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BR1 pulls up to pull the empties from Valley Distributing as a tractor trailer leaves the loading bay and heads out to who knows where.
METX #156, an unrebuilt and unrepainted F40PH-2, alongside #174, a rebuilt and repainted F40PH-3, under the shed at Ogilvie om New Year's Eve.
You never know what you might see.
Hanging from the ceiling of the Laurel Cafe. This was used by the lumber workers for transportation on the railroad into the forest. Way back in the day. It is called a track bike.
All these Autobus tickets came from our holiday in Sorrento, Italy in 2004, great memories, we were staying in Capo di Sorrento which you can walk to from the Town (not for the faint hearted as it's a narrow busy road !) or take the little orange bus up the hill and swipe one of those bus tickets as you get on !.
In 1923, the Hendee Manufacturing Company changed its name to The Indian Motocycle Company "– no ‘r’ in ‘motocycle’ when the word was first used with the name Indian."
I saw this one in Jersey City, NJ in October.
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Still wearing its factory delivered EMD paint, with the obsolete 'Dependable Transportation' slogan, DD35A No. 81 and DD35 No. 83B have been serviced and await assignment at Provo Yard on Oct. 7, 1977. At this point in time, two of the original 15 DD35A units wore factory paint, the other was No. 71.
Ferry ticket from Akureyri to Grimsey Island, Iceland.
Photo of actual ferry docked in Akureyri in background.
That could do with some oil or chain lube.
It’s part of my bike ( no surprises there that i plumped for this !)
Thanks for stopping
Robbed
When she chained the bike to the tree, it was in good condition. Now, a few hours later, all she has is a pile of junk.
Antsirabe (Madagascar) - Cette photo a été prise très tôt vendredi matin alors que je cherchais, un endroit où prendre un café, ma guest-house ne s'embarrassant pas avec ce genre de service.
J'attendais l'heure d'ouverture devant une boulangerie française qui sert un excellent expresso et de délicieux croissants, quand j'ai vu ce pousse-pousse arriver. J’ai eu le temps de faire un filé.
Tous les matins pousse-pousses et cyclopousses emmènent les enfants à l’école privée. Ceux qui sont scolarisés à l’école publique s’y rendent à pied. Question de pouvoir d’achat. Là , c'était l'un des premiers transports scolaires de la journée.
Je n'ai pas vu en prenant la photo que l'homme était pieds nus. A Madagascar, ce n'est pas rare. Côté empreinte carbone, si on ne tient pas compte des conditions de travail, ce type de transport c’est le top. Mieux que les Amishs ou les cars Macron.
School transportation
Antsirabe (Madagascar) - This photo was taken very early in the morning when I was looking for a place to have a coffee, my guesthouse not bothering with this kind of service.
I was waiting for opening time in front of a French bakery that serves excellent espresso, when I saw this rickshaw arrive. I just had time to shoot.
Every morning rickshaws and cycle rickshaws take the children to private school. Those who attend public schools go there on foot. question of purchasing power. There, it was obviously one of the first school transports of the day.
I did not see when taking the photo that the man was barefoot. In Madagascar, this is not uncommon. On the carbon borrowing side, if we do not take into account working conditions, this type of transport is the best. Better than the Amish.
North Arm Transportation,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
North arm of the Fraser River
Taken from, No. 7 Road Pier Park,
Lulu island, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
NORTH ARM WAVE (MMSI: 316005494) is a Tug and is sailing under the flag of Canada. Her length overall (LOA) is 19 meters and her width is 6 meters.
Built 1963,
Engines; 2xCaterpillar 353 E/850 BHP
NORTH ARM VICTOR (MMSI: 316003008) is a Tug and is sailing under the flag of Canada. Her length overall (LOA) is 18 meters and her width is 6 meters.
Year Built 1973
Designer A.G. McIllwaine Measurement (imp) 58.0' x 21.0' x 10.2'
Builder Benson Brothers Shipbuilding Co. (1960) Ltd. Measurement (metric) 17.65m x 6.43m x 2.47m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 92.89 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 25.95 T
Engine 2-365 bhp diesel engine (1973)
Engine Manufacture Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. (Buda Div.), Harvey IL
Propulsion Twin Screw
Landing in San Diego is difficult. SAN is listed as one of the worlds 10 most extreme / difficult airports to land at (depending on which list you find).
You have to fly over this hill (Balboa Park), then get the plane down before you run into the next hill (Point Loma).or before you run off the end of the short runway. So the runway is in this sort of valley, and it can be VERY difficult for pilots at times. It is a very difficult approach because of the steep angle required over the hill. There are no jumbo jets regularly flying in here like at other major airports ie LAX, JFK, DFW.
I love flying aircraft, I love aviation, so therefore, I posted this video. It is really amazing and incredible to get this kind of footage of a plane landing in San Diego.
I previously wrote about how exactly I got this video including some of the difficulty involved. But I decided to be more discreet, to edit out that part, to leave you guessing.
You can imagine the 'powers that be' discourage a lot of looky-loo's from hanging around the approach end of runways.
I suppose a fascination with the machines of transportation has long been a human thing. I remember when I was a kid, I would take my younger brothers by bicycle to the local Hicksville train station to see the mighty train engines up close. That was a regular part of our Sunday routine. First stop was church, then afterwards to the train station, last stop was Baskin-Robins for ice cream.
Church and ice cream make sense. But the train station? Why did we go there? I remember so vividly for some reason the elevated platforms of the Hicksville train station. For some reason it was just an interesting place to hang around for a kid.
I'd say it's about fascination with the machines of transportation.
Trains and Planes. Big fancy machines that move people from point A to point B. But fascinating for some reason in how they do it.
So fascinating I suppose, that I even managed to make a career out of the business. And what form of human transport could be more fascinating that a flight in a hot air balloon? Going only where the wind carries you? No steering, just riding with the wind! What a concept.
So to tie it all together, landing a balloon is difficult, extreme, and fascinating. And it all started out because my father made me take my brothers to church, and for entertainment afterwards we would go check out the trains. Go figure. Like this could really all be tied together, but perhaps.
I did not really have a key point to make with all this. It is just a sort essay on my thoughts as to why I got this video of the plane landing. I hope someone reads this and enjoys it. Maybe I'll get my brothers / sister / mom to read this since they come here sometimes, they might appreciate the references to life growing up and the Hicksville train station
A shot I took in Port Alsworth, AK that shows some of the major sources of transportation once you get off the main roads in Alaska.
The transport connection? You might not want to ride a feral horse, but this one is from the centre of a wheel hub from a Ford Mustang (it is 4.5cm nose to tail)
Macro Mondays - Transportation
I live in a small town, so my primary mode of transportation is walking. In fact, I often go for over a month without driving. I tried several different macro perspectives on one of my new walking shoes and this was the most interesting. This is a portion of the nylon mesh on the top of the shoe. HMM
Union Pacific DD35A No. 71 rests between assignments on the ready track in Provo, Utah the morning of May 15, 1977. The 5000 HP double diesel (still wearing its factory applied paint job and lettering) was built by EMD for the UP in April 1965 and retired in August 1981.