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Bereits 1968 verlor die Mainschleifenbahn ihren planmäßigen Personenverkehr. Im Jahr 1991 folgte dann der Güterverkehr, der zuletzt nur noch aus recht umfangreichem Mineralölverkehr zum Endbahnhof Volkach bestand. Im September 1994 wurde dann die Interessengemeinschaft Mainschleifenbahn gegründet, um dieses malerische Stück Eisenbahn der Nachwelt zu erhalten und die Demontage der Gleisanlagen zu verhindern. Der Ausbau der Abzweigweiche von der Hauptbahn Bamberg-Rottendorf konnte im Jahr 1998 allerdings nicht verhindert werden, sodass das Bähnlein seitdem vom Eisenbahnnetz der "großen weiten Welt" gekappt wurde, was am Foto vom 09.10.2021 deutlich wird, als 440 der DB Regio nach Würzburg die heutige Lage des Endhaltepunkts der Nebenbahn passierte.
This may be the last MOC to upload in 2018. I tried a LEGO mech with the motif of Gundam MS, Zaku for the first time.
From my personal collection, Victorian clip art from the Mammoth Story Book, copyright 1899.
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Chiller Bennet had been a WW2 frogman commando and was an engineer hater and Pom hater, with a very short temper. He dived in a Standard Dress suit with a heavy brass helmet. We were floating in huge concrete caissons and gently sinking them onto a prepared bed. This was for the new harbour walls at Darling Harbour and White Bay. The bed was of igneous rock chips, blue metal, levelled by a sheet pile dragged over rails each side. Chiller levelled the rails. We used a surveyor’s staff fixed to a buoy from which dangled a chain and a clump weight. Chiller would place the clump weight on the rail and I’d read the staff and shout “up” or “down” to the foreman who’d tell Chiller via his erratic communications link, and Chiller would tell the foreman in colourful language what he thought of me and whatever engineers did.
The standard dress divers worked from small timber pontoons, breathing from copper pressure vessels. They never operated below 10 meters of water. Chiller used his “suit” like a submarine, controlling ascent and descent via his air valves, and his horizontal movement by great kicks with his lead boots. He could do many tasks far quicker than could the younger MSB divers diving with masks, fins and “hooker” air hoses, communicating using Navy rope signals. On my last day with the MSB I saw my first full-face Band Mask with sophisticated comms that I was to find in general use for marine construction diving in the UK.
Shortly after I’d completed my diving training, the MSB (the then NSW habour authority for whom I was working as a Construction Engineer) tasked me to rationalise the their diving practice. I developed a procedure (which Chiller of course resented) to make sure Standard Dress divers always checked the helmet mounted non-return-valve whose failure could mean death, and experimented with ways to pull an injured diver out of the water. A helmeted Standard dressed diver is very heavy and the dive tenders in those days were injured tradesmen. We tried pulling Chiller Bennet up to the ladder so we could rock him up using the side of the pontoon as a fulcrum. It didn’t work and you should have heard his language. We tried various ways to lasso him, but that didn’t work either. In the end we brazed pad eyes to the tops of the brass helmets and installed davits to the diving pontoons. Lifting like that would be painful on the crotch but we were dealing with life threatening situations.
Once he walked off in the underwater green gloom of Darling Harbour, in the wrong direction. We tried to put him right but he shouted up to the surface “I know what I’m f*****g doing. I don’t need advice from you c***s, etc etc”. It was always like that. It’s a privilege to work with people like Chiller.
From my personal collection, Victorian clip art from the Mammoth Story Book, copyright 1899.
Free to incorporate into your digital and physical arts and crafts, whether for personal use or for sale. No other redistribution, single image or image compilation, allowed.
From my personal collection, Victorian clip art from the Mammoth Story Book, copyright 1899.
Free to incorporate into your digital and physical arts and crafts, whether for personal use or for sale. No other redistribution, single image or image compilation, allowed.
Tropical Storm Allison dropped more than 40 inches of rain on Houston in 2001, causing widespread flooding and severe consequences. The storm flooded the basement and ground floor of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, destroying decades of research and causing $87 million in damages to the school. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Clark, manager of anatomical services)
These will be packaged up and mailed out within a couple weeks. Enjoy the scraps Partner! I tried to pick the biggest scraps of your favorites! There's more than a fat quarters worth!
Huo Yang Xia cries as she describes the life of her orphaned grandson Fan Wen Jie, 11, who lives with her in Fanzhuan Village, Jiangsu Province, China. The boy's father died in a car crash in 2005, and his mother remarried in 2006, abandoning the boy, though she still periodically sends money to help the family. The boy's grandparents are frequently ill, and the meager income from farming cannot support him. ..At the time of the picture, China's Amity Foundation charity, was investigating the family's situation in preparation to raise money to financially support these children and other orphans in similar situations. With Amity's support, each orphan, aged 6-12, would receive approximately 1,400 RMB annually (about 200 USD) to pay for the cost of living. Amity works to keep children out of the institutional orphanages in China, preferring to provide monetary assistance that can help maintain a family environment for the orphans it helps.