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Maybe its just because I'm Jasper's human, but I thought this was cute the way he draped himself across the ottoman and rested his paw over the top of the Oddball. Like a pose for Oddballer Magazine
Making a rare run to Carntown, 2 new SD23T4s lead L218 west across the bridge at Wellsburg. Easily some of the most odd units I have ever pointed a camera at, these locomotives retain an EMD style body and cab with GE internals and radiators. They even sound unlike anything I've ever heard, with the closest comparison I can make being to that of a vacuum cleaner. While I have mixed feelings about them, I'll never turn down the chance to shoot fresh standard cabs.
Little owl (Athene noctua)
RSPB St Aidans
Many thanks as always to everyone who passes by to view my photos and particularly to those who take the time to comment on or fave them. It is very much appreciated and welcome.
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#264, Nahant to BRC manifest for IMRL has an oddball lashup of MRL356(SD45) and NREX2029(SD20). I do not have anything in my notes about why this "flare" led long hood forward, very odd to say the least. This Milwaukee Road era searchlight lasted for about another 20 years and is now replaced with an industry wide hooded LED.
In the utmost last light of the day squeezing between the tree's we have empty fertilizer hoppers rolling through Rose Center, Michigan. Powered with an oddball pairing of MP15 1502 and SD50-3 6352 - September 18, 2020.
Smile on Saturday: Selfie in a bauble
I have a lot of Christmas ornaments, so they don't all get used every year. It's been a while since I had this one out -- just clear glass filled with festive pompoms. And, apparently, some oddball in a Santa hat.
Happy holidays, Flickr friends!
Macro Monday 25/04/16 - "One of These Things is NOT Like the Others"
Macro detail of black and white peppercorns.
1922-1925 Megola Sport at the PS.Speicher in Einbeck
Manufactured in Munich, the Megola is probably the most unusual serial produced motorcycle from an engineering perspective. The name originated from the first two letters of the surnames of its three designers: Hans Meixner, Fritz Gockerell and Otto Landgraf.
The rotary engine inside the front hub drives the counter-rotating wheel via a planetary gear in a five-to-one ratio.
CN SD40-2W 5289 leads CN A446 south through Wheeling, IL. A SD40-2W leading a road train is not something that happens everyday.
CEFX ex-SOO SD60 builds Q116s train and passes Homewood Tower in Homewood, IL. With the leasers starting to leave the CN, it's good to see this.
Union Pacific train M-PRCB-26 was passing underneath the former CNW coal dock behind Olympic SD70M 2001 leading the United Way SD40-2 3300 and UP CNW Heritage SD70ACe 1995.
The wild consists on the Geneva Subdivision were thanks to former CNW employees in the right positions in Proviso to create such variety. Like all things, it was too good to last.
Good morning everyone. I thought I'd share a quick pic of an odd male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) I photographed this past Tuesday. As you can clearly see it has no crest feathers. At first I thought the crest feathers were just lying flat and not raised, but that was not the case. They were entirely missing. No bald spot either. Head was covered in feathers...just none long enough to form a crest.
Not sure if it lost them in a skirmish with another male, which didn't appear to be the case since except for the lack of crest feathers, it looked to be perfectly fine and unscathed in anyway. The other possibility is it simply never had any crest feathers, which I'm thinking is not likely. Either way, it's one of those small mysteries that will probably remain unsolved.
As for this pic...it's mainly for documentation hence the reason for the tight and square crop.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly nice week.
Lacey
ISO1600, aperture f/8, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 434mm
CSX C760, an oddball coal symbol for this line, is seen shortly departing Etowah through Delano. 3-15-25
NYSW 3014 rests under the night sky in Cortland. 3014 is one of the oddballs of the fleet with its "Snoot nose"
I have no idea where I shot this. I found it when I was transferring my mail into Thunderbird. I guess it looks kind of neat, if a bit old (and from a flip phone).
No, it is not actually an OCS of any sorts. NS did the duties of moving the PVRR passenger cars from Norry up to Newberry for the NSHR's christmas excursions.
This is an outtake from the "my dog and me" 52 weeks for dogs challenge last weekend. I had set up the tripod with camera on the other end of the lawn and I clicked of a ton of shots using a wireless remote as Jasper charged down the yard towards the camera chasing whatever. I wasn't going to post any more of them, but my wife said I should and I always do what my wife tells me 😜. Jasper is pretty darn good at catching that OddBall, snagging it out of the air despite it's size and odd shape.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8020594.stm
Apparently scientists have discovered an oddball planet. So what - I do it all the time! This one, which looks like an Aero is across the Galaxy and beyond the Milky Way.
This was to be my last posting to flickr but I obviously need an outlet for some of the things that buzz around my brain from time to time and this is as good a place as any... or so I'm told.
Apologies to all my contacts for not commenting so much as I used to - I have been building this www.ianfwilliams.com in readiness for world-domination.
Maybe I will come back and play in the heady atmosphere that is flickr - it used to be fun.
In the meantime keep on keeping on and I will visit you all soonish.
Several of the Maple trees in our neighborhood have the most intense color ranging from vivid yellow, orange, to fuchsia, and everything in between. This one oddball under a tree that was entirely red, must have blown in from a street over.
The 35mm version of this sturdy cast iron Griswold film splicer was once the most popular cement film splicer, until the development of tape splicers rendered these spicers obsolete.
This one, however, is definiitely not a 35mm splicer. The channel, at 38mm (1½"), is too wide for 35mm film. The registration pin set has me stumped, not only due to the location along the centerline, but also due to the pin size and spacing that do not correspond to that of 16mm or 35mm motion picture film. If this splicer was for a special application that was popular back in its day, I have yet to discover that use.
When you sleep with your head on the Oddball, a little bit of it seeps into the brain, directing your dreams to fun times.
We got our second covid vaccine shots yesterday. I'm very happy about that. Maybe soon we can socialize. Travel. Go to the gym. Won't that be grand? Though I think Jasper has grown rather used to having me home all day. On the handful of days I've gone into the office, my wife reported that Jasper has been a bit confused, wondering just where the heck I was.
CN GP38-2W 4777 leads the RDC Geometry car South through Mundelein, IL. Issues with the RDC forced them to throw a diesel in front of this this trip.