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This is a photo from my archives. I took this shot near the top of Engineer Pass. I have reworked this photo and reposted it. I had to try my new skills in Lightroom 3.3.
To me this is like being on the top of the world, it is so beautiful and so close to heaven it is a religious experience. I only wish I had a shot of my husband riding his horse and leading the pack string of mules down through this.
I hope you enjoy this shot and thanks for visiting my photostream and leaving your comments.
Susan
More than two decades ago I was in Berea watching trains when an eastbound CSX manifest freight stopped to wait on traffic ahead. The locomotive engineer invited me to come up to the cab to get some photographs. The view is looking east on the engineer's side. (Scanned from color negative film)
Colas 66846 heads up the (almost) daily Hinksey to Eastleigh engineers. A handsome train.
Appleford, Oxon. 18 May 2021
Sometime bright, sometimes overcast
CIrca 1977. My friend Al M., Editor-in-Chief for the 49er Engineer Magazine, pretends to be lying in wait wringing his hands hoping to snag more engineering students who might happen to be walking by. Hopefully they could be coerced to work on the staff of the magazine!
It was smply another gag shot taken as a potential staff photo. Al was an Electrical Engineering major.
Jasper tests his theory that if you enhance the user experience by making it easier for the humans to reach the ball, they're more likely to stay engaged in the game. Theory confirmed.
Cocky and arrogant, the Engineers are young and completely full of themselves even though they aren't technically supposed to use firearms. Fortunately for the Blood Wolves army, we don't rely on technicalities.
In other news, some of my favorite TV shows either ended their season or lost on of their stars so expect a Top Shot and The Office scene soon :3
Blood Wolves:
[Basic Squad]
[Grunt]
[ "Major" Payne ]
[ Hercules ]
[Spec Ops]
[Commando]
[Ranger]
[Advanced Units]
[Assassin]
[Pilot]
[Engineer]
[ General ]
[Medic]
[Demolitions]
[ "Mayhem" ]
[ "Ka-Boom" ]
There is no message on reverse. Unfortunately the photo is too grainy to make out the cap badges, though the wreath shape along with the grenade badges on the collars leads me to the Royal Engineers.
Worcester Polytechnic Engineers (#21) vs. Johnson & Wales University (RI)
January 27, 2018
Sports & Recreation Center (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
JWU 26-9 WPI
174 pounds: Adrian Gonzalez (JWU) decision (8-2) over Mike Ilic (WPI).
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With a telephoto lens while standing on the Broadway Street bridge in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I was able to zoom in on the engineer's side of Amtrak P32-8 No. 510 as it led an eastbound train for Detroit (Pontiac). (Scanned from a slide)
The Main Docks on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
Conceived in the Canal Mania period of the late 18th century, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal scheme (as it was originally named) was started by architect and civil engineer Robert Mylne. In 1793 an Act of Parliament was obtained authorising the raising of a total of £200,000. The project rapidly encountered financial difficulties - to such an extent that Mylne left the project in 1798. By half way through 1799 costs had reached £112,000 but only 5½ miles of the canal had been completed. Robert Mylne's role was taken over by James Dadford who had originally been engaged as resident engineer on the project in 1795. Lack of funds resulted in the company ceasing to employ Dadford in 1800.
Between 1800 and 1810 various attempts were made to raise money to allow further building but they came to nothing. Moneys from tolls and rents allowed for some improvements to be made to the basin at Gloucester in 1813.
From 1817 onwards the Poor Employment Act meant it was possible for the company to loan monbiurey from the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission. This along with further share issues provided enough money to bring the scheme to completion. After these significant delays, the canal opened in April 1827. In the course of its construction the canal had cost £440,000.
By the middle of the nineteenth century it proved possible to pay a small dividend, the debt to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission having been repaid with the help of a loan of £60,000 from the
Pelican Life Assurance Company. In 1871 the last of the debts incurred in the course of funding the canal including the Pelican Life Assurance Company loan were paid off.
In 1905 traffic exceeded 1 million tons for the first time. Oil was added to the list of cargoes carried by the canal, with bulk oil carriers taking fuel to storage tanks sited to the south of Gloucester. In 1937 the canal was navigated by the submarines HMS H33 and HMS H49.
The canal was nationalized in 1948. At the same time the Sharpness Dock Police which had policed the dock since 1874 were absorbed into the British Transport Police. In 1955 the Board of Survey of Canals and Inland Waterways released a report that, among other things, described the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal as carrying substantial traffic and offering scope for commercial development.
