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A trio of Southern Pacific GP-9R's, led by the #3388 (ex-Texas & New Orleans #401) pass by the Brawley Depot in California's Imperial Valley during April of 1987.
The Brawley lettering on the station is visible above the two air-conditioners on the side of the building.
Back in the summer I had a close encounter with this obliging male Southern Hawker. Although I've photographed these before I've never managed it with a macro lens as they're normally quite flighty.
Heading Eastbound at the West switch at Cable siding in the Tehachapi's on an Intermodal train are SD45R's 7544, 7481, SD45T-2R 6775 and Denver & Rio Grande Western SD40T-2 #5400 in July of 1989.
Southern white rhinoceros. The White Rhino is one of the largest land animals and have the biggest horn of all rhinos.
Another one of the spectacular views in the south west of western australia. I'm not sure what the red glow was from but it was towards the ocean so it couldn't be a town. maybe a little aurora australis? :-)
In case you're wondering - "... the male Dogface has a black border on the forewing, outlining what resembles a “poodle” head, which is where the term dogface stems from." Kind of funny to picture a butterfly with a dog's face, though.
Here working our lantanas...
C62 with NS 5204 with 11 cars throttles up as they pass through CP-Woodworth which still has NKP signals, the train is going to switch out places in Erie and North East
4.1.2020, At sea towards S. Georgia.
Taken from the deck of MS Fram on our expedition voyage to the Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica, just one month before the COVID 19 eruption... thank god we made it!
Huge albatross of the Southern Ocean; breeds in New Zealand, but circles the globe on its travels. Always appears clean black-and-white with a white tail (or with small black markings); never has dirty brownish markings on head and body or a mostly black tail as seen on many Wandering Albatrosses. At close range, note the diagnostic narrow black “lips” on bill, lacking on Wandering. Two distinct populations: Northern Royal Albatross has solidly black upperwings contrasting with white back and adult Southern Royal Albatross has white forewings, but immature has dark upperwings much like Northern Royal, but with narrower white leading edge.
SOURCE: eBiRDS
Part of our recent holiday involved a one way cruise from Buenos Aires to San Antonio in Chile. As such a reasonable amount of time was spent at sea which on the face of it might have been viewed as downtime. Thankfully that wasn't the case as often a reasonable variety of birdlife could be seen from the decks.
The birds that seemed to approach the boat closer than others were these huge Southern Giant Petrels. They have a habit of following any boat in the hope that they may pick up any discarded food. That wasn't going to be the case of a cruise liner but often a couple could be seen in the wake of the ship.
These birds are sizeable to say the least with some online reports detailing a wingspan of up to seven feet. That may have been a little bigger than the ones we encountered but they were certainly impressive birds. Whilst following the boat any wing movements to control their flight were virtually imperceptible. They simply seemed to glide with effortless ease. All the time their eyes seemed to be fixed upon me with my camera.
NS 8099 and NS 1069 lead the northbound 2025 Masters OCS by the Montpelier Station outside of Orange, Virginia.
Limenitis reducta - Blau-schwarzer Eisvogel
Auch dem Schmetterling schmeckt die Feige gut
The fig also tastes good for the butterfly
A few more from my Tenerife, encounter with this quality bird.
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Christinus marmoratus
A beautiful little backyard critter, this guy ventured out during daylight hours seeking some of the Winter sunshine. The eye is incredible and resembles a jewel!
UP Ex-SP AC4400CW 6379 leads the way of UP I-COG4 as it crawls through historic Lockport, IL during a dreary afternoon.
Three shots from Tenerife. I am (as per usual) behind with my Flickr duties. I will hopefully find time to catch up over the weekend.
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Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501 crosses McFarland Avenue on its return to the TVRM in Chattanooga, TN from Summerville, GA.. The Central of Georgia logo can still be seen on the bridge.
Ah, the South, a region blessed with incredible natural beauty! Waves of blue mountains, carpeted in verdant forests, watered with white layered clouds, all under a marmalade dawn sky decorate this Southern scene. Looking further inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I stand firmly on Tennessee ground at Blue Hour right before sunrise. North Carolina is somewhere on the far side.
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Even though I live only 10 miles from Scotland, last weekend was the first time I'd ventured across the border since the Coronavirus restrictions were introduced in March of last year.
