Male peacocks, also known as peafowl, are easily recognizable by their vibrant blue or green plumage and long, ornate tail feathers, also known as trains. This long tail is a key feature for courtship displays to attract peahens (female peacocks). The term “peacock” refers to the male bird, while the female is a peahen, and the whole group is called peafowl.
Here is one looking away at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
Peafowl
Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, has many horse pens. A horse pen is a round or square enclosure used to train, exercise, and ride horses. Horse pens are often used for training young horses but can also be used for mature horses.
Horse Pen
Horse Pen with Space
A Named Horse Pen
Crossing the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines, the Settle to Carlisle Railway was the last great mainline railway to be built in the UK. On its journey north the line passes over the famous Ribblehead Viaduct, one of Britain’s finest man made structures. It was lucky to capture a train crossing the viaduct.
National Railway Museum in York, England has steam locomotive No. 390 built in Glasgow, Great Britain in 1896 to haul trains of products to the ports of South Africa for export.
Milk trains were introduced to transport raw milk from remote farms to central creameries. This wagon was used on the London, Midland & Scottish Railway which collected milk from Cumbria and North Wales. Tank wagon, No ADW44057, six wheeled United Dairies milk wagon with glass-lined tank, built in Derby 1937 on display at National Railway Museum, York, England. Length over buffers: 23′ 11″; width 8′ 7″; height 12′ 9″.
Mallard is an A4 class locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley located at National Railway Museum, York. The A4s were built to power high-speed trains in the late 1930s, and their shape was honed in a wind tunnel to help them cut through the air as cleanly as possible. This powerful, aerodynamic masterpiece rocketed to 126mph in 1938, a steam speed record that was never surpassed.
The locomotive is 70 ft long and weighs 168 tons, including the tender. It is painted LNER garter blue with red wheels and steel rims.
The red railing and graffiti artfully painted on the side of a colorful building anchor this image of a local train
A road bridge crosses over a railroad bridge (with an oncoming train) in Richmond, Virginia
A train station is empty at night in Raleigh, North Carolina
Lonely at the Station
An approaching train on a railroad bridge at sunset
A Train at Sunset
Mt. Fuji, Japan rising above the clouds as captured from the Shinkansen (bullet train) circa 1985.
Mt. Fuji Midst Clouds
The setting sun reflects on these rail tracks near the Kayavarohan train station making them appear golden
Golden Rail Switching
Many rural railroad crossings don’t have gates. A village woman carrying a pot of water is totally oblivious to the approaching train but the driver is alert for such people.
Oblivious While Crossing
A local train in rural Kayavarohan as the driver peeks ahead to make sure the tracks are clear …
A Local Train