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My take on set 4201 Loader and Tipper, only in a futuristic style.
An independent view of the Loader-Mech with a close-up view of the drivers cab, spotlights and leg suspension / balance joints.
C&C welcome as always :)
A total snapshot here as I had to kick the ISO up to 6400. It was taken from my cockpit as I waited in a long line for takeoff. It's a dark ramp and portable floodlights are brought in to light up the loading area. I completely missed the Polet AN-124 that was parked next to it the night before. It's rare to have 2 AN-124's here at the same time.
On Interstate 10 East. That might be the widest mysterious load I’ve seen. It’s overhanging the road shoulder at this moment, but earlier with the rig centered in the No. 2 lane, the cargo was hanging over the No. 1 lane.
** This is an 8.5 minute video so has to be downloaded to see the full version as only 3 minutes are shown in the Flickr interface.
** For non-Pro Flickr users, the download limit appears to be 3 minutes on download as well, and so there is a link here-
www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Barrow_Hill_&_Stavely_Ca...
* Barrow Hill
So, on Saturday May 28th, just before moving on to the Canal Basin at Staveley and the weekend celebrations there, a small diversion was made to call in at the Barrow Hill Shed, to see what was to be seen.. In the first 22 pictures in the video, taken during the normal Shed opening times on the Saturday morning, a series of traction can be seen, and in order this is-
* BR class 40, D212/40012 'Aureol', Works No. 2669/D429, built by The English Electric Company Ltd & The Vulcan Foundry Ltd
* EWS class 37, 37521 & class 08, 08685 plus others behind these two which were not noted
* a line of 5 or more DRS class 20s, numbers unreadable from the angle taken, tut tut, no notebook!
* D5054/24054 'Phil Southern', built in 1959 by British Railways at Crewe Works with Power Unit, Sulzer 6LDA28, see-
www.elrdiesel.info/fleet-24054.php
* D4092, 'Christine', a class 10 0-6-0, diesel shunting locomotive built at Darlington in 1962.
* class 45, 45060, 'Sherwood Forester, more details here-
pioneer-diesels.co.uk/blog/?tag=45060
* Some Harry Needle class 20s with a grey diesel shunter in the foreground
* IEMD 01 shunter
* class 20 GBRf, 20905
* Ruston Diesel Shunter, D2996, 07012, was at Scunthorpe Works, as stated on Wikipedia, but not any more/
* D5814 class 31, 31414, see-
www.brdw.co.uk/class31/class31-414.html
* E3035, class 83, 83012, English Electric/Vulcan Foundry Works numbers 2941/E277, built in July 1961, withdrawn in March 1989
* EWS class 08 shunter, 08685
* Virgin Trains, class 82, 82101
* GCR 506, 'Butler Henderson'
* BR Scot Rail class 37, 37403, 'Isle of Mull', earlier numbers were D6607 & 37307
and with two of the younger enthusiasts, Casper & Oscar, attempting to drive off with one of the diesel locomotives, Casper clearly watching the gauges as he eases the throttle open whilst Oscar engages 'primary drive'... Another BR shunter can be seen in front of 'Butler Henderson', on the form of class 03, 03066. With a few of the innards of Scott Rail 37403, 'Isle of Mull' on the platform at 'Roundhouse Halt' at the region's iconic and the UK's only surviving Roundhouse Locomotive Shed, coded 18D by the LMS and 41E by BR, time to move off to the festivities at the Staveley Canal Basin, in the 2nd part of the video.
