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26th November 1989 saw The Institute of Mining Engineers "North Midland Railtour" using a 7 car Tyseley suburban DMU, seen here at Mansfield Colliery Loaded Ground Frame, running into the sidings.
Thanks to the superb Six Bells Junction Railtour Files website, www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk the DMU's were T410-51862+59602+59713+53124 and
T315-51352+59745+51394. The tour started at Derby.
Colas Railfreight 60026 is seen passing over the Lunan Water at Inverkeilor with 6K20 Montrose to Carlisle Yard.
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It was nice and cloudy yesterday, took Heliot out for some photos. He is wearing the Volks SD17 Steampunk set from the Kyoto 9 Dolpa. The colors and textures of the outfit are beautiful.
Next phase of the Georgia Central-- GP38-2s a plenty. These had begun showing up a few months prior and mixing with the briefly present SD45Rs and then those behemoths found their way over to the Meridian & Bigbee.
Rewind to my marked out NS B32-8 leading L782 a couple of weeks ago and here's a previous version-- FURX 5568. Returned to First Union by NS due to their high lease rate and replaced with NS' own 5600/5800 series rebuilds performed in house, these 5500s found their way into a variety of leases (and still do today). I can't recall how many NS "bandits" there were on GC but I'm thinking two or three. At any rate, I immediately thought "Sigh...so this is how it's going to be." Turns out the GP38-2 era wouldn't be that long, either...
At any rate, this is the International Paper woodchip shuttle Y115, which makes a daily run out to Faulkville for woodchip loads to take to IP's Savannah paper mill. The haul is all of about 10 miles from the chip loadout to mill but keeps a lot of trucks off of busy and congested US 80 going into Savannah. A Class 1 wouldn't touch this traffic with a 10-foot pole.
Y115 has come west to the siding in Meldrim to run around their train and head back to Savannah. Operations on this train vary between a Meldrim run-around and double-ending the power to avoid the run-around. It just seems to vary by the day and probably whether there are two qualified engineers on the train any given day.
26027 heads south through Mossend yard with an engineers train. Those were the day's you could park your car near the lineside at the south end of the yard. 29/4/88
66425 heads 6K05 through Hellifield South Junction passing Colas tanper DR73922 "John Snowdon" in the sidings.
Pano of mountain section
Near Ouray CO
Jeep road goes between Ouray and Lake City over Engineer Mountain
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Been working on him for a while now. Everything on the vest is sculpted except the pistol pouches. Not entirely accurate...like the gloves and missing mic. To me it looked better without the mic. Well anyway, enjoy!
Also credit to Thunder_Run for the glasses.
Oh, one more thing, which one should I make next? Recon or support or a different faction?
-Bob
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Meet Christine, one of my long-time roommates. She's an electrical engineer, so you can imagine the house being full of nerdy remarks. In fact, her boyfriend is quite possibly the most unique person (to put it gently) I've ever met. If any of you have watched The Big Bang Theory, they're exactly like that. Let's just say that I even have my own little "Sheldon" friend (not as OCD crazy, but the personality and randomness is very similar) -> Christine's boyfriend. "Sheldon" likes to pollute my Facebook wall w/ miscellaneous comic book strips & pictures that he finds funny. They are actually quite funny too haha. I always hear random tantrums and facts about trains & their power generators to programming to playing Diablo to quantum physics to... you get the idea. Everytime I came home, I'd come back to something very different and hilarious. Hardcore nerds. These people make living fun. Lol.
Christine is probably the most sane out of all them... :P
Level-headedness, a steady hand, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the trade are standard skills employed by engineers. For our Switchblade, however, these attributes are mere child’s play: she first showed her mechanical bent in infancy, when to amuse herself during her long naptime hours she would routinely dismantle the mobile that hung above her crib and reassemble it in more interesting formations. As a child, she dismissed the pinafores that were standard attire for young ladies of the age in favor of a far more practical pair of coveralls, in which she was accustomed to trot down to the local mechanic’s shop, where the proprietor reluctantly allowed the girl to watch him at his trade.
By the time she came of age, Switchblade was far from the village of her birth, designing improved navigation systems for submarines during the Great War. With her heavy tool belt rattling at her hips and a socket wrench most often clenched between her teeth, the young Engineer soon garnered a reputation for taciturnity, though her shipmates could attest to her eloquence in defending her opinions, political and otherwise, in the cabin below deck over cups of strong Russian tea.
