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US&S Automatic Block Signals 7584 and 7583 between control points at Lake Point and Erda, Utah on Union Pacific's Lynndyl Subdivision. In 2015, these units were replaced by new Safetran tricolor signals. July 24, 1993
If You Cannot See The Cormorant
The Lone Cormorant Adds Perspective To This Shot Of Liverpool Bay ~ Which Now Has a ' Blot on the LandScape ' (Horizon) With The Recent Introduction Of Wind Turbines ~ The Height Of the Groyne Marker Gives An Indication Of How High The Tide Can Get !
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Rannoch moor was my favourite place for winter landscapes. Do not go near it in the summer because the infamous Scottish midges will make your visit a most unpleasant won. It's a tiny fly but that is no indication of its ferocity. You have been warned.
At approximately 0749 on September 15, 2020, UP Train MCXNP 14 ran a stop indication and derailed on a crossover switch at State Line Jct. on the KCT High Line while crossing over from 75 to 74 Track. The switches were out of correspondence, being thrown while the stop signal violation took place. At over 20 MPH, both engines and the head 5 cars derailed, listing but upright.
The derailment thankfully stayed on the ballasted deck bridge without falling to the ground below, but presented a unique challenge with where the equipment came to rest, necessitating the use of several contractors to remove the locomotives and railcars.
Wilkerson Crane Rental, Inc., and Cranemasters did most of the lifting, while Mainline Services LLC., under the direction of BNSF engineering forces, as they have the MOW contract on the KCT; replaced the track. Watco/KCTL dropped new ballast with a BNSF rock train to replace what was removed from the bridge deck during cleanup.
A myriad of other contractors also assisted in moving the needed materials and equipment into the site. The line returned to service at 0450 on the 17th without the crossover, which will be restored at a later date. It was nothing short of a fascinating procedure to watch as the equipment was recovered.
Here cranes from two different contractors prepare to attack the derailed lead unit. Cranmasters from the bridge with a crawler, and Wilkerson from the ground with a massive rubber tired crane.
Locomotives: UP 6539
9-16-20
Kansas City, MO
Great Horned Owls usually give a clear indication of their impending takeoff. Much less subtle than other birds, they usually bunch up and get ready to spring into the air. This pretty lady was surveying the landscape from atop a tree and made ready to takeoff. We were holding our score cards, prepared to give her a 10 for her normally graceful transition into the air. However, as she took off, her talon caught, and the branch pulled her back like a spring. This is her sly attempt at making it look like this was her intent all along. I do have to give her credit; those wings are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen them so I’m still going to give her a 10 and humor her into thinking I knew it was on purpose. (Bubo virginianus) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 485mm, f/6.3, 1/2000 second, ISO 2000)
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Yeah, I know that she is wearing leopard print but that eye contact is so piercing it was the only title that came to mind with an animal print coat. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L'. My subject and I shared a smile after I captured this by the way - instantaneous reactions are not always an indication of how someone truly feels.
Sorry if this seems in poor taste, but the pose reminds me of an internet meme. The clipped ear on the right is an indication that this cat is a neutered feral cat.
Sometimes
Causality is too contrived.
Not that there isn't a cause.
We are just lazy
about being.
about becoming.
about breaking.
We are better at
brandishing.
at boring.
at beating.
We have been
enculturated
into compliance.
Acquiesced
to insufficient
dualism.
By all indications, train 11N was long past our location, except, this being Norfolk Southern, it wasn't. Central of Georgia Heritage Unit 8101 is on the point, and the chase was on.
Osprey of the Jersey Shore | 2019
The 2018 Osprey Project in New Jersey:
www.conservewildlifenj.org/downloads/cwnj_853.pdf
Ospreys continue to thrive in New Jersey. Nest surveys conducted by volunteers during the peak of the nestling period (late June-early July) resulted in documenting the outcome of 87% of 589 surveyed nests. We credit the successful work by our dedicated volunteers and faithful “Osprey Watchers” to report on nests all along the coast and major rivers. The goal of this project is to monitor and manage the state population of breeding ospreys to ensure they remain stable in New Jersey. We hope that the work conducted as a part of this project will help protect the species while closely monitoring for any indication of emerging threats.
