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66137 approaches Werrington Jn. (north of Peterborough), working 6B01 12.05 Bottesford West Jn - Whitemoor Yard LDC. This had come out of a possession on the Grantham - Nottingham line, presumably where track was being replaced as the front two-thirds of this train is carrying used track panels.
I almost didn't make it here in time for this, although had a few minutes to spare as it had not long passed Tallington when I got into position on the footbridge. I spent a little too long chatting with another photographer at Beggars' Bridge, thinking about where to get the southbound Northern Belle, and only when I'd got in the car did I realise I could get this train here... but the North Bank road was apparently closed as a result of flooding, meaning I had to drive via King's Dyke level crossing and Stanground, with very slow moving traffic all the way along the A605 west of Whittlesey.
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Dean Forest Railway, Parkend Station, at Parkend, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Wednesday 22nd September 2021.
About this photograph.
The train led by the engine called Swiftsure had arrived at Parkend Station, and the staff operating the train were making preparations for the return journey to Norchard.
Here, one of the engineers is seen refilling the loco’s tank with water. The photograph was converted in Adobe Lightroom into black and white for a classic feel to the engineer doing the work.
Swiftsure is a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST class of steam locomotive designed by Hunslet Engine Company. This engine was built in 1943, and bears the number 75008 painted on the side.
It was a visiting steam loco, having visited before in 2017 and 2018, she was back at Dean Forest Railway from June 2021 onwards. At the current time of writing, she is reported to be still operational.
My best friend and I were at Dean Forest for a weekdays holiday, and she wanted to have more day outs rather than being stuck at the cabin, so I came up with two different day out ideas. The visit to the Dean Forest Railway was one of the ideas, and my best friend enjoyed the rides.
I took the opportunity to try to find some interesting shots, rather than taking memorable photos of the holiday.
About the overall subject.
The Dean Forest Railway is a 4 to 5 miles long heritage railway, still running vintage steam, and classic diesel trains, as a tourist attraction in the Forest of Dean.
It started in 1799 as an idea for a horse-drawn tramway, linking the Forest of Dean to the rivers Severn and Wye, for the transportation of coal and iron materials.
Between 1800 to around the 1870s, it went through so many processes. Like building lines and branching out, changing company names, financial problems, rival companies, converting from horse-drawn tramway into steam powered railway, merging companies, change of railway gauge sizes, and so many other factors.
It became known as the Severn and Wye Railway during those years.
From around the 1870s onwards, in order to cope with financial difficulties, and to help with funding, they started fee-paying passenger services in addition to the goods carrying services. But ongoing financial problems, lack of traffic, and many other factors, continued up until around the 1940s.
After the Second World War (1939-1945), the railways in this area started to go downhill, mainly due ot declining coal industry in the area, lack of passengers, improvements in transportation elsewhere, and the nationalised of British railways.
Many stations and lines started closing down, or completely shut down, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starting from the early 1970s onwards, a railway preservation society was formed to try to buy and save as much of the old railway, and run it as a heritage railway for tourism, and was then named as Dean Forest Railway.
At the current moment, the Dean Forest Railway is approximately between 4 to 5 miles long between Lydney and Parkend, with Norchard station as its home base, but they are hoping to extend the line to 7 miles in near future.
They run a range of mostly steam trains to 1960s diesel trains, with various carriages, and at least 5 stations.
For more details, simply Google “Dean Forest Railway” for history or for visiting.
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Andrew, the train driver at the Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum. He's quite a character and has an amazing collection of old engines.
...and a storm cloud that got me in a short while...
The bridge is named after Agustín de Betancourt y Molina who was a prominent Spanish engineer, worked in Spain, France and Russia. His work ranged from steam engines and balloons to structural engineering and urban planning. As an educator, Betancourt founded and managed the Spanish Corps of Civil Engineers and the Saint Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineers. As an urban planner and construction manager, Betancourt supervised planning and construction in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian cities.
This is Kristal's latest model, a sculpture of a human head the opens up to reveal what's inside the mind of a LEGO engineer.
Video showing it in action and explaining how it works: youtu.be/RtGZ_0Gb86w
More pics and info: jkbrickworks.com/the-engineer
Dead Space 2
~15MP
Camera Tools: Guide by Framed
Resolution: DSR resolutions
HUD Toggle: not needed
Post-processing: Reshade v4.9.1
Downsample Filter: Lanczos2
Notes:
1. This shot was supposed to have a big scary monster in the background sneaking up on Isaac. Just as I was tweaking the lighting (an in-game strobe) by advancing time by a fraction, the monster teleported to behind the camera's position. The only explanation I could come up with is that the camera script also rips Isaac's soul from his body and is moving that around with the camera. Monsters love souls.
The engineer of Apache Railway number 98 pours the coals on as he guides his train out of Holbrook, AZ. 4-4-17
Civil Engineers 'Dutch' Liveried 37025 seen at Kyle Of Localsh, waiting to depart with 2H86 17.00 Kyle Of Localsh to Inverness, 03.09.1992
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Running 2 hours early, 66850 David Maidment OBE leads 6M28 Hinksey Sidings to Bescot Up Engineers Sidings through Saltley.
