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Jacob Lyman's photography. Trains, landscapes, and whatever I find interesting. Contributor to Desert Empire Project on Facebook. Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/96380166@N07

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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
UP 1943 with a passenger special bound for Los Angeles, rumored to be bringing Union Pacific executives to the FIFA World Cup matches there. The train was a pretty sight in Erda with the Great Salt Lake in the background. #railfan
UP 1943 with a passenger train  rounding a curve, with the Great Salt Lake in the distance. Close up detail of Union Pacific 1943 locomotive.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
With summer approaching, feeling a bit warm? Tired of seeing large steam engines running back east and need to see something small again? Then cool off with this memory of RGS 20 on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad back in February. #railfan
Rio Grande Southern 20 with a short freight train running through a snow covered landscape in Colorado during a snow storm.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
UP 4014 Big Boy, running from Evanston to Salt Lake City; then Salt Lake City to Elko; last week:
UP 4014 departing Wahsatch, UtahUP 4014 entering Salt Lake City, Utah with light snow on the pilotUP 4014 crossing a desert lake bed full of spring runoff mirroring the image of the train, near Grantsville, Utah.UP 4014 in the desert west of Delle, Utah on a sunny day.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New freight operation, the Savage Tooele Railroad; as seen last night a day following the line's opening ceremony. A locomotive is hanging out on the north end of the route framed by the distant Oquirrh Mountains, while track construction continues south down in Marshall. #railfan
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Nevada Northern 250, the railroad's recently painted locomotive for the upcoming 2026 semi-something-quintessential-ennial (who can spell it without spellcheck really? 😭) looking stunning for a regular excursion train on August 29. #railfan #photography
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A Union Pacific freight train passing through Tooele, Utah on a late summer afternoon. #railfan #photography
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Recent display moves at the Tooele Valley Museum and Historical Park has placed the Tooele Valley Railway's Ford Fairmont Hy-Rail truck right outside the Tooele Station's M.O.W. shed. #blackandwhite #railfan #photography
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Wild Kingdom Train, an amusement ride at Lagoon operated with Crown Metals steam locomotives; has been undergoing changes this year following the announcement of the closure of the long controversial zoo it traveled through.
Photo of a tiny steam locomotive in an amusement park setting
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Nickel Plate Road 765... cookies? You bet! These custom cookies were part of this year's Steam in the Valley event on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. #photography #railfan
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
NKP 765 rolling past crowds in Brecksville, Ohio during the Steam in the Valley event. #railfan #steamlocomotive #photography
Steam locomotive moving past wooded station, with people lined up along a yellow rope most of them with cell phones out to photograph/film the train.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A diesel hauled excursion returning to Cumberland on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on May 3, 2025 traveling through dense forest. #railfan #photography
A black diesel locomotive in Maryland surrounded by trees under an overcast sky.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A visit to the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio. #photography #steamtrain #railfan
Photo of railroad museum in roundhouse with steam locomotives.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A regular East Broad Top Railroad excursion to Colgate Grove lead by a diesel locomotive, passes over a section of elevated grade works under an overcast sky on May 4th. #railfan #photography
Photo of a narrow gauge passenger train traveling through Pennsylvania on a dark gray day.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"My Dirty Life and Times" slumbering East Broad Top Railroad #18 at the railroad's roundhouse. #railfan #photography #steamtrain
Black and white photo of a steam locomotive in a roundhouse
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Nickel Plate 765 as part of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Steam in the Valley event, departs Indigo Lake near Everett, Ohio on May 2, 2025. #railfan #photography #steamtrain
NKP 765 traveling through Ohio
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Horse Power" Horses graze in a field while a Union Pacific freight passes through Tooele yesterday in the shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains. #railfan #photography
A horse in a field with a freight train passing in the distance against a mountain backdrop.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
One year ago today in Wales, on the Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways. #railfan #photography - Jacob Lyman
