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After chasing a plow over the Green Mountain, the crew advised me that the Vermont Railway would be flanging the line to North Bennington the next day. Seen here passing the Arlington depot, and a perfectly placed flange sign, wooden flanger VTR X-24 clears the VTR B&R line.
Design Challenge entry: 'Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake' in a flanged cushion mockup (c/o Roostery)
'Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake': My entry in the Food Frenzy Coloring Book Design Challenge - for the Lake interactive coloring app, inspired by a favorite food: lasagna!
Original: Pencil on paper
© Su Schaefer 2018
[I was going to do the Princess & the Pea, with a similar idea of many layers, but once the idea of lasagna came along, I couldn't get away from it!]
See 'Lasagna Lake by Su_G' as fabric @ Spoonflower.
[Lasagna Lake by Su_G for Lake_flanged cushion_mockup]
'Landscape with bear by Su_G' in a flanged pillow sham mockup (c/o Roostery)
A nature scene in a modern interpretation of fair isle with snowy bear in a white on gray knitted landscape threaded with brown snow-free areas & ribbons of meltwater. A surprise 'guest' bear also makes an appearance. My entry in Spoonflower's Fair Isle Design Challenge. © Su Schaefer 2018
See 'Landscape with bear by Su_G' as fabric @ Spoonflower.
[Landscape with bear by Su_G_flanged pillow sham_mockup]
Here's a more broadside view of a Durango & Silverton flanger outfit as it works north through the site of the 2012 Goblin Fire near Milepost 480.6. This view provides a little better look at the tiny Flanger OF and it's side-mounted wing plows. The flanger operator can be seen in the cupola of Caboose 0540 as he manipulates the air-operated flanger blades and wing plows from that elevated position. Ordinarily, the locomotive would have a pilot-mounted wedge plow, but on this particular day, K-28 Locomotive 476 was a last minute substitution for K-36 Locomotive #482, which did carry a wedge plow, but unfortunately experienced some hot bearing issues in her trailing truck.
This image was captured during Day 1 of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train, which featured the flanger outfit, traveling as far north as Needleton Tank.
“You need a flange sprocket for that one.” A conspiratorial look in my direction. A steely nod in return that almost certainly failed to mask the bewilderment. “Then you’ll want an electric socket hammer to push the shankhead nails through. Then lay the new sheets, starting at the bottom and working up. Thirty centimetre overlaps between every panel. The galvanised rubber bungs will keep the rain out for years. Bish bosh, easy job. You could do the lot in three days.”
Ali was grinning at me, knowing that I had not the faintest clue what was being said. Our visiting expert might as well have been speaking in Serbo Croat for all I understood. She wanted to tell him to look at my soft pasty hands, hewn from a lifetime of wearing white shirts at the office, while before us stood a benevolent bearded gorilla of a man, a mixture of dried paint and wood stain all over his jeans and jumper, the result of doing a proper day’s work for a living. We were standing in our leaky garage, inspecting the roof and discussing the best way to keep it watertight this winter. Did we need a new roof, or could we repair this one? All of this was so far removed from anything familiar. What workplace skills I had were entirely limited to counting things and presenting the results to people further up the food chain than me. Whenever the urge seizes me to try a bit of DIY, I lie down in a darkened room and wait for the feeling to pass over. I call it DIwon’t.
We’ve had a sudden run of visitors to the house this summer. All male, all offering their considered wisdom on things that are falling down or need replacing, and all of them speaking in languages that I really don’t understand. The only thing these soft office boy ears hear is white noise when anyone starts talking about sprockets and sockets. There’s the old wooden windows, the collapsing rear porch, the rusting ride on mower with the gammy drive belt, the sycamores that need removing without falling onto the neighbours beehives, the bulging septic tank and the unending saga of the garage roof with the inbuilt shower. Only our plumber is female - and she did such a good job last time that we don’t need her services at the moment. I did fix a leaky tap in the bathroom last year - in fact I did a lap of honour around the garden when it no longer dripped at the fourth attempt to solve the problem. But mostly, I’m worse than useless. The sad and uncomfortable truth is that I need men in overalls to make my life function at moments like these, and I know that sounds wrong on just about every level.
