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This is my recent setup optimized for doing my research. I mainly use OS X, but I also run Windows for embedded system programming and Linux for running Simics VM. All of them are virtualized within VMWare Fusion.
In the photo, there are four screens but are actually only two Macs on the 72-inch wide desk. I found this setting to be useful because it's portable and the load can be balanced between the two. There are several other computers in my room for server and simulation purposes.
All the computers are synchronized using Unison, and controlled by a single set of keyboard and mouse using Synergy. I modified the source code of Synergy so that it supports Magic Mouse perfectly (the original version uses some deprecated APIs which doesn't support pixel-based scrolling).
Thanks to the GoodReader application on iPad, I can read all the books and papers even when I'm on the go. I need to hide the annoying iPad's white USB cable, but the iPad's power issue makes the problem a bit difficult to solve.
Near Horsham, Mount Arapiles (Dyuritte), on the traditional lands of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk peoples, is a mecca for rock-climbers and it's easy to see why with its huge flat walls that have varying degrees of scaleability.
We visited on a gloriously refreshing autumn day and the mountain was packed with campers and climbers.
Stopping at The Pines campground to take these images was a must do. The campground was packed and most people camping are there to climb the mountain.
Rock paintings at Taylor's Rock have been recently discovered near the Mount and work is currently underway to protect them. Please do not be a numpty and ignore signage to not step foot on sacred land just for a climb, a photo or, god-forbid, a selfie with the artefacts.
Clockwise from top right - Life booklet of index cards bound in leather; green postcard bag; large Midori Traveler's notebook with Blackwing pencil; dark brown Life notebook cover (for books and iPad); Kaweco rollerball pen with leather case; MT washi tape; Traveler's stamp; golden clip from Japan; Faber-Castell Ambition fountain pen in Pearwood
Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue Service - Ford Focus - Co Responder Vehicle - Currently based at Mablethorpe Fire Station
There are pretty much the only things I have built up right now. I'm reluctant to break up the M200 until I know exactly what I want to build next. I really want to attempt another sniper rifle, preferably a Remington 700, but light bley isn't the ideal colour.
Also, the M4 has undergone yet more changes! The most noticeable are the long ejection port and a new stock. I want to reduce the height of the hand guard area slightly but I can't bring myself to take it apart again just yet.
On the right-hand side you can see a green plate with some tan pieces on it; this is a MOC that I started late last year of a local building. Having never built a building based on a real-life building, progress is slow but I am determined to complete it some time this year, no matter the cost!
Well that's about it! Just lately I've been busy with college work and whatnot so I haven't really been in the building mood, but I'm sure I'll be back soon!
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Cape Blanc Lighthouse is located on the Gaspé Peninsula just south of Percé and alongside Route 132, had to go through a campground and then a short walk to reach it. The lighthouse is no longer in operation.
Nearest Town or City: Percé Quebec Canada
Location: Northern entrance to Baie des Chaleurs (Chaleur Bay), Gaspé Peninsula.
Notes: Although the light is still present in the tower, it is not currently listed as an active aid to navigation. In January 2005, it was reported that the Percé town council was seeking to obtain ownership of this lighthouse.
Tower Height: 17.3 meters (24 feet)
Description Tower: White, octagonal, reinforced-concrete tower with a red lantern.
Operational: No
Date Established: 1874
Directions: The lighthouse faces Ile Bonaventure, a world-famous bird sanctuary. It is located off Highway 132 just west of Percé, behind the Marché aux Puces (flea market). Permission to see the lighthouse should be obtained from either the Marché aux Puces (if open) or the Camping du Phare next door. It is a 10-minute walk to the lighthouse. Limited parking available.
Characteristic Range:White flash every 5 seconds; range 15 miles (1995)
Alternate Name1: Percé Light
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A non-365 selfportrait taken yesterday. I like taking reading-related SP's and tried a different angle yesterday.
I'm reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides now.
Well, just wanted to upload that one. I'm off to Zeeland now! Until tomorrow or tuesdayevening!
