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How do you remove a concrete bridge deck? One big chunk at a time. On the southbound I-5 Stillaguamish River Bridge, a concrete saw was used to cut old 8½-inch thick deck into roughly six-foot by eight-foot pieces weighing 4½ tons each, which then were lifted out with a track hoe and removed. The new bridge deck reopened in November 2014.
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
18/52 for the group 2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: R is for Removable
Is the view of the picturesque cottage spoiled by phone wires and wheelie bins? Don't worry, they are removable with PhotoShop Elements. :-)
On Feb. 5, 2018, crews grind and remove existing roadway and remove the barrier in the median area between northbound and southbound SR 167. This work is part of ongoing construction for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project in Renton.
Aberthaw box interior viewed from the Barry end of the box looking West. Levers 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 off on the down.
At 12.45 hrs on Saturday 9th March 2013 Aberthaw Signal Box would have sent 7 5 5 to Barry Signal Box for the last time were it not for the fact that the block and bells had been removed overnight !
In the end the signaller at Aberthaw telephoned Barry and advised him he was closing the box and signed off duty, the last signaller to do so after 116 years, a bit more of our railway heritage passed into history.
South Wales, like the rest of the country, is being re-signalled with all signalling in this particular area being gradually incorporated into Cardiff IECC.
Aberthaw and Cowbridge Road signal boxes were due to be abolished as part of this re-signalling over the weekend of 26th and 27th January 2013. As is seemingly often the case, the scheme was not on time and the boxes were provisionally due to be abolished over the weekend of 23rd & 24th March 2013. In actuality this date was brought forward.
Situated on the Vale of Glamorgan line between Bridgend and Barry are these two very different boxes. The V O G leaves the former GWR main line at Barry Junction, Bridgend and runs to Barry. Originally built by the Barry Railway Company, the line became part of the mighty Great Western as a consequence of the 1923 Grouping.
Aberthaw East box opened in 1897, built by the Barry Railway Company it is as old as the line it serves.
Cowbridge Road is very clearly a more modern structure having opened on 12th September 1965 in conjunction with the opening of the then state of the art Port Talbot Power Signal Box. It acts as a fringe box to Port Talbot and on opening worked absolute block to Southerndown Road. With the gradual abolition of all the intermediate boxes between Aberthaw East and Cowbridge Road the absolute block section grew in length to a hefty 13 miles. Whilst freight traffic was light this was not a major issue but with the reintroduction of passenger services on 12th June 2005 changes were required thus a small panel was installed in Aberthaw East and track circuit block working (with axle counters)was introduced between Cowbridge Road and Aberthaw on May 9th 2005.
With the demise of Aberthaw West as a signal box in 1962 and later as a ground frame in September 1980 then Aberthaw East ceased to require it’s suffix and became plain “Aberthaw”
The attached set of images was taken during a one day trip down from Nottingham on a dull grey 9th January 2013. Poor light and limited time to cover the three boxes I set out to visit before the daylight went completely meant a limited set of shots was obtained but are posted up here as a record of these two very different boxes. (Barry box will follow in due course).
The cartridge is full of useful debris. One can be removed while another is installed and blasting continues.
REMOVE TRUMP / SWARM THE SENATE Rally at the Atrium in the Hart Office Building at 200 Independence Avenue, NE, Washington DC on Friday morning, 31 January 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE ARREST by US CAPITOL POLICE
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Tuscany Colorwash from the Drysdale Signature Colors by Casart coverings and Mary Douglas Drysdale. Repositionable, removable and reusable wall coverings
during the third Twenty20 International between West Indies Women and Pakistan Women on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at the Grenada National Stadium.
Photo by WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 15, 2017) Sailors remove chocks and chains from an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the "Grandmasters" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46 during flight operations aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79). Oscar Austin is on a deployment supporting U.S. national security interests in Europe, and increasing theater security cooperation and forward naval presence in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations.
An Inupiaq woman at a subsistence camp uses an ulu to separate the blubber from the hide of an Ugruk (Bearded Seal). The blubber will be rendered into liquid seal oil which is a prized "dipping sauce" for many food. The hide can be used to make rope or cover a wooden boat frame.
Woman uses a rounded knife to cut the fat layer off of a seal hide.
Deboxing Designer Jasmine. The doll has been removed from the case, and the spacer removed from her back. She is now fully deboxed and lying down on a counter. Her overskirt is spread out to show its full extent.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
If you are tired of pimples, scars, and other distracting blemishes that are always highlighted in your pictures and which affects your amazing look... worry no more.! Your pimples, scars or any other distracting blemishes will be professionally erased from your photo.
I recently visited a dermatologist for the first time to have a “blemish” removed. It turned out to be nothing of interest but it got me thinking about my lack of knowledge of sunscreen. So I decided to do some unofficial, unscientific research on the subject of sunscreen safety and its effectiveness.
This is what I learned.
