The Flickr Random Image Generatr

An earth nest (or something), in a shallow dip in the granite wall of my sister's house. It's about 50mm top to bottom, and you can see the hole where whatever lived here came out; four or five mm.
Taken with minimal care, with my phone.

Brauner Grashüpfer (Chorthippus brunneus)
(c) Angelika Lerch

Temporary photo for this album since Flickr does not allow creating empty albums.

Door Anne-Marie van Iersel, Vlissingen
Wolken zo,koude wind

ND Filter | Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Lens

So this one kinda hurt because I really wanted to photograph the New York Central heritage unit and it was on the rear of the 40th train as seen here: flic.kr/p/2sGzjqe But their station stop took a little longer so another train pulled up on Main 1 and then they both left at about the same time racing each other inbound so I completely missed the shot thanks to being train f---ed! Such are the perils of busy multi track mainlines I suppose!

This is the famous Harlem 125th Street station located at about MP 4.1 atop the Park Avenue viaduct where the view from the south of the platform looks compass southwest down Manhattan Island offering fabulous views on a sunny summer morning. In this ongoing series of posts I am going to fill up my album with at least one image of every train I shot in the span of only 90 minutes camped out in the sun at the end of the platform between mains 3 and 1 beginning just after 9 AM. Unfortunately I have none of the train numbers for any of what I photographed, as it was simply impossible to log them from the radar app because to even take the seconds required to look at the app then type the number would have meant missing the next move. Grand Central Terminal sees up to 1000 Metro North trains a day and there is no other way in or out except through here so the volume is simply astounding beyond anything I’ve ever witnessed.

Anyway, here are my 42nd and 43rd trains that I photographed along with the 40th again!
Making for a near perfect three way meet, a train set of Kawasaki built M8s, of which the railroad owns 471, heads inbound on Main 1 meeting and outbound set of siblings on Main 3. Meanwhile on Main 2 is an 8 car train of Bombardier Shoreliners being shoved by P32AC-DM 211 (blt. Feb. 1998 and one of 31 originally on the roster including four owned by CDOT and dressed in New Haven McGinnis style colors). This unit was unveiled in this special heritage New York Central Railroad wrap in November 2023 as part of the railroad's 40th anniversary celebrations as the third in the series of ten specially decorated units to date.

See the earlier posts for a lengthy caption with much more history of this line and some of the surrounding structures.

Borough of Manhattan
New York, New York
Friday July 24, 2026

Miroir....mon beau Miroir...!!?

Edited in Tezza with: Brightness, Disposable, & Mood

Zerua oskarbi Intxortan eta behe-lainoa Debagoienako bailaran.