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Line D1 of Moscow Central Diameters (МЦД-1) or Belorussko-Savyolovsky Diameter (Белорусско–Савёловский диаметр), a suburban network in Moscow which uses the existing infrastructure of Moscow Railway and provides a regular connection between Lobnya and Odintsovo across Moscow city. Belorussky station is part of the Moscow Central diameters, line MCD-1 (МЦД-1).
EP2D is the last development of ED4M family of 3 kV DC electric commuter trainsets with increased safety level for passengers to comply the new regultaions of the EAC. She is in production from 2015 y. by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading producer of the suburban trainsets. Ones expluatated on the Moscow Railway have unusual 11 or 9 units compostion, that replaced the typical 10/8-cars composition.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) built since 1996. The trains are produced by JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод) and currently in service on Russian Railways and many former USSR states.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
This bogie model was developed in the end of 80's as the modernization of the classics KVZ-TsNII type 1 or 2 (КВЗ ЦНИИ тип 1 и 2) basic model in production from 1962 y.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) built since 1996. The trains are produced by JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод) and currently in service on RZD lines and former USSR states.
Long story short…lol...I went to emerg last weekend because hubby thought the toe I thought I broke at the beginning of February did not look good. They took Xrays but the doc thought that there was no sign of breakage even though the knuckle was really swollen and red. Late Wednesday night I got a call that the radiologist read the Xrays and it showed a bone chip fracture. Yesterday after gardening I came in and my whole foot was so unbelievably itchy, swollen and red I went back up to emerg to make sure it was just Athlete's foot from the buddy taping I'd been told to do. Yes, just Athlete's foot…:) But the toe won't heal for another six months and I can't do any weight bearing exercises like running so it's back to the swimming pool for me and I'll put the recumbent bike in the driveway to get some fresh air…lol. One of my goals of turning 60 this year was to take part in the Women's Triathlon they have here every summer. Spectator sport now! There's always next year! :)
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. The museum have recreated the interiors of a row of terraced houses to reflect the living accommodation of the workers from the 19th century to the mid 20th century and these are fascinating in themselves. Now these are of the house fitted with 1950's furniture. Now the radiogram would've been something very special in a terraced house. The kitchen is much more basic. I can remember this sort of house from my childhood.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) built since 1996. The trains are produced by JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод) and currently in service on Russian Railways and many former USSR states.
EP2D and Ivolga commuter trainsets in Moscow are operated by big private company The Central Exurban Passenger Company (АО Центральная ППК, JSCo CEPC). Trains of the CEPC have individual ivory-white livree clearly distinguishing them from ordinate red-colored commuter trains of the Russian Railways holding (JSCo RZD). Between them is the "Region express" train of CEPC painted in deep blue.
EP2D is the last development of ED4M family of 3 kV DC electric commuter trainsets with increased safety level for passengers to comply the new regultaions of the EAC. She is in production from 2015 y. by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading producer of the suburban trainsets. Ones expluatated on the Moscow Railway have unusual 11 or 9 units compostion, that replaced the typical 10/8-cars composition.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
The MCD-2 route (Nakhabino - Podolsk, Kursk-Riga diameter) opened on November 21, 2019 was created on the basis of existing routes, has a length of 80 kilometers, which are overcome in 2 hours. The line includes 34 stopping points, of which 11 have connections to the subway, the Moscow Central (railway) Ring and/or another railroad line. As of the beginning of December 2019, 22 EG2Tv Ivolga 1.0, as well as conventional electric trains EP2D of the motorcar depot TCh-17 Nakhabino, and two ten-car trains ES2G Lastochka from the motorcar depot Kryukovo serve on the route of the MCD-2. In addition to the trains of the MCD, regular suburban trips are served by eleven-car electric trains EP2D from depots Nakhabino and Pererva, temporarily transferred from the Leningrad direction twelve-car train ET2M from depot Kryukovo and ten-car electric trains ER2. 100 pairs of MCD-2 electric trains (not including regular suburban trains) with a stroke interval of 12 minutes run on the route per day.
Based on Russian wikipedia articles. Translation assistance - deepL
I am beginning to get used to having my hair down now its at a longer length.
