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There has been a lot of rumour and speculation as to what was to become of the CN Hagersville Subdivision when the lease ran out this year and now we know.
A public CN letter was sent out to customers on the line last week stating the following:
"CN is pleased to announce that we will be assuming control of operations for the following rail lines:
Southern Ontario Railway's Hagersville subdivision effective September 18 2018. This rail line includes the following stations: Caledonia, Hagersville and Nanticoke.
SOR's Hamilton subdivision effective December 13 2018. this rail line includes the Hamilton rail station"
For the time being things should stay the same, but we will begin to see changes occurring moving forward. As railfans we must remember that these changes effect peoples livelihoods and we need to be respectful of that.
If you haven't got your shots, now is the time.
In 1975, the NASA Summer Study was conducted at Stanford University. The purpose of this event was the speculation about designs for future space colonies.
Several designs arose from this summit, and one of them took the name of the place it was being held: Stanford torus.
Although, the concept of a rotating wheel space station has previously been proposed by Wernher von Braun and Herman Potočnik, and even used in movies (remember 2001: A Space Odyssey), Stanford torus achieved to be a design on its own, and one of my favorites along O'Neill cylinder, whose design was used for the Babylon 5 space station of the homonymous series, which you can see in LEGO form in here, or for the Cooper Station in Interstellar.
Coming back to the Stanford torus, its shape is, as its name suggests, a torus (you know, a doughnut, but with its mathematical name), plus a central part (or hub) with mirrors to reflect light to the inside of the torus, which is attached to the torus itself via a number of "spokes".
You can get more information of the Stanford torus on its Wikipedia page.
For this LEGO version I have allowed myself a certain degree of license, to achieve a better looking model:
- Removing the central hub and the spokes which somehow distracted attention from the torus.
- Not closing the torus, via transparent panels, to allow a better view of the interior design.
The final model is rather small (not more than 32 studs in diameter), because of the parts I had available, but it proved to be quite a challenge in terms of design.
I hope you enjoy it!
EMD 9089 leads a baretable train south on the Hillsboro Sub in Alton, ND.
This was one of 5 trains I saw over a three day span that had an Oakway leading, and none of them were coal trains. Up to this point during my time in North Dakota, these standard cab beauties were common on northern plains coal trains. However, power distribution began to change as BNSF filled its roster with ES44ACs and SD70ACes. The new AC power pushed the older AC power, namely the SD70MACs, north to Glendive, MT, home of the Oakways, SD60Ms, and SD75s. With the influx of AC power, these DC stalwarts were being forced out of the coal power pool. Back when this shot was taken, there was speculation where they'd end up as we were seeing them on pretty much everything except coal trains!
The massive grain silos here at Alton were definitely an eye-catcher along the table-flat lands of eastern North Dakota, but, interestingly, the world's tallest structure was actually not far from this spot. At the time, the KVLY-TV Mast was just a little off to the west and stood at an impressive 2,063'!
The opening lines of this song, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine," are part of some wonderful song meaning speculation. A common interpretation is that the bullfrog is the prophet Jeremiah from the Bible, that the bullfrog, with his distinctive call that stands out in nature, is God's voice.
www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2233
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thanks for looking!
Pecking Order.
Читающие руки перевод исправления поразительные выражения причудливый язык сокращающий прозаические глаза оригинальные этюды громкоговорители переводчики повороты,
concepts importants chansons courantes cafouillage cadres lésiner cas pensées contraires guerrier esprit spéculations conscience maladresse systèmes,
machtige meesters ambachtslieden trouw radicale bevelen prestaties idealen discretie sterfgevallen solidariteit controles vechten studenten,
mear-chogaí idé-eolaíocha eagraíochtaí cúiseanna foirmeacha patrúin leasmhara léargas méideanna mothúcháin ar snámh domhain ciúin ag caint,
تتعلق التعاليم الجمركية لسلطة الشر بطرق إتقان الممارسات التي تدرس أسئلة أداء الموضوعات والأجيال العاملة,
改革知識の確立は刑法を台無しにします新しいもつれた管理は基礎を揺るがしました解体壁苦難の状況経験された耽溺のほのめかしお世辞.
Steve.D.Hammond.
