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Caught this female blue dasher eating a meal, a fly or small bee possibly. Taken at Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve near Rockford, MI
Dash 8 - MSN 4488 -
Status : Active (parked)
Last Registration : C-GWEG
Last Airline WestJet Encore
Country : Canada
Date : 2013 -
Codes: WR WJE
Callsign : Encore
Web site : htpp://www.westjet.com
Serial number4488
TypeDHC-8 402
First flight date12/01/2015
Test registration
Seat configurationW10 Y68 Seat
Hex codeC07F2F
Engines 2 x PWC PW150A
C-GWEG01/03/2015WestJet EncoreParked since 02/2021
Moments after Class J 611 passed this train nice bonus showed up. NS train P88 is on Main 1 of Norfolk Southern's Danville District, the former Southern Railway mainline. They are crossing the Yadkin River from Rowan County into Davidson County at about MP 327.9 and will head into Linwood yard just ahead after their quick run up from Charlotte. A pair of nice standard cab GE C40-9s lead the train, 8786 and 8833 blt. Jan. and Feb. 1995 respectively. Now this model has been wiped from the roster and now standard cab GEs remain. Both of these have since been rebuilt at into AC44C6Ms, the former at Roanoke Shops in Jan. 2018 and the latter by GE at Erie in Aug. 2016 and they are now numbers 4124 and 4008 respectively.
Linwood, North Carolina
Saturday May 30, 2015
What's an ode season without Blue Dashers?? Dragonhunters are now out at the wetlands - more soon. N Georgia
C-GUJV, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402 Dash 8-400, launching off runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. "Dande" was departing as DHC4632 (De Havilland Canada) on a 2.5 hour test flight.
Serial number 4632 was due to become D2-TFF with TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola, E.P. at Luanda, Angola. It would become TAAG's sixth Dash 8-400.
This airframe was the second last Dash 8 to be built before production was paused. De Havilland would eventually vacate this site, where it had been operating for 93 years. No date has been set for a resumption of Dash 8 manufacturing.
This female Blue dasher didn’t let me get as close to her as others have, but I’m still pleased with this shot from back in August.
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CN C40-8 2025 leads ore loads South through Mountain Iron, MN. The iron range is the last place on any class one railroad where you can catch a trio of standard cab GEs on a train.
or Dragonfly ? ... Damselfly ...
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool - Lincoln Park
Chicago, IL
July 2021
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A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) enjoys a leafy respite.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2024.
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The daily Waterloo to Kirk Yard freight rumbles up the grade thru Winthrop Curves west of Winthrop. Today's train has 9 dash 8 type motors that are heading probably to scrap. The CN drug a bunch of these Dash 8 out to Council Bluffs for storage this spring. The units sat over the summer waiting for dispo. Since then, dash 8s have been heading east for their last trip of their career. CN 2130, 2440, 2108, BCOL 4603, CN 2126, 2120, 2134, 2117, 2118 are the dash 8s. This set would go to the UP Chicago and head to West Chicago for scrap.
For Sliders Sunday - I had my own image for Sliders Sunday and my 5 year old son was watching and wanted to make one too. I liked his better!
Original picture by Daren - Artwork by my son - HSS!
This beautiful dragonfly appears to be an immature Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This individual was living in early May at Jones Lake State Park in North Carolina and was a fantastic model for the camera. During the photo session, we witnessed the animal hunting and eating a number of flying insects. This animal seems to prefer to perch on this stick as it waited to identify prey insects passing by.
Here are a few references:
www.migratorydragonflypartnership.org/index/identificatio...
Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.
Los Angeles. California.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax.
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Norfolk Southern train 34A rolls through CP Harris with an old D8-40C leading. The former Conrail Dash 8 is running the edge of Harrisburg's old 8th Ward, a former tightly-packed Harrisburg neighborhood full of the cities' poorest residents. It was leveled in 1917 according to www.old8thward.com. Today it is dominated by parking garages, office buildings and apartment buildings; the only thing that appears to still be in the same place is the railroad.
A pair of SD40-2s, one home-grown and the other leased, lead an S327 across the Thornapple River on a nice summer day.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
For the past two seasons, I have been saying that the Blue Dasher is the most numerous of odonates, but something happened in early July this year. This is one of the last I've seen. In fact, the Blue Dasher and Flame Skimmers both seem to have "disappeared" from all our favorite ponds at about the same time. It's been a very unusual and somewhat disconcerting summer. (Two Great Egrets, one Green Heron, one Red-shouldered Hawk, no Barn Swallows... Two heat waves with high humidity, two lightning and thunder storms, followed by twenty degree drops in temperature. My notes since 2002 show August and September to be the hottest and driest months. Today's high is supposed to be 84, and I'm headed to the swamp at 10:30, late in the day for September 1. The last three years have been inactive for me due to health - and then, of course, Covid - but I've noticed that migrations and nesting have dropped off tremendously in large parts of the west. And that pretty much sums up the summer of 2020.)
Oh, help! I posted this two hours ago, and all of a sudden it and all the information about Blue Dashers disappeared! To those who left comments, thank you, but I have no idea how these things happen. Perhaps power was lost somewhere in the system due to the heat wave we're experiencing.
Basically, what I said was that it's a very common dragonfly here, but I hadn't seen one in over a month until this (really small at an inch) Blue Dasher was nice enough to perch on a Horsetail Grass for ten minutes. After he flew off, I was back to damselflies whose population is fluctuating wildly this summer.
Now for the Blue Dasher: "The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison. The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long (1-1.5 in).
The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
Conrail C32-8 6616 had train SPL-201, an export tractor train bound for Europe via the Port of Baltimore, tied down at Cove on a spring afternoon in 1994 in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad-era signal bridge.
Back in the day before paranoia and knee-jerk reactions, it was possible to take a photo that nowadays would be unheard of. The police would have been all over me for being in the gauge taking photos in the post-9/11 world.
Perhaps I should have not been there, but it is what it is. I certainly have no reason to take photos here anymore since Conrail is long gone as is the variety.
The 6616 was a member of a ten-unit test fleet from GE that helped pave the way for GE to dominate the market.