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US Air Force 2nd Bomb Wing's B-52H 'Aero 71' aka 'High Tension III' deploys the Brake Chute and dumps everything lift related as she makes her mark on Fairford's huge 10,000 foot runway
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A Hungarian Air Force Gripen lights up the sky during its display at the 2022 Royal International Air Tattoo.
Aircraft: Saab JAS-39C Gripen "31" from the Hungarian Air Force's 59th Tactical Fighter Wing.
Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK.
An activity not often seen by the general public is dropping the firebox. At the end of the day train crews are seen involved in putting the firebox coals out on the floor.
The time exposure has created this magical effects the embers fly in the breeze.
Resita 0-8-0 number 764-421 is seen outside the depot being prepped to be put in the shed alongside sister loco number 764-469
Ryōan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site of the temple was an estate of the Fujiwara clan in the 11th century. The first temple, the Daiju-in, and the still existing large pond were built in that century by Fujiwara Saneyoshi. In 1450, Hosokawa Katsumoto, another powerful warlord, acquired the land where the temple stood. He built his residence there, and founded a Zen temple, Ryōan-ji. During the Ōnin War between the clans, the temple was destroyed. Hosokawa Katsumoto died in 1473, and in 1488 his son, Hosokawa Masamoto, rebuilt the temple.
The temple served as a mausoleum for several emperors. Their tombs are grouped together in what are today known as the "Seven Imperial Tombs" at Ryōan-ji. The burial places of these emperors—Uda, Kazan, Ichijō, Go-Suzaku, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, and Horikawa—would have been comparatively humble in the period after their deaths. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (misasagi) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.
There is controversy over who built the garden and when. Most sources date it to the second half of the 15th century. According to some sources, it was built by Hosokawa Katsumoto, the creator of the first temple of Ryōan-ji, between 1450 and 1473. Other sources say it was built by his son, Hosokawa Masamoto, in or around 1488. Some say that the garden was built by the famous landscape painter and monk, Sōami (died 1525), but this is disputed by other authors. Some sources say the garden was built in the first half of the 16th century, others reckon later, during the Edo period, between 1618 and 1680. There is also controversy over whether the garden was built by monks, or by professional gardeners, called kawaramono, or a combination of the two. One stone in the garden has the name of two kawaramono carved into it, Hirokojirō and Kotarō.
The conclusive history, though, based on documentary sources, is as follows: Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430–1473), deputy to the shōgun, founded in 1450 the Ryōan-ji temple, but the complex was burnt down during the Ōnin War. His son Masamoto rebuilt the temple at the very end of the same century. It is not clear whether any garden was constructed at that time facing the main hall. First descriptions of a garden, clearly describing one in front of the main hall, date from 1680–1682. It is described as a composition of nine big stones laid out to represent Tiger Cubs Crossing the Water. As the garden has fifteen stones at present, it was clearly different from the garden that we see today. A great fire destroyed the buildings in 1779, and rubble of the burnt buildings was dumped in the garden. Garden writer and specialist Akisato Rito (died c. 1830) redid the garden completely on top of the rubble at the end of the eighteenth century and published a picture of his garden in his Celebrated Gardens and Sights of Kyoto (Miyako rinsen meisho zue) of 1799, showing the garden as it looks today. One big stone at the back was buried partly; it has two first names carved in it, probably names of untouchable stone workers, so called kawaramono. There is no evidence of Zen monks having worked on the garden, apart from the raking of the sand.
After several hours of heavy snowfall many of the roads around Torquay were getting pretty much unusable for standard cars, slowing up and blocking roads for larger vehicles such as buses. Stagecoach ended up having to park up 5 of their Darts on Falkland Road until the could be driven back to the Torquay depot. Along with PX05EKV were, WA56FKP, WA56OJN, WA56NNJ & NK04NPY.
