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Conrail Shared Assets train BA-3 shoves two boxcars down the Pier 18 Lead destined for Daily News in Liberty State Park. This job was normally serviced by the BA-27 at night, but with the 27 handling Global Container Terminal traffic now it seems that the BA-3 is the job that comes down here now. This lead is one of two tracks left in Liberty State Park (the other being the Philips Street Indsutrial) and the only one of the two that still sees service regularly.
Still a WIP, but majority of interior complete. Steps will lead down to sub-level with 'Seal pit' and sewer access, also housing vehicles...
4 BNSF units lead a long priority intermodal around the Corva horseshoe curve. A thunderstorm moves in from the south making sunlight slim. We got pretty lucky here as a gap in the clouds alloowed for some sunshine before the storm clouds moved in.
Klondyke Mill was an ore processing mill on the edge of the Gwydir Forest, near Trefriw, north Wales.
Constructed in 1900,[1] the mill was built to receive lead ore (and some zinc ore) from Pandora mine, some 2 miles away – with which its history is inextricably linked – this ore travelling along a tramway which followed the eastern shore of Llyn Geirionydd. The mill saw little usage; Pandora mine was never profitable after construction of the mill, and the mine ceased operation in 1905. Klondyke mill itself closed in 1911 after having a short succession of optimistic owners.
In the 1920s, the mill achieved notoriety as the scene of an elaborate money-making scam, when investors were sought for the Klondyke mine, which was allegedly rich in silver. It is this scam which gives the mill its current name; during its years of operation it was initially known as Geirionydd Mill, then as the New Pandora Lead Works.[1]
Today the mill lies in a ruined state, a tribute to the false optimism of the time, and is believed to be the largest upstanding building associated with lead mining in north Wales.[2] It is a registered ancient monument [3][4] and, despite its state of disrepair, is under the guardianship of Cadw, the only mine structure in the Gwydir Forest to be so designated.
A little further up Shale Creek, we could now hear the waterfall but not quite see. That moment that is universally special and sacred to waterfall enthusiasts. I had never seen anything like those celestial light shafts and will probably never see anything like them again. It was so great to share that experience with Joe and Alicia (wnywaterfallers)!
NO INVITES OR ICONS PLEASE
While I took pictures to Synnye, Aleixandre was looking at me from the shelf. He's irresistible ...so I couldn't resist myself to take a photo: P
I want to dedicate this photo to MeilaChan, because she tagged Aleix ^__^
Despite the numerous assurances that they are open and have gas, the 24 hour pumps in Leador appear to be abandoned. However, they are not. The signage is correct, though you really have to be on the look out for gas pumps to find them.
They're sort of around the side.
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'Drew Near'
Camera: Canonet QL-17 G-III
Film: Kodak Plus X (x-06/2001)
Process: HC-110B; 5min
Leador, Idaho
And now here's a better look at Collin's awesome work. When Billy and I were making Linda's Rifle, I wanted to give her something to sorta contrast this. She would have a long-range, super-powerful semi auto cannon, while J gets a fast crowd-controlling bullet firehose. Her rifle was also designed to look more refined and sophisticated (as sophisticated as a 7-foot long murdercannon can be anyway) compared to the brutal and dirty-looking minigun. As for what this thing has going for it I'd say it's not that different from real-life miniguns besides the man-portability and obviously lightweight. Probably fires some armor-piecing rounds a bit bigger than what would be found in your standard-issue ARs, 2500 RPM, the works. The main thing I wanted done with this when I sent it to Collin was a proper ammo box since I could never get it right on my own. I also know a man-portable minigun is seriously unrealistic, but fuck realism. Nothing but a killjoy. Also, while the minigun is all Collin's work with some of my input, the helmet was a gift from cmorgenweck (though I whipped up that damaged visor myself)
Riccardo, lead guitar dei The Leeches in concerto il 17 Novembre 2017 al Raindogs House di Savona.
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PS: Mi scuso con gli amici e i visitatori, ma sono costretta a venirvi a trovare solo un po' per volta, oggi un pacchetto di voi, domani un altro eccetera...
