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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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Janie: "Closet flange: complete!"
Triv: "Until we need to pull it up again to install the flooring."
Janie: "I think we will only need to pull the toilet, not the entire flange."
Triv: "What about the insulation under the floor?"
Janie: ". . ."
How to separate SBL scalp and dome without losing flange?
Now you can just slowly and carefully pull the scalp out of the dome. Remember to be very careful, you don't want to tear anything! You can always help a bit with the knife.
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).
The company SIAMT (Stabilimento Italiano Applicazioni Meccaniche Torino) has been founded in 1905 by Luigi Semeria and ceased production around 1940. These high flange bicyle hubs are desirable for being quite rare as well as for their attractive design. Especially the unique shape of the flange cut-outs distinguishes them from other hubs of that time.
Measurements are as follows:
front hub 154 gram weight - OLD 99.6 mm - flange diameter 78.5 mm - flange distance 73.5 mm
rear hub 236 gram weight - OLD 119 mm - flange diameter 79 mm - flange distance 69 mm
60044 'Dowlow' can be seen derailed in Goole Docks, the leading centre axle of which can be seen, with the flange of the wheel wedged between the rail and the chair.. This occurred while the loco was setting back over the bend with empty rail carriers, and the rail snapped in two places causing the two leading axles to derail.
Beautiful chrome details, classic racing blue and a sweet kit of components. We built this custom F5 Pista and it's going to be ridden on the streest of Australia. Complete with H Plus Son rims, Sugino Rd2 crankset, MICHE sterzo headset and gran compe low flange hubs.
I was lucky to find a vintage Simanco 189654 flange hemmer foot compatible with singer featherweights a few years back. It creates the tiniest rolled hem approx 1/16" perfect for this vintage organza that I pleated with the ruffler/pleater attachment.. I don't know if this foot was made especially for the featherweight but it works nicely on my machine.
My photographs are my private property and are copyright © by me, John Russell (aka “Zoom Lens”) and all my rights are reserved. Any use without permission is forbidden.
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
Flange squeal breaks the suburban silence in Beecroft on the Northern Line as PN Intermodal 4MB4 (Dynon-Acacia Ridge) thunders through with NR 47/AN 4/NR 48 on the lead. Unfortunately, this train derailed later in the day at the 195km mark, near Maitland.
This trackside thingy is based on something I saw in a photo of a Class 66. In the photo it was near the end of a long trail of grease/oil between the rails. This made me think it was a flange greaser. Unfortunately, I can't find the photo. Can anyone confirm this is a flange greaser?
Silver flanged bowl with beaded rim (66 beads in total) on a circular foot-ring. The basal medallion and the rim are decorated with raised relief made using chasing and engraving techniques. The central medallion, enclosed in a circle of 92 beads, is decorated with a male bust facing left with Corinthian helmet and shield behind the bust; the bust is likely to represent Alexander the Great. The flange is decorated by four scenes separated by busts: the first with a male goat grazing and a pair of sheep, one a ram and the other a female, with a tree between; the second a bear chasing a pair of deer, flanked by a female bust on the left and a bearded male bust on the right; the third by a pair of goats and grazing sheep separated by a tree; the fourth by a bear bringing down a goat and another goat fleeing, separated by a tree, flanked by a female bust on the left and a satyr bust on the right.
Bowls of this shape were popular in late-Roman table services. The decoration on the flat rims shows a variety of animals in hunting and pastoral scenes, themes which fall into the general category of Bacchic imagery. We have no details of the way in which the Mildenhall treasure was arranged in the ground, but the nature of the plough-damage on these four vessels is typical of the distortion and breakage which occurs when bowls of similar shape are packed nested into one another and then subjected to pressure or impact. The tearing is most severe on the bowl with the portrait of a young woman in the centre, so this would have been the outermost piece.
The Mildenhall Treasure is a large hoard of 34 masterpieces of Roman silver tableware from the fourth century AD, and by far the most valuable Roman objects artistically and by weight of bullion in Britain. It was found at West Row, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, in 1942. It consists of over thirty items and includes the Great Dish which weighs over 8 kg (18 lb).
Romano-British, 4th century CE
British Museum (Treasure Trove PRB 1946,1007.7)
Graflex Crown Graphic
Kodak Ektar 127mm f/4.7
Kodak T-Max 100
f/14
1" shutter (so I could manually fire my flash)
1 bare flash from camera top right
Cactus V5 transceivers
Kodak D-76 developer
Durst Laborator 138 enlarger
Schneider Componon 210mm lens
Beseler #2 filter
Ilford MGIV VC RC glossy paper
Kodak Dektol
CanoScan 9000F mark II
Here's a view of Locomotive 487 taking our Flanger outfit west across the Rt. 285 crossing (MP 280.86), adjacent to the yard in Antonito. As you can see, the weather on the second day of our charter was just glorious.
This image was captured during a March 2016 photo shoot organized by the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
When the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec planned this flanger charter, the goal had been to reach Sublette. When a similar charter was done a year before, reaching Sublette was quite an accomplishment, as the snows had been very deep. Because there was a lot less snow in 2016, we reached Sublette earlier than planned. Since water was available, and there were indications of deeper snow just beyond Sublette, the directors of our charter called an audible and decided to proceed west for a mile or so and see if we could find some additional plowing opportunities.
As you can see in the image above, it didn't take long to get into some deep stuff. Here, the 487 is bucking the drifts and occasionally slipping her tires as she heads uphill just past MP 306. I just happened to be in the forward part of the open gondola and was able to capture this image of Flanger OJ pushing back the deepest snow we encountered on the trip.
Steel hub with Villiers fixed cog and Regina 14-28 freewheel. Rebuilt onto Dunlop Special Lightweight chromed steel rims with chrome double-butted spokes by Big Al at Wheelcraft, Clachan of Campsie.