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NS Westbound Intermodal Train 213 passes through Lincoln, AL with UP SD60M 2466 leading a UP SD70M, the SD60M has the We Will Deliver lettering on the side
I take a break from the blog, I want to learn how to edit photos! AGAIN A NEW PILE UP *-* I NEED MORE PRACTICE !
windsor, april 09
Kiev 88, Arsat 80mm f2.8, Neopan 400
Just had a load of films developed dating back to march, so working my way through it pretty much chronologically.
epic thanks to Tom for the loan of his scanner.
UP 5170 rolling east at Loring on the UP Kansas Sub. Things are starting to green up again here in NE Kansas as we come out of dead stick season.
Nice to catch some older SD70M's leading trains around here lately. Sure is better than the piss bricks we normally get.
Union Pacific Railroad U50 38 at Council Bluffs, Iowa on June 13, 1965, Kodachrome by Lou Schmitz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built July 1964 (c/n 35098), placed in service July 27, 1964, retired September 1973 and traded to GE, the U50 was two U25B's on a common frame, utilizing span bolsters and trucks from retired gas-turbine locomotives. To reduce weight, aluminum wiring was used, which deteriorated in 10 years and required replacement. The railroad chose to trade the locomotives for newer power. The triangular shaped items on the running board, located almost over the center of each span bolster, are the sandboxes. I’m not aware of the actual design challenges at GE that resulted in locating the sandboxes in these locations, but there was concern about the ingestion of sand and sand dust into the diesel, both at the fill time and the actual use of sand for traction. The Southern Pacific purchased three U50 locomotives, and they lasted a bit longer.
A wb ballast extra sails across the Militia Dr Road Crossing at MP 119 near Jefferson City MO. cell phone shot
Smithsonian's National Zoo, Washington, DC - A capture of a turtle breaching the water's surface for a breath of air.
These Poppys may possibly be the cutest Poppys ever... I adore them both! They are modelling jewelry sets by me.
Nikon FE (black) - Nikkor 50 1.2 - Ilford HP5+ @400 - Adox Rodinal 1+50 - dslr scan - Nikon D810 - Micro Nikkor 105 2.8 - Lightroom - Photoshop
Did anyone not know that UP was bringing 4014 across Nebraska for the College World Series this year? Anyone? I'm guessing not judging by the traffic trackside today. Talk about a stampede.
I had originally planned on going west to catch this large lad yesterday morning as today was supposed to be set aside for a "day" trip to Illinois to catch the westbound roadrailer on the NS. If the rumors are true, the days of that train are very numbered, and this is the last weekend for the rest of the month I'm free. However, the weather wasn't going to make the trip worth it, so I changed my plans and went out for this absolute unit today.
Sam and I both had the same idea: pop him once between North Bend and Fremont and use the extra time with their stop in Fremont to get to out spot in Omaha and get setup before the crowd arrived. I showed up to North Bend an hour before the train would be there and there were already 20+ cars at the highway crossing in town, including two gentlemen chain smoking cigarettes with one foot on the rail.
We had predicted a scene similar to that while talking the night before, so we planned on heading to a farm crossing east of town with the hope that most people would also have the same idea. I'm not going to say it was as bad as it was in town, but we certainly weren't the only ones with that idea, as both the crossings we scoped out already had several cars waiting.
Since the shot was just going to be a wedgie anyway, we set up with the others a couple miles east of town and waited. Unlike everyone else at that crossing, however, we brought our big boy lenses (pun absolutely intended), allowing us a telesmash of the consist with the North Bend elevator in the background.
I'll end this story for now and continue it on the next post.
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" 4014 heads east to the 2023 NCAA College World Series in Omaha on the Columbus Subdivision outside North Bend, Nebraska, June 11, 2023.
Not a fan of hunting
It’s hunting season but I have no interest in participating. I’ll eat wild game, but I’m not going through the trouble of procuring it for myself.
This outfit came out a bit more “hunter” than I anticipated. Don’t worry, the only thing I’m hunting is the perfect stick for Jasper to fetch from the river. For that particular game, you’ve got to camo up and be vewy vewy quiet.