By the mid 1980s commercial traffic had largely come to a halt with the canal being given over to pleasure cruisers with the exception of a few passages by grain barges. The oil trade ceased in 1985 with the closure of the petroleum depot at Quedgeley.
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Hauling a lengthy line of Network Rail yellow ballast wagons, GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66785 ‘John Ellis’ passes by Elsenham whilst on the working of 6T64 09:00 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Temple Mills East Jn. 25/01/25
66425 heads 6K05 through Hellifield South Junction passing Colas tanper DR73922 "John Snowdon" in the sidings.
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Been working on him for a while now. Everything on the vest is sculpted except the pistol pouches. Not entirely accurate...like the gloves and missing mic. To me it looked better without the mic. Well anyway, enjoy!
Also credit to Thunder_Run for the glasses.
Oh, one more thing, which one should I make next? Recon or support or a different faction?
-Bob
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Between 2018 and 2022 relief lifeboat RNLB MARINE ENGINEER served on the Douglas station following the withdrawal of the RNLB SIR WILLIAM HILLARY. She is seen here alongside the visitor pontoon at Battery Pier, Douglas whilst maintenance work is undertaken on the boathouse and slipway.
The station is currently served by RNLB RUBY CLERY the former Ramsey Lifeboat.
Click here for more photographs of the RNLI Douglas Station the birthplace of what became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/RNLI-Lifeboats-Stations/RNLI-Do...
Douglas Lifeboat Station is located at Battery Pier, Douglas Head, in the City of Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man.
Douglas and the Isle of Man holds a special place in the history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), previously the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), as this was the home of its founder, Sir William Hillary, 1st Baronet, 1771–1847.
The first Douglas lifeboat was funded by the Duke of Atholl, Governor of the Isle of Man, and arrived in 1802. A lifeboat station operated by the RNIPLS was opened in 1825. The station was re-established by the RNLI in 1868.
The station currently operates one of the last two Mersey-class lifeboats still in active service, 12-22 Ruby Clery (ON 1181), on station since 2022.
In 1802, a lifeboat was provided to Douglas by the John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, Governor of the Isle of Man. She was an 8-oared 25-foot-long boat costing £130, named Atholl, and was one of 31 lifeboats built by Henry Greathead. There are no records of any service by the boat. The boat was kept out in the open on the beach and was washed away and wrecked in a storm of December 1814.
On 6 October 1822, the Royal Naval Ship Vigilant was wrecked on the Conister Rock (later the location of the Tower of Refuge), and it was only due to the daring actions of Sir William Hillary, Bt. and a group of volunteers, using local boats, that 97 men were rescued.
Having witnessed many wrecks and loss of life whilst living in Douglas, and now inspired by the events of 1822, Hillary published his Appeal to the Nation in 1823. He gained the support of his philanthropic friends in London Society.
A public meeting was held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopgate on 4 March 1824, with attendees including the archbishop of Canterbury, various MPs, and high-profile public figures such as William Wilberforce and sea rescue expert Capt. George William Manby FRS. It was resolved to form the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
The Institution was granted royal patronage by King George IV on 20 March 1824, thus becoming the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson was made president, with Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Charles Manners-Sutton becoming vice-president. Hillary was awarded an honorary Gold Medal as founder.
In August 1824, Hillary requested of the Institution, that a new lifeboat station be established at Douglas. The request was approved, and an order for a boat, the first lifeboat ordered by the Institution, was placed with William Plenty of Newbury, previously the winner of a lifeboat-design competition. He provided a 20-foot lifeboat, named Nestor, which arrived in Douglas in early October 1825.
However, also following the events of October 1822, a group of marine insurance companies including Lloyd's of London had already agreed in April 1824 to fund a new lifeboat for Douglas. She was a 29-foot North Country type, built by Wake of Sunderland, and cost £112. She arrived in Douglas in November 1824, 11 months before the Institution boat, and was named True Blue.
It may be that Nestor suffered a very short career. On her first and only recorded service, to the vessel City of Glasgow in trouble in Douglas Bay, Nestor was driven onto the rocks on her return trip and badly damaged, although the 15 people rescued from the ship and the lifeboat crew made it safely ashore.
There are conflicting reports of exactly which lifeboats were in service at Douglas after this time. Certainly, the True Blue remained in service for many years until 1851, with many heroic and medal-winning services performed. Hillary requested that new stations be set up in Peel (1828) and Ramsey (1829), and a new boat for Peel was ordered from Taylor of Blackwall. Another boat was ordered locally, a 29-foot 10-oared Palmer-type boat, from boat builder Robert Oates of Douglas. Whilst one report shows that this boat was being built for Ramsey, another report indicates that Ramsey's boat was actually built by Harton of London and transported to Ramsey aboard HM Cutter Industry, arriving on 20 February 1829.
