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KCSM 4551 (AC4400CW) leads a CPKC 541 empty ethanol train solo through downtown Roselle, IL during the waning moments of the blue hour.
Earlier today, CPKC 181 brought in a rare visitor to Bensenville Yard - KCS 2016, a GP38-2 still painted in Kansas City Southern "Grey Ghost" colors. There can only be a handful of these left!
Later, word got out that the unit was assigned to local job I47, which switches industries in the Schaumburg area on Tuesdays and Thursdays, while it works the Mars and Newlyweds plants on the Elgin / C&M Subs, respectively, on M-W-F.
I decided to spend a couple hours at Tower B-17 hoping to see the unit perform its first duties on this assignment, and sure enough, they came out of the yard with only a caboose, planning to shove back in on another track to retrieve their train. Unfortunately, in the midst of dodging raindrops I forgot to reset my shutter speed so I got a slightly blurred image of the unit shoving back in, but still not a bad way to cap off the night.
Happy 4th Birthday Ando & Jack!!
Last summer the brothers got together for the first time since they were pups, I truly wished they lived next door, it would be such a blast!
This Mural depicts a scene from the American Civil War, with Colonel John S. Mosby, known as the Gray Ghost.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Mosby
Created for the NVP Building Photo Challenge: Building with a Mural.
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Gray ghost surprise!!
It's always good to wash your fruit in the morning. You may ask...."But why?".....The answer...because it means you're facing your big sliding glass doors and might spot something wonderful out in the open space behind your house. That's exactly what happened. I saw a hawk come swooping in and land right behind my fence. I assumed it was our resident red-tailed hawk.....but when I went over to look...it was flying away from me and I could see it had a white patch on top of it's tail which could only mean a Northern Harrier. However, what I didn't expect was that it was a MALE harrier or as many call it a Grey ghost!!! We have never seen a male harrier hunting behind our house. I made some inaudible sounds with my excitement.....grabbed my camera and bolted out of the back door. I really didn't expect it to hang around very long, and it didn't. It flew out of sight, but then back in sight, and then repeated this numerous times. Finally he started making some circles and made a few passes right in front of me. He also managed to fly with some very nice fall colors behind him in the distance. I will have a few more to share, but here are some of my favorites.
Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 180-600mm F5.6-6.3 lens at 600mm, 1/1600sec, F8, various ISO's from 360 to 720, handheld and cropped. (Please view images large for best details) Nov 16 2024 Northern Colorado
Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, California. The Gray Ghost is the perfect nickname for this huge owl, This photo was taken in very low light as it entered its realm, one that does not include us photo hungry humans! Not as nice as some of the photos of this bird making their way onto Flickr, but lighting was poor, fog was dense and it was all I could get. The last I had seen was in 1981, of the recently described endemic Sierra Great Gray Owl (Sttrix nebulosa yosemitensis). If interested in reading the paper that describes this new subspecies: www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vgl/wildlife/pdfs/GGOW-NewSubspp_H...
Harrier landed with some prey and Crow was right there to... help? Crow was close but apparently not too close.
Malee Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius), known as the Gray Ghost) makes a tight turn over a field which he was hunting. Image taken at Bosque del Apache in New Mexice.
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There's a gentle sweetness to this term for crazy: it conjures up an elderly woman pottering harmlessly about the garden, hair coming undone every which way, talking to herself (or the plants or the birds), oblivious to creatures of the human persuasion. It is closer to eccentric, or deeply peculiar, than to the harsher nuts, wacko, bonkers, or batso.
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At the 2016 Steel In Motion Nostalgia car and lifestyle show and drag races, Union County Dragway, in Union, South Carolina on May 14, 2016.
As a pleasant surprise this morning on 248 was KCSM 4570, still in the former TFM gray scheme, nicknamed "Gray Ghost" by many railfans. Here they are as they finish their work at Cottage Grove and pass over Jamaica Ave with a large cut of autoracks
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Gray ghost surprise!!
It's always good to wash your fruit in the morning. You may ask...."But why?".....The answer...because it means you're facing your big sliding glass doors and might spot something wonderful out in the open space behind your house. That's exactly what happened. I saw a hawk come swooping in and land right behind my fence. I assumed it was our resident red-tailed hawk.....but when I went over to look...it was flying away from me and I could see it had a white patch on top of it's tail which could only mean a Northern Harrier. However, what I didn't expect was that it was a MALE harrier or as many call it a Grey ghost!!! We have never seen a male harrier hunting behind our house. I made some inaudible sounds with my excitement.....grabbed my camera and bolted out of the back door. I really didn't expect it to hang around very long, and it didn't. It flew out of sight, but then back in sight, and then repeated this numerous times. Finally he started making some circles and made a few passes right in front of me. He also managed to fly with some very nice fall colors behind him in the distance. I will have a few more to share, but here are some of my favorites.
Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 180-600mm F5.6-6.3 lens at 600mm, 1/1600sec, F8, various ISO's from 360 to 720, handheld and cropped. (Please view images large for best details) Nov 16 2024 Northern Colorado
Gray Ghost in a tree between me and his favorite perch. The thin twigs were moving a lot in the wind and he didn't seem to like that tree much (screaming some) and went back to his perch. (Really, I won't bother you again fellow...) Most of the pix the burst mode got of him in the tree had leaves in front of his face but I really like the couple that I did keep.
Harriers, unlike most hawks, hunt with sound, and their facial feathers make make a disk-like antenna shape that 'collects' the sound, like an owl's facial feathers do. This photo shows this well.
These are the one of the few raptorial birds known to practice polygyny – one male mates with several females. Up to five females have been known to mate with one male in a season. The nest is built on the ground or on a mound of dirt or vegetation. Nests are made of sticks and are lined inside with grass and leaves. Four to eight (exceptionally 2 to 10) whitish eggs are laid. The eggs measure approximately 47 mm × 36 mm (1.9 in × 1.4 in). The eggs are incubated mostly by the female for 31 to 32 days. The male usually passes off food to the female, which she then feeds to the young, although later the female will capture food and simply drop into the nest for her nestlings to eat. The chicks fledge at around 36 days old, though breeding maturity is not reached until 2 years in females and 3 years in males.
KCS 2016, a relatively rare "Grey Ghost" GP38-2, idles away at the Hi-Cone plant in Itasca, IL with local switch job I47, waiting for its crew to return from a nearby convenience store.
While it waits, METX 503 scurries by with an outbound MD-W train.
Quite the contrast between old and new locomotives.
KCSM 4535 (AC4400CW) leads a loaded sand train (CPKC 640) through Northbrook, IL, seen here diverging onto the connection to the UP at Shermer.
Canadian Pacific ethanol train 686 for interchange with the CSX in Chicago (eventually for the southeast) clumps over the BNSF at Savanna on the Chicago Sub. "Gray" Kansas City Southern leads, fitting in the crap weather.
KCS 4611 AC44CW
KCS 4050 SD70ACe
CP 5047 SD30C-ECO
October 26, 2016.
U.S.S. IOWA Battleship BB-61, is seen while underway at sea during the Korean era, early 1950's. It appears that there is a small tanker seen heading in the opposite direction in the background. During this time period the IOWA was often referred too as the "Gray Ghost," or "Big Stick." The U. S. Navy IOWA BB-61 class ship was the lead ship of a group that consisted of four battleships, followed by New Jersey BB-62, Missouri BB-63 & Wisconsin BB-64. From the looks of it, the ship is probably cruising at approximately eight to ten knots in this scene, as determined by the wake. It appears that Boeing Vertol Division HUP-2 Retriever helicopter is sitting near the fantail area of the battleship.
The name of the photographer that captured this aerial image on film is unknown.
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Gray ghost surprise!!
It's always good to wash your fruit in the morning. You may ask...."But why?".....The answer...because it means you're facing your big sliding glass doors and might spot something wonderful out in the open space behind your house. That's exactly what happened. I saw a hawk come swooping in and land right behind my fence. I assumed it was our resident red-tailed hawk.....but when I went over to look...it was flying away from me and I could see it had a white patch on top of it's tail which could only mean a Northern Harrier. However, what I didn't expect was that it was a MALE harrier or as many call it a Grey ghost!!! We have never seen a male harrier hunting behind our house. I made some inaudible sounds with my excitement.....grabbed my camera and bolted out of the back door. I really didn't expect it to hang around very long, and it didn't. It flew out of sight, but then back in sight, and then repeated this numerous times. Finally he started making some circles and made a few passes right in front of me. He also managed to fly with some very nice fall colors behind him in the distance. I will have a few more to share, but here are some of my favorites.
Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 180-600mm F5.6-6.3 lens at 600mm, 1/1600sec, F8, various ISO's from 360 to 720, handheld and cropped. (Please view images large for best details) Nov 16 2024 Northern Colorado