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Steam loco drivers are a bit hard to come by these days. Our subject is Cookie, one of the full time employees at the Mount Washington cog railway in New Hampshire. What a bizarre line, the steepest in the world and a captivating mix of anachronisms and modern technology.
A sight not seen for over 20 years, R761 hauls an empty V/line H-set through Sunshine on a driver training run heading for Ballarat.
And if you're Irish today (and who isn't on St Patrick's Day?), it would be a wise move to bring along a Designated Driver. if you are going to indulge.
And to help you get started, here's a little Whiskey in a Jar by the Dublners:
I saw Baby Driver today.
It's good. One of those movies that's hard to describe, because it's one of those films that remind us that movies can be art. The car chases were pretty damn good too.
Anyway, a perfect 5 out of 7.
Alexander Dennis Hybrid AH3 is seen on driver familiarisation at Conyningham Road Depot, AH1-3 will enter service soon and are part of a 9 bus evaluation of Hybrid technology.
The eagle eyed driver of steam locomotive 33503 waits for his tender to complete loading before heading off down the yard at Lukavac in Bosnia.
I took a taxi this afternoon in Shanghai... and he was my driver.
Shot out of the back window.
Xujiahui, Shanghai, China.
This was the pile driver that was putting wooden piles down for my neighbours new house (rebuild). After shaking everyone to bits in nearby houses they then had to put concrete piles in. When the Geo-techinical report was done on my house they found that there is a layer of sand 15m down that has very little frictional resistance, so is probably very waterlogged and could be an aquafier. So if there is another big earthquake these piles may be next to useless.
Our engineer said that we only need a wide gravel bed to sit the foundations on as the land is better than it should be.
I recently watched Baby Driver and it’s such a great movie, I recommend you watch it. I’ve seen it 5 times now and it still hasn’t gone stale. I also love Edgar Wright and hope to make more figs from his movies.
From L-R:
Darling, Buddy, Baby, Debora, Bats, and Doc
The cool taxi driver from the previous image also allowed me to take a portrait shot while waiting on a traffic light. The red traffic light contributed nicely to the overall atmosphere.
One of the driving wheels and valve gear components of the Atlantic Coast Line No. 1504, located in Jacksonville, Florida.
The driver of this JS 2-8-2 sits at his controls awaiting coal and water to be loaded at Nanzhan yards.
His face seems to me to tell the story of living and working in communist China as did his clothing.
Such a nice guy quiet and guarded, curious but disciplined.
Here I am, just driving down Madison Street in Rockford, minding my own business. It's bad enough there's a train traveling down the middle of the street, but then it makes a right turn right in front of me without using its turn signal. Drivers these days...
Bus Driver waiting to collect fares from his passengers at the Libertad bus depot. Bacolod City, Philippines.
A Uyghur driver on the Sandaoling Mines Railway in the cab of his regular loco, 'JS' 8225, on 20 January 2016 at Dongbolizhan, one of the last of a long line of steam locomotive drivers in industry around the world.
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