Peter Brock's sleek aerodynamic aluminum body designed to allow higher speeds on the long straight-aways of the 1964 24 hours of Le Mans. Shelby was the pointman appointed by Ford in their battle with Ferrari for the LeMans crown, and this was his first try. Of course eventually with the GT40 he did succeed, but this was the first as the Cobra convertibles caused too much air turbulence to hit the high speeds necessary to beat Enzo's best.

As the story goes, the truck carrying CSX2286, the one-off Daytona Coupe built special for the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans race, was involved in an accident on the way to the track. Carroll Shelby’s “secret weapon,” as the car would become known, was badly damaged and would not be able to race. According to the legend, the car was powered by an iron-block 427 with aluminum cylinder heads, just like the one the NASCAR boys had been running, and had been tested at Riverside.

Only all of the above never really happened. It’s an urban legend. Hogwash. Poppycock.

In reality, the car was never finished. Despite the best efforts of John Ohlsen, one of Shelby’s trusted fabricators, CSX2286 was still missing major components in June 1964 and wasn’t ready to race. Despite the “story,” it was never put on a truck headed for Le Mans. Instead it remained under construction in a dark and dusty corner of Carrozzeria Grand Sport, an Italian body shop in Modena often used by Shelby.

“I think this story was invented by Shelby as an answer to why it never arrived in France for the race,” says Peter Brock, who designed the Cobra Daytona Coupe for Shelby in 1964. “It couldn’t have, as it was never completed and never ran. Since some people knew of Shelby’s plan to embarrass Ferrari with a prototype Daytona Coupe at Le Mans and it never showed, he had the story released that it had been crashed on the way to France.”

Months earlier, Shelby asked Ohlsen to yank the coupe’s 289 small-block, lengthen its chassis three inches and install an all-aluminum 427. He wanted a big-block to take on Ferrari in the Prototype Class. “The idea was that it would have the power of a big block with the lightweight of the 289,” Brock says.

Ohlsen modified the chassis at Shelby’s shop in Venice, California, and then shipped the car to Italy where he would oversee the body modifications and install the larger engine. Only Ford wouldn’t make Shelby an aluminum 427. “They said the bore spacing and thin walls of the block would cause overheating,” says Brock, who is now 82. “Instead, they sent us an aluminum 390 block, which Ohlsen installed.”

Unfortunately, time ran out. “The car was maybe 70-percent completed,” Brock says. “He was waiting on a long list of parts from Ford, including a clutch.” Shelby must have been disappointed. With more than 500 horsepower and weighing just 2200 pounds, the sleek, aerodynamic coupe would have been the fastest car on the three-mile long Mulsanne Straight that year. “We were running 197 mph in the 289 car,” Brock says. “So it would have easily passed 200 mph.”

Enzo must have had a laugh when he heard of his rival’s misfortune, and his team did win big that year, with Ferraris taking all three podium spots. But Shelby’s crew was a scrappy bunch, and a small-block Daytona Coupe, CSX229—with Ohlsen as crew chief and driven by Bob Bondurant and Dan Gurney—finished fourth, winning the GT class over Enzo’s GTOs.

The car in the image is one of Shelby's official 50th Anniversery models....The price for each aluminum and fiberglass selection, sans drivetrain, starts at $349,995 and $179,995, respectively. Get your spare change out........

In May 2014, the Mass Bay RRE coordinated a photo special featuring ex-CN 7470 before the locomotive went out of service for an FRA inspection for 4.5 years. The special toured the Conway Branch to Conway, and the Mountain Subdivision between Redstone and Notchland. Here, 7470 is seen at Pudding Pond in Conway on the Redstone Branch/Mountain Sub. The charter was cut short for 7470 after an overheated bearing was discovered in Bartlett en route back to North Conway.

Note: the sky was replaced in Photoshop since the original photo was blown out.

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Clear and cold weather has finally arrived, and we Alaskans are thrilled. Skies are clear, temperatures well below zero in most places, dog mushers are able to run their dogs in more tolerable conditions, and Santa doesn't have to worry about the lack of snow, or overheating in his bright red suit. Tomorrow we will actually start adding to our daylight deficit, and by March we will be enjoying 12 hours of daylight. Time seems to fly by when you live in the far north - or is it because Doc and I are getting older. Hummm . . .

