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VIA 15 prepares to leave the siding at Oxford Jct West at a blistering 10 MPH following a meet with a very late 120 on August 6, 2023. JH is doing her maiden trip as a qualified engineer with VIA, and is all smiles on this sunny August afternoon. Recently, VIA has changed the configuration of the setup on the Ocean, so the Stainless cars are now on the head end of 14, while the European Renaissance cars are on the head end of 15.
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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The Florida Brewing Company building is a historic brewery building that once housed Ybor City Brewing Company, which became Florida Brewing Company. It has been restored and converted into a law office. It is the tallest building in Tampa's Ybor City Historic District.
The Florida Brewing Company Building was built to house the Florida Brewing Company, which was founded in 1896 by cigar industrialists Vicente Ybor and Edward Manrara. The brewery building is six stories tall and remains the tallest building in Ybor City.
Florida Brewing Company was the first brewery in the state of Florida. When operational in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the building housed the leading exporter of beer to Cuba and was a leader in western Florida. After brewing operations ceased, the building was used for a variety of purposes, although it was eventually abandoned and fell into disrepair. Recently, the building was renovated and is now home to several commercial enterprises.
It was built on the Government Spring, which originally supplied water to the military men of Fort Brooke. This spring was valued by many cultures to be sacred. Florida's Paleo Indians believed the water in the spring to be of a sacred nature. They brought their sick and wounded to bathe in the water with the belief that it would cure their injuries and diseases. Nearly every Indian tribe respected the spring's holiness and thus would use the land around the spring as a peace zone, where no one would attack. Influenced by these tales and others in Europe, Spanish Conquistadors fell under the belief that there were crystalline fountains of youth hidden in the springs. Juan Ponce de León helped spread these rumors when he and a Spanish Armada set out to find a mythical fountain of youth. Many still believe the spring to have supernatural powers.
In its prime, The Florida Brewing Company produced 80,000 barrels of beer annually. It was the leading exporter of beer to Cuba in the U.S. and the premier brewery on Florida's west coast. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders visited for a beer in celebration after the Spanish–American War.
The brewery survived the adversities of the Prohibition and the Great Depression. However, the business closed in 1961 as a result of the embargo on Cuba and the opening of rival breweries by Anheuser-Busch and the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in Tampa.
In the years following its closing, the former brewery served several purposes. It was used as a storage place for fresh tobacco in the 1960s and later became a bomb shelter throughout the Cold War. However, it was abandoned for the latter 25 years of the 20th century, and its condition declined. The former brewery became generally considered a detriment to the redevelopment of Ybor City
In 1999, attorney Dale Swope and contractor Joseph Kokolakis purchased the building to restore and convert it into a law firm and office space. The restoration project received a Builders' Choice grand award in adaptive re-use.
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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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20.5.2023.
A lovely 5" gauge live steam model of LNER Gresley P2 2-8-2 No 2006 'Wolf of Badenoch'.
Seen at the Chesterfield & District Model Engineers open day at Hady Hill, Chesterfield.
Andrew, the train driver at the Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum. He's quite a character and has an amazing collection of old engines.
Colas class 70 no. 70808 passes Copmanthorpe on 24th February 2023 heading 6Z31, a Civil Engineer's working from Doncaster Decoy to Millerhill.
More Sunday engineers workings! 66509 has just past the sight of Peasmarsh Junction, where the line to Cranleigh and Horsham once diverged to the left, just before the road overbridge seen in the background. The train is 6Y85 0805 Eastleigh East Yard to Farnham via Fareham and Havant.
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.
This is Kristal's latest model, a sculpture of a human head the opens up to reveal what's inside the mind of a LEGO engineer.
Video showing it in action and explaining how it works: youtu.be/RtGZ_0Gb86w
More pics and info: jkbrickworks.com/the-engineer
The Institution of Civil Engineers in London have just built a World Record breaking LEGO suspension bridge in association with Bright Bricks.
www.ice.org.uk/media-and-policy/ice-press-centre/record-b...
