the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.

General station appearance refers to the historical The Old Ladoga fortress loacted near the Ladoga lake on the Volkhov river, the first north Russian fortress founded by legendary Rurik, the normann and first Russian knyaz, on the historical route from Baltic to the Black sea.

The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.

As product designs go, it doesn't get much better than this.

Manufactured in 1949, the Indra Lux is a plastic camera that was made in Germany by Indra-Camera G.m.b.H. It's got a fixed-focus 60mm/f7.7 lens and a large viewfinder which is tinted to simulate what you'd see on black & white film. Two feet on the bottom allow it to sit flat, but are also functional; the one on the left is home to the tripod socket, and the one on the right unscrews, revealing a storage compartment for a spare roll of 127 film. Unscrewing the foot/cap also allows the camera to be pulled apart. Of course, it's the design, not the features, that makes this camera one of my most prized.

The Indra Lux was advertised as being unbreakable, and the purchase price included a one-year warranty against breakage. Unfortunately, they were actually quite breakable, a fact that most likely contributed to the demise of Indra-Camera; apparently they were only in business for a few months. These facts make the Indra Lux very rare, so I feel rather lucky to have acquired one, and at a good price. Not to mention it arrived intact from France!

One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.

This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day.

Can you spot the differences?

In the shops, Astoria, Oregon.

Love vintage things but short on display space? Why then, take a picture! No dusting, no danger of breakage and no harm to your budget.

A picture with triple rarity:

1. It rarely has so much snow on Lake Constance, but from the afternoon of December 1st, 2023 to the evening of December 2nd it snowed non-stop. Numerous roads in the region had to be closed due to snow breakage or the risk of snow breakage

2. Normally Lake Constance has significantly less water in winter and the island pictured is not an island, but rather connected to the mainland by a rather unsightly strip of gravel.

3. In late autumn/early winter 2023, dreary, gray weather will prevail. Sunrises with some color in the sky are rare, but on the night of December 3rd it had cleared up and it had become bitterly cold. During the morning it started to get dark again...

Suuctu waterfall is located in Kemal Paşa district of Bursa. It flows at a height of 38 m. It was formed by the breakage of fault lines.

In October 1994 I travelled to Japan to stay with a friend who was living in Tokyo, on a posting with the New Zealand Embassy. By day she went to work, while I explored around the city. At weekends we travelled further afield together to explore more country areas. During the last few days of my stay, I took a half-day tour around a few of Tokyo's art and craft places. Of particular interest to me was Ningyocho area - the doll town. We visited several doll-making factories and saw how the magnificent dolls were created. I was enchanted by them and so, at one of the establishments I decided to buy a doll. I watched as they carefully boxed her, tied string around my package and attached a little plastic handle for me to carry it. I took her back on the bus and eventually to my friend's apartment. What hadn't occurred to me, was how I was going to get her home to New Zealand when she was so delicate. In the end I decided to sit the package on my lap in the plane, because I especially didn't want any breakage. So that's what happened. Somehow I managed a 16 hour flight with the box on my knees and here she is today, 28 years later, a much loved and important display in our lounge room.

This is something that I’ve never done before: photograph the same snowflake from both sides. Each side of the crystal has beautiful yet distinct features, and this is definitely one you want to view large!

Like two sides of the same coin, this snowflake has very different features on each face. There are two hitchhiking crystals that can help you see the orientation. On the left crystal, they are found on the upper and lower left branches. On the right crystal, these two can be seen on the right side (the bottom one is hard to spot since it’s now in behind).

The left (“front/obverse side”) showcases a button-like center growing out of a central column, and branch “trunks” that split into multiple layers, showcasing a lot of surface detail. The side-branches also show us ridges and ribs, creating contours on the surface of the snowflake that create contrasting lines. The rime on the tips of the branches is also growing “up” towards the camera from this view.

The right (“reverse side” is much smoother. You can see the button center through the ice, but it appears flat. The branches are also primarily flat, with any detail coming from bubbles in the ice or features from the opposite side faintly visible. There is once exception to this pattern – a side-branch in the upper left – see if you can spot it. This side-branch has surface contours on the reverse side, and a smooth surface on the obverse side. One side always has surface details, the other side is always smooth. Growth patterns can always change or be disrupted, but you’ll never find the same features on both sides of a snowflake.

