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EMDX 767 and a sister leaser Geep bring the Pikes Peal Local around the lake in Palmer Lake, CO with a friendly wave.
What ever happened to these EMDX units that used to be all throughout the BNSF roster? And when did they go away? I know this particular unit went on as GMTX 2214 and got to sport a nifty Heart of Texas paint scheme, but I don't remember ever hearing about the EMDX Geeps going away for the BNSF (the Oakways, yes, but not these).
The superb Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300er "Retro scheme" on finals to land very early in the morning at London's Heathrow airport.
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We learn at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick's_Blue
St. Patrick's Blue is officially the colour which appears on the Irish Presidential Standard (i.e. the flag of the President of Ireland) and the Coat of arms of Ireland. It also appears in the part of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom representing Northern Ireland.
This blue and gold colour scheme is said to represent "the Ancient Colours of Ireland" [4] and are the colours also found on the coat of arms of "the Ancient City of Dublin" and the Flag of Munster (which evolved from the coat of arms of the Lordship of Ireland). The Flag of Connacht prominently features blue as well.
As the colours of University College Dublin, the blue and yellow scheme is officially called "St Patrick's Blue and Saffron" and is featured prominently on the institution's coat of arms. They are the original colours of the Catholic University of Ireland and date back to the inception of the College in the 1840s. The colours are used by various sports teams at the university such as such the University College Dublin Rowing Club[5]. For the fencing club at University College Dublin, the blue chosen as their St. Patrick's Blue is "Pantone 295", the same shade of blue as that is used on the pennant of the President of Ireland.[6]
Badge of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick. The statutes of the Order prescribed a sky blue riband; the exact shade of blue used varied over time.
Badge of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick. The statutes of the Order prescribed a sky blue riband; the exact shade of blue used varied over time.
A group of Sea Scouts associated with St. Patrick's Church in Dalkey near Dublin Port describes their troop neckerchief as "red with a St. Patrick's Blue border."[7]
The Irish Guards, an Irish regiment of the British Army, wear a plume of St. Patrick's Blue in their bearskins. The guards also wear a cap ornament depicting the eight-pointed star of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick.[8] Although the last surviving knight died in 1974, the order technically still exists. Knight of the order wore a blue mantle lined with white silk and a blue velvet hat. The ribbands of the order were blue as well.[9][10]
[edit] St. Patrick's Day green
Green, the colour most widely associated with Ireland, with Irish people, and with St. Patrick's Day in modern times, may have become gained its prominence through the phrase "the wearing of the green" meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing. At many times in Irish history to do so was seen as a sign of Irish nationalism or loyalty to the Roman Catholic faith. St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish.[11] The change to Ireland's association with green rather than blue was probably begun around the 1750s.[12]
Metro-North P32 #208 wrapped in the Beach Ball scheme is seen from Bear Mountain as it races north along the Hudson River. Oct 17, 2024
RAF Panavia Tornado GR4 Retro Camo scheme taxes back to stand after a 3 ship flypast with 31 and 9 Sqn special livery tail aircraft at RAF Marham.
Delaware-Lackawanna (DL) C420 locomotive 414 is seen on display at Steamtown National Historic Site during the 2025 Railfest event. The unit sports a Lehigh Valley (LV) heritage scheme, and was coupled to LV business car 353 during the event.
UP 8366, wearing UP's new and wingless paint scheme, shoves on the rear of an empty rock train at Tower 26 near Downtown Houston.
The train is on the recently added, second northeast connector track at the interlocking. This allows trains to more easily bypass Englewood Yard, which this empty unit train will be doing shortly after it rounds the corner here.
RLUVEQ 12 (Rock Empties- Lufkin, TX to Olden, TX)
(DPU) UP SD70ACe #8366
Houston, TX
August 13th, 2023
When finally the visibility improved on this morning, this special schemed Airbus arrived at runway 25R.
Flight EY7 from Abu Dhabi/AUH was operated on that day by 'Blue Moon Rising', promoting the livery "Manchester City Football Club" which was applied to the frame in July 2011.
The conditions were perfect, and I was really glad to have captured it just then.
I was looking for some dancing lights but all I got was this...
20 seconds of peace to contemplate the little happenings around me in the big scheme of things....
Psalm 64:2 “Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.”
Psalm 64:5 “They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, ‘Who will see them?’”
World Economic Forum: “This is how rice is hurting the planet”.
“Global rice production is releasing damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, doing as much harm as 1,200 average-sized coal power stations, according to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).”
www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/how-rice-is-hurting-the-pl...
BBC News: “Planting trees doesn’t always help with climate change”. (If you want to see a perfect example of how to spin propaganda, then bore yourself to death with this pathetic article.)
“As a result, there is a delicate balance between trees’ ability to take in CO2, reducing warming, and their tendency to trap additional heat and thus create warming. This means planting trees only helps stop climate change in certain places.”
www.bbc.com/future/article/20200521-planting-trees-doesnt...
If you haven’t figured it out yet: net-zero is antihuman, and it will lead to worldwide authoritarianism. Global dimming (GeoEngineering): let’s kill life. Cow farts: let’s kill the cows. Rice is bad: let’s starve the people. Trees: they aren’t so great, they’re also part of the problem. In fact, all life is part of the problem! We must slowly destroy all life on earth to save the planet. The dystopian future never looked brighter! Book of Revelation, here we come!
