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Peter Pan Railways were once a common sight at British seaside resorts, holiday camps and amusement parks. I know of about 40 different places that had them, and I'm sure there were more. If you were a kid between the 1950s and 1980s there's a good chance you rode on one. Only a handful left nowadays.
They first appeared around 1950 and were built by the Warwickshire firm of Supercar. They utilised standard railway technology with 2ft gauge track, 12lb rails and single flanged wheels. The center rail was energised at 110 volts DC and the trains had a short wheelbase allowing them to negotiate some pretty sharp and exciting curves. In later years some of the trains were fitted with new bodywork of various different styles, notably the American 'Santa Fe' versions at Butlins.
ONR Englehart - Noranda daily job is now hitting the CN Noranda diamond and leaving its one and only non-ontarian destination.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic flanger OJ does its thing on a small drift between miles 307 and 308 west of Sublette, New Mexico, on March 13, 2016. The purpose of the flanger is to push snow further from the track than that possible by the passage of the locomotive alone. The flanger also clears out snow and ice from inbetween the rails. Friends of the C&TS sponsored this special charter train on March 12/13 for about 40 photographers. Photo by Joe McMillan.
UP 600 was the first snow service unit converted into full Union Pacific paint. In this scene the flanger is doing some light work as it enters the East end of the Norden Sheds on Union Pacific's Roseville sub over Donner Pass.
Here's a telephoto view of Flanger Extra 476 as she works north toward Needleton during Day 1 the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's February 2025 Winter Photo Train event. Aside from the lack of a pilot plow, this is a pretty standard configuration for a DSNGRR Flanger Outfit. Locomotive #476 is an outside frame, K-28 Mikado, built in 1923 by the American Locomotive Company. She's one of 3 survivors of an original class of 10 K-28s. Behind her is Flanger OF, one of 10 dedicated flanger cars built by the Denver & Rio Grande Western in the late 1800s, 7 of which survive today. This car has retractable blades that scoop snow and ice from between the rails. She also has retractable wings on both sides, which push snow back from the outside of the rails. All of the wings and blades are air-operated with controls located in the cupola of Caboose 0540, which is the tail end of this train. Note that the flanger operator can be seen with his head out the cupola window, watching the operation, ready to deploy and retrace the blades and wings as needed, to clear crossings, guard rails and other obstacles. The DSNGRR has little arrow signs trackside, to warn flanger operators when such track structures are ahead, so they may manipulate the flanger controls accordingly.
This image depicts the Flanger Outfit passing Milepost 480.6, about 4 miles south of Needleton Tank.
This is the state of the Big Ben Bricks wheels from Tornado after over 10 years of running. The BBB parts are of very good quality, but it’s enviable that so much use will result in some wear. Particularly on the flange area of this wheel, which was one of the leading drivers.
Here's a close-up of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's former Denver & Rio Grande Western Flanger Car OF. This is one of 10 similar cars built by the D&RG back in the 1880s for the purpose of removing snow and ice from between the rails as well as pushing back snow from the right-of-way. A total of 7 of these cars survive, at least 2 of which are still operable, including this one, which is typically used multiple times every season. This particular car has two sets of plow blades, one of which cleans the snow from between the rails and the other which pushes the snow back from the track. Both are air-actuated and controlled from the cupola of the caboose, where the operator has a commanding view of the process. The railroad has placed signs beside the right-of-way, which alert the operators to the presence of obstacles, such as grade crossings, switches and guard rail. These signs are typically little up-arrows, which direct the operator to raise the flanger blades and/or retract the wing plows. As shown here, both sets of blades are fully retracted.
It should also be noted that Maintenance-of-Way (MOW) equipment on the D&RGW narrow-gauge was typically not numbered, but rather, received letter designations. The 7 extant flanger cars are lettered: OC, OD, OF, OG, OJ, OK and OL.
Flanged-on new building in the historic centre of Wetzlar.
Angeflanschter Neubau in der Altstadt von Wetzlar.
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a UP flanger set led by UP 605 heads west towards the balloon track at fulda, CA on the union pacific "donner pass" route over the northern sierra. a system leaving just a mere three inches of snow has just blown through the upper elevations of the pass; the train will turn around at fulda and return to truckee until called upon again.
this was a difficult shot from emigrant gap as we knew the flanger was coming but not exactly when. there is a curve in the tracks just out of frame; the flanger appears out of the curve very quickly, leaving little time to remove my eyeglasses, raise the camera, focus and shoot.
A young Oak Titmouse visiting my bird feeder, with only its tiny beak flanges and incomplete tuft giving away its young age.
In December of 2003 UP 600 is cleared to head out on the Roseville sub mainline after a quick flip on the balloon track at Truckee, California. The headlights from the GP38-2 are illuminating the crew who is having a hell of a time digging out the switch in the MOW yard.
Rollei Spareparts Doos 15.
White sheep in the family ;-)
A very rare Transport Flange (# 19012.00.1) made of white plastic amongst his black family.
