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The Token Grebe: Pied-billed Grebes are very common throughout America. They can be seen anywhere there is fresh water: marshes, lakes, slow-moving rivers, etc. And I personally have seen them everywhere that I have been where there is open water. Although this image is from Florida, I have even seen them occasionally at Brick Pond. I will be photographing Wood Ducks and suddenly a Grebe will appear behind one of the ducks. It will surface, look around and then dive back down, typically not resurfacing again until it has moved out of view. It's fun to see them peek out and announce their presence. On the day that I got this photo there was a large group of them, more than I've ever seen in one place. Possibly some are on the move to their summer homes in the northern US. However many will stay in the south all year. March 2016
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #32" "Love or Loathe" "Minimal Sunday"
Which is your preferred "token of love" on Valentines Day ... a carefully selected and presented dandelion or an expensive bunch of red roses?
Trams/trains travelling from a to b along a single line track.
A ‘Token’, the name given to an object that is passed from the signalman (a), to the tram/train driver on a single line track used for two way traffic. The driver is then allowed to proceed along the single track; he then passes the ‘Token’ to a signalman (b), at the other end. If there are two trams/trains to go in the same direction (a to b), the ‘Token’ is shown by the signalman (a), to the first driver, and then given to the second driver, who then hands it to the signalman (b), at the other end of the single section of track. Signalman (b), now has control of the said section of track. Further trams/trains following in the same direction (a to b) are halted until the signalman (a), has control of the track once again by having the ‘Token’; which has been returned to him by the driver of a tram/train travelling in the opposite direction (b to a). The ‘Token’ can then be passed to the driver of the halted tram/train for him to proceed. This method ensures there is only one tram/train on that section of track at any one time. If there was a collision of two trams/trains on this section of track then the driver without the ‘Token’ is at fault.
This temporary track is in Mosley Street, Manchester as part of the Second City Crossing construction, leading to the new St. Peter's Square tram station.
I hope this isn't too confusing!
6960 was out-shopped from Swindon in March 1944 as the second member of Lot 350. The locomotive initially operated without cab side windows as part of wartime blackout regulations. In June 1947 it received the name Raveningham Hall after a stately home in East Anglia.[1]. The locomotive worked out of London’s Old Oak Common in the 1940s, Reading in the 1950s and latterly Oxford until being withdrawn from service by BR in June 1964.
Thirty-fourth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is 30 inches (0.8m) in height and perhaps 750 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (1.5m) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevices or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
Kumagawa Railroad Co., Ltd.: this third sector company operates the 25 km long Yunomae railway line, which links the Hitoyoshi Junction Station with Yunomae along the Kuma River Valley. With the usual 1,067mm track gauge, the entire line is single-track with a only one crossing point at Asagiri. The particularity of this line is that it is one of the last in Japan that continues to operate with manual block systems: with tablet tokens between Hitoyoshi and Asagiri and with staff tokens between Asagiri and Yunomae. Regular service is provided with five diesel railcars built in 2014 (KT-501 to 505). In addition, it has two other railcars used in the tourist train (KUMA-1 and 2), built in 1989 and renovated for this use in 2009.
Two KUMA 2 type diesel railcars, used for tourist trains, at the Asagiri Crossing Station. Apparently, on this date they were out of service.
Powered by diesel locomotive ZDM3 # 707, Shimla bound Shivalik Dlx Exp slows down @ Gumman railway station, on Kalka Shimla narrow gauge railway section (KSR) for exchange of token between loco pilot and the points man.
Semaphore signalling, passing loops, manual token exchanges and pairs of brand new 5,400 hp A/C electric locomotives operating away from the wires.
Welcome to joys of the Cumbrian Coast line.
Following a quick visit to Nethertown in the afternoon we returned to St Bees just in time to pick up the 6M60 Seaton to Sellafield flasks on the 6th June 2018. 88003 'Genesis' is leading the way with 88005 'Minerva' behind.
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The driver of 66772 hands over the single line token from Buxton to the signalman at Great Rocks Junction.
A dying form of train control, the token system. The once popular system started out in England and eventually found its way to many British colonies like India. The system is very labor intensive and is quickly being replaced by automatic signalling even in India. I spent a day photographing the token exchange at Nandol Dahegam in Gujrat with the assistance of the station staff, check the link below for a full report and further explanation on the inner workings of this signalling system.
A young fireman working the Stanier 'Black Five' 45212 piloting the double header with 45407 "The Lancashire Fusilier" takes the token watched by a senior crew member leaving Ramsbottom Station on the 1st day of the ELR Spring Steam Gala..
The token exchange is completed at Salogra, Himachal Pradesh, India as KSR ZDM-3 704 passes with the 05:45 Kalka Junction to Shimla Mail Express 52451. The well-maintained station features potted plants, fire buckets and a splendid W&T Avery, Birmingham [1914] platform scales for parcels use, as required.
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I am delighted to share with you a pretty rose bouquet created for my lovely wife that I dearly cherish, and love. The roses are from cuttings that I collected from various gardens in our area.
Following my previous photo, today, I’ll give another clue. For now, I show you a fully functional ‘Token booth'.
*I don’t know if ‘Token booth' is the correct designation :p
More LEGO shots here.
Metro-Cammell/Cummins Super Sprinter Class 156 156468 diesel multiple unit at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C33 the 15:44 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle passenger service.
It's been a pretty sad week for Aussies, losing a number of our young diggers. Lest we forget their sacrifice and service to our nation and the world.
Great Blue Herons, Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Courting behavior
Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 500 mm
ISO Speed 800
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Despite a promising start by the time 66736 had meandered a mile or so up the coast to Freemans Crossing box, the weather had definitely taken a dull turn. I've never taken a shot of the box from the oft used the A189 over-bridge, having looked at it a few times and rejected it for more interesting beach-side fare in better weather conditions.
Freemans box is the most modern still in operation on the B&T. Built in the British Rail era around 1956 it was installed to to control the lines to the power station, coal staithes and Cambois depot, that diverged to the right of the train (behind the box in this shot).
The driver and signaller prepare to exchange the token as 6S45 comes off the single track section between Freemans and North Blyth.
28th December 2019.
Beyer Garratt 6029 simmers away at Thirlmere waiting for the staff to be delivered to the driver before the train is permitted to travel the single line section between Thirlmere and Picton.
Staff and Ticket safeworking is all but extinct in New South Wales, having been used extensively across the world for over 140 years