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The date is October 9, 1973, and the tower clock reads 11:09 a.m. Grand Trunk operator/leverman Keith Brown is relaxing in his office chair at "Fort Wayne Tower" northwest of the town of Valparaiso, Indiana. GTW towermen controlled the crossing of their railroad with the PRR Ft. Wayne Line (hence the tower's name), and the roughly paralleling Nickel Plate. Today, the location (bereft of a tower) is known as "Spriggsboro" or "Wayne".
There's a lot to be seen in this image by an unidentified photographer from 45+ years ago – the operator's plain work clothes, the lever frame at left, the Folger's coffee can – perhaps serving as a spittoon – the block line apparatus and sounder, the train sheet on the desk, not to mention the pencil sharpener and lunchbox. While relaxed, the look on the operator's face suggests that he means business, and will spring into action once his services are needed to line up an approaching train on one of the three railroads he served.
Interlocking towers had a unique aroma of stale tobacco, cigarette smoke, creosote, dust, and sometimes coal smoke. While this doesn't sound appetizing, it is an aroma that evokes a lot of fond memories for me. I never visited Fort Wayne Tower, but I know I would have felt at home there.
De 2 IDSC 742 loks waren afgekoppeld en vertrokken zo als ik hoopte dus de 2 fossielen stonden perfekt.
Model: Natalia Larioshina
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
Operator: Partas Transportation Co., Inc.
Fleet number: 81358
Bus model: Del Monte DM10 Series 2
Date taken: December 23, 2015 @ 11:00pm
Throwack Thursday
With the F2000 lower receiver being the base for many, many of my own guns (and many other SPW builders) I felt the Operator series was missing a bona-fide F2000. So here it is!
Featuring Xanatos' fold-out vert foregrip/flashlight combo and sight, the SPW F2000 takes many concepts from the PRC-90. It features forward side rails and heat dispersion vents, a heavy barrel for increased reliability, an adjustable buttplate, interchangeable cheekrest, a forward assist to push through jams and adjustable flip-up iron sights. A unique forward-ported flash hider keeps a short profile while actively channeling muzzle flash away from the line of sight.
I saw Xanatos' C3D assault rifle while thumbing through my favorites for inspiration, and immediately knew that the foregrip would fit an F2000 perfectly. Turns out, it's actually absolutely epic. Credit also to Gardehusar for the switch idea on the buttplate slider.
Operator: First Essex Buses Ltd
Fleet Number: 69515
Registration: BJ11ECN
Body/Chassis: Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse-Urban
Chassis No: YV3R6R62XBA147961
Seating: B44F
New: March 2011
Ex: --
Livery: FirstEssex 22/28
Date: Sunday 9th April 2017
Location: Portman Road, Ipswich
Route: --
In late 2019, Watco Australia will commence operations in Queensland under a seven-year contract with GrainCorp. Eight locomotives from the National Railway Equipment Company and 128 wagons from China have been ordered. Watco has already established a major presence in grain haulage and provision of certain other rail services in Western Australia. Following privatisation, these were more or less the provence of Aurizon (ex. Queensland Rail) but over time, it has lost a lot of traffic tending to fall back to its now stated core business of minerals and associated industrial freight. The same has happened in Queensland where significant but often seasonal traffic has been lost or exited including sugar, North Coast intermodal (except on contract to Fox Logistics), grain, molasses, cotton etc.. Competitor Pacific National has tended to cherry pick some odds and sods (sugar) leaving most other traffic in limbo or lost to road. Aurizon however has just won the latest Qld. Government contract to continue cattle haulage for the next contract period. However, they have lost the grain contract with GrainCorp which has been awarded to Watco. This is a win for Queensland freight as there is a good chance that Watco will continue to expand and win marginal, lost and even new rail traffic. It has bought eight new locomotives, as depicted in this shot from the USA as well as repatriating a batch of ex. QR locomotives from South Africa. Watco is already operating under the new grain contract in Queensland.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watco_Australia
“ A license to love, insurance to hold
Melts all your memories and change into gold
His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold
No need to ask, he's a smooth operator…”
(From Smooth Operator by Sade courtesy of LyricFind.)
Let’s hope so!
This photo of the new Watco WRA class (004 and two sisters) is at Brisbane’s Fisherman Island port facility with a further two locos out of shot waiting to be towed to Warwick where Watco have set up their base and reinvigorated a former railway precinct.
The Watco Australia WRA Class is an Australian diesel-electric locomotive, constructed by the National Railway Equipment Company in the United States for use on Watco Australia's upcoming grain services in Queensland.
- Fleet: 22411
- Reg: NK06 LUY
- Operator: Stagecoach North East
- Route: 30
- Depot: Slatyford
- Livery: Stagecoach
- Type: MAN 18.220LF
- Bodywork: ADL ALX300
- Livery New In: Stagecoach
- New to/ Year: Stagecoach NE / 2006
- Location: Westmorland Road, Newcastle
Operator: Finnish Air Force
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet
Registration: HN-466
C/n: 1294/FND006
Time & Location: 17.03.2021 EFTP, Finland
Operator: Coastal Red Ltd
Fleet Number: 13
Registration: YJ07VSM
Body/Chassis: Optare X1200 Tempo
Chassis No: SABMWTAS07L280086
Seating: B39F
New: July 2007
Ex: The Trent Motor Traction Company Ltd
Livery: lynx
Date: Saturday 11th November 2017
Location: Lynn Road, Ingoldisthorpe
Route: 35 (Kings Lynn via Dersingham then direct)
Operator: Aer Lingus
Aircraft: Airbus A320-214
Registration: EI-DEL
C/n: 2409
Name: St Canice/Cainneach
Location: London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Date: 9-7-2016
Previously: F-WWDE Airbus
Got another gas mask with a recent order. Small amount of painting and it's good.
