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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.
Euro Cargo Rail adorned 66052 has got the road at Stenson working 6G45 Toton - Bescot.
The train is a typical consist for this working and features 19 x 4 wheeled engineers wagons of the MHA, MTA and Rudd types.
Who gives the warriors their means to wage war?
Who keeps their steel sharp, their armor intact and their quivers full?
Who can read land and sea, and turn a treacherous land into an impregnable fortress?
From the smallest peg on a wagon wheel to the hardiest rope of a siege engine, with hammer and paper in hand, you see me with you.
The Quartermistress. The siege engineer. The artisan and the blacksmith.
Our campaign hails from Port Shadows: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scorpion/124/168/25
iss068e023651 (Nov. 23, 2022) --- Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses for a portrait aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module.
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.
"makin' bacon!"
Ever since I saw those track pieces I wanted to recreate the engineer's rancho relaxo taunt.
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.
Here's another shot from my recent trip in the San Juan Mountains. While I didn't shoot a lot during this trip (it was a vacation with the wife), I spent almost every morning trying to capture this scene of Engineer Mountain reflecting in Boyce Lake. Thank goodness my wife is not a morning person...thus giving me the opportunity to scratch my photographic itch! The conditions were fickle at best and this was the best I could do after four pre-dawn trips to this spot. Too many clouds, no clouds, too much wind, and even some pesky, reflection-killing beavers all contributed to my frustration. In the end, I considered myself fortunate to come away with this image. Patience and persistence are most certainly requisite virtues amongst photographers!
A true country branch line of the old Great Western Railway is full of fascination whether you are looking for a nostalgic ride back in time through lovely countryside or to study the railway and industrial heritage which the line preserves.
Candid shot.
10.7.2022.
The Engineer controlling one of the two huge James Watt Beam Engines at Papplewick Pumping Station.
Topol TEL in Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps
The RT-2PM Topol (Russian: РТ-2ПМ Тополь ("Poplar"); NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle; GRAU designation: 15Ж58 ("15Zh58"); other designations: RS-12M Topol) is a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed in the Soviet Union and in service with Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces.
DevelopmentThe three stage solid propellant RT-2PM Topol became the first Soviet mobile ICBM to be successfully deployed. It was deployed after two decades of unsuccessful attempts by different design bureaus to create a reliable mobile launch system. It emerged from the same line of development as mobile missiles such as the RT-21 Temp 2S and the RSD-10 Pioneer, and was deployed as a replacement for the widely deployed UR-100. The United States considered developing their own road-mobile ICBM called the Midgetman, but the program was canceled with the end of the Cold War.
Development of the RT-2PM was approved on July 19, 1977 and carried out by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology headed by A. D. Nadiradze. Flight tests were conducted on the Plesetsk test site from February through December 1985. The main problem that had to be overcome during this period was the development of battle management system. After the first test series was successfully conducted in April 1985, with the first regiment with Topol missiles put on alert in July 1985. Throughout this time work continued on improving the battle management system. The first regiment of "Topol" missiles employing a modernized mobile command center (in the area of Irkutsk) were put on alert on May 27, 1988. The test missile firings were finally completed in December 1987.
The RT-2PM ICBM was designed to be road mobile and is mounted on a heavy truck (MAZ-7310 or MAZ-7917). Development began in 1977, flight tests of the missile were conducted between 1983 and 1987. After the first series of tests, the first missiles became operational in 1985. Full deployment of 360 missiles was achieved in 1996, and in 2005 300 remained on duty. As of January 2008 the figure had dropped to 201 active missiles. In December 2008 Russian rocket forces had 189 RT-2PM operational missiles.[2] With 276 ICBMs of other types (including 75 R-36 missiles and 75 Topol-M missiles), that gives Russia an ICBM arsenal of 465 missiles - larger than United States ICBM arsenal of 450 LGM-30 Minuteman rockets.
The RT-2 is a road mobile 3-stage, single warhead ICBM. Its 29.5 meter length and 1.7 meter diameter are approximately the same size and shape as the U.S. Minuteman ICBM. It has a throw-weight of 1000 kg and carries a single warhead with a yield of 800 kt[3] and accuracy (CEP) of 900 m according to Russian sources [as opposed to 300m according to Western sources]. Its road mobile capability gave the RT-2PM Topol an extremely high probability of survival. It can fire from field deployment sites or through sliding roof garage bases. The RT-2PM Topol joined operational Soviet SRF regiments in 1985. A total area of approximately 190,000 square kilometers could be required to deploy a force consisting of 500 road-mobile Topol ICBMs. Mobile units require a much higher number of personnel for maintenance and operation than fixed systems. Consequently, the RT-2PM Topol was significantly more costly to maintain and operate than silo launched systems.
