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favorite ride!
essa é a minha montanha russa favorita do Bush Gardens, a Kumba! a sensação que você sente quando ela passa pouco abaixo do solo é incrível! parece que você está sendo puxado para o chão!
that's my favorite Busch Garden's roller coaster, the Kumba! the sensation that you feel when it goes a little under the ground is amazing! it seems like you're being pulled to the ground!
weight classed as a 10 ton roller but weighs approx 12 tons
5 horse power
speed 4mph
Number of gears 2 slow and slower
Pistons bore and stroke 51/4”HP and 6 1/2” LP 10” stroke
Height to chimney 10’ 1” Length 18’ 5” Width 6’ 5”
Poppy was built in February 1904 by Aveling and Porter of Rochester Kent, who were at the time the largest manufacturer of steam rollers in the world. She was built to order for Wrexham Corporation.
In the minutes of their steam roller sub-comitee it is noted that the roller would cost £393 with an allowance of £80 for an old roller reducing the price to £313 delivered….in todays money that would equate to £33,225
The council had to secure a 10 year loan from central government to raise the purchase price.
The last time the roller was mentioned in the minutes was June 1931 where the committee decide to purchase a new roller as Poppy was deemed too expensive to repair the probable cost was estimated at £285. The repairs are probably in relation to an accident we think she had resulting in Poppy tipping on her side. so after 27 years of service she was sold to the Essex steam rolling association based in Romford.
They had around 40 rollers and Poppy was number 17 in their fleet, damage repaired she was put to work for another 21 years and finally retired in 1953 from road building.
The Essex steam rolling association donated Poppy to the local council who placed her in a children’s playground in Collier row Romford to be used as a climbing frame. She spent 20 years there before she was removed and saved for preservation by John Dillon of Ilford Poppy had many owners and many false starts to resort her. It was the summer of 2000 when Andrew Jackson of Cambridge purchased the roller in auction, by nowise was in pieces and many parts were missing from her days in the playground.
Andrew started a complete overhaul work included a new boiler barrel, front tube plate new throat and blackhead plates , new stays and tubes a complete front axle new piston rods new big and small end bearings and all but one of the non ferrous fittings needed replacing.
Andrew decided to part with the roller and she was purchased by Lee Chadderton of Ashton under Lyme in April 2014 all the major heavy work had been completed at this point some of the work left consisted of a new reach rod 2 new drive pins a new ashpanand damper assembly new gaskets all copper pipework to be fitted gland packing and numerous fittings and small jobs that seemed never ending!
After a successful hydraulic test a fire was lit to test the boiler and fittings on November 8th 2014 …. two weeks later the fire was lit again and Poppy moved under her own power for the first time in 61 years
and now enters another chapter attending shows and steam fairs often travelling by road under her own steam.
In November 2023 she was sold on again to her current owner Robert Boxhall who, by his own admission had dreamt of owning a steam roller his whole life and so another chapter begun.
There is no record of a roller ever carrying a name in its working life So when she was purchased in 2014 it just happened to be the centenary of the Great War so it was decided to call her Poppy in memory of the fallen.
@ Kaudulla National Park, Sri Lanka
Indian Roller is a common breeding resident in dry lowlands up to lower hills, while uncommon and local in wet lowlands. It is common mostly in coconut plantations, chena cultivation and such open areas, usually as solitary birds or in pairs. It is known as Dumbonna among Sinhalese people meaning Smoke-drinker since it has a habit of flying over the grass and shrub fires usually when burning jungles for chena cultivation to catch grasshoppers, beetles and other flying insects disturbed by the fire. Indian Roller spend much of its time sitting on a telegraph wires, fence posts or any such vantage points and flying down to catch its prey, which consists of grasshoppers, beetles, lizards and such little animals. It breeds from January to June laying 2-4 white eggs in a tree hole of a dead tree or in a rotten palm trunk. - Bushana Kalhara biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com/
Roller girl theme in studio and the backlights are speed lights that I put on lowest power as a test. Model: Vicky
India Tiger safari trip.
Our fourth park, Bandhafgarh.
Bandhavgarh National Park is spread at vindhya hills in Madhya Pradesh. Bandhavgarh National Park consists of a core area of 105 sq km and a buffer area of approximately 400 sq km of topography varies between steep ridges, undulating, forest and open meadows. Bandhavgarh National Park is known for the Royal Bengal Tigers. The density of the Tiger population at Bandhavgarh is the highest known in India.
Bandhavgarh National Park was the former hunting preserve of the Maharaja of Rewa and at present is a famous natural hub for White Tigers. White Tigers, now a major attraction around the world’s zoos, were first discovered in Rewa, not far from here. The terrain is broken, with rocky hill ranges, running roughly east west, interspersed with grassy swamps and forested valleys.
www.bandhavgarh-national-park.com/
The Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis) is a member of the roller family. It occurs widely from West Asia to the Indian Subcontinent.
It is best known for its aerobatic displays of males during the breeding season. It is often seen perched along roadside trees and wires and are commonly seen in open grassland and scrub forest habitats. The largest population occurs in India, and several states in India have chosen it as their state bird.
This is my composite of a local Roller DErby player - for this shoot i used a beauty dish and a bare speed light behind her.
I learned what I had hoped to be true -- that a fast shutter speed could capture emotions that one would never see in real life because the coaster is moving too fast.
Just off the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach.
Zenit Horizon Kompakt, Argenti Nanotomic-X EI 50, Rodinal 1:100 18 minutes
This image is from my morning walk today near the Yaquina Lighthouse... The east wind blows the tops off the large rolling waves..and...they are supposed to be even larger tomorrow.
It's alway difficult to get the pair in the same frame. Luckily, after having disappeared inside the nest chamber, I got the two of them at last...
JCB do mini rollers too. Who knew! Saw this sitting on the West Beach car park when out for a morning run. 10 degrees at 6.30 a.m. summer, hopefully, has arrived.
This Road Roller was ordered by New Mills Council and was delivered on 18th April 1924. At a cost of £ 779 - 8 shillings and weighing in at over 10.5 tons. It remained with the Council for 46 years, working directly for the Council and on private contract work, the cost of the hire in the 1940's being 33/4d a day, plus 7/6d per hour when scarifying. Drivers wages were charged at 3/4d per day with coal supplied by the hirer.
The engine was retired and advertised for sale during November and December 1969, attrating twenty enquiries and eleven offers. Eventually selling to A N Lawton and Frank Hardman in April 1970, and restored to its former glory.
in 1987 it was bought by its present owner who carried out major boiler repairs, the engine being stripped and fitted with a new back axle with wheel and axle box bearings, and gearing restored. The work was carried out over 14 months with around 1500 hours work