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This fluffy little Baltimore oriole just fledged from its nest here at Lake Meyer Park. Baltimore oriole nests are a thing of beauty too as mom weaves grasses and roots together to form an elaborate hanging basket in the forest canopy tree branches.
Canadian Pacific's Kansas City to Saint Paul manifest train No. 261 races across the mildly impressive Iowa River bridge at Fredonia, Iowa, passing some telltale signs of what season it is in the Mississippi Valley. This being CP's main artery linking the rest of the system to Kansas City, the abomination of power on the point of this train is actually a treat compared to the usual standards of run through junk coming out of KC. This crew will have work at Muscatine and will then be relieved at Nahant Yard in Davenport, where a new crew will take over for the trip further up the river to Marquette.
Winnebago River - Iowa
Documenting the change of seasons as we progress towards the white weather. We have had, and still have very windy conditions across north Iowa.
Most colorful leaves are now gone, leaving browns, tans and interesting wind blown clouds to enjoy.!
Copyright 2021
This is my first attempt for HDR.
There still is much room for improvement.
But I am happy to learn these new techniques.
I thank my son Robert for teaching me and DanielKHC for helpful links.
Some of these migrate but these stay local!
I left the image with context because I love them lifting over the trees. To see their lovely detail - just enlarge.
This is one image I will leave to your own imagination!
Found on the edge of a small town in Iowa -- on private property but near the town cemetery and the welcome sign to the town. The rest is questionable?
Happy Fence Friday (HFF)! and have a great weekend!
The Dakota & Iowa Railroad's Hawarden based local smashes a small snow drift from a recent storm as it heads south through Westfield, Iowa with ethanol, corn oil, and DDG loads bound for class I interchange at Sioux City. A predominant portion of the D&I's business is hauling rock, cement, and other construction materials for their parent company, L.G. Everist. Since these commodities don't move much during the winter months due to the extremely cold temperatures, this crew is kept busy Monday - Thursday serving customers such as the ethanol plant in Hudson which operates year round.
. . . of Winterset, Iowa -- boyhood home of John Wayne -- from the northeast corner. This 180 degree pano is four images stitched together and probably one of the cats knocked over a couple cans of paint on it in the workshop (of the imagination). And I must be on a Greg Brown kick this week, but his song "Our Little Town," seems so apt: youtu.be/m8OStXJTu30
Iowa RR 9430 and 310 lead Train 2 over US 59 and the old RI Oakland Branch at Hancock Iowa May 16 1983 in a photo from Ted Schenpf from my collection.
Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage made several trips to the Iowa Interstate on the coal train to ADM in Cedar Rapids. On New Year's Day 2015, NS 1070 led a few IAIS engines pulling the empty coal through Oxford, IA for another load.
January 1, 2015
Hancock County - Iowa
There are actually two identical maples back to back . . . the one in back was just starting to turn, while the front maple was singing it's autumn song!
I actually drove passed these trees, realized how beautiful they were and turned around to get the shot!
Copyright 2024
Just out of Union Station. the Hoosier State begins its evening trip to Indianapolis.
Two GP40FH-2's power the train. Both started life as New York Central GP40's.
IAIS SIPE pulls up alongside BUSW's power to work Bureau before continuing south towards Peoria after dark. No GEVOs in sight.
Shot using:
10ND Stop Filter (kolari click in)
Venus Optics 15mm Zero D (Iowa)
I decided to leave the garbage as is ... as it shows the contrast of what was and is.
The moral decay in humanity. To defile such a beautiful place with litter and not care for life is what humanity seems to excel in lately. It is what it is, I clean up as much as I can when I walk around lately.
I see a young generation whining over the environment yet they can't clean their litter nor stop consuming. Slaves to desire and a system that does not care for them and most of all to their own lust and ego.
We used to build and work hard... you have a wonderful oppertunity to make life great on this planet I would like to tell this generation. If only you could see what consumption slaves you are and that your freedom lies in the letting go of all this attachment to the commercial bullshit they tell you to care about.
All your ideals are made up by those who wish to control you, only you can set yourself free....
"Weeds are the bane of fields, lust is the bane of mankind. Therefore, what is offered to those free of lust yields abundant fruit" Verse 356 Dhammapada (Buddha)
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CN's L565 local switches the large Big River United Energy ethanol plant on the west side of Dyersville in northeast Iowa. Dyersville only has a population of about 4000, but has garnered global notoriety in baseball lore for hosting the movie site for Field of Dreams.
L56591 26 (Local- Dubuque, IA to Manchester, IA and return)
GTW GP38-2 #6225
GTW GP38-2 #5844
Dyersville, IA
May 26th, 2022
North job's power making a run on ex MILW from Nora Springs to Garner for a run to Forest City Iowa.
The southbound Dakota & Iowa approaches Chatsworth Iowa with the days rock train. It a few short minutes the crew will tie their train down and taxi north. The northbound from Sioux City will arrive in a few hours, leave the train they arrived with and take this one south. Originally this train had 4 motors up front but in Hawarden they moved one to the rear, perhaps for better train handling on the line south to Sioux City, I am not really sure.
The big skies of the Midwest make for dramatic effects, both early morning and late evening. I loved it.
This photo of Enterprise captured at sunset, Iowa was taken on NE 46th Street, Polk County, Iowa just a few hundred feet north of NE 94th Avenue. Enterprise is an unincorporated community just east of Ankeny with a few homes and a large farm co-op.
Developed using darktable 3.6.0
BUGX SD9 4324, still in NWP lettering and in a SP inspired paint scheme, sits in the BNSF yard in Burlington, IA.
IANR MABU heads south through Clarksville, Iowa passing the former site of the junction with the ex-CGW mainline to Council Bluffs.
An eastbound stack train was departing Clinton with a fresh crew with traffic bound for Chicago on a dreary midwestern winter day in 1995.
Union Pacific had taken over the Chicago and North Western earlier in the year, but the CNW was still very much in evidence at the time.
A run-through Norfolk Southern GE B23-7 was helping out the Zito Yellow CNW SD40-2 as the train was about to cross the Mississippi River into Illinois.