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Lead has been used in many Indian and African traditional remedies for centuries with varying degrees of success and failure.
Most pencils now contain no lead but it is etched in British culture. Thanks for viewing.
Marc Grinter posted a photo yesterday of BN 8073 laying on its side after derailing. I thought that looks familiar and sure enough we were in Tehachapi on the same day in 1999. What makes the coincidence more interesting is that I shot the derailment while it was happening.
Here's PASBAR coming out of tunnel 10. I thought my day was off to a great start, sun was out, lead unit was clean! You can just see the nose of a BN unit coming into the scene, by the time they got about 10 car lengths ahead the third unit in the set was on its side and cars were derailing behind them.
NR40 crests the grade near Deep Lead loop with 7MA8.
The overland was under threat of cessation but the victorian government contributed the subsidy to enable the rail service to continue for another year
The story of Zircon Crystals and Earth's age in a Nutshell.
How tiny Zircon Crystals - Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) helped determine the age of the Earth (at approximately 4.5 Billion years old since the crust cooled), with Radiometric U-Pb (Uranium-Lead) dating.
Zircon Crystals trap Uranium Atoms in its crystal structure and naturally repel Lead Atoms when the crystal forms. Once the crystal structure is formed, nothing is able to escape. Over time the isotopes of Uranium start to transmutate into other elements in a process that is referred to as a decay chain.
An Uranium Atom first transmutates into a Thorium Atom (which takes a few billion years). Thorium is far more unstable, and in less than a month it turns into Protactinium. Within a minute Protactinium Atoms transmute again, and so the transmutation continues down the decay chain. At the end of the radioactive decay chain, the initial trapped Uranium Atoms finally decays into stable Lead (Pb) Atoms, which will remain Lead forever. The decay rate and time associated with each transmutation is constant in the Universe, which makes it possible to calculate the age of the crystal with Radiometric dating.
As Zircon Crystals are tough, it is the oldest geological time-capsules that survived in Earth's dynamic and ever-changing crust since it cooled. As nothing can get in or out of the Zircon Crystal structure, it is the most accurate way of geological dating.
By comparing the Uranium to Lead ratio in Zirconium silicate crystals on Earth, from Moon samples and from visiting Meteorites, Scientists were able to calculate that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. The error margin is 50 million years, which is small considering the time-scale.
The background history of Radiometric dating:
In 1896 Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie discovered that certain isotopes undergo spontaneous radioactive decay, transforming into new isotopes. Atoms of a parent radioactive isotope randomly decay into a daughter isotope. Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry for her work.
About Lead:
The spin-off from trying to date the Earth by finding the Uranium to Lead ratio in Zircon crystals, was that the Scientist Clair Patterson discovered the unusually high amount of toxic Lead in the environment when he tried to analyse the Zircon in a Mass Spectrometer. This was due to the widespread use of Lead-based fuel, Lead-based paint, etc.
Our bodies require metals like Iron in the blood to transfer Oxygen through the body. The body is fooled and assumes that Lead is a good metal, but Lead not only destroys cells, but also blocks the signals of Neuroreceptors in the Brain.
After a lifetime of persistence and mounting evidence, Clair Patterson eventually won the case against the large Oil Companies that tried to discredit his findings. Since then the widespread use of Lead in everyday products were banned (which is why we now use unleaded fuel to power our vehicles).
Interesting reading:
More about isotopes and the Radiometric dating process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_lead_dating
earthsky.org/earth/this-zircon-crystal-is-the-oldest-piec...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain
Thank you to Sumarie for letting photograph her beautiful Zircon Crystal specimen.
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Amtrak Vermonter 57 cruises to a stop at the station in White River Junction on a hot early-August morning in 2024. In the lead from Saint Albans as far as New Haven, Connecticut was AMTK 100, a GE P42DC wearing a special "Midnight Blue" paint scheme. Sitting beside it was the power for the NECR 600 and 601 jobs based out of WRJ.
Model:
Thaìs (Lilith Lead Singles, reroot and enhancement by me)
Fashion credits:
dress and shoes: Erin The Making Of
stockings: Barbie Top Model