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September, 2013:
BNSF #8262 leads a westbound rack train through Flagg Center on the C&I. #8262 was one of 25 SD75Ms delivered to BNSF immediately after the 1996 BN-ATSF merger. Rated at 4,300 horsepower, the SD75Ms were a more powerful version of the SD70M; only 76 models were produced.
With new ES44C4s arriving in 2014, the unit was renumbered to #262 and was ultimately rebuilt at Mid-America.
CSX S452, an extra Q452, comes into Waycross nearly four hours after crossing the Baldwin diamond in Florida. I wasn't complaining about his long wait at Braganza siding, as it allowed the sun angle in Waycross to turn in our favor. The 4561 in charge is the only active SD70MAC remaining in YN2 paint. The three others on the roster are currently stored in Russell, KY, along with many other units. On a side note, this is also the old friend in my profile picture ;-)
Providing an extra service to London Euston following Eurovision, Locomotive Services Limited commissioned its Intercity Swallow Mark 3 set to collect passengers from Liverpool Lime Street. The train heads empty from Crewe Holding Sidings, hauled by Class 86 loco 86101 'Sir William A Stanier FRS', as it heads through Halebank toward Speke Junction and Liverpool.
The 75th Anniversary CSX "Clinchfield" Santa Train is southbound just north of her next stop in Dungannon, Virginia enroute to Kingsport Tennessee on 11-18-17.
Fishing Extra Terrestial
Created with DDG Text 2 AI engine.
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 RAW filters, Auto Sharpen, some cloning adjusted the saturation. Also in Luminar Neo AI Magic Light and some earasing of unwanted objects.
Prompt: a forlorn extraterrestrial being with an oversized head, large black oval eyes, and thin limbs sitting on a flat bottom single engine boat in a swampy landscape at dawn. The creature has a smooth, grey skin and is depicted in a pensive pose hands on its knees. It's wearing overalls, a dirty torn white tee-shirt, and oversized brown boots and on the seat next to the extraterrestrial is a vintage fishing rod and a bulky and slightly weathered green fishing tackle box . To the left of the being on the dirt embankment is a small, makeshift sign with the words "NO FISHING" scribbled on it, planted firmly in the dusty foreground. In the background, the terrain is punctuated with trees and the sky boasts a large celestial spiral galaxy with milky way, cast in a hue of deep blues, green.
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#CN322 is about to approach the Cornwall Station platform, with an SD70i, and C40-8W hauling an empty string of auto racks for Southwark yard.
The extra turn gathers loads at Dos Palos, signal 152.6, before departing west for another pick up at Los Banos. The train will be re-crewed at Tracy for the run to the coast. Dave Stanley photo ©2025
It's been super dry here for the last month and some of the leaves are starting to fall already! Some, like this one, didn't even change color first!!
This wide-view of the Milky Way was taken in front of the ExtrA telescopes installed at La Silla Observatory, in Chile. This network of three 60-centimetre telescopes (whose only 2 of them are visible here) is owned by the Institute of Planetary Science and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG) and aims to discover transiting exoplanets around M-dwarf stars in our galaxy. ExtrA means "Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres" and studies planetary transits combining a joint photometric and spectroscopic novel technique...
I took this picture in July 2019, during the #MeetESO event. The night sky there was absolutely stunning and the brightest part of the Milky Way was just right above our head! This unforgettable astrophotography shooting was supervised by two professional international astrophotographers: Petr Horàlek and Mahdi Zamani! What a treat!
TECHNICAL DETAILS
📷 Canon 6D + Sigma Art 14 mm + Standard Tripod
→ Single 20 seconds exposure
→ ISO 6400
→ 14 mm
→ f/1.8
→ 2 stitched images (vertical panorama)
→ No photo blending
Softwares: Dxo Optics pro 9 for noise reduction / Microsoft ICE for panorama / Photoshop/Lightroom for all the edits.