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The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans the Avon Gorge and the River Avon at the outskirts of Bristol, England. It was based on a design by the famous British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but a revised version of his designs was built after his death and completed in 1864. The bridge is a landmark and a symbol of Bristol. It was, according to Wikipedia, the site of the first modern bungee jump in 1979.
In an almost monochromatic landscape, 66434 leads 6K05 1246 Carlisle N.Y. to Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M. working over Dent Head viaduct and is about to plunge into Blea Moor Tunnel with the sound of the train reverberating up the vent shaft.
13th February 2020
The locomotive engineer of NYC 4-4-0 #999. #998 was built for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893. It was the frist steam locomotive to achieve a speed of 112 miles per hour. It was retired in 1952 and donated to the Museum of Science & Industry in 1962.
Engineering works in the Cheltenham area over the weekend of the Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st May resulted in no fewer than six engineers workings returning from the possession to Westbury during the Sunday. The third of these working, 6C20 08:55 Gloucester Yard Junction to Westbury Down Yard, heads south through Rangeworthy in some lovely spring sunshine.
Colas Class 66 no. 66847 'Terry Baker' leads a rake of JNA 'Falcons' loaded with ballast. The train was running 118 mins late!
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Highley Station, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 7th June 2025.
About the photograph.
This is the train driver, peeking out of the door, to watch for the platform staff signalling for the train to leave.
The train is the British Rail Class 42 Warship serial number D821 and named Greyhound. The train, built in 1960, was named after a Royal Navy warship called HMS Greyhound, a destroyer that sunk in 1941.
The Class 42 was built between 1958 to 1961, at British Railway’s Swindon Works, and a total of 38 were produced. The Greyhound got two Maybach 1,135 hp engines, even thought it was a German manufacturer, the engines were made by Bristol Siddeley under licence.
The loco could hold about 3,600 litres of diesel fuel, no mention of what the maximum range would be, as they weren’t designed for long-distance non-stop runs, but the engines could give it a maximum speed of up to 90 mph.
They were then withdrawn from services around 1968 to 1972.
A railway preservation organisation called Diesel Traction Group were planning to buy a Class 22 but before they could get it, it was accidently scrapped, so British Railways offered a choice from the three remaining Warship locos, so the Diesel Traction Group bought series number D821 for preservation.
The photo was taken from a footbridge at Highley Station, and looking towards south.
About Severn Valley Railway.
The Severn Valley Railway is a 16 miles single track heritage railway line in Worcestershire and Shropshire, between the towns of Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. The railway line follows the course of the River Severn along the Severn Valley.
The train services are often hauled by a mix of vintage steam locomotives, and classic diesel locomotives, usually pulling resorted heritage carriages.
The Severn Valley Railway often holds special events during some weekends, and the Step Back to the 1940s event is one of the many events.
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Engineer Alex Wood gives an enthusiastic thumbs up from the hogger's seat of Clinchfield 800 on a hot cut of interchange traffic.
Locomotive: CRR 800
12-31-20
Oak Ridge, TN
ESA engineers need to be certain of the strength and tensile behaviour of candidate materials for coming space missions – so they pull them apart.
This tensile testing machine (otherwise known as a universal testing machine) does exactly that: a test sample is placed between its two sets of ‘jaws’ and subjected to a steadily increasing pull force, until the moment of fracture.
The applied force and resulting deformation can be tracked precisely using a photogrammetry system – note the camera to the left – while the final fracture pattern becomes the subject of detailed analysis.
“Being able to measure the fundamental properties of a wide variety of materials is essential to good design, modelling and testing of spacecraft components,” explains ESA Materials and Processes engineer Nathan Bamsley. “Testing in an accurate and repeatable manner using calibrated equipment that you trust is absolutely vital.”
This tensile testing machine is part of ESA’s Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory, one of 35 technical laboratories based at the European Space Technology and Research Centre, ESTEC, based at Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
Made up of dozens of dedicated experimental facilities and hundreds of instruments overall, the Materials and Electrical Components Lab is dedicated to guaranteeing an optimal choice of materials, processes and electrical components for ESA missions and projects, bearing in mind the unique environmental challenges involved around designing for space operations.
A designated certification authority for materials and processes, the Lab is open to customers from all backgrounds for testing work. To find out more about working with ESA facilities, check our new website on the duties and resources of ESA’s Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.
