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Team mates try to console Ne-Lok when he proves to be a sore loser after his first time as goalie in a game of Tarave, ends in a 1-nil loss.

 

Been wanting to do this shoot for a while now, today was 'warm' enough to do it. Well done Marian for braving the freezing water! This is quite a romantic and nostalgic idea...underlining the fact that loosing the perceptions of childhood is a bad idea! ;)

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A collab with Theo (their instagram) for the 'Labor of Love' category in Brickscalibur.

 

"Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

 

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

 

Vanishing Nature=our Vanishing Selves...

 

Monarch Butterflies are now officially endangered...

 

Firle Place is a Manor house in Firle, East Sussex, United Kingdom and is the family seat of Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage, whose family the Viscounts Gage have owned the land at Firle since acquiring it from the Levett family in the 15th century. The manor house was first built in the late 15th century by Sir John Gage, who made Firle Place his principal home. He held many high offices, including Constable of the Tower and was an executor of Henry VIII's will.

 

The external cladding of the building is Georgian, using Caen Stone to make it look like a classical French Chateau. This work was completed by Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet who inherited the house in 1713 and the house is set in typically open parkland. The interior of the house however is Tudor in style and circulates around a central courtyard. The house has an extensive collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture, including works by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Van Dyck, Raphael, Puligo, Zoffany and Teniers.

 

During World War I, students from the nearby Southover Manor School in Lewes were housed here, and during World War II, Canadian soldiers were quartered here.

 

Open to the public during the summer months, the house and grounds area also used as a film and television location, it has featured in shows, including the BBC's Jonathan Creek and the three-part miniseries The Line of Beauty. BBC's Bake Off Creme de la Creme Series 2 which aired in 2017.

 

Since the 15th century the Gages have lived at Firle, following the marriage of William Gage to Agnes Bolney whose family had previously owned the seat at Firle. (The Bolneys held the lordship of Firle briefly after acquiring it from the bankrupt lord of the manor Thomas Levett.) This holding was further expanded by their son Sir John Gage who inherited land belonging to his father-in-law, Sir Thomas St Clere. In 1479 a second John Gage was born and it was he who became the ward to the Duke of Buckingham when his father died in 1497.

 

Sir John became quite prominent at the court of King Henry VIII and even accompanied the king on an expedition to France. Following such campaigns and his competence in battle he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain to the King. Sir John also served as a key figure in the dissolution of the monasteries in Sussex, despite the fact that he remained a Catholic.

 

Sir John's son, Edward, later became a Knight of the Bath and the Sheriff of Sussex and in 1556 oversaw the execution of the 17 "Sussex Martyrs" during the Marian Persecutions of 1555–57.

 

The Gage Baronet was created by John Gage (d. 1633) in 1622. The 7th Baronet, Sir William Gage (1695–1744), was notable for his interest in cricket, particularly in Sussex. It is often thought that beginnings of what is now Firle Cricket Club started with Sir William. In 1754 this Baronet title was raised by Irish-born Thomas Gage to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Gage and Viscount Gage.

 

Another notable Gage is General Thomas Gage who was made Commander in Chief of the British forces in North America. However, following the outbreak of the American War of Independence, he was relatively successful but after disastrous losses at Battle of Bunker Hill he was replaced. His son, also called Thomas Gage (1781–1820), following what was now a family tradition was a botanist and traveller and had the Gagea genus of flower named after him.

 

The current Viscount Gage, Henry Nicholas Gage, lives at Firle. For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firle_Place and firle.com/

   

Pan Am's flag fell today but just shy of two years ago we lost this road to another Class 1 buyout. I'd respectfully argue this was the bigger loss. I only got to see it once, and just days before the buyout at that. I'm sooo glad I made the effort in the midst of covid to go see then for the first and last time. Here is another frame from that day and the caption I wrote at the time with something I shared long ago:

 

Central Maine and Quebec Railway westbound Job 1 is departing Jackman at MP 73.6 on the Moosehead Subdivision with the Canadian crew on board having just swapped out with the crew that brought the train over from Brownville Jct. At left is the original Canadian Pacific station erected in 1910, now unused and derelict it amazingly was a stop for VIA Rail's Atlantic until 1994.

