend Tim Tonge a weather scientist from Castle Rock told me on Sunday the weather was going to be blizzard conditions on 4014’s return home it was an at-all-costs must work this, and to the absolute best of my ability. You don’t miss this. It was an all out effort to stop every conceivable snow flake and bring the black mass of iron through the blue white subdued light. Sitting in the snow at this point up to my waste and coming down at 2” an hour or more it was absolutely what I live for. I almost didn’t shoot; I wanted to witness this with the naked eye and not through some OVF.
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Black and White Out in oil and steam
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2-8-2 class K-36 487 wheels slipping barks up Cumbres Pass through a late September deluge of every type of precipitation imaginable. The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-36 class are ten 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, Mikado type, 2-8-2 steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW) by Baldwin Locomotive Works. They were shipped to the Rio Grande in 1925, and were first used along the Monarch Branch and Marshall Pass, but were later sent to the Third Division out of Alamosa. Of the original ten, four are owned by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) and five by the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS). . This was off camera b on tripod while my other was handheld. A good testament to quality weather sealed gear, torrential down pours mixing between rail, super cooled rain, snow, sleet, and soft hail filled this experience a 1/4 mile walk down the right of way from Cumbres grade crossing.
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A Denver and Rio Grande Western freight rolls away from the sunset with a manifest on the open tundra of extreme southern Colorado.
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These are custom built and brass imports of a Pratt 6 panel truss bridge and through plate bridge a friend and I built, painted, and weathered and I photographed. I hope some of my viewers enjoy some images of my Model Railroad endeavors in O Scale Model Railroading. A friend and I have built a sectional portable o scale model railroad that is roughly 60’ x 30’ that we exhibit. The trains are all 1/48 scale or a quarter inch is one foot. Unlike o gauge toy trains we build and model in 2 rail scale much like smaller scales we strive for the most authentic miniatures.
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We’ve had some extreme weather conditions on the front range this past week and in an attempt to capture something between the softball size hail and tornadoes I managed a full and nearly double rainbow at Leyden. The window of opportunity was less than 10 minutes and with the Moffat speed restrictions in place due to kinks and heat I almost blew this one also. This westbound sand train is moving at 15 miles per hour. I was holding my breath it would make up too me in time for the capture as the sun was just about to disappear behind Blue Mountain immediately to the west about 2 miles. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did seeing it in person. I only hope as the photographer standing there I was able to capture the incredible drama that was unfolding before me.
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