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Ohio Central SD40-2 4029 was heading up 3 more EMDs tied down in Zanesville. Genesee and Wyoming had yet to paint two of the classic motors, but eventually they will get the black and orange paint.
Art Museum, Philadelphia
I was hoping she'd take off lower so as to place the Fairmount Waterworks or Boathouse Row in the background, but I'm happy with this too. Note her full crop from the morning's serving of rat.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax.
Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
Norfolk Southern train 34A rolls through CP Harris with an old D8-40C leading. The former Conrail Dash 8 is running the edge of Harrisburg's old 8th Ward, a former tightly-packed Harrisburg neighborhood full of the cities' poorest residents. It was leveled in 1917 according to www.old8thward.com. Today it is dominated by parking garages, office buildings and apartment buildings; the only thing that appears to still be in the same place is the railroad.
my Austrian Dash 8 Q400 Reg. OE-LGI as flight No OS 906 to Vienna International Airport (VIE/LOWW) departure Innsbruck Airport (LOWI/INN)
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Oh, help! I posted this two hours ago, and all of a sudden it and all the information about Blue Dashers disappeared! To those who left comments, thank you, but I have no idea how these things happen. Perhaps power was lost somewhere in the system due to the heat wave we're experiencing.
Basically, what I said was that it's a very common dragonfly here, but I hadn't seen one in over a month until this (really small at an inch) Blue Dasher was nice enough to perch on a Horsetail Grass for ten minutes. After he flew off, I was back to damselflies whose population is fluctuating wildly this summer.
Now for the Blue Dasher: "The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison. The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long (1-1.5 in).
The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
CN 2031 leads train M334 thru Effingham, IL, where it will do some work in the yard before proceeding south towards its destination of Memphis, TN. A duo of CN C40-8s in 2024. Crazy.
The 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.
The 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.
Male Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - The Magnolia Loop, Brevard County Enchanted Forest Sanctuary, 444 Columbia Boulevard, Titusville, Florida
A common Dragonfly, but uncommonly good looking!
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
For the past two seasons, I have been saying that the Blue Dasher is the most numerous of odonates, but something happened in early July this year. This is one of the last I've seen. In fact, the Blue Dasher and Flame Skimmers both seem to have "disappeared" from all our favorite ponds at about the same time. It's been a very unusual and somewhat disconcerting summer. (Two Great Egrets, one Green Heron, one Red-shouldered Hawk, no Barn Swallows... Two heat waves with high humidity, two lightning and thunder storms, followed by twenty degree drops in temperature. My notes since 2002 show August and September to be the hottest and driest months. Today's high is supposed to be 84, and I'm headed to the swamp at 10:30, late in the day for September 1. The last three years have been inactive for me due to health - and then, of course, Covid - but I've noticed that migrations and nesting have dropped off tremendously in large parts of the west. And that pretty much sums up the summer of 2020.)
Le CN401 est tracté par deux Dash 9, dont une C44-9WL, malheureusement pas en tête cette fois.
Dimanche 31 mai 2026 à 14h59
Conrail went on a Quality kick in the mid-1990's and slapped "Conrail Quality" on everything. C40-8W 6149 was delivered in the Quality scheme and was leading train PIBA-7 through Marysville.
Trailing the GE was SD60M 5557 and SD40-2 6487 on that chilly afternoon back in 1994.
C-GONJ, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8, on approach to runway 06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving as BF1625 (North Star Air Ltd.; operated by Summit Air Ltd.) from its base at Thunder Bay, Ontario. Its radio call sign was "Blackfly 1625".
Serial number 095 first flew on February 29, 1988 and began its career as C-GONJ with Air Ontario Inc. on March 23, 1988.
Conrail C32-8 6616 had train SPL-201, an export tractor train bound for Europe via the Port of Baltimore, tied down at Cove on a spring afternoon in 1994 in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad-era signal bridge.
Back in the day before paranoia and knee-jerk reactions, it was possible to take a photo that nowadays would be unheard of. The police would have been all over me for being in the gauge taking photos in the post-9/11 world.
