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Adansonia digitata (African baobab) tree in Mikumi National Park with its fruits hanging
Baobabs are long-lived deciduous, small to large trees from 5 to 30 m (20 to 100 ft) tall[12] with broad trunks and compact crowns. Young trees usually have slender, tapering trunks, often with a swollen base. Mature trees have massive trunks that are bottle-shaped or cylindrical and tapered from bottom to top.[12] The trunk is made of fibrous wood arranged in concentric rings, although rings are not always formed annually and so cannot be used to determine the age of individual trees.[15] Tree diameter fluctuates with rainfall so it is thought that water may be stored in the trunk.[12] Baobab trees have two types of shoots—long, green vegetative ones, and stout, woody reproductive ones. can be massive and spread out horizontally from the trunk or are ascending. Wikipedia

The Milky Way arching across a quiet rural night with crisp starlight. Blayney, Central West NSW, Australia.

11001 --X-- 11002!

Between two open cast mines of Western Coalfields Ltd. (WCL), 11002/Nandigram Express bound to C.S.M.T Mumbai (CSMT) with BSL. WAP-4 22361 makes it's way through mainline while my 11001/Nandigram Express towards Balharshah Jn. (BPQ) awaits on the loop here at Majri Khadan (MJKN). 😀

This is possibly the only railway station in IR network sandwiched between two active coal mines. (See the location on Google Maps & also correct me if wrong)
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18 October, 2025.
Majri Khadan (MJKN, CR)
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Door ria brasser, oost souburg
Afwisseling van zon met wolken, lekker wandelweer

Just under a month after my last visit I found myself again out along the Vermont Railway's B&R Sub mainline following train RDHJ south this time with a much less attractive leader. Grimy SD70M-2 432 is rumbling along at 10 MPH leaning into the curve at about MP 37.3 in the Otter Creek Wildlife Management area with the low foothills of the Taconic Range rising to around 1500 ft in the background. The 432 was blt. Dec. 2006 as FEC 103 and came to the VTR in 2015 along with sister 431. Trailing are two smaller EMDs CLP 204 (GP38-2 blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 202 (GP38-2 blt. Oct. 1974 new for the railroad).

As for this line, it can trace its history back to the Western Vermont Railroad which was incorporated in 1845 and opened between Rutland and the New York state line south of Bennington in July 1852. In 1865 it was reorganized and renamed the Bennington and Rutland Railroad. Other reorganizations followed until the line was purchased by the Rutland Railroad in 1899 which by 1902 reached its peak at a 413 mile system. In 1904 the Rutland came under control of the New York Central which later sold half its shares to the New Haven. The railroad entered receivership in 1938 and the two big Eastern roads divested their shares to local ownership in 1941. Reorganized one last time in 1950 as the Rutland Railway. Strikes in 1952 and 1960 led management to finally give up and the entire railroad was shut down in 1961 and then in January 1963 the ICC approved total abandonment of the road. But six months later the state of Vermont stepped in to purchase the core of the system from Bennington to Burlington which began operations here in January 1964 as the new Vermont Railway. It's hard to comprehend, but now this route has been operated by the VTR longer than it was by the Rutland!

Mount Tabor, Vermont
Friday April 24, 2026

"(Flachlandpaka)
(Paka)
(Carl von Linné: 1766)
Duisburg (Zoo)"

Gebänderter Bodenspringer (Phlegra fasciata)
(c) Frank Sudendey