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I think the old phrase was, "Book 'em Danno." but I could never bring myself to the level of watching that. Not even the original. The Valmont railroad reconditioning yard is along the old UP route to Boulder and the pioneer stage route to Boulder "City," south-west of Longmont along the drive of the same name. I had to work hard to carry this shot off. I wanted to preserve the mecanicals under this car that was unfortunately painted black. That physically meant losing the critical RAW highlights. This whole string of cars sports friction bearings but this was an unusual side-dump gondola. To the left and behind the gondola is a flat in dire need of some decking. Get real! On the other hand, it does point up how much payload is lost to a gondola which would have risen from such a flat car. That lost space was due to the lifting and side opening mechanism required to side dump a load. Not all dumping was accomplished in this manner. In the early days, 99 percenters would be hired at criminal wages to shovel gondolas out. When the Union Pacific built a monster trestle over Dale Creek, it decided to build and use bottom dump cars to drop dirt then ballast on the trestle as a fill, thus eventually eliminating the trestle. Hoppers use a bottom drop technique. By far the strangest was the installation at the D&RGW Salida yard that had both narrow gauge and standard gauge trackage. The route up Monarch Pass switchbacked up narrow gauge trackage to the limestone mine way up. But the limestone had to be transferred to standard gauge lines at Silida for the trip down to the CF&I (Colorado Fuel & Iron) steel plant in Pueblo, Colorado. D&RGW achieved the transfer by taking the entire narrow gauge gondola car, one at a time, on its tracks and rolling the works over into a waiting standard gauge gondola. It was a very strange mechanism at best but performed the task well. I hope I retained some black detail well enough so that you can make it out.
Sono gocce di memoria
queste lacrime nuove
siamo anime in una storia
incancellabile
Le infinte volte che
mi verrai a cercare nelle mie stanze vuote
Inestimabile
è inafferrabile la tua assenza che mi appartiene
Siamo indivisibili
siamo uguali e fragili
e siamo già così lontani ...
Making this shot took me just over 4 hours and around 250 attempts. I used a medical i.v. system to control the rhythm and frequency of the falling water drops as much as possible. I used a single SB-700 flash which I handheld on the far right side, with in my other hand a cable release. In post-process I mainly adjusted the color temperature downward to get the blue hue, and I bumped up the contrast a bit.
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Maybe temperature is up, a drop is condensed at the bud of my lily. Water means wealthy in traditional Chinese thinking (that's why Chinese love to buy property having a sea view), I hope more money will drop to my pocket this year too :-)
Camera for the photo : Olympus EPL3
Lens for the photo : Lumix Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8
Builded according to the instructions of William Howard found on Railbricks: railbricks.com/instructions/drop-side-wagon/
Putting the new drop link on. you can see here how the new design is much more sensible allowing a spanner on the ball joint side while doing up the nyloc nut.
These need doing up to 40Nm
I did the bottom nut up first and then used a bottle jack under the lower wishbone to raise the link to the correct height to fit into the anti roll bar
Frame :*SURLY* long haul trucker painted by COOK PAINT WORKS
Headset :*CHRIS KING*
Wheels:*VELOCITY* nobs
× *SHIMANO* deore
Tire :*SIM WORKS* the homage tire
Brake Lever :*DIA-COMPE* SS-6 brake lever
Crank :*SUGINO* × *WOLF TOOTH COMPONENTS* drop stop chainring
Shifter :*DIA-COMPE*
RD :*SHIMANO* alivio
Brake :*PAUL* neo retro × touring canti brake
Brake hanger:*FAIRWEATHER*
Handlebar :*NITTO* B352 albatross bar
Stem :*NITTO*
Saddle :*BROOKS* b17 standard
Seat post:*NITTO* s65
Grip :*BL SELECT* kink samurai grip
Front Rack :*NITTO* M-1B BL special front rack × *WALD* 137 basket
Rear rack:*SURLY* nice rack rear
Pedal :*MKS* PAMBDA pedal
Head light:*SON NABENDYNAMO* Edelux II
Stand:*PLETSCHER* double kickstand
Fender:*SIM WORSK by HONJO*