Sadly i am having all those issues with dyeing it and of course getting old both play havoc with the condition of the old Barnet, I get a lot of breakage and its thinner than it used to be but at the moment its working so i will stick with it as long as it sticks with me lol.
This journey has seen many a change and a corner turned, so many times i have thought i have achieved the best i can only to discover I still have more to come.
This is such a roller-coaster ride.
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One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ) was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
This old beech is one of less than 700 (of formerly 200,000) trees in Berlin's largest park that survived WW2 and the post-war period when Berliners cut down trees for firewood to make it through freezing winters.
For a few years, Tiergarten park was used as a potato field and for growing vegetables until from the late 1940s onwards, trees were replanted here, making the park the green lung of the city again.
With climate change, one can't overestimate the role of trees in a city. And adequate tree cover can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Trees act as a carbon dioxide sink by fixing carbon during photosynthesis and storing it as biomass (wood).
Hence, Berlin's city administration decided to plant 335,000 new trees in Berlin's parks and forests by the end of this year. In part, they will replace trees that died or have to be cut down due to drought and wind breakage. For creating more sustainable future forests, it is vital to avoid monocultures and give preference to heat-resistant species.
Beeches are among the trees considered suited to climate change in Germany (at least if properly watered while young) - so fortunately, this old giant is not going to be one of the last of its kind...
This ED4M trainset coming back from Gatchina the capital of Leningrad region leaving the Duderhof train station and passes by same named lake and hills on his back way towards Baltian railway terminal of St Petersburg.
ЭД4(М) (ED4(M) - Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification, M - modified) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 (in ED4M modification from 1997) to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
Additional K index (ED4MK) received only few ED4M trainsets after major overhaul. This ED4MK-0118 was named after main river of Leingrad region - Neva
Natural High Lilith (batch #2) models Jamieshow Summer Kisses Look #17
The earrings are pretty and the posts are very thick and nice (no worry of breakage). The clamshell purse is plastic but it opens up and the shading (ivory with gold) is pretty.
For Iron Photographer 251 where the elements are...
1 - a cup
2 - a ball
3 - shot at floor/ground level
It's harder than you'd think to balance cups on balls! Thankfully the grass was soft so there were no breakages.
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. The museum have recreated the interiors of a row of terraced houses to reflect the living accommodation of the workers from the 19th century to the mid 20th century and these are fascinating in themselves. This is a Victorian home and one where the occupier will be earing reasonable money from the look of the fitments. The Utility room still looks like hard work tho'.
Western Welsh was the only customer for the Weymann Beacon coach body, buying 21 of the C36F coaches in 1960/1. The original design had a distinctive and unique style of curved windscreen, as can be seen on WKG134 elsewhere on this photostream. Clearly, at some point in its life, TUH122 suffered a windscreen breakage and sourcing a replacement to the original design proved either impossible or prohibitively expensive. It was therefore modified to the style shown here. The vehicle was in the fleet of Phillips, Shiptonthorpe in October 1976, still wearing a previous owner's livery, and was one the Phillips vehicles kept at Howden Station at that time.
The third loco has plywood over the cab windows due to a breakage. 19 Feb 2021, Train-937, 5304-5022-5431, Oamaru, SIMT-NZ
Every Easter I color eggs no matter how old I get. Guess I'm just a kid at heart. I also add a couple of extra eggs to the pot, because I know one or two will break. This afternoon I lost only one to breakage - but it looked so much like a little duck emerging - that I just had to share it.
Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter.
Kintsugi ("golden joinery") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
“She made broken look beautiful
and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe
on her shoulders and made it
look like a pair of wings.”
― Ariana Dancu
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day. You can wander around the workshops, this is a carpenter's shop.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
This time of the year,we get a coach in the shed,put girders across,then lift the coach on the hydraulic jack's and get the bogies out.So we can check bearings,springs and wheels for wear or breakages.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.
General station appearance refers to the historical The Old Ladoga fortress loacted near the Ladoga lake on the Volkhov river, the first north Russian fortress founded by legendary Rurik, the normann and first Russian knyaz, on the historical route from Baltic to the Black sea.
The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.
1/52 – Kintsukuroi
“Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.”
