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Encuentro en la luz
Preparando otras fotografías, ocurrió esto..........
Meeting in the light
Preparing other photographs, this happened ..........
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.
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
This is not a black and white. Look into the distance. Everything is just covered with a light dusting of snow and I am on the darker side of the trees. Makes it look b/w. Better large.
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.
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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UP C40-8W No. 9388 pulls an APOA along the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake east of Burmester, Utah on Sept. 12, 1992. In deep shadow are the Oquirrh Mountains which divide the Salt Lake and Tooele Valley areas.
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.
The addition of N&W 1218 to the NS steam roster created several changes to the annual two-week excursion schedule in northern Virginia. Usually four Alexandria – Charlottesville round trips were carded, but the C&O turntable in Charlottesville could not handle the length of the big 2-6-6-4. Instead, the first of the four trips ran south to Charlottesville behind Southern FP7’s, with the A making a deadhead move, usually with a few freight cars, from Roanoke, so the excursionists could ride behind steam northward. The second trip of the first weekend and the first trip of the second weekend went from Alexandria to Front Royal, where there was a wye. On the final Sunday, The 1218 was on its way back to Roanoke, taking the excursion to Charlottesville with the FP7’s returning the passengers to Alexandria. Here the final northbound trip slows for a station stop at Manassas. The oppressive July heat in Virginia has prompted the crew to open the nose door to get some air flowing through the cab.
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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Going big on this F-unit Friday. Santa Fe's hundreds of red and silver F's are the face of American railroading, and the tradition continued in the second generation with the purchase of nine massive FP45 units from EMD. These 20-cylinder, 3600 hp, six motor, steam generator equipped cowl units were the epitome of streamlined aesthetic, melding the earlier era of industrial design with the more utilitarian look of the modern era. Only 14 units were built, with the others going to the Milwaukee Road. Here is the preserved ATSF 95, seen in July 2008 on display at Barstow CA.
Interesting to note that the FP45s were constructed only three years after E-unit production ended.
I liked to flag unit much better than the map unit and seemed to see it more often. Here it is leading a CN train out of Trout Lake heading for Munising on March 7, 2002. Despite inroads of IC GP40/s, CN GP40-2LW''s and CN GP38's the WC units remained fairly common in the Yoopee. 3027 and 3012 look pretty good in this late winter scene.
An aging widecab GE leads a southbound empty phosphate train through Englewood, TN in the late afternoon sunlight.
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.
350377 is seen appoaching Rugeley North junction working empty stock, 5A02 0526 Wolverhampton - Rugeley Trent Valley 4/7/23. (Taken using a pole)
Train 1-893 (Los Angeles - Kansas City) with units 106-119-7444-7440 exits the east end of Abo Canyon and is about to pass under the highway 60 overpass and on to the double track at Scholle on October 17, 1992.
CN 3233 drags an M344 down the rainy sub north of Virginia in the prime afternoon light on a slightly chilly but beautiful fall afternoon
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.
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.
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)
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.
The recent 470 Club trip between NoCo and Fabyans provided some great opportunities with the pair of recently restored/repainted B&M F's leading. Several photo stops were made along the way for the riders and the units ran great (they're F's in 2022, that is a big win). I made several stops but once they get down the mountain on the return there isn't much to shoot that isn't backlit. I decided to pull over into Gove's bridge since it was vacant, it was better than nothing I suppose
156402 & 150107 are seen at Buxton URS leading the 2B12 0920 Manchester Piccadilly - Buxton 8/2/23. (Taken using a pole)
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.