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Class 31s were uncommon power for intermodal trains at this time.
Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 transparency.
Shortly before the introduction of the new LDP Class locomotives (only a few weeks away when this shot was taken), the QRNational East Coast intermodals were dominated by the G, CLF and CLP Classes.
5MB7 races through Menangle behind G516 and a pair of CLPs.
"All other ships, head for that opening."
I have not actually seen Wrath of Khan (blasphemy, I know) so this model is based on the Miranda Class refits in DS9. Like always, to the same scale as the Enterprise set (and now to the Defiant as well).
I saw somewhere that the 1x1 plate with handle was released in light bley in a limited edition Jurassic World set. Can anyone confirm?
Drax liveried class 60 , 6066 , passing through South Bank , near Midlesbrough with a train of empties heading for Scunthorpe .
In the summer of 1996 Class 60 no.60035 passes Bedlinog with a loaded MGR from Cwmbargoed Disposal Point to Aberthaw.
This was around the time Class 60s replaced pairs of Class 37s on these trains and this is the first time I saw a Class 60 on the branch. I never been back to the line since but will make the effort again one day as the scenary is superb.
News Zealand Railways DC class locos 4029/4726 are stabled with a ballast train at National Park Station during May 1986.
Built for the NZR by GM as the DA class (G12) between 1961-1968, most were rebuilt as the DC class (G22AR) by Clyde Engineering at Rosewater , South Australia in the late 70s/early 80s. Still carrying its original rebuild number 1553 on the nose, 4029 would have been one of the earliest rebuilds. It was originally DA1533.
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DB Cargo Class 66048 which derailed near Carrbridge Station,Scotland on 4th January 2010, now stands at Electro Motive Depot Longport looking worst for wear ,photographed on 29/03/2021
My new Lego model of a Bulleid pacific; Merchant Navy Class '35005 Canadian Pacific'.
The Merchant Navy class were designed for the Southern Railway in Britain by Oliver Bulleid, and were built between 1941 and 1949. They originally had 'Air Smoothed Casing'; a type of streamlining. They were later followed the smaller and lighter 'West Country' and 'Battle of Britain' classes (which were identical apart from their naming). These were also originally built in streamlined condition. My other Lego Bulleid loco, '21c123 Blackmore Vale' is an example of an original condition West Country Class.
In the 1950s onwards, the Southern Railway was taken over by British Rail, who began to rebuild all 3 classes of the Bulleid pacifics, without the streamlining, to allow easier maintenance. This model is an example of a REBUILT Mechant Navy class.
The real '35005 Canadian Pacific' is now preserved at the Mid-Hants Railway, and I've seen her running many times.
Colas Railfreight Class 56, 56302 approaching Greenfaulds railway station working 6N47 Prestwick - Grangemouth tanks on the 14th of August 2018
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Sized for Mobile Frame Zero: Intercept Orbit, a Lego based tabletop tactical game. Based on the Salamis Kai Class from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
The Salamis Kai is a modified version of the lackluster but dependable Salamis class, and as such is also a frigate sized at 12 studs long. In order to bring the Salamis class into the modern era of frame focused combat, the Kai's forward bow has been modified to fit a hangar bay with a vertical lift elevator and topside launch catapult, necessitating the removal of one of the main guns. In order to increase the weight of the attacks the Kai could throw in medium range anti ship bombardments, the secondary bridges were replaced with duel main gun mounts, effectively increasing the total number of barrels to 9. Between the additional weapons and the widening of the bow for the hangar which also necessitated the removal of the missile pods, the Kai's role in combat is more definitely defined to medium range where it might better support the frames it launches. Finally, boosters were added to the engine to improve its overall speed.
The Kai represents a focused effort to improve the Salamis overall, but doesn't quite replace the original's role in the navy. Instead, the Kai is mostly likely to be seen serving as the lead vessel in a small task force comprised of several additional normal Salamis class ships operating in areas deemed less important or dangerous enough to warrant a true capital ship. Alternatively a ship or two of the Kai class may be attached to an existing task force to supplement the frame squads available for duty.
The second ship of my new space fleet. Deployed in large numbers, the Hermes Class Cruiser forms the backbone of the fleet.