Maybe an albino ?
An SP SD9E in flanger service with icicle breakers extended exits the snowshed at Norden on Donner Pass during the heavy storms of March 28, 1982.
The double flanged rails of the Tavistock Canal Tramway curve towards the photographer standing on the quayside. The tramway continued between the Ship Inn, visible in the back ground and the slate hung house beyond which lay the water powered incline which raised and lowered wagons to and from the Tavistock Canal Whaft and terminal basin high above Morwellham. When this photograph was taken in 1987 archaeologists had recently uncovered the rails.
Ship Inn can be seen in the back ground. The tin roof of the school building can be seen extreme left. Double flanged track of the Tavistock Canal tramway had recently been uncovered by archaeologists.
Camera: Contax 137 + Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.7 Planar lens
For more 35mm archive photographs of Morwellham Quay, please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Industrial-Archaeo....
All cleaned up with a gasket scraper to get rid of the corrosion on the front face and a small screw driver in the recessed area. I then ran a rotary wire brush around the inside of the recess and blocked the face of the flange with some wet and dry. It's come up pretty good and you can hardly feel the corrosion now. I've since rubbed a thin coat of copper grease over it to stop it rusting up again.
Pure WV mountain railroading in this scene at Upland with SD70ACe 1040 grinding through the curve with an 83G. On the rear is NS 8100 in Nickel Plate paint, nose up against the train. Which is why you get this shot, instead!
The flange portion of DME 1005 kicks up snow as the train approaches another decent sized drift between Claremont and Dodge Center. The engineer has just begun throttling down the train in order to back up to allow the crew in the plow cab to drop the side blades to begin pushing back another drift.
Rail fanning Junction City, Wisconsin I noticed that the diamond was quieter than normal, especially for a loaded coal train hitting it at 15 mph. So I tried to capture of what was going on. It was one of those flange-bearing frog diamonds. I thought it was pretty cool. CN north-south traffic could hit it at 40mph while I'm guessing the north-south traffic on the Wausau line could do 20 mph
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Wheels :*MAVIC* open pro ust rim × *PHILWOOD* low flange track hub
Tire :*CONTINENTAL*ultra sport 3
Crankset :*SUGINO* RD4 crank
Cog :*PHILWOOD* track cog
Brake Lever :*DIA-COMPE*ss-6 brake lever
Brake : *PAUL* mini moto brake
Seat Post :*NITTO* 65 seatpost
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Saddle :*SELLE ITALIA* flite 1990 saddle
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Here's a more conventional view of our D&RGW Flanger train arriving at Sublette, NM (MP 306.06). The water column at the west end of the complex is normally operational and is used daily by the passenger trains during the tourist season. When our charter arrived in the middle of March however, there was some question as to whether the standpipe here would be functional and able to fill the 487's tender. As a contingency, we did have a water car positioned behind the flanger, so there was no real concern about running out of water. Fortunately, when our Fireman, Carlos Llamas swung the pipe over 487's cistern and pulled the valve handle, he was rewarded by the sound of cool, clear water gushing out of the spout. We would not need to use the water in our tank car. The 487 would have plenty in her tender for the rest of the day.
This image was captured during a March 2016 photo shoot organized by the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
Further to last night's discovery, I returned home from the office this evening and noticed the Flanger was connected to a guitar. I asked my partner if I could take a few shots for Flickr and he said of course but warned me to be a bit careful about what I wrote as a 'Flanger' is also something quite rude. You live and learn. I rarely do B+W so I am out of my comfort zone for more than one reason!
A D&RGW Flanger outfit charges across Ferguson's Trestle (MP 285.87) on a mission to clear the line to Cumbres Pass. Although there was no snow on the eastern reaches of the line from Chama to Antonito, there was indeed some snow in the higher elevations. We mainly found it in areas that were in shadow much of the day. Open, south-facing locations looked pretty much like what you see here.
Our D&RGW Flanger outfit rounds the Lava Loop (MP 291.55) and is about to pass the historic water tank as it heads west toward the high country.
The tank at Lava is no longer operational and is in need of some TLC. Other than the ladder, which can be seen on the ground to the right of the tank, the structure is still intact, including the spout, which is on the other side. Interestingly, this is not the original tank at this location. The original tank burned back in 1973 and was replaced by this one, which came from Antonito. Both tanks were a standard, D&RGW 50,000-gallon design. Although there are no plans to re-activate this tank, I have heard some discussion about re-activating some other type of water source nearby, so the regular passenger trains will have an emergency water stop capability. Obviously, such a source would also be helpful to charters such as ours, which tend to consume a lot of water doing photo run-bys.
D&RGW 489, with a flanger, plows deep snow in a cut west of Big Horn, New Mexico, on March 16, 2014.
Some of these photographs appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers; they are not. All of these photos are micro (macro) photographs of the super-tiny blooms that blossom on common weeds.