Some of the rimed tips may appear slightly different due to the angle of the camera, sublimation, and potential breakage when manipulating the snowflake into a new position. Most other features remained completely intact between the two imagining sequences.

I’m glad I can still break new ground in this series, even after doing it for so many years. There are still fascinating moments to discover even in places I’ve looked a thousand times before. This editing process took over eight hours to complete, having started on it yesterday and just completing it now. Double the effort on my part, but well worth it for a unique look into the life of a snowflake!

If you enjoy this images and want to dive into the science of snow (in an understandable way!), grab a copy of Sky Crystals: skycrystals.ca/book/ - plenty of fascinating and mysterious things are explained!

How does a snowflake like this compare to hundreds of others? Check out “The Snowflake” print to find out: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - while I spent an entire day on today’s image, I spent over 2500 hours putting together this print. Take a

i suspect my camera shutter is lagging at high speed... getting all these "flare breakage" on all sun shots.... hmm... time for CLA?

View On Black

“Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum... As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.”

The mends we make to our now can be one of our greatest features, for it shows our strength in marrying our weaknesses, and stitching them into our lives.

I hope that I can mend myself more with this gift of time. I hope that my piecing myself back together will be worth it, that the fabrics of my being can hold tight enough for me to do some good.

To my Flickr friends, again an apology for my lack of comments on your work and my lack of uploads. I've suffered another fall, this time spreading soil improver on a flower garden. I fell on my right side and on my shoulder broken last January. No breakages this time , but I have a badly bruised and swollen upper arm and shoulder and a couple of cracked ribs. My 4 year old grand son summed it up well when he said, " you should be more careful in the future, Grand dad!!!

these two commuter trains are operated by big private company The Central Exurban Passenger Company (АО Центральная ППК, JSCo CEPC) and have ivory-white livree clearly distinguishing them from ordinate red-colored commuter trains of the Russian Railways holding (JSCo RZD).

Both trainsets were built by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading and the solely producer of the suburban trainsets.

EP2D is the development of ED4M model of 3 kV DC electric commuter trainset with increased safety level for passengers to comply the new regultaions of the EAC. She is in production from 2015 y. Ones that expluatated on the Moscow Railway have unusual 11 or 9 units compostion, replaced the typical 10/8-cars.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

This cracked pane of glass in a bar was accidentally broken and no one was injured but such breakages elsewhere do seem all too frequent in today's violent world,

2TE116 is the most recognizable and successful series of the last Soviet heavy diesel locomotives, which were built in Soviet Ukraine in Voroshilovgrad (renamed back to Lugansk after USSR breakage) by the VZOR locomotive plant (it famous for the M62 production) from 1971 to 2007 (1,745 were built) and in modernized versions until 2016

ЭД4М - ED4M (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

K in index means refurbished

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) built since 1996. The trains are produced by JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод) and currently in service on Russian Railways and many former USSR states.

АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. ED2T and ED4 trainsets were built by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading and the solely producer of the suburban trainsets. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

One of the trips out we made was to the Ellesmere Port National Waterways Boat Museum.

This is where the Shropshire Union Canal meets the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, this transshipment dock allowed produce such as the Staffordshire Potteries output to be shipped along the Trent & Mersey Canal to this transhipment dock. Here goods could be shipped across the River Mersey for export around the world. This would have proven much cheaper and faster than road haulage with associated breakage. Now it is a fascinating museum that can occupy you for a whole day. Suffering from claustrophobia might make steering through the locks a problem!

AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.

АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.

made in Belarus - newest BKM 321 The Olgerd trolleybus passes by square at Finlyanskiy railway station of St Petersburg

in 2024-2025, BKM Holding will deliver 79 new trolleybuses of model 321 of the Olgerd series to St. Petersburg. Last year, Gorelektrotrans received 97 trolleybuses with an increased autonomous range of up to 20 kilometres, model 32100D. In the new ordered series 321 ‘Olgerd’ instead of a compartment with batteries - 5 seating passenger seats, 35 in total, so the reduction of autonomous travel to 250 m contributed to an increase in passenger capacity up to 96 people. The model for St. Petersburg is equipped with various options, including not only USB ports, video cameras, multimedia system, climate control, but also ‘Warm Floor’, ‘Talking City’, driver wakefulness monitoring system and other useful sensors. LED interior lighting and signal lines at the doors are used. The current collectors are equipped with an automatic boom catching system and a system of automatic placement on the catenary network, which does not require the driver to leave the vehicle. In the present trolleybus also you can see additional seat in the driver's cabine for an instructor.

