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A large 12 point buck with deformed antlers, he also has a couple other nubs that may technically make him a 14 point. One weird curved point on the left antler is already broken in this shot. I have been back a few times since this photo was taken and two days ago he broke another on his left side then yesterday while fighting a large 8 point buck, another main point on the left was broken off. And yes he won, he is an aggressive one and the largest of the bucks in that area.
Not the most symmetrical looking buck but defiantly a interesting character.
An unusual move passes Waldo, NM, as former Mount Hood RR coach "Bridal Veil Falls" rides along behind a pair of BNSF GEs en route to its new owner Santa Fe Southern at Lamy.
'Oddball', an impressive and imposing relic of an opencast coalmining site south of Leeds, UK. 'Oddball' is a BE1150 Dragline; a 1240 tonne machine designed to grab 20 tonne chunks from the ground in huge scoop-like buckets to excavate coal. Too heavy for caterpillar tracks, Oddball is equipped with two huge feet at the bottom of legs that allowed the dragline to move slowly backwards across the landscape. The sights and sounds must have been pretty jaw-dropping. The site is now St Aiden's nature reserve, run by the RSPB and Oddball is now home to nesting kestrels (nesting in another much smaller scoop-like structure near the top of the pulley system) and is used as habitat by many other birds, including several little owls. Taken using a mobile phonecam and processed in Capture One Pro 23 and converted to mono and toned using Nik Silver Effex Pro II.
Lightshow made by Tuna Oddfellow
Hand-negativ-effects by Regimade (gifted to me by Drew )
Music: Ladytron - playgirl
BNSF SD60M 1416 works a trim job in Galesburg, IL. With all the Dash 9s on the rest of the trimmers this is a unique unit for Galesburg.
The SD60M features a "North American safety cab" design and has a full-width short hood. Early models until 1990 featured a three-piece windshield with vertical windows.
Purchasers of this model included Union Pacific Railroad, Burlington Northern and the Soo Line.
Later production from 1991 used two windshield panes that were sloped back, and had a somewhat shorter nose tapered on the sides.
The 3-piece models were always a bit odd to see along the Geneva Subdivision, and this one pulling a ballast train through Winfield made an odd sight
With just 53 units built, CSX's fleet of Dash 9s represent an interesting transition between the older Dash 8 and then-new Dash 9 models. While most are now in storage, they were still drawing hot assignments in 2014, which #9012 is illustrating here as it hustles Q146 east at Suman, IN.
NIRC 6 tags along with the Iowa Pacific E8s on the way back from Chicago. The E8s had left their passenger consist at CUS and picked up the SW1500 at Western Avenue and dropped it off at Bensenville.
It's not often you can catch a SW1500 and a pair of E8s rolling through Franklin Park.
IHB SD20 2920 heads light eastbound at Calumet in East Chicago, IN, passing some busted up tank cars. Odd to see one of the SD20s this far east.
Another oddball consist has been assembled to lead 421 this day, including BCOL 4611 - CEFX 6020 - CEFX 1019. Here the train arrives at Stuart St. yard to make their intended set-off, but would end up only leaving 7 of the 21 cars behind due to a lack of space in the four tracks designated for CN set-offs and lifts. With the CN takeover of the SOR's Hamilton operation in December, sights such as RLHH 2111 switching the yard at right will soon be a thing of the past.
Last night we were sitting on the couch after dinner and Jasper just came up to me a stared, like, what's next? I said, "You know what, Jasper?" [his head tilts] "I think you left the OddBall upstairs." I get a startled look that says, "oh my God, you're right". BADUMPBADumpbadump [as he runs upstairs to get it]
badump badump........bumpbump bump [as he trots from room to room looking for it] ............badumpbaDUMPBADUMP.......BUMP [as he runs back down the stairs, leaping the last several steps] Then it was GAME ON!
Before its brief stint as NYSW 3042, former high-hood N&W GP40 1355 was rebuilt as low-nose BDLX 1355. Part of the cab from NYSW SD45 3612 was used to create 1355s low nose cab face (the yellow-painted areas seen here). The unit was working the MC Yard on a WS local.
BDLX 1355 GP40 (ex-NW/NS 1355)
Georgia Central train L782 is ready to head back to Vidalia from Dublin with HOG GP35 1635 as the leader. It's good to have some mismatch color every once in a while!
A fan favorite seen regularly during my many visits to Palmer, Massachusetts in the mid 1990s was one of the Mass Central Railroad’s oddball locomotives. This F7A was employed by the shortline and toiled on in its original owner’s paint, likely raising eyebrows and curiosity, from many non-railfans.