 

I was fortunate to photograph three trains on the Moosehead this day including this Job 1 with pure CMQ power, an SD40-2F "barn" and both of the road's AC400CWs. Job 2 featured a tired CP AC4400CW leader, a CMQ barn, another CP unit and a leader geep.

 

This would be my first and last chance to photograph the CMQ Railway on their last weekend of existence as the Canadian Pacific is taking back over their historic property on June 4th. And while it is going to be sad to see the CMQ go I suppose if anyone was to have to take over it is kind of nice to see a Class 1 return to Maine and on a line that was historically their own.

 

Construction began in 1886 on the International Railway of Maine (a CPR subsidiary) and was completed in June 1889. This route in conjunction with the purchase of several smaller roads to the east and the west in Canada and trackage rights over the Maine Central's former Eurpean & North American Railway line between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. This route across Maine gave CPR access to the ice free port of St. John, New Brunswick and made the road a true Transcontinental System.

 

For the next century the line would be an important link in CPR's network and as late as 1974 they continued to invest in the property when they purchased the former E&NA route that they had maintained trackage rights on for 85 years between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. However, within a decade CP Rail was seeing dramatic declines in traffic on its eastern lines and in 1988 the CP created an internal shortline known as the Canadian Atlantic Railway to operate all lines east of Megantic, QC in Maine, New Brunswick, & Nova Scotia. Over the next few years nearly all the branch lines in those two provinces were abandoned. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP Rail to apply for abandonment with U.S. and Canadian regulators, however the company was denied in lieu of selling the track to another operator. Several short line railroad companies subsequently entered into negotiations with CP Rail to purchase the entire CAR.

 

Negotiations for purchasing the lines in New Brunswick, Maine and Quebec with the short line operators fell through in early 1994 and CP Rail reapplied for abandonment of its line across Maine between Saint John and Megantic, later extended west to Lennoxville. An abandonment date of December 31, 1994, was established should no purchaser be found in the interim.

 

Ultimately in January 1995 two buyers were found which kept the historic route intact but split it between two operators. All trackage east of Brownville Jct. became the property of J.D. Erving limited which operated the lines seamlessly as the Eastern Maine Railway and New Brunswick Southern Railway.

 

Meanwhile the Moosehead Subdivision to the west and the CP lines in Quebec were sold to the Iron Road Railways which operated them as subsidiary Canadian American. Iron Road would also come to purchase other CP lines in Quebec and Vermont as well as the entire the Bangor and Aroostook system creating a more than 800 mile long system. However, this network would prove no more viable to Iron Roads than it was to CP and by 2002 Iron Roads was bankrupt.

 

In January 2003 Ed Burkhart's Rail World Inc. purchased the assets and created the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway to operate them. A bit over a decade later the MMA was itself bankrupt following the horrifying disaster at Lac Megantic. In March 2014, Fortress Investment's newly formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway acquired the line from the bankruptcy trustee. Having grown business and upgraded the physical plant to again make the road financially viable Fortress put it up for sale and in a strange turn of events Canadian Pacific was the winning bidder. So 32 years after CP first spun it off into Canadian Atlantic and three more operators after that, they are back on their historic home territory! What a strange twist.

 

Jackman, Maine

Saturday May 30, 2020

Another take I didn't use for the 'Emotions' week. It's taken in a church, and the pews are burning.

 

In Innsmouth.

Thanks to Trisste's brushes for the flames!

 

Loss or Win?

 

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Falls Psychologie interessiert::

 

Thema: Versager – Verlierer

Psychologische Ebene – mystische Ebene.

Spekulationen über die Unterschiede zwischen Versagen und Entsagen.

 

Als ich als junger Mann einen Kursus in französischer Sprache abbrach, weil mein innerer Antrieb nicht ausreichte, Vokabeln zu lernen, fühlte ich mich als Versager. Ich bestrafte mich damit, auf einen Urlaub zu verzichten. Dem Vergnügen zu entsagen fiel mir nicht leicht, doch gelegentlich machte ich ernsthafte Versuche, mich zu disziplinieren.

Ich bin von Natur aus ein Chaot und habe Schwierigkeiten mit Disziplin und Ordnung. Dennoch sehe ich den Sinn in diesen Kräften und rebelliere daher nicht wirklich gegen Strukturen und Hierarchien. Allerdings bin ich ein Kämpfer für die Freiheit des Individuums, wobei ich die Freiheit von den Ketten der inneren Unbewusstheit meine.