Even a relatively simple task can lead me into a world of pain. Recently, one of our five a side football circle announced he was opening a new coffee stop opposite Redruth railway station, and had invited local artists to bring in their masterpieces. He’d put them on the wall to brighten the place up and sell them on the creative’s behalf. Stupidly, I told him that I do a bit of landscape photography around Cornwall and shared my Instagram feed, and before I knew it I’d agreed to bring some framed prints in. I rapidly chose four local scenes and had them printed, and then I ordered some white frames. Nice looking frames, hopefully robust enough and not very expensive. If I’m going to get a couple of quid out of this I need to remember this is Redruth and not trendy St Ives or Padstein. The people around here don’t take their baths in foaming gallons of champagne, you know. Some of them can barely afford water.
That left the business of assembling my purchases, and now my incomparable incompetence at all matters practical came to the fore. A can of mounting spray arrived from Mr Bezos, who it turned out owed me a tenner because one of the frames had a tiny mark on it. Ali and I watched some YouTube videos and were left bewildered by the multitude of different approaches. How could something that looked so simple be so complicated? In the end we came up with our own method - one which you definitely won’t ever see in the textbook. The mounting spray is supposed to stay “tacky” for five minutes, but it really doesn’t waste any time bonding two surfaces together. The moment we attempted to stick the printed photo to the backing paper along the carefully scored lines that had been made in advance, it broke loose and landed at a far more avant-garde angle, refusing to budge any further. Then there’s the business of trying to keep the inside free of dust, stray moulting hairs and goodness knows whatever else. With a shameful hidden mass of clipped edges hiding beneath the mount, the finished result does at least look like it’s supposed to. I wonder if we’ll have learned anything by the time we’ve completed the first batch. Maybe we need a flange sprocket, whatever that is.
I’m far more comfortable at the scenes of those images. Here’s one from that prototype selection - the only one that wasn’t already on Flickr. No sprockets or sockets required around here. Just a soft handed office boy with a camera and a flask of tea.
Folded from an uncut square, this is a polyhedral representation of a human face. Flange and triangulation folding are the techniques used. Unlike my other flange folded models, the flange in this model consists of two straight creases. Except those for the eyes and chin, the flanges are hidden.
CSX yard job Y111 has just shoved this flanger out of DeWitt yard to here on the Peat Street lead. The stackpipe for Brookfield power is in the immediate background while further away are the twin steeples at St. Matthews Church in East Syracuse. Watching this had me wondering what was the point.
D&RGW 489 with a Flanger Train on the C&TS (former D&RGW narrow gauge line) is leaving Antonito, Colorado, on March 16, 2014. A local resident of the area, with an old pickup truck, waits at a crossing. 14,345 ft Mt Blanca can be seen in the distance rising above the flat San Luis Valley.
Greenwich & Johnsonville 4116, with wooden flanger in tow, is in the process of returning to it's train after scooting around the wye at Greenwich Jct.
Homemade light fixture, in the taproom, at...
Atlanta (Grant Park), Georgia, USA.
26 August 2016.
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Running without a plow in relatively thin snow cover, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad K-28 Locomotive #476 works north past the Bitter Root Mine site at Milepost 479.8, with Flanger OF clearing the snow from between the rails.
This image was captured during the February 2025 DSNGRR Winter Photo Train event, which was originally supposed to feature the freshly overhauled K-36 Locomotive #482. Unfortunately, despite numerous repairs and adjustments, that locomotive was experiencing hot bearing issues in its trailing truck, so K-28 #476 was substituted. Although the 476 was not equipped with a pilot plow, the relative dearth of snow in the 2024-2025 season left her a suitable substitute. Snow depths as far north as Needleton, CO were just in the 6-8" range, which was perfect for flanging operations, while not requiring the pilot plow.