Credits: ESA-Remedia
Isle of Wight Railway in 1995 with Army 198 Royal Engineer departing Ashey. More Industrial engines at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Industrial-and-WD-engines
Proyectada por el ingeniero Adolfo Pierrad, su construcción se inició en el año 1927. De estilo ecléctico, en su fachada se utilizó piedra arenisca dorada de Salamanca. En la misma fachada, lucen los escudos de las Ordenes Militares de Caballería.
Cavalry Military Academy.
Designed by the engineer Adolfo Pierrad, its construction began in 1927. Eclectic style, Golden sandstone of Salamanca was used in its facade. In the same facade, they look the shields of the military orders of chivalry.
Valladolid. Castilla y León. España.
Andrew, the train driver at the Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum. He's quite a character and has an amazing collection of old engines.
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Dean Forest Railway, Parkend Station, at Parkend, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Wednesday 22nd September 2021.
About this photograph.
The train led by the engine called Swiftsure had arrived at Parkend Station, and the staff operating the train were making preparations for the return journey to Norchard.
Here, one of the engineers is seen refilling the loco’s tank with water. The photograph was converted in Adobe Lightroom into black and white for a classic feel to the engineer doing the work.
Swiftsure is a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST class of steam locomotive designed by Hunslet Engine Company. This engine was built in 1943, and bears the number 75008 painted on the side.
It was a visiting steam loco, having visited before in 2017 and 2018, she was back at Dean Forest Railway from June 2021 onwards. At the current time of writing, she is reported to be still operational.
My best friend and I were at Dean Forest for a weekdays holiday, and she wanted to have more day outs rather than being stuck at the cabin, so I came up with two different day out ideas. The visit to the Dean Forest Railway was one of the ideas, and my best friend enjoyed the rides.
I took the opportunity to try to find some interesting shots, rather than taking memorable photos of the holiday.
About the overall subject.
The Dean Forest Railway is a 4 to 5 miles long heritage railway, still running vintage steam, and classic diesel trains, as a tourist attraction in the Forest of Dean.
It started in 1799 as an idea for a horse-drawn tramway, linking the Forest of Dean to the rivers Severn and Wye, for the transportation of coal and iron materials.
Between 1800 to around the 1870s, it went through so many processes. Like building lines and branching out, changing company names, financial problems, rival companies, converting from horse-drawn tramway into steam powered railway, merging companies, change of railway gauge sizes, and so many other factors.
It became known as the Severn and Wye Railway during those years.
From around the 1870s onwards, in order to cope with financial difficulties, and to help with funding, they started fee-paying passenger services in addition to the goods carrying services. But ongoing financial problems, lack of traffic, and many other factors, continued up until around the 1940s.
After the Second World War (1939-1945), the railways in this area started to go downhill, mainly due ot declining coal industry in the area, lack of passengers, improvements in transportation elsewhere, and the nationalised of British railways.
Many stations and lines started closing down, or completely shut down, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starting from the early 1970s onwards, a railway preservation society was formed to try to buy and save as much of the old railway, and run it as a heritage railway for tourism, and was then named as Dean Forest Railway.
At the current moment, the Dean Forest Railway is approximately between 4 to 5 miles long between Lydney and Parkend, with Norchard station as its home base, but they are hoping to extend the line to 7 miles in near future.
They run a range of mostly steam trains to 1960s diesel trains, with various carriages, and at least 5 stations.
For more details, simply Google “Dean Forest Railway” for history or for visiting.
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After working at Coteau and Maxville, CN 589 has come to a stop in the siding at Carlsbad Springs. Engineer J.C Opens the window to talk for a bit while waiting for his Brother, Engr B.C to fly by on VIA 26. They will then take their Slow to Clear signal and head home to Walkley Yard, well ahead of Schedule
Direct Rail Services Class 66 66427 passes Woodacre on Diverted 6k05 1231 Carlisle New Yard - Crewe Basford Hall Yard on 24/02/2026
Civil engineers train on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway on St David's Day, approaching Cwm Lane, halway between Llanfair and Welshpool. Friday 1.3.24.
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No. 7 Chattenden is six-coupled machine was built by E. E. Baguley at Burton-on-Trent in 1949 to the order of the Drewry Car Company and is now fitted with a Gardner engine developing 150 h.p. Originally it worked on the Admiralty’s Upnor and Lodge Hill Railway then later transferred to Broughton Moor, Cumbria. Capable of working passenger trains in an emergency, the locomotive is normally used for the heavier civil engineering works trains.
