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Two budding engineering students deep in discussion as they head back to college. Bacolod City, Philippines.
A warm and sunny 24th March in 1982 saw Pilot scheme 40003 head a small engineers train consisting of cement mixers off the Red Bank line.
The spring of that year was warm and sunny (much like in lockdown 2020) and i was off to the far North lines on a jaunt courtesy of a free ticket with a new Student Railcard.
Here, in 1896, Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered evidence of spontaneous radioactivity.
Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
The Birmingham Main Line Canal in Westside, Birmingham, West Midlands.
On 24 January 1767 a number of prominent Birmingham businessmen, including Matthew Boulton and others from the Lunar Society, held a public meeting in the White Swan, High Street, Birmingham to consider the possibility of building a canal from Birmingham to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Wolverhampton, taking in the coalfields of the Black Country. They commissioned the canal engineer James Brindley to propose a route. Brindley came back with a largely level route via Smethwick, Oldbury, Tipton, Bilston and Wolverhampton to Aldersley.
On 24 February 1768 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the building of the canal, with branches at Ocker Hill and Wednesbury where there were coal mines. The first phase of building was to Wednesbury whereupon the price of coal sold to domestic households in Birmingham halved overnight. Vested interests of the sponsors caused the creation of two terminal wharves in Birmingham. The 1772 Newhall Branch and wharf (now built upon) originally extended north of, and parallel to Great Charles Street. The 1773 Paradise Street Branch split off at Old Turn Junction and headed through Broad Street Tunnel, turned left at what is now Gas Street Basin and under Bridge Street to wharves on a tuning fork-shaped pair of long basins: Paradise Wharf, also called Old Wharf. The Bir-mingham Canal Company head office was finally built there, opposite the western end of Paradise Street.
By 6 November 1769, 10 miles (16 km) had been completed to Hill Top collieries in West Bromwich, with a one mile summit pound at Smethwick. Brindley had tried to dig a cutting through the hill at Smethwick but had encountered ground too soft to cope with. The canal rose through six narrow (7 ft) locks to the summit level and descended through another six at Spon Lane.
In 1770 work started towards Wolverhampton. On 21 September 1772 the canal was joined with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Aldersley Junction via another 20 locks (increased to 21 in 1784 to save water). Brindley died a few days later. The canal measured 22 miles and 5 fur-longs (22⅝ miles), mostly following the contour of the land but with deviations to factories and mines in the Black Country and Birmingham.
Over the next thirty years, as more canals and branches were built or connected it became necessary to review the long, winding, narrow Old Main Line. With a single towpath boats passing in opposite directions had to negotiate their horses and ropes. In 1824 Thomas Telford was commissioned to examine alternatives.
Telford proposed major changes to the section between Birmingham and Smethwick, widening and straightening the canal, providing towpaths on each side, and cutting through Smethwick Summit to bypass the locks, allowing lock-free passage from Birmingham to Tipton.
By 1827 the New Main Line passed straight through, and linked to, the loops of the Old Main Line, creating Oozells Loop, Icknield Port Loop, Soho Loop, Cape Loop and Soho Foundry Loop, allowing continued access to the existing factories and wharves.
A year earlier he had built an improved Rotton Park Reservoir (Edgbaston Reservoir) on the site of an existing fish pool, bringing its capacity to 300 million imperial gallons (1,400,000 m3). A canal feeder took water to, and along, a raised embankment on the south side of the New Main Line to his new Engine Arm branch canal and across an elegant cast iron aqueduct to top up the higher Wolverhampton Level at Smethwick Summit. The reservoir also fed water to the Birmingham Level at the adjacent Icknield Port Loop.
The Smethwick Summit was bypassed by 71 ft cutting through Lunar Society member, Samuel Galton's land, creating the Galton Valley, 70 feet deep and 150 feet wide, running parallel to the Old Main Line. Telford's changes here were completed in 1829.
By 1838 the New Main Line was complete: 22⅝ miles of slow canal reduced to 15⅝; between Birmingham and Tipton, a lock-free dual carriageway. It was also called the Island Line as it was cut straight through the hill at Smethwick known as the Island.
Colas Railfreight "Grid" Class 56 56113 powers past Bennerley Viaduct near Ilkeston Station working 6C56 Tinsley South Jn to Toton North Yard in the lovely morning sun
Of interesting note, the footbridge in the background i understand is soon to be gone, , opening this scene up possibly more, but will be a sat sight to loose something of LMS heritage
As requested...pics with light!! :) Like I said before, a little bigger than I am used to, but we still like it.
Credit to Mr.Jens for the original 251.
Credit to Panzerbricks for the original concept.
