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Flat car for high-capacity containers load 68.5t, model 13-9781 (Фитинговая платформа для крупнотоннажных контейнеров) is manufactured in the city of Kanash, Chuvash Republic of Russia by the Promtractor-Wagon JSC (АО "Промтрактор-Вагон" - code 108)

October railway of The Russian Railways, St Petersburg, Russia

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Bratislava, Slovakia

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Operator: Victory Liner, Inc.

Fleet Number: 8083

Area of Operation: Provincial Operation

Seating Configuration: 2x2

Seating Capacity: 45+1

Manufacturer: Kia Motors

Model: Kia KM959S / Granbird SD II "Parkway"

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Suspension: Air Suspension

Shot Location: Mabalacat Bus Terminal, Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines

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Here was Arriva Buses Wales VDL SB120 Wright Cadet 2639 CX07 CSU was seen pictured at Bangor bus station working on route 78 to Maesgeirchen, with a fleet of Optare Solos being off the road for some other reasons. 8/03/23

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May 6th 2023

Судно "Волна" проекта 1891 Плавучий энергоблок / стоечное судно у стенки Адмиралтейских верфей

This vessel was laid down at Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard, completion Admiralty Shipyards, Leningrad in 1966

Register class: "М"

Length: 97,7 m.

Width: 13,4 m.

Board height: 6,7 m

Draft: 4,1 m

Deadweight: 1765 tons

Gross tonnage: 4170 gross tons

Fuel capacity: 500 tons

A slow day after a works Christmas do yesterday and my planned trip to York was scuppered by rail strikes. Looking at RTT there was a 4H89 Hams Hall to Hillhead Sidings. I'd not been to this location since the sidings were installed increasing the capacity for loading.

I timed my arrival around the time 6H52 13:05 Dowlow Briggs to Ashburys was due to leave.

One of two tri-axle Volvo Ailsa double deckers delivered to China Motor Bus for evaluation in 1981, AL1 is seen here at Chai Wan in 1997. The rear axle steered and the bus had a capacity of 170 persons!

Go North East's Riverside-based "Tyne Tees Xpress" branded Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 6043 (NK12 GCO) is pictured here at Gateshead Transport Interchange, Gateshead, whilst working "Fab Fifty Six" service 56 to Southwick. 26/12/16

Historically; Boxing Day has provided a large number of opportunities to see buses allocated to services which they ordinarily wouldn't be allocated to. With demand for services remaining at a high level on Boxing Day, especially to shopping centres where most retailers offer discounts on their products, the number of opportunities has decreased over the years, with more and more of Go North East's depots now being operational on Boxing Day, hence resulting in fewer of the aforementioned photograph opportunities. This year, every depot apart from Crook and Peterlee is operational, meaning that very few journeys excluding a number of late evening journeys (most of which have been funded by Metrocentre and/or NUFC) have been allocated a vehicle which wouldn't ordinarily be allocated to that service.

The 23:15 "Fab Fifty Six" 56 journey from Newcastle City Centre to Southwick, ordinarily operated by Deptford Depot, was allocated a "Tyne Tees Xpress" branded Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 vehicle from Riverside Depot, which had earlier been allocated to the "Green Arrow" 97 service, to provide extra capacity.

Configuration V8

Engine capacity 4,398cc

Maximum speed 160mph

0-62 mph (100 kph) Under 4.5 secs

Uxbridge Auto Show, West London, 19th July 2009

Camera - Olympus S820 Compact

Photoshop Workflow:- Cropped, masked. Black background added, mirror image added with ocean ripple effect, edges blurred, tones altered, selective burning, plastic wrapped, and airbrush shadows added.

A friend of mine recently asked me to take some pictures of his beautiful Aston Martin DB6 convertible, and this was really dry run to see if I could PS a picture and make it into something special for him. His car is also silver so this was a good test of how much I could push the tone and filter settings to deepen the look of the paint without losing the highlights.