Though she loved her life beneath the sea, a difference of ethical conviction led our intrepid Engineer to take her talents beyond the roving waves. Within the ranks of the Pastime Athletic Club, Switchblade proves her mettle daily through her inventions, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. Never before has one of our own been so unconditionally deft with ratchet, knife, and compass, nor designed such foolproof mechanisms as to defy the most doggedly curious investigators.
It's the engineer's side of Wheeling & Lake Erie GP35-3 No. 109, which is on display during a festival in Orrville, Ohio. (Scanned from a slide)
Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, top, flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), middle, and flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, bottom, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-05 rocket for launch, Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli will spend the next four and a half months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Most of the members of the Model Engineering Club in Detroit MI were machinists, tool and die makers, and engineers who worked in the automotive industry in the area. The Detroit News sponsored the club and one of the requirements was that all members must build their own boats and engines to qualify for competition.
Florent Socall designed and built this unique 30cc, 4-cycle, air-cooled over head valve engine to power his model boats. It has a cast aluminum crankcase, gear box, and head with a machined steel cylinder. It burns gasoline on spark ignition and supports an oil tank for internal lubrication; the rockers and valves must be lubricated manually before operation.
An item of interest is the photographic timer mounted to the crankcase and linked to the carburetor. Releasing a tether boat at full throttle often resulted in cavitation and no speed. Mr. Socall modified the timer to hold the throttle on idle and when he released the boat he simultaneously tripped the timer which steadily increased the throttle from idle to full throttle within 5 seconds, thus preventing the possibility of cavitation.
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Freightliner 66539 passes through Alloa on 13th March 2022 with 6K01 09:53 Thornton NorthbJunction to Millerhill Yard, one of several engineers workings that day to use the line between Alloa and Charlestown Junction via Longannet.
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The engineer of the Mighty 3025 invited me into the cab.
Sadly, I didn’t get to drive . . .
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Merci beaucoup to xavnco2 for allowing me to use his excellence picture of this WW II, U.S. Army Air Compressor truck as the subject for this “digital illustration”. Xavnco2s’ original picture can be viewed here
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US Army in World War II
Engineers and Logistics
by Rich Anderson
Engineers
It was perhaps fitting that the U.S. Army, with an officer corps heavily influenced by the teachings of the United States Military Academy (which was the first engineering school in the United States), should be lavishly equipped with engineer troops and equipment. The divisional combat engineer battalions were capable of performing most engineering tasks (including demolitions, obstacle emplacement, fortification, and light bridge building) for the division. Additional battalions from corps or army augmented divisional engineers for more extensive tasks. Corps battalions were assigned to the command of an engineer group headquarters, which consisted of an H&H Company and an engineer light equipment company. Normally there were between three and six battalions in an engineer group and one or two groups per corps or army.
Combat engineer battalions tended to have high esprit de corps; they rightly considered themselves to be elite specialists. In a pinch, combat engineers also could act as infantry and did so frequently. In the Battle of the Bulge, a handful of engineer battalions proved to be a vital asset to the beleaguered American Army.
In addition to the combat engineer battalions there were in the Army a number of other general engineer units. The Engineer Amphibian Brigade was designed to support amphibious operations and included an H&H Company, three boat-and-shore regiments, a boat maintenance battalion, a medical battalion, and a quartermaster, ordnance, and a signal company. A single amphibian brigade (with naval support) was capable of transporting and landing an infantry division. Later, the brigade was strengthened and re-designated as the Engineer Special Brigade. Six Engineer Special Brigades, numbered 1st to 6th, were eventually formed. The 1st served in the MTO, ETO and PTO, the 5th and 6th served in the ETO, the others all served in the PTO.
Engineer aviation regiments and battalions were designed to construct and maintain air bases. Aviation engineers included engineer airborne aviation battalions, which were designed to be air transportable; so as to repair airfields captured by airborne forces.
Engineer bridging units included heavy ponton (the word pontoon is properly pronounced ponton, and beginning in World War II, that is the way it has been spelled by U.S. Army Engineers) battalions (nineteen formed, allotted usually one to three per army), light ponton companies (usually one per engineer group), and treadway bridge companies (usually one per armored division, but held at corps).
