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RT buses lined up in Ash Grove Garage. A special route 22 service operated by RT buses to mark their 75th anniversary. London. Saturday 12 April 2013.
First port of call on our tour was the Chester to Burtonwood run, where RT 190 appeared. This bus was to play a large part in my meeting my wife!
The front view of RT 18.
This diesel powered locomotive, designed by Anbel Corporation of Houston, Texas, and built by a small company in Milliken on Kennedy Road, runs through the subway system without using the system's third rail. This was a significant improvement on the TTC's first subway locomotive, delivered in 1968, which only operated on batteries and the subway's third rail. RT-18's independent power supply made it ideal for use on the Spadina Subway line just before it opened to the public. Received by the commission in 1977 at a cost of $450,000, it was used to tow trainsets through the unpowered line to Wilson Yards.
The locomotive is capable of speeds of up to 90 km/h and its two diesel engines can produce as much as 700 horsepower -- more than enough to haul a disabled subway train easily, not to mention heavy equipment. Platinum catalytic exhaust converters keep exhaust emissions to a minimum.
Preserved roofbox RT 1784 is seen in Brighton during the 1979 HCVC rally. Note that the vehicle carries the classic Pearl advertisement. Sunday 6th May 1979. 60.
Our Maker Art class created a Haunted House in fall 2016. In this after-school workshop at the Lycée Français, students ages 7 to 10 built a fantasy world together, with magical creatures, ghosts, witches and other spooky characters.
We combined arts and technology to bring their creations to life: each student created their own room in our haunted house, and animated their characters with motors and simple mechanisms, adding lights and sounds to tell their stories.
Students started by designing their rooms and characters, and built them in their own cardboard ‘wonderboxes.’ We then asked them to sketch up their individual visions of the Haunted House and combined them together. Children worked in teams to build some of the more complex features: a clock tower, an elevator and an animated graveyard zombie, all powered with Arduino boards.
I’m very grateful to my associate teachers for this class: Sarah Brewer and Edward Janne were amazing partners and empowered our students to create their own interactive art, helping them bring their ideas to life in a playful way that made learning more fun.
We taught this class weekly at the Lycée Français in Sausalito, with 8 school students in grades 3, 4 and 5. We met every Thursday at 3:30pm, from September 15 to December 8, 2016. Many of the materials we used in this class were prepared at Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley.
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