My inspiration came from the pictures of Ken Brown, who probably has the nicest car images on Flickr. I don't have his camera, lighting rigs and studio space - only Photoshop! See:- www.flickr.com/photos/7211625@N06/3026458914/

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Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant located in Tikhvin, Leningrad region of Russia (TVSZ; АО «Тихвинский вагоностроительный завод», АО "ТВСЗ", code 1378) produces all main components of the new flat car for high-capacity containers model 13-6903 including modern bogies model 18-9855 (BARBER S-2-R)

Capacity L sur la ligne 290.

Bus : Capacity L

Mise en service : 01/2017

Réseau : RGTR - Luxembourg

Opérateur : Sales Lentz

RJ Express Inc.

SN56 AXU is an AD Enviro300 new to Highland Country Buses 225 in January 2007 as a 60 seater with 3+2 seating. It later passed into Stagecoach ownership as their 27590 and still works in the Highlands in 2019. It is seen here in Inverness working service 5 to Balloch.

A couple of photos of the graceful "Regatta" at Ogden Point. She entered service in 1998 and she is 181 m (594ft) in length. Her passenger capacity is 684. The tug attending to the fuel barge is "Quadrant Partner."

Interlake Steamship Company's Mesabi Miner steams into the Port of Duluth on a July Afternoon.

MESABI MINER is a Self Discharging Bulk Carrier that was built in 1977 (43 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of USA.

It’s carrying capacity is 62335 t DWT and her current draught is reported to be 8.7 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 304.8 meters and her width is 32 meters.

Modèle / Model : Škoda Kodiaq 4x4

Affectation / Assignment : Gendarmerie Nationale, Gendarmerie Départementale / National Gendarmerie, Departmental Gendarmerie

Fonction / Function : Véhicule de capacité moyenne / Medium capacity vehicle

Mise en service / Commissioning : Mai 2019 / May 2019

Équipementier / Maker : Scorbel

A single thought…

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind.

And if any one of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us have the same capacity and capability, because we're all the same? by Yanni

Interesting, something to think about? Hmm, I do not think we are all the same… I love the first bit though!

I walked through the garden yesterday… aaah, so fragrant, not too hot and still many colours.

I gathered some for small vases around the house, and, of course could NOT resist photographing some… LOL

Here, a mini pink Rose and some Honeysuckle, (Lonicera, Caprifolium Mill.) are arching shrubs or twining vine climbers, native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Many of the species have sweetly-scented, bell-shaped flowers that produce a sweet, edible nectar.

Breaking of the honeysuckle's stem will release this powerful sweet fragrance. The fruit is a red, blue or black berry containing several seeds; in most species the berries are mildly poisonous, but a few (notably Lonicera caerulea) have edible berries.

*Flowers attract bumblebees, butterflies and moths to drink nectar.

*Bullfinches, warblers and thrushes eat the berries.

The name Lonicera stems from Adam Lonicer, a Renaissance botanist.Thanks for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)

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Seen in Morden, South London.

Registration number: C433 SLH

✓ Taxed Tax due: 01 January 2018

✓ MOT Expires: 21 January 2017

Vehicle details

Vehicle make : ALFA ROMEO

Date of first registration : August 1985

Year of manufacture : 1985

Cylinder capacity (cc) : 2492 cc

Fuel type : PETROL

Export marker : No

Vehicle status : Tax not due

Vehicle colour : SILVER

Number of owners: 4

Current owner since Nov 2013

Mileage at last MOT: 95,879

Mileage since previous MOT: 316

Pangasinan FiveStar Bus Company

bogie model 18-9770 made by LLC Promlit, code 33 at Cheboksary station, Gorkovskaya railway, Russia

Flat car for high-capacity containers load 68.5t, model 13-9781 (Фитинговая платформа для крупнотоннажных контейнеров) is manufactured in the city of Kanash, Chuvash Republic of Russia by the Promtractor-Wagon JSC (АО "Промтрактор-Вагон" - code 108)

Technical information

The weight of the car 1400 kg

Engine capacity : 3000CC

Amount of cilinders : 6

Power : 47 KW / 54HP

Historie

Date of first admission : 1927

Date of first registration in the Netherlands : 1990

Date of second of registration in the Nederlands: 2000

Photos and information made by JR de Vreeze.

