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Power from T801 returns to their train after assisting K429 up Duff Mountain. Their train was spotted just around the corner here at Holton just past the southbound signal and will receive a single unit helper for their turn up the mountain.
After bringing in the trash train a three unit set of Rio Grande tunnel motors rests in the yard at Helper.
*ღღ* Cosas de casa *ღღ* : multi coloured
At the beginning of lock down, I acquired hairbands in several colours. By the time salons opened and my hairdresser sent me an appointment, I found that I did not want to go to the salon but preferred to stay home and wear my hairbands
In the summer of 2003, Crawford Hill on BNSF’s Butte Subdivision out of Alliance, Nebraska, featured at least three sets of Cascade green three-window EMD SD60M helper sets, mostly equipped with a fuel tender. On July 22, 2003, a trio of these former BN EMDs rolls downgrade at Breezy Point just west of Belmont, heading back to Crawford after pushing a BNSF coal train over the grade.
I was driving to photograph the bowling alley and these guys were walking to the gas station to get some gas. I picked them up and then all of the sudden rain started pouring down. They were so psyched. I brought them back to the interstate where they were left by the fact that their girlfriends hadn't filled it up. I told them they should forgive them and make them dinner instead of giving me money but they insisted I take $5. So I asked for their photo as well. They were grateful and so was I. Awesome.
Help! This year is running much too fast! It has only just begun and six days are already over! Slow down year!
Hilfe! Dieses Jahr ist einfach zu schnell! Jetzt hat's doch erst gerade angefangen und schon ist es sechs Tage alt! Brems doch, du Jahr, du!
Grey Heron with a Vole Lunch (not sure if it's a Water or Field Vole) at the Wader Scrapes, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot of a juxtaposition that caught my attention - captured in January 2018.
The current 'cost of living crisis' is just the tip of the iceberg of coming problems for our society. Ukraine is basically the breadbasket of Europe and together with grain from the invading nation, Russia, we will be seeing massive shortages of staple crops and increasing food prices for all. Millions will be choosing between food and shelter or warmth. The top six energy companies in the UK made £1bn in profits last year and yet energy prices are going through the roof - my own energy bill has risen by 124% and I already strictly keep my energy use down for the sake of our planet!
There is enough wealth in this world to end poverty on this scale. When should a humane society consider that food, water, shelter and warmth are basic human necessities that everyone ought to be entitled to? Instead of taxing wealth, however, we take from the ordinary folks and the poorest suffer. I'm not expressing my politics here and you can draw no conclusions from my thoughts on that, but I am expressing my basic humanity. We are one species sharing one tiny planet in the vastness of space. Why do we not care more about our fellow humankind? When do we consider that we actually need to help each other?
Stay safe my Flickr friends.
Dry Weather
My friend, we are not going through a good time, here the relative humidity of the air is very low and there are many fires in the forests (Environmental Protection Area). Criminal fires, very sad...
Meu amigo, não estamos passando por um momento bom, aqui a unidade relativa do ar está baixissima e com muitos focos de incêndio nas florestas (Area de Proteção Ambiental). Incêndios criminosos, muito triste...
Little creatures like this are dying,
fewer and fewer animals in the wild...
Sagui-de-tufos-pretos
Mico-estrela.
Black-pencilled Marmoset, Black-tufted-ear Marmoset.
Callithrix penicillata
Ordem: Primates
Família: Callitrichidae
Animal Silvestre
Animal Livre
Lago Sul
Brasília, Brasil
Again taken at Marwell not easy to get through the wire but this Tiger had 3 cubs so you have to give it a go.
As exhaust rises into the illumination of a light tower, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 rests next to the venerable sand tower at Helper, Utah, on the night of October 23, 2007. By this autumnal date in 2007, the aging Tunnel Motor was the last Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the Union Pacific system in its original unpatched paint and road number.
