Telephone Exchanges
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White-tailed Kites in a courtship exchange where the male holds the prey in his kiting position for her to grab with her talons. It's harder than it looks - she actually misses this try by a feather but he holds steady and she gets another chance. I just couldn't pass up on the light in their eyes on this one.
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"Equivalent Exchange! I'll give half of my life to you and you give half of yours to me!!"
"Half? I'll Give You All Of It."
- Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward & Winry
P.S. I always wanted to do a tribute to this anime and I just never had the drive until this Lion came along. :D So thanks to his attention to detail and inspiration, this photo came together so nicely! This anime series is really one of the best out there and if you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it!
Thanks to the best partner in crime:- Kai's Stream ❤
Cleo and the owl are often having serious conversations. Sadly they don't allow me to participate. I'm probably not wise enough (yet).....
The Snail Kite has to exchange the snail from his talons to his beak so he can land and eat his prize.
digital tip jar: buy me a coffee
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1889-91, addition added in 1985. Preservationist fought to save this structure and the old stairway entrance which is on the other side.
The Leeds Corn Exchange is a Victorian building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and completed in 1864
The dome design was based on that of the Bourse de commerce of Paris by François-Joseph Bélanger and François Brunet
Leeds Corn Exchange is now just one of three corn exchanges in the country which operates in its traditional capacity as a centre for trade, albeit no longer for trading in corn.
After the restoration in 2007 the Corn Exchange re-opened in November 2008 as a boutique shopping centre for independent retailers. (wiki)
www.itv.com/news/calendar/2013-07-16/history-of-the-corn-...
It took 16 photo sessions for a total of 35+ hours to get a few sweet images of these White-tailed Kites making an aerial vole exchange. It was well worth the effort.
Burlington Northern train Nos. 103 and 13 trade crews at Burke, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. Train 103 with GP39M No. 2830 was in the siding at Burke after delays and picking up cars at Eola created some concern that the crew would not make it to the next crew change at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Instead of sending out a new crew to dog catch the train somewhere, a clever solution of exchanging crews was used where No. 103’s crew would trade places with the crew of a higher priority train. In this way, No. 103’s former crew, with fewer hours of service left to them, would step aboard the hotter train and make the crew change point before “going dead on the law.” The hot train’s crew, with more available hours, would slog along with their “new” train, but they too would make the crew change point before going dead. I’m not sure how the crews felt about the situation, but it was a great way to keep the railroad fluid.
A pair of intermodal trains departed Chicago every early afternoon—Nos. 3 and 13—somedays with train 13 shadowing 3 by a block or two. This day was no different as No. 3 pounded past the stopped freight without stopping. The exchange of crews was going to be with No. 13, which came into view only a few minutes later. After making the crew “exchange,” train 13 took off like a bat out of hell with the hours-short crew. Burke siding’s signal blinked from red to yellow to green, and once again No. 103 headed west, albeit not as fast as the trains in front of it. The dispatcher got two hot trains around a slow freight in single-track territory and prevented a crew from dying on the law, all in one well orchestrated move.
Located in the heart of historic Leeds, alongside Kirkgate - the city’s oldest street - Leeds Corn Exchange has been a magnet for visitors for more than 150 years. Designed by world-renowned architect from Hull, Cuthbert Brodrick, Leeds Corn Exchange opened in 1863 and operated as a traditional Corn Exchange until the early 1990s. Throughout the late 19th century, the building was a bustling centre for the exchange and sale of corn, wheat, barley, hops, cake and flour and also was host to a farmers’ market and regular leather fair. Neighbouring Kirkgate Market, Leeds Corn Exchange played a pivotal role in the day to day life of Victorian Leeds. [VisitLeeds]
This is the reverse view of the Corn Exchange showing the lower floor where they have two table tennis tables for people to use.
The Leeds Corn Exchange is a Victorian building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and completed in 1864
The dome design was based on that of the Bourse de commerce of Paris by François-Joseph Bélanger and François Brunet
Leeds Corn Exchange is now just one of three corn exchanges in the country which operates in its traditional capacity as a centre for trade, albeit no longer for trading in corn.
After the restoration in 2007 the Corn Exchange re-opened in November 2008 as a boutique shopping centre for independent retailers. (wiki)
www.itv.com/news/calendar/2013-07-16/history-of-the-corn-...
With retail and hospitality closed and many people still working from home, this usually busy road junction was much quieter and easier to photograph when I was there last Thursday.
Usually, the difficulty here is to get your image in the gap between an endless procession of busses and cars. Now the challenge is to get a clean shot without the abundance of newly installed street furniture, cones and other clutter installed by the City of London to make the streets "Covid secure".
1908 built Peckett 1163 Whitehead with a freight during a Ribble Rail event on Preston Docks on 6/7/1997
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The Lumber Exchange Building was the first skyscraper built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, dating to 1885. It was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Franklin B. Long and Frederick Kees and was billed as one of the first fireproof buildings in the country. It is the oldest high-rise building standing in Minneapolis, and is the oldest building outside of New York City with 12 or more floors.
Back in 2015 Frank and John and I met up in Arizona copper country. After two days of railfanning the Copper Basin we headed down to San Manuel on good authority that the SMARRCO would be running a train up to the interchange. We were there early and the train was on duty and out a bit after 0900 for its two hour northbound journey. After chasing it all the way north to the interchange we watched them exchange loaded hoppers for empties and then got them at a couple spots headed back south. Here they are just having departed the Hayden interchange as they approach the yard limit board and the North Cam Rio grade crossing. The rear of the train is just coming off the south end of the 1000 ft long Gila River Bridge. The colorful striations of the massive tailings pile from the ASARCO's Hayden copper concentrator and smelter complex
These are special shots for me as the SMA was a railroad I always wanted to shoot, but then it shut down before I ever had the opportunity to visot. I was drawn to it after seeing photos in one of my very first issues of Trains Magazine when I was a young fan. After shutting down in 1999 with the closing of the giant underground San Manuel Copper mine the future looked bleak when the smelter was demolished and the mine haul railroad was scrapped.
I thought I'd never get to see it and my opportunities to admire it would be confined to books like my love of the New Haven and the Milwaukee. But, by a miraculous twist of fate the line was reborn in 2013 to once again hall copper ore. Given the fickle nature of global commodities it turned out that its second life was pretty fleeting. I read that the railroad shut down again in January 2016 by then owner Capstone Mining and most if not all of the equipment has been shipped out. I feel pretty fortunate to have had this opportunity and who knows if the SMARRCO will get a third life?
Rebuilt GP38-2 #18 seen here leading was built as a straight GP38 in Sep 1970 for the B&O as their #4810. Trailing GP38-2 #19 was built for the TP&W as their #2004 in May 1977.
Near Hayden
Pinal County, Arizona
Monday October 19, 2015
California Least Tern
Sterna antillarum browni
Endangered
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Good Stewards of Nature
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