Engineer general service regiments and battalions performed construction, repair, and maintenance duties of all kinds behind the front lines. Many general service battalions were formed as pools of unskilled labor troops and later were organized as regiments.
Engineer special service regiments (seven formed) contained highly skilled construction personnel and had a large allotment of heavy equipment. The remainder of the engineer corps was made up of various specialist units, topographic, water supply, railway, oil field, railway operating, and camouflage battalions. In addition, there were large numbers of separate companies and even specialist engineer detachments consisting of a few officers and men. Over 600 battalion-size engineer units were formed during the war.
Curiously, only the engineer combat regiments were broken up into separate battalions as a part of the pool concept in 1943. The H&H Company of the engineer combat regiments were re-designated as engineer combat groups in 1943. The other specialized engineer regiments were retained to the end of the war.
Source: www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/usarmy/engineers.aspx
* Can you identify the various tools / items included in this image?
in harsh early morning sunlight, 66083 hauls the 04:56 Bourne End Jn to Bescot Engineers Sdgs through Long Buckby on April the 12th 2019.
The Capitol Limited is ready to depart Washington Union Station westbound for Chicago. The engineer is climbing up to #34's cab and soon they will be off. March 29, 1998.
Mamiya Super 23, Fujichrome RDP 100.
66787 and 69006 passing Darlington station on the 30th of April 2024 with the evening Tyne to Doncaster engineers train. The new multi storey car park is taking shape in the background.
Here the Officers Special - Engineering Inspection train rolls along the Fathew Valley with No.6 providing the traction. This 0-4-0WT was built in 1918 by Andrew Barclay & Co. Ltd. for the Airservice Construction Corps. From 1921 until 1945 it worked at the RAF railway at Calshot Spit, Southampton. So to mark it's 100th anniversary, it was given this new livery reflecting its RAF heritage.
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Offered in the US from model year 1997 to 2001, the Catera was a badge-engineered Opel Omega made in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
The advertisements for it featured supermodel Cindy Crawford speaking to an animated duck-like character anmed 'Ziggy', who lasted maybe 2 years.
It wasn't derided as much as GM's earlier, badge-engineered Cadillac Cimarron was, a car that was easily recognized that it had the same body as the economy Chevrolet Cavalier except with Caddy end caps. But the Catera wasn't a great seller, either, finishing its run of 5 years as a single-run model.
The one depicted has apparently survived and looks to be in very good condition.
Inside the cab of the 1218 Class A Steam Locomotive... Built in 1943 at a cost of $163K, this engine pulled coal trains between Roanoke, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia. One of 43 Class A engines built, this is the last surviving one. It was retired from regular service in 1959 and had service as a stationary boiler and as an excursion engine through the years until it was moved to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in 2003.
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2008/07/engineer.html
THE ENGINEER
I was in the backyard taking a Polaroid of the pool tile when the portrait lens viewfinder attachment for my 195 fell off and sunk to the bottom of the deep end of the pool. My Dad fished it out with the skimmer and after I dried it off, I tried to take a photo of him but couldn't focus at all with the rangefinder. The little glass window on the attachment was totally fogged over with condensation. The 195 can be hard enough to focus in bright light, but here I was in the dim light of twilight with a film of fog over the rangefinder. I took a closer look at the attachment and figured out that there were teeny, tiny screws that held it together and that it could be opened up and really cleaned. My Dad, the lifetime engineer and Mr. Fix It took it upon himself to do the repair and cleaning for me. Now that he's had both his cataracts removed in the last year, I think he can actually see better than me! Once he got the attachment open he told me, "You clean glass with alcohol. I learned that when I worked at a lab at Northrop." I don't really know anything about my Dad's time at Northrop, so I asked him what kind of lab he worked in and he told me that he inspected parts for guided missiles. From as long as I can remember - from early childhood until college graduation - the only company my Dad worked for was Hughes Helicopters (as in Howard Hughes). He was a Quality Control engineer and under his watch there were never any helicopter accidents due to parts failure. Unlike most companies that want to get rid of their older workers, Hughes (then taken over by Boeing) begged my Dad to stay on with the job when he retired at the age of 70. Having worked full-time since he was 18 and with me finally out of college, my Dad had enough of working and retired despite the bonuses dangled before him. Anyway, back to the present - after a few swabs with alcohol and dealing with the tiniest screws known to man - my Dad got the viewfinder attachment clean and clear again, in fact I think it was actually cleaner than when I started. So dropping it in the pool turned out to be a happy accident indeed!