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43316 sits in platform 8 at Kings Cross having arrived from the north, 28th April 2008.
Locomotive History
43316 was built at Crewe works as 43116 and entered service in March 1979. It was one of a batch of sixty six power cars built to power the thirty two, eight car HST sets for Eastern Region services. It has remained on these Eastern Region duties (currently operated by East Coast) since it entered service. It has had its original Paxman Valenta engine replaced by a MTU unit and re-entered service in October 2007 renumbered 43316.
With the end of East Coast Main Line HST services in mid December 2019 it has re-entered service with East Midlands Railways in May 2020.
Withdrawn in April 2021 it was exported to Mexico in February 2024 for further use.
All belong to the same faction. The camo on the middle right is a Spetsnaz camo, with my own added twist. It will also go on the right guy. Not sure if I will put it on the legs. The left guys are more desert prepared, so I'm not sure if I should camo them. Knee pads by me.
Soon to be Modern Conflict Standards
-Sphinx
Pacific National's scruffy looking G540 "Wycheproof" hauls 7908V extra container train of lupines from Peaco in Donald to Appleton Dock upgrade away from Dunolly on the afternoon of the 13/7/20.
This loading is currently unable to be attached to the regular 7901V/7902V Merbein containers due to that train being already at the 1200 metre maximum length allowed on the Victrack network.
Video available at: youtu.be/e1iJRm-Yp9o
My current project is the construction of a meter-scale modular origami tower using my ZEBRA construction system. This is the tip of the tower under construction, folded from 250 uncut sheets of 100 g/m² A4 office paper and assembled without glue or other means of fixation. Its base is built on top of the 47 cm x 47 cm framework segment shown here.
Presently, the tower measures 2.25 m from bottom to top (I'm not done yet, but this is as far as my living room allows me to go). Does this already set the world record for the tallest origami object built from standard small-scale paper formats? The tallest comparable object I'm aware of is Jeannine Moseley's business card cube model of Worcester Union Station (shown on this web page), which is less than 2 m high.
Comments and pointers to related work are welcome!
Currently based in Chino, this restored Lightning, formerly of the Evergreen museum in McMinnville, Oregon, is due to join the Collings Foundation collection (coincidentally visiting Southern California as the Planes of Fame Airshow was underway.)
Currently operating for Lufthansa, this Air Dolomiti aircraft is heading to Turin/TRN as flight LH300.
'Tosca Giacomo Puccini' is here taking-off in beautiful sunshine from runway 18/West.
Air Dolomiti, based in Munich, has a fleet of 11 Embraer aircraft.
A giant tortoise at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Geochelone nigra) is the largest living tortoise, native to seven islands of the Galápagos archipelago. The Galápagos tortoise is unique to the Galápagos Islands. Fully grown adults can weigh over 300 kilograms (661 lb) and measure 1.2 meters (4 ft) long. They are long-lived with a life expectancy in the wild estimated to be 100-150 years. Populations fell dramatically because of hunting and the introduction of predators and grazers by humans since the seventeenth century. Now only ten subspecies of the original twelve exist in the wild. However, conservation efforts since the establishment of the Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation have met with success, and hundreds of captive-bred juveniles have been released back onto their home islands. They have become one of the most symbolic animals of the fauna of the Galápagos Islands. The tortoises have very large shells (carapace) made of bone. The bony plates of the shell are integral to the skeleton, fused with the ribs in a rigid protective structure. Naturalist Charles Darwin remarked "These animals grow to an immense size ... several so large that it required six or eight men to lift them from the ground.". This is due to the phenomenon of island gigantism whereby in the absence of natural predation, the largest tortoises had a survival advantage and no disadvantage in fleeing or fending off predators. When threatened, it can withdraw its head, neck and all forelimbs into its shell for protection, presenting a protected shield to a would-be predator. The legs have hard scales that also provide armour when withdrawn. Tortoises keep a characteristic scute pattern on their shell throughout life. These have annual growth bands but are not useful for aging as the outer layers are worn off. There is little variation in the dull-brown colour of the shell or scales. Physical features (including shape of the shell) relate to the habitat of each of the subspecies. These differences were noted by Captain Porter even before Charles Darwin. Larger