All this material has been borrowed with permission from J R de Vreeze

EN46 (SN12APV) Route 244 at Abbey Wood Station

Formerly Abellio London 9557

DelMonte Land Transportation Bus Company.

Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro C2 GL CapaCity

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The Capacity is a brand new and extra long (21m) Connexxion RNET bus, and is the next months in service on line 310 between Amsterdam Station South WTC and Nieuw Vennep, via Schiphol Airport. This bus have now 5 doors.

This panic shot was made at the bus platform at Schiphol Airport, and the bus shows "999 Geen dienst" (no service) on it's destination display.

The Duchess copper deposit was discovered by Jack Kennedy, the son of pioneer pastoralist Alexander Kennedy, in 1897. In 1906 the Hampden-Cloncurry Copper Mines Ltd acquired it and it became the richest producer in the region. By 1912, Hampden-Cloncurry had also gained control of the rich Trekelano copper mine to the south of the smaller Mount Mascotte mines to the north. The ore was railed to Kuridala for processing. However, in 1918 continuing labour shortages, breakdowns, exhaustion of the high-grade oxidised ore, and the drastic postwar drop in copper prices forced the closure of most of the company’s mines including Duchess. At the time, the Duchess copper mine boasted a 100 ton capacity bin. This elaborate structure was the wonder of northwest Queensland at the time and it enabled a full train to be loaded in a relatively short time. Mining activities in the region then almost ceased. The Duchess mine had produced 204 865 t of ore that yielded 25 155t of copper, 76kg of gold and 62kg of silver.

The Duchess orebody occurred in a steep west-dipping shear zone that cuts granite and dolerite, which are probably the same age as the Burstall Granite, and mica schist and calc-silicate rocks of the Corella Formation. The lode in the upper levels of the mine consisted of bornite and subordinate chalcocite, malachite, and cuptire in calcite, but at deeper levels chalcopyrite with quartz was dominant. The mine was worked to a depth of 259m. Today only concrete footings of the machinery remain, apart from a small pit and trenches excavated by more recent exploration. Malachite forming veins and fracture coatings in quartz, and some pyrite can be found on the site. Numerous smaller copper mines occur in the vicinity of Duchess but most are very small.

The Duchess railway opened on the 21st of October 1912 as a temporary terminus for the Great Western Railway construction project. The Hampden Co pressured for the early completion of the line to Duchess to reach its copper mine situated near the station. Ore was forwarded on the 10th of June 1912 as soon as the rails reached Duchess, several months before all the bridging and ballasting was completely finished, such was the urgency.

When the railway arrived in 1912 a small town sprung up on both sides of the station. Amenity comprised a hotel, store, butcher, school, police station, and a post office. There was a local activity as shown by passenger traffic levels at around 4000 annual journeys. Distant travellers were catered for by the connecting road coach services. A weekly coach ran from here to Camooweal via Colton Hills (320km), taking in mines and pastoral stations on the way. The service departed Duchess on Thursday at 0800am and arrived at Camooweal by 1800pm. Another coach service ran to Trekelano mine twice a week on a day return.

At first there was no water infrastructure required here, locos apparently running to and from Duchess ex Malbon without filing tender tanks. However when the Trekelano tramway opened in 1917 the locos were required to haul a water gin owing to the extra distance involved. In 1918 the manager of the Duchess mine offered Queensland Rail (QR) access to a mine well and this was availed of. QR erected a 30 000 gallon tank for loco water. After the mines closed QR was able to tape the shafts of several mines in turn to maintain supply, which water was suitable after softening.

Rail passenger figures remained firm for a few years by dipped after 1921 and settled at around 1200 annually until the late 1950s when they increased to the mid-1960s, probably due to workers from the Mount Isa Line rehabilitation project. A sharp decline then ensued, and numbers dwindled to a couple of hundreds per year.

The downturn in smelting saw Duchess ore loadings terminate abruptly at the end of 1920. The Hampden Co closed the Duchess mine in 1921 and the site was not revived until 1926 when the dumps were able to be sold for smelting. QR repaired the long unsued siding to allow safe access and over the next 18 months the dumps were completely removed. The Hampden Co has no further use for the mine (its workings completely flooded by then) and none for the rail connection so it sold the siding to QR in 1928. The mine plant and the rail weighbridge were removed at the same time. Penny packets of ore continued to be sent away throughout the 1930s by district gougers and tributers, presumably loaded at the mine siding.