I shot this image on May 15th of last year, marking five years since my mother's passing. The wisteria branches I'm nestled in are the same ones I was clambering excitedly in just an hour before receiving the call that she'd left abruptly and wouldn't ever be coming back.
Every single year since then, I've made a photo for her. Just for her. This year, I took the photo but never posted it, never finished it, until now. Something in me didn't want to admit that five years had slipped by with the swiftness of the setting sun nestling itself down below the horizon. That she's been gone for that long. Somehow finishing this image made that reality more tangible, and it has never been a reality I've wanted. But reality it is, just the same.
The weight of life has become so cumbersome the past few years that many of the best parts of me have gone into a hibernation of sorts, as a means of emotional protection. Sometimes to just get by is enough. But the more I kept just getting by and not creating art exclusively for myself, the sadder I became.
This image marks the start of a new project for me: a self-portrait a week for a year. I've done a 52-week project once before (and a 365, for that matter), but the past few years, I've been a bit directionless on the personal front of my art. So I decided to take matters into my own hands by creating structure, deadlines, and a dash of accountability. I do well with that recipe, I've found.
The more I worked on this image, the less it looked how I'd envisioned, and yet I'm perfectly okay with that. Along my artistic journey, I've become more and more of a perfectionist and less and less playful and experimental. I need to play and experiment to grow as an artist and push my boundaries, and I realized that a no-strings-attached but also deadline-driven project would be the remedy. It'll serve as a double-dose of artistic medicine, too, as self-portraits are integral to my well being.
And so I've pieced myself back together with platinum. I've filled in the cracks and crevices with something beautiful and strong, and I choose to stand openly in my beautiful brokenness, recognizing that these cracks are a part of who I am, and they are precisely why I have so much to give.
It's funny—the more I worked on this image, the more the cracks started looking like lightning, and less like how I'd envisioned. But that's exactly as it should be—I am electric, filled with energy and inspiration and vitality, and I'll be damned if I diminish myself any more than I already have.
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day.
A well-known building in downtown Chattanooga. The near end houses the Pickle Barrel restaurant.
This was shot on my first roll of film with the Reto Ultra Wide & Slim camera - a clone of the original Vivitar. It's a lightweight, plastic camera that's fun to shoot. You have to handle them carefully as they're prone to breakage.
Kentmere 400, stand developed using Rodinal 100:1 for 60 minutes. Edits in post.
This stuff is nice and solid. There is only the slightest undercutting of the matrix.
The water-clear quartz filling the voids really allows the delicate, lacy structure of the bone matrix to show through. What I find really interesting are the lines of crumbled bone material. I'm wondering if the breakage happened before or after death, or if it's even breakage -- maybe it is pieces meeting and fusing during growth.
From Morgan Hill, CA. Fossil whale bone in CA is from the Miocene period, and most appears to be somewhere in the range of 4-15 MYO. A whale fossil found in Scotts Valley (about 20 miles away, as the crow flies) was dated to be 4MYO. Numerous other finds hover in the 11-12MYO, but many of those are further South, so my guess would be that the younger end of that range is likely.
Osteophagy is the practice in which animals, usually herbivores, consume bones. Most vegetation around the world lacks sufficient amounts of phosphate. Phosphorus is an essential mineral for all animals, as it plays a major role in the formation of the skeletal system, and is necessary for many biological processes including: energy metabolism, protein synthesis, cell signalling, and lactation. Phosphate deficiencies can cause physiological side effects, especially pertaining to the reproductive system, as well as side effects of delayed growth and failure to regenerate new bone.
While osteophagy has been regarded as a beneficial behavior to combat mineral deficiencies in animals, osteophagic practices have also been observed to be detrimental to the dentition of herbivores. It has been observed that the pattern of wear on the cheek teeth of herbivores is congruous to the manner in which herbivores hold and chew bones. A major cost of osteophagy is therefore significant wear on teeth and dental breakage in herbivores, whose teeth are not designed for the regular consumption of hard materials but rather for the grinding of vegetal fibres.
This Giraffe (Giraffa) and its calf were busy feeding of a wildebeest carcass and was photographed on game drive in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
We gotchu.