islands with more wet highlands such as Santa Cruz and the Alcedo Volcano on Isabela have lush vegetation near the ground. Tortoises here tend to have 'dome-back' shells. These animals have restricted upward head movement due to shorter necks, and also have shorter limbs. These are the heaviest and largest of the subspecies.Smaller, drier islands such as Española and Pinta are inhabited by tortoises with 'saddleback' shells comprising a flatter carapace which is elevated above the neck and flared above the hind feet. Along with longer neck and limbs, this allows them to browse taller vegetation. On these drier islands the Galápagos Opuntia cactus (a major source of their fluids) has evolved a taller, tree-like form. This is evidence of an evolutionary arms race between progressively taller tortoises and correspondingly taller cacti. Saddlebacks are smaller in size than domebacks. They tend to have a yellowish color on lower mandible and throat. At one extreme, the Sierra Negra volcano population that inhabits southern Isabela Island has a very flattened "tabletop" shell. However, there is no saddleback/domeback dualism; tortoises can also be of 'intermediate' type with characteristics of both. The tortoises are slow-moving reptiles with an average long-distance walking speed of 0.3 km/h (0.18 mph). Although feeding giant tortoises browse with no apparent direction, when moving to water-holes or nesting grounds, they can move at surprising speeds for their size. Marked individuals have been reported to have traveled 13 km in two days. Being cold-blooded, the tortoises bask for two hours after dawn, absorbing the energy through their shells, then becoming active for 8–9 hours a day. They may sleep for about sixteen hours in a mud wallow partially or submerged in rain-formed pools (sometimes dew ponds formed by garua-moisture dripping off trees). This may be both a thermoregulatory response and a protection from parasites such as mosquitoes and ticks. Some rest in a 'pallet'- a snug depression in soft ground or dense brush- which probably helps to conserve heat and may aid digestion. On the Alcedo Volcano, repeated use of the same sites by the large resident population has resulted in the formation of small sandy pits. Darwin observed that: "The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking near behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly, the instant I passed, it would draw in its head and legs, and uttering a deep hiss fall to the ground with a heavy sound, as if struck dead." The tortoises can vocalise in aggressive encounters, whilst righting themselves if turned upside down and, in males, during mating. The latter is described as "rhythmic groans". The tortoises are herbivorous animals with a diet comprising cactus, grasses, leaves, vines, and fruit. Fresh young grass is a favorite food of the tortoises, and others are the 'poison apple' (Hippomane mancinella) (toxic to humans), the endemic guava (Psidium galapageium), the water fern (Azolla microphylla), and the bromeliad (Tillandsia insularis). Tortoises eat a large quantity of food when it is available at the expense of incomplete digestion. Its favorite food is grasses. The tortoise normally eat an average of 70 to 80 pounds a day. Tortoises have a classic example of a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with some species of Galápagos finch. The finch hops in front of the tortoise to show that it is ready and the tortoise then raises itself up high on its legs and stretches out its neck so that the bird can pick off ticks that are hidden in the folds of the skin (especially on the rear legs, cloacal opening, neck, and skin between plastron and carapace), thus freeing the tortoise from harmful parasites and providing the finch with an easy meal. Other birds, including Galápagos Hawk and flycatchers, use tortoises as observation posts from which to sight their prey. Mating occurs at any time of the year, although it does have seasonal peaks between January and August. When two mature males meet in the mating season they will face each other, rise up on their legs and stretch up their necks with their mouths open to assess dominance. Occasionally, head-biting occurs, but usually the shorter loser tortoise will back off, leaving the other to mate with the female. In groups of tortoises from mixed island populations, saddleback males have an advantage over domebacks. Frustrated non-dominant males have been observed attempting to mate with other males and boulders. The male sniffs the air when seeking a female, bellows loudly, and bobs his head. The male then rams the female with the front of his shell and bites her exposed legs until she withdraws them, immobilizing her. Copulation can last several hours with roaring vocalisations from the males. Their concave shell base allows males to mount the females from behind. It brings its tail which houses the penis into the female's cloaca. After mating (June-December), the females