Cardigan, Mossimo (thrifted). Sweater, Joseph A (thrifted). Shorts, Hollister (thrifted). Leggings, Amour. Boots, Ariat. Purse, Rebecca Minkoff. Earrings, thrifted. Belt, Lauren Ralph Lauren (consignment).
Redlands, CA - 29 SEP 2022
UP 7868 at the head of four locomotives, including CSX 5208, pulling an eastbound intermodal train up San Timoteo Canyon.
Many thanks to Freightcarkid for showing me around on this day.
Flickr Lounge ~ Books
This pop up book is well worn now after the grandchildren have used it so many times. Not many of the pop ups work any more, this is an exception!
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Sorry, I'm back to Pika posting again. I took quite a few photos of two of these beautiful little Pikas - enough shots to keep me from feeling like going through them all straight away to find a few that were OK to post. So, every now and then, I will dip into the file of photos from that day. When this little animal ran over towards us and froze for a few moments, it gave us a wonderful chance for close images.
On 19 August 2014, I was lucky enough to have the chance to try and photograph a couple of these absolutely adorable little creatures : ) After a while, I was beginning to despair of ever getting any decent shots at all. These tiny Pikas, also known as Rock Rabbits, hardly ever remain still and they are extremely fast! Imagine a mountain hillside covered in sharp, jagged rocks of all sizes and then try to picture how difficult it is to find in the viewfinder the single rock on which one of these Pikas might happen to sit for a second or two, lol! As time passed, I managed to take quite a few photos, though many needed to be deleted. A couple of times, this Pika came bounding over the rocks near to where we were standing and just sat there, long enough to get a few very close shots. They are about 15 to 23 centimetres (5.9 to 9.1 in) in body length, so really are pretty small, especially when off in the distance.
I found this excellent and amusing YouTube video, 3:30 minutes long, It is The American Pika in the BBC's Life of Mammals series.
The weather forecast was not good for that day, but we were so lucky that, apart from a few raindrops, the rain stayed away. The sun actually came out at two locations we stopped at for a short while. Our 18-hour day (from 6;00 a.m. till midnight!) started off with the thrill of seeing these Pikas and ended with a brief sighting of a black Wolf crossing the road ahead of us in the dark. It disappeared into the blackness, but shortly afterwards, we heard three (possibly four) separate Wolves howling way off in the distance. We just stood there, in total awe, listening to this amazing sound. The only wild Wolf I had ever seen before was when I was in Yellowstone National Park two years ago. Friends and I saw two Wolves feeding on a Bison carcass across a huge valley - so they were just distant specks, that became slightly larger specks when my camera was in full zoom.
In between these two highlights, we saw several Deer, a small group of Mountain Sheep on the road, a tiny Chipmunk, a few Cedar Waxwings, Columbian Ground Squirrels, a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk that sat on a branch out in the open for a long time, and two tiny Bats that flew very close over our heads when it was getting dark. We also saw an adult Spruce Grouse with two young ones.
Then, of course, there is the scenery! Blue sky to go with the splendour of the mountains would have been wonderful, but we had been having cold and gloomy weather for a while before this day out. Highway 40 and the Smith-Dorrien/Spray Lakes Trail both run through such spectacular scenery, so it was a real treat for me, especially as I won't drive to those areas myself.
Washington - Dulles International (KIAD)
Wheels Up, a leading private aviation company, announced today the unveiling of a camouflage-painted Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft through its Wheels Up Cares philanthropic initiative. The Wheels Up Camouflage Plane has a custom livery that was created and painted by Textron Aviation Inc. and honors those in the military who bravely served and continue to serve our country.
Things get better through whatever
If you fall, dust it off,don't let up
don't you know you can go,be your own miracle,
you need to know...
if the mind keeps thinking you've had enough
but the heart keeps telling you don't give up
who are we to be questioning, wondering what is what,
don't give up...
through it all just stand up!!!!:)