I was commissioned to make a small set to mark the occasion. This LEGO micro suspension bridge is in the same colours as the record breaking massive one and was provided as parts and instructions in a custom set.
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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This is a series of postcards photographed by Victor Ross from Petawawa, Ontario during the late 1930's. These are postcards numbered R-22 & R-25 (the R stands for "Ross").
There is also a line of postcards "Victor Ross" made with the "V" - which stands for the Victor. Both the V's and the R's were in his folder that was produced around 1940.
Victor George Krigger/Thrasher (Ross)
1909–1966
BIRTH 3 OCT 1909 • Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
DEATH 10 SEP 1966 • Petawawa, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
Victor George Krigger (Ross) was born on October 3, 1909, in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, his step-father, William Ross, was 28 and his mother, Mary, was 28. He had three sons and three daughters with Ethel May James. He died on September 10, 1966, in Petawawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56.
Dead Space 2
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Camera Tools: Guide by Framed
Resolution: DSR resolutions
HUD Toggle: not needed
Post-processing: Reshade v4.9.1
Downsample Filter: Lanczos2
Notes:
1. This shot was supposed to have a big scary monster in the background sneaking up on Isaac. Just as I was tweaking the lighting (an in-game strobe) by advancing time by a fraction, the monster teleported to behind the camera's position. The only explanation I could come up with is that the camera script also rips Isaac's soul from his body and is moving that around with the camera. Monsters love souls.
Cosmic Engineers is a science fiction novel by American author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 6,000 copies, of which 1,000 were bound in paperback for an armed forces edition. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1939.
The novel concerns a group of earthmen and a girl, who is awakened from suspended animation, being contacted by aliens with whom they join to prevent the collision of one universe with another.
Running 2 hours early, 66850 David Maidment OBE leads 6M28 Hinksey Sidings to Bescot Up Engineers Sidings through Saltley.
I posted another shot of this house a while ago. I just like it. The front door has been replaced recently using a 'period' design. I watched it being hung in place - super workmanship.
I really like the lead flashing above the door, carefully cut into scallop shapes. A nice detail. The internal shutters are originals, as are the window frames.
It's called 'The engineer's house' because the castle engineer lived here for a while. I think that might have been Thomas Harrison, who did extensive work on the castle, including building accommodation for male and female prisoners.
If you know who the engineer was for certain, do let me know!
Après avoir travaillé pendant près de trois ans avec des architectes, des ingénieurs et des biologistes, l’artiste a pu débuter la construction de cette toile monumentale suspendue à 25m au dessus de la place du musée K21 Standehaus à Dusseldorf. Les visiteurs les plus téméraires peuvent grimper sur la construction de fils d’acier s’étendant sur trois niveaux. Le filet à mailles pèse à lui seul trois tonnes et il y a une demi-douzaine de ballons gonflés en PVC posés dessus. Pas de blague, pour cette installation, l’artiste a étudié les méthodes de diverses araignées pour voir comment elles construisent leurs toiles complexes.
Gigantesque toile d’araignée suspendue au-dessus du vide, si fine qu’elle en est presque invisible. Extraordinaire hamac partagé avec des bulles de savon et des gouttes d’eau démesurées. L’impression de toucher le ciel, de baigner dans la lumière.
Celui qui rend si poétique cette idée si simple, c’est l’artiste argentin Tomás Saraceno, déjà remarqué à la biennale de Venise 2009 pour son œuvre « Galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web », elle aussi toute en légèreté et en utopie. Cette fois-ci, il œuvre au-dessus de la place du pavillon K21 de la Kunstsammlung NRW de Düsseldorf, avec cette résille suspendue à 25m au-dessus du patio et faisant écho à celle de la toiture.