I managed to capture the amazing A1 Locomotive of 60163 Tornado hauling the Northern Belle railtour along the West Coast Main Line, which was an added bonus as originally this leg of the railway journey was supposed to be diesel hauled until Carlisle, then picked up by 6201 Princess Elizabeth locomotive. However, after this engine recently suffered a fault with it's boiler, Tornado has been replacing it on all excursions where possible and, since it is was nearby anyway, it was able to haul this leg of the journey from Glasgow too.
I hadn't photographed along this stretch of railway before so I wasn't sure of what the viewpoints would be like, but looking at the map I thought this section looked promising and luckily it was - providing a wonderful moody backdrop with Tewsgill Hill beyond.
Oggi per me è una giornata speciale.. ;) e il mio desiderio è di poter rivedere la Croce del Sud splendere in un cielo illuminato solo dalle stelle.
In questa foto di archivio, le costellazioni della Croce del Sud e del Centauro si stagliano sulla via lattea australe, mentre nubi sulfuree di gas aggiungono tonalità di verde alla scena.
Parco naturale del monte Bromo, Indonesia, marzo 2016
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WB SP train HOOAM (Houston to Oakland), with a GP40-2 in the lead, is about to cross the Santa Fe in Rosenberg, Texas.
This was part of the trip where we flew from Chicago to Miami, drove to Houston, shooting what we could find in between, and flew home from there.
Shot on 2-15-1987
The Southern Nutcracker is related to one of my favourite birds, the Clark’s Nutcracker of North America (with a few locations in Mexico) — see this photo www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51171213280/in... . So I was glad to see this species for the first time during my brief, four-day visit to Taiwan. The several sightings I had with my guide KC (Chuck) Hung of Taiwan Bird Guide were all near the highest elevation of the Dasyueshan Road, a famous birding destination in the mountains east of Taichung City.
This species is a split from what used to be Eurasian Nutcracker (which exists no longer); the other new species is Northern Nutcracker, which keeps the previous scientific name
(Nucifraga caryocatactes).
Have been searching the caldera for 10 days trying to find one and then on a hunch, I walked an area on the other side of Teide and withing 20 minutes, one popped up right beside me (just as the only other 2 people I met walked past - dear me).
Southern grey shrike - one of my favourites.
Falkland Islands, Port Howard
With a wing span of up to 8", this is the largest bird we saw and photographed in the Falklands. Truly a picture of grace on the wing! We found them common along all coast, and they breed in colonies of up to several hundred on several Islands. They act as scavengers of carrion such as penguin, seal or whale carcasses. They also sometimes kill and eat young penguins and eggs.
I tried to catch them in flight, which doesn't work out really good and later I noticed they are no small white but southern small white. That's very exciting. Schwetzingen is awfully hot, just like the Mediterranean regions.
Looking out toward the final resting place of the Southern Cloud.
The Southern Cloud, registered VH-UMF, was one of five Avro 618 Ten three-engined aircraft flying daily airline services between several Australian cities for Australian National Airways in the early 1930s.
On 21 March 1931, the Southern Cloud departed at 8:10 AM from Sydney for Melbourne. On board were six passengers and two crew, including pilot Travis "Shorty" Shortridge. Weather conditions en route were hazardous and much worse than predicted. The aircraft never reached its destination and disappeared.
The search for the missing aircraft lasted eighteen days and involved over twenty aircraft. No trace of the missing aircraft was found. Airline co-owner Charles Kingsford-Smith joined the search and "may have flown over the crash site, but with the aircraft having burned it would be very difficult to distinguish from the air and so the discovery wasn't made."
It was Australia's first major airline disaster. Australian National Airways folded later that year as a result of both this and another loss. A film inspired by the accident, Secret of the Skies, was released in 1934.
The Southern Cloud's fate remained a mystery for 27 years until 26 October 1958. On that day, Mr. Tom Sonter, a worker on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, accidentally discovered the wreck. The crash site was in heavily timbered mountainous terrain within the Snowy Mountains about 25 km (16 mi) east of the direct Sydney–Melbourne route. Investigations concluded that the severe weather conditions at the time of the flight most likely contributed to the crash.
A man named Stan Baker had been booked to fly on the fateful journey, but cancelled prior to the flight, and travelled by train instead. As a result of the aircraft's disappearance, he harboured a lifelong fear of flying – which was proved justifiable when he was killed in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash.
In Don Bradman's book 'Farewell To Cricket' he mentions that he flew in Southern Cloud with pilot Shortbridge from Adelaide to Melbourne, then to Goulburn not long before the tragedy. He described the trip as a 'bumpy journey'….Wikipedia