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the Sea Hawk, Fish Eagle or Fish Hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large Raptor, reaching more than 24 inches in length and a 71 inches wingspan. It is brown on the upper parts and predominantly greyish on the head and under parts, with a black eye patch and wings. In 1994, the osprey was declared the provincial bird of Nova Scotia, Canada.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey
November!
No sun—no moon!
No morn—no noon—
No dawn—
No sky—no earthly view—
No distance looking blue—
No road—no street—no "t'other side the way"—
No end to any Row—
No indications where the Crescents go—
No top to any steeple—
No recognitions of familiar people—
No courtesies for showing 'em—
No knowing 'em!
No traveling at all—no locomotion,
No inkling of the way—no notion—
"No go"—by land or ocean—
No mail—no post—
No news from any foreign coast—
No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility—
No company—no nobility—
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
No! by Thomas Hood
1799 – 1845
Remembrance Sunday 2023. Taunton, Somerset, UK.
The appearance of snowdrops is an lovely indication that Spring is on the way - and Brian can hardly wait!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Dangle'. It only occurred to me after getting Brian to dangle by his tail from the snowdrop stem, that the snowdrop flower itself is also dangling! I had thought at first that it would be nice if Brian would hang straight down with his eye stalks outstretched, almost imitating the shape of the flower, but he had his own ideas and was much more interested in stretching his body towards the snowdrop. I know I can't detect any scent from a snowdrop, but snails have very sensitive olfactory cells in their antennae, so Brian may actually be enjoying the flower's perfume.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
The rather simple exterior of St John's Co-cathedral does not give an indication of what awaits the visitor inside. The co-cathedral was built between 1573 and 1578 when money started pouring into Malta from the catholic church after the Knights Hospitaller and local Maltese citizens successfully defended the island against Ottoman invasion during the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. The interior was redecorated in the baroque style you see today in the 17th century.
The co-cathedral also houses two paintings by Caravaggio, the Beheading of St John, and St Jerome writing.
The cathedral survived relatively unscathed during the aerial bombardment of Valletta in WWII whilst others nearby did not.
My first photo of the new year finds Amtrak 125 heading south under the RO signal bridge in excellent early evening light. The Approach Slow indication on Main 2 beckons a northbound Amtrak across the river.
All indications indication were that nothing special would happen this night while we were driving up to Milford Sound thru neck-breaking Fiordland National Park. It was another notorious rainy day in Fiordland. Everything grey and misty but yet a mystical scenery worth the many stops. Due to that we were running late for the sunset at Milfod Sound as I was thinking that nothing special would happen anyway. Arriving last minute when the light was unfolding to its full magic I still managed to get some shots. Yay! Had to jump into the water at an air temperature of around 7°C without my gumboots though as I left them in the car in the hurry.
Anyway, it was all worth the hassle and the colors where amazing that I even had to tone them down in PP.
While out exploring new points of access for the Prairie River I found this newly-mown trail into a section of public hunting land. Glad they missed this lovely bracken which seems to point me into the forest.
The largest climbable/Treckable dune in the Namib. You start at the green bush line then follow the twisting crest to the top. Others may disagree, but it is hard work! For scale you can see people on the crest on the last curve before the top.
At approximately 0749 on September 15, 2020, UP Train MCXNP 14 ran a stop indication and derailed on a crossover switch at State Line Jct. on the KCT High Line while crossing over from 75 to 74 Track. The switches were out of correspondence, being thrown while the stop signal violation took place. At over 20 MPH, both engines and the head 5 cars derailed, listing but upright.
The derailment thankfully stayed on the ballasted deck bridge without falling to the ground below, but presented a unique challenge with where the equipment came to rest, necessitating the use of several contractors to remove the locomotives and railcars.
Wilkerson Crane Rental, Inc., and Cranemasters did most of the lifting, while Mainline Services LLC., under the direction of BNSF engineering forces, as they have the MOW contract on the KCT; replaced the track. Watco/KCTL dropped new ballast with a BNSF rock train to replace what was removed from the bridge deck during cleanup.
A myriad of other contractors also assisted in moving the needed materials and equipment into the site. The line returned to service at 0450 on the 17th without the crossover, which will be restored at a later date. It was nothing short of a fascinating procedure to watch as the equipment was recovered.