First off there are two kinds of ingredients in sunscreen that protect you from the rays of the sun: absorbers and reflectors. Absorbers are like little chemical umbrellas that shield you from the sun. Reflectors are sort of like wrapping yourself with microscopic tinfoil, reflecting the UV away from your skin. Both forms of protection work well but also have their good and bad points.
After browsing the internet I went to the store and chose seven types of sunscreen.
Coppertone Water Babies
Coppertone Oil Free
Banana Boat Baby Tear-Free
Coppertone Sensitive Skin
Max Block
Coppertone Kids Pure & Simple
Publix Sunscreen Lotion (a local supermarkets generic brand)
All seven are lotion type and are sold sizes of 10oz or less for around $8 with the exception of the Max Block which cost only a dollar. Surprisingly the Publix brand and the Coppertone Water Babies are virtually identical chemically and even smell similar. Also the Coppertone Sensitive Skin and Coppertone Kids Pure & Simple are identical formulas with the only difference being the addition of a moisturizer.
Most of the sunscreens ingredients are safe and effective but I did come across two ingredients that could be a health issue. Oxybenzone and Vitamin A.
Oxybenzone has raised some concerns over the past few years. It has been linked to skin cancers during animal research tests and it is easily absorbed into the body where it slowly dissipates. In Europe products containing this must be labeled: "Contains Oxybenzone". The jury is still out on it's toxicity due to the lack of research but the concerns over its health issues is defiantly worth noting
Vitamin A (RETINYL VITAMIN A PALMITATE) is actually good. People use this on their face before bed to stop wrinkles- and it works. But when used in the presence of Ultraviolet light it promotes cellular mutation in skin cells,- skin cancer fertilizer! Stay away from any sunscreen containing Vitamin A.
From the sunscreens I purchased the two that came out as the best are the Coppertone Sensitive Skin and Coppertone Kids Pure & Simple. They both use Zinc Oxide, a harmless mineral, as a reflector and it contains no Oxybenzone. All the other brands contain Oxybenzone.
A good part of my research was based on the information provide by the .Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep website which lists thousands of brands of sunscreens and cosmetics. Check them out and compare what you already own. You will be very surprised with your findings, as I was.
Enjoy your summer and don't forget your sunscreen!
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So now for a little bit of chemistry
Coppertone Water Babies (and Publix store brand): Avobenzone 3%, Homosalate 13%, Octisalate 5%, Octocrylene 7%, Oxybenzone 4%
Coppertone Oil Free: Avobenzone 3%, Homosalate 13%, Octisalate 5%, Octocrylene 7%, Oxybenzone 6%
Banana Boat Baby Tear-Free: Homosalate 15%,Octinoxate 7.5%, Octisalate 7.5%, 5%, Titanium Dioxide 2.4%.
Max Block SPF 30: Octinoxate 7.5%, Octisalate 5%, Oxybenzone 4%
Coppertone Kids Pure & Simple: Octinoxate 7.5%, Octisalate 5%, Zinc Oxide 14.5%
Coppertone Sensitive Skin: Octinoxate 7.5%, Octisalate 5%, Zinc Oxide 14.5%
...and this is what this stuff is:
Avobenzone: Absorber whose worst woe is it might stain your cloths.
Homosalate: Absorber that is oil based and somewhat water repellent (won't wash off easily).
Octisalate: Absorber with a floral scent. The words “reproductive and developmental toxicity can occur” but it is used in such low quantities that it is considered a non-issue.
Octocrylene: Used primarily to extend sunscreens shelf life but is linked to cellular changes on the DNA level. That's a nice way of saying cancer causing but once again it is used in such miniscule amounts as to be a non-issue.
Octinoxate: Absorber that is not skin absorbent and water soluble.
Oxybenzone: Holy shit! If you needed something to kill lab rats, this is it! In Europe products containing this must be labeled: "Contains Oxybenzone". The jury is still out on it's toxicity due to the lack of research.
Titanium Dioxide: Reflector. Inert mineral- like titanium glitter only littler.
Zinc Oxide: That white cream stuff people put on their nose. A reflector.
removed the PS pump, AC compressor, carb, fan, radiator, hoses and electrical harnesses. Now I just need to jack it up and disconnect the exhaust and engine and tranny mounts and she will lift right out.
We hadn't planed of taking the motor and box out,but decided that it wasn't much more work to do so and it would make it easier to sandblast the chassis, Good job we did as we found that all four engine mounts were broken. So it was only held in place by the drive shaft and gearbox rear mounting.......bit of a worry.
Lower Hutt Oct 2013.
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Shaftesbury & District's extended BEA Routemaster RMA-type, when reconstruction to the lengthened RME1 was well advanced. The rear subframe had been removed so that a cracked rear axle casing could be sent off for repair. Seen at the Shaftesbury yard in company with ex-London Transport Bristol LH/ECW saloons.
