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The loading bay’s hard lines meet the darkness of the pavement. A shallow pool catches the ceiling light, fracturing the industrial architecture into liquid geometry. Here, commerce pauses, and the slick surfaces hold a temporary, silent mirror to the lonely work of the night.
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Our ever reliable Little Robin...
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
The robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is a vagrant in Iceland. In the south-east, it reaches the Caucasus range. Irish and British robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Scandinavian and Russian robins migrate to Britain and western Europe to escape the harsher winters. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast. The European robin prefers spruce woods in northern Europe, contrasting with its preference for parks and gardens in Ireland and Britain.
Attempts to introduce the European robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local acclimatisation societies, with none becoming established. There was a similar outcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889–1892, and the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia in 1908–1910.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.
Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
The robin features prominently in British folklore, and that of northwestern France, but much less so in other parts of Europe. It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology. Robins feature in the traditional children's tale, Babes in the Wood; the birds cover the dead bodies of the children.
More recently, the robin has become strongly associated with Christmas, taking a starring role on many Christmas cards since the mid 19th century. The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain. The blood from his wounds stained the robin's breast, and thereafter all robins got the mark of Christ's blood upon them.
An alternative legend has it that its breast was scorched fetching water for souls in Purgatory.
The association with Christmas more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red jackets and were nicknamed "Robins"; the robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.
In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by The Times, the robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK.
In 2015, the robin was again voted Britain's national bird in a poll organised by birdwatcher David Lindo, taking 34% of the final vote.
A venerable KCS GP38 of Milwaukee Road origin crosses the Crawfish River at Hubbleton with a ballast train for loading at Waterloo. Notice the GP38 is leading the rebuilds... tells you everything you need to know
Two reliable F40's pull an outbound North Central rush hour train on Chicago's North-West side. Meanwhile an O'hare International departure gains elevation above, as distant thunderstorm gathers.
A reliable afternoon intermodal through the area in those days was this one, UP Train ZYCMQB 24, which today drew a clean flagged and flared newer SD70M and a C40-8. Here they're easing up to North Dexter to change crews on Main Track 2 on the UP Chester Sub. This was real snoozefest back then, but sometimes it just takes a few years to appreciate things. These days, I appreciate a red stripe on a UP engine.
Locomotives: UP 5029, UP 9156
8-24-06
Dexter, MO
You can always rely on coming across a Brown Honeyeater on any given walk through the bush. Chatty and pugnacious, they'd be missed if they weren't there.
A mature bristlecone pine in the golden hour. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California, USA, July 2021
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I am reliably informed the Beatles had their first hit in 1962 with 'Love me Do'. No one can doubt their style was unique, for they combined different genre of music in a most innovative way. Needless to say, they took the pop world by storm and of course, the rest was history!
I took the photo on a recent visit to their hometown of Liverpool, at the Pier Head. The background shows the two of the 'Three Graces', which define the city's skyline; the Royal Liver Building and the Royal Cunard Building, the other being the Port of Liverpool Building.
Thought I'd put my 50mm to good use and try out something different. I hope you like.
Wishing everyone a great week....and remember, 'we can work it out'!
In Pond Inlet, where the sea ice stretches to the horizon and supply ships arrive only a few months each year, reliable energy is more than convenience—it is survival. The generating station powers homes, schools, health services, and the small businesses that sustain daily life in this northern hamlet.
In a place where winter temperatures can plunge far below –45°C, steady electricity keeps families warm, preserves food, and ensures that communications and essential services remain connected to the outside world. Beyond immediate needs, dependable power also supports hunters and outfitters, enables research and cultural programs, and provides the foundation for integrating renewable energy projects that reduce dependence on costly diesel.
In the high Arctic, where isolation and climate extremes define existence, the generating station stands as the heartbeat of the community—quietly ensuring resilience, safety, and the promise of a sustainable future.
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Our ever reliable Little Robin...
