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The result of my cutting tracks a few days ago is these two crossovers. Both are operated by Power Functions M-motors, controlled by two receivers and a battery box in the signal box in the background. In the top right you see the remote controls.
Visible in the foreground are the MOC cards we use at brick.ie.
Superb peice of track construction which in actual fact would probably not be seen in full scale railways. .Except possilbly at the entrance of a large terminus. Track scale is "O"
Place: Liping, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
Chinese name: 长城腾翼C30 (chángchéng téngyì C30)
Year of launch: 2010
Great Wall was established in 1984 and is China's largest maker of SUVs and pick-ups, selling over a million SUVs each year in the local market, today mostly under the Haval-flag, the Great Wall-badge is now only used for the pick-up Wingle and small sedans (Voleex C30, C50), which will be phased out soon. In 1998 Great Wall already reached top position in the Chinese pick-up market.
Great Wall has been infamous for copying lots of models from manufacturers like Toyota (Deer, Sail, Feelfine Concept, Phenom/Voleex C10/C20R, Florid/Haval M4, Cowry/Voleex C80, Coolbear/Haval M2), Isuzu (Sailor, Sing, Pegasus, Hover/Haval H3, Wingle), Honda (Voleex C50), Nissan (Voleex C70, never saw the daylight though) and Fiat (Peri/Haval M1). Great Wall's earliest models include the Deer, Sail, Sailor, Sing and Pegasus. The former two were copies of the Toyota Hilux and 4Runner, while the latter three were all based on the old 1988 Isuzu TF/Faster/Rodeo platform. Great Wall sales really took of after Isuzu Axiom-clone Hover was launched.
Haval became a sub brand in 2013, as Great Wall aimed to build on the strong brand recognition of Haval. Haval has a line-up which fully consists of SUVs and crossovers, passenger cars and pick-ups continue to be sold under the Great Wall marque, although passenger cars have been phased out, apart from the Voleex C30.
The Voleex C30 compact sedan was launched in 2010 and was a good seller, topping at 142,405 units in 2011. It is currently simply known as Great Wall C30.
Sales figures: carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/great-wall/great-wa...
Ever since I heard the news of this Netflix/Marvel universe back in 2013, I’ve been hyped about every show that’s come out so far. It’s weird to think about that this announcement was back in 2013, that’s long! Now The Defenders, the show this whole sub-universe(?) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was building up to is finally here. Because I was going to be on the road the day in came out, I pulled an all-nighter and binged the whole show the minute it came out. Now it’s fair to say that anticipation was as high as it should be after the less-than-stellar Iron Fist. So is the Defenders on par with Iron Fist, or has Netflix and Marvel gone back to their glory days (which was like a year ago) like Daredevil season 1 and 2? Let’s check it out! And don’t worry, this will be a non-spoiler review!
Good: I still can’t believe we’re seeing Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist together on screen. The best part of this first season is these four characters I’ve grown to love in their series interact one another. I loved seeing Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock walk down the street and talk and watching Luke Cage and Iron Fist fight each other. This show had some of the best episodes of these Netflix shows when they were fighting off hordes of bad guys together and also just sitting down eating Chinese food together. One of my favorite things about The Defenders is that they truly redeemed Iron Fist. At some times when I watched Iron Fist season 1, I didn’t feel like I was truly watching Danny Rand. Between his interactions with the team and his amazing action sequences, Iron Fist in Defenders season 1 feels like a completely different character. With how he ended up in the end of this show and the news that a new showrunner is coming in to take over Iron Fist, I am a hell of a lot more excited to see an Iron Fist season 2. All the other characters were great as they usually are. Daredevil is still my favorite, Luke Cage was great, and it was so nice to see Jessica Jones again. We haven’t seen her since 2015! This show also brought in all the side characters from each Defender’s shows, and they were great too. I was surprised how little they used Claire Temple, but she had the perfect amount of screen time. Stick was also a huge highlight of this first season, he was just as great as his past appearances. The story is very nice too. It neatly weaves all the worlds that each Defender occupy, some better than others, but it still works. While the other Netflix shows feel like more personal stories, this feels more like a blockbuster Netflix show, and it should! The last thing I’d like to say about this show that I liked is the ending. Now I promise I won’t spoil anything, but this ending launches these separate shows in a direction that I’ll be there day one to binge!
