TOW TRUCKS AROUND THE WORLD
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This beautiful old red Chevy 4200 tow truck was parked outside the Wig-Wam Motel Teepee tents!
Happy Truck Thursday!
Illinois River barge handling facility, Lacon Illinois. This is some of my cheesy eye candy type stuff. Even Lee Friedlander did a little of this Kodak type stuff. Hey, the calendar people need images. :-)
This old rusted tow truck looks like it grabbed a car and got stuck in the field and time!
Used some filters for added interest!
Happy Truck Thursday!
If you get stuck in the sand, mud or salt, this wonderful woman and her husband will come drag you out. Just make sure you have a credit card ready.
This tow was 8 miles from a paved road. Far outside AAA and other Roadside assistance programs coverage area.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
No need to comment – Just enjoy :-)
As I searched around my house for things that might be ugli-eautiful, I found some nice old die cast metal cars. At that moment I found my Wabi-sabi thing.
Happy Macro Mondays
I found this Fritillaria meleagris, commonly called snake's head fritillary or chess flower, in a park last Sunday. Although usually my favourites are the purple ones I liked the colouring of this variety too and the way the two flower heads emerge from one stem.
On the lake in the Dacks, where my friend has a cabin, there are a handful of other camps. Not that many, and the weekdays are very quiet. But the 4th of July is a big deal and many campers were up with family and friends.
So, the lake activity was also up.
We're not fond of motor boats, luckily there aren't that many,...but it is interesting to watch the skiers.
This fellow was an ace. Gripping with only one hand, he could do all kinds of maneuvers. A couple of trips up and down the lake, and the show was over and we were back to watching the hummingbirds fight around the feeder.
I'm hoping to get back out to see some of your photos later this evening.
Have a great week. :-)
A trio of big MLW's roll north along old code line poles as they hustle the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad's OL-1 job back from Driftwood with loaded stone train in tow. The train is about to roll over the T409 crossing as it approaches Port Allegany, Pennsylvania where it will pause for a crew change before continuing north.
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Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
Port Allegany, PA
WNYP OL-1 (Stone Empties; Olean, NY to Driftwood, PA Turn)
WNYP 637 M636 Ex. NYSW 3669, QCM 47, CN 2312 Blt. 1970
WNYP 685 M636 Ex. RRPX 85, NYSW 3674, QCM 85 Blt. 1975
WNYP 630 C630M Ex. AM 70, CP 4500 Blt. 1968
Airline : TAP Air Portugal
Aircraft : Airbus A330-343
Registration : CS-TOW
Location : Miami International Airport
Date: January 26, 2018
Notes: "João Vaz Corte-Real - Portugal Stopover"
TUGBOATS, SEA IMP X towing SEA IMP III
I noticed the operators and deck hands preparing these two tugs to leave the dock. When they finally pulled away Sea IMP III connected to the back of SEA IM X.
My guess might be, they were saving fuel while traveling to their evening work destination,
Both tugs, if you look close, are connected by a tow line, and about to head down the Fraser River.
Mission Train Bridge
Mission
British Columbia, Canada
The Mission Railway Bridge is a Canadian Pacific Railway bridge spanning the Fraser River between Mission, and Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
Replacing an earlier bridge built in 1891, which was the first and only bridge crossing of the Fraser below Siska in the Fraser Canyon until the construction of the New Westminster rail bridge in 1904, it was constructed in 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The Mission Railway Bridge is supported by 13 concrete piers and is approximately 533 metres in length. Before completion of the Mission highway bridge, highway traffic to and from Matsqui and Abbotsford with Mission used the bridge as a one-way alternating route, with traffic lights at either end to control direction. Rail traffic often held up car crossings, causing long and often very lengthy waits, which were a part of daily life in the Central Valley until the new bridge was completed.
Beneath the bridge's north abutment is an important river-level gauge monitored during the annual Fraser freshet. The bridge is also the location of the end of the Fraser's tidal bore - downstream from the bridge the river is increasingly influenced by tidal influences from the Georgia Strait.