History of BKM Holding

Olgerd trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

Parece un diagnóstico médico, pero no lo es.

Amb el bon temps, tornen els esports aquàtics.

Surf d'estel o Kitesurf.

Per a començar, amb aquest esport, els experts recomanen fer un curs d'iniciació on ensenyen un primer contacte amb el material, i ja que tracta d'un esport de risc, és necessari almenys unes normes bàsiques de seguretat i procediments de rescat que permetran resoldre situacions de trencament de material, caiguda de l'estel, etc.

Aquest esport en mans inexpertes pot ser perillós, però ben practicat és un esport molt emocionant que desborda adrenalina.

Platja dels Griells / L'Estartit (Costa Brava) CAT.

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Trio.

With good weather, return the sports.

Kite surfing or kite surfing.

To begin with sport experts recommend doing an introductory course where they teach a first contact with the material, and since it is a risky sport, you need at least basic standards of safety and rescue procedures that will solve situations of material breakage, falling star, etc.

This sport can be dangerous in the hands of amateurs, but well practiced is a sport very exciting adrenaline overflowing.

Beach Griells / Estartit (Costa Brava) CAT.

Gracia Haby

2008

Or so we are lead to believe.

Thank you to those who bought my 2019 Calendar in support of BHF.

It was a first for me, to see a circular rainbow, normally only seen from high in the sky from planes or tall cranes. The rainbow extended below my image and into the sea.

I was waiting patiently on the edge of the grassy cliff on this beautiful sunny February day with a cloudless blue sky and barely a breeze. The sun was directly behind me with my shadow pointing towards Start Point lighthouse. Deliberately positioned for a rainbow over the lighthouse.

On arrival I saw a random rain cloud and full bow from the car park so was hopeful for a photograph that I'd been after for a few years.

For that moment, I felt I hadn't a care in the world with the sun on my back watching the gulls above the lighthouse and the waves gently rolling in beneath me. I positioned my camera to compose the shot and manually focusing on the lighthouse trying different settings taking practice shots. My Canon 5D mk2 and 16-35mm L lens was fitted with a ‘Rainbow Booster’ circular polariser. The polythene cover was always on my camera to protect it from seawater and spray. I had lens cloths at the ready and cable remote in hand. It wasn't a long wait!

The clouds appeared behind me from over the cliffs for a while then it happened!. A huge black rain cloud drifted from the left and over the lighthouse to make a wonderful graphite grey backdrop for the sunlit golden headland. “Where's the rainbow?” I said out loud to myself. Then ...

BOOM! The heavens opened, the wind picked up followed by torrential rain. I could see a part rainbow to the right of the lighthouse and took some shots but the raindrops on the lens wasn’t making it easy. What a contrast from quietly chilling out in the sunshine to battling with the elements ‘Mr. Bean style’. The tail wind was continuously shaking the tripod on the springy grass and annoyingly the plastic rain cover blowing forwards obscuring the lens. An incredulous ‘WOW WOW WOW’ as the rainbow formed into a near full circle with the base of it below me at sea level. Everything was soaked from the rods of rain. I was frantically and hopelessly wiping the relentless rainfall off the lens trying to get a clean photograph of the breathtaking phenomenon. I wanted to video it with my phone but needed an extra pair of hands. I focused on capturing the wonderful conditions and scene with my DSLR camera only. The light was spectacular and I could see the rain swirls in the dark skies.

I managed about 30 shots knowing most of them were ruined by the droplets and smears plus many were blurred as the tail wind shook my tripod.

The circle of colours disappointedly faded but I was in awe of what I had witnessed. The dark skies passed over as quickly as they came and I was left standing in the beautiful sunshine dripping wet with 3 sodden cloths.