 

Äußere Gegebenheiten und körperliche Freiheit sind ein Thema, welches auf der Alltagsebene eine große Bedeutung hat. Psychologische Freiheit ist die Fähigkeit, einen bewussten Umgang mit seinen Emotionen zu finden und sich von seinen Süchten und Neurosen zu emanzipieren. Und auf der mystischen Ebene des Bewusstseins geht es um den Einsatz wirksamer Maßnahmen, um im meditativen, herzlichen und bewussten Geisteszustand verweilen zu können.

 

Daher unterscheide ich grundsätzlich drei Ebenen bezüglich den geistigen und körperlichen Interessen. Die Alltagsebene des Bewusstseins ist auf den materiellen Bereich fokussiert. Man kümmert sich um Handel, Wandel, Familie und Politik. Die psychologische Ebene ruft ein starkes Interesse an Selbsterforschung hervor. Die mystische Ebene setzt die gewonnene Selbsterkenntnis in die Praxis um.

 

Wenn Versagen und Entsagen aus der mystischen Perspektive beleuchtet werden, ändert sich die Einstellung zu den Worten. Versagen hat dann nichts mehr mit Schimpf und Schande zu tun, vielmehr erkennt der höhere Überblick über das Leben, dass man sich (zum Beispiel durch unbewusste Entscheidungen) den Erfolg in bestimmten Bereichen versagt.

Das Versagen wird deutlich, wenn Bemühungen, die aufgrund gesellschaftlicher Anpassung vorgenommen werden, scheitern. Und sie scheitern, weil ein Erfolg auf dieser Ebene in die falsche Richtung führen würde.

 

Sollte der mystische Zustand das Ziel der langen Lebensreise sein, wird das junge Ego sehr schnell erfolgreich sein und sehr schnell scheitern. Langfristiger Erfolg führt zu bestimmten Lebensverhältnissen, daher wird das Versagen immer dort auftauchen, wo sich das Ego aufbauen oder festklammern könnte.

Wo das Ich im Alltag versagt, hat die Seele entsagt. Die Seele oder der Wesenskern, weiß, warum er einer bestimmten Beziehung die Fortdauer versagt. Gescheiterte Beziehungen entstehen durch das wertende Bewusstsein, durch das Ego. Sein kurzfristiger Blick hat keinen Überblick über die Notwendigkeit des Wandels. Das kann sich wandeln.

 

Heute bin ich mir sehr bewusst darüber, warum bestimmte Projekte in meinem Leben scheiterten. Auch das Projekt, Französisch zu lernen. Auch gewisse Verhältnisse, ob freundschaftliche oder Arbeitsverhältnisse.

Die Demontage des Ego-Bewusstseins reiht während einer gewissen Phase im Leben ein Scheitern an das nächste. Doch was als Verlust und Demütigung erfahren wird, bezieht sich auf die Ansprüche und Vorstellungen des Egos. Das Ego möchte in der Alltagswelt erfolgreich sein und gewinnen. Ist es das, und bleibt es das, kann es diese Ebene nicht mehr ohne ein bremsendes Ereignis (Schicksalsschlag) verlassen.

Erfolg verblendet, jedoch nur auf der Alltagsebene und der psychologischen. Erfolg führt zu verstärkten Aktivitäten im Alltag und bindet das Bewusstsein daran. Das heißt, die Inhalte des Bewusstseins werden laufend durch äußere Ereignisse bestimmt. In der Regel hat man viel zu tun, wenn man erfolgreich ist.

Der Mann am Wasser dagegen hat nicht viel zu tun. Das ist sein größter Erfolg: Freiheit. Er darf einfach nur da sein. Er erwartet nichts und es wird nichts von ihm erwartet. Er hat sein Leben vereinfacht. Sobald der Impuls kommt, dreht er sich um und geht nach Hause. Und vielleicht besucht er auf dem Weg noch die Hühner im Stall.

