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Castle Fraser Steam Rally. Click the photo to see it large.
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I just returned from Johannesburg yesterday morning after an exciting 4 days...
Angelique and I departed Cape Town by train (Shosholoza Meyl) from Bellville station on Wednesday 2009/07/08 @ 13:00 for what ended up being a 35 hour train journey up to Jo'burg. This image was captured on Wednesday eveing @ 18:05 when the train was delayed for 4 hours in the region of Tulbagh due to some sort of power interruption. Prior to this delay we had already been delayed an hour at a time in Klapmuts & Paarl respectively due to a faulty engine unit – It was quite an adventure... Here Angelique is standing in the doorway with only the spotlight above providing illumination.
Shot Info:
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L USM
Manual Exposure: f2.8 @ 1/20sec – ISO 3200 (Handheld) & No Flash
No noise reduction applied here with only sharpness bumped up 1 notch in RAW processing. Other than that I added minimal Yellow saturation boost to give it a little more punch...
Thank you all for viewing!
Occupation - helps driving steam engines at weekends at Derek Marder's Yard of various steam rollers and traction engines. This was taken before her face got sooty from the steam rollers !!
Image info Nikon D4 with Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens, processed in LightRoom Classic to colour pop her from the background. ISO 400, shutter 1/2000th, 180mm focal length, f/2.8 aperture .
This Beautiful Traction Engine was seen on display at a Vintage Agricultural Show at Keyingham in East Yorkshire earlier this month.
“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle
Nearly 40 years later, a "Rocket" returns to it's one-time launching pad. This is Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, the eastern terminus for the Rock Island Railroad, where the famous "Rocket" streamliners began their journeys west. But much has changed in this time. The Rock Island went out of business in the 1980s, the original LaSalle Street headhouse was torn down about the same time, and the "Rockets" are all but a distant memory.
Enter 2017: In partnership with Metra, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society put together four "Joliet Rocket" excursions an homage to the once "Mighty Fine Line." Featuring vintage equipment and their own famous Nickel Plate 4-8-4 #765 for power, passengers were treated to a recreation of a 1940's era train ride from Joliet to Chicago and back over the former Rock Island mainline. Passengers also got to experience a fine lunch or dinner at the station, as well as a photo runby (originally scheduled to take place at Tinley Park) of the giant steam beast. This would be the first time since the 1960s that a steam locomotive would again grace the platforms of LaSalle Street Station and sound of a steam whistle would echo off the Canyons of Chicago. This trip was so popular that it would return for a second year in 2018.
Seen here is the second run of the Joliet Rocket on Saturday, June 17th. Heat and humidity forced many passengers to return back to the air conditioning in the train after finishing their dinner & drinks. But those of us who rode in the Iowa Pacific full-dome car wanted to linger as long as we could outside, because the AC conked out on the car during the morning run, effectively turning it into a giant sauna.
Fairbanks Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century.
an interesting demonstration during the Rural Roots Event at Heritage Park----Calgary, Alberta Canada
The quintessential classic 1950s, B.R. designed, really useful engines pose at the 2022 DRS open day at Crewe Gresty Bridge (photobombed by an 88).
There are many reasons why visitors flocked to this event at Gresty Bridge on 16 July 2022, but one of them must surely be that it may have been the last opportunity to view the DRS heritage fleet in significant numbers. The offer of a lease back scheme may mean that DRS will still have access to some of these magnificent machines and hopefully Kingmoor can produce a line up like this in 2024.
Tonight's Net Flicks offering shows another view of B-52H 'Aero 71' aka 'High Tension III' crossing the fence at RAF Fairford
Visible in this view are not only the unique undercarriage layout with the four directional main undercarriage legs - in this case they are very slightly turned to cater for the crosswind, but in addition the outrigger wheel can be seen - designed to protect the wing tanks and low slung engines on take-off and landing as when they taxi or when the lift is dumped, the wings droop and the outriggers take up the slack
Additionally, on top of the wings you can see those huge 'tufted' ailerons - here the pilot is working hard to keep straight and level and which double as air brakes too
If you look closely along the tops of the inboard part of the wings - and on the tailplane top surface are rows of spiked vortex generators - used to smooth out the airflow over the wings - decreasing turbulence and therefore increasing the lift
At the very rear, on the earlier models a tail gunner would have been carried but the later models deleted that option with more modern equipment being carried as an alternative
A sobering thought is that the last B-52 to roll off the Boeing production line was in 1962!
That was serial number 61-0040.
This one is s/n 61-0013
276A1844