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P1620960 - Little Egret - Size - 55-65 cm
# 361 - 20 Jul '2019 - 21:12 (15:42 GMT)
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According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at least 12% of the world's bird species are threatened with extinction and an additional 8% are near threatened ...
Number of bird species is between 9,800 and 10,400 depending on the taxonomic classification methods 🌼
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Rotterdam
AIS Name UNION 11
Type Pusher/Tug
Flag Belgium
IMO 9120190
MMSI 205233000
Callsign ORKQ
Year Built 1997
Length 31 m
Width 11 m
Draught Avg 4.9 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max 5.3 kn / 10.6 kn
Deadweight 255 tons
Gross Tonnage 398
AIS Class A
The Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed near Horncliffe, Scotland is on the left and England on the right.
Seen from my lunch spot after cycling there (72 miles round trip) on a rather hot day (we did have one or two, but 24/25C not 34/35C as experienced further south). The previous upload (below) 'Cuthbert's Cheviot View' was taken on my way back.
Thanks to Blondie for the title nudge.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqgb1D6Opw
I'm now enjoying a bit of a YouTube Blondie-fest 😊😊😊,
I will have to get out my Parallel Lines CD next!
With rain clouds hovering and rains in the far background, it was just a question of time when the Rainbow and the train would pop up around the same time.
Here, a South bound UP Stack train is headed towards San Antonio on Austin Sub, track 1 at New Braunfels, TX.
An RTD commuter train, decked in University of Colorado ad livery, awaits departure from renovated Union Station in Denver, Colorado.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 160, f/11.0, 18mm, 1/500s
"Hear the lonesome whistle blow" . . .originally created in 1862, UP operates over 8,000 locomotives in states west of Chicago. . .here coming into Kansas City.
In the company of an MP15 over a quarter-century its junior, a Union Railroad TR5 set idles in front of the railroad’s roundhouse at Hall, Pennsylvania. Anyone who read model railroading magazines in the 1960’s and 1970’s surely remembers Athearn’s cow-and-calf ads for their EMD models. I believe that this was the only such set that I ever photographed.
Wikipedia: Union Pacific 4014 is a preserved 4884-1 class 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific (UP) as part of its heritage fleet. Built in November 1941 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, New York, it was assigned to haul heavy freight trains in the Wasatch mountain range. The locomotive was retired from revenue service on July 21, 1959, and donated to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in late 1961. It was displayed in Fairplex at the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, California.
In 2013, UP re-acquired the locomotive and launched a restoration project at its Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In May 2019, No. 4014 moved under its own power after sitting dormant for almost six decades, becoming the world's largest operational steam locomotive and the only operating Big Boy locomotive of the eight that remain in existence. It now operates in excursion service for the UP steam program. No. 4014 became the first mainline steam locomotive to be equipped with the positive train control system in 2021.
Union Jack flying proudly in Nottingham City Centre.
The Union Jack can be flown by any individual or organisation in Great Britain on any day of their choice. It can be flown upside down as a distress signal.
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As Hibernia was getting off the ground last March, Alvaro posted their Baserunner, and I loved everything about it. I just had to build one, so I added a removable bed covering to the chassis that still allowed for some cargo to be stowed underneath.
Built for Hibernia: Antares Union Outpost display at BrickFair Virginia 2021.
Three Union RR MP15s pull a cut of cars up the incline from Edgar Thompson Works for the shove move across the Monongahela River to Duquesne, PA.
Portland Oregon.
18 October 2021
Kodak Portra 400, Minolta SRT102 combo. Processed and printed by Blue Moon Camera.
It was your comments that made me realize I had a theme of transportation going here, and that really is the story of this town situated on the Oregon Trail. The distances involved in the great American West are gigantic, and the arteries of transportation directly determined the patterns of settlement. Here on this morning, literally within a few hundred meters of each other, I had photographed a horse and wagon, a river boat and a train - all the main characters of very recent history in this area.
On a different note, Blanca was rather terrified of the locomotive that made the ground shake as it went by!