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Uncertain weather, as can be discerned from the clouds seen here, meant no hanging about was in order and the passage of the GBRf down the grade slowed, very slowly so there was no chance of getting the shot of the track unit on the grade up from Sheffield. And later I realised that I have in fact taken a shot of one of these units here before, almost exactly 4 years ago to the day it turns out, May 3rd 2011, when a similar unit came along here but instead of heading into Sheffield, it took the junction at Woodburn and went onto the single track branch-line up towards Stocksbridge, so I guess all is not lost! Today the star is GBRf liveried class 66, 66761 and this is the return aggregates train from Tinsley heading today for Coton Hill quarry on the 6Z32 working. Having left Tinsley Yard just 10 minutes earlier at 10:51 with its 600 tonne train, it is about to halt and wait passage through Sheffield Midland before heading off south to the Shrewsbury area, arriving 15:40 this afternoon. Heavy cloud hanging over the Capita building portends what's to come and the Capita building marks the end of the Sheffield Parkway (A57) with its slate-blue office building at Park Square; the area between there and here was taken up by the Nunnery Colliery, of which more in the next picture, along with a great deal of other 'traditional industry' at either side of a very complex railway layout; most of this has now been built over by the Sheffield Parkway. Capita proclaims that 'We are the UK's leading provider of business process outsourcing and integrated professional support service solutions', so in case you didn't know, they don't make the best cutlery in the world, or any cutlery for that matter! On the left of the picture is a remnant of part of the rail infra-structure here in the form on an old LMS signal-post and the Nunnery Single Line Junction signalbox was just this side of the signal where the small bush is located now. In front of the signal post is the track-bed over the road bridge which used to carry lines, behind the camera, into the LMSR carriage sidings and the Nunnery Colliery branch into the colliery works. This is another part of the complex of lines either side of the main, and once electrified, lines heading east through Darnall, its shed and on to both Lincoln and to the south via the GC's 'London Extension' which have now all been displaced by modern industry and roads. On the right, the GBRf is passing the front of the Veolia Environmental Services buildings which is the outfit which took over from the Sheffield Corporation's Refuse Recycler which used to be rail connected from the Midland Main line which passes just the other side of their installation. It was accessed just to the south-west (towards Sheffield Midland station) of the old Attercliffe Road station on Leveson St.; both that rail access and the station are long gone.
Published in the Nov/Dec issue of this lovely US magazine under the Art Studio feature. So very happy - 5 pages and my name on the cover! : ) Thank you so much MQU : )
Quick! Catch that bandwagon!
Another post-apocalyptic gun. I'll most likely make a lot of these. I just love my post-apoc, what can I say?
This one's a machine gun (obviously). No stock, because the guy who threw it together presumably couldn't find one. He did find a laser pointer though.
I should point out the idea behind these is that they're all one-of-a-kind, because when living in a lawless wasteland it's often wise to make sure you always pack a bit more firepower than everyone else. Hence, everyone mods their guns beyond recognition.
Aircraft Machine Guns
This case contains an international selection of aircraft automatic weapons,
rapid-firing guns that use gas pressure or recoil and spring action to eject
and replace spent cartridges. It includes some of the most significant aerial
machine guns from World War I and II.
The first successful firing of a machine gun from an airplane—a Lewis
Gun on a Wright Model B—took place in 1912 at College Park, Maryland.
Widespread interest in the concept arose with the outbreak of World War I.
Two hurdles stood in the way: a means to prevent bullets from a forward-
Firing gun from hitting the propeller blades, and decreased aircraft
performance due to the weight of the gun and ammunition. Synchronizers
or interrupter mechanisms that enabled machine guns to fire through a
whirling propeller were soon developed, and increasingly better fighter
aircraft designs rolled out as the war progressed.
By World War II, advances in aircraft design allowed more and larger
Machine guns to be carried both by fighter aircraft and by bombers for
defensive purposes. Early aerial battles showed that the 7 to 8 mm (.30 caliber)
Guns used in World War I were inadequate against all-metal aircraft. Heavier
12 to 13 mm (.50 caliber) guns proved far more effective and remained
standard on most aircraft, even after heavier armaments were introduced.
Aerial combat during the Korean War proved that even heavy machine
Guns were not effective fighter weapons in the jet age. All subsequent
Fighter aircraft designed during the Cold War were armed with either
guided missiles or cannons or both. The machine gun, however, remains
an important aerial weapon, especially for military helicopters.
There's something brilliant about this machine - it's the kind of thing a child might come up with. It's full of conveyer belts, lifts, pistons, things that shove casks onto other conveyers, and a man with a hammer tapping kegs.
Unlike the Guinness Storehouse tour in Dublin, the Fuller's brewery takes you round the actual place where they make the actual beer. In this room though, the machine was so loud that I couldn't quite hear what it did...
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This old Pepsi machine probably has seen much better days. I have heard this building was an old country store at one time, but it would have closed in the early 1960s at the very latest. It's on Horse Creek Road near the junction with Swan Creek Road, Ohio Township, Gallia County, Ohio.
Our Smith 28 which is powered by a Gardner 6LXB lifting a Cast iron machine bed delivered by Garsides Foden 4455 in sleet and snowy conditions.
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A new coffee machine as the Chinese made "Russell Hobbs" unit went pfutt after 18 months of light use. Hopefully this German made Melita will last longer.
They could had made the level indications clearer though. Barely visible clear on clear on the reservoir and black on black on the jug handle.
I may need to get a marker pen out.
One-third scale Pacific-type steam locomotives built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Now living at Swanton Pacific RailRoad near Santa Cruz, CA. This is the third of four sister locomotives. She's in the machine shop getting her boiler looked after. The forth never-completed locomotive lives at the California Railway Museum in old town Sacramento, CA. I made a picture of the forth locomotive, 1915, last month.