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Red is the fire's common tint;
Refining these impatient ores
With hammer and with blaze,
Until the designated light
Repudiate the forge.
by Emily Dickinson
57313 speeds through Kirkstall Forge, Leeds with 5Z76 1300 York Yard North-Carnforth Steamtown e.c.s. running 65 minutes early. 57316 is at the rear.
That tower was one big monster. I hard a hard time getting it fully in frame while still being close enough.
I still have to slip the air blower tube out when I scoop out the ashes. I am looking for an old stainless steel deep sink to use next... the design keeps evolving.
5541 works away from Middle Forge Junction on the Dean Forest Railway shortly after sunrise on 11 November 2023.
Thanks to Mike Tyack and Mike Wathen for organising this charter.
Northern Rail Class 333 No. 333002 arrives at Kirkstall Forge station with 2P38, the 11:12 Leeds – Bradford Forster Square service on 9th November 2023.
40 hours later, The Forge is finally finished! So, what is The Forge? The Forge is a mobile asteroid mining and processing facility. It uses six tugs to collect asteroids and bring them to one of the six mining platforms near the front of the ship. The asteroids are then put through grinding drums that break them into smaller pieces. Next, any desired ore, minerals, etc. are removed from the fragments and the waste is jettisoned from the ship. The ore, minerals, etc. are sorted into seperate containers. Eight huge reinforced plates protect the shipping containers from rogue asteroids and open to allow a transport to collect them.
The two bridges share the workload of the ship. The rear bridge is in charge of piloting, navigation and shipping. The forward bridge handles the mining and processing operations.
Alright, time for some tech specs!
The forge measures in at a whopping 156 studs in length (The biggest SHIP I've ever built). She's 62 studs at the widest (26 at the thinnest) and 38 studs tall. I did have two big landing gears built into it but it got WAY too heavy for them, thus the stand. It also has motor-driven grinding drums in the mining platforms and the big grey button in the middle of the ship opens and closes the armored plates. The plates where also supposed to be motor-driven but I could get them working for the life of me. Oh well!
I hope you all enjoyed watching this beast going together as I had building it (even if I did shout some horrific profanities from time to time)! Thanks for watching and for all the support!
Roadside forge with a beatifully shaped doorway at Enniskerry, Wicklow. This forge was built around 1855 and is still there today. See the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage for more information on this lovely building.
Date: Circa 1940
NLI Ref.: VAL 205751