Class 90 90004 heads through Ingatestone towards the Capital with 1P37 1230 Norwich to London Liverpool Street
Merseyrail British Rail three car 3rd rail EMU Class 508 no.508 125 arrives at Hall Road station with the Hunts Cross to Hunts Cross circular for Hunts Cross.
308155 and 308141 at Leeds in November, 1999. Units I used to commute on in their GER days, then painted in all-over blue and later blue and grey, looking quite odd in red livery!
LEGO MOC of Mogami-class frigate in scale of 1:66
Mogami-class frigate is a Japanese multi-mission stealth frigate for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)
Specifications:
- Displacement
3,900 tons standard
5,500 tons full load
- Length: 133 m
- Beam: 16.3 m
- Crew: 90
Armament:
1 × 5 in (127 mm) Mk-45 Mod 4 naval gun
2 × missile canisters for a total of 8 Type 17 anti-ship missiles
1 × SeaRAM
2 x 3 Type 12 torpedoes
16 × Mk-41 VLS
2 × Remote weapon station
47532 at Arpley SP. I took a number of shots at Arpley stabling point with my Minolta 7000 SLR with a Minolta 400mm lens and tripod. This is one of those and great when the loco was at the rear near the signal maintenance depot. photo taken in 1990.
Caledonian Sleeper 73968 leads 73966,92038 and 92010 though Newcastle working 0Z80 Polmadie to Doncaster
86219 (Pheonix), in Intercity livery, at Springburn Works, Glasgow on 5.10.97. I note that this wasn't scrapped until 2002 so presumably it was there for some TLC!
Class 15, ADB968002 (D8237) outside Sheffield near Brightside. Photo taken from a passing train
This was stored at Toton for a while before being transfered to Sheffield as seen here before being taken into Marple & Gillots scrapyard for disposal, it was cut up in April 1985 so this photo will date from March or April 1985
DB Schenker Class 66, 66144 is seen passing through Rollerston with the Kingsbury - Humber oil tanks. 66114 has recently been re painted from EWS livery in to DB Schenker livery at Toton.
Class 37 - 37075 & 41001 at Keighley during the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Diesel & Mixed Traffic Gala 2019.
The Class 01 of standard locomotives (Einheitsdampflokomotive) was the first design of steam express passenger locomotives built by the unified Boreatic Railway League. While multiple railway companies had been operating across the main island of Borea for decades, no single railway company proved willing to shoulder the cost of long-distance railway bridges and ferries to the myriad islands. In 1920, the Council agreed to consolidate the largest mainland railway companies into a single state-owned entity, capable of the large-scale investment required to bridge the straights. The Grey Gates, the great suspension bridge crossing Omburg Harbor, is a product of such investment; so is the Class 01.
A 4-6-2 "Specific" layout, the Class 01 is designed to be fast, versatile, and able to be repaired in any railyard with standardized equipment. The Class 01 is limited to routes capable of handling its 20-ton axle load (as well as yards with turntables long enough to maneuver it). Though demand has started off slow, railway executives expect that the Class 01 will eventually be the most common engine hauling passenger express routes across the Boreatic League- and perhaps even beyond!
A pair of Rail Operations Group Class 47 diesel locos 47813 and 47812 waiting at Royston station.
On the lunchtime Barrington Quarry to Wembley run with empty landfill wagons.
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The 1860’s were a boom time of naval construction. The first ironclad battleships had amply demonstrated that the reign of the old wooden ship of the line was at an end. Such ships were extremely vulnerable to the new technology of high explosive shells, giving ships that were actually armoured to withstand such weapons a huge advantage. As a result, the world’s naval powers were keen to dispose of their now useless fleets, replacing them with ironclads as fast as they could.
