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Working well away from the normal service routes, 755328 exits the tunnels at Welwyn, heading from Norwich to Hornsey.
These Greater Anglia units use the Hornsey wheel lathe facility, but tend to run in the late evening, so the extended hours of daylight are required to capture these workings.
"Masterpiece"
Spending so much time at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum, one will really begin to appreciate everything in their collection, not to mention the facility itself. Everything from the extraordinary to mundane will find its way into your mind and heart. I must admit that in my years of steam locomotive research and enjoyment, the Nickel Plate 700's did not strike me. For whatever reason, they just didn't click with me. I'm not sure what it was, but obviously, that's changed now.
Cale and I modeled 765 way back in 2017 when we were still figuring out Brick Model Railroader. It took some convincing, but we eventually decided that Nickel Plate Road 765 would be our first collaborative steam locomotive model. We had a running model that needed some adjustment, but quickly became disinterested in the project due to external factors. We were never quite happy with where we left this project, and vowed to each other that we would return to the model some day to do it again, properly.
Several years later, in late October 2021, and on a whim, I laid out a scaled wheelbase in stud.io, just to see what it would look like. I left the file alone for a couple more months until the Holiday season of 2021. I began thinking about a Nickel Plate Berkshire running around a Christmas tree, inspired by the amazing "Travel Refreshed" speculative project:
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This set my mind racing with thoughts of the late 1940's when large mainline superpower led "hotshot manifest" trains through the heart of America. If there was ever a perfect depiction of postwar steam railroading, it was this, and the Nickel Plate Road was the poster child.
The Nickel Plate Road connected the farms of the Midwest in St. Louis and Chicago to Buffalo in the east. The road took a fast, level route along the southern edge of the great lakes. A direct competitor to the New York Central, it was purchased by the Vanderbilts in an effort to remove competition. As such, the line was never optimized and operated with older and slower equipment. The Nickel Plate was purchased by Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen, brothers from Cleveland who had controlling interests of several other roads including the Chesapeake & Ohio, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Pere Marquette, Erie, and more. The "Vans" would lead efforts to completely transform the Nickel Plate into the powerhouse bridge road it is remembered as today.
One of those efforts included the creation of the Advisory Mechanical Committee (AMC), which served as a design bureau for the roads under control of the Vans. One of the first projects for the AMC was the design of the C&O T-1 class 2-10-4 engines, the largest two cylinder steam locomotives when built. Continuing in efforts to rejuvenate the Nickel Plate, president John Bernet assigned AMC officer William Black the task of designing a super-power locomotive. The result was the Nickel Plate S class of 2-8-4, built by ALCO Schenectady in 1934. The AMC, capitalizing on their winning formula for the T-1, maintained the factor of adhesion just above 4 while scaling down the rest of the locomotive: eliminating the fifth pair of 69" drivers and creating a locomotive with 70% of the tractive effort and 70% of the weight. Unbeknownst to Bernet, Black, and the AMC, they had just captured lightning in a bottle.
To truly appreciate why the 700's were such good locomotives, the operating mentality of the Nickel Plate must be understood. The road was a masterpiece of engineering, maintaining a very flat right of way along the mainline, running shorter but faster trains handling bridge traffic over the line. Operating conditions like these coupled with the high-horsepower 700s, there has hardly been a more perfect match of locomotive and railroad. The Berkshires were so effective and loved, the Nickel Plate laughed away EMD diesel demonstrators multiple times until the end of steam in 1958. Even still, several of these locomotives were stored serviceable in anticipation of a traffic spike that never occurred.
763, part of the third batch of Berkshires in total (S-2 class) and second batch from Lima (Works #8671), was one of these locomotives. Officially retired a few years after the end of steam, it stayed in Conneaut, Ohio until 1966 when it was purchased by the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. 763 remained in Roanoke for several years until it was towed to New Jersey for inspection to pull the American Freedom Train, but other locomotives were selected., and 763 returned to Roanoke. Ohio Central and Age of Steam founder Jerry Jacobson purchased the locomotive from the museum in 2007, returning the engine home to Ohio. It is currently stored inside the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in stall 4, a regular favorite part of any regular public tour.
All that to say: I never expected to have such a deep, genuine understanding and appreciation for these engines. It says a lot when someone can connect with a piece of machinery in such a way, and gain understanding of its purpose and reason for existing. The 700s were truly magnificent machines.
So, in deciding that I was going to model one of these amazing locomotives, I began working in stud.io, and over the course of several months, I came up with what must have been at least a dozen iterations of the rough shape of the engine solely to achieve "the look." With 765 currently operating and with countless fans of the locomotives, the 700's are well recognized and people are going to be able to pick out the details, so any model of one has to be done properly. Once I had the correct shape and proportions, I filled in gaps and rebuilt section after section until I had a completed digital model in June of this year. By then, I had just seen 765 operate in person for the second time and was feeling inspired, so work on the custom wheels and connecting rods progressed alongside. Refining, trial, failure, adjustment, and testing continued until December 2022 when I completed the physical model. Naturally, I had to model 763 specifically, being the preserved example at Age of Steam.
