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455 843 descends towards Battersea Park with 2B31 Selhurst to London Victoria, the chap on the platform was totally engrossed in his book.
On Wednesday, 11th October 2023, CP 1427 failed while working the IR862, the 07:08 Pocinho to Porto-Campanhã. The Régua based 'thunderbird' 1436 was sent eastbound to rescue the stranded train. In this view taken at Covelinhas, 1436 was leading the delayed service.
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ricominciare dal punto in cui eri rimasta, dall'ultimo colpo, dall'ultima scivolata...
azzerando i pensieri...
assecondando la fatica...
e riscoprire la facilitÃ
che hai sempre avuto
di prendere la palla al balzo...
Raststätte Illertal Ost. Built 1997 by the architect Herbert Maierhofer. Visiting the toilet is a must. If you must or if you must not :-)
I am yet to see anyone buying something from these... I tried once, the poor thing was stuck.
Olympus Trip 35 and its D. Zuiko 1:2.8 f=40mm, Kodak Gold 200 developped by Foto Express on the Schweitzer Straße and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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The Common Iora, Male
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at Jungle View Homestay
@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
19 June 2022
Sony a7riv with Sony 600mm f4 Lens
The Common Iora are brightly coloured small passerine birds, measuring 12 to 13 cm in length and weighing 12 to 17 gms that is widely distributed in Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and South China.
These Common Iora species are sexually dimorphic, the males being slightly larger and having bright breeding plumage. There is large variation in the plumage, with the populations showing variations, some of which are designated as subspecies. The subspecies A. t. multicolor is distributed in Southern India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala) and Sri Lanka.
The male Common Iora has black wing and black tail. The breeding male had a black cap and black back. The females have greenish wings and olive tail. The underparts are yellow in both male and female. There are two white bars on the wings. The bill is pointed and notched with a straight culmen. The irises are blackish in males and pale yellow in females. The feet are greyish.
Common Ioras forage in trees in small groups, gleaning among the branches for insects. They sometimes join mixed species feeding flocks. The call is a mixture of churrs, chattering and whistles, and the song is a trilled wheeeee-tee. They may sometimes imitate the calls of other birds such as Drongos.
During the breeding season, mainly after the monsoons, the male Common Iora performs an acrobatic courtship display, darting up into the air fluffing up all his feathers, especially those on the pale green rump, then spiralling down to the original perch. Once he lands, he spreads his tail and droops his wings. These species are monogamous. The breeding pair build a compact, shallow cup-shaped nest on a fork of a tree. The nest is a shallow saucer of interwoven grass, cobwebs and fibers.
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Hanson & Hall Rail Services English Electric Type 4 50008 'Thunderer' leads 'The Merry Wherry' 1Z70 0648 Derby to Lowestoft railtour towards March. Classmate GBRF 50007 'Hercules' was at the rear of the formation. The tour marking the first time Class 50s have reached the most easterly point in the UK, Lowestoft.
A couple of buses sit on the forecourt of North Weald station on the Epping & Ongar railway during a photo shoot organised by EMRPS.
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The ex Go London EvoSeti's are now appearing in service with Go North West but technology failed today when 3051 BG66MHZ fell off the tracker after 1 minute and vanished, with calculated guess work I found it returning out of service.