Perhaps I should have not been there, but it is what it is. I certainly have no reason to take photos here anymore since Conrail is long gone as is the variety.
The 6616 was a member of a ten-unit test fleet from GE that helped pave the way for GE to dominate the market.
Summer of 2017 - Morgan County, Alabama - Blue Dasher Dragonfly (please correct if i.d. is incorrect).
The crew of IC 6252 and clan pull up the Dock 6 approach to do an class three air test and hang the marker before heading back to Proctor MN.
"Blue dashers are very aggressive predators and will eat hundreds of flying insects a day – which is up to ten percent of their body weight! They will defend their food sites for several days and then move on to another area of the water body. Males are often seen near water edges, creating their territory, whereas the females are seen around the vegetation. The only time the female blue dasher will approach the water is to lay her eggs; which happens in a matter of seconds."
from .friendsofcortes.org/species-at-risk/blue-dasher-dragonfly/
This is the most common dragonfly in the yard the last few weeks. I believe a female or immature blue dasher, backyard Olympia.
A pair of MRL SD40-2XRs work the Helena yard job on a crummy Thursday morning alongside a tied down Jimbo.
A pair of SD40-2s, one home-grown and the other leased, lead an S327 across the Thornapple River on a nice summer day.
Dragons and damsels exhibit behavior. Surprise! Dragonflies especially have favorite perches in their territories. If you'll note this twig that the Blue Dasher is on and the twig from yesterday's Firecracker, you'd be right in assuming that they're the same twig. I *know* where that twig is, and I stake it out. And that's the first trick of photographing dragons and damsels.
Another trick. After perching, you want to ID them. Well, as much as eyes and abdomen, look at the position of the wings. Dashers will land with wings forward most of the time. Skimmers with the wings out. I'll save the rest for next year...
These units ran on Florida trains nearly every day since they started running for CSX, mostly on trains that are predominantly pulled by a pair of Lovelies: Dash 8s. Their service on trains like Q453, Q441 (seen here), and more earned them thhumorous nickname "Dash 8s" under some Florida Railfans.
We took another nice hike together today. I like this one because it seems to highlight the differences in personality between Dash and Jasper.
On my exploration yesterday I went further along the hills of northeast Tacoma than I've so far gone, and came upon Dash Point and this beach and dock and pier which is closed down with danger signs all over the place!. The sky was overcast and somewhat ominoous and there was not very much color anywhere so I thought it would look better in black and white.
NiSi 3-stop ND filter (but handheld)
Before the next two days of cooling, we have today when it's supposed to be in the 90s. I'm trying to get over to the swamp, but I'm also thinking of going to Bullfrog Pond on the mountain, a hike of five hilly miles which I haven't done in five years. In case I don't return (;-) I'd like to leave you with one of my better Blue Dasher finds from yesterday.
I watched him as the Blue Dasher (a Chaser to some of you) was just finishing a survey of his territory, on this flight only 25 yards around the lagoon. Finding nothing, he returned to the one perch I was hoping for. The background is the pond. Yes, it's a greenish brown.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. It's so common that the ratio at our little pond is at least 50:1 over all other odonata. Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison. This makes it very difficult since I don't carry a ruler, dragonflies are territorial, and you won't see male and female side by side ... not even while mating.
It is not just this dragonfly, but all odonates that are carnivorous, and are capable of eating hundreds of insects every day, including mosquito and mayfly larvae. The adult dragonfly will eat nearly any flying insect, such as a moth or fly. Nymphs have a diet that includes other aquatic larvae, small fish, and tadpoles.These dragonflies are known to be voracious predators, consuming up to 10% of their body weight each day in food.
If we're not going to save society, at least save the damsels and dragons to hold down the mosquito population.
This female Blue dasher didn’t let me get as close to her as others have, but I’m still pleased with this shot from back in August.
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AMTK 519, a Dash 8, leads the westbound Amtrak Cardinal through Jarman Gap, on the outskirts of Crozet, Virginia, the along the Buckingham Branch.
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)
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September 10, 2016
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