Bad: I only have two complaints with this first season. The first problem is that of the villains. Each season of these Netflix shows, besides Iron Fist have had such iconic and fantastic villains. Like Iron Fist, the villains in the Defenders are a little all over the place. Although Sigourney Weaver does a fine job playing Alexandra, a character that doesn’t exist in the comics, she isn’t as memorable as people like the Kingpin or the Purple Man. Also, when the Hand first showed up in Daredevil season 2, they were actually ninjas. Here, is just like they’re these guys in suits or soldiers. I wanted actual ninjas, dammit! That being said, I think I’m done with the Hand in these shows, they’ve run their course. My second complaint is the team dynamic. Each member of the Defenders should have their own attributes and their own views on the problems they are facing. Daredevil should me the moral center, Jessica Jones should be the brains with the mouth, Luke Cage should be the heart and the tank, and Iron Fist should be the light-hearted one with mysticism and belief. In the Defenders, it feels like Daredevil and Iron Fist have the same role, and Luke Cage and Jessica Jones have the same role. The reason that I love crossovers and team ups is because it's different people coming together to solve a problem, and that leads to both clashing and companionship, and it doesn't work as well when it's multiple of the same people coming together.
Now even though I felt like a bag of shit with teeth after staying up all night to watch The Defenders, I still believe it was worth it. There are still a couple of big flaws with the show, but it was still an absolute blast to see these characters together and kick some major ass. For these reasons, I’m going to give the first season of Defenders an 8.5/10. It sure as hell isn’t as good as the past seasons or Daredevil, but I do like this season better than any of the other seasons of the Netflix/Marvel shows. Have you been watching Defenders? If so, let me know what you think about it in the comments below!
Looking north across Mt Parkes to Crossover and Macfarlane, with Cheam Range behind on right, from bivi below Fraser Tower in the morning
Transdev Alstom Citadis X05 LRVs 09 & 10 come over the crossovers at Central Chalmers Street on a UP L3 Circular Quay service. Whenever a LRV comes over these crossovers, it goes unnoticed from the amount of noise
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The Red Arrows had to do a flat display as the cloud bas was so low but as ever, they put on a wonderful display of aerobatic formation flying.
Crossover hybrid lily, Tango series. Seen and photographed on a garden tour in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Shows better larger; press L and fill your screen.
More info about this lily here: plants.dutchgrowers.net/11040004/Plant/11926/Crossover_Lily
A Broadway Junction-bould (L) train crosses to the Manhattan-bound track to make its final stop at Broadway Junction. Due to trackwork south of here, a single train was shuttling to and from Canarsie on the southbound track. Thus, all trains from Manhattan were crossing here and using the inbound track to make their station stop.
R143 (L) (Kawasaki, 2001-2003)
Broadway Junction Station
Canarise Line - BMT
An inbound (Q) train crosses into the express track south of Kings Hwy. North of here, the local track was out of service due to rail replacement.
R160A (Q) (Alstom, 2005-2010)
Kings Highway Station
Brighton Line - BMT
5 Hornby diamond crossings. Steel track. Although a bit rusty and dirty, this type of track cleans up quite easily and looks much better than the newer Nickel type of rail
New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R62A car 2160 (Bombardier, 1984-1987) is the lead motor on an uptown 1 train seen arriving at its final station, Van Cortlandt Park-242nd St, crossing over all three tracks to enter the stub-end terminal of the IRT Broadway-7th Avenue Line.
R62A (1) (Bombardier, 1984-1987)
Van Cortlandt Park-242nd St Station
Broadway-7th Avenue Line - IRT
A crossover between Sailor Moon and some other characters. She didn't mention what it was though.
Supanova Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 18 June 2016)
I've been trying to figure out how to add an easy-access staging yard to our modular layout, and this crossover wye module set is one possibility. It conforms to the modular standard (bottom connections), and would allow access to staging yards (top connections) from the centre of the layout.
The geometry was a nightmare to figure out, and it only works for PF track. I had to use a few segments of (unflexed) flex track, and the gaps between track segments are too large to maintain 9V connectivity.
The nice thing about this wye (and the main reason the geometry was so tricky) is that the top connections also conform to the standard, so standard yard modules can be used as the staging yard.
A crossover study (also referred to as a crossover trial) is a longitudinal study in which subjects receive a sequence of different treatments (or exposures).
I don't talk to flowers, they talk to me and I gladly listen!
These looked deliciously regal, I needed to do something different... more special with them?
Difficult subjects. A REAL TREAT LARGE and View On Black
Who said do not work with children and animals? Please can you add flowers for meeeee, ha ha!
For years I 'experimented' in the studio, to get that Flemish painter's light? Well, I was born in Flanders, it must be in my blood? LOL.
ANOTHER TREAT HERE, a first choice of some of my images: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcPJvTsFspk
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Why not view the set as a slide-show?
Also I often upload more than one image at the same time, I see a tendency to only view the last uploaded...