I've lived in the Mojave Desert now for more than two years and have finally visited the famous London Bridge for a sunset. It was probably the warmest sunset that I've ever photographed. It was 112 degrees, and my camera shut down after overheating.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 24th, 2024, Trona Railway’s afternoon Searles turn brings a cut of cars past the West End Plant with TRC2009 (former Union Pacific SD40-2) leading as the sun set over the Searles Valley. Due to an issue with the coal unloader blocking the path of the train at the plant, the crew got a late start to their run despite having a surprisingly relatively short train and little to build. Although that afternoon’s train was planned to have 110 cars, the 7,200 ton weight restriction meant that the railroad could not physically take all the cars out of the plant without using manned helpers, which they did not have the crews for. Additionally, the locomotives ended up overheating just east of the Searles Interchange, resulting in the engines running back lite to the plant without taking any empties east. No, there was no Airstream trailer or a J-45 guitar involved.

This looks like a happy owl, but sadly, it’s not. I took this picture a while back when temperatures in the shade of the dark forest were 108 degrees Fahrenheit. This Northern Spotted Owl, and endangered species, is panting heavily because he’s overheated. He came down low where there was a little relief in temperatures in hopes to cool down a bit.

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I’m posting this shot today, as I am very worried about how these beautiful creatures are being impacted by the horrendous wildfires north of us. Not only do I pray for the animals directly in harm’s way, but also for the animals that are breathing in this extremely unhealthy smoke filled air. They cannot escape inside like the rest of us.

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These high temperatures and fires are all direct effects of climate change, and we are witnessing the downside of it as we speak. I pray for the safety of all living things as we get through the wildfires ravaging our communities, open space and forests.

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My photos are always unbaited, always respecting every animal and its habitat.

The garden was overgrown and overheated when we got home from France. A bit of tidying and a lot of camouflage in Photoshop later....

A shady and cool place in the overheated city

Am wondering if I should crop this s little tighter?

13-September-2024

A whole day after the "summer snowstorm", summer and winter are still clearly evident on the Julian Alps: here we see all the main chain of Mount Canin (2587m a.s.l., see notes!), seen from the North by the Montasio Plateau/Plains (1550m here), where there is No sign of autumn yet.

An Arctic front has completely overturned the summer, reaching a winter tasting.

In the internal areas of the Julian Alps, both in Italy and in Slovenia, in the night between 12 and 13 September, the snow dropped up to whitewashing the valley floors ​​of the Tarvisio Area and those of the Upper Valley of the Sava River catchment, down to just 700m a.s.l., then a very rare situation in the first half of September.

The overheating of air, land and sea, following the opressively hot summer 2024, which in Tarvisio town was the hottest ever recorded by local weather stations, made the contrast with the wedge of cold air of arctic origin of extreme intensity.

Very strong winds and alluvial rains have affected the entire area I follow, while the collapse of the temperature at altitude, combined with the drag of the freezing point (thermal 0°C limit) made by the intense rain/snowfall, led the snow to go down to the internal valleys ​​of the Julian Alps for a few hours, whitening them, as really rare in this period.

For this reason, more than autumn, we can speak of a short winter phase, given that the snowfall average limit in the winter season is around 500-700m in these areas.

Affected by abundant snowfalls at almost winter altitudes were also the Carnic Alps, the Karavanke and the Kamnik and Savinja Alps, all between Italy, Slovenia and Austria, where the coldest nucleus of the front had positioned that night.

Finley is a sweet puppy. He lives on our street, just a few houses east of us. I made several exposures, this is the only one that turned out. Finley was moving around without a pause!

nectaring on Verbena bonariensis

Butterflies today weren't displaying their inner wings much, someone said that's to stop them overheating.

From the dark underwing you'd never guess the beauty inside.

... and cooled down

July 2, 2020 - Arapahoe, Beaver City, Alma Nebraska

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July came in with a Bang! Sweet storm setup with small tornado potential this day. We knew before we went that this would be an outflow dominate storm. A shelf cloud that stretched all the way from South Dakota into Kansas. 286 Miles long as we intercepted this beast storm about 8:15pm near Beaver City Nebraska for starters.

