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Yes it did rain in the afternoon and yes I did get a little wet until retreating to on the sheds for a welcome mug of tea till the heavy rain passed over. The roller was levelling the crushed bricks that had be laid down on newly cleared area by an ancient JCB digger.
The event was Timeline Event at Andover Steam Yard, owner is Derek Marder who has a large collection of various engines, steam rollers and Traction Engines. But the whole site is littered with abandoned old machines, cars lorries , bulldozers, you name there is something there.
Image info:- Nikon D750 with Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 les @ f/6.3, ISO 800, shutter 1/320th second processed in LightRoom Classic and B & W conversion using Silver EFEX Pro 2 of NIK Collection. Full contrast extraction.
In famous wine producing area of the Barossa Valley, a pair of Australian National ALCo 'World' locomotives 950/966 head the then daily afternoon 'stonie' towards Adelaide on 3 November 1987.
The train ceased running a few years ago when the soda ash plant it supplied was shut down.
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Beautiful detailed columns in Papplewick Pumping Station (1881), Nottinghamshire, UK.
Nick-named the Cathedral of Steam, it is an ornate Victorian steam powered water pumping station, now run by a volunteer trust as a museum and visitor attraction.
“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle
Bernie Heuser taxies the Old Aeroplane Company’s rare Merlin engined P40F Serial Number 41-1411/106, VH-HWK, back to the flight-line after a Kittyhawk four-ship formation at Warbirds Over Scone 2022.
Two steam engines in the station of Werningerode. This light railway line is among the few regular train services in Germany which still uses steam engines.
Hasselblad XPan, 4/45mm, Adox Scala. Scanned with the Minolta Elite 5400 II and stitched.
Took a rainy day trip down to the Bucks Railway Centre in Quainton this afternoon with my eldest boy. Grotty light today. Got soaked.
A slightly worse for wear engine from a Bristol Hercules 735. It has 14 cylinders, which are air cooled. The engine capacity is 38700cc. This creates 1980 horsepower.
D1924”Crewe Diesel Depot” and D1944”Craftsmsn” seen heading past Spittal at Berwick Upon Tweed at 14:58 running 108 minutes late working the 1Z47 Northumbrian Statesman from Shrewsbury - Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The Charter experienced some Issues at Alnmouth as D1944 Suffered a generator fault so the formation went from being top&tail to a double header
The hankie out the window from the driver wylie as he was passing says it all !!
Each of the engines on the CAF's B-29, "Fifi" have a unique name corresponding to movie stars of the day. "Betty" for Betty Grable. "Rita" for Rita Hayworth. "Mitzi" for Mitzi Gaynor. "Ingrid" for Ingrid Bergman.
ExxonMobil Baton Rogue
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Engine 102
2025 US Fire Apparatus (5500/1000Foam)
The quintessential classic 1950s, B.R. designed, really useful engines pose at the 2022 DRS open day at Crewe Gresty Bridge (photobombed by an 88).
There are many reasons why visitors flocked to this event at Gresty Bridge on 16 July 2022, but one of them must surely be that it may have been the last opportunity to view the DRS heritage fleet in significant numbers. The offer of a lease back scheme may mean that DRS will still have access to some of these magnificent machines and hopefully Kingmoor can produce a line up like this in 2024.
wreckage of the Boeing Superfortress B-29A that lies scattered across the peat on Bleaklow, close to the Higher Shelf stones. Hard to imagine that it was over 60 years ago that the aircraft misjudged the height in thick cloud, as the remains are so well preserved...