Cette construction métallique en acier enjambe la vaste coupole de verre du musée à trois niveaux différents. Six sphères gonflées, d’un diamètre allant jusqu’à 8,5m sont positionnées au sein de cette structure d’une surface totale de 2’500 m². Outre sa taille et sa beauté, la vraie originalité de cette installation est son accessibilité aux visiteurs qui peuvent se déplacer librement entre les sphères et passer d’un niveau de filet à l’autre en glissant à travers des trous aménagés dans la structure. Cette approche permet de découvrir le bâtiment et l’œuvre autrement tout se donnant à soi-même et aux autres visiteurs, une impression surréaliste de flotter dans les airs.
After working for nearly three years with architects, engineers and biologists, the artist was able to begin the construction of this monumental canvas suspended 25m above the K21 Standehaus museum square in Dusseldorf. The more daring visitors can climb on the construction of steel wires extending over three levels. The mesh net alone weighs three tons and there are half a dozen inflated PVC balloons on top. No kidding, for this installation the artist studied the methods of various spiders to see how they build their intricate webs.
A gigantic spider's web suspended above the void, so thin that it is almost invisible. Extraordinary shared hammock with soap bubbles and excessive water drops. The impression of touching the sky, of bathing in light.
The one who makes this simple idea so poetic is the Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno, already noticed at the 2009 Venice Biennale for his work "Galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider's web", also all in lightness and in utopia. This time, he works above the square of the K21 pavilion of the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf, with this fishnet suspended 25m above the patio and echoing that of the roof.
This metallic steel construction spans the vast glass dome of the museum on three different levels. Six inflated spheres with a diameter of up to 8.5m are positioned within this structure with a total surface area of 2,500 m². Besides its size and beauty, the real originality of this installation is its accessibility to visitors who can move freely between the spheres and pass from one level of net to another by sliding through holes made in the structure. This approach allows you to discover the building and the work differently while giving yourself and other visitors a surreal impression of floating in the air.
One of the many uncannily realistic mannequins in the Brunel Centre in Bristol. Not sure if this is Brunel himself or someone working for him but he's presented as working on a major project.
31468 ticks over in a weekend possession, whilst 47749 departs up the branch with a train of Dogfish
#roundandsquare
A Slinky is a toy pre-compressed helical spring invented by Richard James.
It can perform a number of tricks, including travelling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum,
In 1943, Richard James, a naval mechanical engineer stationed at the William Cramp and Sons shipyards in Philadelphia, was developing springs that could support and stabilise sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas.
James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring "stepped" in a series of arcs to a stack of books, to a tabletop, and to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright.
James's wife Betty later recalled, "He came home and said, 'I think if I got the right property of steel and the right tension; I could make it walk.'"
James experimented with different types of steel wire over the next year, and finally found a spring that would ‘walk’.
Betty was dubious at first, but changed her mind after the toy was fine-tuned and neighbourhood children expressed an excited interest in it.
She dubbed the toy Slinky; meaning "sleek and graceful”.
On COLOURS...
Light and colour can influence how people perceive the area around them. Different light sources affect how the colours of walls and other objects are seen. Specific hues of colours seen under natural sunlight may vary when seen under the light from an incandescent (tungsten) light-bulb: lighter colours may appear to be more orange or "brownish" and darker colours may appear even darker.
Light and the colour of an object can affect how one perceives its positioning. If light or shadow, or the colour of the object, masks an object's true contour (outline of a figure) it can appear to be shaped differently than it really is.
Objects under a uniform light-source will promote better impression of three-dimensional shape.
The colour of an object may affect whether or not it seems to be in motion. In particular, the trajectories of objects under a light source whose intensity varies with space are more difficult to determine than identical objects under a uniform light source.
Carl Jung is most prominently associated with the pioneering stages of colour psychology. Jung was most interested in colours’ properties and meanings, as well as in Art’s potential as a tool for psychotherapy.
Colour has long been used to create feelings of cosiness or spaciousness. However, how people are affected by different colour-stimuli varies from person to person.