Mormon Row Historic District - Mormon Row is a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape's period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers, T.A. Moulton and John Moulton farms from 1908 to the 1950s. Six building clusters and a separate ruin illustrate Mormon settlement in the area and comprise such features as drainage systems, barns, fields and corrals. Apart from John and T.A. Moulton, other settlers in the area were Joseph Eggleston, Albert Gunther, Henry May, Thomas Murphy and George Riniker. The area is also known as Antelope Flats, situated between the towns of Moose and Kelly. It is a popular destination for tourists and photographers on account of the historic buildings, the herds of bison, and the spectacular Teton Range rising in the background. The alluvial soil to the east of Blacktail Butte was more suitable than most locations in Jackson Hole for farming, somewhat hampered by a lack of readily available water. The Mormon homesteaders began to arrive in the 1890s from Idaho, creating a community called "Gros Ventre", with a total of 27 homesteads. The Mormon settlers tended to create clustered communities, in contrast to the isolated homesteads more typical of Jackson Hole. Mormon Row was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Row_Historic_District]
Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (480 sq mi; 130,000 ha; 1,300 km2), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. It is only 10 miles (16 km) south of Yellowstone National Park, to which it is connected by the National Park Service-managed John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Along with surrounding National Forests, these three protected areas constitute the almost 18,000,000-acre (7,300,000 ha) Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the largest intact mid-latitude temperate ecosystems in the world. Human history of the Grand Teton region dates back at least 11,000 years, when the first nomadic hunter-gatherer Paleo-Indians began migrating into the region during warmer months pursuing food and supplies. In the early 19th century, the first White explorers encountered the eastern Shoshone natives. Between 1810 and 1840, the region attracted fur trading companies that vied for control of the lucrative beaver pelt trade. U.S. Government expeditions to the region commenced in the mid-19th century as an offshoot of exploration in Yellowstone, with the first permanent white settlers in Jackson Hole arriving in the 1880s. Efforts to preserve the region as a national park commenced in the late 19th century, and in 1929 Grand Teton National Park was established, protecting the major peaks of the Teton Range. The valley of Jackson Hole remained in private ownership until the 1930s, when conservationists led by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. began purchasing land in Jackson Hole to be added to the existing national park. Against public opinion and with repeated Congressional efforts to repeal the measures, much of Jackson Hole was set aside for protection as Jackson Hole National Monument in 1943. The monument was abolished in 1950 and most of the monument land was added to Grand Teton National Park. Grand Teton National Park is named for Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range. The naming of the mountains is attributed to early 19th-century French-speaking trappers—les trois tétons (the three teats) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons. At 13,775 feet (4,199 m), Grand Teton abruptly rises more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) above Jackson Hole, almost 850 feet (260 m) higher than Mount Owen, the second-highest summit in the range. The park has numerous lakes, including 15-mile-long (24 km) Jackson Lake as well as streams of varying length and the upper main stem of the Snake River. Though in a state of recession, a dozen small glaciers persist at the higher elevations near the highest peaks in the range. Some of the rocks in the park are the oldest found in any U.S. National Park and have been dated at nearly 2.7 billion years. Grand Teton National Park is an almost pristine ecosystem and the same species of flora and fauna that have existed since prehistoric times can still be found there. More than 1,000 species of vascular plants, dozens of species of mammals, 300 species of birds, more than a dozen fish species and a few species of reptiles and amphibians exist. Due to various changes in the ecosystem, some of them human-induced, efforts have been made to provide enhanced protection to some species of native fish and the increasingly threatened whitebark pine. Grand Teton National Park is a popular destination for mountaineering, hiking, fishing and other forms of recreation. There are more than 1,000 drive-in campsites and over 200 miles (320 km) of hiking trails that provide access to backcountry camping areas. Noted for world-renowned trout fishing, the park is one of the few places to catch Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout. Grand Teton has several National Park Service-run visitor centers, and privately operated concessions for motels, lodges, gas stations and marinas.
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park]
Website: www.nps.gov/grte/index.htm
For Steam Sunday here's another from what was unquestionably the longest train chase of my life...well over 500 miles from DeQuincy, Louisiana to the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas (though not in one day)!
This is Canadian Pacific 2816, the famed 'Empress', an H1b class 4-6-4 Hudson built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1930. Orignally retired in 1960 after there decades of pulling CP passenger trains the locomotive was purchased by F. Nelson Blount for preservation as part of his Steamtown collection in Vermont. It later moved with the rest of the collection to Scranton until CP purchased it back from the National Park Service in 1998. Returned to service in 2001 she operated until 2012 when E. Hunter Harrison took the reigns at CP. Eight years later Keith Creel (EHH's successor) reversed course and she was fired up for a test run and then a second restoration began which was completed in 2023.
As a way of celebrating the approval and consummation of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern Railway merger on April 14, 2023 CPKC is running a tri nation tour across the length of their newly combined network. The trip began in Calgary on April 24th and concluded in Mexico City on June 7th before returning home for a total of three months on the road and 9000 miles round trip!
Here she is paused for a service stop in a strange land far from her historic home rails operating across Union Pacific trackage rights on modern day UP's Houston Sub the former Southern Pacific (T&NO) Sunset Route mainline. She is sitting just east of the Van Hut Lane crossing at about MP 350.8 near the eastern city limits and will soon be on the move toward Englewood Yard and through downtown on her way to Sugarland, Rosenburg and ultimately home rails in Kendleton where she'll rest for a couple nights.
