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A new caption from one of my pictures. I hope you like the story.
Eine neue Bildgeschichte aus einem meiner Bilder. Ich hoffe, Euch gefällt die Story.
Iowa Northern Railway ( IANR ) Yard Job Y-101 interchanging with CN in Waterloo, IA then will head back to their own Bryant Yard with interchange from CN
One of my favourite movies - the original one from the 60's with Michael Caine (my name is Michael Caine) is The Italian Job. Yesterday I had a bit of a crisis - I own a fiat and there are not too many of them here in Australia and the induction hose to the intercooler needed replacing . My mechanic told me I could not drive very much and would have to wait up to 6 weeks for this small tube thing to arrive from Italy. I checked out the rental car places and everything was sold out due to the high number of tourists in Sydney at Christmas/New Year. I was so stressed out thinking that I could not go anywhere during my holidays to meet up with friends and also to take shots(you rate the importance ;)).
So I got on the 'job' and googled like crazy, rang every fiat person in Australia - nobody had the part. Until finally I came across Vincenzo who ran a Fiat/Alfa workshop about 45 minutes away - however he was closing the next day for 10 days and there was a slim possibility that he could do something but told me to get over by 4 (it was now 2.45) and he would see. I put my pedal to the metal and weaved through christmas traffic to arrive at 3.55 yesterday. He took a look and gave me the wonderful news that he could fix it for me. Joy to the World !.
He had some beautiful old vintage fiats and alfa's there - I was so happy just looking at them as he examined my car.
He then said he could give me an alfa overnight as a courtesy car until today for pickup - I said 'Grazie Vincenzo - I am happy to take that Alfa 2000 home with me' . He bent over laughing calling me a crazy girl and then went to get the 'other' alfa for me - whilst he was gone I took a few shots and thought well if I cannot take it home with me in person at least I can take it home with me digitally ;).
Thanks to Cy for demonstrating how cars can be such beautiful subjects in photography - check out the master at work : www.flickr.com/photos/46230766@N02/15097760724/
This male Osprey has dropped off breakfast for it's mate and chicks and will go perch on a nearby tree.
The Blood Moon is a no frills starfighter with no explosives, energy weapons, or terribly robust shields. Its job is punching new ventilation shafts through enemy ships with its two powerful cannons, and letting the vacuum of space do the dirty work. It relies on its speed to get away as it has little defense against return fire.
I built this over the course of about 5 weeks. The ideas that led to it started off long before that, though, as I was toying with an idea for a drone fighter. I wanted to revisit the color scheme that I used in my cyberpunk hopper car. Dark red as the main color earned it the working title Blood Moon. I got stuck on that for awhile, then started over with a very different design in a different color scheme, now featuring a cockpit. After going away on vacation for a bit, I returned and started over again, returning to the original color scheme, and something a bit closer to the original concept than the direction I'd started to veer off into with the first restart.
On top of my original sketch, I took some inspiration from present day lifting body aircraft. With the exception of the tail, the side profile has a deliberate airfoil shape.
The thing that finally got me going somewhere, after spinning my wheels for a while, was the #69754 tile shooter, which I used in the engines of my previous spacecraft, the Astral Vortex.
The cockpit came next. I really wanted to put the nose way out in front on this one, because I've done a lot of hiding it between cannons or Vic Viper prongs on past builds, which has let me focus less on the shaping. I originally wanted to brick-build a sleeker version of the classic 2507 windscreen in trans neon green. I didn't have those hinged wing parts that make the side in the right color, so I temporarily used black, and by the time I got the parts in my intended color it had evolved and I liked the black better.
Another of my frequent habits, showing up in nearly every spacecraft I've built since the Ugly Duckling, is using a lot of white brick in my hulls. I like that look, and I certainly don't plan to abandon it, but this time around I decided to use none at all for the sake of trying something different. The goal was to achieve a darker grittier look, while still keeping the high contrast that comes with spanning a wide range of shades.
