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I found this old dusty Remington Standard and I am taking lots of photos with the dust and dirt intact.
The early evening sun lights BR Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 73156 and its train of tank wagons at Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
NS train 21Z, aka "The Zipper" (Rutherford, PA to Chicago, IL, 63rd St., Park Manor Yard hotshot trailers/containers) flies through downtown Waterloo, Indiana on NS' ex-LS&MS/NYC/PC/CR Chicago Line with NS 8102, the Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage Unit in charge. The PRR was known as "The Standard Railroad of the World". The NYC era tri-light signals are still in service here. The Zipper was over on the #2 main passing other slower westbound trains.
I haven't seen 33A in daylight in months but what a triumphant return!
The all standard cab EMD consist motors through CP Harrisburg as the fading sunlight quickly slips below the trees with an excellent ex-Conrail SD40-2 leading an ex-Norfolk & Western SD40-2, an ex-Penn Central GP38-2, an ex-Southern GP59, and a GMTX SW1500.
The Allentown-bound freight train would stop a few miles east of here at Rutherford Yard and pick up a GP38-2 that lead auto rack train 11J into town earlier in the day.
London Transport Piccadilly Line 'Standard Stock' at Northfields depot, on a bright sunny day in around 1958. Other stock in view includes one train of 1938 Stock, and some District Line Q and R Stock, together with what appears to be one set of 1956 Stock on the right. The depot had been built to accommodate 'surface' stock, and was occasionally visited by LT Panniers..
Today (2023) the red and silver stock has all gone, but the depot looks much the same, although there is now a substantial security fence on the left, on the boundary with the main Piccadilly Line tracks.
Restored from a very faded unfocussed orange/cyan colour shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
BR Standard Class 5MT 73156 steams past Woodthorpe on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
"Britannia" races along the Great Western Main Line at Didcot with a Southend to Cardiff tour for Steam Dreams.
Locomotive: British Railways Standard Class 7MT 70000 "Britannia".
Location: Didcot station, Oxfordshire.
A selection of PN C44ACis comprising of 9311, 9214 and 9305 drop down through Minimbah with WH937 to Whitehaven Coal at Gunnedah.
2019-01-27 Pacific National 9311-9214-9305 Minimbah WH937
BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 76084 arrives at Holt Station on the North norfolk Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
This is one of a few standard powerline construction types of Xcel Energy, the company that serves Sioux Falls and surrounding areas.
The only ex Conrail SD50 rebuilt to Dash 3 standards leads 111 empties towards Ulen, MN in waning September light. SDfifD, out.
CN 149 is crossing over the eastern end of the Lachine Canal with IC 1001, IC 2705 & CN 2294 for power as it leaves the Port of Montreal.
I guess it was meant to be Norfolk Southern's day today. SD40-2 3563 and GP60 7123 wait outside TRRA's Madison Yard at Granite City, IL with the 31N, down from Decatur.
With the Santa Susana Mountains towering over the Oxnard Plain in the distance, Union Pacific 1105 looks super sharp as the still very clean Jenks Rebuilt GP60E rests next to cut cut of loaded Autoracks from the Port of Hueneme. The racks will get picked up by the southbound Guadalupe Hauler to eventually head east via West Colton. Union Pacific 1105 originally started out as Saint Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) GP60 9648 back in September of 1989.
After running about for months without a front fleetname, artic 10138 now has the First logo applied as per the new livery.
This will be the closest it gets to the new livery with withdrawal likely in 2015. 10144 on King Street on driver familiarisation.
Car: Standard Flying Ten.
Date of first registration: 30th December 1936.
Region of registration: Blackpool.
Latest recorded mileage: 73,304 (MOT 24th March 2012).
Date taken: 21st August 2019.
Album: Street Spots
This 1948 registered Standard Eight, LDH 996, was probably made before the Second World War. Car makers sold their pre-war models until new designs were introduced. This car, powered by a 1009cc 4 cylinder engine, is on display in the Coventry Transport Museum.
Suspended Animation Classic #198
Originally published October 11, 1992 (#41)
(Dates are approximate)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
By R. A. Jones
Like word of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1849 drew thousands of fortune hunters to California, news that a few rare comic books can be worth thousands of dollars prompted many to become comics collectors. Most will be disappointed, and then move on to other ventures.
Ventures such as trading cards. They are the hot ‘collectors’ item now. Capitalizing on the demand, many comic book stores also carry a wide variety of trading cards.
The next step in this melding of collectibles has now been taken. Topps – one of the major producers of trading cards for many years – recently decided to branch out and form its own comic book publishing arm.
The first fruit of their labor is now available. Entitled “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, it is an adaptation of the motion picture playing in theaters now. Insiders have questioned the wisdom of starting a line off with such a title. Movie adaptations of recent vintage aren’t usually highly valued as collectibles – especially if the movie should flop.
Also, by the time all four issues of this mini-series can see print, the original will be well on its way to video stores. This likewise plays to the theory that people won’t be interested in reading a comic when it’s faster and better to see the actual movie.
Such considerations aside, this is an excellent comic book in terms of scripting, artwork, and overall production values. If nothing else, it proves that Topps can be expected to produce comics with the same high standards of quality that they employ in their trading cards.
It can be enjoyed as a supplement to the movie (and to the original novel), and comes highly recommended as such.
“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” costs $2.95 per issue, and is available in comic book specialty stores.
A set of EMD's escaped from the Iron Range to power rock trains for the CN. The CN is busy adding about 4 miles of double track to the old EJ&E between Sutton and Spaulding. Here is O49081 getting the ballast unloaded using older conveyor belt technology and manual operation (neat to watch it unload). This once was a sleepy belt loop around Chicago for the EJ&E, now is a main artery for the CN. Power 6254,405,6256, too bad the sun was not my friend here.
Notice anything unusual about these Rooks? In all my years of bird watching I don't recall seeing Rooks feed on blanket bogs before, yet there were a number of them obviously feeding. They are typically a bird of farmland, and where I live in the Pennines I never see them feeding on the moors, yet they are often on the nearby farmland, both grassland and arable. If you look at the distribution map they are pretty much everywhere, but peter out in the highlands and islands of Scotland: app.bto.org/mapstore/StoreServlet?id=454 Though they are found throughout Ireland so they may feed on bogs there. This was taken at the south-west of Mull, which looks like the only area where they breed in that area. The nesting rookery was on Iona but I regularly saw Rooks flying back and forth across the channel of water that separates Mull from Iona. So what were they feeding on? Earthworms are a favourite food but you don't get them in acid bogs (which is why you don't see mole hills on peat). But they also feed on Cranefly larvae, or leatherjackets which are abundant in bogs, and are the staple diet for many bog-nesting waders like Dunlin and Curlew. Though the scientific name of Rook (Corvus frugilegus) means fruit-eating crow. Maybe the hot weather is May had made the farmland hard and wormless, which forced them onto the wetter bog where they'd still be able to probe for food. The white fluffy things by the way, are the heads of Hare's-tail Cotton-grass, which only grows in acidic bogs, which is how I identified this as a bog.
Bog Standard is a funny expression but I thought it fitted this photograph. It means utterly ordinary or basic, usually in a slightly derogatory way, but why "bog"? Well there seems to be no definitive answer but it may be a corruption of box standard. Apparently in the 1930s Meccano had two versions of its construction toys; Box-standard and Box-deluxe, so box standard was a thing.
Black 1952 Standard Vanguard - DCP 7 - seen at the 42nd Scottish Borders Historic Motoring Extravaganza, held at Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland, June 2014.
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