journey up to several kilometres to reach nesting areas of dry, sandy ground (often near the coast). Nest digging can last from hours to days and is elaborate and exhausting. It is carried out blindly using only the hind legs to dig a 30 cm deep hole, into which she lays up to sixteen hard-shelled eggs the size of tennis balls. The female makes a muddy plug for the nest hole out of soil mixed with urine and leaves the eggs to incubate. In rocky areas, the eggs are deposited randomly into cracks. The young emerge from the nest after 120 to 140 days gestation later (December-April) and may weigh only 80 grams (2.8 oz) and measure 6 centimetres (2.4 in). Temperature plays a role in the sex of the hatchling: if the nest temperature is lower, more males will hatch; if it is high, more females will hatch. When the young tortoises emerge from their shells, they must dig their way to the surface, which can take up to a month. All have domed carapaces, and subspecies are indistinguishable. Galápagos Hawk used to be the only native predator of the tortoise hatchlings, as Darwin remarked: "The young tortoises, as soon as they are hatched, fall prey in great numbers to buzzards". Sex can be determined only when the tortoise is 15 years old, and sexual maturity is reached at 20 to 25 years old. The tortoises grow slowly for about 40 years until they reach their full size. Reproductive prime is considered to be from the ages of 60–90. The shape of the carapace of some subspecies of the tortoises is said to have reminded the early Spanish explorers of a kind of saddle they called a "galápago," and for these saddle-shaped tortoises they named the archipelago. Up to 250,000 tortoises inhabited the islands when they were discovered. Today only about 15,000 are left.
The inhabitants...state that they can distinguish the tortoise from different islands; and that they differ not only in size, but in other characters. Captain Porter has described those from Charles and from the nearest island to it, namely Hood Island, as having their shells in front thick and turned up like a Spanish saddle, whilst the tortoises from James Island are rounder, blacker, and have a better taste when cooked.---Charles Darwin 1845
There were probably twelve subspecies of Geochelone nigra in the Galápagos Islands, although some recognise up to 15 subspecies. Now only 11 subspecies remain, five on Isabela Island, and the other six on Santiago, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, Pinzón, Española and Pinta. Of these, the Pinta Island subspecies is extinct in the wild and is represented by a single individual (Lonesome George). In the past, zoos took animals without knowing their island of origin. Production of fertile offspring from various pairings of tortoises largely confirmed that they are subspecies and not different species. All the subspecies of giant tortoise evolved in Galápagos from a common ancestor that arrived from the mainland, floating on the ocean currents (the tortoises can drift for long periods of time as they are buoyant and can stretch head upwards to breathe). Only a single pregnant female or breeding pair needed to arrive in this way, and then survive, for Galápagos to be colonised. In the seventeenth century, pirates started to use the Galápagos islands as a base for resupply, restocking on food, water and repairing vessels before attacking Spanish colonies on the South American mainland. The tortoises were collected and stored live on board ships where they could survive for at least a year without food or water, providing valuable fresh meat, whilst their diluted urine and water stored in their neck bags could also be used as drinking water. Of the meat, Darwin wrote: "the breast-plate roasted (as the Gauchos do 'carne con cuero'), with the flesh on it, is very good; and the young tortoises make excellent soup; but otherwise the meat to my taste is indifferent." In the nineteenth century, whaling ships and fur-sealers collected tortoises for food and many more were killed for high grade 'turtle oil' from the late 1800s onward. Darwin described this process thus: "beautifully clear oil is prepared from the fat. When a tortoise is caught, the man makes a slit in the skin near its tail, so as to see inside its body, whether the fat under the dorsal plate is thick. If it is not, the animal is liberated and it is said to recover soon from this strange operation." A total of over 15,000 tortoises is recorded in the logs of 105 whaling ships between 1811 and 1844. As hunters found it easiest to collect the tortoises living round the coastal zones, the least decimated populations tended to be those in the highlands. Population decline accelerated with the early settlement of the islands, when they were hunted for meat, their habitat was cleared for agriculture and alien mammal species were introduced. Feral pigs, dogs, cats and black rats are effective predators of eggs and young tortoises, whilst goats, donkeys and cattle