For some odd reason my Canon T3i overheated this late evening so I wasn't able to get all the pics that wanted from this day. With that being said, I have limited photos from this event.

Though what we did capture was simply Storm Chasing Eye Candy! High instability with a huge mammatus field stretching from horizon to horizon. One of the best photographic shelf clouds of the 2020 season.

Best thing was, we got out in front of it again by Alma Nebraska... Surreal!

With pics from my smartphone and some video help from Myles Nelson I was able to put this vid together! Took a few weeks but the end result is of course ....Epic! Storm Chasing out in the plains of South Central Nebraska to kick off the month of July was simply a hoot!

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Brings on gratitude, at minus 22C outside, plus 10 inside, as I turned down the thermostats to that so we can absorb all the solar heat without overheating the inside, mind you I now have a ventilation ducts to put excess heat in the basement!

And push out the last moisture after slapping 50 pounds of stucco/drywall mud on the walls...

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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

Captured on a very hot spring day during April 2019.

That's my computer booked in for minor surgery on Wednesday and it will be bed bound for a few days afterwards. Fingers crossed that all will be well afterwards. I am fairly sure that a water cooling radiator inside a computer is not supposed to be rusty! Stay safe everyone!

Today's gift: A pair of GP35-3's on the 223, for some reason. Despite the 200 overheating while attempting the hill at Smithville, they made it through Creston in decent afternoon light.

So it was over 100F out, and this little male spent one minute panting on his perch and another posing for photos, before resuming his busy schedule of attacking every other hummingbird in the world. Mean little shits, hummingbirds.

Davis, Ca. August, 2021.

NMWA-25 gets back underway at Pittsfield, after picking up units from the wreck train and WA-3's power.

The day prior, the wreck train was supposed to combine with WA-3, which had tied down at Pittsfield on its return trip from Detroit. Things didn't pan out as GP40 334 was dead and 519 the other other unit on the wreck train, was blowing oil out the stack bad enough the crew had to stop several times enroute to clean the windows.

When they got to Pittsfield they were short on time, so they shuffled cars around on the siding. While doing so they found several of the plain bearings on the wreck train had overheated and the grain cars from Detroit, were heavily damaged from the unloading process. So they ended up tying down there.

The following day NMWA stopped to pick up the 4 units on the siding, running into town with the 509 and the 511 to grab the power. While doing so, 509 developed a radiator leak and lost its water and shut down. By that point NMWA was low on time and just grabbed the power and ran back to the train. Upon recrewing the train, the next crew found that they didn't have enough jumpers to tie the operational units together. So once again there was a wait while someone ran some up from Waterville.

Finally getting underway at dusk, the crew and five units, are seen creeping by the station which was undergoing restoration at the time.

Today just about every locomotive in this photo is scrapped, retired, sold, or stored.

Pan Am Railways

Train: NMWA-25

4/25/2019

Pittsfield, ME

ST District 1 Freight Main Line

I didn't have to go far to get this shot, found a Blue Darner in our backyard trying to cool itself off. I had to look this up, but it displayed the obelisk position, pointing its abdomen directly to the sun, reducing the surface area exposed to solar heating. Positioning itself like this keeps it from overheating. Some dragonflies will point their wings forward and down to minimize exposure to sunlight. I learned something new, and hopefully, you did too. Photographed in Ferguson, Missouri.

With M306 rapidly approaching on the #3 track in background as seen from an almost empty Coteau yard, the crew of L536 job is at work retrieving an lone "Trudeau hopper", set out earlier in track QO67 by train G874 with an overheated bearing issue.

The problematic car will be promptly moved toward the assigned B/O track before 536's engines will be shut down in track QO44 and the crew head for the office to call it a day.

CN 7512, an GP38-2 modified back in 1978 from road to hump service, is now back on the mainline jobs with inside and outside cab cameras, microwave, fridge along with an IDU box, enabling train operation with a TIBS. It was still configured for long hood operation and lacking a cow catcher on either end giving a 25MPH restriction any time it was in leading position.

7512 was delivered new to Canadian National as their 5547 back in early 1973.