I felt elated that I had experienced weather conditions well beyond my expectation seeing the "GLORY RAINBOW".

Behind the scenes :

1 3/4 hours driving including miles of single track muddy farm roads dodging the huge potholes.

A painful walk with my foot sliding inside the wellies irritating an in-growing toenail.

While jogging along the tarmac drive to the lighthouse to photograph the first rainbow , a £130 pro glass filter fell out of a holder attached to my lens onto the ground. Luckily no breakage surprisingly but chipped the corner.

A freak wave went over the top of my wellies with a 3/4 mile trek uphill back to the car.

Slipped over on my back into the deep thick mud walking back up a track. I lay there on my back temporarily sucked into the mud with a herd of bleating sheep looking down at me. Quite comical really.

the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.

The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.

VL10 3 kV DC two-section electric locomotive was designed in parallel with VL80 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric locomotive. The technical project of new two-section DC electric locomotive VL10 (ВЛ10; Т8) was developed by the special design bureau of the Tbilisi Electric Locomotive Plant (TEVZ) in Soviet Georgia under the direction of chief engineer G. I. Chirikadze by 1960. Even though the locomotive was initially named after design bureau of TEVZ - T10 it was later renamed in Soviet tradition but for the last time after the Bolshevik leader - Vladimir Lenin. VL80 AC electric locomotives were built by Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (NEVZ) according to the projects developed by the VELNII in Novocherkassk, Russia to 1961. Unified bogies of VL10 and VL80 locomotives were designed and built by NEVZ. Both took innovative 2-axle bogies with french-type wheelset's suspension by two diagonal link arms supported by the axlebox based on original ALSTOM design. The principle of suspension were taken from the French-built F series of Co-Co electric locomotive (Фк) built specially for the Soviet Railways and was firstly used in VL60 AC electric locomotive with 3-axle bogies developed by NEVZ. Traction motors TL-2 (ТЛ-2) with capacity of 650 kW (in hourly mode) each, have a support-axis suspension. Motor's frame, bearing plate, armature shaft, small gear, brush apparatus were made unified with motor НБ-412М of VL60 electric locomotive. VL10 locomotives were built from 1961 to 2005 by the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant in Russia and Tbilisi Electric Locomotive Works (TEVZ) in Soviet Georgia with total production 2900 ones. VL10U (ВЛ10У) was the last modification also designed by Tbilisi Electric Locomotive Plant - the locomotive were additionally weighted - the rail load increased from 23 to 25 t so the wheels have greater traction force, and be able to carry heavier trains. Two bogie traction rods were installed of two sides of doubled hydraulic damper located in center. Mechanically, VL10U was unified with NEVZ-built AC electric locomotives VL80T, VL80S, VL80R. The body, cabin, pneumatic and main equipment were unified with VL10, VL11, VL11M DC electric locomotives. Totally 979 electric locomotives VL10U were built.

ET2 and improved ET2M DC electric commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant (Торжокский вагоностроительный завод) located in Torzhok city of Tver region at 1993-2010. ET2 design was in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia). 26 commuter trains of ET2 model and 109 ones of modernised ET2M were built in the ten-car configuration.

Along the Arkansas river you can see remnants of Cañon City’s historic wood stave water line. The pipeline traveled through the Royal Gorge from the old dam site, along the river, and under the Tunnel Drive trail.

This wood stave waterline was a steel wrapped pipeline to carry water to the town of Cañon City. It was made out of redwood and the constant flow of water made the wood swell which sealed the wood. The steel braces prevented breakage under pressure yet kept the structure lightweight.

This pipeline was used from the early 1900’s until 1974.

© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul

ET2 and improved ET2M EMU commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant (Торжокский вагоностроительный завод) located in Torzhok city of Tver region at 1993-2010. ET2 design was in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia). 26 commuter trains of ET2 model and 109 ones of modernised ET2M were built in the ten-car configuration. After cancelling of trainset production Torzhok wagon-building plant fell into bancrupcy in 2016.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) built since 1996 to 2016. The trains were produced by JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод) and currently in service on Russian Railways and many former USSR states. Modernised version - ED4M were built from 1999 till 2016. 501 trainsets were produced totally.

