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NS train 21Z, aka "The Zipper" (Rutherford, PA to Chicago, IL, 63rd St., Park Manor Yard hotshot trailers/containers) flies through downtown Waterloo, Indiana on NS' ex-LS&MS/NYC/PC/CR Chicago Line with NS 8102, the Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage Unit in charge. The PRR was known as "The Standard Railroad of the World". The NYC era tri-light signals are still in service here. The Zipper was over on the #2 main passing other slower westbound trains.
A brace of BR Standard 2s are being prepped on shed at Loughborough. Both 78018 and 78019 are under the custodianship of the Loughborough Standard Locomotive Group (LSLG).
BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 76084 arrives at Holt Station on the North norfolk Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
I haven't seen 33A in daylight in months but what a triumphant return!
The all standard cab EMD consist motors through CP Harrisburg as the fading sunlight quickly slips below the trees with an excellent ex-Conrail SD40-2 leading an ex-Norfolk & Western SD40-2, an ex-Penn Central GP38-2, an ex-Southern GP59, and a GMTX SW1500.
The Allentown-bound freight train would stop a few miles east of here at Rutherford Yard and pick up a GP38-2 that lead auto rack train 11J into town earlier in the day.
London Transport Piccadilly Line 'Standard Stock' at Northfields depot, on a bright sunny day in around 1958. Other stock in view includes one train of 1938 Stock, and some District Line Q and R Stock, together with what appears to be one set of 1956 Stock on the right. The depot had been built to accommodate 'surface' stock, and was occasionally visited by LT Panniers..
Today (2023) the red and silver stock has all gone, but the depot looks much the same, although there is now a substantial security fence on the left, on the boundary with the main Piccadilly Line tracks.
Restored from a very faded unfocussed orange/cyan colour shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
CN 149 is crossing over the eastern end of the Lachine Canal with IC 1001, IC 2705 & CN 2294 for power as it leaves the Port of Montreal.
BR Standard Class 5MT 73156 steams past Woodthorpe on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
A selection of PN C44ACis comprising of 9311, 9214 and 9305 drop down through Minimbah with WH937 to Whitehaven Coal at Gunnedah.
2019-01-27 Pacific National 9311-9214-9305 Minimbah WH937
This is one of a few standard powerline construction types of Xcel Energy, the company that serves Sioux Falls and surrounding areas.
Leica Standard model E (1932) + KMZ Industar-22 3.5/50 lens (1956) + Rollei RPX 100 b&w film
Square cropp
Notice anything unusual about these Rooks? In all my years of bird watching I don't recall seeing Rooks feed on blanket bogs before, yet there were a number of them obviously feeding. They are typically a bird of farmland, and where I live in the Pennines I never see them feeding on the moors, yet they are often on the nearby farmland, both grassland and arable. If you look at the distribution map they are pretty much everywhere, but peter out in the highlands and islands of Scotland: app.bto.org/mapstore/StoreServlet?id=454 Though they are found throughout Ireland so they may feed on bogs there. This was taken at the south-west of Mull, which looks like the only area where they breed in that area. The nesting rookery was on Iona but I regularly saw Rooks flying back and forth across the channel of water that separates Mull from Iona. So what were they feeding on? Earthworms are a favourite food but you don't get them in acid bogs (which is why you don't see mole hills on peat). But they also feed on Cranefly larvae, or leatherjackets which are abundant in bogs, and are the staple diet for many bog-nesting waders like Dunlin and Curlew. Though the scientific name of Rook (Corvus frugilegus) means fruit-eating crow. Maybe the hot weather is May had made the farmland hard and wormless, which forced them onto the wetter bog where they'd still be able to probe for food. The white fluffy things by the way, are the heads of Hare's-tail Cotton-grass, which only grows in acidic bogs, which is how I identified this as a bog.
Bog Standard is a funny expression but I thought it fitted this photograph. It means utterly ordinary or basic, usually in a slightly derogatory way, but why "bog"? Well there seems to be no definitive answer but it may be a corruption of box standard. Apparently in the 1930s Meccano had two versions of its construction toys; Box-standard and Box-deluxe, so box standard was a thing.
Car: Standard Flying Ten.
Date of first registration: 30th December 1936.
Region of registration: Blackpool.
Latest recorded mileage: 73,304 (MOT 24th March 2012).
Date taken: 21st August 2019.
Album: Street Spots
With the Santa Susana Mountains towering over the Oxnard Plain in the distance, Union Pacific 1105 looks super sharp as the still very clean Jenks Rebuilt GP60E rests next to cut cut of loaded Autoracks from the Port of Hueneme. The racks will get picked up by the southbound Guadalupe Hauler to eventually head east via West Colton. Union Pacific 1105 originally started out as Saint Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) GP60 9648 back in September of 1989.
A trio of EMD products sporting spartan cabs gathered around the barn at Shops yard on the first cold night of the season that saw snow fly just a bit to the north.
After running about for months without a front fleetname, artic 10138 now has the First logo applied as per the new livery.
This will be the closest it gets to the new livery with withdrawal likely in 2015. 10144 on King Street on driver familiarisation.
British Railways Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4T 80078 approaches High Rocks Halt on the Spa Valley Railway during a 30742 Charters event.
Taken by Dennis - Carole's A Party
From www.visitcumbria.com/evnp/nine-standards
"Nine Standards Rigg takes its name from the line of cairns which stand on the edge of the escarpment just north of the summit. The origin of the nine “stone men” or columnar cairns on the summit, is a mystery, and some of the cairns, which are about 10 feet tall, are now in a perilous state. According to Wainwright, whose Coast to Coast route crosses the fell, they are very ancient and are marked on 18th century maps. One theory is that they were constructed by the Roman army to look like troops from a distance."
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Living in the country, any length of hair on a dog that chases quail, is difficult to maintain. As her hearing has declined, we've thinned down most of the bulk on the ears. Hasn't made a difference.
No tricks, look at the large version View On Black. Texture added for background.
(Explore #48: Jun 13, 2009)
Discovered this beautiful iris in B & E's spring garden. Katepwa Farms. Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada
Iris is a genus of between 200–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species. [...].
The inflorescences are fan-shaped and contain one or more symmetrical six-lobed flowers. These grow on a pedicel or lack a footstalk. The three sepals, which are spreading or droop downwards, are referred to as "falls". They expand from their narrow base, which in some of the rhizomatous irises has a "beard" (a tuft of short upright extensions growing in its midline), into a broader expanded portion ("limb"), often adorned with veining, lines or dots. The three, sometimes reduced, petals stand upright, partly behind the sepal bases. They are called "standards". Some smaller iris species have all six lobes pointing straight outwards, but generally, limb and standards differ markedly in appearance. They are united at their base into a floral tube that lies above the ovary. The styles divide towards the apex into petaloid branches; this is significant in pollination.
Visiting Riddles Standard 4 tank, 80080, leads the final south bound service of the Great Central Railway Winter Steam Gala to Leicester North on the approach to Quorn and Woodhouse
Black 1952 Standard Vanguard - DCP 7 - seen at the 42nd Scottish Borders Historic Motoring Extravaganza, held at Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland, June 2014.
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BR Standard 73156 steams through Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
Locomotive: British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 73156.
Location: Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway, Leicestershire.