Happy Telegraph Tuesday
Actually, this medivac helicopter is returning to it's base at the Lakeville, MN airport.
HTT
The Crawford Helper set returns westbound as seen from Breezy Point. Four SD60M's and a fuel Tender = an experience not to be repeated.
Over the last few years of photographing hundreds of old Minnesota barns, there are some that stand out in my experience. Almost any round barn qualifies for that distinction as well as other very old barns that are simply spectacular in that they made it through a hundred years and are still standing strong.
Barns that are accompanied by unusual silos are also memorable like the one in the photo that has a wooden silo. Wooden silos help date barns as some rectangle ones were first built back in the late 1800s. A decade or so later, round wooden silos were built that resembled large barrels and were held together by adjustable steel hoops.
The silo aside this barn has long vertical boards which is a little more uncommon and without talking to someone who owns it today, I would guess this dates back to the very early 1900s.
Someone years ago did a nice job of repairing and maintaining this historic barn and silo eventually putting a tin roof on the barn to add years to its life. It would be an interesting to learn more about the background from someone who lives in that area.
A nice overall touch is the guy wire anchored to the barn and attached to the upper part of the silo as if two old structures were giving help to one another as they endure the testing of time.
Many of us who are nearing the end of our own life’s journey know what that companion help is like.
(Photographed near Nowthen, MN)
Help to raise awareness about taking care of our home - our planet! Happy Earth Day. (while we still have one!)
Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5390, 5345, 5342, and 5392 await assignment in Helper, Utah on May 22, 1999.
Analogica con Nikonos III ( 1975 ), fotocamera subacquea priva di esposimetro, messa a fuoco su scala metrica, Nikkor 35 mm 2.5 f, Kodak color 200 asa.
Doug Harrop Collection • November 12, 1977
A Santa Fe GP35 idles near the ATSF freight depot in Victorville, California. This helper terminal is about 25 miles below Cajon Summit in San Bernardino County.
Little creatures like this are dying,
there are fewer and fewer animals left in nature...
Save nature, save the world!
Sagui-de-tufos-pretos
Mico-estrela.
Black-pencilled Marmoset, Black-tufted-ear Marmoset.
Callithrix penicillata
Ordem: Primates
Família: Callitrichidae
Animal Silvestre
Animal Livre
Área de Proteção Ambiental
Água Mineral
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Brasília, Brasil
On the soggy marathon drive home from Salt Lake City, I caught the rear-end of a M-HELLAU (Helena-Laurel freight, which runs as needed) as it worked its way up Bozeman Pass at Trail Creek Rd. The Helper set on the rear included the SDP40, so a brief detour to shoot them at the west portal of the Bozeman tunnel.
Bozeman, MT
June 17th, 2020
Union Pacific's daily Salt Lake City - Denver manifest pulls into Helper, Utah for a crew change on Nov. 21, 2008. On the right, a set of helper engines await their next assignment.
Montana Rail Link helpers cut out of a westbound BNSF freight at Elliston, Montana, on September 17, 2012. A member of the helper crew lines the switch back for the main as the helpers get in the clear, and he will direct the front half of the train back together with the rear portion.
I still want to find the joy in the small and large things in life. I don't want to stop being myself, laughing, listening to music, drawing.....loving cats and coffee...it's the small things that lead to big happiness.
This current terror is holding me hostage. I'm forgetting simple things and I am having more middle of the night panic attacks. And, at the same time, I am still very privileged and I just have to remember that looking for relief in every day moments is a sign of that whereas others are just struggling to survive.
I feel like I don't have the right to be depressed but I still can't help it. It's a horrible place to be. And, I want to be hopeful and not helpless but I feel like all the magic and wonder has been extinguished from this world these days. I miss my old self, the old reality...before I saw things for what they really were and felt gravely disappointed in people.
Just an honest ramble. I still think art is important but I have to work to engage and not just completely disappear like a whisper in the night that you hear from a ghost.
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