CN L53621-21

4724 7512

Milepost 38.3 Kingston subdivision

Coteau-du-Lac,QC

September 21st 2024

Doug Harrop Collection

Doug was a big fan of EMD - GE - Alco "double diesel" locomotives. He spent time trackside in the 1970s and 80s catching EMD DD35 and DDA40X series locomotives.

At some point, he acquired this Kodachrome slide of a factory fresh GE U50C model photographed at the Burlington Route shops in Cicero, Illinois. The photographer's name is not listed on the original slide.

Union Pacific acquired 40 U50Cs from GE between 1969 and 1971. The model was built with specifications to mirror EMD's production DDA40X model. The series were designed and built to power high priority UP freight trains.

Sadly, the U50C model was not successful. The weight saving measures to use six axle tracks (rather than eight) lead to stress cracking. Using aluminum wiring (rather than copper) in production lead to overheating and numerous electrical fires.

When traffic levels waned in the mid-1970s, the U50Cs were placed in storage. The series would never run again, and were retired from the roster and sold for scrap between 1977 and 1978.

It's always sort of an adventure to visit the oldest trees on the planet. They aren't exactly on the way to anywhere, and they certainly aren't in a particularly hospitable environment. This time we took a new route up Silver Canyon Rd, little did I know this would take us up 6-7,000 feet of vertical off-road before joining with the more reasonably graded main road. The transmission overheated multiple times and we had to pause to wait for things to cool off, missing sunset mostly, but catching twilight, and some late night Astro for thanksgiving. These trees seem to have ancient knowledge from the beginning of time. They make quite the statement stretching back as far as 4,500 years ago when they were born.

After having experimented many times with exposing lumens in my UV box (with shitty success) I was desperate to try exposing in daylight instead. Maybe there are wavelengths missing in the box that despite winter conditions will render a more colourful print with daylight. Well, I say daylight, it's more a shade of light for a few hours around lunch time, then it's dark again. And we've had some really bad weather here in Hammarö/Värmland/Sweden for the last week with at least two serious snowstorms. So let's hear it for Rollei Vintage 332 RC in snow :-) I'll see how many hours exposure this will be...

At least no risk for overheating ;-)

This is the well known Mae Suai viewpoint in Chiang Rai with parking big enough for a dozen or more buses and much against my usual stubborn refusal to capture 'viewpoints' I pulled up anyway, got my tripod out and made a 9 vertical shot pano.

But then I did have a reasonable excuse and that was my poor old car had overheated due to someone forgetting to put water in the radiator. If I could have stopped further down the ridge way I surely would have, steam was venting in all directions but the handbrake isn't exactly the car's best feature, and besides there is barely room to park a bicycle on the roads leading up here!

I suppose there are worse places to break down and I can't deny that I didn't enjoy the moment especially with it being unplanned.

Thank you cooling off here :)

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Hey guys, I'm back with a modified version of Scott Leyland's Batman Beyond Batmobile. Apart from Scott Leyland's excellent render, I tried to keep the design streamlined and studless as to capture the silhouette look of the model. And while its not entirely accurate, I'm pretty satisfied overall and glad I was finally able to make one of my favorite Batmobiles.

Also, check out the side-view shot to get a better idea of the builds scale in terms of length and height.

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Tell me what you guys think and as always, thanks for viewing and have a schway day.

Update: I'm really sorry about my recent 2 months of inactivity. My laptop's core had overheated and I had to send it to Geek Squad for repairs. However, problem solved so expect more builds these upcoming weeks.

...took these pictures on a deserted beach waiting for my overheated vehicle to cool down....a good result to a night that almost ended in disaster.....and I dropped my Canon 10-22mm USM lens in the wet sand!!! :-(( very sad..

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1952 Jaguar C Type

The Jaguar C-Type (officially called the Jaguar XK120-C) is a racing sports car built by Jaguar and sold from 1951 to 1953. The "C" stands for "competition".

The car combined the running gear of the contemporary, road-proven XK120, with a lightweight tubular frame designed by Jaguar Chief Engineer William Heynes, and an aerodynamic aluminium body, jointly developed by William Heynes, R J (Bob) Knight and later Malcolm Sayer. A total of 53 C-Types were built, 43 of which were sold to private owners, mainly in the US.