Photograph of Dolgoch on the Talyllyn Railway at Wharf Station.Photograph of Lily visiting the Ffestiniog Railway at Harbour Station.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The regular North Platte to West Colton freight making its way through Bauer, Utah today; on its way to California. #photography #railfan
An abandoned structure with a freight train passing through in the distance in the Utah desert; the Great Salt Lake visible on the horizon.A freight train crossing a two lane highway in the desert.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Fly ash is shipped out of Intermountain Power for other customers in covered hoppers, but this particular car has suffered a derailment that will mark the end of the line for its use in fly ash service. At the time I visited, it sat waiting near the tracks for the end to come. #photography #railfan
Photographed of a derailed covered hopper railcar, with wheels and trucksets scattered around it.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"A Touch of Grey" with a dreary Union Pacific freight crawling through Tooele, Utah last month on the 28th. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qVN1g7
Freight train traveling under an overcast sky
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A view from onboard Intermountain Power's coal stacker on August 24, 2024. #photography
View from onboard a coal stacker at a power plant, offloading coal surrounded by industrial machinery.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A slow moving mixed freight crawls through Tooele over the 1000 N bridge. Spring is finally settling in and the warm weather is pleasant compared to the snow storms only a few weeks ago. #railfan #photography
The front of an Union Pacific freight train crossing a bridge with snowcapped mountains in the background. Mid-train locomotives on the Union Pacific crossing over a highway on a concrete bridge.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A HERZOG ballast train traveling through Stockton, Utah today on Union Pacific's former Los Angeles & Salt Lake line. The ballast train makes a nice variation in traffic from the regular drag freights and the intermodal trains that now frequently only run through at night. #railfan #photography
A Union Pacific freight train traveling through a desert landscape
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A Heber Valley train passing alongside Deer Creek Reservoir on July 21, 2023. #railfan #photography #train flic.kr/p/2qSbZyT
Photographic view of reservoir on a summer's day in front of mountains with a train traveling alongside the water.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hunslet sisters Blanche and Linda running around the Snowdonia train at the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway in the line's namesake community on April 20, 2024. #photography #railfan flic.kr/p/2qSa5yk
Narrow gauge locomotives Linda and Blanche on the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The Big West oil refinery with their SW600 switcher at dusk on a summer's day in July 2023. #railfan #photography #trains
Oil refinery at dusk with rail yard full of tank cars and a resting diesel locomotive.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A freight train rolling through Tooele, Utah on the 26th. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qNWMV9
Union Pacific freight train on a warm winter's day running through Tooele, Utah with mountains in background
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" Union Pacific freight train passing through Rush Valley, Utah. #railfanning #photography flic.kr/p/2qNqAWN
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A Union Pacific local passing through Garfield, Utah with the Rio Tinto Kennecott smelter in the background. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qKGkqX
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A BNSF detour over Union Pacific's former LA&SL through Erda, Utah on February 21, 2018. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qMiNfs
BNSF train traveling through snowy desert landscape.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A local freight returning to Salt Lake City on the former Western Pacific mainline on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. #railfan #photography #lake flic.kr/p/2qKN5mo
Photograph of empty road looking out towards a freight train crossing along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake, with gray clouds hanging in the distance.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A self propelled Ohio Crane on Union Pacific's Cache Valley branchline in June 2016. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qKbYdr
Railroad crane traveling through northern Utah past farm fields on a summer day.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A BNSF train with a Citirail lease locomotive leading empty intermodal cars through Kingman in March 2019. #railfan #photography #BNSF flic.kr/p/2qK1ndd
BNSF train in springtime desert, crossing bridge with flat cars.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Articulated Faces: Wales v. Wyoming Parallels between two very different (yet some ways similar) steam locomotives, a Ffestiniog Double Fairlie and Union Pacific's Big Boy. #railfan #photography #steamtrain
Double Fairlie at Harbour station on the Ffestiniog RailwayUnion Pacific Big Boy in Evanston, Wyoming