Unincorporated Houmont Park
Harris County, Texas
Saturday May 25, 2024
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A few blocks away from Burrtec is Ray Gaskin Services. They used to be located right by me in Baldwin Park but a few years ago, moved their entire operation out here unfortunately. Here are a few of their newest trucks.
On the 30th March 2016 Class 37 no.37219 was seen at Exeter stabling point whilst the Network Rail test train was being serviced.
Although well travelled during the locos BR career I remember it as a former Great Eastern loco. It was being employed on overnight test trains and could be heard heading up the Teign Estuary on the previous evening. Who would have thought it when I use to see this engine at Norwich as a child over 30 years ago.
A tranquil moment inside a restaurant where the frenzied lunch crowd has all but dispersed. Room Service is a cozy and hip Thai restaurant located on 8th Ave in Chelsea of Manhattan. One of the things I love when on holiday is the opportunity to dine out at interesting places among the locals and tourists alike. Wandering the streets soaking in the sight, sound and smell is something I am never tired of. Have you ever noticed that the food always seem to taste better when you're traveling? Or how it seems you're always hungry?
Sanders Services VDL Pulsar 2 406 (YJ59AZN) calls at Oak Street on the Fakenham town service 28.
Previously this bus had seen service with Go North East and coded 9162, which sandwiched a stint with Manchester Airport.
December 2017, Singapore. At the old bar at The Projector. I can't remember what this place was called, but I loved it (Oh, it was The Great Escape Bar).
Kodak Tri-X, Nikon FM2n.
KT4D 1286 auf der Linie 1 nach Sudenburg, kurz vor dem Einbiegen in die Lübecker Straße mit der folgenden Haltestelle Klosterwuhne.
Bekanntlich kam es nach dem offiziellen Tatra-Abschied nicht nur bei den T6 zu einer Karriereverlängerung bis 2024, zusätzlich wurden aus Berlin sogar noch acht modernisierte KT4D übernommen, um die ärgsten Fahrzeugengpässe zu stopfen. In der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2020 in Betrieb genommen, kamen die KT4D zunächst in der Regel, wie aus Berlin gewohnt, in Doppeltraktion zum Einsatz.
Seit einiger Zeit, spätestens mit der Abstellung der letzten T6-Züge, ist die Fahrzeugdecke nun aber erneut so dünn, dass die KT4D in der Regel nur noch als Einzelfahrzeuge zum Einsatz kommen. Statt vier Traktionen, konnte man so bis zu acht Fahrzeuge auf Linie schicken. Als potenziell hochflurig ausgewiesene Kurse, gab es Ende 2024 von Montag bis Freitag auf den Linien 1, 3, 4 und 10, wobei es auf der Linie 1 zwei Kurse, auf der Linie 3 ein Kurs, auf der Linie 5 zwei Kurse und auf der Linie 10 bis zu drei Kurse waren. Entsprechend werden nie alle der Kurse tatsächlich mit KT4D gefahren, einer der drei Kurse der Linie 10 war gar als optional bei ausreichender Fahrzeugverfügbarkeit gekennzeichnet.
Daneben gibt es natürlich nach wie vor auch die ehemaligen Berliner B6A2, die nun auch schon wieder seit über zehn Jahren hinter den ältesten NGT8D zum Einsatz kommen. Unter der Woche sind die Züge meist konzentriert auf der Linie 9 anzutreffen.
Mit der Inbetriebnahme der neuen NGT10 könnten sich das kurze Kapitel der KT4D in Magdeburg schon im Laufe des neuen Jahres wieder schließen. Auch die Zukunft der B6A2 wird dann wohl nicht mehr allzu lang sein, sodass ein Besuch dieser Fahrzeugtypen nicht mehr auf die lange Bank geschoben werden sollte. Bestimmt wird es auch mich in 2025 wieder nach Magdeburg verschlagen, ob für letzte Aufnahmen der Hochflurfahrzeuge oder für erste Aufnahmen der neuen Niederflurwagen, wird man sehen.
Ein ausführlicher Bildbericht dieses Oktoberausfluges findet sich hier: www.tramtrain.de/2025/01/14/kt4d-und-alltagsverkehr-in-ma...