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Union Pacific Railroad GP30 854 at Galva, Illinois on August 26, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was the eastbound CGI (Chicago Grand Island) CB&Q - UP pooled power between the named cities, although on this date the UP was supplying all the power.
A piece of the Berlin Wall at the Newseum, Washington DC.
Photo: December, 2016
Fall of the Wall: 1989/1990
Back before every train had Gevo's three SD70's scream east across Iowa with a pig trailer train for Canal street in Chicago.
Pentax K-1 D FA 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 ED DC WR HD
I missed the focus on my chosen shot and Dodger just happened to be on the table while I mused what to do next.
Never say there is never a prototype for something, all the line changes through the years at Dry Lake has the siding all jacked up. Too bad the old water tower is gone, not the same here without it....
Ehrang shed, on the outskirts of Trier, provided locomotives for the routes to Saarbrücken and Koblenz (via the Moselle Valley). This shed could always be relied upon to provide a fair amount of drifting smoke and my visit on 23rd April 1972 was no exception. Lined up around one of the turntables at the depot were 'Jumbo' 2-10-0 Class 044 (Baureihe 044) No.044 119-6, Class 001 Pacific (Baureihe 001) No. 001 150-2, which had been a Moselle Valley passenger engine, but was not in steam on this occasion, Class 023 (Baureihe 023) 2-6-2 No.023 018-5, Class 050 (Baureihe 050) 2-10-0 No.052 712-7 and another class 044. What a variety of motive power! This image has been recovered from what I would have described as one of my 'bin-job' underexposed Agfa CT18 transparencies taken with a Halina camera, but the content I considered was too good to throw away at the time and I am now pleased to have retained it. Thank goodness for modern technology, but it took some time to restore.
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A small nocturnal primate in Bohol, Philippines.
Read my thoughts about tarsiers and primate evolution here:
“After that, dad didn't do as many scavenging runs any more. He didn't go out again for another week while he was recovering. We just took it easy for the while. Eventually, he felt up to it to start going out again to scavenge...always bringing the shotgun with him. He never ran into trouble again though. After hearing what he had to do that day I sometimes wonder how many other times he had to take someone’s life out here…
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Um. Anyway. Again, the months and years shifted by, and eventually next thing I knew I was coming up to being an adult. I was growing into the strong, independent women my dad wanted me to. But...hmp…I still acted like the little girl I grew up as, and-heheh…a lot of times that meant not really thinking things through…"
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- August 10th, 2038 -
*KNOCK-KNOCK*
*CRI-…CRINK!*
Cristy - “Hey, dad.”
- “Hey ho-…heh...wwhat-haha! Did, you do to your hair?”
*KA-TSH!*
Cristy - “You like it? I saw some styles in that magazine you’d found a while ago and thought it'd be fun to try colouring. Also gave instructions on how to do it. Y’know, something new.”
- “Yeah, but…how exactly did you dye it? Where’d you even get the dye from?”
Cristy - “I was looking through the storage room and I found some hidden away; that was actually what gave me the idea in the first place. No clue what it was even doing in there though.”
- “Eh, there’s plenty of stuff hiding away in there, some of it was put in there before any of this even started.”
Cristy - “So do you like it?”
- “Heh, it looks nice. It goes well with that haircut I gave you last week.”
Cristy - “Thanks dad.”
- “But…wait, don’t you need water for that?”
Cristy - “Well…with all the rain you've been saying we've had, I was assuming we’d have some to spare from the supply. I only tried to use as little as I could.”
- “*sigh*, you know how valuable that water is, it should only be used for necessities. You really should have asked me first.”
Cristy - “Sorry...”
- “But, you did try to conserve the amount you used, so that’s good."
The Weston, NE post office is experiencing a lull in activity as the silence of the scene is briefly interrupted by the passing Lincoln turn. By this time, the morning clouds had returned and I headed for home.
After rolling down to BNSF's yard in South Omaha, UP 4014's passenger special, now led by UP 1943, shoves back towards the Omaha Amtrak Station and the Durham Museum.
POMOM2 (Passenger- Omaha to Omaha)
UP SD70AH #1943
(Rear) UP C45AH #8167
(Rear) UP 4-8-8-4 #4014
Omaha, NE
July 14th, 2019
SSLCG-04 on its way from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau.
Union Pacific Chester Sub
South of Valley Junction
East St. Louis, Illinois
inspired by antimethod as well as the cover of "Wild At Heart", I guess you could say the purchase of the Flyleaf CD also could have something to do with this photo :D I had a fun time.
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) straddling two footholds while cleaning up the mess it made of the suet. Michigan.
My wife and daughter call these birds "Pterodactyls", There does seem to be a resemblance!
PK3_8381 (2)_e-1.
Olympus C-5060 self-converted to infrared, Hoya R72 filter used, white balance was set for the grass.
Well...this will be the last drone foam shot for a while.
Had a little mishap with the cheap plastic Chinese drone. Seems that if it falls about four feet that the landing gear isn't rated for that. Oh well. Off to the DJI fools it goes and I'm sure they'll hit me up for a few yen for the benefit of fixing it for me.
Nevertheless, flying in these condition didn't suck as much as I thought it would. I was able to take off and land pretty easily. Probably 30MPH sustained winds and 45 MPH gusts. I was shocked at how well the little thing held up in the sky for this image. It was rock steady, albeit the battery was draining significantly faster than normal. But when you know the train is past MP 18.7 and you are sitting at about MP 19.8, it's not that big of a deal.
Now...would I fly again in these conditions? Yes, but only after the snow has quit falling and there is one hell of a ground blizzard being kicked up here. I mean...look at the lack of snow just beyond the trees. Would make for a really neat scene if the sun was out and getting some stuff kicked up.
Despite the insistence of his human, this dog had decided that his morning walk was not quite over. He ran up and down the sidewalk with this bag in his mouth, repeatedly taunting the human by coming in close and then darting away.
Union Pacific (UP) U28C 2801 in Nampa, Idaho, on Sunday,
Union Pacific (UP) U28C 2801 is leading a set that includes U50 44 in Nampa, Idaho, on Sunday, September 9, 1973. UP 2801 is a GE U28C. Reportedly UP 2801 was built in June 1966 by GE as a model U28C, builders number 36015, retired August 1981.
According to George Foster, "that 'Be Specific, Ship Union Pacific' boxcar in the background is a B-50-18 or B-50-19."
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35mm B&W images, Kowa SET, 50mm, 35mm H&W Control.