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There’s a C420 in the middle, but four Delaware & Hudson U23B’s are providing the sense of working hard as they lift a train northward out of the Southern Tier City of Binghamton, New York.
Ethanol loads for the WSSB at Wadesboro, NC meander northward along the roller coaster section of track at Howie siding just north of Comer, GA on the Abbeville Sub.
A northward Delmarva Central Railway makes it's way toward Salisbury, MD catching the last rays of sun on a summer evening.
After having some break piping issues in Atlanta, the F's return northward behind a straight SD60 on a hot, muggy fall afternoon.
Union Pacific's LUL41 29 local rumbles northward through Vineyard, Utah on its merry journey to American Fork on the Provo Industrial Lead. The 41's train was substantial on this Oct. 29, 2025 run with 19 cars, all of them loads.
If you guessed a passing train may have lit this poor Russian Olive tree on fire, you would be correct.
I'll be gone for a few days as we are headed North in search of some fall color. That and it will be nice just to get out.
Found this little guy sitting on a dying waterlily in Nahant Marsh. The dead lilies have some nice colors in them! The Marsh is low because of our drought, which makes for ideal conditions for the Duckweed to grow. That's the green stuff all over and surrounding the frog. You can see that it can grow quit thick. What looks like seeds are actually individual plants!
I saw quite a few Egrets gathered in Credit Island as well as a couple here at the Marsh. Seems they are grouping up to make the trek south.
We'll catch up with you when we return!
Union Pacific SD40N 1708 rumbles northward through the Cache Valley past the IFA Agronomy Center in Lewiston, Utah.
In half a mile, the LCG41C will stop and back down the one mile Presto Spur to Presto Products, one of two sizable shippers on UP's 51-mile Cache Valley Industrial Lead.
These Lesser Sandhill Cranes, Grus canadensis canadensis are on their northward migration to Alaska. Some of them stop over in the West Richland area annually. I think most of them spent the winter in Central California. These are the early arrivals that don't want to miss the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival (March 24-26) held in their honor every year. According the the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival website these birds are Lesser Sandhill Cranes. IMG_3958
La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Eurema salome (Salome Yellow / Salomé Amarilla)
The Salome Yellow (Eurema salome) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Peru northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.
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This was another encounter that was a pleasant accident while I sat in the snow, concealed by shrubs, hoping to photograph a Red-bellied Woodpecker in a nearby forest.
This species is one of the winter visitors making its way north now, to its breeding territories. A number of the bird species that keep the woods and waters lively in the winter stay year-round, but many depart northward. The next few images will be of our departing winter visitors.
Union Pacific's Cache Valley Local rolls northward through the small town of Richmond, Utah the morning of May 16, 2018.
Juncos are the "snowbirds" of the middle latitudes. Over most of the eastern United States, they appear as winter sets in, and then retreat northward each spring.
The Lake State Railway's Santa - Toys for Tots train rolls northward north of St. Helen, Michigan crossing the North Branch of the Au Sable River on December 6, 2025.
... take eight overlapping portrait format frames and stitch them together. A scene looking northward over part of Newcastle city, Australia during a brief sunny interlude this afternoon. The atmosphere is extremely humid, and the Tasman Sea is warmer than usual, as La Niña lingers. Yet more intense rain is forecast for the NSW Coast, with the prospect of another East Coast Low forming off Sydney in the next day or so, dumping even more rain on already saturated coastal catchments.
A lone yacht pushes northward near Newcastle, Australia, presumably keeping an eye on the storms further out to sea.
#52 Weeks: The 2021 Edition
#Week 14 : Minimalist landscape
Super-Takumar 150mm f4
Single frame iPhone capture taken at 8:35 p.m. (UT-4)
Orion XT8-i, 20mm Plossl eyepiece, universal smartphone adapter.
Interesting view into the largest crater on the near side of the Moon, Bailly (near the 7 o'clock position). Seeing Bailly B and another elevated ridge in the northern region of its 188 mile (303km) diameter. Reminds me a little of an edge-on view of a 9 volt battery connector.
Northward to the 8 o'clock position the 141 mile (227 km) crater Schickard. Further north near the 10 o'clock position, follow the prominent western ray of Kepler just north of crater Reiner and Reiner Gamma, and see the eastern rims of Hevelius and Cavalerius right on the terminator.
Seeing conditions were average, but transparency was bad and unfortunately did not favor higher magnification captures. Click on the image for larger format.
The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" Locomotive passes the elevators at Lancaster leading UP Train WWGPUR 14 northward on the UP Falls City Sub.
Locomotives: UP 1943, UP 7873
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Lancaster, KS
The daily Coastal Classic is continuing its northward journey toward Anchorage, seen here running along the Seward Highway just south of Girdwood near Virgin Creek in our 26th edition of Alaska Revisited.