Ryan Blaney would be the hard luck award recipient for the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway after pitting at the end of the final pace lap (as seen in the photo above) and as all other cars took the green flag. Apparently a tire rub put him behind from the start and eventually caused him to hit the wall and finish the race (very early) in 38th position. Being a Ford driver and an old school style of driver, he was one I was looking forward to watching but didn't really get the chance...maybe next time!
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 400
Aperture – f/6.3
Exposure – 1/1250 second
Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The marauder leader looks anxiously at the hangar's blast door. He doesn’t know why the intruder bordered his ship. Maybe he is some sort of vigilante or some bounty hunter but he doesn’t care.
Surely he can’t stand a chance against all the men he sent to kill him.
He continues to look at the blast door. No sound can pass through the sound-proof bulkhead and all he can do is to wait.
A blueish, feeble light colors the corridor.
“Some of you idiots fix those energy grid problems!” he yells but nobody can hear him because communications went offline the moment they were bordered.
Everything is going wrong today. Not even his fancy view screen is working properly.
“Damn! Why the colors are greenish! That star is supposed to be yellow! If they didn’t fix it soon I’ll kill them! I can’t miss today episode of Captain Phasma’s Trash Compactor Chronicles series!” he shouts at he does not even know who. Nobody is listening.
Bad day and the intruder is going to pay for that.
A violent impact shakes the blast door. Once…twice..then a blast.
From the breach on the bulkhead emerges a fully armored figure. The corridor’s lighting makes him even more fearsome.
The marauder tries to crawl away but an armored hand grabs him.
“Not so fast. It’s question time” say the armored man…
The action figure is Starcraft Tychus sixth scale figure from Sideshow.
It’s a truly impressive piece, standing over 39cm (about 15.5”) high with countless details, many points of articulation, light up parts etc.
It has some drawback due to its size: under certain circumstances stability ca be problematic and posing the huge assault rifle is painful sometimes but it’s still one of the most impressive collectibles I own :) It’s a very particular item and I’m still getting accustomed to it :)
The background image is courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech and free to use according to NASA own image policy. Thank You very much NASA :)
Just one more note on the action figure :) You may have noticed one of the many details they put on the armor is, well let’s call it “a not so politically correct” phrase lol :)
It’s a just a slang phrase said before firing weapons (I made some research so I’m sure lol :) ) and it appears to be a reference to the famous Duke Nukem video game :)
They put it there because it’s exactly what appeared on his armor in the the video game. The character is not a very politically correct lol :)
If it disturbs you let me know, I can remove it during editing.
Personally I don’t think it’s a huge problem, in the end it’s just humor, but let me know :)
Anyway I already wrote a wall of text lol, so let’s focus on the photo :)
I hope you like it:)
One of the many uncannily realistic mannequins in the Brunel Centre in Bristol. Not sure if this is Brunel himself or someone working for him but he's presented as working on a major project.
While his conductor inspects the inbound cars and prepares for an air test, Mr. Wes Hill is in the "big seat" on Central California Traction's Lodi Flyer.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 1:00 PM.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
Re-uploaded since the other photo was shit. Also this is old and I can't redo it to make it better. :p
Panzerfaust a stand in for a Brickarmy/Brickarms RPG
Using A-91 with Kobra Red Dot Sight.
A trio of ESA engineers took to the roof of the Agency’s technical heart to link up with a satellite the size of a shoebox as it sped overhead.
The team deployed a portable, self-made ground station to acquire W-band microwave signals from ESA’s W-Cube mission, as part of an effort to better understand how this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum interacts with the atmosphere, encouraging its use for satellite communications.
Put in place within half an hour, the ground station was improvised from various outcomes of past ESA projects, combined with a computerised telescope mount usually employed for amateur astronomy. But at the first try the station succeeded in tracking and gathering signal data from W-Cube as it performed a ten minute pass over the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
ESA Young Graduate Trainee Hugo Debergé, the microwave engineer responsible for building the station, commented: “Of all the thousands of satellites in space, we are currently pointing at the very first 75 GHz beacon in flight, and receiving signals from it – it’s amazing!”
W-Cube, launched in 2021, was developed through ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications, ARTES, programme, to explore the use of W-band for future satellite missions. This particular millimetre-band – used on Earth for various commercial applications such as automotive radar and point-to-point wireless links – is being adopted for use in space, offering very high data throughput across a largely untrafficked span of the electromagnetic spectrum.
But the International Telecommunications Union, which assigns frequencies for use, has only limited modelling and prediction models to show how W-band signals propagate through Earth’s atmosphere and weather conditions. W-Cube was flown to help shrink this blind spot and prove the feasibility of future space missions operating using W-band.
A single fixed ground station was put in place to track W-Cube, at the premises of mission prime contractor Joanneum Research at Graz in Austria, with another one in preparation by VTT Research in Finland.
The nanosatellite itself – a ‘three-unit’ CubeSat, meaning it has been built up from three standardised 10-cm boxes – was constructed by Kuva Space in Finland (previously Reaktor Space Lab) with the W-band payload coming from VTT.