Really wish I would've gotten another one of these gas masks, I completely forgot about a mask design I've wanted to start (hint; Plague Doctor).
Challenge: Let's see if we can get just as much activity on this one as the first!
Operator: Finland Army
Aircraft: NH Industries NH-90TTH
Registration: NH-206
C/n: 1051/TFIA06
Time & Location: 15.06.2024, EFVA, Finland
Remarks: Vaasa Airshow 2024.
Operator: West Norfolk Community Transport
Fleet Number: --
Registration: YJ16DZP
Body/Chassis: Optare M925 Solo SR
Chassis No: SABLDB2A8GS291345
Seating: B31F
New: March 2016
Ex: Webberbus
Livery: Webberbus
Date: Friday 1st June 2018
Location: King’s Lynn Bus Station
Route: 4 (Grange Estate)
Extra Milw 96C East clearing Newport block,entering Curry block. A one time special operation temporary Manual Block station. Joint Milw/BN track between Newport and St.Croix Tower during fall 1978 down to one track account Milw EWD track out for system steel gang. To increase track capacity in one direction ABS, divide the 10 mile block to 5 miles to allow 2 trains (1 per block). This block house at Currry,MN. with battery powered train order signal was established. Unusual for main line operations even then, it served 630am-1030pm. As seen,yours truly had the 1st trick "lawn chair" assignment. Nice duty. Now CP/BNSF ownership,both mains are CTC,so this will probably never happen again.
Operator: French Navy
Aircraft: Dassault Rafale M
Registration: 34
C/n: 34
Time & Location: 05.06.2023, EFRO, Finland
Remarks: Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023.
Nato special livery.
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet Number: 32107
Registration: LT02ZCX
Body/Chassis: Volvo B7TL Plaxton President
Chassis No: YV3S2G5172A002047
Seating: H39/22F
New: April 2002
Ex: Centrewest London Buses Ltd
Livery: Network Norwich
Date: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Location: Entrance Lane, Brooke
Route: 41 (Bungay) CHARCOAL LINE
Operator: BorderBus Ltd
Fleet Number: 206
Registration: X652LLX
Body/Chassis: Volvo B7TL Plaxton President
Chassis No: YV3S2C6131A001211
Seating: H47/33F
New: January 2001
Ex: Metroline
Livery: BorderBus
Date: Saturday 18th March 2017
Location: St Stephen's Street, Norwich
Route: 146 (Kessingland then Southwold)
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 35194
Registration: SK16GVR (SO65LPY)
Body/Chassis: Wright StreetDeck
Chassis No: SA9DDRSXX16141152
Seating: H45/28F
New: April 2016
Ex: --
Livery: Network Norwich Pink Line
Date: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Location: Bethel Street, Norwich
Route: --
Statue # 8 at the Korean War Memorial in Washington DC. I'm drawn to the empty look in his face - to eyes that have seen too much.
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Dennis Trident 2/East Lancs Lolyne - (Myllennium)
Registration Number: X398 KBV
Fleet Number: 533
History: Blackpool Transport (352) - (E19 BTS) & Isle of Man Transport (73) - (FMN 412-E)
Operator: France Air Force
Aircraft: Dassault Mirage 2000-5F
Registration: 66 / 2-EO
C/n: 292
Time & Location: 25.05.2017, EFRO(Rovaniemi), Finland
Remarks: Arctic Challenge Exercise (ACE) 2017.
Just a fun little table scrap field radio I slapped together while installing some updates on the old desktop the other day.
Our customer requested a hybrid ar15 with a larger eject port, a lightweight stock and all round sexy build.
The AR16 is all that and more
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Weight - 2.5 kg
caliber-5.56X45 mm
Length- 700 mm
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Credits :
Woitek for the front sights.
Wes for a few screws and the adjustable holo sight which i recolored and shaded and colors
Miko for the fire selector
Comments and notes etc are welcome
Don't be to hard guys my first SPW weapon for a while.
I added a few people who were either in the credits or would like to know what they thought about it :)
Operator: Great Western Railway
Livery: GWR Green & GWR Lined Green
No: 57605 'Totnes Castle' & 57604 'PENDENNIS CASTLE'
Service: 5Z50 10:00 PENZANCE T.& R.S.M.D. - 17:23 READING TRAINCARE DEPOT
Location: Keyham
Date: 05/05/2026.
In Iraq,
a group of Navy SEALs asked Sweetwater to develop a bullpup assault rifle,
for standard operations at night.
Sweetwater used the VHS design,
lowered the carrying handle,
added an intergrated foregrip,
and added some SPW attachments to fit the missions belongings.
The Valencia was born!
NOTE: I could't save the code :'(
Credit to TrapezoidCQC, Bowlingdude, Wiikling
Duke, Billy, Irish and the entire SPW team!
(Sorry for adding peeps to this picture,
but i added Duke as it's his VHS, Amy as she is my mentrix and Beck as he has also been like a mentor the last couple of days )
ARRIVA Buses Wales Leyland Olympian 3996 - D170 FYM passes through Gronant on its return from Presthaven Sands, working Roller Coaster Route 1 to Towyn Crossroads. Despite its age, this bus is still in excellent condition and is a very smooth runner, giving many more modern buses a run for their money.