This day I had about 10 moles removed off my body and was only really worried about the one on the foot.
Checkpoint Charlie removed. Later, a replica of the original borderoffice was placed here. Berlin early 90s.
Rollei 35 LED
German viewfinder camera, produced 1978 ~ 1980.
For those of you craving to see a glimmer from what is inside the Triotar Lens, here is your chance !
Another, more sideways ,view on the removed Triotar Lens Front Mounting.
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WARNING :
This image is intended as a reference for the more experienced camera service man. If you have no experience in camera repair please do yourself a favor and send your camera to a professional service shop. It would be a pity to lose a vintage camera in a failed repair attempt !
Important legal note.
All images are copyright and must not be re posted or water marks removed, anyone found reposting or removing water marks are liable to prosecution.
I helped my father remove 428 original dash, stubborn screws had to be drilled and the bash man handled from the cab. Its loose now and the full extent of the wiring horror exposed. I am hoping not much more has to come apart before we can start fitting it to the bus as there is an awful lot to move.
BACKGROUND TO RED LOCATION AND MUSEUM
During 1903 the Black, Coloured, Indian and Chinese people were forcefully removed from Port Elizabeth Central to the area which later became known as Red Location.
More forced removals followed in 1939 when Coloureds, Indians and Chinese people were removed from Red Location.
Materials for their dwellings were derived from the Uitenhage Concentration Camp as well as the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein, De Aar (First South African “Anglo Boer” War 1899 – 1902).
The name “Red Location” refers to the colour of the site's corrugated iron dwellings.
Under apartheid, Black, Coloured, Indian and Chinese people were forbidden to visit museums, libraries, and other cultural buildings, except as employees, entering through the back door.
As a result, such buildings have little positive resonance with them.
A visitor’s comment (Struan Robertson – Operation Hunger) about Red Location during the 1980’s:
“Set out on barren beach-gravel, just west of the main railway line, were rows of small gable-ended houses, made of corrugated iron.
Originally one of three camps (the other two being White and Blue Locations), it had been build at the turn of the Century as transit accommodation for British troops beings shipped to the Boer War.
The wind and rain of 88 years had long since stripped the metal, not only of the paint but also of galvinising.
The salt air had got to work and now the houses were the rust-red colour of the hematite their iron sheets had been fashioned from.
Gales had pulled off roof panels and salt had corroded holes in roofs and walls.
Yet people were living there. We entered one house where the wind whistled through gaps and found eight people wrapped in blankets on four beds, two to a bed and all sick.
The wooden ceiling above them was rotten with damp and through gaps I could see sky where the iron roof had rusted away.
As we went back to town along the freeway, with the grey silhouette of central Port Elizabeth ahead over the green sea, I found myself seething with anger.
Places like Red Location are, in the truest sense, obscene; ‘repulsive, loathsome, repugnant’ as the Concise Oxford gives it” end Quote
Red Location became a “hotspot of struggle” against the former Apartheid Regime
A number of significant struggle events took place in Red Location. One outstanding event was the 1952 Defiance Campaign against the Pass Laws.
The national Defiance campaign was launched during 1952 and the first arrests were done in Red Location.
On 26 June at 05h00, after praying the whole night at the New Brighton Civic Centre, under the leadership of Raymond Mhlaba, the first group of activists entered the “Europeans only” section of the New Brighton Station. They were arrested by 06h30.
Nompi Njongwe, the wife of Dr Njongwe led the first group of 21 women defiants. Dedeka Heliso, who later married Raymond Mhlaba in Robben Island prison, was part of this group.
The implementation of the M-Plan (Mandela Plan - street and area committees) as well as the first cell of Mkonto weSizwe originated from Red Location
Many well known people such as Raymond Mhlaba, Dora Nginza, Ernest Malgas, Wilton Mkwayi, Florence Matomela, George Pemba, etc. were either born or lived in the area
The Red Location Museum emerged from a national competition in 1998 for the design of a civic precinct.
Each entrant prepared a master plan that included a museum dedicated to the struggle against apartheid, an arts center and gallery, a market, a library, a community hall, and some housing.
Jo Noero and Heinrich Wolf won the competition.
On 10 November 2006 Red Location Museum finally opened its doors to thousands of jubilant people.
Numerous spectacular exhibitions with public programmes were launched since the Museum’s inauguration such as the Vuyisile Mini, the Langa Massacre, The traces of Truth, Prison Archive, and the Archive of Memory.
The NoNameFever-uGawulayo was another outstanding exhibition and was set up in partnership with the World Culture Museum in Sweden – from where a section of the display originated and offered a global perspective on HIV/AIDS
Red Location Museum paved it’s way to top International acclaim - scooping top awards such as the World Leadership – December 2005, the Riba Lubetkin – June 2006, the Dedalo Minosse – June 2006 as well as the PMR Eastern Cape Leadership Awards – June 2006/7/8