“Rupertswood” in Sunbury on the outskirts of Melbourne is one of Australia's most important mansions, both historically and architecturally. Built as a residence for Sir William John Clarke (1831 – 1897), the first Australian born Baronet, in 1874 – 1876 it became a power seat in the great English tradition. The property covered an area of 31,000 acres. Today the estate has been greatly reduced due to subdivision to a more modest 1,100 acres.
Designed by local architect George L. Browne, "Rupertswood" is a 50 room bluestone mansion built for Sir William John Clarke by contractors George Sumner & Co. Designed in the Victorian Italianate style, the two storey mansion is surmounted by a 100 foot tower with a Mansard roof and widow's walk. The foundation stone for “Rupertswood” was laid on 29 August 1874 with some 1000 people in attendance. The house was completed in 1876. The grand entrance is paved with Victorian tessellated tiles and the house is flanked by splendid wide and shady verandahs on three sides. The ballroom was added in late 1881 or 1882. Interior decorations were carried out by Schemmel and Shilton. There are six magnificent stained glass panels made by Urie and Fergeson in 1874-76, considered some of the finest examples in the world. The elaborate mansion with its large estate demonstrates the important status of Clarke whose prominence as a colonist was recognised in 1882 by his appointment as a baronet.
William Sangster designed the gardens at “Rupertswood” originally covering an area of 99 acres, and once boasted tennis courts, croquet lawns and an underground fernery. “Rupertswood” also had its own private railway station where hundreds of guests to grand balls would arrive from Spencer Street. Balls, hunt meets and weekend house parties were frequent. Anyone of note, in Victorian and Edwardian society, was entertained by Sir John and Lady Eliza Clarke. Many historical figures visited “Rupertswood” during its history, including the then Duke and Duchess of York, (later to become King George V and Queen Mary), Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba and several Governors of Victoria. The estate also had its own half battery of horse artillery when Sir William John Clarke formed a small permanent force in 1885.
“Rupertswood” holds a place in the great sporting rivalry between Australia and England, as it was on a field at “Rupertswood” that the “Ashes” were created. On Christmas Eve of 1882, after a congenial lunch, Sir William Clarke suggested a social game between the English Cricket team and a local side, made up largely of “Rupertswood” staff. By all accounts, it was an enjoyable game with no one really keeping score, however, it was generally agreed that the English won. Pat Lyons, a worker at “Rupertswood”, clearly remembered the afternoon many years later. It was his understanding that Lady Clarke, at dinner that evening, had presented Ivo Bligh with a pottery urn. It was purported to contain the ashes of a burnt bail. This was a light hearted gesture to commemorate England's win at “Rupertswood”.
By 1922, “Rupertswood” had passed from the Clarke family into the possession of Hugh Victor McKay (1865 – 1926), a self-made millionaire, industrialist and inventor of “Sunshine Harvester”. His dream of owning “Rupertswood” had been realised, if however, a little short lived. He died at “Rupertswood” only four years after acquiring it. A short time later one of Australia's greatest pastoralist, Queenslander William Naughton acquired the property. One year later he sold the mansion and 1,100 acres to the Roman Catholic Salesian Order. The mansion then became a school for under privileged boys.
Today “Rupertswood” is open to the public. The mansion has undergone extensive restoration, with the help of interior designer and Victorian architecture specialist Jacqui Robertson, reinstating elaborate Victorian colour and decorative schemes, and operating as a boutique hotel.
Went to what we affectionately call the spaceship park last night for my youngest sons birthday. The slide and climbing structure resembles a space station with long tunnels and pods with netting to climb through. The color scheme has a bunch of turquoise, chrome, and black. Great place to shoot toys too!
In case you wondered why the D&I Railroad chose the color scheme they did, this should answer the question. Their sharp looking units mirror the native wild sunflowers that cluster the right of way seemingly along the length of the railroad.
Here is another frame from Hawarden when we first showed up in the morning. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit (the pond in the background) and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base.
This spot is just north of the 425th Street crossing at the north entrance to the pit at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years. DAIR 3026 is EMD SD40-2 blt. Mar. 1980 as BN 7285) which would lead our train north to Sioux Falls on a picture perfect day.
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
CN 3944 & GECX 2037 lead CN 120 through Ville St-Pierre on a rainy morning, as they pass parked grain cars.
N705TZ also initially visited Shannon in the Northwest colours - not sure if it visited in the ATA colours though I photographed it wfu at Pinal Air Park as such, N706TZ was the fourth one to visit Shannon.
QF 7593 from Sydney on short final for 07R at VHHH.
Anyone remember the Baci chocolate scheme on a Alitalia 742? That was I-DEMF, well this is the old girl.
Departing and rotating out from Glasgow Prestwick airport is this Cargolux freighter airliner in the special cutaway scheme. Cargolux is a Luxembourgish cargo airline with its headquarters and hub at Luxembourg Airport. With a global network, it is one of the largest scheduled all-cargo airlines in Europe. Charter flights and third party maintenance are also operated. The 747-8 which is one of the aircraft operated by Cargolux is the third generation of the 747, with a lengthened fuselage, redesigned wings, new engines, and improved efficiency. The 747-8 is the largest 747 version, the largest commercial aircraft built in the United States, and the longest passenger aircraft in the world.