The road-going XK120’s 3.4-litre twin-cam, straight-6 engine produced between 160 and 180 bhp (134 kW). The C-Type version was originally tuned to around 205 bhp (153 kW). The early C-Types were fitted with SU carburettors and drum brakes. Later C-Types, produced from mid 1953, were more powerful, using triple twin-choke Weber carburettors and high-lift camshafts. They were also lighter, and braking performance was improved by using disc brakes on all four wheels. The lightweight, multi-tubular, triangulated frame was designed by Heynes. Heynes, Knight and Sayer together developed the aerodynamic body. Made of aluminium in the barchetta style, it was devoid of road-going items such as carpets, weather equipment and exterior door handles. According to the Jaguar Heritage Registry, the cars were produced between May 1952, starting with XKC001, and ending in August 1953 with XK054. The original alloy body was marked with the prefix K (e.g. K1037).

The C-Type was successful in racing, most notably at the Le Mans 24 hours race, which it won twice.

In 1951, the car won at its first attempt. The factory entered three, whose driver pairings were Stirling Moss and Jack Fairman, Leslie Johnson and triple Mille Miglia winner Clemente Biondetti, and the eventual winners, Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead. The Walker-Whitehead car was the only factory entry to finish, the other two retiring with lack of oil pressure. A privately entered XK120, owned by Robert Lawrie, co-driven by Ivan Waller, also completed the race, finishing 11th.

In 1952, Jaguar, worried by a report about the speed of the Mercedes-Benz 300SLs that would run at Le Mans, modified the C-Type’s aerodynamics to increase the top speed. However, the consequent rearrangement of the cooling system made the cars vulnerable to overheating, and all three retired from the race. The Peter Whitehead-Ian Stewart and Tony Rolt/Duncan Hamilton cars blew head gaskets, and the Stirling Moss-Peter Walker car, the only one not overheating having had a full-sized radiator hurriedly fitted, lost oil pressure after a mechanical breakage.[3] Testing by Norman Dewis at MIRA after the race proved that the overheating was caused more by the revisions to the cooling system than by the altered aerodynamics: the water pump pulley was undersized, so it was spinning too fast and causing cavitation; also the header tank was in front of the passenger-side bulkhead, far from the radiator, and the tubing diameter was too small at 7/8 inch. With the pump pulley enlarged, and the tubing increased to 1 1/4 inch, the problem was eliminated. The main drawback of the new body shape was that it reduced downforce on the tail to the extent that it caused lift and directional instability at speeds over 120 mph (193 km/h) on the Mulsanne Straight. These cars had chassis numbers XKC 001, 002 and 011. The first two were dismantled at the factory, and the third survives in normal C-type form.

In 1953, C-Types won again, and also placed second and fourth.[4] This time the body was in thinner, lighter aluminium and the original twin H8 sand cast SU carburettors were replaced by three DCO3 40mm Webers, which helped boost power to 220 bhp (164 kW). Philip Porter mentions additional changes:

Further weight was saved by using a rubber bag fuel tank ... lighter electrical equipment and thinner gauge steel for some of the chassis tubes ... [T]he most significant change to the cars were the triple Weber carburetors and [switch to] disc brakes.

Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt won the race at 105.85 mph (170.35 km/h) – the first time Le Mans had been won at an average of over 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).

Disc brakes were novel in 1953, and Jaguar's win, partly due to their superiority, set off a scramble to include discs in production cars.

1954, the C-Type's final year at Le Mans, saw a fourth place by the Ecurie Francorchamps entry driven by Roger Laurent and Jacques Swaters.

After the fire

Amish neighbors leaving our house and going home.

I didn't tell the story in the proper order. They stopped at our house because their horse was overheated. After watering horse and people, they decided the horse should not be strained further by pulling the buggy. So, in order beginning on the left: young son walking, mom leading tired horse, dad on scooter with daughter in basket (see yesterday's image), buggy being pulled by uncle with youngest son inside (see photo of several days ago).

It is fun to live in Amish country!

Himachal-pradesh (Inde 1995) - Nous avons quitté Leh, la capitale du Ladakh et nous roulons depuis 15 heures en direction de Manali. Dans moins d'une heure, le soleil aura disparu et il va falloir trouver une yourte pour passer la nuit. Question de sécurité. Seuls les chauffeurs suicidaires roulent sur cette route à la nuit tombée.