All three stages are made of composite materials. During first stage operation the flight control is implemented through four aerodynamic and four jet vanes. Four similar trellised aerodynamic surfaces serve for stabilization. During the second and third stage of flight gas is injected into the diverging part of the nozzle for flight control.
The missile is deployed in a Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) canister mounted on cross-country 7-axle chassis on a mobile launch vehicle. The chassis incorporates jacks, gas and hydraulic drives and cylinders, with a power of several hundred tons, for jacking and leveling of the launcher, speeding up (combat) and slowing down (maintaining) elevation of the container with the missile in the vertical position. The TEL is accompanied by a Mobile command post, carrying support facilities mounted on cross-country 4-axle chassis with unified vans. The complex is equipped with an onboard inertial navigation system which gives the TEL group the capability to conduct the launch independently from its field deployment sites. This topo-geodesic support and navigation subsystem, created by the “Signal” Research Institute, provides a quick and highly precise tie-in of the launcher in a field position and enables its crew to carry out missile launches from any combat patrol route point. The launch can also be carried out at regimental bases from the aforementioned garrison garage.
At the time of the signing of the START I Treaty in 1991 the Soviet Union had deployed some 288 Topol missiles. Deployment continued, and at the end of 1996 a total of 360 Topol missiles were deployed.
The Topol missile was deployed at previously developed deployment sites. After the INF Treaty was signed in 1987 several SS-20 deployment sites were adapted to launch the Topol missiles. The United States expressed specific concerns during the INF treaty negotiations. When the SS-25 missile system was deployed in the field, with its missile inside the canister and mounted on the launcher, the US contended that the canister might conceal an RSD-10 Pioneer missile. This was of concern because unlike the single warhead of the RT-2PM Topol, the RSD-10 carried up to 3 warheads. A resolution was reached after the Soviet Union agreed to allow inspection parties to use radiation detection systems to measure fast neutron intensity flux emanating from the launch canister. A launch canister with a missile inside containing a single warhead, such as the RT-2PM Topol, emitted a different pattern of fast neutrons than did one with a missile having three warheads, such as the RSD-10.
Provisions of the SALT II agreement prohibited the deployment of more than one new missile (which became RT-23UTTh), it was officially declared by the Soviet Union that the RT-2PM Topol was developed to upgrade the silo based RT-2. The US government disputed this view, contending that the missile was clearly more than 5% larger and had twice the throw-weight as the RT-2 and therefore constituted a new missile system. Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet Chief of General Staff cancelled the Sept. 1, 1983 test flight of the RT-2PM Topol which was to be launched from Plesetsk (the launch site in northwest Russia used for test firing of solid fuel propellant ICBMs)- 24 minutes later to land in the Klyuchi target area on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The night of the scheduled launch was the night that Korean Air Lines Flight 007 intruded Soviet airspace over Kamchatka.
An RT-2PM Topol with two MIRVs may have been tested in 1991, and the missile was tested at least once with four MIRV warheads, but there has apparently been no further development of a multiple warhead version. This became a point of contention during the conclusion of the 1991 START negotiations, at which time the US pressed for a definition of "downloading" (removing warheads from missiles) that would complicate any Soviet attempt suddenly to deploy multiple warheads on the RT-2PM Topol.
Russia plans to reequip approximately 400 silos where obsolete UR-100, RT-2 and MR-UR-100 missiles are located. Under the START II Treaty, which never had and most likely will never have a binding effect, Russia would have been able to place 90 single-warhead solid fuel missiles in reequipped R-36 silos. In order to guard against a break-out scenario involving the rapid reconversion of R-36 silos on-site inspection became a very important aspect of START II verification.
The breakup of the Soviet Union had a significant impact on the Topol program. The dispersed manufacturing of ICBM components seriously complicated researching and building new missile systems. For example, the Minsk Wheeled Truck-Tractor Manufacturing Plant in Belarus manufactured the missiles' transporter launchers, and some 90% of the components of the guidance system were manufactured in Ukraine.
In Belarus, as of December 1995, 63 RT-2PM Topol ICBMs originally deployed there had been returned to Russia. As of December 1995, Belarus had two operational mobile RT-2PM Topol regiments remaining on its territory, with a total of 18 nuclear warheads. In July 1992, Belarus signed an agreement with Russia placing the regiments under exclusive Russian control. In September 1993, Moscow and Minsk signed an agreement requiring the return of these nuclear missiles and all related missile support equipment to Russia by the end of 1996. A total of 81 RT-2PM Topol ICBMs and associated warheads were returned to Russia from Belarus.
By the late 1990s the lack of resources and qualified personnel forced the Strategic Rocket Forces to cut back operations considerably, with no more than one or two regiments of the mobile RT-2PM Topol missiles dispersed in the field. The remaining 40 or so regiments, each with nine single-warhead missiles, remain in garrison.