This old, restored and preserved Shell gas station sits along Front St. running through Issaquah Washington. There is speculation that the building may have been constructed as a residence in the late 1890’s. By 1902 records show the building was used as a warehouse and grocery store. By the 1940s the building had changed hands and became a feed store and gasoline station.
In 2003, the building was Landmarked and the Downtown Issaquah Association (DIA) with assistance from the City of Issaquah, private party donations and volunteers began the process of restoring the building to its 1944 appearance as the Hailstone Feed Store and Shell Gasoline Station.
It’s now most frequently used as a backdrop for social media posts.
It snowed in early season and speculation in autumn by information, and I went right away.
Because if mountains were still colored leaves, snow was intense to say, and it was snowswept.
I spend Ichiya and wait for a morning.
When I wake up, the environment is a silvery snowscape in the deep blue sky!
Snow who freezes gathers round the trees just as it is, and it's glued together.
I'm intoxicated with this photogenic world, and a result sticks all day.
I'm going to do.
Crows and other corvids often harass birds of prey in flight or perched. Why they do this at the risk of injury or death is a matter of great speculation. Some suggestions are intuitively attractive- groups of crows are proactively protecting their young, or in some cases they are attempting to steal prey that the raptor has captured.
Sometimes corvids seem to bug raptors for no logical reason, as here with a solo crow taking on a red-tailed hawk in mid-air. Presumably the crow's young have fledged by now, and the hawk did not have anything in its talons. Note how the hawk has rotated its body in flight so that its talons can be used to protect itself.
Crows are among the most "clever"/ intelligent birds, exhibiting learning similar to primates. A crow species in New Caledonia construct intricate tools to probe trees for larvae, and pet crows are able to distinguish different human faces. Who knows why they take on birds that are larger and powerful, but perhaps they have their reasons.
Narrabeen & Queenscliff.
Both these iconic Sydney ferries are now at Cockatoo Island where they have been moored for approximately 2 years.
Sadly Narrabeen’s future seems uncertain as she is now simply rusting in peace and awaiting her final fate.
As for Queenscliff there is speculation that she will undergo a refit and is expected to return to service.
Here the latest crane technology is being engaged to facilitate to refit on Queenscliff.
Cockatoo Island.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Shriveled Hands.
Flammes mystérieuses visions sombres magnifique méditation significations amères spéculations pensées couvrant des circonstances confuses souvenirs,
أفواه مهجورة أقدام مظلمة قنوات الظلام تنجرف ليال قاتمة المياه سباح السامي الماس فضول العقول متفاوتة,
rührkammern zerschmetterten pläne trommeln sorgen aufrechte richtungen beschleunigen schrecken gelöste teile eifrige herzen unvorstellbare aufregungen,
nepažįstamų žmonių juokas suvokiant mirtį išniekinimas manieros neaiškūs šešėliai pavojingos aistros fantastiški sprogimai prieštaringi tarifai,
efectos acusadores bailando confianza gusanos poderosos porciones importantes narración mordida absurda escuela tonos metafísicos,
絶え間ない目極端なマーク自然な興味深い説明過度の疑い補償の挿入挿入安心繊細さ繊細さは確かに控えめな賛辞を位置づけます確かに.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Thence gathering plumes of perfect speculation,
To imp the wings of thy high-flying mind,
Mount up aloft through heavenly contemplation,
From this dark world, whose damps the soul so blind,
And, like the native brood of eagles' kind,
On that bright Sun of Glory fix thine eyes,
Clear'd from gross mists of frail infirmities.
From An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
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With speculation that Amtrak 606 will soon lose its fizz I took another crack at it today at Baltimore County Fire Department Station 54 in Chase, MD.
I would have preferred this weather: www.flickr.com/photos/jimkleeman/16769120776/in/photolist...
The stone rows of Ménec, one of the three major groups of stone rows at the megalithic sites of Carnac, Brittany, France
Some background information:
The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in in the French department of Morbihan. They consist of stone alignments, dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones). More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany and form the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the east are within neighboring La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as early as 4500 BC.
There are three major groups of stone rows – Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan, which altogether are known as the alignments of Carnac. Another much smaller group of stones, the Petit-Ménec alignments, can be found in the neigbouring village of La Trinité-sur-Mer. These four groups may have once formed a single group but have been split up as stones were removed for other purposes. The standing stones are made of weathered granite from local outcroppings that once extensively covered the area.