I had noticed that along this section of track that the train's speed varied greatly. I'm not sure if it was because of slow orders or if it was the crew slowing to give the passengers a glimpse of the amazing scenery.
Some migrating female red-winged blackbirds gathered in a treetop on a rest stop during their journey northward.
A D-L local job heads northward on the former Delaware & Hudson Penn Division main line between Scranton and Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
Common in Florida and along the southeast coast, the White Ibis is expanding its range northward and has nested for the first time along the New Jersey coast in 2020 and 2021
Sarangkot hill is a famous viewpoint of Himalayas, in particular, Annapurna Massif. You can reach the hilltop with car. It is also a launching site of paraglider. Himal (snow-capped mountain) in the photo is part of Annapurna Massif.
This is a northward view from Pokhara Lakeside.
The Cortland based CL-2 crew is on their northward journey to Syracuse where most of their train will be interchanged to the CSX. A book I have says this station at Tully was built in 1904, classified as a type W-101-A, and cost the Lackawanna Railroad (DL&W) $10,401 to build. Sure looks good these days wearing its restored DL&W station colors with a solid consist of EMDs passing by as the engineer notches out of a 10MPH slow order amidst the sun peeking through a few flakes of lake effect snow.
The purple crow butterfly and the monarch butterfly in Central and South America are the only two known butterfly species that engage in mass migrations. In Taiwan, the purple crow butterflies’ annual mass migration occurs from the wintering valleys in Kaohsiung and Taitung northward to their birthplace in areas such as Miaoli County.
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Rolling northward out of Owosso, Michigan on the old former NYC Lansing to Bay City line is Pere Marquette 1225 dashing through the snow back on December 6, 2008.
Tommy grabs a notch as they accellerate northward out of Cedarville, tight on hours and making a cannonball run for the Michigan Border.
After Hurricane Idalia, many displaced flamingos from Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula flew northward, ending up along Florida's west coast. This flamingo spent about a month at Fort De Soto near St Petersburg, Florida before flying away.
From The Washington Trails Association:
There’s nothing like a lazy beach stroll — and nothing quite like wandering on the spectacularly scenic Olympic Coast.
This hike begins at the Rialto Beach parking area. Your trail is the beach itself and the two mile walk to Hole-in-the-Wall is filled with attractions. Look south to the forested James and Little James islands, while waves crash over Gunsight Rock and numerous offshore sea stacks. Heading north on the beach, walk over sand, rock and driftwood.
Along the way, watch for all manner of wildlife: spy whales, sea lions and otters offshore, while a variety of seabirds drift overhead, and eagles perch in the forest upslope. After a mile, cross Ellen Creek; there may be a log crossing, or you may have to get your feet wet. Continue northward, with Hole-in-the-Wall soon coming into view.
If the tide is out, scramble through the rocky arch and explore the adjacent tide pools, teeming with small oceanic critters. If the tide is in, use the overland trail above the arch and take in panoramic views southward over this picturesque scene.
A primarily carnivorous species that eats all sorts of small creatures, the magpie-lark can adapt to an enormous range of different habitats, requiring only some soft, bare ground for foraging, a supply of mud for making a nest, and a tree to make it in. Seen while walking along the Strand in Townsville.
Having earlier left Pontiac Yard, now running northward on the Grand Trunk Western - Cass City Subdivision is a plow extra near mileage 21 of the 99 mile line. Shown here rolling through Leonard, Michigan is jordan spreader 51046 being pushed by two GP9's back on January 28, 1979.
Ranchers used specific routes, known as cattle trails, to move their animals from grazing lands to market. This is in California but the most famous trails of the Great Plains ran from Texas northward to Kansas cowtowns or railheads.
On a frigid evening, a manifest blasts northward on CN's Waukesha Sub at Willow Creek / Hubertus, Wisconsin.
Tristram's starling or Tristram's grackle (Onychognathus tristramii) is a species of starling native to Israel, Jordan, northeastern Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), western Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman, nesting mainly on rocky cliff faces.The species is named after Reverend Henry Baker Tristram, who also collected natural history specimens.
A member of the genus Onychognathus, it is 25 cm long (including a 9 cm tail), with a wingspan of 44–45 cm, and a weight of 100–140 g. The males have glossy iridescent black plumage with orange patches on the outer wing, which are particularly noticeable in flight. The bill and legs are black. Females and young birds are similar but duller and with a greyish head, lacking the plumage gloss.
It is gregarious and noisy, with a call that resembles a wolf whistle. They are omnivorous, feeding on fruit and invertebrates, and can also be observed grooming Nubian ibex and domestic livestock for parasites. They are becoming increasingly commensal with man, feeding in towns and villages; this has enabled a recent northward spread in their distribution.