This is one of my more complicated builds in terms of weird out-of-system geometry. There are few 90 degree angles to be found, anywhere. They only visible part with studs not at some weird out of system angle from the frame is the small recessed panel in front of the intake below the black pipe.
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The 45 degree engines were one of the features retained from the original sketch. These were tricky, as I wanted to make the exhaust nozzles angled, while keeping the ridges on top straight to make it clear that they were cut at an angle as opposed to just pointing the wrong direction. The 45 degree tiles made the angle easy, but fitting all of that into the extremely tight space behind the intakes was another matter, as adding the vertical tiles between the triangle tiles requires a bit of extra structure.
Eastman Kodak 8 is an EMD SW1000 built new for Kodak in 1968 (EMD Serial No. 34349). This paint job was applied in 1989.
Before the blue paint, CMQ #1 heading west at Tarratine on the Moosehead Sub behind 3 RED Barns and a tunnel motor.
Attempting to go about its business in the wake of a passing severe thunderstorm is UP Train YAT55 29. The storm was still tornado-warned at this point, and had produced torrential rainfall, lots of lightning, small hail, numerous funnel clouds, and one brief tornado near Rushville, MO, which I photographed earlier.
The storm is now in Missouri and the lightning illuminates the eastern sky along with the neon arches of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge, which spans the UP Falls City Sub. and the Missouri River.
Shortly after this shot I helped a UP signal maintainer, a foreman general, and the brakeman and conductor of this train move part of a building's roof off the main near the 4th Street Crossing. Even with 5 guys ganged up on it, the thing was still heavy.
Locomotives: UP 845, UP 810, UPY 615
6-29-14
Kansas City, MO
With my Uncle at the throttle, ICG's Job #24 is about to slam the IHB diamonds at Argo tower. The job switched out the Shell refinery & the Corn Products plant. Today's train is led by the SW14 1493/slug 53 combo.
I found a job figuring out the marginal internal rate of return for producing avocadoes. It's above the hurdle rate.
New England Central job 608 makes its way through Stafford Springs southbound in the late afternoon. Jan 20, 2020
I'm trying very hard to think of a personal benefit of the coronavirus pandemic. Finally I can think of one, I'm not increasing my stockpile of images nearly as quickly as before -- and I can go back to some old folders and post something taken some years ago.
When we were in Montreal, the city police was in a labour dispute. As essential services not allowed to go on strike, they wore this pseudo-camouflage pants/ trousers to display their displeasure.
Seen at the corner of rue Peel Street and rue Sherbrooke Ouest/ West Street.
a lovely parking job in Asturias 😄 Aixam model
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WC's Manitowoc Job passes over a moveable drawbridge at Menasha, WI. I recall having to be in Wisconsin early on this morning to attend traffic court as this FIB could have been speeding on a previous visit to the cheddar curtain. I ended up making a day of it around Neenah and Fond Du Lac. I remember stumbling around Neenah/Menasha as I chased this guy and had to visit Googlemaps to find this location recently to jog some memory cells!
1507 was a former Algoma Central unit that looked good in the WC dress.
10-24-2001
The Antoine yard job is switching the west end of the yard and is pulling under the Milwaukee Road overpass on the line towards Iron River and Watersmeet. That's my two day old 10-speed sitting down by the crossing.
A lonely job winging back snow off the short siding at Jordan, the end of the line for CN's Wales Branch that serves NSM's interchange location at Norshor Junction (around the curve in the distance). CN equips its ballast regulators for snow duty in the winter and dubs them "snow fighters." They work okay until snow starts to build up too much and a larger spreader needs to be called.
Well, I got a new job today so that means I will be slowing down some on flickr.
I have so many good friends here and I hope that I don't lose touch with any of you, I also hope that I don't just fade away, or into a flickr limbo like so many of my friends have done in the past.
I'll try to hang on though.
I truly appreciate each and every comment that you left, I wished that I could have gotten back to everyone that has ever left a comment for me but I don't type very fast and I did the best I could in the time I had. I hope there is no lingering hard feelings.
I had a LOT of fun here on flickr.
Hugs.
Val