I've seen a horsefly. I've seen a housefly, but I ain't never seen an AC4400CW fly until tonight. It's not far off the bridge, but suspended between the Cranemasters and Wilkerson booms, the engine is suspended over 30 feet above the ground in this photo.
Locomotives: UP 6539, UP 9104
Rolling Stock: TTGX 697357
9-16-20
Kansas City, MO
An indication that spring has arrived is when the local farmers begin to prepare their fields. This photo was taken at Fort Langley British Columbia Canada with a 1940 Zeiss Ikon with medium format Ilford HP5 film.
With the staccato beat building to a crescendo 70000 'Britannia' bursts under the three arch occupation bridge at Red Bank this morning with Saphos Trains 'The Cumbrian Mountaineer'. Going well and sounding great, no indication at this stage of what was to happen beyond Milnthorpe when 70000 is reported to have had a big end bearing problem.
LSL 37409 had gone ahead earlier in the morning and it was commandeered to Oxenholme to progress the tour on to Carlisle.
* Hearing reports 37409 failed near Tebay on the return leg and LSL 20's that were scrambled to rescue 70000 have rescued the tour and are on the move south as I type this.
* Not a good day for LSL ...
If the last ten years is any indication, most of the people I know have either had Thanksgiving in October, don't have Thanksgiving at all; or are taking the day off anyway.
To those of you who don't know what a Wild Turkey looks like, this tom made advances at me 12 years ago on Mt. Diablo during mating season. By the time I had the camera to my eye, he was too close to get his full, beautiful display. Consider this a portrait of a missing snood, black beard, blue head, caruncles, and a wattle.
To all, a happy Thanksgiving day.
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Strobist: AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. Silver reflector underneath camera. Triggered by Cybersync.
In Japan, Emily Dickinson's (1830-1886) poetry is higly regarded. A clear indication is the large grant of money that the chemical giant, the Kaneka Corporartion (Osaka) furnished the Emily Dickinson Museum (Amherst, Mass.) in 2005 for its restoration projects. Her poetry is often compared to Japanese traditional haiku, although, of course, it is quite different. Regardless, this photo brings to mind her 'In the Garden':
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim.
There's more of a general connection between Dickinson and Japan, though. The anonymous Master to whom she wrote three highly personal letters is thought to be William Smith Clark (1826-1886), a Massachusetts educationalist who made a great impression on the Japanese during his relatively brief stay at Sapporo.
He was the founder of what is today Hokkaido University, then called the Agricultural College of Sapporo. A great statue of him stand atop Hitsujigaoka observation hill. His right arm is stretched out as if he is saying "Boys, be ambitious". That motto is fondly remembered in Sapporo even today, and I am said - though I can't check it - that it in Japanese is inscribed on educational buildings in Sapporo.
Clark came here hard on the heels of Horace Capron (1804-1885), former commissioner of Agriculture under US presidents Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant. Capron had been hired by the Kaitakushi - the development commission for Hokkaido - to modernize that island to stem the expansion of the Russians from Vladivostok. (He actually needed the high remuneration that almost caused scandal to care for his blind son.)
The garden in the photo is that of the Akarenga - The Red Brick Building - that served as the seat of the Kaitakushi. It was planned by Capron on the model of the Massachusetts Sate House. Unusually for Japan made of red brick, two villages nearbij - Toyohira and Shiroishi - were conscripted into making those bricks. In 1873 it was one of the largest buildings of Japan. It burnt down in 1879 but was restored again in 1886. Today it sits as somthing of a smallish anomaly in this pretty park in the shadow of the skyscrapers around and the enormous new central railroad station of Sapporo.
After a 2.5 hour wait at Lineville, Alabama and with sunlight the entire time, i141 gets a signal indication then Murphy's Law kicks in just in time for the last opportunity of pristine lighting.
Baku, Azerbaijan
It there is an indication or measure of a city's culture or intellect then chess might be one of those measures. Dotted all along the promenade are these giant chess boards, complete with giant pieces. Clearly, chess is a popular game in Baku and I dare say throughout Azerbaijan as well as there were matches being played morning, noon and night.
I'd go as far to say that it's not something you would come across in any UK city, mainly because all the pieces would get nicked or smashed in the first 24 hours... the Manchester Mobikes thefts and vandalism a case in point!
