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Burlington Northern C30-7 #5507 and mates charge Eastbound through Crawford, NE on a loaded coal train in May of 1989.
These trains of all steel Burlington Northern hoppers were a personal favorite of mine.
Les lumières de la ville s'envolent... IMC ( mouvement intentionnel de la caméra)
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NMBS 5507, één van de weinige loks uit deze serie met een 3-landen pakket ;-) Maastricht, 6 oktober 2005.
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Decoration above the door. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
Fernbird ( Bowdleria punctata )
Last one for a while I promise, but I do love my "Fernies". They are so endearing....
For many years I could not find them, let alone photograph them but once I discovered their habitat preferences and habits I began to have more success..
They are only locally common, though threatened by a raft of things most of which are the result of mans indifference....
I know I go on but I was once told by a dear Forest & Bird lady "Neil you must learn to get a balance", that galvanised my resolve to fight that very thing..
It sounded a wonderful philosophy, however each time change is made and a wonderful new balance is achieved, a few years elapse then a new threat arrives . Someone wants to develop a piece of that land or build a walkway or whatever and a new "balance is again sought and found, so on and so on until the original picture of natural order has disappeared... Each new generation accepts this as the norm of course and so the destruction and depletion continues unabated......
We need more than ever new advocates with backbone prepared to be unpopular and called names or we will be the losers....
The newest threat is dim witted councils wanting to build walk tracks or cycle tracks through these areas, testament to the fact that they continue to view wetlands as "Swamps of little value ". The disturbance to sensitive birdlife etc is catastrophic...
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