There is evidence that colour preference may depend on ambient temperature. People who are cold prefer warm colours like red and yellow while people who are hot prefer cool colours like blue and green.
A few studies have shown that cultural background has a strong influence on colour preference. These studies have shown that people from the same region regardless of race will have the same colour preferences.
I'm ALWAYS fascinated by COLOUR!
Hope this brings a smile again, have a good day and thanks for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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Re-uploaded since the other photo was shit. Also this is old and I can't redo it to make it better. :p
Panzerfaust a stand in for a Brickarmy/Brickarms RPG
Using A-91 with Kobra Red Dot Sight.
A trio of ESA engineers took to the roof of the Agency’s technical heart to link up with a satellite the size of a shoebox as it sped overhead.
The team deployed a portable, self-made ground station to acquire W-band microwave signals from ESA’s W-Cube mission, as part of an effort to better understand how this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum interacts with the atmosphere, encouraging its use for satellite communications.
Put in place within half an hour, the ground station was improvised from various outcomes of past ESA projects, combined with a computerised telescope mount usually employed for amateur astronomy. But at the first try the station succeeded in tracking and gathering signal data from W-Cube as it performed a ten minute pass over the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
ESA Young Graduate Trainee Hugo Debergé, the microwave engineer responsible for building the station, commented: “Of all the thousands of satellites in space, we are currently pointing at the very first 75 GHz beacon in flight, and receiving signals from it – it’s amazing!”
W-Cube, launched in 2021, was developed through ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications, ARTES, programme, to explore the use of W-band for future satellite missions. This particular millimetre-band – used on Earth for various commercial applications such as automotive radar and point-to-point wireless links – is being adopted for use in space, offering very high data throughput across a largely untrafficked span of the electromagnetic spectrum.
But the International Telecommunications Union, which assigns frequencies for use, has only limited modelling and prediction models to show how W-band signals propagate through Earth’s atmosphere and weather conditions. W-Cube was flown to help shrink this blind spot and prove the feasibility of future space missions operating using W-band.
A single fixed ground station was put in place to track W-Cube, at the premises of mission prime contractor Joanneum Research at Graz in Austria, with another one in preparation by VTT Research in Finland.
The nanosatellite itself – a ‘three-unit’ CubeSat, meaning it has been built up from three standardised 10-cm boxes – was constructed by Kuva Space in Finland (previously Reaktor Space Lab) with the W-band payload coming from VTT.
“W-Cube itself is working well, and only a few days ago another satellite carrying an experimental W-band payload was put in orbit from the University of Stuttgart,” explained ESA microwave engineer Vaclav Valenta. “So we decided to build our own station based on available hardware and chips from past projects in our lab, then assigned the challenging job of building it to Hugo through ESA’s Young Graduate Trainee programme. The satellite is switched on for acquisitions from Austria but as we found we can still track it from the Netherlands.
“We’re excited by today’s success on our first try, and our next plan to fine-tune our station design to make it truly portable. Also, our intention is to set up a permanent W-band station here at ESTEC. This design, combined with the tracking techniques we’re deploying, will certainly become the basis for other mobile W-band stations.”
Digital payload engineer Marek Peca equipped the portable ground station with motion control software and geodetic calculations: "We began by homing in on the Sun, and its output of radio white noise, serving as a reference point so the ground station knew where to look for W-Cube as it passed over our heads – a pinhole camera taped to the side of the antenna gave us a coarse visual confirmation of being centred on the Sun; we'll improve on this with building-mounted radio beacons in the future. But it all worked well: today’s success makes this only the second ground station in the world to acquire W-band signals from orbit!”
Michael Schmidt of Joanneum Research is Principal Investigator for the W-Cube mission: “I congratulate the ESTEC team in achieving this goal. I know from experience it is no easy task to receive the satellite’s very weak signal. Their work is providing important additional measurements in different climate zones from Graz and Helsinki, and the mobile nature of their ground station means it can be located in other locations as well, helping to improve our W-band propagation models and learning more the use of low-orbiting satellites for propagation experiments.”