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: PX05EKV
Fleet Number: 34686
New: 2005
Chassis: Alexander Dennis Dart SLF
Bodywork: Alexander Dennis Pointer 2 B38F
History: New to Stagecoach North West
Location: Falkland Road, Torquay
Exposure: 1/80 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 1 March 2018
As mentioned, our steelworks-supplied guides initially took us to see diesels, but I recognised the layout from a previous trip and pointed us in the right direction to find the steam-worked end of the place.
As they had poor English, we had worse Mandarin, and there were only two of us, the guides thought they might as well stay in the warm van and let us roam around taking pictures in the cold.
Fine by us...
Baotou, China, Jan 2008
Finding a purple insulator that wasn't broken would have been the icing on the cake but it didn't work out that way this week.
Top: Guelph Royal Dairy pint and 1/2 pint, Dixon Dairy Galt 1/2 pint, Niagara Falls Bottling Works, 2 Guelph Reinhart's 6 1/2 pints, Gold Seal, Kiss Beverages Kitchener (green, rare), Webb's Ginger Beer Toronto.
Mid: CD 133 MLOD no name, CD 121 Diamond and BTC, CD 115 Diamond, CD 101 Brookfield, CD 102 MLOD no name, CD 102 BTC, CD 143 MLOD beehive.
Bottom: 4 CD 143 MLOD no name beehives, 1910s no name medicine.
The northbound Milwaukee Road freight between Austin and St. Paul is doing some work at a rural grade crossing north of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, in September 1984. Recent trackwork neccessitated some new ballast, being provided by Milwaukee No. 941748 in a cloud of white dust.
A colorful and busy scene at 2nd Avenue & E 1st Street, East Village, NYC. The colorful tribute to hip-hop is by Os Gemeos
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Found this while checking out a landfill in Garfield, Washington (don't ask). Somebody took half their house to the dump..
Section of storm cloud passing through this morning, just before it dumped some precipitation.
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Yesterday we got dumped on close to 2 feet of snow , it was a day of digging out . Neighbor helping neighbor , shovels working hard , snow piles going high and higher . Its propably been 8 years or so since we had a one day dumping like this ! Today all is sunny and bright ! Canada EH !
Whilst studying the Demotic Greek language in Athens in 1985 one of my main objectives, apart from of course sitting a Greek interpreter's exam at the end of the studies, was to visit the steam locomotive dumps at Athens (Agios Ioannis) and Thessaloniki (Salonika) sheds. And so to the Salonika visit; an international overnight train from Athens deposited me in the northern Greece city at a good time for the satisfactory early morning sunlight on this September visit. Armed with an officially stamped and signed visitor's permit, previously applied for in person at the Hellenic State Railways headquarters (OSE) in Athens, I was confident of gaining access without any hindrance. How naïve I was to be thinking of such a straightforward scenario! Despite speaking the language quite fluently by this stage and holding official paperwork, the 'jobs worth' on the security gate at Salonika shed just would not allow any access whatsoever, allegedly because no railway management were in present at such an early time in the morning. He also appeared to view me with great suspicion, which I must admit was quite understandable, forcing myself to see the situation from his point of view. Having travelled so far to fulfil my long-held objective, a 'Plan B' was rapidly formulated, and I very soon sought out a suitable access point for a nimble person such as myself further along the extensive shed yard perimeter fence well away from the official entrance, my youthful exploits of illicit shed visits during B.R. steam days and my then more recently acquired army field training skills quickly slotting into place as if by second nature. And with Adrenalin flowing fast and feeling like a dog with two tails in the land of the forbidden fruits I immediately got to work with my Pentax ME Super camera, working around the various groups of sad looking hulks as the sunlight would allow, but with it becoming increasingly harsher by the minute. Alas, it was not to be quite that straightforward, for the small 'fly in the ointment' proved to be a couple of not too friendly looking mongrel dogs which were not tethered, and rapidly awakening from a deep overnight and, up until then, undisturbed slumber. Clearly they were not in of the disposition to be grateful for this rood and unexpected interruption, far removed from their normally everyday quiet routine at this time in the morning! As they became ever more