The Engineer photo by Lydia Marcus
Photographed July 5, 2008 in Encino, CA
Jaguar XJ220 (1992-94) Engine 3200cc Turbocharged V6 Production 281
Registration Number J 22 OXJ
JAGUAR SET
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The XJ220 was produced by Jaguar in conjunction with Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) as Jaguar Sport. It held the record as the Worlds Fastest production car until the arrival of the McLaren F1. It began as a pet project of Jaguar chief engineer Jim Randle who envisaged a car to take on the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959, a 4WD car with a mid-mounted V12 engine. Jaguar pressed on with a prototype car that debuted at the 1988 British Motor Show. TWR produced a 6.2ltr. version of the XJR V12 racing engines with 4 valves per cylinder, quad camshafts and a target output of 500bhp, the 4WD system was produced by FF Developments who had built a similar system for the 1960's Jensen FF, the styling was the work of Keith Helfet and included scissor style doors and the name XJ220 was assigned to indicate the projected top speed of 220mph. The prototype was heavier than the racing XJR9 but as a road car this was of little matter.
Officially announced in 1989 with a price of £ 361.000 buyers were required to make a £ 50,000 deposit and to be put on a waiting list.. The production was to be limited to 350 units.
By 1991 the production version was shown to the public, but there had been massive changes. The four wheel drive prototype was now rear wheel drive, the scissor doors had gone and the 6.2ltr. V12 normally aspirated engine was now a 3.5ltr V6 Turbo charged unit
The V12 engine had been judged to difficult to get past more stringent emission rules, the TWR developed V6 engine was based on the engine used in the Austin Metro 6R4 Rally Car and was fitted with a Garrett T3 Turbo generating 542bhp. In spite of the smaller displacement this engine was more powerful than the 6.2ltr.
Worse for the car the 1980's boom period of the Prototype had become the austere 1990's and depositors were sueing for their money back. and despite the new specification the price had increased from £ 361,000 to £ 403.000.
A further complication was that Tom Walkinshaw was offering the more expensive and more exclusive XJR15 based closely on the XJR9 Le Mans winners.
Despite all of this 281 cars were built though a few examples lingered and were sold for around £ 150,000 new for what is today an absolute classic.
The XJ220 is both the fastest and widest Jaguar ever built.
This is the 13 th XJ220 built at Walkinshaws, Bloxham factory. Displayed at Chateau Impney as part of the concoursJ
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Shot at the Chateau Impney Hill Climb, Chateuu Impney, Droitwich 12 July 2015 - Ref 108-182. .
31311 stands wrong line with a ballast train at Barnsley on very dull 5th June 1983. The two nearest lines served a parcels depot which had closed a couple of years previously. The shunting was usually in charge of a DMU that dropped off a a parcels van on the 18.00 from Sheffield to Barnsley if I recall correctly.
The line nearest also served the good shed on the left by means of a head shunt behind the photographer.
During SDCC at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA on July 14 2012 Photo: Jason Chau
Date: July 14 2012
Time: 11 : 19 : 30 AM
Model: NIKON D800
Lens: AF 50mm f/1.4G
Whilst out on my daily walks on Monday and Tuesday I noticed the engineer car at Bispham, so today decided to take my camera with me. The work carried out at Bispham was to raise the overhead at the northern end of the loop and 723 was used to test it out. 20th May 2020.
Circa 1977. Here's fellow Engineering student Bill G. His left 'arm' is a prop in the shape of a large pencil. Bill was a staff member of the 49er Engineer, the Engineering school's student-produced magazine of which I was also on the masthead. It was published monthly during the Fall and Spring semesters, with technical articles written by staff and other students.
Why the pencil? I forget who exactly brought it to the magazine office. It was probably once part of a store display somewhere but it was sitting in the magazine office for a period of time. It was then decided to use it for individual staff photos as a common theme within each. This is one of those photos. The pencil was a fitting symbol for writing, and writing was what we did for the magazine.
The photo was taken on the west side of the building designated then as 'E3.'