Loughborough station during a Russ Hillier rail charter night shoot.

... every day magic.

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Hair - Barbwire - Stealthic @Kustom9

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Great Blue Heron

A snowy breakfast on the Cumberland Plateau here in Tennessee for a red bellied woodpecker.

Seaplane, Misty Fjiords, Ketchikan, Alaska

magnification 4:1

stacked using Helicon Focus

magnification 3:1

stacked using Zerene stacker

Ruins in the valley.

Toronto, Ontario

Nikkor 18-70mm AF-S DX F3.5-4.5G IF-ED

Nikon D7100

Ijsvogel Kingfisher Alcedo atthis

West Somerset Railway - Spring Steam Gala (in the days when I had a lineside pass) - February 2014 (DSC 9139)

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elle aime les roses

Another frame from this delightful chase last summer. Alas this can't be repeated as 3850 suffered a catastrophic electrical fire about 6 weeks after this photo and will most like be retired or sold for rebuild fodder. But here is the caption I wrote at the time:

At one of THE signature locations along the south end of the old Central Vermont Railway New England Central Railroad train 608 has slowed to 10 MPH as they cross Spring Street at MP 49.7 on the Palmer Sub approaching the sharp curve through the center of town just ahead. For a moment it looks like nothing has changed as the 33 car train heads to Willimantic rolling beside the Middle River in the picturesque village of Stafford Springs.

608 is assigned two of the last three blue and gold original NECR units dating from the road's 1995 start up when Railtex purchased the CV assets from the CN. EMD GP38 #3850 and GP38AC #3857. The former was blt. Aug. 1969 as Gulf Mobile and Ohio 712 and the latter blt. Apr. 1971 as Gulf, Mobile and Ohio 730.

Stafford, Connecticut

Friday July 23, 2021

Seaplane, Misty Fjiords, Ketchikan, Alaska

magnification 1:2

stacked using Helicon Focus

GWSR - 30742 Charter with Class 2800 - 3850 in May 2014 (DSC 0635)

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This was a captive Ringneck I discovered sitting on its owner's shoulder today. He very kindly allowed me to take a quick photo. To see it so close up was truly magnificent - it was/is so beautiful.

Doing some research, I find that this is an Indian Ringneck, a parakeet, very popular as a pet.

Eastbound ET44C4 passing Santa Fe 4-8-4 (Baldwin 1943) 2913 @ Ft. Madison, Ia. (250234)*

Op bezoek

GWSR - 30742 Charter with Class 2800 - 3850 in May 2014 (DSC 0732)

All images taken can be found on my Smugmug link below

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Maybe "wither" is the wrong word, since NECR 3850 went out with a bang, catching fire while powering train #608.

At any rate, here she is a few weeks before meeting her demise, working Palmer yard on another day's 608, along with sister 3857.

The red heavyweight coach to the right is part of the Steaming Tender restaurant. It was once part of the New Haven's wire train, then spent time on the Grafton & Upton before landing here.

Not quite sure what his job is? I wasn't about to interrupt him to ask. Ligonier, PA.

Food for the eyes, Food for the tummy.

Torenval Kestrel Falco tinnunculus

Seaplane, Alaskan Misty Fjords [Ketchikan]

Another look at the dearly departed 3850 from my day out with 608 and 610 earlier in the summer

New England Central train 608 has returned from Palmer and I'd switching at Willimantic Waste which is their final chore before tying up for the day here at about MP 29.5 on the ex CV Palmer Sub mainline beside the small house that serves as the NECR's crew office.

For a couple weeks Willimantic based local freights 608/610 had been assigned two of the last three blue and gold original NECR units dating from the road's 1995 start up when Railtex purchased the CV assets from the CN. EMD GP38 #3850 and GP38AC #3857. The former was blt. Aug. 1969 as Gulf Mobile and Ohio 712 and the latter blt. Apr. 1971 as Gulf, Mobile and Ohio 730.

Unincorporated Village of Willimantic

Windham, Connecticut

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The 1st major snowstorm of the 2025 winter season is here. I am surprised that we have gotten over a foot of snow out of this system. Pretty good numbers for November. Here 338 pulls out of the siding after meeting and swapping crews at Jesup with 337. A small 24-car train was on today's 338, while 337 was over 8300 feet.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II

3850 (cn 4752) from JG-71 "Richthofen". based at Wittmund AFB.

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