Under the hood this model is identical to my Mohawk: a pair of Power Functions L motors geared 1:1 driving the third axle, each operating from its own Power Functions IR receiver, and powered by a Tenergy 7.4v 2200 mAh battery. 763 operates smoothly and without issue thanks to the drive train design and high-quality printing of the wheels, rods, and valve gear. Drivers and trailing wheels designed by me and printed by Rob Hendrix, all rods and valve gear designed by me and printed through Shapeways. All artwork was faithfully recreated by Cale Leiphart. Decals printed by OKBrickWorks and UV printed number boards and bearing caps are from Richard Glatter. Thank you all for your help with this project.
Having completed and published Buffalo Creek & Gauley 13, Morehead & North Fork 12, and now Nickel Plate Road 763, my Age of Steam collection grows. Those who know me personally understand that I'm not one to brag about my work. However, I feel I must say that I think I've outdone myself with this model. I would say this is the most new, ground-up design of locomotive I have built in a while. I've achieved detail and accuracy that I haven't seen on even some traditional scale models, and it all works together to make 763 perhaps my best model yet. A masterpiece of a masterpiece, if you will.
As 2022 winds down, I'm elated to publish this locomotive and check it off the list. As I mentioned earlier this year, I've had a lot in progress recently so wrapping something up feels fantastic. There's a bit more in store for the immediate future, but we'll get to that later.
As always, thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone for their support of my work through comments, questions, and compliments. It is always sincerely appreciated and I am thankful to be a part of such a fun community.
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) on the night of January 28, 2023 with it between the two Dippers and near Polaris in the northern sky. It is here barely visible in moonlight as the first quarter Moon was lighting the sky a deep blue. The comet just stands out as a cyan glow. It was visible in binoculars as a grey patch with no sign of a tail.
This is a stack of 9 x 30-second exposures with the Canon RF 28-70mm lens at 33mm and f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 800. The camera was on the Star Adventurer tracker. A separate exposure through the Alyn Wallace/Kase StarGlow filter blended in added the photogenic star glows to make the constellation patterns stand out better. Taken from home on a chilly -20° C night. This version has labels; an unlabelled clean version is available.
Kyoto City
a facility used for training priests to develop their dharma-sharing skills
Olympus OM-D E-M5 x SIGMA Art 2.8/19 DN
April 19, 2021
Location: Masters Tract Stormwater Treatment Facility - Hastings, Florida (Saint John's County)
Penn Central diesel electric locomotives EMD SW1200 # 9195, ALCO RS3 # 5482 & EMD GP9B # 3808 are seen in the former New Haven Railroad Cedar Hill Yard at New Haven, Connecticut, 1972. In the back ground other locomotives such as EMD GP9's and GE U25B's are seen. The catenary has been long gone since the New Haven Railroad days of the late 1950's and early 1960's, and the yard is just a shadow of itself by this time due to the removal of numerous tracks. Bob Hughes was able to photograph this view I believe from one of the various overhead walkways that were situated in the yard area. Notice that you can clearly see the engineer in the cab of the EMD SW1200 switcher in the bright sunlight. Deep in the background you can see one of the old roundhouses.
9017, 90## and 90## work HV925 into Greta. This train went into the maintenance facility before going out to the Hunter Valley to load.
Sunday 15th April 2018
It's a beautiful fall day in the Colorado Rockies as SD40T-2 5362, GP40 3067 and another SD40T-2 pose at the sand tower in Rio Grande's Minturn, Colorado yard on October 9, 1983.
Keeping the helper sets serviced and ready to do battle with the twenty-two miles of uphill grades on Rio Grande's Tennessee Pass line is the name of the game at the small locomotive facility.
When another eastbound approaches, this set will be positioned either in the middle or the rear of the train and lend the extra horsepower needed to get to the tonnage over the 10,400 foot summit of the pass.
I built this model to do tests a few months back, and then never used it. Now I'm gonna take it apart, but I thought I'd take a picture of it first.
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares rocket suffered a catastrophic anomaly after launch, resulting in the loss of both vehicles. The Cygnus spacecraft was filled with supplies slated for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Stephens Indoor Facility in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/11.0 with a 13-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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BMW Welt (English – BMW World), is a multi-functional customer experience and exhibition facility of the BMW AG, located in Munich,
Aerial view of the EMBMUD wastewater treatment facility in Oakland, California.
Researchers have determined that testing sewage for coronavirus may be a viable way to identify community COVID-19 outbreaks prior to cases surging in local hospitals. This technique may be helpful in making up for the woefully inadequate availability of individual coronavirus testing in the U.S. It may also turn out to be useful for determining when lockdowns can be loosened or must be increased to prevent healthcare system overload.