It was only when I got home did I discover the popularity of chess in Azerbaijan and it's most famous son - Garry Kimovich Kasparov, World champion 1985-1993 (undisputed) and 1993-2000 (classical)
🇫🇷 1) La partie basse de l’horloge donne principalement des indications astronomiques.
Elle indique l’heure publique, ou heure légale (aiguilles argentées), et heure solaire locale de Strasbourg (aiguilles dorées)
2)(La partie centrale est le calendrier circulaire qui est perpétuel, intégrant automatiquement le jour bissextile et toutes les fêtes mobiles
Cette partie centrale montre aussi les positions du Soleil et de la Lune dans le ciel à Strasbourg et reproduit toutes les éclipses de Soleil et de Lune À droite lui sont associées les équations solaires et lunaires .
3) Au dessus défilent les chars des jours de la semaine- à suivre-
🇬🇧 1) The lower part of the clock gives mainly astronomical indications.
It indicates public time, or legal time (silver hands), and Strasbourg local solar time (gold hands).
2)(The central part is the circular calendar, which is perpetual, automatically integrating the leap day and all moving holidays.
This central part also shows the positions of the Sun and Moon in the sky over Strasbourg and reproduces all the eclipses of the Sun and Moon. To the right are associated the solar and lunar equations.
3) Above, the floats for each day of the week - to be continued - are displayed.
🇩🇪 1) Der untere Teil der Uhr gibt hauptsächlich astronomische Hinweise.
Er zeigt die öffentliche oder gesetzliche Zeit (silberne Zeiger) und die lokale Sonnenzeit in Straßburg (goldene Zeiger) an.
2)(Der mittlere Teil ist der kreisförmige Kalender, der immerwährend ist und automatisch den Schalttag und alle beweglichen Feiertage einbezieht.
Dieser mittlere Teil zeigt auch die Positionen der Sonne und des Mondes am Himmel über Straßburg und gibt alle Sonnen- und Mondfinsternisse wieder Rechts davon sind die Sonnen- und Mondgleichungen angebracht .
3) Oben ziehen die Wagen der Wochentage vorbei - dazu später mehr.
Dames Rocket flowers in my backyard by my storage shed. Although beautiful, Dame's Rocket is considered invasive. That being said it grows here and there with no indication that it might take over my neighborhood. 🌸🌸🌸
This waterfall in Iceland is notoriously difficult to find; and while it wasn't impossible (clearly from the fact you're seeing a photo of it!) t did certainly prove to be tricky. With no sign posts or any indication to point to it I relied upon instructions from the internet to find its general location.
Upon arriving in the vicinity of the falls I met fellow photographer, and thoroughly nice guy, Dave Hoggan. Between us we managed to find our prize.
An indication of the climate within the western rain forests of Tasmania where rainfall can sometimes reach as much as three metres a year.
Early morning Cirrus clouds.
Cirrus clouds form very high in the atmosphere. They are wispy, being composed entirely of ice crystals falling through the atmosphere
If you notice Cirrus clouds begins to cover more of the sky, and get lower and thicker, this is a good indication that a warm front is approaching. The lighter warm air is forced to rise over the cold air mass, leading to cloud formation. The lowering clouds indicate that the front is drawing near, and possibly giving a period of rain in the next 12 hours.
I 'missed' THE most intense sunset I have seen for ages (ever?!) the night after my last beach walk. There was no indication that it would happen and then when I finally realised the extent of the colour I could do nothing but watch from my front garden. Yesterday was similar; again, no hint on the forecast or in the earlier sky that there would be the right cloud or any colour and it was only at sunset that I noticed a similar late build-up. This time I was determined to get to the beach and made a mad dash back to the beach huts. The colour was fading fast but I managed a couple of 'rushed' shots before the show was over.
Yellowstone's wild Wapiti Lake wolf pack killed a bull elk the previous night and, and after feeding until their bellies were bulging, retreated out of sight to digest their meal. At the end of the day, they came back for refills. The pack is 20 wolves strong, but at any one time there were a maximum of eight on the site. I imagine this is an adaptation that assures, should anything dire go wrong, not all the pack members are in danger at any one time - sort of like company executives traveling on separate planes, just in case.
This is a major crop, taken from a distance such that the wolves were not disturbed by the presence of photographers. There was no indication that if they even noticed us if they cared at all. They knew full well we weren't going to come take the elk away from them.
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