In February 2001, in a special test of operational readiness, the Strategic Rocket Forces successfully launched a silo-based Topol ICBM at a target in the Kura Test Range in Kamchatka. The Topol missile, the oldest of its type still in the Russian arsenal, was said to have performed flawlessly despite having outlived by 150 percent its operational period of service.
South Shore Engineer Paul Barnes has 33's controller on the post as we head to Chicago in April 1975.
Paul had quite a career with the South Shore. He started in 1939 in the B&B dept. then off to WWll in the Navy, came back in 1945 as a collector. He went off to Korea and came back in 1953 and entered Engine Service, and worked freight for 10 years straight. He ran everything the South Shore had, from Steeple Cabs to 700's, 800's Orange cars and made the transition to the new cars and retired in 1988. He passed away a few years ago. A real Railroader!
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. Though, sadly I admit that I never took enough of these types of photographs, but those few that I do have deserve to be edited and shared in an album of their own. So, look for more soon in what will be a little series of Alaskan Railroaders.
I had the absolute pleasure to work with the finest and most dedicated group of railroaders in all the land for six wonderful years from 2007 to 2013. It was the greatest honor of my life to lead these men and women as we worked as a team to grow service and become more efficient all while doing it safely in some of the harshest conditions to be found anywhere. And as the smiles in these photos will attest, we strove to have FUN while doing it. As in all jobs, there were bad days and frustrating times and personal conflicts that arise in any organization. But more than anywhere I have ever worked in more than two decades now, there was truly an esprit de corps on the Alaska Railroad and the pride these fine folks felt about their chose career was palpable day in and day out.
I hope these images help show you a tiny glimpse into that wonderful world that was once my family and my home. So raise a glass to the finest railroaders I’ve ever known!
With a big friendly wave is Engineer Bill Bivins at the throttle of GP40-2 3009 on the greatest little gem of a train to be found anywhere, the Hurricane Turn, the last true flag stop wilderness passenger train in the United States.
Hurricane, Alaska
Monday June 19, 2017
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Engineer Mike McGill eases around the corner with UP Train ZYCMXB 04, about to enter the UP Chester Sub. from the Mt. Vernon Sub. at Chap. A couple Yahoo! Groups (remember those?) got together today to watch trains, and I believe there were about 2 dozen of us in the park throughout the day.
Mike is an Operation Lifesaver Presenter, and lives in Dexter, MO. At the time he worked off the board at Salem, but today he works an extra board out of Dexter.
Locomotive: UP 4025
6-4-06
Gorham, IL
Reverse has no message.
Embossed across the bottom - Medway Studios Ld
43 High Str Chatham.
Dates from the late 20s/30s. The cap badge seems to belong to the Royal Engineers.
"makin' bacon!"
Ever since I saw those track pieces I wanted to recreate the engineer's rancho relaxo taunt.
Forth Engineer moored at Alicat Workboats quay.
Name: Forth Engineer
Vessel type: Crew transfer vessel (CTV)
Design: Damen Twin Axe FCS 2610
Home port: Leith
Flag: United Kingdom
IMO: 9712747
MMSI: 235102028
Call sign: 2HAL3
Crew: 3
Passengers: 12
Length overall: 26.3 m
Beam: 10.3m
Draught: 2.4 m
Gross tonnage: 126.43 tons
Deadweight: 25 tons
Fuel capacity: 4,840 gal. (22,000 litre)
Engines: 2 x Caterpillar C32 TTA B
Engine output: 2 x 1,200 hp (895 kW)
Top speed: 25 knots
Service speed: 22 knots
Builder: Damen Shipyard Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore
Yard number: 532523
Delivery date: 26th. February 2014
Construction: Aluminium
Owner: Briggs Marine, Burntisland, Fife
Previous name:
Sure Swift
The Golden Gate Bridge
(Written upon completion of the Bridge in 1937
by Joseph P. Strauss, Chief Engineer, Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District )
I am the thing that men denied,
The right to be, the urge to live;
And I am that which men defied,
Yet I ask naught for what I give.
My arms are flung across the deep,
Into the clouds my towers soar,
And where the waters never sleep,
I guard the California shore.
Above the fogs of scorn and doubt,
Triumphant gleams my web of steel;
Still shall I ride the wild storms out,
And still the thrill of conquest feel.
The passing world may never know
The epic of my grim travail;
It matters not, nor friend or foe –
My place to serve and none to fail.
My being cradled in despair,
Now grown so wondrous fair and strong,
And glorified beyond compare,
Rebukes the error and the wrong.
Vast shafts of steel, wave-battered pier,
And all the splendor meant to be;
Wind-swept and free, these, year on year,
Shall chant my hymm of Victory!