compete for grazing. In the twentieth century, increasing human settlement and urbanisation and collection of tortoises for zoo and museum specimens depleted numbers even more. The Galápagos giant tortoise is now strictly protected. Young tortoises are raised in a programme by the Charles Darwin Research Station in order to bolster the numbers of the extant subspecies. Eggs are collected from places on the islands where they are threatened and when the tortoises hatch they are kept in captivity until they have reached a size that ensures a good chance of survival and are returned to their original ranges. The Galápagos National Park Service systematically culls feral predators and competitors where necessary such as the complete eradication of goats from Pinta. The conservation project begun in the 1970s successfully brought 10 of the 11 endangered subspecies up to guarded population levels. The most significant recovery was that of the Española Tortoise, whose breeding stock comprised 2 males and 11 females brought to the Darwin Station. Fortuitously, a third male was discovered at the San Diego Zoo and joined the others in a captive breeding program. These 13 tortoises gave rise to over 1000 tortoises now released into their home island. In all, 2500 individuals of all breeds have been reintroduced to the islands. However, persecution still continues on a much smaller scale; more than 120 tortoises have been killed by poachers since 1990 and they have been taken hostage as political leverage by local fishermen.
Santa Cruz
With the largest human population in the Galapagos archipelago, Isla Santa Cruz is the most important of the Galapagos Islands. Meaning Holy Cross in Spanish, this island is also known as Indefatigable, after the HMS Indefatigable landed here long ago. The second largest island terms of land area at 986 sq km, Isla Santa Cruz is home to the key town of Puerto Ayora, the Charles Darwin Research Station and the headquarters of the Galapagos National Park Service. With its own airport on Isla Baltra a few miles away, Isla Santa Cruz is where most visitors who come to the Galapagos Islands usually stay. With a number of bars, hotels, restaurants and shops in Puerto Ayora, most tours of the Archipelago also usually begin from here.
Galapagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, some 900 km west of Ecuador. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site: wildlife is its most notable feature. Because of the only very recent arrival of man the majority of the wildlife has no fear of humans and will allow visitors to walk right up them, often having to step over Iguanas or Sea Lions.The Galápagos islands and its surrounding waters are part of a province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of around 40,000, which is a 40-fold expansion in 50 years. The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
The next round from current project built around this year's cherry blossom season. I've decided to tackle this project in a different way, With these images, I'll publish 3 different versions. The first will be a "stock" image that will be uncropped and will only have my basic RAW processing. The second will have my color edit - sometimes, the changes will be subtle, on others it might be a dramatic difference. The third iteration will show my B&W edit. I'm not going to share my (sometimes involved) workflow on these images - but all were shot with my Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 25mm f1.2 Pro lens (usually wide open, but not exclusively).
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On a blazing hot day in Zion National Park, a good way to cool off was to hike the Virgin River up Zion Canyon to the Narrows. In the Narrows, the hike is literally in the river, the canyon walls rising up to 2000 feet above the 20 to 30 foot wide gorge in which the river flows.
The temperature hit 111 that day, and there were many people in the river with us trying to cool off. You can see one of them here, heading up the canyon and providing a bit of scale to the scene.
"The Narrows, with its soaring walls, sandstone grottos, natural springs, and hanging gardens can be an unforgettable wilderness experience. However, it is not a hike to be underestimated. Hiking The Narrows means hiking in the Virgin River. At least 60 percent of the hike is spent wading, walking, and sometimes swimming in the river. There is no maintained trail because the route is the river. The current is swift, the water is cold, and the rocks underfoot are slippery."
(From the National Park Service Brochure.)
The swollen Current River in Van Buren Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at Æ’/18.0 with a 3.2 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Périgueux, September 2015 - France
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Currently on the run as a reserve appliance for Epworth seen here returning home station following a RTC on the M180.