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
The robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is a vagrant in Iceland. In the south-east, it reaches the Caucasus range. Irish and British robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Scandinavian and Russian robins migrate to Britain and western Europe to escape the harsher winters. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast. The European robin prefers spruce woods in northern Europe, contrasting with its preference for parks and gardens in Ireland and Britain.
Attempts to introduce the European robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local acclimatisation societies, with none becoming established. There was a similar outcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889–1892, and the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia in 1908–1910.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.
Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
The robin features prominently in British folklore, and that of northwestern France, but much less so in other parts of Europe. It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology. Robins feature in the traditional children's tale, Babes in the Wood; the birds cover the dead bodies of the children.
More recently, the robin has become strongly associated with Christmas, taking a starring role on many Christmas cards since the mid 19th century. The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain. The blood from his wounds stained the robin's breast, and thereafter all robins got the mark of Christ's blood upon them.
An alternative legend has it that its breast was scorched fetching water for souls in Purgatory.
The association with Christmas more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red jackets and were nicknamed "Robins"; the robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.
In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by The Times, the robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK.
In 2015, the robin was again voted Britain's national bird in a poll organised by birdwatcher David Lindo, taking 34% of the final vote.
In the tapestry of life, there's a timeless wisdom that echoes through the hum of everyday moments. It's a sentiment akin to the reliability of an old pickup truck, weathered by time but steadfast in its purpose. In a world often enamored by the allure of novelty and extravagance, the enduring value lies not in the gleam of newness or the abundance of bells and whistles, but in the assurance of reliability. Like that dependable truck that has weathered storms and traveled miles, there's an inherent beauty in things or individuals that stand the test of time. In the quiet moments of need, it's the steady engine of reliability that carries us through, proving that sometimes, the truest luxury is found in the unwavering constancy of something or someone we can count on.
Most mornings spent on the Dundas Sub will have some eastbound freight trains show up but if all else fails Via #70 can always be counted on.
A former L&N GP38-2 leads a MARC commuter train, pictured at Point of Rocks on June 30th 1989. Just keep this in mind you could have been shooting this thing instead of taking down the Berlin wall... Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in the corner with a bottle of Maalox.
Dan Munson photo, JL Sessa collection.
As requested...same image without black border.
New Brighton lighthouse..Wirral..Merseyside.
Got to #3 in explore! :-))
As I often did I would drive from my house in Colorado Springs north to spend a day of photography on the Moffat Route. I usually bypassed and went straight to Hwy 72 usually with a stop at Rocky as inevitably there would be a train in the siding. Such was the case this in summer of 2005 when a pair of SP AC4400Ws were tied down in Rocky siding. On my rating scale SP was a better catch than UP but not as good as a Rio Grande but in 2005 this was a pretty good find.
Another reliably early blooming shrub is the quince. The one in my neighborhood is a small plant, and in this case, the blossom was very close to the ground.
These crocuses have emerged every February since I planted them, never failing to delight me. As you know, a clump from 2005 became and still is my Flickr icon.
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After my planned chase of an afternoon westbound out of Northern Maine Junction evaporated due to mechanical issues with power and work to do in the yard before leaving, I decided to go after the Hinckley job. SAPPI-3 and SAPPI-4 are easily the most reliable trains in the Waterville area. Eastbound SAPPI-4 left Waterville in the evening after doing some yard switching and having their power serviced. Here they are crossing Martin Stream in Hinckely nearing the end of their day at the Sappi Fine Paper mill in Skowhegan. Today's Hinckley branch is a 9 mile remant of the Maine Central branch to downtown Scowhegan. The only remaining customer is the paper mill. The power certainly isn't what it once was, but it is still nice to have a branch line local running 7 days a week in New England.