* Staveley Canal Basin
Along with the pictures taken here during the afternoon festivities, which were very good, more information can be found relating to the Canal Trust and its partners from, The Chesterfield Canal Trust-
www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk
along with the IWA, the Inland Waterways Association with the Water Recovery Group being part of the IWA-
The trust held its 2016 Canal Festival at the newly refurbished and just recently completed, Staveley Basin, over the weekend of the 28th-29th of May, now, last year. Fortunately the weather was with them and it turned out to be a very successful weekend, see-
chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/general-news/
These 2nd set of pictures in this 8.5 minute video, taking up over 6 minutes of the total time, shows the various activities going on at the Canal Basin, some of the attractions of which, I have to say, 'The Urban Gypsies' to my mind were the best. Shots of the various activities, the canal cruisers and folks generally having a good time on and off the water and finally a short excursion along the as yet unfinished section along to where the canal will go under the track-bed of the now denuded 'Seymour Branch line', the canal then following the route alongside the GCR's old London Extension line towards the Rother Valley Country Park. From there the canal will rise up the hill to the western portal of Norwood Tunnel where it will eventually join up with the end of the other section of the canal at Kiveton. For details of this end of the work and a view inside Norwood Tunnel, 164Mby, 10m 28sec, see-
www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Norwood_Tunnel_2016-conv.mp4
At present the Canal water flows out of the basin through the town lock and ends up running through a pipe, over-flowing into a rough catchment area where it is finally diverted back from whence it came; the River Rother. This is as far as the navigation goes at the present time and the 1st shot shows 'Seth Ellis', built by Soar Valley Steel Boasts Ltd, having come about and moored up just this side of the temporary dam wall, waiting for its return journey through the lock. Much of the space still looks like a building site but the Canal Trust had made a great effort to make the event safe and look good with plenty of folk about to ask for information.
There were boats a-plenty of one sort or another, cruisers, canoes and more traditional craft. An evening event was the 'Parade of the Illuminated Boats', an after-dark saunter down towards where the Staveley Iron & Chemical works used to be located, opposite Mill Green. More antics from the Urban Gypsies as they 'frolic' about the place and the odd partial view of the Morris Dancing brigade.
There are several interesting characters to see here and there around the lock side and just before the excavator operator, Mr. Oscar A. Aujla, takes the final shot, a look at the yet to be completed route along from the basin overflow to around the corner under Hall Lane and then on to where the canal used to pass under the railway line.
This line, took freight moves from the Midland Line, off to the left, across the canal here and on to Seymour Junction at Poolsbrook, where it branched, the north-east line, with another branch, Oxcroft Junction, to the Oxcroft coal depot at Mill Lane, passing through Clowne, Creswell, Langwith & Shirebrook, the latter with its own branch to the colliery at Thoresby, and then through to Mansfield and points south. The other branch line went south-east to the large pits at Markham & Bolsover, on the east side of the M1 motorway at right next; this once derelict space is now being developed for contemporary industrial use and there was talk of some of this being rail connected again ... but that looks to have come to nothing.
All the tracks from Poolsbrook along to Clowne, Oxcroft Colliery and Markham Colliery have now been lifted, some of it, unofficially, in addition, the signal box at Seymour Junction, still visible on the 1999 and 2007 Google Earth views, was burned down after 2007 and the site has now been cleared. The Canal Trust, I was told, was in negotiations with Network Rail regarding the canal passage under/across the Poolsbrook branch line trackbed, which can be seen towards the end of the video, and as I understand it, NR wanted to maintain the availability of the track bed for future use but this now appears not to be the case. If so it will mean the canal trust does not have to dig another, rather deep, lock to pass under the railway line, though in a way it would be good to keep the layout as it is with a new lock under the track-bed, just in case! but that's a lot of effort if trains are never to run along here again.
The views at the end show the aspect facing towards the canal basin and looking along the now denuded track-bed towards Seymour Junction with, at that time in May, a profusion of wild flowers growing at either side of the track with the canal bridge visible at lower right where the palisade fence, zigzags into the picture; hardly worth having it there anymore! There is a shot of the rusting footbridge over the track-bed the bridge now not really needed and who knows what its fate might be once the canal passes though here with its towpath.
Closer to the basin, on the walk back from the railway formation, a shot of the point at which the canal waters flow back down to the River Rother, the exit from the muddy canal bed being below the large rectangular structures which can be seen on the left in the picture.
Coming to the end of the walk back from the point at which the canal will take its course up along the GC's old London Extension trackbed from Staveley to Killamarsh, an end on view looking into the canal outlet on this side of the town lock, with two of the cruising barges moored up and the 'Ice Cream Man' doing a brisk trade. Finally, Mr. O.A Aujla takes charge of the mechanical digger for the final shots at the canal basin, the Waterway Recovery Group instructing him on how to manipulate a road cone into the air and deposit it somewhere else.