DM&IR SD38-2 215 departs the Lake Superior Railroad Museum with three CNW bilevels, a HEP generator and a DM&IR caboose. The rolling stock will be used for a family days special at Proctor the next day.
The normal face of Dover based local H02 is GP40-2 3010, however when that unit is out for repairs or 92 day inspections another unit goes in its place. SD40-2 3414 was the replacement, resulting in a rare opportunity to see six axle power on the Boonton Line. Another unit, Chesapeake and Delaware GP9u 1888, also came along for the ride as the 3414 was too big to drill one of the customers on the Totowa Spur. Pictured is the H02 heading westbound on the Boonton Line through Lincoln Park on its way back to Dover.
I have been struggling with vision problems this last year. I have trouble seeing enough detail to line up good images. So most of my work is even more hit and miss than it usually is. Hopefully soon I will get cataract surgery and maybe that will help with some of the problems I have with seeing. So bear with me for the next few months while I share what I can.
Jasper has always had a penchant for hopping up on the ottoman in our family room. Anytime he has some victory like stealing the ball from his humans, he jumps up there. So we call it his Ottoman Empire. For his birthday he got this toy called the Tuffy Oddball. So perched on his thrown with the Oddball, it only makes sense that he's the Oddball Emperor, right? Got this by putting the camera on the floor propped for a slight tilt, lens up with a wired remote. Tossed Jasper the Oddball which he caught and immediately perched on the ottoman. Click!
Close by Allerton Bywater at the site of the former St Aidens opencast mine the RSPB has established a fine nature reserve and adjacent can be seen Oddball a preserved 1,200 tonne dragline.
This dragline (nicknamed Oddball) is the largest preserved in Western Europe. Regular open dates are held (Covid permitting) during which tours can be made of the dragline.
With free admission and something very different to see I would recomend to all a visit.
It is quite incredible to think that this massive structure was able to walk so that it could be used over the expanse of the St Aidens open cast site. In fact back in 1988 the River Aire banks were breached and over a four day period 3.7 millions gallons of water escaped and flooded the 230 foot deep mine crater. Oddball, being probably the slowest self propelled machine in the UK had to walk away from the flooding. In 1998 after remedial works were completed Oddball went back to work on this site. I wouldn't have minded seeing that.
Now of course the dragline and opencast mining activities are silent. Instead we could hardly hear ourself on our walk yesterday on account of the gulls and other birdlife that now inhabit the wetlands.
My mother hand-painted these clay witches a few years ago. Tonight they became self-aware and started calling the 7th...
Not really sure what the story behind this image is, a spot of Graffiti underneath a bridge with a poster on top of it...
Well, that's what it is :-/
Like the bright colour popping off the background, really was an instant "Gonna have to stop and snap that" moment :)
September 30, 1993: Southern Railway GP59 is in charge of the Westmoreland Coal Company "Dump Train" at Appalachia, Virginia.
(Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide.)
Union Pacific's SD40-2 1896 was wearing a very short-lived paint scheme at Proviso Yard a hundred years after its road number.
Painted for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, it and roster-mate 1996 ran amuck on the system for only a few months before being repainted into standard Union Pacific colors.
On 24/02/20, GBRf 66766 powers through Stenson in South Derbyshire, having had to wait for a previous light engine at North Stafford Junction. The loco was atop the 6Z84 Long Marston GBRf to Gascoigne Wood Sdgs, conveying mostly coal hoppers but also two Porterbrook MK1 barrier vehicles - 6393 & 6394.
I thought maybe this was a hybrid but the experts told me it is a regular red-eared slider that has aberrant coloration on the ears, more yellow than red.
Male Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
White Rock Lake, Dallas
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Working their way south to meet the 126 at Sweet Water, NS T42 passes by the 165.0A milepost on the Knoxville West End behind a pair of screaming SD40-2s. The decent size local was a nice target to chase home after a busted day to Knoxville.
Conrail didn't have many crazy paint schemes, but every once in a while they popped out some odd ones. SD50 6707 was painted to honor our troops during Desert Storm, and SD50 6726 was painted to honor Olympic bike trials that were based in Altoona.
On November 21, 1992, Conrail sent the pair eastward out of Harrisburg over the Reading.
In 2006, my son and I were enroute to LaGrande, Oregon to visit some friends. As we entered Pendleton, I saw a Union Pacific local crunching cars on the main line. It had a look to it that suggested it might be the job that worked the branch to Pilot Rock. We bailed off the freeway and had an interesting chase down the Pilot Rock Industrial Lead.
The train was led on the return trip by a Southern Pacific GP40 that had its red nose repainted armour yellow. Needless to say, it was quite a sight. Here, the train is waiting for a signal to enter the UP mainline at Rieth. The bridge spans the Umatilla River.