Marek processed some 32GB of captured radio-frequency data to confirm that the first full pass of the satellite signal had been correctly tracked, representing six and a half minutes of the full pass. See plots from the W-Cube pass here and here. Read about the open source element of the project to use telescope mounts to track satellites and celestial objects here.
Credit: ESA-G. Porter
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
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A move on the train up to Settle for a few pints, taking in 66422 with the 12:31 Carlisle - Basford Hall engineers working.
An engineer of time passed by my studio on his way to another dimension in the Multiverse. All I had was time enough to make these images.
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Strobists Info: Elinchrom BX 500 Ri into bounce umbrella over camera.
This is the view from inside one end of the viaduct to the other. I have long meant to go there to take this view and as we were visiting Borde Hill garden, which is less than a mile away, today I took the opportunity
Information:
"The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit to reduce the number of bricks required. At each end of the abutment is an ornamental square open tower, the brickwork of which is faced with stone from Heddon Quarries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The viaduct was designed by engineer for the line John Urpeth Rastrick in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. It has been described as "probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain."
Work to build the ornate viaduct began shortly after an Act of Parliament was passed in July 1837 giving the London & Brighton Railway company assent to construct the line to the south coast. More than 11 million bricks were shipped across the English Channel from the Netherlands to Newhaven and Lewes. Caen stone was also brought from Normandy in France. Building materials were transported to the construction site on barges up the Ouse River Navigation.
The Brighton main line was opened in two sections because completion was delayed by the need to construct some major earthworks. The viaduct was officially opened when the section between Norwood Junction - Haywards Heath was opened on 12 July 1841. Initially there was only one track in operation. The second line along with the viaduct's ornate stone parapets and pavilions were not completed until the following year.
By 1846, the viaduct had become part of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. In 1923 it became part of the Southern Railway network until nationalisation of the Big Four (British railway companies) in 1948.
Despite the structure's fine design, materials and architectural features, the viaduct has had an expensive and problematic history.
First, in the 1890s major repairs were made to the brickwork because engineers of the late Victorian era were concerned that the original lime mortar used in the viaduct's construction was inadequate. It was decided that this should be replaced with cement mortar. However, replacement facing brickwork and substandard mortar eventually caused its own failures prompting more expensive repairs. Second, as the parapets and pavilions were made from Caen stone, a high-quality limestone, they have been subject to heavy weathering. By 1956, the damage was extensive but the cost of refurbishment work was deemed too much by British Railways, the UK's nationalised rail operator.
Although by May 1983, the viaduct had been made a Grade II* listed building, its eight pavilions were in such a poor condition that some of their roofs had fallen in and internal props were required to stop them collapsing further. English Heritage refused British Rails' request to demolish the buildings. The fabric of the structure continued to deteriorate over the next decade. Stonework had begun to fall away from the balustrades and parapets.
Starting in 1996 - with grants from West Sussex County Council, Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage - the viaduct underwent a £6.5 million renovation over seen by Railtrack. Harder wearing limestone was imported from Bordeaux to ensure the closest match with the existing Caen stone in the balustrades and pavilions. Some of the piers had to be reconstructed because of failures in the Victorian brickwork. The new bricks were handmade in a variety of sizes to suit the existing brickwork and set in a sand, cement and lime mortar. Throughout the work, one line always remained open while restoration was carried out on the other side of the viaduct. The project, which was took more than three years, was completed in September 1999."
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Viaduct
Train trestle bench at Brunel Museum in Southwark, London. In honor of the first train tunnel beneath the Thames River competed in 1843.
Funny how things change. You work hard, put in long hours, do odd jobs and get by however you can. You send in countless resumes and application after application. Eventually, someone takes a chance on you, gives you an opportunity to change your situation. You don't get that by sitting back and thinking it will come to you. You have to go out there and get it. If you don't you'll always wonder where you could be...