Finally, a look back at the scene along the Poolsbrook Branch from a similar location seen in the earlier shots today. The last two shots show the scene as it looked in February, 2014, just over two years before today's festivities. The 1st looks west, towards the canal basin, with not much in the way of the canal excavation having taken place at this time; though rainwater is accumulating in the course of the canal bed. The track-bed, though weeds are everywhere, is still in its original double-track form and it wouldn't have taken much effort at this stage to re-open this line. The 2nd, and last picture in the video, is the view looking in the opposite direction and south of east towards Poolsbrook and Seymour Junction and again, the lines are in reasonably good condition and could be brought back to life for container use along to the land once occupied by the Markham and Bolsover Collieries; now sadly, it seems, not to be.
Here endeth this 'End-of-Year' piece, though there is another part to follow next in relation to developments with the route of the HS2, and I hope it provides some enjoyment and viewers feel its worth down-loading and taking a look. A very Happy and Prosperous, and hopefully less turbulent, New Year to one and all. Many thanks for your continued interest, remarks, additional information and other comments over last year, I appreciate it all...
Slovakian 2019-built 600mm gauge 'TL16' Class 520 volts DC electric locomotive 'No.5' has just positioned the rake of four bogie hopper wagons for loading beneath the limestone loading point serving Wesling's Förderstedt quarry, near Stassfurt on 1st February 2024.
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Phew - still sick - fever, aching, etc etc - didn't think I would do this but I pulled myself off the couch and threw it together. (With help from Studio Calico's Nicole Harper's LO that I lifted). Now back to bed!
Pangasinan Solid North Transit Inc.- 1607
Bus No: 1607
Year released: 2010
Capacity: 45; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao/Balintawak-San Carlos via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac/Sta. Ignacia/Camiling/Bayambang/Malasiqui
Body: Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.
Model: 2010 Yutong ZK6107HA Series
Chassis: Yutong ZK6107CRA
Engine: Yuchai YC6A240-20 (G52YA/G52MA)
Fare: Airconditioned
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Air Suspension
Taken on: August 28, 2017
Location: Mabalacat City Bus Terminal, Brgy. Dau, Mabalacat City, Pampanga
Re-enactors of the 3rd Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry load gear and supplies onto a Kennebec Central Mixed Train in the station area at Alna Center, Maine, during the June, 2024 "Road to Togus" event at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum. Although not historically accurate, because the Kennbec Central was not built until well after the Civil War, the re-enactors were present at this event to emphasize the connection between the KCRR and the National Soldiers Home in Togus, Maine, where hundreds of Civil War veterans lived out the rest of their lives in retirement.
Here's a really nice Peterbilt leased to Anderson Trucking Service picking up a load at Aqua Chem Corp. in Milwaukee in July 1981.
Glad this load of building blocks didn't fall from the truck (as it went round the roundabout) when I was there!
Oddly the blocks were gone when I returned from work some 8 hours later.
Here is a look at the controls of the load out as the operator is not only controlling the height of the chute, the flow, and the silo conveyors with his let hand, he is remotely controlling the locomotives using a remote box with his right hand.
A revised / reprocessed version on the load limit picture of the Victoria traffic bridge from in February. I'm reprocessing some photos of this beauty to display at Moka coffee shop in September.
66158 loads up with coal having just arrived working 4V01 23:20 Earles Sidings (Hope) to Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery.
Just arrived at the cattle dock and being herded into pens before loading into the waiting cattle wagons.
Red Wharfe Bay Model Railway. N Gauge.
Goole Model Railway Show 2017.
960 Loading Dock. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Loading dock area of a San Francisco building.
As life trends slowly back towards a more normal world, I was recently able to join my Studio Nocturne friends (a group of San Francisco Bay Area night photographers) for the resumption of our annual fall “open studio” events in conjunction with the ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios. The group and its ancestor, The Nocturnes, has shown night photography during this event for a couple of decades. Things were more or less suspended last year, for reasons I hardly need to explain, but this year we were able to offer a very successful open studio event in North Beach, followed by a “pop-up” event in Dogpatch.
So, for the first time in a couple of years, I spent the better part of several full days in San Francisco, showing art, working with my colleagues, talking to visitors about our work. This return to something feeling a bit like the old normal was wonderful. It was also great to once again feel like the life of this city was returning — masked and socially-distanced, yes, but still. The photograph includes the “view” from my location at the pop-up event. As an aside, its composition reminds me of the ubiquitous “chyron” displays on television…
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Detail of Cathedral Building, Heart of Worcestershire College, Worcester. Designed by architects Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners. Completed at some point between 1965-73.