The Ménec alignments near the village of Le Ménec consist of eleven converging rows of menhirs stretching for 1,165 by 100 metres (3,822 by 328 feet). At either end the remains of stone circles can still be seen. The largest stones, around 4 metres (13 feet) high, are at the wider, western end. The stones then become as small as 0.6 metres (2 feet 0 inches) high along the length of the alignment before growing in height again toward the extreme eastern end.
The Kermario alignments consists of 1029 stones in ten columns, about 1,300 m (4,300 feet) in length. At their eastern end, where the stones are shorter, a stone circle was revealed by aerial photography. The Kerlescan alignments are a smaller group of 555 stones, further to the east of the other two sites. They are composed of 13 lines with a total length of about 800 metres (2,600 feet), ranging in height from 80 cm (2 feet 7 inch) to 4 m (13 feet). At the extreme west, where the stones are tallest, there is another stone circle which has 39 stones.
There are several dolmens scattered around the area. These dolmens are generally considered to have been tombs. However, the acidic soil of Brittany has eroded away the bones. They were constructed with several large stones supporting a capstone, then buried under a mound of earth. In many cases, the mound is no longer present, sometimes due to archeological excavation, and only the large stones remain, in various states of ruin.
At the end of the 18th century, the alignments of Carnac were attributed to druidic gatherings. But just a few years later, it was claimed that they represent stars in the sky. A later theory from 1887 argued for a connection between the rows of stones and the directions of sunsets at the solstices. More recent studies assume an astronomical purpose or support the concept of a geometric megalithic yard. However, the most modern theory suggests that the stone rows belonged to some kind of defensive structure against preternatural menaces originating from the nearby sea. Anyway, a generally valid theory regarding the purpose of the alignments has not been agreed on yet.
Since 1996, the alignments of Carnac – or to be more precise – the Ménec alignments are part of the UNESCO tenative list, a list of worldwide architectural and cultural heritage sites, which are considered to become UNESCO world heritage sites sometime. If you plan a visit there, please be aware that Carnac can be overcrowded by tourists at certain hours of the day. There are also several touristic offers of clever tradespeople that cost money. However, you can still eplore the alignments on your own, although it’s no longer possible to stroll around between the stone rows as they are protected from regardless visitors by having been fenced in for quite some time.
A night out and about with Moore Camera Club trying new things and learning new skills and causing speculation in the Mulberry Tree pub as to why all those people with cameras are outside!!
Looking north from the road bridge over the railway. Some speculation about future changes to this once vibrant shopping thoroughfare Local media reports have mentioned part of it becoming a conservation area or a pedestrianised zone. Just ideas being thrown about at the moment. About 50 years too late really.
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There`s a lot of speculation that first group will lose the TPE contract so is this a sign of the future, Drs`s Chiltern liveried 68010 "Oxford Flyer" approaches Gascoigne wood sidings on a light engine move from Crewe Gresty bridge (0Z13) 08/02/2023.
After many months of rumors, speculation and high level decision making, P&W sent SD70M-2 4302 north to NECR's portable paint shop in St. Albans for its new G&W colors. Wearing its second paint scheme in less than a year, 4302 leads NECR train 611 arriving at Barretts siding, just north of Palmer, MA on Wednesday afternoon June 14, 2017.
The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence...
~Phillip Pulfrey, from "Love, Abstraction and other Speculations"
Kryssia (Kryssia_28) I hope you have a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY, dear friend!
Kryssia, espero que tenga un muy feliz cumpleaños hoy!
Thank you friends for all your visits, comments and faves. Each one of you is appreciated so much! You're the BEST!
FP & Explore #11
I'm Shiga-plateau in Nagano-prefecture by long photography travel in autumn.
A picture is taken and it's beyond Shibu-pass in a border between prefectures (for an altitude, 2172m).
Just before Kusatsu Shirane-mountain from which even beauty of the colored leaves is learned about
yoshigaflat who feels NI is wide big was visited.
But, unfortunately, colored leaves, already, already, the end, wow.
please, I shifted to the winter scenery which waits for snow.