Swing span
The Mission Railway Bridge has a swing span which has a vertical clearance of 4.9 metres above the water when closed. The swing span is fitted atop a circular concrete pier, the 10th from the north bank of the river. The 10th pier is protected from shipping traffic by two 46 metre wood piers extending upstream and downstream respectively perpendicular to the bridge which are tapered at both ends. The navigation channel past the bridge is 30 metres in width. At night a fixed white light is displayed on piers 9 and 11 as well as at the up-river and down-river ends of the protection pier.
The majority of marine traffic consists of log tows and gravel barges, which are permitted to use the navigation channel beneath the fixed span between piers 5 and 6. The swing span is used for wood chip barges and other vessels which cannot navigate beneath the span between piers 5 and 6.
CPR maintains a bridge tender 24 hours per day at an office on the north bank of the bridge. Vessels requesting passage through the swing span contact the bridge tender on marine VHF radio, whereby the tender walks the bridge to a control booth situated on the swing span.
Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the River
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A boat is towing another boat down the creek.
A walk to Oare Creek with the Q3 43 to catch the high tide 19th June 2026
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No parking. No entry.
Except for an orange McLaren Artura, lol.
The Warehouse. O' Riordan Street, Alexandria.
Near Rosebery. Southern Sydney.
Discovered on my recent walking tour of the 'Green Square' and Alexandria precinct of Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
EN: The photographer was completely surprised when the last Re 4/4 II in "Swiss-Express livery" appeared in front of train 915 on the morning of 28.03.2021. According to plan, a normal red Re 4/4 II would have been assigned, but apparently there was a change.
The locomotives in this livery, along with matching type EW III carriages, were to herald a change in Swiss long-distance traffic in the 1970s. The Swiss Express was the SBB's showpiece train at the time, serving the SBB's most important transport axis, the Geneva-Lausanne-Bern-Zurich-St. Gallen route. Unfortunately, not much remains of that time and only 2 locomotives still exist in this colour scheme. Due to its advanced age, however, only locomotive 11109 is still used as scheduled, 11108 meanwhile leads a survival with overrun and towing trips. It is not known how long these two unique locomotives will continue to exist, but the time of the Re 4/4 II has definitely also passed.
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DE: Völlig überrascht war der Fotograf als am Morgen des 28.03.2021 die letzte Re 4/4 II in "Swiss-Express-Lackierung" vor dem Zug 915 auftauchte. Planmässig wäre eine normale rote Re 4/4 II eingeteilt gewesen, doch anscheinend gab es eine Änderung.
Die Loks in dieser Farbgebung sowie passende Wagen des Typs EW III sollte in den 70er Jahren eine Wende im Schweizer Fernverkehr einläuten. Der Swiss Express war damals der Paradezug der SBB, er bediente die wichtigste Verkehrsachse der SBB, die Strecke Genf–Lausanne–Bern–Zürich–St. Gallen. Leider ist von dieser Zeit nicht mehr viel übrig geblieben und es existieren nur noch 2 Loks in dieser Farbgebung. Aufgrund ihres fortgeschrittenen Alters wird aber planmässig nur noch die Lok 11109 eingesetzt, 11108 führt mittlerweile ein Überleben mit Überfuhr- und Abschleppfahrten. Wie lange die beiden Unikate noch existieren ist nicht bekannt, doch die Zeit der Re 4/4 II ist definitiv auch abgelaufen.
View from the back of Larne All Weather Lifeboat during a tow of a yacht that had engine failure and no winds in the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
BNSF westbound empty ethanol train U-MIIMXN7-28A (Mitchell, Illinois to Mina, South Dakota) passes the m/v Roberta Tabor at Trempealeau, Wisconsin. The southbound Tabor is holding at the usual waiting spot while another tow locks through Lock 6 northbound. Train details: Two units on the head end and a DPU on the rear, two loads (the buffer cars at each end), 108 empties, 5,068 tons, 6,585 feet.