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Human torch (CUSTOM PRINT)
Hyperion (Offical lego print)
Nighthawk (Custom print)
Quicksilver (official lego print)
Blur ( custom print)
Watch technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move the engine section of NASA's #SpaceLaunchSystem rocket for #Artemis IV after welding was completed. This hardware is the first large piece manufactured for the Artemis IV mission and makes up the lowest portion of the 212-foot-tall core stage. Currently, the team is in the process of outfitting engine sections for the Artemis II and Artemis III missions.
Image credit: NASA/Jared Lyons
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This Base Exchange shopping facility was located at the junction of Mons Road and Festubert Blvd. Shopping outlets included a Grocery Store, a Smoke Shop, a Men's and Women's Clothing Store, a Barber Shop, a Beauty Parlour, a Variety Store, Cleaning and Banking facilities. A civilian doctor also had an office in the Plaza.
Canadian Armed Forces Exchange Service (Canex) sells a wide variety of wares, at prices below unsubsidized retailers, to Canadian Armed Forces, their dependants and civilian employees of the national defence department.
Clipped from - The Windsor Star newspaper - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 13 March 1968 - Clipped from - The Windsor Star newspaper - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 13 March 1968 - Petawawa - Forces join retail business - Reports that the defence department intends to enter the retail business at the Petawawa base has caused concern among residents. Camp Petawawa is 10 miles north of this (Pembroke) community, about 100 miles northwest of Ottawa Merchants in contact with base personnel say Canadian Armed Forces Exchange Services (CANEX) will soon replace Maple Leaf Services as a retail outlet to serve the forces and would sell at prices that would drive competitors into bankruptcy. Replying to a Pembroke chamber of commerce inquiry, Defence Minister Cadieux wrote that CANEX had been approved in principle. Authority has been given to form a planning group to examine the many aspects in this field including welfare, recreation merchandising. The department has no intention of engaging in unusual business practices, the minister wrote. If it does compete with private enterprise, it will not compete unfairly. It would be several months before CANEX would begin to take over management of existing non-public facilities and functions. The chamber of commerce is sending a five-man delegation to Ottawa Friday to confer with Mr. Cadieux. LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/122400663/forces-join-retail-busi...
Maple Leaf Services was a Crown corporation established to operate canteens, grocery stores and other outlets at army establishments in Canada and abroad.
KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), Singapore
From its humble beginnings as a small general hospital in 1858 to a 30-bed maternity hospital in 1924, KKH has grown into an 830-bed hospital providing obstetric and gynaecology, neonatology and paediatric services. Often affectionally referred to as "KK" amongst locals, it is the birthplace of a sizeable proportion of Singaporeans, delivering over half of total newborns in the country as early as 1938.
In 1966, the hospital entered the Guinness Book of Records for delivering the highest number of newborns within a single maternity facility for that year, and it continued to hold on to this record for a full decade, delivering 85% of the population. source: wikipedia
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Bulk transloading facility operated by EH Sprague, Searsport.
August 26, 1980.
The original structure was used to load rail cars while the newer conveyors allow bulk ground storage.
A Lenin figure in a forgotten soviet military faciliy in the German woods. It was once so secret that even Germans didnt know it existed, and in a period nuclear weapons where stored in a bunker here.
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453rd Clone legion move to explore a facility in the vast tundra of Nixus. The planet is favoured by many of the galaxies crime lords but recent evidence prompt the republic to send out a small group of clones to check the planet for separatist presence. Sergeant Bledorrt leads his squad to a seemingly ordinary facility but closer inspection reveals that all is not as it seems...
ACWR #100 rolls by the Midland Transload Facility in Midland, NC. The MP15 in the background is one of four new additions to the railroad, and is being used to switch out this facility.
The Edmonton Police Service training facility has many interesting curves and windows that provide great reflections, especially if there are clouds in the sky.
Zero Gravity Facility at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. This is a tunnel view looking up from level 5. This tower drops 460 feet and allows scientists 5.18 seconds of micro-gravity. By comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C1966-3680
Date: September 12, 1966
This is my newest aircraft facility inspired by the legendary Keith Goldman.
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The Delta Thursday is planned for the fall of 2010.
Respect the Core.
Inside the low bay of the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers assist as Sierra Nevada Corporationâs (SNC) Dream Chaser pressure test article on its support structure is lowered by crane on June 3, 2020, for its move into the high bay. The test article was shipped from Louisville, Colorado. It is similar to the actual pressurized cabin being used in the Dream Chaser spaceplane for Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) missions. NASA selected Dream Chaser to provide cargo delivery, return and disposal service for the International Space Station under the CRS-2 contract. The test article will remain at Kennedy while SNC engineers use it to develop and verify refurbishment operations that will be used on Dream Chaser between flights. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett