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Another old Wills cigarette card, this time showing the old fashioned way of correcting railway track alignment, no machines, no Hi-viz jackets, warning lamps or flags, just six men with iron bars and another man (a ganger) to guide them. The card reads:
Card No42, Railway Equipment
It may not be generally realised that a construction apparently so permanent and firm as a railway track is liable to move, but in some places rail creep does actually occur. The passage of trains along the rails tends to move them through the chairs in the same direction, and this creep occurs particularly on falling gradients and on curves. Anti-creep devices are therefore used to hold the rails back. When the track moves laterally the alignment has to be re-adjusted; in our picture men armed with bars may be seen levering or slewing the lines over, under the directions of a ganger.
Chemin des Reniers 19/07/2020 16h15
Cab view from a TFS tram (101) on tram line T1 from Asniers to Saint-Denis (and further on to Noisy-le-Sec). These trams seems quite easy to operate. Entering the station Chemin des Reniers here in the community of Villeneuve-la-Garenne.
Tramline T1 ÃŽle-de-France
ÃŽle-de-France tramway Line 1 (usually called simply T1) is part of the modern tram network of the ÃŽle-de-France region of France. Line T1 connects Noisy-le-Sec station and Les Courtilles with a suburban alignment running in parallel to the Northern city limits of Paris. The line has a length of 17 km and 36 stations. It opened in 1992 as the first modern tram line in the Paris region. History of the line:
» 6 July 1992: Start of service between Bobigny—Pablo Picasso and La Courneuve—8 Mai 1945
» 15 December 1992: Extension towards the west from La Courneuve—8 Mai 1945 to Gare de Saint-Denis
» 15 December 2003: Extension towards the east from Bogigny—Pablo Picasso to Gare de Noisy-le-Sec
» 15 November 2012: Extension towards the west from Gare de Saint-Denis to Les Courtilles.
» 12 October 2019: Extension Les Courtilles to Asnières-Quatre Routes (350 meters)
Line T1 is operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP) under the authority of Île-de-France Mobilités. Daily ridership reaches 188,000 passengers (in 2015) making it the second busiest line of the tram network after line T3.
A further extension to the west towards Colombes (which would allow for a transfer with Line T2) is currently at the planning stage. To the east a planned extension towards Val de Fontenay, which has been blocked for several years due to strong opposition from the municipality of Noisy-le-Sec, will finally be constructed in two stages with the first phase connecting Noisy-le-Sec station to Montreuil (Rue de Rosny) only.
The service is operated with thirty-five trams of the Tramway Français Standard (TFS), identical to the trams in Grenoble. These sets are 29 meters long and 2.30 meters wide and have a capacity of 178 passengers. They have a low floor over two thirds of their length, only the parts above the bogies have their floor 65 cm above the rails.
There are two types of TFS equipment on the T1 line. The first type is that of 1992, numbered 101 to 119. The other sixteen trams of the line were transferred from Line 2 in 2003 and 2004, where they had become obsolete due to the use of Citadis 302 trams, a newer type with more seats. The sixteen additional trams, numbered 201 to 216, are intended for extension to Noisy-le-Sec. The extension of the line to Val de Fontenay requires 15 additional trams, of which it is still unknown where they will come from. There are, however, plans to replace the entire rolling stock fleet with new trams in 2022.
FACTS & FIGURES
Route: Asnières-Quatre Routes - Gare de Noisy-le-Sec
Length: 17.9 km (travel time 64 minutes)
Stations: 36
Rolling stock: 35 TFS
[ Wikipedia - Ligne 1 du tramway d'ÃŽle-de-France ]
08/2020
YMMV. Faith, Anya and Spike move all over the map by the end of the series, but this is just what I personally see as their core beliefs. And I only chose the ones who embody the extremes of the alignments.
I could probably make another chart with just Willow.
Inspired by the nerds over at mightygodking.com/
Questions? Comments?
Gentlepersons:
The Kodachrome Pictures:
These recently uploaded Kodachrome pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of consumer Kodachrome picture recording during about 70 of the 75 years that Kodachrome was commercially available to the public. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a Kodachrome slide. We took fewer pictures, trying to stretch resources, but some are still frivolous.
I’m 97 (2016) and all tuckered out. I probably will not post much more. The ratio of today’s digital pictures that are kept for any length of time and/or printed is much less than the film photos taken in days past. History will be lost. Meanwhile you get to be bored by some old Kodachromes, Anscochromes, a Dufaycolor and perhaps an old black&white or so.
The Camera:
Most of these pictures are not very sharp. They were taken with an Argus AF 35mm miniature Bakelite camera bought in 1938 at the USNA by saving much of my small student stipend for about six months. It had a Cooke style three element lens of marginal quality for its day of laughable quality compared with any of today’s SLR lenses. It had slightly better resolving ability than today’s ever more scarce disposable film cameras. The AF was an Argus upgrade which enabled the camera to focus at different lengths from about 1.5 feet to infinity. Most consumer cameras of that day were what we call medium format today. Most of the cheaper consumer grade cameras were little more than box- cameras with single element non-focusing meniscus lenses. The larger film hid much of the softness. The then newer miniature cameras had to do better because of the smaller film exposure size.
The Film:
Kodachrome was my favorite film. My first roll in the late 30s was such a marvel to a young man. I had tried Dufaycolor which did pretty good, but if it had to be projected you had to ignore the lines of color which made up the image. Kodachrome was so much more colorful to boot. It was extremely sharp and almost grainless compared to other color and B&W processes.
Kodachrome was unique in American film history. Except for a licensee who used Kodachrome’s older process for a few years, nobody made anything like it. Most color films had all the color in the film. Kodachrome picked up color from the processing baths. Also unlike modern slide films which use chemical energy to reverse the negative image, Kodachrome used filtered lights to re-expose within the processing machine. Kodachrome evolved over the years, and was usually the clearest, sharpest grain free color film one could buy. That is until Kodak made a decision to reduce the budget to improve the product in favor of other products and offerings. Fuji Velvia soon eclipsed it in resolution and could be processed locally in regular E-6 mini-machines.
The Scanner, a Nikon IV ED:
The Nikon IV ED was rated by the manufacture to scan at 2900 PPI. Unlike most other scanners testing with a glass plate USAF 1951 with the resolution chart metal deposited on it, showed both vertical and horizontal resolution to be very close to that figure. When scanning a chart at maximum resolution one has to be concerned with registration between the lines on the chart and the pixel placement of the sensor. Exact registration is a hit and miss, re-trial exercise. With film the scanned bits of silver and dye clumps are randomly scattered without the need to have perfect alignment. I’d rate the IV ED at or very near 2900 PPI on film. Most scanners are over rated by 50-100%
Shot on location as part of the photowalk series near Walpertsweiler, Germany. Post-processing done in Capture One 20.
How I try to polar align my Skywatcher EQ6 pro mount during the day. I can't place the compass anywhere near the mount as it seems to have magnetic properties. The method seems to work quite well.
A pair of Macá Grande (Podiceps Major) was fishing while a Coipo was swimming heading his home. Everyone coexists pacefully.
Making sure the alignment on the fork is perfect *before* making the front rack and lowriders. That’s a mistake I made and learned from back in 2008 at a previous job. It all worked out then but I just made more work for myself. Trying to work smarter 10 years on. #alignment #fork #starrett #bicyclebuilding #chapmancycles
I should have used a smaller aperture to get everything in focus, but I was afraid of missing the perfect alignment between the people and the boat while changing all the other settings since I was shooting on full manual mode. Anyway, I thought I've ended up with a nice, kind of dreamy scene.