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66137 approaches Werrington Jn. (north of Peterborough), working 6B01 12.05 Bottesford West Jn - Whitemoor Yard LDC. This had come out of a possession on the Grantham - Nottingham line, presumably where track was being replaced as the front two-thirds of this train is carrying used track panels.
I almost didn't make it here in time for this, although had a few minutes to spare as it had not long passed Tallington when I got into position on the footbridge. I spent a little too long chatting with another photographer at Beggars' Bridge, thinking about where to get the southbound Northern Belle, and only when I'd got in the car did I realise I could get this train here... but the North Bank road was apparently closed as a result of flooding, meaning I had to drive via King's Dyke level crossing and Stanground, with very slow moving traffic all the way along the A605 west of Whittlesey.
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What a great day and time yesterday. The Stewart J Cort came into the Poe lock while we could walk over into the lock area.
The hand off of cars was personal back in 1970. The SP local to Oakdale arrived early in the morning as the Sierra Railroad Baldwin S-12s back to the interchange tracks in downtown Oakdale. The caboose is being dropped on the house track and the Baldwins will pick up cars left by the SP local, then proceed to the Sierra yard to complete assembly of their eastbound train this morning. The head end brakeman is watching the action as the rear-end brakeman signals the engineer to move across West G Street.
Just after midday and I catch one of two northbound Engineers trains. The first one I catch at Greenholme with 66523 heading up Shap with 5Y53, Oubeck Loop - Carlisle on Sunday 14th May 2017
The engineer of train #1875 shows his sign of approval with a big smile!
NJT 1875 @ BJ Tower, Rutherford, NJ
NJTR GP40PH-2B 4214
A 50 / 50 chance of seeing this which paid off today as both 66779 and 66762 were at Toton this morning.
BR Green 66779 "Evening Star" approaches Harrowden Junction on it's first run down through my local haunt on the 6G35 - Toton North Yard to Wellingborough Engineers working - 30-07-16
Surfleet Seas End
A drainage channel to the north of Spalding, named in honour of Philibert Vernatti, one of the engineers who devised the draining of the fens.
Running 2 hours early, 66850 David Maidment OBE leads 6M28 Hinksey Sidings to Bescot Up Engineers Sidings through Saltley.
The marauder leader looks anxiously at the hangar's blast door. He doesn’t know why the intruder bordered his ship. Maybe he is some sort of vigilante or some bounty hunter but he doesn’t care.
Surely he can’t stand a chance against all the men he sent to kill him.
He continues to look at the blast door. No sound can pass through the sound-proof bulkhead and all he can do is to wait.
A blueish, feeble light colors the corridor.
“Some of you idiots fix those energy grid problems!” he yells but nobody can hear him because communications went offline the moment they were bordered.
Everything is going wrong today. Not even his fancy view screen is working properly.
“Damn! Why the colors are greenish! That star is supposed to be yellow! If they didn’t fix it soon I’ll kill them! I can’t miss today episode of Captain Phasma’s Trash Compactor Chronicles series!” he shouts at he does not even know who. Nobody is listening.
Bad day and the intruder is going to pay for that.
A violent impact shakes the blast door. Once…twice..then a blast.
From the breach on the bulkhead emerges a fully armored figure. The corridor’s lighting makes him even more fearsome.
The marauder tries to crawl away but an armored hand grabs him.
“Not so fast. It’s question time” say the armored man…
The action figure is Starcraft Tychus sixth scale figure from Sideshow.
It’s a truly impressive piece, standing over 39cm (about 15.5”) high with countless details, many points of articulation, light up parts etc.
It has some drawback due to its size: under certain circumstances stability ca be problematic and posing the huge assault rifle is painful sometimes but it’s still one of the most impressive collectibles I own :) It’s a very particular item and I’m still getting accustomed to it :)
The background image is courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech and free to use according to NASA own image policy. Thank You very much NASA :)
Just one more note on the action figure :) You may have noticed one of the many details they put on the armor is, well let’s call it “a not so politically correct” phrase lol :)
It’s a just a slang phrase said before firing weapons (I made some research so I’m sure lol :) ) and it appears to be a reference to the famous Duke Nukem video game :)
They put it there because it’s exactly what appeared on his armor in the the video game. The character is not a very politically correct lol :)
If it disturbs you let me know, I can remove it during editing.