One of Carmine Wheeler's lackeys and co-representative of the Mean Wheels gang. Between the two brothers, Flange is the most incompetent and prefers to take a stab at problems rather than watch them develop.
In order to provide some info for a possible database on lens mounting flanges and lens retaining rings (re Large Format Forum) I measured my German made lenses with a thread gauge. It resulted in the following info (hover over the photo to find the different lens/shutter combo (please note that some German lenses/shutters have Imperial thread):
Lenses in shutters:
Compound 0: M0.7 f6.8
Compound 1: M0.6 f6.3
Compound 1 x: 40TPI (thread per inch) f6.3
Compound 2: M0.9 f5.5
Compound 2 old model: M0.9 f5.3
Compound 3: M0.9 f4.5
Compur 0: 36TPI
Compur 1: M0.6 f4.5
Compur 1a: M0.9 f4.5
Compur 2: M0.9 f6.3/250mm f4.5/150mm f4.5/165mm
Compur 2 (ring): M0.9 f4.5/150mm
Synchro Compur P: ? f4.7
GW Stelo: M0.5 f6.3
Lenses with focusing device (Schnecke in A-Fassung):
Tessar f4.5/165mm M0.9 A VI 2
Triotar f3.5/150mm M1.0 A VI 2
Ernotar f4.5/150mm ?
Tessar f4.5/135mm M0.75 A 42
Lenses without focusing device (focussing helical):
Tessar f4.5/150mm N-Fassung: M0.9 IV 2
Tessar f4.5/150mm B-Fassung: M0.9 B IV 2
Tessar f4.5/180mm B-Fassung: M1.0 B VI 2
not in the photo:
Aristostigmat f6.3 120mm: 36TPI
Goerz Dagor f6.3 180mm: 24TPI
*Flange squeal intensifies*
After a crew change at Pleasant Grove, Union Pacific's North Platte Blend, Nebraska to Oakland, California intermodal train slowly enters Haggin Junction after crossing over the American River (the bridge is barley visible in the distance). As the train finally sets it's sights on the Bay Area, it slowly turns off the Sacramento Subdivision over to the Martinez. Once clear of Haggin the train will make a run for Benicia where it will set out the headend block of Autoracks before finally landing the train at the Port of Oakland.
Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Maintenance of Way (SPMW) Flanger SPMW 319 is in Dunsmuir, CA on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.
SPMW 319 is a flanger. Apparently this was built in 1928. I have not found any more information regarding who built it, etc.
Keeping the old D&RGW Silverton Line open in the winter has always been a challenge and one that the present-day Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad continues to take on. While the trains don't typically go all the way to Silverton from late October Until late May, the railroad does attempt to keep as much of the line serviceable as possible, if only to make the spring line-clearing tasks easier. The primary weapon in the battle is the Flanger Extra, which is typically either a K-28 or K-36 Locomotive, equipped with wedge plow, and one of the legacy D&RGW Flanger units. In this scene, the freshly overhauled K-36 Locomotive does the honors, hauling Flanger OF and Caboose 540 past Elbert Creek, sometimes known as "Granite Point", just a third of a mile south of Rockwood, CO at Milepost 468.8.
This image was captured during the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train, which was to feature the flanger outfit pictured here. Unfortunately, the 482 had just come out of overhaul only about a week prior to the event and had been experiencing hot bearing problems with its rebuilt trailing truck, and numerous repairs had been conducted in the days leading up to the event. Only moments after this photo was captured, the train arrived at Rockwood Station and the bearing temperature was found to be well over 400 F. The railroad then elected to replace the 482 with K-28 #476 for the remainder of the event.
The track creaks and groans as 9782 empty grain to Jeparit, then Rainbow rounds the curve at Dimboola.
As I was going through my father's slides and negatives, I came across some 110 negatives that were obviously mine. One was of this flanger extra at Pittsfield Mass. This is a scan of my father's slide, as my 110 was blurry and included him, camera in hand, looking back at me. Would've been cool if it was in focus! Fred McGinnis.