Le paysage est grandiose et je demande que l'on s'arrête pour faire une ou deux photos. Nous venons de dépasser ce camion à qui nous avons laissé deux litres d'eau pour son radiateur en surchauffe. Si vous avez la curiosité de regarder cette photo en grand format vous verrez que le capot du camion est ouvert.

Descendu de notre véhicule, je me saisis de mon 300 mm. Pour rendre sa "grandeur" et la dimension du paysage, contrairement à une idée trop répandue, c'est une longue focale qui donne le meilleur résultat en rapprochant les perspectives. Si j'avais utilisé un grand-angle, le camion disparaissait dans le paysage, devenant illisible et la montagne qui attire le regard, perdait de sa majesté au profit d'un premier plan sans intérêt.

Nikon F 90 - 300 mm Nikkor IFED - Film Ilford HP5 +, développé dans du Microphen à bain perdu, dilué 1+3.

Nuémrisation réalisée avec un Nikon D 750

Radiator overheating

Himachal-pradesh (India 1995) - We left Leh, the capital of Ladakh and we have been driving for 3pm towards Manali. In less than an hour, the sun will be gone and we will have to find a yurt to spend the night. Security Question. Only suicidal drivers drive on this road after dark.

The landscape is magnificent and I ask that we stop to take one or two photos. We have just passed this truck to which we left two liters of water for its overheated radiator. If you have the curiosity to look at this photo in large format you will see that the hood of the truck is open.

Got out of our vehicle, I grabbed my 300mm. To restore its "greatness" and the dimension of the landscape, contrary to a too widespread idea, it is a long focal length which gives the best result by bringing the perspectives closer.

If I had used a wide-angle lens, the truck would disappear into the landscape, becoming unreadable and the mountain losing its majesty in favor of an uninteresting foreground.

These furry, magnificent beasts are the apex predators of the Arctic, being perfectly adapted to its icy landscape and ocean. And yet, in our time they are more under threat of overheating than freezing. We all know the story! This Monday gone, February 27th, was International Polar Bear Day. Like the Inuit and other Arctic people, we need to keep them in the forefront of our mind, and hope that in the future, we too will be part of their story.

Hoping for a better future us all!

My young robin panting during a spell of warm weather, witnessing this was another first for me.

Late afternoon over the Bighorn Basin on the western slope of the Bighorn Mountains, one of many views one has when driving up old US 14-A to the upper and lower Five Springs Falls campgrounds. I had spent the night in Lovell, explored Bighorn Canyon for a while, then came here to shoot at Five Springs Falls. This is mostly just a "snapshot" and not what I'd consider a true "landscape", for there are the manmade roads in the scene and it's still rather harsh lighting but I thought I'd share it all the same, for maybe it will assist someone in the future if traveling in the region. This also gave me a chance to experiment further with the Nisi graduated ND filters I added to my collection prior to this trip, very helpful indeed. (Note: Until Google Maps accepts the edit I made to Old US 14A, it still shows that the road connects to Forest Service Road #541. In reality, the road ends at a gate just around the curve from the upper campground and can only be hiked beyond that point.)

The old US 14-A was a hair-raising drive at best (there is a historical sign/marker at the junction with the present-day US 14-A), though the present-day US 14-A is still quite the drive, as well. Old 14-A is visible at the lower left, while US 14-A extends from the lower right to curve around the south side of Five Springs Point to climb up the shoulder of Medicine Mountain. The highway climbs 3600 feet in the distance of ten miles with 10% grades. There are three runaway truck ramps on this downgrade, one of which is directly atop Five Springs point on the left, another of which is further down the other side of the point. Imagine trying that in the winter? lol It is obvious why this highway is closed from down in the Bighorn Basin up to Burgess Junction in the winter, eh? I've driven trucks off and on ever since 1993 and, as much as I hate to admit it, I overheated the brakes on my personal vehicle a decade ago making the descent on the eastern side of the Bighorns on the long grade that drops into Dayton. Use a lower gear, for I stopped to let brakes cool off after I felt the rotors begin to warp (amazingly, they were not permanently damaged).