Nowhere was this boom of shipbuilding greater than the Old Perceptan Empire. Ever since the Avalonian Continental and Western Holy Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, where the navies of its rivals had been practically annihilated, Perceptum had maintained a massive margin of global naval supremacy for half a century by the virtue of being able to supplement its massive number of warships faster than its rivals could build new navies. But with the advent of the ironclad, this vast Armada of wooden sailing ships had been rendered obsolete at a stroke. A similar thing was happening in the navies of its geopolitical enemies, who were capitalizing on the opportunity to finally catch up. Having built its hegemony through the use of its navy, and none to eager to lose the control of the sea which its economy depended upon, the Imperial Government authorized one of the biggest construction programmes in history to replace its fleet with modern ironclad warships. Scores of the grand old wooden ships were sold and scrapped, with only the most modern preserved for conversion that turned them into comparatively ugly hunks of steel. Moreover, Imperial shipyards worked overtime to build entirely new ships with iron framed hulls; ships like the mighty Forza. The great majority of these ships were armed in the traditional broadside manner, before this type was ultimately superseded by ships with central battery and turret armaments.
When laid down in 1866, the Lorica and her class were intended to be the last, and grandest, of the Imperial Navy’s broadside battleships. In practice, conversion works on older ships and the construction of other broadsiders continued alongside their building until 1870, so it’s unclear which ship was THE last of the old way of fighting, but the Loricas were the last class of them to be ordered. For the Marina Imperiale, she was the embodiment of the sendoff, with some of the older men in the officer corps shedding tears over the passing of an age. They were the only class of broadside ironclad to possess more than a single gundeck, and although only the lower of the two benefitted from the thickest armour (8in of wrought iron backed by 20in of teak) their height allowed them to ship no less than fifty-six guns. As grand as this may seem, the arrangement caused several problems. The shear weight of all those guns threatened stability, and with so many weapons on two decks, it would be impossible to equip each gun with its own armoured ammunition hoist. This forced the guncrews to share hoists and get creative with how they handled the shot and powder... which would obviously prove hazardous in battle. The magazines were correspondingly huge, and although protected by relatively thick armour for a ship of the type, it was insufficient against the increasingly large guns mounted by central battery and turret ironclads. The only real strength they had was the mobility that resulted from their length to width ratio, but maneuvering such top-heavy iron sailing ships proved notoriously hazardous.
As can be expected, the Eight Years War was not kind to them. The ships performed admirably despite their age, their massive batteries of updated guns proving useful in calm seas and coastal battles where they proved their worth in guarding the Empire’s ports from attack. And unlike most other broadsiders, their entire hull was armoured with wrought iron ranging between four and eight inches, which allowed them to tank hits from smaller guns. Their relative agility even allowed them to dodge torpedoes while other, less nimble ships foundered. But whenever they were dragged too far out to sea, predictable problems arose. Their instability, worsened by the even heavier new rifled gun battery, caused more than one of them to sink in bad weather, in particularly fast turns or due to uncontrolled flooding in battle. With such a tendency to roll so heavily, the lower gun deck (which housed all the 8in guns, as opposed to the 4 and 6in rifles on the upper deck) would be subject to flooding should the hatches be opened in rough seas. Worse yet was the damage inflicted by the more modern ships the Empire was facing; the big-gun ships favoured by the Order of Achatius and her Allies found no problem with overmatching the Lorica’s armour, even from range. Once penetrated, the ships citadel and vulnerable ammunition stores were wide open to destruction.
Several of them did, however, survive the War. Wartime construction eventually caught up, allowing the the Loricas to be replaced on the front line by newer, tougher ships that moved the old broadsiders to relatively safe port defense and reserve posts. After the war, the Perceptan navy diligently reorganized itself and, strapped for cash, decided to sell many of its obsolescent ships off to the highest foreign bidders. At least one Lorica found its way into the Royal Pyu Navy, while another became flagship to a short-lived but famous pirate of the Chornslad Alliance. After superseding their value as combatants, they would serve for the rest of their days as depot ships, coal hulks and training vessels... an ignominious end to the era of the sailing battleship.
DRG Class 43 locomotive in the Eisenbahnmuseum Heilbronn. Shot with Fuji GS645S on Rollei 80S. Developed in XTOL
50037 Illustrious, speeding towards Seaton Junction station, with the 14:22 Exeter St. Davids - Waterloo, 2/7/91.
25221 starts a Crewe to Cardiff service from Newport on the last leg of its journey.
18th June 1978.