Germany's second largest airline, Air Berlin is a primary competitor to Lufthansa... The company was found back in 1978 before commencing regular flights in 1979. Today, the company is partly owned by Etihad Airways with 29.1% shares in the company.
Air Berlin has recently suffered from major losses within the company and is in the midst of restructuring which has already seen the fleet being simplified to an all-Airbus fleet. The Boeing 737 fleet is slowly being wound down whilst the Airbus A320 family becomes the short-haul work-horse, and the Airbus A330 forming the long-haul fleet.
The short-haul fleet continues to gain momentum however, there are 70 Airbus A320 family aircraft in regular service, which include 5 Airbus A319's, 46 Airbus A320's and 19 Airbus A321's. Currently, there is an order for 6 more Airbus A320's... 3 more are to arrive from China Eastern, one from Alitalia (a number have made their way from the Italian carrier) and 2 are brand new to arrive from Airbus.
Alpha Bravo Foxtrot Golf is one of 46 Airbus A320's in service with Air Berlin, delivered new to the carrier in May 2010, currently on lease from Investec and she is powered by 2 CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 engines.
Airbus A320-214 D-ABFG on final approach into Runway 25L at Frankfurt (FRA) on AB6561 from Berlin-Tegel (TXL).
Unusual to see the current generation of Ford Focus in battenburg as most police forces have moved away from them.
Pictured is one of the new marked response cars used by Essex County Fire & Rescue Service.
The number plate identifiers show that the car was built at Special Vehicle Preparations. A local company based in Earls Colne that builds emergency vehicles. Predominately they build Fords including most of the UK Ford Demonstrator police vehicles. Examples include the Focus RS, Mustangs and Raptor Ranger we’ve seen in recent years.
CSXT Framingham Yard job Y101 is working in North Yard located off the tail of the wye that connects to the Keolis/MBTA Worcester Line between CP21 and CP22. North Yard is a former New Haven Railroad facility that goes back to the Old Colony Railroad and it's two routes north to meet the Boston and Maine at Lowell and Fitchburg. Lowell lost its status as a gateway shortly after the Penn Central merger and that line was progressively cut back surving on local business for many more years though now it is abandoned in its entirety. The line northwest to Fitchburg, however, survives nearly all intact excepting the the final four miles or so and is served by a local based out of here five days a week.
This modest facility is the hub of CSXT's carload network in eastern Massachusetts and feeds all traffic to their myriad locals in southeastern Mass though no thru trains originate or terminate here any longer. Instead traffic is transferred to and from Worcester where all through trains operating from Selkirk and points west currently terminate. In addion to this yard, CSXT continues to use the small Nevins Yard which is ex Boston and Albany and is located just west of the station beside the mainline. In fact, in just a moment this job will pull out and curl around the west leg of the wye to head over there.
The crew has a nice brace of three classic EMD SD40-2s: CSXT 8181 (blt. Mar. 1974 as LN 1278), 8024 (blt. Apr. 1979 for the LN with the same number and delivered in Family Lines paint), and 8065 (blt. Aug. 1979 for the SCL with the same number and delivered in Family Lines paint).
Framingham, Massachusetts
Monday March 14, 2022
...in limbo with Canon...DH talking on phone to them now...busy with looking into rental for now. Fingers crossed that all will be well. Hopes up. Back soon...involved with all of this atm.
Taken not long before the big crash yesterday. The camera worked excellently, until it didn't. :)
***LATEST NEWS: Ten days from the time they get it...sooooo...overnight shipping here we come...and probably rental in the meantime...no more buying for my girls...DO hold me to that!
currently on transfer to East/West Scotland from Dover, via repaint at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn.
MV St Clare currently sails on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route operated by Wightlink. She was built in Gdańsk in 2001. From her introduction in 2001 until January 2004, St Clare was the longest ship regularly crossing between the Isle of Wight and the British mainland, but was overtaken by Red Funnel's Red Osprey following that vessel's stretching. St Clare can carry 878 passengers and 186 cars across three vehicle decks. All other vessels operating on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route carry 771 passengers and 142 cars.
