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3rd rail electrification of the last remaining line in the Isle of Wight took place in 1967. Since then rolling stock has been former London Underground sets. The first batch of cars were built in 1923 and re-formed into 3 and 4-car sets on delivery to the Island. Southern Region designation was 4VEC and 3TIS latter to become Class 485 and 486. Seen at Sandown on a snowy 16 March 1985 is unit 486036.
Reg kindly sent this photograph for publication.
Contact and catenary wires heading towards Moor Lane tunnel.
Copyright Reg 2018.
A Utah Transit Authority 'Green Line' train glides through South Salt Lake while storm clouds build over the Wasatch Front.
Reg kindly sent this photo for publication.
Reg added: "Steelwork for platform 5 canopy extension awaiting installation, platform copers being fitted in the background.Taken from Trinity street bridge looking south."
Copyright Reg 2017.
Another view of a sunrise I captured on the Mall. I like the odd balance between the big tree in the foreground and the small tree in the distance. Constructive critique welcome.
ISO 100, f/13, 1/25 sec, 31 mm
Paul Gaskell kindly gave this film for publication.
A Northern Electrics Class 319 starts from Warrington Bank Quay, with an All Stations train to Liverpool Lime Street via Earlestown on the first day this service went all-electric.
Taken from the station, looking south.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015
This is my first attempt at a composite shot. Made up of two photos (both taken by me). One shot for the sky and one shot for the car/ground. Took a while, but I'm quite happy with the end result. The lightning bolt that is seemingly coming out of the car is actually real...it was in the sky photo used in the composite. Please leave a comment/fave if you like it! Please do not use/post elsewhere without my prior consent...thank you.
***BEST VIEWED IN LARGE!!!!***
Alas, what we thought was the wicketkeeper mast at the end of Platform 2 turns out to be some sort of ducting.
The wicketkeeper is still to be erected on the square between fence and bufferstops.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photograph for publication.
Trackwork done or to do?..
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.
It's remarkable is the electrical wiring that the farmer installed. If it weren't for breakers (fuses in this case), the whole grid would go down over and over continuously. It's remarkable that the IBEW conned Ramey to use insulators. I wonder how often the Rural Electrificaton Administration ran into this when they introduced electricity to hay seeds. The siding on this shed is remarkable; rusted iron nails hold everything together. The floods certainly took it's shot at floating this shed away. I passed by the Ramey farm house and stone back house and got interested by the sheds north across another fissure. I walked (using my favorite walking stick) around the next fissure in the pasture to access the old sheds. This is the better of the two once-attached sheds and I am trying for some detail shots. .
These sheds were just rebuilt before the floods and now they are on their last legs. BoCo rescued the sheds but I guess their efforts are toast now. I have no idea why the county decided to prop the old buildings up but maybe Nebraska said they would sue if more of these things floated down the Platte. We ought to sue Nebraska if they send more folks up river for a marijuana hit. These out buildings are not so good after the river washed through and undercut them. The sheds work well with the stark winter woods, the dead season. I think back to the working days of the farm and wonder how busy and productive the Ramey place might have been?
I have already posted several shots of Ramey and how the pasture on the north side got ripped up by newly cut streams through the place. One fissure shows in the bottom. In fact walking across the pasture and through the structures involves tracking around all the fissures all over the place. I have a Ramey photoset under farms. A lot of the shots are at better times. I guess this is another loss to water diversions and gravel mining. The 61st street road has been rebuilt down to the 63rd Street bridge past the gate at Broley and I can now drive in. I walked the river road out behind Broley and noticed the Ramey fences were gone to Nebraska and I could access what used to be Ramey. I parked at the Broley gate and walked down to Ramey. Apparently, the water streamed up to 4 feet high over Ramey. The pond south of Broley overflowed everywhere including Ramey after the floods cut through the gravel pits around Broley and sliced through 61st Street and rejoined the original St.Vrain.
There are piles of detritus laying about in what was left of the pastures. Some folks are convinced the river ought to be moved back to some of its original, some places empty, course. Darwin should chime in on that idea; he allowed forebears to make a mess of it in the first place. The farmers are screaming about rebuilding ditches before spring. Have at it guys. The bridge, roads and private holdings are still going to require some serious work.
Tesla, maker of high-end electrified automobiles, based in California, is going through a bit of a tough patch at present (October 2018). But for the past ten years, the company's fortunes have only ever looked up.
Some of this was smoke and mirrors - the company is worth more than the Ford Motor Company, despite never having made a profit. The rollout of engineered products though, shows that real progress has been made in creating an electric vehicle consumer product that the customer was willing to pay considerable amounts of money to own.
There was, of course, the original Tesla Roadster (a much modified Lotus), but the real product that catapulted the company to prominence was the Model S, launched in 2012, and now in its sixth year.
The Model S is now the best-selling luxury car in the US.
The car is large, nearly 5.0 m long (196 in), with a long wheelbase, allowing for the package of the large battery. For context, the battery makes up 800 kg or so of the vehicle's 2,250 kg weight. The lightest model S weighed in at 1,961 kg, the P60, with a 60 kw.h battery pack, and reduced range.
Incidentally, the number in the model description represents the battery storage capacity. The largest battery providing energy to the P100D - 100 kW.h, yielding a driving range of approximately 500 km.
The Tesla S has been on my list of vehicle to model for quite a while now, but was a request from Instagram's back2brick, as a custom build, as my 500th Instagram follower.
The Tesla Model S also meets LUGNuts' 104th Build Challenge theme, - "The Science of it All", - for vehicles with science-based names.
Daytime long exposure of 31 seconds, shot while using a B+W ND110 filter, ISO 100, f/22. Photoshop CS4 and Silver Efex Pro. I kind of like the dancing cables, due to the long exposure.
Looks better on black, so please press L on your keyboard.
Electrification masts in various states of readiness at Compton Beauchamp on a beautiful Spring evening.
Power car 43126, still in Bristol 2015 European Green Capital vinyls passes in charge of 1C24, the 17:30 Paddington - Weston-Super-Mare
A Northern Electrics Class 319 leaves Earlestown with an All Stations Lime Street to Manchester Victoria service.
Taken from Platform 2 looking north.
View from the end of the platforms at Prague Masayrk showing a new type of electrification gantry. Looks better tha the pictures of the clumsy gantries for the GW electrification shown in the current 'Modern Railways'.
An edit that wasn't even intended, but i'm pretty happy with it.
I have finished for Summer now!
Oh and I bought an Xbox the other day.
This looks soooooo better on black!!!
Paul D Gaskell kindly gave this film for publication.
A Northern Electric Class 319 arrives from Liverpool Lime Street with a semi-fast for Preston.
Taken looking south from Platform 4.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015.
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