The copper ore and limestone traffic revived in the earnest for Mount Isa Mines from the late 1940s and a few thousand tons annually were loaded at Duchess for a while and again in the mid-1960s at around 10 000 annual tons. No copper ore or limestone was loaded after 1970. The largest single burst ore traffic came from the Phosphate Hill mine in 1975 and 1976 when phosphatic rock to the order of 176 000 tons was road trucked to rail at Duchess pending completion of the Flynn to Phosphate Hill railway and associated loaders at the mine.

The station lost its status as a terminus when the line was continued to Butru in 1915 but the place came into its own when the Mount Isa mining filed was discovered and subsequently developed. Traffic for Mount Isa went through Duchess as it was the closest railhead. The railway extension to Mount Isa officially opened on the 17th of May 1929 and Duchess became the junction to Dajarra and Mount Isa from this time. The yard was expanded, and a full suite of signals was installed. The station was protected from three directions (Mount Isa, Dajarra, and Cloncurry) by distant and home signals all worked from a six lever frame near the station office.

Some sidings were re-arranged to a new layout. The goods shed road was lifted at one end and relaid around the Mount Isa curve where a new loading bank was installed. The passing loop was extended at the Dajarra end to run beyond the Mount Isa turn out. A refreshment room was established in 1929 when the new line opened and it catered for passengers on the Mail plus the mixed trains and those transferring to and from the Dajarra service. The rooms remained in business until 1938 and benefited from the Dajarra service being worked from Mount Isa for a period in the 1930s.

Additional staff and their accommodations were placed at Duchess from 1929, including track gangs and train crews. The train crews were necessary to do away with the need for Cloncurry crews to run the full distance to Mount Isa on overnight rest.

The mine siding remained in place until around 1950 when it was lifted and an alternative ore loading ramp provided between the legs of the angle that was served by a new length of siding. The rehabilitation project of 1961 – 1962 saw the crossing loop extended at the Cloncurry end and the Up home signal moved further out.

The place generated enough traffic to justify the appointment of a station master, particularly when the copper boom lasted. However, when ore traffic ceased in 1921 the place was immediately downgraded to a gate. Developments from Mount Isa from 1924 onwards saw the station master position returned in 1928 when construction of the extension was underway and Duchess becoming a junction station. Fettling gangs were placed at Duchess to maintain the track in three directions.

The station master position lasted until 1972 when replaced by Porter-in-Charge under gate conditions but the building and opening of the Phosphate Hill branch and a rise in ore traffic caused the position to be reinstated in 1975. Changed in train running and safe working led to the final demise of the station master office in 1988 and the place was unattended from the 30th of September that year. The introduction of mechanised gangs from 1966 led to the gradual attrition of the fettling gangs and track inspectors and from a high point of 20 or so staff and a dozen departmental residences the Duchess staffing establishment dwindled to nothing by the late 1990s.

In 1988 Train Order Working was implemented here and yard rationalisation was initiated in instalments from this time through to 2004. Removed during this phase were the goods shed, water softener, ore loading siding, goods shed sign and loading bank, the western leg of the angle and, a little later, the eastern leg plus the Dajarra line stub and loop continuation at that end of the yard. The loco water tank was retained as the basis for the town water supply after being lifted from its stand and mountain at ground level. The wooden station office (a 1949 replacement to the original which was destroyed by fire) was demolished in 2006. Its substitute is a new high level, short length, passenger platform and rudimentary shelter.

The Duchess township slowly diminished in concert with the railway attrition and by 2007 was down to a few houses, the hotel, and the corrugated iron public hall (with children’s playground intact). The opening of the Trekelano mine and associated camp 14km out of town in 2005, with the access road junctioning at Duchess, gave the hotel a welcome injection of custom.

Source: Rocks and Landscapes of Northwest Queensland by Laurie Hutton and Ian Withnall, Copper in the Curry by Norman Houghton.