Her service speed is 13 knots, measuring 5,359 gt, with a length of 86 metres, beam of 18 metres and loaded draught of 2.6 metres. The ship has a double-end design, where the ship can travel in both directions, so that when it arrives, the vehicles are always facing the correct direction for disembarkation so she does not have to turn around before docking. Her four 5-cylinder Wartsila diesel engines have a very distinctive exhaust sound, unfortunatley this does plague the ship with excessive vibration.
The current Reichstag dome is a glass dome, constructed on top of the rebuilt Reichstag building in Berlin. It was designed by architect Norman Foster and built to symbolize the reunification of Germany. The distinctive appearance of the dome has made it a prominent landmark in Berlin.
The Reichstag dome is a large glass dome with a 360 degree view of the surrounding Berlin cityscape. The debating chamber of the Bundestag, the German parliament, can be seen down below. A mirrored cone in the center of the dome directs sunlight into the building, and so that visitors can see the working of the chamber. [Wikipedia]
Currently on loan at Reading Buses is Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC H45/28F Bio Gas demonstrator 106 DD16GAS. In late September 2018 it turned up at Fleet Station operating a service 7 back to Reading.
currently putting older work on ebay. These small pieces are ready to travel into all corners of the world: www.ebay.de/sch/inezzy/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg...
Once upon a time, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the National Bohemian brewing company were well-known icons in the Charm City.
A can of "Natty Boh" as it is known in Bawlmer, Merlin, was posed with a passing CSX freight train with iconic Baltimore and Ohio signals in the background.
Today, the signals have long since been replaced with generic Safetrans signals and Natty Boh beer is currently brewed under contract at Molson Coors brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia and Trenton, Ohio and is owned by the Pabst Brewing Company.
Not much charm is left.
Last winter I finally visited the "ghost town" of Queenstown, Alberta. It's kind of a wonder that I had never visited it before as it's only about an hour and a bit away from where I live and nearby numerous other towns I've been to numerous times. Also strange that I visited in November and not the summer when I usually do my rural exploration.
Queenstown was created sometime in the 20's when the railway came through the area. I've read that there was a pre-existing community of the same name a few km's nearby, probably just a gathering of homesteads and a post office. That "old" Queenstown was established in the late 1880's. "New" or "current" Queenstown flourished for a short while, hitting it's peak population right around the founding date but was never that large of a town. Businesses opened, a hotel was erected, and elevators were built, but like so many other small towns on the prairies, the prosperity only lasted a short while, and by the 70s, the population had drastically dropped. The railway ripped the tracks through town up in the early 2000s but by that point the line was only ever sporadically used for car storage. While Queenstown today is obviously a shell of it's former self, I wouldn't call it a true ghost town quite yet. At the last population count I could find, a whopping 8 people still resided here. On my visit, I did notice a fair number of homes still looked up-kept and lived in, and I even saw one man out plowing snow. Wow!
The building pictured here was the former garage in town, built during the heyday in the 20's but was closed sometime prior to the 70's. It's the only commercial building left in town thanks to a fire, and pretty much the only interesting thing left to photograph.
Currently dog sitting for my daughter Kate who presented us with our first grandchild at 07:57 on 07/08/25 a baby girl called Margot.
My original visit was back in 2012, the Storehouse was vastly overgrown back then ( www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/sRmFG0 )
Speaking to a local chap, who informed me the area where the Storehouse is positioned was amongst the cattle sheds, recently cleared out by the current owner, the area may be put over for housing.
Currently preserved, Atlantean 658 carried this advert for those quality rags the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. Here it climbs Lothian Road passing the Usher Hall and the HMSO Stationers.
London Overground 172007 departs Leyton Midland Road, there are not many signs of the overhead electrification power supply which was due to be powering the Gospel Oak - Barking by now. This route forms a busy strategic route for freight traffic aswell as passenger traffic which is currently constrained by the short trains which are two carriages long in busy periods.