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For the first time in nearly ten years, the iconic PRR 'keystone' logo adorns the nose of Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5898. Used by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern as power for their excursion trains, this locomotive has spent most of the last decade cycling through phases of bodywork and partial repaints. With the reappearance of the nose logo in autumn 2022, the 5898 looks the most 'complete' it has in a long time.
Except during winter, StLIM&S operates excursions most Saturdays of the year. Here we see the train rolling across a small and mostly weed-obscured trestle south of Jackson, MO on October 29, 2022.
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The Louisville & Indiana's attractive Pennsy inspired paint scheme looks right at home on this Z550-19 heading home to Columbus with and ex-Pennsy signal guarding the interlocking at CP Dale. Indianapolis, IN 3/19/2024
Particularly dense ice, as seen by the turquoise color. Water seeps from the sheer vertical cliffs of Keystone Canyon.
Nye County, Nevada. A little north of Tybo in the Hot Creek Range.
I believe that this was the headquarters of a mine. My theory is that the strong room (the door seen through the window) was built to safeguard the silver dug up. Of course it may also just be a room without windows and a small low door...
Part 2 of a 5-part set showing how this Coyote is getting through the lean season...
It happened in a heartbeat. If you saw yesterday's post, you may have noticed the little predator's hind legs curled up underneath him (or her - it's so hard to tell unless they urinate), like a spring-loaded, lethal killing machine. It has just launched; the hind legs haven't touched down yet and its jaws have already found the target.
A hapless, sleepy Black-tailed Prairie Dog had woken from its slumber due to the warming weather, and ventured up to check out the world. It happened to be looking the wrong way, and had no chance to react before the jaws closed around the back of its neck and head. The outcome was determined in an instant.
Prairie Dogs are really cute, so it's hard not to feel a twinge of remorse for this one, but so it goes: this is the fate of a high percentage of the members of each prairie dog colony. They are a keystone species. Many, many other species depend on them.
The next three images will show Coyote enjoying its meal - a substantial caloric reward for its efforts. Coyotes are efficient killers but messy eaters, so I won't post the one truly gory shot. Let us say that not a morsel went to waste.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
A load of Pennsylvania coal eases down the Sand Patch grade around the horseshoe curve at Mance, PA, lead by CSXT 373. It's past peak here at Mance, as evident by a few bare spots on the hillside, but the color was just gorgeous. Few places can compare to Pennsylvania in the fall.
Just a little wave on a Oklahoma lake..Keystone...this was a small wave from a boat, not really significant but 10 million of these small waves can change the face of a shoreline.....think about it...no matter how small nothing should be counted insignificant.
Arthur Pack Regional Park, Tucson, AZ.
Gila Woodpecker is considered a keystone species in its ecosystem. This is primarily because it creates vital cavities in saguaro cacti that are then used by many other species for nesting and shelter. These cavities are essential for the survival of various birds and mammals, making the Gila woodpecker a crucial component of the ecosystem's structure and health.
I almost didn't get this Z416. The sun started breaking through just as the lead SD45 appeared from under the viaduct (how many times does THAT happen) ? I had to adjust the aperture and almost blew the shot in doing so.
WM SD40 #7549 and B&O GP9 #5947 shove an eastbound coal train at Keystone Pa in July 1976. The track in the background is 7549's former home turf; the WM's Conneillsville Extension, closed as a through-route about 14 months prior.
The section between the nearby B&O connection to just east of the Salisbury Viaduct was kept in to serve the Blue Lick load out until about 1990. Walter Schopp photo, JL Sessa collection.
A grizzly bear, neck deep in a BC salmon river, holds the head of a salmon carcass in its long claws and pulls off the skin with its teeth as it glances over at the camera. Salmon is a keystone species in the Pacific Northwest, supporting more than 130 other species with nutrients as they die at the end of their life cycle.
28/02/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Canadian Pacific's train 580, muscles out of the Reeseville Marsh basin at Richwood, with a leader that looks just as at home in the cheese state as it does in the keystone state.
The humble sea star. A fan favorite amongst the tide pools here in the Pacific Northwest. However, until recently I didn't know what an important role they play in coastal ecosystems.
I was watching a show on 'Keystone Predators', a term I was unfamiliar with. A keystone predator is an animal/organism that has, "a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance." They more or less act as an agent of balance within the ecosystem. Without them other organisms (plants, animals, fish ect) are at risk.
A researcher in the late 60's found that when he removed all of the sea stars from tide pools along a section of the Olympic coast that muscles absolutely took over, obliterating the populations of sea urchins, anemones, and other shellfish. The sea stars provided a balance and a sort of predatory regulation which benefitted all of the other species, in this case a multitude of anemones, kelp, and if you look real close a crab that's hiding in there.
The program gave other examples as well, large mouth bass in river streams to regulate minnows from consuming all of the vegetation, wolves to regulate deer which also regulates low lying vegetation, and re-introduced wild dogs in Africa that helped to regulate antelope and zebra, preventing the lush plains of Africa from becoming a desert.
Some species like wolves or wild dogs are known as 'predators', others like the sea star fly a little under the radar. Either way, I found the whole idea really interesting. Who or what is our keystone predator, keeping us humans in check? Is there an overall balance between sentient beings (and perhaps beyond) that humans are just starting to understand? I think we should do our best to stay out of the way and check ourselves just in case.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm.
A set of helpers heads toward Farm for another assignment as snow flakes blanket the mining town of Keystone, West Virginia.
Happy Halloween, everyone! To celebrate, here’s a BNSF pumpkin leading a manifest west through a dreary Keystone, WV along the Pokey.
10-17-2023
What a view! We were lucky to have a some fabulous days to ski in Colorado. Breckenridge ski runs can be seen in the distance.
Clark County
Missouri
Keystone Schoolhouse. A little storm chasing this afternoon with not much in the way of a storm, but caught a fleeting rainbow as a result.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
La Keystone K8 és una càmera de cinema amateur, en format 8mm, fabricada abans i durant la II Guerra Mundial.
És una petita,senzilla i molt ben pensada càmera de cinema. Realment té la pinta (i pot quasi passar com ) de llauna de sardines, però és una petita joia. Funciona perfectament, tot i que encara no n'he vist els resultats.
El format 8mm (standard), fou creat per Kodak el 1932 com una manera encara més barata de fer pel·licules casolanes (sense dubte per l'impacte economic del 1929). El seu principal desaventatge és que cal obrir la càmera i girar la pel·licula cada 2 minuts. De fet, la pel·licula fa16mm d'ample, no 8, però la filmació es fa en dues passades, una en una meitat, i després a l'altre. Per això cal girar la cinta. Després es divideix en dos al quarto fosc.
Les K8 de Keystone es fabricaren entre 1936 i 1943, i moltes foren emprades per soldats al·liats durant la guerra mundial, per la seva facilitat d'us i mida compacta.
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The Keystone K8 is an 8mm amateur film camera made before and during World War II.
It is a small, simple and well thought out film camera. It really looks (and can almost look like) a can of sardines, but it's a little gem. It works perfectly, although I haven't seen the results yet.
The 8mm (standard) format was created by Kodak in 1932 as an even cheaper way to make home movies (no doubt because of the economic impact of 1929 Wall Street Crack. Its main disadvantage is that you have to open the camera and turn the movie every 2 minutes. In fact, the film is 16mm wide, not 8mm, but the filming is done in two passes, one in one half, and then the other. That's why you have to turn the tape. It is then divided into two in the dark room, and linked together.
The Keystone K8s were manufactured between 1936 and 1943, and many were used by Allied soldiers during World War II for their ease of use and compact size.