A Glasgow boat, Eclipse, ran aground in Douglas Bay in January 1830. Hillary, along with lifeboat coxswain Isaac Vondy and crew, took the unfinished boat from Robert Oates's yard and launched to her aid. In extreme circumstances, with the lifeboat still missing air-cases, causing her to carry excess water from the pounding waves, everyone was safely recovered. Hillary received his second Gold Medal for gallantry.
In 1833, RNLI records show two Douglas lifeboats in service. One was the True Blue, but it is unclear as to the identity of the second boat – maybe the unnamed boat from Robert Oates, or possibly the Nestor, which may have been repaired. By 1843, just True Blue was reported to be in service at Douglas.
A period of decline followed the death of Hillary in 1847, the driving force behind the Institution on the island. A report of 1851 records the True Blue as unserviceable. The Institution decided to commission a 24-foot Peake-class lifeboat from Wallis of Blackwall, to be named Sir William Hillary, Bt., and by May 1853, it was reported as ready. But no records show any service by this boat, or indeed that it was ever delivered to Douglas.
In 1866, the RNLI resolved to form a new lifeboat station at Douglas. A new boathouse was built on Harris promenade, at the corner of Church Road, and a 32-foot self-righting lifeboat was commissioned with Forrestt of Limehouse, London, costing £246.
£325 was received from the Manchester and Salford Sunday School Fund, which covered the cost of the boat, plus all kit and equipment, and the launching carriage. On 6 February 1868, the boat was transported by rail to Manchester, and paraded through the streets to Peel Park, Salford, where she was greeted by about 10,000 Sunday-school children and parents and was named Manchester and Salford Sunday School.
In 1872, William Curphey took over as coxswain. However, when a launch in September 1873 failed to rescue 3 men from drowning, he resigned, citing that the boathouse was in the wrong location, which had caused unnecessary delays in launching.
The RNLI subsequently decided to place a second boat at the harbour, to be kept afloat at its moorings, and creating a No. 2 station. This boat arrived in 1874, and was named John Turner-Turner in the memory of the late husband of Mrs Turner-Turner of Ringwood, Hampshire, who had provided the funds for the boat.
The No. 1 station effectively closed when the boat house on Harris promenade was sold to Douglas Corporation in 1892, although the No. 1 boat Thomas Rose (ON 191) was still in service, and kept under a tarpaulin at the quay. A severe storm of December 1895 caused the No. 2 boat, by then Civil Service No. 6 (ON 273), to break her moorings, and she was wrecked on the rocks. She was withdrawn from service, and No. 2 station closed.
In 1896, following a meeting between the RNLI and Douglas Harbour Commissioners, a new boat house on the Battery Quay was commissioned, along with a slipway. A replacement boat was also ordered, another 42-foot 12-oared self-righting boat, built by Rutherford's of Birkenhead. Costing £618, she was also named Civil Service No.6 (ON 384), arriving in Douglas on 5 June 1896. The entire cost was met by the Civil Service Fund. Thomas Rose was withdrawn from service.
In 1920, the RNLI announced that a new motor-powered lifeboat would be provided for Douglas. A new lifeboat house and slipway was constructed, mounted on piles built in the harbour in front of the existing boathouse, and costing £10,000. The lifeboat was a 45ft Watson-class, built by S. E. Saunders, costing £8,456. Arriving in Douglas in November 1924 and funded by the Manchester and Salford branch of the RNLI, she was sailed over to Trafford Wharf on the Manchester Ship Canal in June 1925, for a naming ceremony attended by over 25,000 people. She was duly named Manchester and Salford (ON 689) by Lady Fry, wife of the Lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man.
Present day: In March 2024, the 1920s boathouse is still in use, awaiting a decision on a replacement boathouse and lifeboat. All-weather Mersey-class lifeboat 12-22 Ruby Clery (ON 1181) is on service, having been transferred from her previous homes at Peel and Ramsey.
The 6K05 engineers service from Carlisle to Crewe Basford Hall with 57012 and 57007 approaching Helwith Bridge on 14/04/14.