Weed flowers...wild flowers...whichever appellation you want to bestow on them nonetheless these almost microscopic beauties are the flowers that bloom on the weeds in my yard.
Many people also assume that these flowers are, for example, squash or zucchini-sized flowers, or that they are flowers 1" in diameter or larger and are perhaps on stems a foot tall or so. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of these flowers when measured petal tip to petal tip at their widest diameters measure 1/4" (6mm) across…or less...the entire bloom is that small. And the average stem height is only a few inches tall, if that.
The smallest weed flower I've shot yet is a small ring of flowers that measured less than 1/32" (.7mm) in diameter which encircled a spire which measured about 1/64" (0.3mm) in diameter.
For some photos I’ve included references to common objects such as the head of a paper match, or the head of a pin, which dwarfs some of these tiny flowers! On some others I’ve listed a description of the actual size of each object in the photo.
So far I've made over 700 photographs of over 50 varieties of weed flowers.
I hope that seeing the variety, beauty, and intricate complexity of this small world astonishes and pleases you as much as it has me.
Thanks for looking.
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Micro Weed Flowers:
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Micro Weed Flowers II:
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Micro Weed Flowers III:
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Micro Weed Flowers IV:
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Micro Weed Flowers V:
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Manufactured by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, Dresden, East Germany
Model c.1962, Version 5.2, (A&R: 3.1, Hummel: 026), (produced between 1960-63, quantity 65600)
All Exakta Varex IIa produced between 1956-1963
Version, manufacturing year, body and lens info are as to Andrzej Wrotniak
35 mm film SLR camera
Lens release: via a lever on the left of the lens flange
Focusing: via Fresnel matte glass screen, ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale
Shutter: horizontal focal plane double cloth type,
Speeds: 1) Fast speeds 1/25 -1000, +T, B, dial on the left of the top plate, lift and turn
2) Slow speeds 1/5 - 12, dial on the right of the right top plate
Setting: turn the ring clockwise as far as it will stop, then lift and turn the outer ring of the slow speed knob to desired speed, (black engravings).
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long-stroke type, right-to-left film transport,
on the left of the top plate
Shutter release: a knob on front of the body, left side of the lens, w/ a safety locking cap and cable release socket, it can be pressed with the plunger on the lenses, w/ cable release socket also
Self-timer: 1) for high speeds: after winding and selecting the high speeds, turn the slow speeds knob as far as it will go and set it any one of the red figures
2) for low speeds: set the fast speed dial to B and set the low sped dial in your
speed choice : 1/5-2-4-6, after shutter releasing the time elapse is 13 seconds for shot.
View finder: SLR penta-prism finder, interchangeable with waist level finder
Finder release: via a knob beneath the Exacta logo
Mirror: Stays up after exposure, so viewfinder is dark, cocking the shutter returns the mirror
Frame counter coupled with winding lever, Additive type (S, 0-36) resets with a knob
Re-winding: via a knob on the camera bottom,
Re-wind release: via a push knob beside re-wind knob
Memory dial: under the low speeds dial
Special take up spool
Back cover: Hinged and detachable
Flash PC sockets: three, on front of the camera, M, F, X, sync.1/25 (seperate on the fast speeds knob)
Film-cutting knife: handle on the right of the re-wind knob
Tripod socket 1/4''
Strap lugs
Body serial no.962172
LENS:
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8, 4 elements, (black), fully automatic type, (no internal aperture coupling, diaphragm always in open position, pressing the plunger on the lens closes the aperture to the pre-set f number then the shutter releases),
Exakta bayonet mount, filter thread 49mm, serial no. 6860863 (introduced in 1961)
Aperture: f/2.8 - f/22, setting: ring and scale on the lens
Focus range : 0.50 - 15m +inf
Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, in Dresden, which was the largest independent camera manufacturer in Germany and was founded in 1912 by Johan Steenbergen.
Exakta is one of the very first SLR cameras in the world and Exakta was quite expensive camera and it was used mostly by the professionals.
Ihagee never made lenses of the own brand. Many manufacturers made lenses for Exakta, especially Carl Zeiss Jena.
The true Exaktas and Exas are ones made by Ihagee in Dresden.
Notes about Exa/Exakta classification
I use the Exa/Exakta classification of Andrzej Wrotniak. As to me, it is the best.
Some opinions of a serious Exa/Exakta collector, F W Tappe :
Andrzej Wrotniak uses a very sensible classification, listed on his website, which I personally like the best. It is multi dimensional in setup, without being complicated!
Richard Hummel's 1995 book lists an "one dimensional" classification, which is incomplete, but many sources still refer to this.
Aguila and Rouah (A&R) in their 2003 edition of "Exakta cameras 1933 - 1978", come to an improved classification. They built on their previous 1987 edition classification, which was the leading standard among collectors.
Klaus Wichmann, prolific writer of books about Exakta - and Exa cameras, published his classifications earliest.
More info Captain Jack, Maurizio Frizziero