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One of the best examples of teamwork in action I witnessed on the railroad happened during my trip to Montana last year.
After attending Mass at a quaint church in Thompson Falls, we headed out to Trout Creek to spend the rest of the day. Our first train was westbound manifest NORPAS, which we got crossing the Clark Fork just west of town. Not long after passing our location, we heard the crew call out an emergency over the scanner. The train had lost its air and it wasn't restoring. We decided to venture west to see if we could see what happened. As we were leaving, another westbound, a hotshot Q train, barreled on by wasting no time, but was quickly stopped up around the siding at Tuscor.
We arrived at Noxon, about 15 miles from the border of Idaho, as the crew was assessing the situation. The train had ripped a knuckle within the first 20 cars of its 100+ car train. The unfortunate part of this was that the broken knuckle was on the west side of the car. With three units on the head end and no DPUs, the crew couldn't back the train into the siding at Noxon to set it out. At this point, the dispatcher asked the crew of the Q train to tie down, uncouple their power from their train and assist the ailing NORPAS.
While it took some coordinating on parts of both the crews, the power from the Q train coupled up to the remaining 80 some cars of the NORPAS, pulled the train east to clear the siding switch and then shoved the train into the siding so they could set out the broken car.
By the time the Q train power returned to its train at Tuscor, another westbound manifest, the LAUPAS, had arrived and was in the process of tying their train down. The dispatcher then instructed the crew of the LAUPAS to board the Q train, who would depart Tuscor once he was back together. The Q train would then leave and stop at Noxon to pick up the crew from the NORPAS and ferry them both west to Sandpoint. New crews would be sent to retrieve both trains later in the day. The Q train is seen here crossing the Clark Fork at Noxon with both the NORPAS and LAUPAS crews on board.
This whole fiasco, while unexpected and frustrating for both the crews and the dispatcher, was executed with such professionalism and precision that it not only impressed me, but it solidified the reason why railroads need two people in the cab. Could you imagine how much longer something like this would have taken if each of these trains only had one person in the cab?
We returned to Trout Creek for the remainder of the day and traffic was light, but the weather was absolutely spectacular. This is certainly a memory I intend to preserve going forward!
These shots I did some days ago on a stroll on the beach in Milnerton. The dogs really enjoyed the space and weather, played around, without doing each other harm...
Original Abstract Digital Painting with Procreate, Apple Pencil, and iPad Pro.
I’m trying to get looser in my work. Chaos does not come naturally to me. I did a series of three action paintings all in one sitting. I was happy with the first and last, they are presented here As Action Painting #3 and action Painting #5. They were all done in the same Photoshop file so I was also able to combine them as layers in different combinations. One of those is also presented here.
One of the 18 Jubilees transferred to 17B Burton shed in November 1961 was 45585 Hyderabad. Looking at the external condition it seems likely that this was one that spent most of the time at Burton stored out of use. The winter of 1962/63 saw several stored locos brought back into action and here 45585 heads 3V20, the Derby to Bristol Parcels past the long closed platforms at Branston.
Despite the terrible external condition the loco seems in good mechanical order with a complete lack of leaking steam. Maybe the reason it was transferred to Derby shed in January 1963.
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Vista frontal de l'obturador Eastman Triple Action, que permetia fer fotos instantanies a tres velocitats, fotos en mode B i en mode T. Per a més detalls, passeu el ratolà per sobre la foto.
La Kodak No.4 Folding Cartridge fou una cà mara de carret extremadament gran (format 104), produida per Kodak entre 1897 i 1907. Hi ha dos subvariants bà siques la de fusta i la metal·lica. El canvi es produà el 1900. Per tant, aquesta d'aquà fou produida entre 1898 i 1900 (la camara compta amb una patent datada el 1898 en el seu interior). El disparador de pera és una imitació moderna. L'obturador és un Eastman Triple Action.
De fet, el format 104 que emprava aquesta cà mara és tant gran que les imatges son de 4x5 polzades, és a dir de gran format encara en ús avui en dia. Aquest fet em feu provar (amb exit) que es poden fer fotos amb fulls de pel·licula de 4x5. En cambra fosca els enganxo amb petites tires de cel·lo en el pla focal, i cobreixo la part posterior amb una cartolina negra, De tota manera, provaré de fer adaptadors per a format 120 i aixà poder disparar de forma més comode (cada canvi de 4x5 és molt pesat, incloent cambra fosca).
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A frontal view of the Eastman Triple Action shutter of the Kodak No.4 Folding Cartridge. There's more information in the image itself with the mouse.
This is a late-XIX Century Kodak camera, the No.4 Folding Cartridge. It was a roll film camera, using the inmense 104 format. This camera was produced from 1897 to 1907, in wood till 1900 and all metallic afterwards. Also this model indicates a certain patent for 1898, so it's clear that it was produced between 1898 and 1900. It's my first XIX Century camera, and it works!!!
The shutter is a beautiful Eastman Triple Action (the rubber bulb is a modern reproduction).
The fact that the 104 format is so large is that it produces exactly 5x4" negatives, exactly the same as the current large format sheets. The explanation is that these cameras could be fitted with a glass plate back for such format. But now i've used this characteristic to shoot with exit 4x5 film sheets, stuck with tape to the focal plane and backed with black cartboard.
Anyway the system is extremely cumbersome, using a dark room to load and unload each picture, so I'll try to adapt spools to take 120 format film.
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The floodwaters have created opportunities for some. Where the water from the river floods over a cyclepath (the flat water on the right) meets the normally calm water to the left, it has become ideal for kayaking.
one of a series I took while waiting for my Casa host.... I like the accidentally caught action in this shot...
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