But the red sunset will be dusk, and strikes in the surface of a mountain.
When they began, entourage changed completely and defoliated completely.
The trees of a delicate birch are applied the center at all,
It's transformed into the view of the late fall when it's full of emotion like the picture I got.
It was done.
Eastern Sierra, CA.
Forecasted by: Escaype
Peace cannot be attained by false judgement and speculations. Promote LOVE instead of promoting your destructive opinion.
There has been much speculation surrounding the mysterious objects discovered in the skies above Alaska, Northwestern Canada, and Lake Huron in recent days following an earlier downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
A number of theories have circulated regarding the origins of these UFOs, from more spy balloons to the release of an oversized helium balloon that had escaped from the film set of the sequel to the film UP.
However, what is not yet widely known is the fact that one of the objects was carrying this alien life form!
It has been christened ‘Orchis’, from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις, meaning "testicle", by General Francis Drebbin commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command as he referred to the press leak as a ‘complete balls up!’
A seductive young white-throated sparrow flashes a little bare leg, getting the attention of the paparazzi and creating wide spread speculation as to if she is wearing anything at all under those feathers.
An odd little building in the graveyard at Saul Church. One theory proposed that it was a medieval port-hole shrine containing the remains of St Patrick, St Brigid & St Columba. This was ruled out by a 2014 excavation by Queen's University which found that it was built in the late 16th or early 17th century. Its purpose remains open to speculation.
The Art of Banksy Exhibition in London.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation.
Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls and bridges throughout the world.
Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on.
A small number of Banksy's works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency created by Banksy named Pest Control.
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The same Kite as the previous one I posted, taken about a minute apart. In that time it must've dived down and picked up what looks like half a baguette. It's difficult to be sure from this shot, but others in the sequence would seem to suggest it has a liking for a cheese and pickle sandwich, although that is wild speculation on my part. It was a stroke of luck that the sun caught the baguette and lit it up like a block of gold.
Well after much anticipation and speculation it would appear we do have little ones this year, which is a relief after the disappointment of last years failure :-)
We kind of took the long way back from our trip to Bryce Canyon. We passed through the central Utah town of Manti which is home to an LDS Temple. In fact the temple dominates the little town and in the distance looks like a castle on a hill. This was the third temple opened by the church and it has been around a long time. When it was placed in Manti there was probably speculation that this region would grow a lot faster than it has.
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After setting up camp and having some well deserved freeze-dried food there was plenty of discussion and reflection on the trip so far. Looking back down the valley had never looked so good as when the sun was setting.
The real focus of our discussions though was the glacier up ahead. From our camp the glacier still looked to be at least a couple of kilometres away leaving plenty of mystery around it inviting much speculation on it's condition. There was a certain glean to the surface though that seemed to indicate the surface was icier than first expected.
The route up the glacier looked to wind around between some big rocky outcrops that posed somewhat of a threat and consideration was given to how much time we would need to spend roped up and placing protection through this section. There was one thing we knew though, that falling on ice that leads to a big rocky drop would not end well.
But just how we would attack this section would be tomorrow's challenge. For now we could only imagine ourselves up there and dream of what tomorrow held.
The Namib Naukluft Park in Namibia harbors a group of wild horses that are becoming perplexing. Nobody knows for sure where they came from but speculation is that they escaped from the communal tribal areas, that the horses brought by the Germans for duty in the diamond mines escaped, that abandoned horses at the end of the First World War gathered here, folks just don't know.
These horses are evolving into not a different species but different habits. They go longer without water, sometimes up to 5-7 days, they eat a lot less as the vegitation in the desert is spase but it has ten times the food value of normal grass, they graze on whatever is available including leaves on the few trees that inhabit the desert leaving a distinct browse line and on and on. Some have spider webbing on their rumps much like the distinctive markings of the Appaloosa Horse. They all look similar to thoroughbreds but are they descended from them?
We have worked on these horses and they appear in our book, ALL THE WILD HORSES, available through Voyager Press. What a fun project to cover wild horses of the world!
These Namib Naukluft horses live in an almost surreal moonscape. Our thanks should go to Tommy Hall, a Luderitz Game Warden in the Namibian Department of Conservation, who after many attempts finally made a watering hole and observation area for these treasures. If you ever journey to Namibia, check out these horses between Klein Aus and Gorab on the Keetmanshoop to Luderitz highway.