“W-Cube itself is working well, and only a few days ago another satellite carrying an experimental W-band payload was put in orbit from the University of Stuttgart,” explained ESA microwave engineer Vaclav Valenta. “So we decided to build our own station based on available hardware and chips from past projects in our lab, then assigned the challenging job of building it to Hugo through ESA’s Young Graduate Trainee programme. The satellite is switched on for acquisitions from Austria but as we found we can still track it from the Netherlands.
“We’re excited by today’s success on our first try, and our next plan to fine-tune our station design to make it truly portable. Also, our intention is to set up a permanent W-band station here at ESTEC. This design, combined with the tracking techniques we’re deploying, will certainly become the basis for other mobile W-band stations.”
Digital payload engineer Marek Peca equipped the portable ground station with motion control software and geodetic calculations: "We began by homing in on the Sun, and its output of radio white noise, serving as a reference point so the ground station knew where to look for W-Cube as it passed over our heads – a pinhole camera taped to the side of the antenna gave us a coarse visual confirmation of being centred on the Sun; we'll improve on this with building-mounted radio beacons in the future. But it all worked well: today’s success makes this only the second ground station in the world to acquire W-band signals from orbit!”
Michael Schmidt of Joanneum Research is Principal Investigator for the W-Cube mission: “I congratulate the ESTEC team in achieving this goal. I know from experience it is no easy task to receive the satellite’s very weak signal. Their work is providing important additional measurements in different climate zones from Graz and Helsinki, and the mobile nature of their ground station means it can be located in other locations as well, helping to improve our W-band propagation models and learning more the use of low-orbiting satellites for propagation experiments.”
Marek processed some 32GB of captured radio-frequency data to confirm that the first full pass of the satellite signal had been correctly tracked, representing six and a half minutes of the full pass. See plots from the W-Cube pass here and here. Read about the open source element of the project to use telescope mounts to track satellites and celestial objects here.
Credit: ESA-G. Porter
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing "snow cleaning'" on a test telescope mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. By shooting carbon dioxide snow at the surface, engineers are able to clean large telescope mirrors without scratching them.
"The snow-like crystals (carbon dioxide snow) knock contaminate particulates and molecules off the mirror," said Lee Feinberg, NASA optical telescope element manager. This technique will only be used if the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror is contaminated during integration and testing.
The Webb telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. With a mirror seven times as large as Hubble's and infrared capability, Webb will be capturing light from 13.5 billion light years away. To do this, its mirror must be kept super clean.
"Small dust particles or molecules can impact the science that can be done with the Webb," said Feinberg. "So cleanliness especially on the mirrors is critical."
Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn
Text credit: Laura Betz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Class 37/0 37232 'The Institute of Railway Signal Engineers' was the allocated power for the visit of the Inspection Saloon to Inverness, seen being turned for the next stage of the journey.
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A move on the train up to Settle for a few pints, taking in 66422 with the 12:31 Carlisle - Basford Hall engineers working.
Colas Railfreight Class 56 56087 passes Woodacre on 6c57 0945 Penrith North Lakes - Crewe Basford Hall Yard on 25/03/2018
Remember that teaser? Yeah, I kinda abandoned it. Then picked it up again. Then this. So yeah enjoy :p
Credits to Shock for the Paracord thingy.
Train trestle bench at Brunel Museum in Southwark, London. In honor of the first train tunnel beneath the Thames River competed in 1843.
Funny how things change. You work hard, put in long hours, do odd jobs and get by however you can. You send in countless resumes and application after application. Eventually, someone takes a chance on you, gives you an opportunity to change your situation. You don't get that by sitting back and thinking it will come to you. You have to go out there and get it. If you don't you'll always wonder where you could be...
I've mentioned before how friendly train staff are in America. Look carefully and you can see the engineer / driver returning our wave when he saw photos being taken. As so often there were also a couple of 'hello' blasts on the horn : )
FURX 5520 leads BNSF 2020 as they haul a freight from LyondellBasell's Equistar chemical plant outside Matagorda, TX. It is probably heading for the docks at Corpus Christi.
For the rail aficionados - FURX 5520 is a rebuilt GP38-2 locomotive. The unit was originally built as Norfolk & Western 4140, a GP38AC, in September 1971. The "FU" stands for "First Union" though that company was taken over by Wells Fargo Rail late in 2015. That is a leasing company based in Illinois.
iss067e185052 (July 11, 2022) --- (Clockwise from left) Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren, all from NASA, and Samantha Cristofroetti from ESA (European Space Agency), pose for a portrait during dinner time in the Unity module of the International Space Station.
Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall’s East Test Area, produced 92,000 pounds of thrust and was done as part of the booster obsolescence and life extension (BOLE) program, providing an upgraded booster design for the evolved configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis IX and beyond. The BOLE booster will be a larger and more powerful solid rocket motor to make the SLS rocket capable of sending heavier payloads to the Moon and beyond.
Image Credit: NASA/Samuel Lott
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