Engineer Jerry Debene is at the controls of NKCR GP50 5102 leading ATN Southbound Local Freight Train M715 ( Guntersville Turn ) heading back south to Gadsden, Al. after working some industries around the Port of Guntersville, Al. both NKCR 5102 & 5101 are former C&NW GP50's
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Meet Christine, one of my long-time roommates. She's an electrical engineer, so you can imagine the house being full of nerdy remarks. In fact, her boyfriend is quite possibly the most unique person (to put it gently) I've ever met. If any of you have watched The Big Bang Theory, they're exactly like that. Let's just say that I even have my own little "Sheldon" friend (not as OCD crazy, but the personality and randomness is very similar) -> Christine's boyfriend. "Sheldon" likes to pollute my Facebook wall w/ miscellaneous comic book strips & pictures that he finds funny. They are actually quite funny too haha. I always hear random tantrums and facts about trains & their power generators to programming to playing Diablo to quantum physics to... you get the idea. Everytime I came home, I'd come back to something very different and hilarious. Hardcore nerds. These people make living fun. Lol.
Christine is probably the most sane out of all them... :P
My uncle Ray was in the Royal Engineers in WWII. After serving in France and being evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940 he was posted to India. During the Burma campaign he drove diggers and scrapers as part of the RE in-country airfield construction team.
I recently found this undated photo of Ray (right) and his comrades in my mother's things.
Worcester Polytechnic Engineers (#21) vs. Johnson & Wales University (RI)
January 27, 2018
Sports & Recreation Center (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
JWU 26-9 WPI
165 pounds: Chase Lind (WPI) decision (10-7) over Cameron Altobelli (JWU).
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A badge-engineered Isuzu Rodeo, the Passport was born of a deal between Isuzu and Honda that saw Honda receive much needed SUV products from Isuzu and Isuzu getting needed passenger cars from Honda. The deal ended in the early 2000s as both companies had grown and decided to go in different directions, and the Passport went with it.
Carte de visite by Winans of Independence, Mo. This party of engineers worked on the W.K.C. & N.W.R.R. at some point relatively soon after the war. It is possible that some or all of these men were veterans from the U.S. and/or C.S. armies. The abbreviation may be for the Western Kansas Central & Norfolk and Western Rail Road, which ran just south of Independence, the home gallery of the photographer. The numbers at the bottom correspond to names written in pencil on the back of the mount. My best effort at transcribing them is:
1. J.M. Mitchell, Chf. Eng.
2. J. Scoring, Principal Afst.
3. J. Dunlap, Afst.
4. C.H. Sawyer, level
5. T. Moran, Axe
6. W. March, Rod
7. Asa French, level
8. J. Hays, Chairman
9. H. Rew
10. W. Smith, Surveyor
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Seen in enemy territory 66754 'Northampton Saints' seen passing Knighton loop, Leicester with the 7G35 0830 Toton North yard - Kentish Town 23/5/20.
It's the engineer's side of Wheeling & Lake Erie GP35-3 No. 109, which is on display during a festival in Orrville, Ohio. (Scanned from a slide)
I was recently bequeathed a box of materials from an ex-colleague who had, for many years, worked for British Rail. There's an eclectic mix of items including this; a file of five notes originating in the Chief Civil Engineers Department of British Railways Southern Region and regarding the movement of an "electric Bo-Bo locomotive" in connection with the Festival of Britain 1951. The major exhibition of the Festival was, famously, on London's South Bank and various items of railway rolling stock, including a new aluminium bodied London Underground car, were exhibited. This file refers to one of the country's newest and most 'up to date' locomotives in that it was one of the batch of EM1 locomotives being constructed for the new Manchester - Sheffield Woodhead route, the long drawn out electrification of which was on the verge of completion.
The scheme had been planned pre-war by the London & North Eastern Railway as an extensive re-engineering of the then important route across the Pennines but the outbreak of war saw the scheme temporarily suspended. One locomotive was however completed at Doncaster number 6701 (later 6000) and in post-war years was lent to the Dutch Railways. Finally between 1950 and 1953 57 similar locomotives, now known as class EM1 and for freight use, were built at Manchester's Gorton Works and electrically completed by Metropolitan-Vickers at Dunkinfield. You can see in the files that the special train including the locomotive was attended by MV staff.
The locomotive chosen for exhibition was 26020 (in later BR TOPS years 76020) and it was fitted with stainless steel handrails to make it look the part, a feature it uniquely retained amongst the rest of class. 26020 was in fact chosen for preservation when the class was withdrawn went the Woodhead electrification was controversially abandoned by BR in 1981. The seven locomotives of the smaller Class EM2 Co-Co locomotives for passenger train use were sold to NS, the Dutch Railway operator.