This striking butterfly with streamers is a Black Fairy Hairstreak, a rainforest species, seen in the Atewa Forest, Ghana, West Africa. It is found from Sierra Leone to Congo, Uganda and northwest Tanzania.

There are 45 members of the genus Hypolycaena, of which 22 are found in the Afrotropical region, 1 in China, and 18 more across the Orient. In the Australian region a further 4 species are found, but they differ in certain ways from other Hypolycaena species, so a new genus may need to be created to contain them.

The African Hypolycaena species are popularly known as Fairy Hairstreaks. If you have time, as you are overheating in the sweltering jungle and fighting off numerous biting insects, the various species can be distinguished from one another by examining the curvature and alignment of the orange median stripe on the underside, the configuration of the white markings on the upperside hindwings, and the hue of the metallic scales in the basal area of the upperside. Good luck! It has taken me eight months to identify this species.

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I really had zero intention of looking at trains today, but when I heard that 474 was late getting out of Nahant and would have 4 standard cab EMD products, I had to go after it. Knowing overcast skies and lateness would limit my ability to shoot close to home, I ran up to Cotter and made my choices from there.

As I was scouting locations at Columbus Junction, radio chatter indicated it would be stopping at Letts because of overheating traction motors, so I kept on. I've wanted a shot around this curve with the signal and pole line so that was the obvious choice. There were 5 people at this crossing but I was only one of us went for this particular view.

Am 22. Oktober 2023 wurde erneut der über das Allgäu umgeleitete Transalpin bei Kottgeisering dokumentiert. Hintergrund war neben dem guten Wetter die Tatsache, dass diesmal ein "richtig herum" gedrehter Railjet Taurus mit der roten Seite voraus am Zug gemeldet wurde. Im warmen Abendlicht konnte ich dann die 1116.222 mit dem EC 164 nach Zürich HB samt grüßenden Lokführer fotografieren. Gut erkennbar auf diesem Bild ist das zusätzliche Lüftungsgitter, das die im Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr arg strapazierten Railjet-1116er erhalten haben. Teilweise haben die Maschinen auch das Dach in weiß lackiert bekommen, damit sich der Lokkasten bei hohen Temperaturen weniger aufheizt.

On October 22, 2023, the Transalpin diverted via the Allgäu was documented again near Kottgeisering. In addition to the good weather, the reason for this was the fact that this time a Railjet Taurus turned "the right way round" was reported with the red side ahead of the train. In the warm evening light, I was then able to photograph 1116.222 with the EC 164 to Zürich HB including the greeting driver. Clearly recognizable in this picture is the additional ventilation grille that the Railjet 1116s have been fitted with in order to prevent overheating in high-speed traffic. Some of the locomotives have also had the roof painted white so that the locomotive body heats up less at high temperatures.

In Bali we visited almost all waterfall,but this one - greatest.It’s called Sekumpul. And for reach this place you have just two road. First one - from the north of the island,and it’s pretty safe road.But if you go from south - last 13 km would be mountain serpentine with a huge gradient and lots of turns.

I had to hold my hand on the brake almost the whole way,and in one moment the overheated and stop working. I don’t know,how lucky we are,but but these couple of hundred meters were with a small gradient and without turns in front, so not easily, but we manage to stop our scooter, and not leave the road. Of course,experienced driver probably would not repeat our falls, but that time my experience was just a few weeks.Be careful!

Two Western Maryland F7As bring a special for the 1979 NRHS Convention across the Monocacy River on B&O's Metropolitan Branch on Sept. 1, 1979. Shortly after this shot one of the Fs overheated and the special dragged late into Washington, D.C. late.

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Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is a small antelope native to Eastern Africa. Kirk’s dik-diks are tiny antelopes that vary in colour depending on their habitat but are typically yellowish-gray to reddish-brown on its back and grayish-white on their belly. Males have horns that are ringed and stout at the base, which are often concealed by a tuft of hair on their forehead. These antelopes have beautiful, large, dark eyes surrounded by a white ring. And while their eyes are stunning, they provide more than just sight. Preorbital glands appear as a black spot below the inside corner of each eye. These glands produce a dark, sticky secretion used to scent-mark their territories.