Seen here circa 1975 is a train of ex-London Transport 'Standard Stock' departing from Ryde Pier Head carrying a standing load. Closest to the camera is car S36S, a 1927 MCW built Control Trailer. Behind can be seen a 1931 / 34 DM. Car S36S survived in service until March 1985 and was cut up in June 1987 at Ryde. This side shot gives an interesting detail view of the door moulding on these units.

Scanned from an acquired slide.

6043 (LJ04LGY) Route 2 at Hemel Hempstead, Marlowes

One of Boeing's staff car parks at Boeing Field full of grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. There are completed MAX's of various types and for various airlines, including: TUI, Icelandair, Royal Air Maroc, Air Canada, FlyDubai, United and American Airlines. The grounded airliners have to be towed across East Marginal Way S from Boeing field to the car park.

Always good to see a Dyane.

Vehicle make

CITROEN

Date of first registration

01 August 1980

Year of manufacture

1980

Cylinder capacity (cc)

602cc

Victory Liner Inc.

YUTONG ZK5180A

BASHI DISAN Z5A-0012

Hu DR7265

The Bund, Shanghai, China

宇通 ZK5180A

巴士第三 Z5A-0012

沪DR7265

中国 上海市 外滩

Zion National Park, Utah, USA

A second shot of the East Lancs Myllennium Loyline-bodied Dennis Trident - PX55 AHG - that Port Talbot-based Ridgways Coaches bought in May 2024 for Neath Port Talbot CBC-contracted Service 66 (Goytre-Port Talbot-Neath Port Talbot Hospital-Baglan Moors), on which a higher capacity vehicle is required at school peak times.

One of a trio purchased new by Cumbria County Council, she was allocated to Stagecoach North West (numbered 18279) to what was then Service X35 (Barrow-Kendal). Withdrawn in 2013, they passed to Ensignbus, and whilst the other two were sold on, she was retained in their own fleet until a sale to Axe Valley Travel of Seaton in 2018.

She retains Ensignbus's red and silver livery, as illustrated in this October 2025 shot taken at the Heilbronn Way roundabout in Port Talbot when she was operating Service 66 to Baglan Moors.

Victory Liner Inc

ATHENS HIGHWAY (IMO: 9443073) is a Vehicles Carrier that was built in 2008 (14 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Japan.

It’s carrying capacity is 18809 t DWT and her current draught is reported to be 8.9 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 199.97 meters and her width is 32.26 meters.

Southern Vectis 1149 (HW09BCO) in Newport on Route 1.

PJM CAPACITY NEWS:

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved new capacity performance requirements this month. This marks the largest change to PJM’s capacity market its design in 2006. The ruling allows for little exceptions for resources that fail to perform during the few hours of “emergency conditions” that are determined each year. However, this does give generators the ability to charge more for capacity even though they are not improving the grids reliability. In other words, generators will gain more revenue even if they do nothing during emergency conditions.

The ruling comes on the heals of the extremely cold winter of 2013-2014. During that winter, 22% of the PJM’s capacity failed in a single day causing millions in uplift payments. The PJM is bracing for the worst, expecting coal plant retirements over the next few years will create further reliability issues.

ISO-NE CAPACITY NEWS:

The New England Independent System Operator is reporting that the growing market for renewable energy is helping to keep the average cost of electricity down. It is currently expecting 2,400 MW of solar generation to be available by 2024. That coupled with more than 800 MW of wind being utilized as of the end of last year has helped to keep cost low.

However, according to the ISO, traditional generation is being forced to charge higher capacity costs to make up for the lost revenue due to renewables. The more that solar and wind generation becomes available the more financial pressure is put on coal and nuclear.

THE RUB:

The balance of energy demand with energy supply is one of the most important objectives of an energy system. Capacity markets are designed to ensure that there are enough electricity capacity resources to serve customers on the hottest and coldest days of the year.

The news outlined above regarding 2 of the major capacity markets in the U.S. is a mixed bag. Despite new rules for one and additional resources for the other, customers can expect more of the same.

Higher prices.

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Seating at "Hanshan Universities", running track