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A prarie dog in South Dakota
On my way into Badlands National Park, I stopped at a prairie dog lodge to take some photos. One could buy feed at the store there, but the prarie dogs looked fat enough to me.
Canon FTb
200 mm lens
Kodak Gold 200 film
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
Here's the complete album of the photos shot on this Road Trip.
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We have had a very active month of June in terms of weather, which suits me just fine. An unstable atmosphere frequently means great skies to work with.
US Highway 89
Montana
Immediately after leaving Glacier National Park, heading east/southeast, one finds oneself in a fantastic landscape of rolling prairies casting long shadows, with the mountain range on one side and big sky on the other. Simply gorgeous.
On the move out of Hawarden headed south to Chatsworth where they would tie down their train in the siding is the D&I loaded stone train we'd been following all day from Sioux Falls. They are seen here approaching the Birch Ave. crossing at about MP 22.9 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years.
This was our first look at this stretch of the railroad and the undulating profile through the prairie hills belies how seemingly challenging it is. With the right composition you can almost imagine it's the 1970s again and this is still the Milwaukee Road....almost...if you really squint!
Powering the heavy train are DAIR 2511, 2510, 2512 & 3021 now on the rear. The two leaders are EMD GP39-2s blt. Jan. 1977 and Oct. 1978 respectively as as high cabbed Kennecott Copper pit motors KCC 786 and 798. The third unit is and EMd GP50 blt. Jul. 1980 as CNW 5079 and out of sight now on the rear is an EMD SD40-2 blt. Oct. 1978 as CP 5904.
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South of Hawarden
Sioux County, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
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It was another very cold day here with a beautiful blue sky. I was in the right position as this Prairie Falcon flew in low overhead.
If you look at this in large size, you will see traces of blood on on the fourth upper tail feather, talons, and beak. This one just captured a Pigeon but was robbed by Ravens.
It was on the way back to the terminal to try another run, but was confronted by a Gryfalcon and left the scene. I missed that shot.
We are fortunate here to be able to capture two falcon species at this time of year, The action around the the Alberta Grain Terminal is quite unique.
Alberta Grain Terminal. Edmonton Alberta.
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All of Prairie Center, Wyoming. Apparently someone recently purchased the old school (closed in 2004, I believe). It looks to be in pretty good shape.
What a difference two month makes. This prairie remnant in Oakland Township was subject to a prescribed burn May. Now look at it!
Large Prairie lifts it's train from Bewdley Station on the Severn Valley Railway at the Autumn Gala 2019. More of the Large Prairies at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Great-Western-Region/Larg...
Circle B Bar Reserve, Lakeland, FL.
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The day that started out foggy turned out to be pretty sunny by the time we made it to Washago. This is where the CNR's Bala Subdivision, Toronto to the West, crossed the Newmarket Sub from Toronto to North Bay and its connection to the Montreal-to-the-West mainline as well as the Ontario Northland to the north. The Bala was the former Canadian Northern and the Newmarket was the former Grand Trunk; they took opposite sides of Lake Simcoe north of Toronto and crossed here, north of the lake, to pursue their destinations to the north (Newmarket, ex-GT) or to the west (Bala, ex-CNoR.) Until 1921 the two railroads crossed each other at an interlocking tower; once the two railroads became one - Canadian National - the crossing was eliminated and other rearrangements of the two mainlines occurred as a result of highway changes to eliminate a bottleneck where the railroads lines were crossed. The Severn River crossing was also a factor in this re-arrangement. This is Train 220 (Winnipeg to Toronto) as it approaches the depot off of the Bala Subdivision. Mostly piggies, it has a "stock car in use" (my notes...I guess there were live ones in it?) first out behind the units. That wasn't an uncommon sight even well into the '80s out on the Canadian Prairies. The train had only 33 cars and van behind those three wide-cab GP40-2's, so I suspect it was pretty hot beef back there...and that is my friend's AMC "Gremlin" underneath the water tank. It seems to sneak into a lot of shots of mine!
- www.kevin-palmer.com - After the storm rolled through, the clouds began breaking up and crepuscular rays were shining across the prairie.
Ratibida pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names pinnate prairie coneflower, gray-head coneflower, yellow coneflower, and prairie coneflower. It is native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario in Canada. This is in the Aster family.