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Two Mikado locomotives slugging on the final approach to Cumbres Pass on July 21, 2024; crossing a wooden trestle. flic.kr/p/2qH4nnW #photography #railfan #steamtrain
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Queensway Station as seen on April 16, 2024; originally opened by the Central London Railway in 1900, hosting the regular traffic of travelers and commuters in London. #photography #blackandwhite #railfan flic.kr/p/2qH55RZ
Queensway London Underground station in black and white
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
A train departing Silverton, Colorado on July 23, 2021 on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qFSrUP
A regular Durango and Silverton steam train departs Silverton during the peak summer season. The former Rio Grande branchline, a once prosperous silver mining route that became a dead end after the mining market collapsed; then transformed into a tourist beacon in the mid-20th century and is now one of the most recognizable heritage railroads in the world.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Modern Porthmadog on the Ffestiniog Railway with visiting Lily and Chuquitanta (and a lot of reminiscing with the full caption posted on Flickr). #railfan #photography flic.kr/p/2qFpNKM
Porthmadog, Wales at the Ffestiniog Railway Harbour Station with visiting steam locomotives going through a grade crossing.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Parallels, narrow gauge steam trains, rolling hills; and greenery. From the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (with 'Indiana Jones star' 484) and the Ffestiniog Railway (with Hunslet's Blanche and Linda) respectively. #railfan #photography #steamtrain Full res: flic.kr/p/2meYvwH flic.kr/p/2pMrwbu
Cumbres & Toltec 484 downgrade between Cumbres Pass and Lobato at the New Mexico and Colorado state border on July 24, 2021 with an excursion train. Sister Hunslets, Linda and Blanche; lead The Snowdonian special into Tan-Y-Blwch on the Ffestiniog on April 20, 2024. A smaller Quarry Hunslet had lead the consist out of Harbour Station, but was cut-off early at Minfford; leaving the two larger Hunslets to take the job of leading The Snowdonian up the line.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Virginia & Truckee 29 on July 2, 2022 engulfed in the scenery of the Comstock Lode. #photography #railfan #steamtrain flic.kr/p/2nvPKHR
Steam train in Nevada desert mining district
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ALCO diesel locomotive purchased from the White Pass & Yukon, leading a passenger train on the Durango & Silverton in 2021. #railfan #photography #train flic.kr/p/2mdzSCu
Durango and Silverton 107 in the Animas Valley near Trimble, Colorado.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Western Pacific 3002, the newest addition to the Utah State Railroad Museum completes a family line-up. #photography #railfan #museum #trains flic.kr/p/2qCuLCE
Western Pacific 3002 at Utah State Railroad Museum
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Freight trains on the Union Pacific in Peterson, Utah last Saturday. #railfan #train #photography flic.kr/p/2qCp7uP
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
UP 119 crossing the road at Golden Spike National Historic Park yesterday during the annual winter steam event. #railfan #steamtrain #nationalparks #photography flic.kr/p/2qCifRQ
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It's a beautiful spring day in Wales on April 20th, and a small Double Fairlie moves through the @festrail.bsky.social station at Porthmadog. #railfan #travel #photography flic.kr/p/2qA75fY
Photo of train station platform in Porthmadog, Wales; with Double Fairlie locomotive approaching and onlookers seated on benches.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Union Pacific's Big Boy departing Evanston, Wyoming on the Fourth of July. www.flickr.com/photos/96380... #railfan #bigboylocomotive #steamtrain #unionpacific #UP4014 #photography
Photo of Big Boy UP 4014 steam locomotive in Evanston, Wyoming
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Dolgoch at the end of the @talyllyn.co.uk at Nant Gwernol station on April 19th this year. flic.kr/p/2pPGMY8 #railfan #heritagerail #photography #narrowgauge
Photograph of Dolgoch locomotive in passing loop running around train at Nant Gwernol station in Wales.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Disneyland Street Railway, a horse powered streetcar attraction; this November. #travel #Disneyland #streetcar #California #photography flic.kr/p/2qyJVnc
Disneyland Street Railway on Main Street USA approaching Disneyland castle.
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Long time Nevada Northern Railway conductor Bill Hohlt turned 86 today. Here is a photo from two years ago of conductor Bill in his natural element! flic.kr/p/2nnsAjs #photography #railfan
Photo of Bill Hohlt railroad conductor alongside yellow caboose
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On a Rattlesnake Speedway @rattlesnakespeed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The cry room insides the Ritz in Tooele, Utah. This 1939 movie theater is now owned by the city art council. #photography #historicbuilding www.flickr.com/photos/96380...
View from inside vintage cry room looming into a movie theater auditorium
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