May 23, 2015 was 'At the Throttle' day at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.. I was lucky enough to get a stint operating this fascinating and historic locomotive. One of the 10 happy engineers waving at his friends while operating this wonderful piece of history.
While his conductor and brakeman hit the ground at the SP Lead interchange point, engineer Kevin Garcia looks on from the cab of CCT 1501 at East Miner Avenue in Stockton, CA.
Friday, March 1, 2024, 12:54 PM.
An enthusiastic engineer has his Twin Ports-bound manifest at track speed as it kicks up a ground blizzard while passing the 1 x 1 vehicle train.
During the late afternoon of 11th July 2022, Hunslet 0-6-0 saddle tank No.7 'Beatrice' (W/No.2705 built in 1945) works through Embsay station heading a Civil Engineer's train, passing the North Eastern Railway petrol-electric Autocar No.3170.
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The imaginatively-named Class 66, 66051 "Maritime Intermodal Four" approaches Acton Bridge with 6C18 07:39 Crewe Basford Hall SSM to Carlisle New Yard,
Smart DB Cargo red liveried 66113 eases past Niddrie West Junction operating 6K07 Glenrothes - Millerhill, with 66001 on the rear. This was the third of 5 Sunday morning engineers services.
Whilst everyone else concentrated on their river vessels, I was more interested in 66849 working the engineers train at Golant on 18th July 2021
The Glimmer of Gnosis is a SHIP... just, at 103 studs. It has five crew members: pilot, navigator, Captain Baldwin St.Ambrose (currently manning the starboard guns), gunner/engineer and the cybernetics officer.
iss068e029146 (Dec. 11, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) peers at the Earth below from inside the cupola as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru.
The "Three Amigos" in engineer class. L to R: Mike Burbidge, Jeff Sessa (me), Jay Daravong. I believe Mike went to MBTA, I went to Amtrak in 2023, and Jay went to the Pan Am before leaving the industry entirely. We certainly had fun down in Atlanta.
Engineer (Young) Will Lovelace calls for permission through a work authority on the Philly Sub from the cab of Q032. Will's dad was an Erie, and later NJT conductor. Will was the first CSX-era hire on the former RF&P out of Richmond.
When I was occasionally cut back to conductor, I would go to the UPS train pool to work with the top-dog engineers; John Stone, Jim Stevens, and Will Lovelace. All great to work with.
Mr. Lovelace retired in late 2021.
A view northwards taken from between the platforms at Oberoderwitz in July 1993. The original line to Löbau is visible at the extreme right, with the later route towards Ebersbach out of view behind the building to the left. The engineers’ vehicle is traversing the single line connection between the two routes.
BR Class 45/0 45041 "Royal Tank Regiment" at Loughborough Central station with an engineering train during an EMRPS photo charter on the Great Central Railway.
GBRf class 66/7 no. 66729 'Derby County' heads a Civil Engineers' working, 6G40 from Cramlington to Doncaster Belmont, past Copmanthorpe on 30th September 2025.
Not for the first time this year, but still a rare sight these days - a Class 60 on an engineers' train as GB Railfreight's 60076 "Dunbar" pairs up with Class 66, 66771 on a rail drop train for an overnight possession in the Hazel Grove area.
The Brush Traction machine was leading for the return run, powering through Acton Bridge on a crisp and chilly Sunday morning as 6G49 07:38 Stockport Edgeley Junction No 1 to Crewe Basford Hall SSM.
10.7.2022.
The Engineer controlling one of the two huge James Watt Beam Engines at Papplewick Pumping Station.
The view of a rural grade crossing near Mattoon, Illinois, on the former Illinois Central Railroad mainline. The view is from a southbound Illinois Central Gulf intermodal train. (Scanned from Kodak Tri-X negative film)
37248"Midland Railway Centre" +58020"Doncaster Works" pass Didcot on 23/April/2002 working 6O26 Didcot Yard to Eastleigh yard engineers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development.
The CN Tower held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa, and was the world's tallest tower until 2009 when it was surpassed by the Canton Tower. It is now the ninth tallest free-standing structure in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure on land in the Western Hemisphere. In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers.
It is a signature icon of Toronto's skyline and attracts more than two million international visitors annually.
"makin' bacon!"
Ever since I saw those track pieces I wanted to recreate the engineer's rancho relaxo taunt.
Built in 1916, following the sinking of The Titanic in 1912, to commemorate all the marine engineers who died in shipping disasters.
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Original plan to meet dan called off due to rain,so beer and a simple indoor faff the order of the night....blast of vape and laser ,then a torch for the shadow, lit the side of the figurine with a gelled green torch,followed by a couple splashes of the flash, and another dash of vape......Gasmark F16 for 54.2 seconds.
Sooc vapeg jpeg.