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Kurz hinter dem 1871 erbauten Brandensteiner Tunnel kommt Der DB-Regio-Triebwagen 440 807 als Regionalbahn nach Würzburg wieder an´s Tageslicht.
It looks like a mop head growing off the top of this rock. It is in fact a lichen known as Usnea inermis. A popular name for it is "old man's beard".
On a more dramatic note, it did make me think of those ugly creatures known as Morlocks in the 1960 sci-fi movie, The Time Machine.
1960 George Pal - "The Time Machine" (Morlocks excerpt)
Lockdown has offered me the opportunity to remember why I love photography. It's been 8 years. I'm having to read the manual again!
The hogger on this Missouri Pacific local seems to approve of me being here. Different times for sure. We're in Benton, Illinois in July of 1974.
Mid Michigan #180 trundles south through Holton with a pair of hoppers from the Co-Op in Fremont on a muggy summer afternoon. GP9s #179 and #180 were referred to as the "Mop Twins" by crews and fans alike, because the way their blue paint was weathering made them look like they were painted with a mop. Built for Cartier by GMD with factory low noses, #179 and #180 were usually seen doing the local work on the Michigan Shore (along with SW1200 #73), while their pair of GP38s handled the Cannonball to CSX in Holland. #180 would be repainted the following year into a nice red and white scheme reminiscent of the MS's Railtex era paint scheme. Unfortunately it would only run a few months in its new garb before its engine suffered freeze damage on a cold night and it was deemed too expensive to fix. It was cut up for scrap in 2009.
The line up to Fremont is mostly dormant these days, the Co-Op now being owned by a company that also owns a much newer elevator on Marquette Rail in White Cloud. Consequently, they moved all of their rail business over there, another blow to the Michigan Shore.
One from the archives I'm afraid.
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday.
Rikenon ‘Tomioka’ 60mm f2.8 1:1 Macro
Part of my Saturday routine is to smash the house with the hoover then mop the floors to my Mrs satisfaction, 10/10 this morning so I earned a big kiss, well worth it ;-)))))))))
Used my LX100 connected via WiFi to my smart phone for this shot, great for these low down shots, got full control over all the settings & zoom, love it ;-)))
UP SD70ACe #1982, the Missouri Pacific commemorative locomotive, leads a 5,736 ft long QNPINP-01 down the KCT East-West Corridor outside of KCUS as it splits the searchlight signals and their replacements. 9/2/15.