unnervingly vociferous I fumbled for the remains of the overnight rations in my rucksack and to my great relief the few remaining scraps happily proved their weight in gold in 'buying' the dogs' immediate friendship and quietness. Having dealt with this obstacle, it very soon became apparent to me that many of the locos were arranged in such a way that an evening visit would be far more advantageous. Having secured the photos that were possible with the restrictions of their arrangement around the shed yards during the morning, I confidently made my way to the loco shed buildings alongside the shed gate where I had previously been refused admission, and as luck would have it by that time there had been a shift change and my permit was duly acknowledged, albeit with great reluctance after being questioned over precisely what I had been up to and as to why I had not present myself on the correct side of the main gate! As is the way with Greek people, a chat about my personal life, family disposition and financial standing soon did the trick with the manager warming to me and beginning to understand the motives of my visit. Needless to say, the evening session for the additionally sought compositions did not present any further problems. I was very happy to secure this shot of a classic 'Austerity' North British locomotive and duly celebrated that evening with a Meze supper exclusively to myself, washed down with local chilled beer and the greater part of a bottle of Ouzo, naturally at the insistence of the restaurant owner and of course in the interests of good European relations. Needless to say, this was followed by the mother of all hangovers during the following morning!
North British Austerity 'WD' 2-10-0 No.73656 (works No.25442 built in 1943) and OSE 'Lb' (Λβ) Class No.955 stands in the company of two former USATC 'S160' class 2-8-0s, OSE 'Thg' (Θγ) Class Nos.532 and 584 in the shed yard at Thessalonica depot during the evening of 21st September 1985 . Following the Second World War, the British military authorities designated the 16 'WD' class locos then in store in Egypt as surplus to requirements and they were subsequently shipped to Salonica Port in January 1946. They were soon prepared for work in the local railway division, being equipped for right hand drive, fitted with headlamps, a second roof layer added and the chimney lengthened with a small deflector plate installed behind, clearly visible in this view. By the mid-1960s they were to be found employed as mixed traffic locos holding ten daily diagrams on passenger and goods services, even finding their way onto the top link 'Istanbul Express'. Regular standard gauge steam traction ceased in Greece around 1979 and many steam locos were just set aside and dumped in yards. Six of the 'Lb' class survive, two repatriated to the U.K. and four remaining in Greece, two having been restored to working order in more recent years.
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A litter dump for any trash from your car as you pass this small parking spot with room for just two cars. Near the village of Warne. 17 February 2021
This quite large bear, in the vicinity of the dump was probably making its way there. I only got a quick shot as it was hidden by bushes.
You may wonder why bears frequent the dump. In my experience it is not healthy bears that go there.
This bear, once I got the shot enlarged on my computer, may be blind. For sure, one eye is totally closed. and it was climbing down down the path, low to the ground, reaching down with one paw when it could have just followed the path.
Most bears I've seen at dumps are either injured or old and unable to easily hunt for food. The other bears are the cubs that follow an injured mother bear and end up being acclimatized to the routine. I have photographed a lot of bears at dumps and always find when I get a close up on my computer that they are injured. The same with coyotes at the dump. Healthy animals shun people and stay away from built up areas in my experience.
When we climbed the Sokolovskă Uhelna dump yard hills at the feet of the Erzgebirge at that day all went well. Incidentally, an area that almost seamlessly transitioned from an already recultivated local recreation area into the open, unfenced factory site. We could already hear the busy, unmistakable and typical rattling of the overburden trains, including sound rings that serve as a warning signal when driving forwards and backwards.
Once at the top we were rewarded with very busy mining train operations. This time, with a keen eye, it also took place without any fuss
Czech Republic, Sokolov, June 2015
Found them on a street...freshly discarded. 😞
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