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I read about drawing a Frankie over here:
So did a pencil sketch of one for this:
apatchworkofflesh.blogspot.com/
But will have to do a tiny version...
Another from this fabulous day out chasing the 470 Railroad Club special from Conway to Fabyans and back with 9 cars behind Boston and Maine F7s 4266 and 4268. I did this spot last year and it turned out to be one of my all time favorite shots on the mountain. If you missed it you can find it here: flic.kr/p/2nVMnrk
Since it wasn't sunny this year and you couldn't see the summit of Mount Washington I skipped the big photo line on the inside of the curve and tried a new angle on the outside of the curve. Here they are slowly crossing headed east downgrade across the 500 ft long and 80 ft high Frankenstein Trestle near MP 79.5 on the former Maine Central Railroad Mountain Subdivision.
Both units are owned by the 470 Railroad Club and are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1757 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Addendum: thanks to Carl Byron for supplying the fascinating historical information below that I'd never read about before.
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a slightly used demo price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
Crawford Notch State Park
Hart's Location, New Hampshire
Saturday October 28, 2023
Here's another take I really like from Conway Scenic Railroad's annual 470 Railroad Club special excursion. This telephoto view captures them headed east downgrade as they curl across the 500 ft long and 80 ft high Frankenstein Trestle near MP 79.5 on the former Maine Central Railroad Mountain Subdivision.
As for the train, both units are owned by the 470 Railroad Club and are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1751 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Crawford Notch State Park
Hart's Location, New Hampshire
Saturday October 22, 2022
Shot on the FUJIFILM Instax 200 Camera loaded with FUJI INSTAX WIDE Monochrome Film and scanned on the HP Photosmart C4400.
The Conway Scenic's extra to Whitefield crosses the Frankenstein Trestle. Ex B&M 4266 leads the climb to Crawford with ex MEC 252 behind.
"One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology. Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable. To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body."
I loved the obsessiveness and intense hubris of the young Frankenstein in his studies, I tried to evoke those things here. The lighting is suggested to come from a high window on top left; one thing I need to try going forward is using small LEDs for candles and lamps to give a more realistic and intimate lighting effect. For now, I'm enjoying simulating the mood without trying to acheive it directly, but it would be interesting to see how the S& camera goes with small LEDs in a Lego scene.
Here's another frame of this scene, in color this time, of the 470 Railroad Club's annual photo special on the Conway Scenic Railroad. Like in years past the train departed North Conway at 9 AM for a six mile run down the ex Boston and Maine Conway Branch to end of track where the power was run around. Then they returned north seven miles to Intervale where they entered the former Maine Central Mountain Subdivision for a 28 mile run west to Fabyans.
As always the club showcased their historic ex B&M F7s but this year they were joined by a special addition in the form of spectacularly restored GP9 1741 resplendent in its as delivered McGinnis 'bluebird' livery. Built in July 1957 as part of a 50 unit order that included trade in credit to EMD on the pioneering fleet of FT A-B locomotives this unit passed to Guilford and later became Springfield Terminal 72. One of the last three in service it was sold to the Heber Valley Railroad in 2017 along with her two heritage painted sisters. While they moved west to new careers this unit lanquished at Waterville where I saw her in 2020: flic.kr/p/2j8F2Jk not long after she was purchased by the 470 Club and in May 2021 made the trip to North Conway where restoration work began in earnest. To read a bit more and see a pic of her in B&M days check out this article.
railfan.com/historical-group-saves-boston-maine-gp9/
As for her older siblings, the Fs are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1751 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
The following additional information is courtesy of Carl Byron:
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a slightly used demo price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
The trio are seen here leading the nine car special curling across the 500 ft long and 80 ft high Frankenstein Trestle westbound near MP 79.5 on the former Maine Central Railroad Mountain Subdivision as they ascend the grade through Crawford Notch. Once they reach the 1900 ft crest of the climb at the station they will have ascended some 1400 ft in the approximately 24 miles from North Conway.
To support the ongoing upkeep of this unit and to thank the club for their tremendous efforts in real substantive rail preservation I encourage you to make a donation here:
Crawford Notch State Park
Town of Hart's Location, New Hampshire
Saturday November 2, 2024
Gruuuuuselig!!! Wenn ich‘s nicht wüsste, würde ich sagen, das ist eine Gehirnwäsche-Apparatur.
So, nun dürft Ihr erstmal raten was das für ein tolles Ding ist!
It lives! It lives! IT LIVES! 😜😋😵💫😬😎😇
(Making the Frankenstein 'MONSTER', that is)
Starring-Boris Karloff as the Frankenwrench Monster-
Also-Colin Clive as the ever so dubious Dr. Henry Frankentool-
Introducing-"Bob" as the gear...
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.
Victor Frankenstein
In this picture I wanted to use the glass pipes and condensers on the left as an allegory of the divine power that Frankenstein sought, contrasted with the messy and chaotic room on the right representing the natural world. Afternoon light shines upon the room yet it's the elegant glassware in the shadows that Victor is fixated upon.
I love that quote from the book, to me it perfectly and chillingly defines his megalomania and hubris. Frankenstein eventually (spoiler alert!) succeeds in creating a rational, sensitive lifeform and yet it's only failing, the creature's appearance, is enough for Victor to abandon his creation to a life of misery and loneliness.
Die Kirche des 1185 erstmals genannten Dorfs Frankensteins zwischen Oederan und Freiberg geht auf einen romanischen Bau zurück, der nach Zerstörungen im Dreißigjährigen Krieg erneuert wurde. 1747-51 wurde die Kirche durch den Freiberger Baumeister Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff in den jetzigen Zustand gebracht. Die barocken Formen wurden durch den, allerdings erst 1821 geschaffenen Turmabschluss, abgerundet.
My entry for the Eurobricks Collectable LEGO Minifigures Series 4 Building Contest. Basically, you have to make an 8x8 vignette that one of the new minifigs from Series 4 would look good in, without actually using the minifig.
I like how this came out :)
Enjoy!
Conway Scenic Railroad's daily fall foliage notch train is seen returning east across Frankenstein Trestle in Crawford Notch in Harts Location NH
I immediately saw Frankenstein's monster in that ripped sticker. Only the left eye added , otherwise the shape is as it were.
Boris Karloff.
Completed at last.
Pencil drawing 20" x 18" on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper.
(HB, H, 3H 5H)
Based on a photo with kind permission Rick Baker.
My next project is writing a book!
"The Art of Drawing". Available Sept 2016, published by Arcturus Publishing, London. :) woo hoo!
Auf der weniger fotografierten Seite von Frankenstein (Pf) ist 181 224 mit D 2753 Trier – Stuttgart unterwegs.
Am 3. Juli 2022 durchfährt die 193 640 der TX Logistik mit dem „Mars-Zug“ das Örtchen Frankenstein mit Ziel Bettembourg.
Cette nuit était la nuit des fantômes et des morts vivants... J'ai donc eu droit à ma petite apparition!
Il s'agit d'une MH Frankenstein customisée par Esthy
It's time to give your creations life!!!
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