Flanges squeal as the pair of class 31s curve off the line from Clipstone with loaded coal.
Unknown photographer.
Scooping the accumulated snow from between the rails, Flanger Extra 476 North works to clear the Durango & Silverton's right of way from Cascade Canyon, north to Needleton, Colorado. The power today is K-28 Locomotive #476, one of three extant "Sports Models", and the most recent one to be restored to operation. Working without a plow pilot, she's hauling the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Flanger OF, and Caboose 0540, which is a pretty standard flanger outfit for the D&SNGRR.
This image was captured during the February 2025 DSNGRR Winter Photo Train event. The railroad had planned to use the recently overhauled K-36 #482 for this operation, but that engine experienced some last-minute mechanical issues, and they elected to substitute the only other steamer that is operational this winter, that being the engine you see here. While some patrons may have been looking forward to seeing the 482 in this role, this little twist of fate was actually serendipity for me, as the 476 was the only DSNGRR Locomotive that I had never photographed under steam. For many years, my visits to this operation found this locomotive inoperable, in the roundhouse museum in Durango. And although she was restored in 2019, it seemed that every time I visited subsequently, she was out of service for one reason or another. Well, in February of 2025, the "White Whale" finally surfaced for me, and I now have a treasure trove of photos of this engine on both the flanger outfit and a freight. Although the engine was operating without a plow pilot, the dearth of snow in the 2024-2025 season made that a non-issue. As can be seen here, Flanger OF is indeed clearing snow from between the rails, and her wings are clearing a little from beside the track. The cowcatcher pilot on 476 is just barely grazing the surface of the snow. We went as far north as Needleton Tank this day, and the snow depth there was perhaps 8" tops.
This particular image depicts the site of the 2012 Goblin Fire, north of Cascade Canyon, near Milepost 480.6.
A flanger set comprised of UP #572, UP #569 and SPMW #320 heads through foothills towards Donner Pass on UP's Roseville Subdivison.
There are several different territories in Tanjung Puting National Park, each dominated by a flanged male orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus, an endangered species). It is wonderful to see the large males acrobatically swinging through the trees often suspended spread eagle by all four limbs. Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Borneo Island.
13/05/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
A flanger set comprised of UP #572, UP #569 and SPMW #320 heads through foothills towards Donner Pass on UP's Roseville Subdivison.
UP 585 thunders through Soda Springs California during a slight break in the snow. This was shot with a heavy zoom but eventually the train and it's rooster tail coming off the flanger would get to me. I've been doing the Donner thing since 1998, this was by far the worst a flanger ever got me...I had snow in pockets that we're zipped up.
One of two entries I put up for this year's BTA, D&RGW Drag Flanger OC! Initially designed by Arthur Ridgeway, these cars were used on Colorado railroads well into the 1980s, with some still in service on scenic railroads today. Pulled along behind a locomotive, these cars would spread snow and "flange out" crossings/switches that were prone to icing up/causing derailments. This car, designated OC by the D&RGW 3' gauge network, survives as a display today at the Colorado Railroad Museum (though it is in a different paint scheme now).
081/365,
Oatey Johni-Ring
A wax ring (or waxless) is used to seal the gap between the flange and the bottom of the toilet. The toilet is bolted to the flange, not to the floor.
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
Having taken on water at the Needleton, Tank (MP 484.4), a Denver & Rio Grande Western flanger outfit heads north toward Silverton, CO on its mission to clear and inspect the line.
This image was captured during Day 1 of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train event, which featured K-28 Locomotive #476 with a flanger outfit consisting of the former D&RGW Flanger OF and Caboose 0540. The relative dearth of snow during the 2024-2025 winter season allowed the train to work all the way to the Needleton Tank, allowing patrons to capture some rare photos of this location. The D&SNGRR normally ceases service to Silverton in late October and does not return until late May. The line's winter passenger trains typically go no further north than Cascade Canyon (MP 477.5) and the line is rarely plowed more than a mile or two north of that location.
