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About a decade ago, I bought a local auction lot that included some HO gauge USA/Canadian rolling stock and locomotives. I intended to sell them on but instead I started to collect them as and when they came up locally. It's still a very small collection.
I have a small number of 'B' units, description here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%80%93unit#:~:text=A%20B%20unit....
The only UK example I could think of was the Class 13:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13
I'm guessing this is a Santa Fe loco, given I saw an identically coloured A-B-B-A loco set on YouTube pulling a long rake of Santa Fe box cars.
Passenger F3 #882B, the power for the Joliet-Chicago Local, known as the "Plug," rests overnight in the South Joliet roundhouse in March 1969.
An Ashton, Iowa to Port of Stockton, California unit ethanol train rumbles along a farmer's ditch in Echo, Utah on April 8, 2023. ue top warm weather, Utah's abundant snowpack was melting quickly!
2019 Spartan ERV Pumper Unit 51 Timmins Fire Dept parked in the Canadian Tire parking lot in Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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When putting together a modular model, I always make a small test to see how the units, usually with different colors, have to be connected to form a corner.
This is how it looks like and this shape gave me the idea to use the striped paper for this model of which I showed you the single flat units all together yesterday, (See first comment box)
It reminds me of a kind of spaceship ;-))
Have a nice Thursday!
Model: origami X-Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in the BOS booklet #31: 'More 'igami' by Jeff Beynon
Paper: 3 rectangle (1:2) pieces of kami paper, 7,5x15cm
A Kusudama, for those not familiar with the term, is a modular papercraft origami model, where multiple units may be glued, sewed or connected with themselves using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape.
The word "Kusudama" literally means "Medicine Ball" when translated from Japanese. They were originally used for incense and potpourri.
Here you see 3 units connected together. A first step for assembling another kusudama, that I will show you tomorrow, have to make a photo first today ;-)
Wishing you all a lovely Tuesday !!
In the above photo are 12 units.
Can you count them?
Model: origami X-Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in the BOS booklet #31: 'More 'igami' by Jeff Beynon
Paper: 12 rectangle (1:2) pieces of Freudenberg paper with line-pattern, 7,5x15cm
Final size: 7,5x7,5x7,5cm
BHS' first unit train for Cargill was a success. 85 cars were received from NS, loaded, and returned back to interchange in less than 24 hours. Two of our three MP15s have 13 loads in tow as they climb the hill form the dock to the yard.
Single-car unit heading south on the Cumbrian Coast on 15/7/2015.Taken from a lower position than the steam shot alongside
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47727 seen dragging Anglia unit 720581 at Sawley with the late running 5Q90 0923 Derby Litchurch lane - Wembley Intercity depot.
A spot I've wanted to try for a long time that comes with it's challenges. There's not much traffic for one challenge and it often is on one of the tracks up against the wall as this one is. Most of the through traffic on NS bypasses this line due to it not having high enough clearances for stacks and auto racks. And then there's the Gingko trees which bring a lot of shadows with the color they bring in the Fall. The normal train to shoot here is the Allegheny Valley's daily transfer to NS. After shooting that returning to Glenwood on this same track I heard about this empty 861 hopper train that was in Conway and would come this way with a crew called for 2:30. With sunset being at 5:03 that seemed like it would be enough light to be worth a wait. It ended up being a 3 hour wait showing up at 4:58 with pretty dark skies. Fortunately the Gingko's light up the scene enough to salvage it. Pittsburgh's North Allegheny Commons Park West 11/13/2024.
In special livery to celebrate the re-opening of the Borders line,a 170 heads to Tweedbank on 30/9/2015
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BNSF 3855 leads 121 petroleum coke loads over Fish Creek as it heads west. The unit coke train had originated in Helena Montana and was to be exported through the Roberts bank terminal.
The petroleum coke is a by-product from oil refining.
London Midland Class 170 unit, 170502, is about to pass under the Sadlers Center prior to stopping at Walsall with 2A66 1445 Rugeley Trent Valley to Birmingham New Street.
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The boundaries between grazing leases on the Oglala National Grassland, along the Great Plains Trail. HFF!
Union Pacific symbol RTGPM climbs out of Lesperance Yard and will head west on UP's Jefferson City Sub.
St. Louis, MO
7 August 2016
37800 is seen at Uffington working the 5Q76 0951 Ely Papworth sidings - Newport Docks. It sees units 317342 & 317515 going for scrap 27/5/22. (Taken using a pole)
BNSF 6022, one of the 25th Anniversary "sticker" units, powers the westbound Denver to Provo, Utah, manifest train around the big curve at Leyden, Colorado, about 13 miles west of Denver on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Photo by Joe McMillan, July 14, 2023, 11:05 a.m., MDT. Two DPU ACes are shoving on the rear.
While waiting to catch the steam double header at Jim Thorpe, Pa. the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern e NS F-units showed up. 275 starting life as a Chicago Great Western F7b and 275 starting life as a Baltimore and Ohio F7a being upgraded along the way to an F9a.
Feinmechanisches Detail eines HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator) Anzeigeinstruments (SMITH INDUSTRIES, Cheltenham)
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Precision mechnaical detail of an HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator) display instrument (SMITH INDUSTRIES, Cheltenham)
In 2024 QUBE Logistics took delivery of 12 American built QE class. QE001 leads QE004 and QL011 hauling 50 grain loads.
The train originated from the QUBE load point at Coonamble and was destined for the QUBE owned unloading point at Port Kembla.
QUBE currently operates 4 export grain sets and 1 domestic containerised barley consist in NSW.
TKEN GP28 9434 trundles south and timetable east on the outskirts of Finley, TN with three tank cars retrieved from Tokai Carbon in Hickman, KY, the northernmost point on the railroad. The crew still has a good 30+ minutes to go until they reach the railroad's HQ at Dyersburg.
9434 is one of three of these rare units on the roster and the last in the road's former paint scheme.
350377 is seen appoaching Rugeley North junction working empty stock, 5A02 0526 Wolverhampton - Rugeley Trent Valley 4/7/23. (Taken using a pole)
Rio Grande train No. 199, a unit grain train from Denver, Colorado, has exited Spanish Fork Canyon and gains momentum through Mapleton, Utah on June 10, 1989.
A clear summer morning finds Canadian Pacific's SD70ACU class unit leading eastbound train 286 out of the Rock River Valley at Hustisford Rd, just east of Watertown.
CP 286
CP 7000, BNSF 7695
Pipersville, WI.
Summer 2020
GM&O F3 #883A with the "Plug," on its way to South Joliet Yard, after discharging passengers, about to cross the Rock Island at Joliet Union Station, July 1974.
CP's executive train, deadheading to the Twin Cities for the Ryder Cup as 040B-23, passes one of the remaining elevators at Sawyer. This trip saw some wild weather, starting out with thick fog, to pouring rain with lightening, and now towards being sunny. Surely, this was due to the late Bud Burglin being in attendance, aka the human high pressure system.
This was my first trip to North Dakota and my first time seeing the CP Fs. Between the long drive and tumultuous weather, this trip was a blast. And I am still extremely grateful to have gotten this opportunity. Thanks again to those who made this happen.