Personally I don’t think it’s a huge problem, in the end it’s just humor, but let me know :)
Anyway I already wrote a wall of text lol, so let’s focus on the photo :)
I hope you like it:)
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-(BTS) Behind-The-Scenes -
It was another day of eager anticipation on set of The Captain and the Engineer. Very recently, word had gone out that new scripts had been written which were due any day now! Additionally, new sets were being made and new costumes had been brought in! Some of the characters were even getting updated looks! Who wouldn't be excited?!
Just a few minutes ago, Logan (who starred as Damien) had been pulled into the Costume Department to get fitted for new green screen sleeves for his arm. It left his brother, Corry, and brother-in-law, Vin (who starred as Aiden and Vincent, respectively), to head off to the Props Department alone to see what else had been brought in! Vin had seen some interesting looking items being unloaded from the truck. He was curious and roped his husband to come along with him to check them out!
"Oh, my Gods!" Vin laughed as he stood at the door and stared around at all the new props. His eyes were drawn to a pair of fairy wings to his right. He immediately pulled them on and began flitting around the room with giddy laughter and zero fucks!
Meanwhile, Corry grinned with amusement and began inspecting everything! He recognized some props that had already been used and some that he knew would be used soon. Then he saw one that he KNEW would never be used on The Captain and the Engineer but he couldn't resist...
"Baby, how do I look?!"
Vin turned around suddenly to see his husband standing there with a violently pink faux fur around his shoulders and devil horns atop his head! Vin had to admit that Corry really rocked the pink...but Gods noooooo!
"Oh, you look faaabulous, daaaaahhhhhling!" Vin exclaimed with an accented drawl before breaking into laughter at the ridiculousness! As Corry joined in the laughter he reached out and placed a small cartoonish crown atop Vin's head and grinned cheesily and teased, "I bet that would look fabulous with Cap'n's ballroom getup!"
Vin reached up and adjusted the crown as he snickered, "Absolutely fabulous! I think I'll bring it with me when we start shooting the ballroom scenes!"
"You should! Ha! That would make a funny outtake! I can see you just dancing and acting normal as if nothing were amiss! No one will be able to keep a straight face but you! Oh but before they start filming the masquerade..." And Corry's voice turned just a touch suggestive as he slid the horrendous pink horns and faux fur off. "I heard it through the grapevine, but did you hear about that scene coming up next?"
Vin waggled his eyebrows with a smirk before saying, "Oh, yeah, I heard. A little sneaky preview of what's to come, yes?"
"Uh huh! But after that the story is going to progress and soon we'll be ready for the masquerade! I'm excited! It's finally here!"
"I knoooooow! Just as soon as the-”
"ATTENTION, CREWMATES!" came the sudden call on the intercom for everyone to hear. It was their director! Vin and Corry stared at each other with wide eyes and held their breath. "THE TIME WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR HAS COME! THE SCRIPTS ARE IN AND THERE WILL BE A READ THROUGH AT 3PM WITH THE MAIN CAST! ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS PLEASE GET WITH YOUR DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS! THANK YOU!"
Corry and Vin's cheers joined the chorus of cheering that rang throughout the whole area. Everyone's excitement was palpable!
"Come on, Corry! Let's go get our hands on those scripts!"
"Wait, you're going like that?"
Vin was still standing there with the wings and crown on! Yet, Vin quirked his brow up at him. He didn't even need to say anything! Corry was already laughing as he slid his arm around his shoulders and began walking out with him.
"My bad! I forgot who I was talking to!"
"Yeah, your bad." Vin told him with a huff before grinning and nudging his husband's side. "Allons-y! To the writing room!"
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That's right, Crewmates! TCATE IS BACK!! There will be a small intermission chapter up next then we will be continuing on with the story! Thank you SO much for your understanding and patience over the last half year!
I am looking forward to continuing our adventure together!
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***Please note this is a BOY LOVE (LGBTQ+) series. It is a slow burn and is rated YOUNG ADULT!***
Special thank you to my husband Vin for collaborating with me on this series and co-starring as The Captain! I always wanna give him an extra shout out for setting up the whole scene!
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