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This crazy SD40-2 was built by GMD as CP Rail 5780 in 1978 and was owned by Ontario Hydro. It was then transferred to Canadian National in 1996 and renumbered to CN 5389. It was then re-acquired by Canadian Pacific in 1998 and renumbered back to CP 5389 and classifyed as GF30X.
It was retired and sold to Progress Rail.
Operating as Amtrak 750, the Danish IC3 Flexilner curves through East Portland. It will arrive at Portland, Oregon’s Union Station in a couple of minutes, after crossing the Willamette River.
The trainset spent some time demonstrating in the United States before it was shipped to Israel. In addition to operating regular Amtrak schedules in Oregon and Washington, the IC3 equipment was also used for public excursions on shortline Willamette & Pacific.
You think I'm speaking of me? Not this time.
Here we see Santa Fe B39-8 7400 leading the hot, hot 199 train out of the Chicago area at guess where?
There is no trace yet of the big yard or UPS mega-center. The date is January 26, 1992.
I wonder who got that sign? Not me.
Canon F-1 on Kodachrome 25.
Oddball is a huge dragline excavator left behind when the coal board moved out from the site now made into a nature reserve. Provides good nesting for kestrels.
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Yeah i know, awkward coming from me, but I got some odd inspiration for a revolver. Hence, the Oddballer. heh.
Not my best work, but oh well, Im not really good with pistol designs, let alone revolvers. Cylinder definitely needs some resizing among other things.
made in PMG .6
The strange looking Canada Goose was on the lagoon at Harrison Hot Springs. I assume it is leucitic, a pigmentation problem with it's feathers.
Oddball is a US made dragline excavator which operated at the open cast mine at St Aidan's Swillington near Leeds until 1983. Oddball weighs 1200 tons and walked, backwards, at a maximum speed of 0.2 mph. It is the largest preserved walking dragline in Western Europe.
St Aidan's open cast mine is now a 400 hectare nature reserve. The long wooden building in the front of Oddball is an RSPB visitor centre but, due to legalities over ownership of the land (British Coal went into liquidation before the final transfer papers were signed), has to remain closed at present.
An odd lashup consisting of an old Ex-Southern high hood and an Ex-ATSF SD40-2 heads east through Birmingham, MO.
It's the Summer of 2006; let's go down onto the UP and watch a one of a kind painted SD40-2 and two of a kind SD70Ms roll by.
Fast forward to today. Those SD70Ms have unbelievably been repainted in that scheme, while the 3300 was rebuilt as a SD40N and repainted in standard UP yellow and gray.
The Milwaukee Road had two cabeese built to BN standards for use on the Columbia coal trains to Portage, WI. After the Soo Line tookover, they were renumbered, patched and could be seen all over the system. Westbound train #228 is pulling down through Bettendorf, IA on Sunday, April 7, 1991 with Soo Line 163 bringing up the markers. DRINW SW1200s 108 and 109 sit on one of the adjacent yard tracks, waiting to go back to work on Monday.
A northbound Conrail freight was rolling through Amtrak's B&P Junction in Baltimore with a Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac GP35 and a Conrail GP9B. Such things were common during Conrail's earlier years.
Today, this archaic scene is unheard of as freight no longer travels on this portion of the Northeast Corridor, and that type of motive power variety is long gone.
Amtrak's Texas Eagle zooms it's way south through the little "town" of Block, IL. This train had a Lincoln Service train in between its engine and the rest of the Texas Eagle.
Walking Dragline used here for opencast coal mining
It weighs 1,200 tons.
Now used by the Little owl, see next image
CN C40-8 2041 leads a CSX intermodal west onto IHB rails in Blue Island, IL. This is certainly unusual power for a intermodal on CSX.
One of CSX's 19 GP39-2's lead a rare daylight Y126 east out of Barr Yard, back towards Peigus Yard in East Chicago. These units were originally bought by the Reading Railroad, and were later used by the Delaware & Hudson until 1990 when CSX acquired them all following the expiration of their lease.
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Ugh, flickr sharpening butchered this.
Sorry this is a bit late, school's been nuts. Aha, both my dogs decided they wanted to be in the photo so why not??
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Definitely an anti-social type!
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NS SD70ACe 1152 leads a stack train West through Hammond, IN with two freshly rebuilt CP EMDs (yes, they're still painting CP not CPKC) trailing.
These three units were part of the power on a westbound train and switched out at Humboldt. Here they run light back to Pig's Eye. I'm not sure why the Northwestern GEs were working on the Soo, this was the only time I saw this happen in those days. University Ave., May 14, 1992.
RLHH 2081 working as train 593 is pictured lifting cars at Garnet Yard to take back to Nanticoke and the ESSO Plant.
With ESSO on a two month total shutdown for maintenance right now, everything on the SOR is being changed around.
The day switcher 595 was not running today as is evident by 593 doing their work.
On December 26th trains would get back up and running after having off Christmas. This X492 would have a nice consist with a one of a kind CM44, 7276 would sport low ditch lights which was on very few AC44s and is a nice touch to see. Also would be EMD Geep and GE ES44 trailing. This shot would be caught on my new 10-18 lens in Fayetteville, NC.
I found the yellow Spiny Orbweaver in her web several nights in a row, until one night she was gone, replaced by this smaller spider. The long supporting lines were still there, but this one had used them for her web. I'm not sure what the story is behind the trade, but I have to imagine the larger yellow one moved on of her own accord. I did spot her three days later a few meters away.
This one is a White Micrathena. If I didn't know better, I'd think they were more closely related, as they both have compact, shiny black bodies, all parts except for the big strange abdomens. This one has some spikes of her own, but only a few, and they're rather blunt, there on the back end. She is in the same genus as the Spined Micrathena I posted on the 5th.
13 Arachtober 2022
White Micrathena, Micrathena mitrata
Hixson, TN
18 September 2022
An oddball Brice coal train travels west (railroad south) on the CSX Charlotte Subdivision, seen here at the North End of the Freedom siding just outside of Charlotte. For some reason there have been several coal trains that have run this circuitous route over the last few months - running up from Atlanta to Monroe NC, then switching ends and running via Charlotte to Bostic. There they switch ends again, and head south for Brice.
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This diminutive galaxy lies in the southern constellation Pictor, and is approximately 17 million light-years from Earth. NGC 1705 is a cosmic oddball. It is small, irregularly shaped, and has recently undergone a spate of star formation known as a starburst.
Despite these eccentricities, NGC 1705 and other dwarf irregular galaxies like it can provide valuable insights into the overall evolution of galaxies. Dwarf irregular galaxies tend to contain few elements other than hydrogen or helium, and are considered to be similar to the earliest galaxies that populated the universe.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar
For more information, visit: esahubble.org/images/potw2205a/
there's always that one, isn't there? that one that has to be different, that one that won't conform, that one who steps out, stands out, speaks out. that one that so many look at and just shake their heads because they don't understand..or want to ...because then maybe they'll stand out too and wouldn't that be simply horrible?
Happy Friday..have a great weekend!