The most distinguishing feature is their elongated snout, which is also an evolved cooling mechanism that stops them from overheating, even in extreme temperatures of up to 40°C (104°F). This also helps minimize their need for water.

This very cute looking Kirk's Dik-Dik was photographed during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.

July 2, 2020 - Arapahoe, Beaver City, Alma Nebraska

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July came in with a Bang! Sweet storm setup with small tornado potential this day. We knew before we went that this would be an outflow dominate storm. A shelf cloud that stretched all the way from South Dakota into Kansas. 286 Miles long as we intercepted this beast storm about 8:15pm near Beaver City Nebraska for starters.

For some odd reason my Canon T3i overheated this late evening so I wasn't able to get all the pics that wanted from this day. With that being said, I have limited photos from this event.

Though what we did capture was simply Storm Chasing Eye Candy! High instability with a huge mammatus field stretching from horizon to horizon. One of the best photographic shelf clouds of the 2020 season.

Best thing was, we got out in front of it again by Alma Nebraska... Surreal!

With pics from my smartphone and some video help from Myles Nelson I was able to put this vid together! Took a few weeks but the end result is of course ....Epic! Storm Chasing out in the plains of South Central Nebraska to kick off the month of July was simply a hoot!

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Lockheed C-5M, 86-0015, hit the tarmac hard on arrival at EAA 19, as evidenced by the extension to the gear struts. A small fire subsequently broke out from the overheated brakes but was quickly brought under control.

Circus Train at speed on the Rio Grande. The temperatures were hot so the doors were opened to help keep the elephants from overheating. Oct 1980.

The upper reaches of the Cache La Poudre River gather steam and round a bend near the junction with Hague Creek on the north side of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

My youngest son and I went for an impromptu backpacking trip for one night with a neighbor and his three kids. Although this location is not far from home as the crow flies, the nature of the roads makes it almost a 3 h drive to get to the trailhead from Boulder. My neighbor's youngest is only 4 so we opted for a relatively modest 1+ mile walk in to set up camp.

Once we arrived in camp, the afternoon and early evening thunderstorms commenced, ensuring that we were in no danger of overheating. In addition to hauling most all of the gear and food for himself and his progeny, my neighbor also produced a small box of red wine to accompany the pasta. His pack was truly mountainous. Although the mosquitoes were numerous, the sunset was splendid and time in the mountains with the kiddo is hard to pass up.

Technical notes: Camera steadied on top of knees while seated, deep breathing, click shutter, then repeat and hope statistical probabilities add up to at least one passable photo...

The back window of an old caravan.

Sorry, but Flickr is being so slow that I'm giving up. Just overheating the laptop. :(

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Taken the same night as my last upload of the aurora but from a higher vantage point up on the access road to the Remarks skifield. If it wasn't for my sketchy car that's a bit prone to overheating I would've liked to have gone all the way up!

This is a panorama of 6 shots each at:

f/2.8

13mm

25s

1600 ISO

Shot using my Tokina 11-16mm, stitched using Microsoft ICE and edited in LR.

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My experience with this laptop so far...

Service Call: December 13, 2007

- Replacement of System board

- Clean & test

Service Call: June 23, 2008

- follow up: June 30th, 2008 - no return to depot service

- follow up: July 2nd, 2008 - no return to depot service

- follow up: July 3rd, 2008 - called Purolator to re-route (tracking number) to office. Purolator has no record of the tracking number provided by Dell rep on the phone.

- follow up: July 4th, 2008 - called Dell to verify tracking number provided. Dell unable to pull up tracking number provided last night. Told to call purolator at wrong number, but no new tracking number. Requested new tracking number from Dell, and correct Purolator number, after having to provide same explanation about why I was calling again. Provided new tracking number to call Purolator with.

- follow up: July 4th, 2008 - Checked on-line Purolator site for shipment status, fond shipment, called Purolator to redirect package. . Package redirected to Adelaide St Depot for Friday July 5th, 2008.

- Packed up laptop July 4th, 2008 - return to dell for service

- Suspect that it's the system board AGAIN. Apparently Dell is STILL experiencing issuses with the NVIDIA card overheating and frying everything.