Hinckley, Maine
August 27, 2016
Cypripedium calceolus (Gelber Frauenschuh, lady's-slipper orchid) Kreuzenstein, Niederösterreich, Austria. It was a dry periode, but they survived untill the rain came a week later. Steinheil Cassar 2.8/50.
Not really the go-to or solid backup shot in my case, as I've never stepped foot here before, but all of my research on the remaining semiphores here convinced me this shot was, if nothing else, the one angle I was going to walk away with.
This was almost true, with leaving Trinidad behind the train, losing it again in Raton due to road work, and stopping for the previously-uploaded sub-par shot at Wagon Mound. The stop at Las Vegas, NM allowed me to get ahead of the train once more and set up for the third and last chance I'd have to frame some semiphores on this trip.
The long write-up aside, Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolls up to the classic, well-documented, semiphores at MP 774.2.
Las Vegas, NM
March 14th, 2022
Metra SW1 #1 sits at the Blue Island Vermont Street station on the Rock Island District with electric bilevels to be serviced. Built in 1939, this unit still serves daily having also worked under the Illinois Central and Rock Island.
Former used car lot sitting along a state highway.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, handheld light producing device set to white and yellow, large sodium vapor light to camera left and numerous passing cars behind the camera.
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Pushing her hard is the SD Reliable (right), accompanied by SD Impulse (left), and (centre) the SD Resourceful.
USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She is the fourth Navy ship named for Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1856–1920). Crew complement: 49 military, 123 civilians. Aircraft carried:two helicopters, either Sikorsky or Aerospatiale Pumas.
Name: USNS Robert E Peary
Namesake: Robert Peary
Builder: National Steel and Shipbuilding
Laid Down: 12 December, 2006.
Launched: 27 October 2007
Christened: 9 February 2008.
Motto: “King of the Team”.
Gross tonnage: 43,758 tons.
Max dry cargo weight:
5,910 long tons (6,005 t)
Max dry cargo volume: 83,000 cubic feet (22,000m³)
Max cargo fuel weight: 2,350 long tons (2,390t)
Cargo fuel volume: 18,000 barrels (2,900 m³)
(DFM: 10,500) (JP5:7,500)
Armament: 2–6 × 12.7 mm machine guns; or 7.62 mm medium machine guns.
Aircraft carried: two helicopters (Sikorsky or Pumas)
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SD Reliable: The SD prefix represents the operating contractor Serco Denholm Marine, who took over most of the MOD harbour vessels and tugs after the disbanding of the RMAS in March 2008.(copyright Dave Forbes). Vessels currently in service can be recognised by their black hulls with white beading and white-coloured upperworks
SD Reliable (based Faslane):
Gross Tonnage: 271
Length: 29.14m;
Beam: 9.59m.
Year Built: 2009.
SD Impulse:
Gross tonnage: 319 tonne
Length: 33 m
Beam: 10 m
Draught: 4.2 m
SD Resourceful:
designed to offer towage and assistance services to large vessels and maritime objects on inland waters, in ports, and on coastal waters in heavy weather conditions. Azimuth steering - i.e.360 degrees turn for propellers. Used for Harbour and coastal berthing operations, inc fire fighting.
Length overall (inc. fenders): 29.14 m
Beam (inc. fenders): 9.98 m
Depth at side (at half length): 4.00 m
Draught aft (approx): 4.8 m
Passengers:
Max 15 (12 pax, 3 crew)Crew: Accommodation for 6
Max Speed (knots): 13.1 ahead/13.3 astern knots
CSXT 323 shows off an honorable mention to the L&N RR, aka "The Old Reliable" while hanging out in Bedford Park Intermodal Yard in Bedford Park, Illinois.
Union Pacific SD40N 1948 rolls past some rubber-tired testaments to its reliability as a main-line locomotive for the past four decades.
Built in 1979 for the UP, 1948 is going strong on the Janesville turn as it passes O'Hare Airport on the way out of town, reliability is certainly one of the hallmarks of the SD40 family. Will those trucks still be on the road in forty years?