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Haymarket class 20s, 20219 and 20204 head 6K71 1327 Perth Yard to Millerhill Speedlink service past Markinch.
The rake mainly comprises empty car carrying vehicles; there was a flow of Renault cars to Perth at the time IIRC and a white roofed van for Rowntrees traffic. It would be nice to think that the other VBA vehicle was used for whisky traffic - I knew the train as "the whisky" - but suspect this traffic had halted by this time.
East Lomond hill and the iconic Haigs whisky bottling plant, which was to close a week later, dominate the background.
23rd May 1983
Oh that Brittany nose. Freckled and always working. Birds in the park, dirty laundry, food, the smell under the bathroom door, and any scents that I happened to bring home from work on my shoes. Plus many more that I will never know about. Just one of the things that we love about her.
After arriving and yarding their train in Pittston the NRFF crew had instructions to wye their power so that 5019 would lead going back south to North Reading and pick up a pair of GP30s. In order to wye their power the crew has to use a combination of ex LV and DLW trackage at Pittston Junction and nose down by the Luzerne and Susquehanna shop on the old LV mainline before reversing direction toward the RBMN's Scranton Branch (ex DLW). Anyway, here is the NRFF crew shoving toward the LSRY shop with the conductor protecting the point from the pilot of GP30u 1581 (blt. Jan. 1963 as ATSF 1238). Except things wouldn't go exactly as planned...as you can tell by the look on his face as he pushes through the trees counting down his engineer on the head end five units away.
Pittston, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021
Union Pacific was the only railroad to purchase GP30 booster units from EMD. Examples of both A and B are pictured 'nose to nose' (front to front?) in Provo, Utah on Jan. 30, 1977. UP 727 was built in March 1963 and retired March 1984 while UP 729B was built in June 1963 and retired in Sept. 1983. The Rio Grande kept their GP30s active more than a decade longer than UP, many lasting into the UP-SP merger.
390124 - seemingly sporting a replacement nose - is pictured passing Cartland with trhe 10:38 Glasgow to London service.
NOTE: Scottish Government travel guidance was adhered to during this outing. I traveled alone in a private vehicle and remained within my council area (South Lanarkshire).
It's raining outside so it's crazy playtime in our house. Never a dull moment with these two! (Explored)
I think that's one of the closest close-ups I have taken of Linus so far. He has quite a perfect pink nose, no scars yet. Taking photos of his nose is an easy thing to do as eyes and nose always follow the bugs. :)
for the 52 Weeks for dogs "Nose" Challenge I took out the fisheye lens that illona had sent me awhile back. After a couple of days trying to get the perfect nose shot....... this was declared the winner. Out takes are in the comments ;-)
There are a few extra shots in my photostream, too!
This is the first chameleon I saw in the wild, from my first night in Madagascar -- a nose-horned chameleon (Calumma nasutum), maybe 3 inches long not counting the tail. We saw quite a few individuals of this and other species over the next several days, and it was cool to see one every single time. There are chameleons native to Africa, parts of Asia, and even southern Europe, but Madagascar has the most species. Chameleons are famous for changing color, although not all species do; and their reasons for color-changing mostly have nothing to do with camouflage. Instead, their color-shifting is about mood, communication with rivals and/or mates, and temperature regulation. Awesome creatures.