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The start of the walking track heading south, just off Bells Line of Road, Grose Gorge in the distance. The waratah flower is just behind us on the left and the new red tips of eucalyptus leaves are seen in the middle distance.
This was a memorable walk with my son, we had spent the day at Mt Tomah botanical garden and reached the cliff just before sunset, then after more photos had to navigate to 2km back in fading light with no torch.
If you are ready to travel, never think about the distance. As far as you go, the brighter side awaits you always. _ #HolyBiker #Photography
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Italian Health & Safety Policy LOL. How to load a 26 Tonne single lump of marble onto an 8 wheeler! (As demonstrated by the Italians).
American railroad tracks are 56.5" wide (the "gauge") because the English built the first railroads in America and they used that width. Why did they use that width? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that were used for building wagons which used that wheel spacing.
Why did wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Because older wagon ruts throughout England used that spacing, and if they changed it, wagon wheels would break by either falling into or being forced out of the old ruts, which were 56.5" wide.
The old ruts were that size because the roads were built by the Romans, who arrived in England in 54 BC and left about 400 AD. Their wagons, and their chariots before their wagons, used that spacing, and that spacing was used all over Europe and wherever Rome conquered, because their wagons used the identical wheel base everywhere. So the modern railroad track width derives from the Roman chariot.
Why was the Roman chariot track width 56.5"? Because that was the width of a chariot that would equal the width of two "standard" Roman horses. Thus, wagon and horses would fit through the same narrow street. Specifications and bureaucracies live forever!
Such curious dimensions continue today. A space shuttle sitting on its launch pad has two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs, made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is just wide enough to accomodate a railroad car, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds, (and we now know why) so the booster rockets were made to fit.
The major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!
Little used, possibly abandoned rail line next to the Bonny Doon Beach, the line runs parallel to Highway 1.
S.M.A.R.T. DMU 109/112 is seen leaving Santa Rosa North on the siding. Meanwhile the gauntlet track of the mainline is seen under very wet conditions and clouded skies.
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Fantastic weather and a nice lazy day with nothing in particular to do. Went out for a nice drive to get some photos and just went where the roads took me. Found a nice little spot by some train tracks as the sun was going down.
Photo-a-Day
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Year 3, Day 43
[Total Consecutive Days: 773]
Frame:*FAIRWEATHER* track BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS
STEM:*FAIRWEATHER* CR79 fillet stem
Handle:*NITTO* rb001aa BL special
Head set:*CHRIS KING*
Wheels:*GRAN COMPE* small track hub × *H PLUS SON* archetype rim
Tire:*PANARACER* pasela blacks plus
Brakes:*CAMPAGNOLO* veloce
Crankset:*SUGINO* rd messenger crank BL special
SADDLE:*SELLE ITALIA* flite 1990 saddle
Outdoor Conference Track for multi-event participants on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Photo by Breanne Pierce
As I was heading up above Enterprise Pass, I saw these unusual tracks below me. There had been a snowshoe hare hanging around the area, and I am guessing these are the imprints of its body as it hopped from spot to spot.
Canada's Beautiful Mountains:
One of the most famous of the road circuits of the Twenties, the Reims track was first used in 1925 and was the home of the Grand Prix de la Marne. Close to the village of Gueux, to the west of the champagne city, it consisted of a triangle of public roads. It was a track where slipstreaming was vital and the long back straight rivaled the Mulsanne at Le Mans. In 1932 the circuit hosted the French Grand Prix for the first time and this was won by the Alfa Romeo of Tazio Nuvolari. In the 1930s it hosted the Grand Prix de la Marne and gradually permanent structures grew up. The Grand Prix cars did not return to Reims for a French GP again until 1938 when the Mercedes-Benz of Manfred von Brauchitsch was victorious. The following year an AutoUnion won but then war broke out.
The track was revived after the war, the first event being the Grand Prix de Reims in July 1947 which was won by Christian Kautz in a Maserati. The following year Jean-Pierre Wimille won for Alfa Romeo and in 1949 it was the turn of Louis Chiron in a Talbot-Lago.
In 1950 Reims was chosen to host the French Grand Prix, a round of the new FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The first race was won by Fangio. The race returned in 1951 and Fangio won again but in 1952 the event moved to Rouen although Reims ran its own non-championship GP de la Marne a week before the Rouen race. This witnessed a famous victory for Jean Behra's Gordini. The following year the French GP returned with Mike Hawthorn scoring his first World Championship victory. Fangio won again in 1954. The 1955 event was cancelled after the Le Mans disaster, but returned in 1956 with a win by Peter Collins.
In 1958 Hawthorn won again but the race was marred by the accident which claimed the life of his Ferrari team mate Luigi Musso. Ferrari's success at the track continued in 1959 with victory going to Tony Brooks while Jack Brabham won for Cooper in 1960 and a year later Giancarlo Baghetti achieved a remarkable result by winning for Ferrari on his F1 World Championship debut. In 1963 there was another French GP at Reims with Jimmy Clark winning for Lotus but by the mid Sixties competition for the race was intense and it was not until 1966 that the World Championship returned. Jack Brabham won his first victory with a Repco engine. Thereafter Reims faded from the international scene as more modern facilities such as Paul Ricard took over.