The Boo+ is a unique Tediore SMG acquired from the side quest "Invasion of Privacy" in Borderlands 3. When "reloaded", the gun is thrown and legs unfold, creating a turret that can seek and run after targets, and a new gun "digistructs" into the user's hands.
LEGO The Boo+ is 24" long, weighs 4.5lb, and features a moving trigger and unfolding legs. It's also built super solid - you can throw reload this thing with minimal breakage! Also includes a mini Super General Claptrap trinket.
Yay, Flickr is accessible again after a short issue this afternoon.
Saturday, 15 June 2024. We are undergoing a forecast thunder storm, with rain and wind right now, as I type. Might end up turning off my computer, if it doesn't stop.
UPDATE on water restrictions in Calgary. 14 June 2024:
"Calgary Emergency Management Agency Chief Susan Henry said water restrictions will be needed for at least three to five more weeks." The break occurred on 5 June, as more pipe damage has been found, so we have already been going through it for 10 days. I would imagine that the heavy rain we are getting this afternoon could make a muddy mess of the whole repair area.
Tuesday, 11 June 2024: LIMIT YOUR WATER USAGE! The water main breakage issue started on 5 June 2024.
"As work to repair a break in a major feeder water main continued Tuesday, Calgarians can expect limitations on their water use to last through the weekend and into next week.
Nancy Mackay, Calgary's water services director, says the work is going to take longer than officials first expected.
"We do not have a date for the restoration of the service. Based on the information we have now, I expect to be able to share a closer date mid-next week," Mackay said on Tuesday." From the Weather Network.
Thursday, 13 June 2024:
"Work to fix a critical water main break that has triggered outdoor water restrictions has been stalled due to injuries on the work site on Wednesday night, Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said during an 8:30 a.m. update on Thursday morning. The injured workers were taken to hospital and neither is in critical condition."
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Did a drive SW of Calgary on 13 June 2024. All familiar roads. Hadn't really planned exactly where to go. Not a whole lot to see, but was happy to see two Wilson's Snipe. I was surprised at how few Mountain Bluebirds I came across on this drive, but was thankful to see the few that I did see. The sun was so bright and all but one photo were blown out.
Driving along a main road, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to turn off on to one of the back roads. Almost immediately, I happened to glance down at the valley floor where a distant White-tailed deer caught my eye.
At one location, I thought I heard a Bobolink, which was confirmed by Merlin. This was the very first time that I had ever had a Bobolink in this area. Later on, I saw one of these rare birds at a different location, where I had seen one in May and in previous years. I waited and waited, hoping I might see or hear something. Finally, I zoomed in on a bird perched on a fence post way down the road and, sure enough, it was just what I had hoped for. Could only get a dreadful photo through the windscreen! Posted the photo just for the record. Shortly after this, I heard a Bobolink singing loudly somewhere in the trees right by my car. I looked but couldn't find it anywhere, now that the dense leaves are all out.
AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.
АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.
The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Perburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.
ЭТ2 (ET2, Electric (train of) Torzok second generation) and improved ЭТ2М (ET2M, ET2 Modernised) DC electric commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant (Торжокский вагоностроительный завод) located in Torzhok city of Tver region at 1993-2010. ET2 design was in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia). 26 commuter trains of ET2 model and 109 ones of modernised ET2M were built in the ten-car configuration.
This follows on from my previous post concerning the removal of the last original and intact Stanton 7 column in the Western districts of Nottingham, where these were once to be seen.
The 7B concrete bracket hangs heavy from the Hi-ab as it is lifted clear of the column before being lowered to the ground. It was surprising how easily the bracket broke free after just a few thumps with a lump-hammer to the column top. In truth, the top of the column was in a far more precarious and weakened state than anyone might have previously thought.
In this view, the lantern has already had its fragile plastic bowl (shade) and lamp removed to prevent breakage during removal.
**Removal of Abbey Road Column No1 - 22nd October 2024.
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day.
the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.
General station appearance refers to the historical The Old Ladoga fortress loacted near the Ladoga lake on the Volkhov river, the first north Russian fortress founded by legendary Rurik, the normann and first Russian knyaz, on the historical route from Baltic to the Black sea.
The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.
One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.
This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day.