The notes show a fascinating side to railway operations; that of the civil engineer as they had to compute that any route chosen was safe, structurally and in terms of gauge, for the locomotive and train to proceed across the Region's lines. As can be seen originally two routes were considered, some rejected and others suggested, until a route was cleared. It does not make clear which route was eventually traversed to the old turntable site adjacent to London Waterloo but it appears the pantographs were removed to facilitate overhead clearances.
The route back at the close of the Exhibition is given more succinctly; a route around South London was chosen through London Bridge, Norbury, Clapham Junction, Battersea and on to the Western Region (for their consideration) near Latchmere Junction for haulage on to the 'owners' the Eastern Region at Ilford Depot. The latter is noteworthy as Iiford was part of the other pre-war LNER electrication scheme at the soon to be 'abandoned' standard of 1500vDC and the Shenfield line had been used to test some of the EM1 locomotives on delivery in 1950/51 prior to the completion of the Woodhead route's electrification in 1952.
One name here stands out to me; that of V A M Robertson. He had been a senior engineer in the Underground Group and London Transport from 1928 until 1938 when he went to the Southern Railway and thence to British Railways.
Freightliner 66539 passes through Alloa on 13th March 2022 with 6K01 09:53 Thornton NorthbJunction to Millerhill Yard, one of several engineers workings that day to use the line between Alloa and Charlestown Junction via Longannet.
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The engineer of the Mighty 3025 invited me into the cab.
Sadly, I didn’t get to drive . . .
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Engineers Grey 37263 stands in the loop at Highley awaiting the road to shunt over to the platform before working a local to Kidderminster during day 1 of the SVR Autumn Diesel Bash.
Thursday 03/10/2024.
The engineer of Nickel Plate Road No. 765 has his hands on the controls as the locomotive executes a photo runby at Boston Mill station on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
The Capitol Limited is ready to depart Washington Union Station westbound for Chicago. The engineer is climbing up to #34's cab and soon they will be off. March 29, 1998.
Mamiya Super 23, Fujichrome RDP 100.
Martha Alicia Benavente, from Tucurú, a small municipality in Guatemala trained for six months to become a solar engineer, and she is bursting with energy. She can’t wait to start building solar lamps so that her community can have sustainable energy at last. One solar lamp could sell for up to 200 Quetzals, a lucrative business opportunity for a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
In her words:
"There are more than 90 families in this community, none of the homes have access to energy.
Seven months ago, the Mayor of Tucurú selected me to go to the Barefoot College in India to learn solar engineering. I said, give me thirty minutes to think about it, the Mayor said, you have fifteen.
When I got on the airplane and it took off, I screamed! It was my first time, flying over the Pacific Ocean.
I used to be a domestic worker at a professor’s house in Tucurú before joining this programme. My day started at four in the morning. I would wake up early to go to the mill to get the corn for the tortillas for my children. Then I ran to work by 6:30 am. At my employer’s house, I cooked, swept the house, did dishes, showered the children and took them to school… and then ran to pick them up from school in the afternoon. For all this work, I got 500 Quetzals every month. It wasn’t enough to meet all our needs.
The six months I spent in India at the Barefoot College were also not easy. I got sick, and sometimes wondered if it was better to remain a domestic worker. But little by little, I learned everything. I learned how to make solar lamps.
Look at this solar lamp that I made at Barefoot College. Before I had the lamp, I used to spend 5 – 10 Quetzals every day to light candles. Or we would stay in the dark sometimes, because the store wouldn’t give us credit to buy more candles. I had to finish all my chores at home by 7 p.m.
Now, if I have all the materials, I can build a solar lamp in 20 minutes!
Right now, the biggest challenge is how to put into practice what I learned in India and to train more women. There are many mothers here who want to learn and who can benefit…I just need the materials to build lamps.
My dream is that my community benefits from solar energy. I made a very big effort to go to India, not only for me, but for the whole community. People come up to me and say, we are so happy that you’re back. Now we will have light!”
Martha Alicia Benavente, 45 years old, is a mother of four children whom she raised alone after her husband passed away. She has recently graduated as a solar engineer from the Barefoot College in India, through the UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women implemented by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women in Guatemala, and funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. Her story relates to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; as well as SDG 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment and SDG 8, which promotes decent work and sustainable economic empowerment for all.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Read more first-person stories of sustainable development challenges and change: www.unwomen.org/en/news/editorial-series/from-where-i-stand