(Highest Explore #6, thanks!)
PCA 149 - 6-word Story
Mar 20-Apr 3, 2011 (2 weeks)
Image Tag: pca149
Assignment: It is said that Ernest Hemingway was once asked to write a complete story in six words. There is speculation that maybe this was to settle a bar bet or perhaps as a challenge to other writers. In either case, this challenge is the basis for the assignment.
Many critics state that a good photograph has to tell a story in order to connect to the viewer. For this assignment I’d like you to compose a visual interpretation of a six-word story. Although I encourage you to write your own story, feel free to use the many six word stories available that could be the basis for your image.
There is definitely a chicken/egg aspect to this assignment depending on how you approach your creativity. Which comes first, the image or the story? A compelling photo composed through your creative eye may have enough depth to provide the seed for several six-word stories. On the other hand, a clever six-word story could be creatively interpreted by several different photographic concepts. There is no right or wrong way to approach the assignment.
By the way, Hemingway’s story is: "For sale: baby shoes, never used."
WIT: I love this train graveyard. I've been here before. I could spend all day here, but I only stopped for a few minutes this time. This little trolly is my favorite, so broken and battered, but still worth photographing. I think this was part of a private collection that was originially going to be a museum, then the owner died and now these trains and trollys have been left to rust on the roadside. Quite a sad end to its life. I'm sure many people road on this trolly, had conversations, ate their meals and maybe even made business deals.
Excerpt from luminatofestival.com:
For the second time Luminato Festival will install Canadian artist Michel de Broin’s One Thousand Speculations, a 7.9 metre in diameter ball made up of 1,000 mirrors — the world’s largest mirror ball. Originally commissioned by Luminato for the 2013 Festival, this time it will not be suspended from a crane over David Pecaut Square but will hang inside the Hearn Generating Station. It is a meeting of superlatives. Turned on, it will transform the space into a futuristic spectacle, letting us dream about what could be. For Michel, the piece renders and recreates the starry sky. We will bring the starry sky inside the Hearn, reminding us that our sense of wonder is endless through inspiration. It will make us see the space of the Hearn in an ever-changing way and highlight detail after detail as the 1,000 rays slowly scan the space in circular motion.
I had headed to the Glenmore Reservoir today on speculation, hoping to see interesting waterfowl. I wasn't disappointed.
Speculation time: If TLG had jumped onto the Aliens bandwagon. Vehicles and play-sets inspired by (but not direct reproductions of) those seen in and around Hadley's Hope. I've been watching some of the New York Toy Fair coverage this week, so I decided to have my own little toy fair in my room.
And speaking of Toy Fair, (this is the optional rant section, you can opt out here if you like) is there a noticeable lack of things like vehicles and play-sets currently? No shortage of action figures for sure, but vehicles and play-sets? Are they old-fashioned somewhat now? I mean, apart from Lego sets, I don't remember seeing, you know, a big Nidavellir pay-set with Thor and Eitri or Tony Stark's mansion, for example. Lego seems to do most of the heavy lifting in regards to things like temples, outposts, bases, vehicles and secret lairs. Granted, there's some things that work in TLG's favour, like interchangeable bricks, which are more cost-effective to make rather than separate, one-off vehicles and buildings that each demand a different mould and paint application, etc.
Pacific Rim would've seemed like a great opportunity to make 15 inch mecha with pilots inside to battle kaiju. Instead, NECA made smaller, action-figure sized Jaegers. Maybe kids don't want giant robots to fight with giant monsters anymore?
The up-coming Snake Eyes movie will be a litmus test, I think, to see if GI Joe, once a bastion of great toy vehicle design, will continue it's legacy or will they focus on the characters only?
Maybe, growing up in the 80s means we were spoilt with the toys that we got. We got a flooded with so many toy lines, tonnes of original narratives and concepts. We grew up thinking that that was pretty normal for toys but maybe it was just a blip. Maybe we're just boomers after all!
I don't know anything for sure, maybe I'm just a toy-obsessed manchild who dreamed a little too hard, but it really makes me appreciate Lego all the more these days.