How to separate SBL scalp and dome without losing flange?
This is how separated dome and sscalp of SBL Blythes should look like - and hooray, all flange preserved!
It's still waiting to be quilted; I need to pick up more batting and decide exactly how I'll quilt it before I can start. I'm thinking diagonal lines, from top right to lower left. Anybody have any thoughts?
Is your species timid, cute or suitable for experimentation? Get ready to be endangered...': in a flanged pillow sham (mockup c/o Roostery)
Featuring sketchy line-work profiles of endangered animals (jaguar, snow leopard, polar bear & bonobo) & human babies/ toddlers... childhood surely also endangered, along with the rest of the world... and all in a vale of tears background on pale gray. My entry in Spoonflower's Endangered Animals Design Challenge.
© Su Schaefer 2018, with thanks to S. Silvester for the original saying (re an article on the industrial cloning of pigs): "Is your species suitable for medical testing, tasty, and/or cute? Get ready to be cloned, factory-style".
Sadly, the bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, the closest surviving relative to humans, is timid & not well studied and now also endangered.
See 'Is your species timid, cute or suitable for experimentation? Get ready to be endangered...' as fabric @ Spoonflower
[Is your species timid, cute or_flanged pillow sham_mockup]
Flash Gun With Yellow Gel AttachedTo The Top Right Hand Side.
Small Lamp With Red Gel Attached To The Left Hand Side
Camera Set For Full Saturation.
On Sunday February 16th the Batten Kill made a rare run west of Greenwich with the flanger to keep the line open for ongoing bridge repairs. Here the 605 and flanger 36006 cross a snow mobile trail that cuts through Peckham Materials.
Wheel flanges screech as Class 47/3 No. 47356 eases around the sharp curve on the approach to Llandudno Junction with 09.37 Llandudno Town - Birmingham New Street on 28th July 1979. Although more used to towing MGR wagons around the midlands, no-heat Class 47/3s were often utilised on summer Saturday holiday extras around this time, and was then, as it would probably be still the case now, a target for those seeking rare traction. The houses backing onto the railway enjoyed good views of the river and Conwy beyond, except when a train is passing, that is. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
On a sunny February afternoon, a northbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Flanger Outfit approaches the massive water tank at Needleton, CO (MP 484.4) amidst relatively thing snow cover. This little re-enactment was conducted on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train event and was the first time in anyone's recent memory that any train from the D&SNGRR had come this far north in February. The railroad typically stops running trains to Silverton, CO in late October each year and does not return until late May. This is primarily because of the heavy snows that typically occur here in the San Juan Mountains, as well as the significant danger of avalanches and slides. During the winter of 2024-2025, a dearth of snowfall allowed this special train to make it this far without even a pilot plow on the locomotive. Although a single snowstorm had dumped perhaps 2 feet of snow here a week earlier, a subsequent, rapid warm-up left the snow depth here around 6-8" on this day.
It is important to note that the big wooden water tank pictured here is no longer in active use. Although the railroad maintains it cosmetically as a historic artifact, the actual watering of steam locomotives on the present-day passenger trains is conducted at a newer, steel tank arrangement, which is several hundred yards north of this location.
Heavy snow fall this winter in the Boston area has dramatically affected the commuter rail operations on both the north and south sides of the city. Along with the usual ballast regulators and snow jets a pair of ex B&M Russell plows have also been active on the ex B&M north side commuter lines. On the ex NH/B&A south side commuter lines an ex Conrail flanger has supplemented the other equipment. Here MBTA GP18 #904 (ex SEMTA/GTW) leads the flanger westbound on the Franklin Branch at Norwood Central Depot. The GP18 was painted in a unique silver blue and black paint scheme at Pan Am Railways Waterville Shops.
Norwood Central, Massachusetts
February 14, 2015