Just another day at the beach. I love this backdrop from Sunnys Photo Studio. But this cute knit dress from Carols Store is just to die for. No breakage when I wear it, its light and airy perfect for summer beach days, BBQ parties, or hanging out on vacation or in your backyard, it is the perfect little summer dress! Carol's Store never disappoints!

Main Feature: Carol's Store- Marisol Dress

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PKC Morti Head Peace - Unrigged,

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Collectors see value. While others may see junk, and ascribe utter worthlessness, the collector can see value in many areas.

A collector sees the potential of reuse. Ah, it is dirty but that can be cleaned. It is missing parts but it still has a frame. And wheels. It could be repurposed.

A collector will consider the wear of time, breakage, and weather as badges of honor for the item. Trophies of the adventures and enjoyment that came before.

And the collector will recognize the value of the better days. Those former days of glory that are not gone. They linger, waiting to shine again.

The teddy bear with the missing eye and ear. The metal truck with an absent wheel and those tell-tale dents. Ah, that was some fun play!

The action figure minus an arm. The kitchen playset with the lost accessories.

Throw them away? No.

There's still value.

So lift your Crazy Bowl of Better Days in salute to those toys that can still keep going!

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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.

Low tide at Charmouth, Dorset this afternoon. Weather was a bit changeable, but moody cloud punctuated buy moments of light will do me, after a pretty dull end to the week.

I've been trying to find out what kind of rock this is. It has a hexagonal formation to the surface breakage. I'm thinking it's just Shale but would be cool to know for sure. I like it.

Digital painting of breakages and liquefaction after the February 22 earthquake in Christchurch

AKSM-32100D is a trolleybus with a transistorized control system based on IGBT modules and an AC induction motor, equipped with accumulators based on lithium-iron-phosphate batteries with a reserve of autonomous travel up to 30 kilometers. Unlike base model AKSM-32100, it is equipped with a 150 kW traction motor. The first three ones were delivered to Ulyanovsk, Russia at the end of 2015. In 2016-2019 St. Petersburg received 35 ones, others were delivered to Belarus cities (5 to Grodno, 4 to Gomel, 4 to Vitebsk). In 2021, they were delivered to Belarus capital Minsk (25 ones) and Vratsa (9). In December 2021, three more restyled trolleybuses came to Grodno to operate the new route 24.

АКСМ-32100D trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.

EP2D and Ivolga commuter trainsets in Moscow are operated by big private company The Central Exurban Passenger Company (АО Центральная ППК, JSCo CEPC). Trains of the CEPC have individual ivory-white livree clearly distinguishing them from ordinate red-colored commuter trains of the Russian Railways holding (JSCo RZD). Between them is the "Region express" train of CEPC painted in deep blue.

EP2D is the last development of ED4M family of 3 kV DC electric commuter trainsets with increased safety level for passengers to comply the new regultaions of the EAC. She is in production from 2015 y. by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading producer of the suburban trainsets. Ones expluatated on the Moscow Railway have unusual 11 or 9 units compostion, that replaced the typical 10/8-cars composition.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

Handelsbanken plc is a UK-based bank that appears to be a subsidiary of the better-known Swedish bank. It was interesting to see a branch here in Lancaster. It has the air of a 'private bank' similar to Coutts, but I believe that is not so.

They have a nice building.

The shocking state of the paving slabs is common across the rest of the city, regretably. Here, being on a hill, rainwater tends to run under the slabs, washing away the supporting sand. This leads to general weakening of the pavement/sidewalk and breakage.

General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. It is estimated to be around 2,200 to 2,700 years old.

While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. The Lindsey Creek tree, with more than 90,000 cubic feet almost twice the volume of General Sherman, was reported felled by a storm in 1905. Another larger coast redwood, the Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15–25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume.

The General Sherman was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.

Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx. However, the community was disbanded in 1892, primarily as a result of the establishment of Sequoia National Park, and the tree reverted to its previous name.

In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One result of this process was that wood volume became widely accepted as the standard for establishing and comparing the size of different trees.

In January 2006, the largest branch on the tree (seen most commonly, in older photos, as an "L" or golf-club shape, protruding from about a quarter of the way down the trunk) broke off. There were no witnesses to the incident, and the branch – larger than most tree trunks; diameter over 2 m and length over 30 m – smashed part of the perimeter fence and cratered the pavement of the surrounding walkway. The breakage is not believed to be indicative of any abnormalities in the tree's health, and may even be a natural defense mechanism against adverse weather conditions.

On September 16, 2021, the tree was wrapped in aluminum foil to protect it from the KNP complex fires.

these two commuter trains are operated by big private company The Central Exurban Passenger Company (АО Центральная ППК, JSCo CEPC). In contrast to main fleet of suburban trains of the CEPC that have ivory-white livree or "Region express" trains painted in deep blue, these two are painted in standard red color like all others commuter trains of the Russian Railways holding (JSCo RZD).

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. ED2T and ED4 trainsets were built by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading and the solely producer of the suburban trainsets. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

The press service of Russian Railways reported 26.01.2023 that Yaroslavsky station became a leader in passenger traffic in 2022 - almost 26 million passengers went from the Yaroslavsky station in Moscow. From them 23 million used the suburban electric trains and about 2,7 million - long-distance trains. The second and third places were predictably taken by the Kursk and Kazan stations in Moscow, from which 23,6 mln and 17,8 mln passengers went on trips respectively. In total about 131,4 million people went last year from the Moscow stations (111 million passengers used the suburban trains and about 20,5 million used the long-distance trains), which is 15 times more than the population of Moscow region. Compared to the previous year, this number increased by 6%.

Smearing or creep crack (difficult to tell due to poor design) caused by an unscheduled rotation of the axle in its mounting and an ill fitting rotating spacer that abutted one side of this bearing on a bicycle rear hub axle.

The main cause for the unwanted movement between axle and the holding plate (drop out) I have put down to poor material choice (softish aluminium rather than steel or 7xxx series aluminium)

This breakage in the freehub prevented any further reliable gear changes.

Note how the crack has cratered in the race track, this is the result of the ball bearings being demolished by the tiny mismatch in surface dimensions, no ball bearings were left, only a grey metallic sludge remained.

The inner race is held in position for this shot by a Moore and Wright 0-1" micrometer.

Many lights from many angles !

General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. It is estimated to be around 2,200 to 2,700 years old.

While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. The Lindsey Creek tree, with more than 90,000 cubic feet (2,500 cubic meters) almost twice the volume of General Sherman, was reported felled by a storm in 1905. Another larger coast redwood, the Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15–25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume.

The General Sherman was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.

Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx. However, the community was disbanded in 1892, primarily as a result of the establishment of Sequoia National Park, and the tree reverted to its previous name.

In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One result of this process was that wood volume became widely accepted as the standard for establishing and comparing the size of different trees.

In January 2006 the largest branch on the tree broke off. There were no witnesses to the incident, and the branch – larger than most tree trunks; diameter over 2 m (6.6 ft) and length over 30 m (98 ft) – smashed part of the perimeter fence and cratered the pavement of the surrounding walkway. The breakage is not believed to be indicative of any abnormalities in the tree's health, and may even be a natural defense mechanism against adverse weather conditions.

On September 16, 2021, the tree was wrapped in aluminum foil to protect it from the KNP complex fires.

the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.

The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Perburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.

This is this is the 20th reproduction Midnight Rose Momoko. I decided to get her because my original Midnight Rose had to have a replacement body, & her hair had a bunch of breakage. Also, I could have sworn that when she was new, she had a pink tint to her hair, but she doesn't now, & I don't see it in my original photos of her. This doll does have a pink tint to her hair though, so I think it was just Sekiguchi using garbage hair again that faded over time. hopefully it won't happen again.

Now I just have to figure out what to do with the original doll, I probably don't need two.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

One design parameter required that farmers be able to drive eggs across a freshly ploughed field without breakage. It looked like this farmer took that design parameter to heart, but just behind that little bush stood a Tesla charging.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Olympus OM-D E-M10 MKII, M.Zuiko 75mm f1.8

ЭГ2Тв (EG2Tv, electric city train, 2nd type, Tver) named "Ivolga" (the Oriole, next in the bird name line of RZD trainsets after Swallow bird, Swift, Peregrine) - new family of 3 kV DC electric trains jointly developed by JSC "Tver Carriage Works" (ТВСЗ, TVZ, Tver) and Metrowagonmash (Moscow) of the Transmashholding and produced by TVZ. The basic version of the trainset (Ivolga 1.0) was created In 2014. This was the first serial Russian EMU train using AC electric motors (300 kW TME 46-32-4 of the Traktionssysteme Austria and later of comparable Russian model ДАТЭ-1У). And first modern Russian electric trainset designed in Russia in which details produced in Russia are prevalent. Today the third generation (Ivolga 3.0) is produced. The first and second generations now modernised to increase of train units to 11. The initial cab design of basic version was also changed from angular to more streamlined (as here).

The MCD-2 route (Nakhabino - Podolsk, Kursk-Riga diameter) opened on November 21, 2019 was created on the basis of existing routes, has a length of 80 kilometers, which are overcome in 2 hours. The line includes 34 stopping points, of which 11 have connections to the subway, the Moscow Central (railway) Ring and/or another railroad line. As of the beginning of December 2019, 22 EG2Tv Ivolga 1.0, as well as conventional electric trains EP2D of the motorcar depot TCh-17 Nakhabino, and two ten-car trains ES2G Lastochka from the motorcar depot Kryukovo serve on the route of the MCD-2. In addition to the trains of the MCD, regular suburban trips are served by eleven-car electric trains EP2D from depots Nakhabino and Pererva, temporarily transferred from the Leningrad direction twelve-car train ET2M from depot Kryukovo and ten-car electric trains ER2. 100 pairs of MCD-2 electric trains (not including regular suburban trains) with a stroke interval of 12 minutes run on the route per day.

EP2D and Ivolga commuter trainsets in Moscow are operated by big private company The Central Exurban Passenger Company (АО Центральная ППК, JSCo CEPC). Trains of the CEPC have individual ivory-white livree clearly distinguishing them from ordinate red-colored commuter trains of the Russian Railways holding (JSCo RZD). Between them is the "Region express" train of CEPC painted in deep blue.

EP2D is the last development of ED4M family of 3 kV DC electric commuter trainsets with increased safety level for passengers to comply the new regultaions of the EAC. She is in production from 2015 y. by the JSC DMZ (Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant; Russian: ОАО ДМЗ, Демиховский машиностроительный завод), now the leading producer of the suburban trainsets. Ones expluatated on the Moscow Railway have unusual 11 or 9 units compostion, that replaced the typical 10/8-cars composition.

ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.

Based on Russian wikipedia articles. Translation assistance - deepL

Many Hands

I got a comment on a really old photo here which reminded me to revisit the 3d animations Hugo B very kindly shared with me. Specifically the hand one and once I found the video on Google Drive I got cracking.

9 rotations of the camera rotation tool handle for each run through of the cross section video until I returned to zero degrees. Cap on, aperture and focus change then moved the tripod for the three way blade rotation.

The LP Brushes Serpent Blade was my weapon of choice paired with the Convoy S2+ on strobe mode due to my Ryus edition torch breakage.

I love how each hand seemlessly grips the wrist of its neighbour and the reflection of the video playback dancing off the kitchen worktop framing the whole piece.

Single long exposure (and all that jazz) shot in complete darkness.

Cheers again to Hugo for his kindness and happy days.

*Note the gap between the steel cars and the three mid-train helpers as this still-moving train climbs up to Sandcut.

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I’d seen this good-sized 3x3x2 powered steel train at Bealville, so waited further down the track at Sandcut where I took a shot of the leaders, and then the mid-train helpers… But then - surreally - the front of the train continued onwards, while the helpers and rear half of the train quickly came to a stop with no drama.

It took a few seconds for me to register what had happened, but I drove up to see the train crew to tell them the train had split and where. After what seemed like an eternity, a crew member came back with a replacement knuckle, reconnected the train, I offered him a lift back to the head end, and the train carried on its merry way west.

It wasn’t until the slides of the train came back that I realized I’d snapped it just after it, had itself, snapped.

28 August 1999, Sandcut, Tehachapi Pass, CA, USA

I must be bad luck as I've witnessed three train breakages on 25 trips to the Pass...