Die Ebene des Alltags ist für ihn die mystische geworden. Erfolg und Misserfolg sind verschwunden. Handlungen geschehen aus dem Augenblick heraus. Erfolgreiche. Gelegentlich spiegelt sich das auf der Alltagsebene. Die psychologische Sicht hat die Gefahren des Ego-Stolzes (Sünde) erkannt und nährt ihn daher nicht. Sich stark entwickelnder und unbewusst bleibender Stolz ist Gift für den mystischen Bewusstseinszustand.

Stolz ist eine Motivationskraft, die blitzschnell auftauchen kann. Nationalstolz bricht hervor bei jedem neuen Sieg der deutschen Fußballnationalmannschaft. Stolz auf die Familientradition, Stolz auf die eigenen Leistungen, überall taucht die Energie auf und verdunkelt den Geist, natürlich nur aus der mystischen Sicht.

Auf der Alltagsebene ist Stolz eine ganz natürliche Sache, selbst der Umstand, dass ehrgeizige Kämpfe durch ihn entbrennen, liegt völlig in der Ordnung der Dinge. Ehrgeiz und Stolz sind mächtige Antriebsfedern und ein guter Coach weiß, wie er seine Mannschaft anfeuern kann: Indem er sie bei der Ehre packt.

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Digital Art – own resources

 

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A disused rural church in Wairarapa, New Zealand.

This is a 12-frame panorama of the Milky Way taken at an abandoned house in central Oregon. These places always remind me of the loss of a way of life, along with the upheaval of families and their lives. That, in a nutshell, is my existence right now, and this theme resonates strongly, day or night.

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Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

  

What they eat:

 

Seeds and scraps.

  

Measurements:

 

Length:14-15cm

Wingspan:21-25.5cm

Weight:24-38g

  

Population:

 

UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs

  

Where and when to see them

 

House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.

  

Breeding

 

House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.

  

How house sparrows nest

 

Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.

 

Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!

 

The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.

  

About house sparrow chicks

 

The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.

 

The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.

 

The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.

 

Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.

  

Population trends

  

The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.

  

The recent decline of house sparrows

 

UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.

 

Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.

 

Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.

 

House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.

  

Relations with humans and other animals

 

People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.

Their relationship with humans

People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.

 

The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.

 

Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.

  

How sparrows behave with other animals

 

Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.

 

Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.

 

Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.

 

Luftbild von der Baustelle der neuen Zufahrt zum Campeon in Unterbiberg

Beautiful mourning lady at Pragfriedhof, Stuttgart, Germany.

The river "Dinkel" has completely burst its banks.

This is in the area of ​​Losser near the German border.

The top of Whernside was covered by clouds when we stopped near the Ribblehead Viaduct, which is at the head of Ribblesdale on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales. This railway viaduct carries the Carlisle to Settle line, and is possibly the most famous viaduct in England.

 

It dates from the 1870s when hundreds of railway builders ("navvies") lost their lives building the line, from a combination of accidents, fights, and smallpox outbreaks. In particular, building the Ribblehead (then Batty Moss) viaduct, with its 24 massive stone arches 104 feet above the moor, caused such loss of life that the railway paid for an expansion of the local graveyard.

 

Grandson Leo Found His Cap ... Two Days Later

As temperatures drop in late autumn and winter, small mammals become less active. Less active prey make a lot less noise and are therefore much harder for Barn Owls to find and catch. Barn Owls are poorly insulated and need extra energy (food) during cold weather to make up for an increased loss of body heat. In winter then, food is generally harder to find at a time when Barn Owls need it most.

When I got up to the top of the complex by car, I realized that it was fashionable to go on foot only by elevator. But he was hidden behind the door, which I did not immediately find ... What was behind the door made my hand reach for the camera ...

 

According to C G Jung's studies, synchronicity manifests itself everywhere in a few hours the world will be shown events on television .... On April 15, 2019, there was a strong fire in the cathedral which caused the loss of the spire, the clock and the roof.The framework of the building was saved .French architect Jean-Michel Wilmott said that the cost of restoring the burnt-out Notre Dame de Paris would be about one billion euros .

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Beauty lies within the eyes of the beholder. You are the beholder.

 

Collaboration with the beautiful eva, titled "Innocence". Too see her interpretation click here.

I wanted to stray away from the initial thought of Innocence and interpret this into a 'loss of innocence'.

Not a day goes by when I don’t blame myself that maybe I could have done something different to save her ... miss my dog 1.14.17 💔

Silver drops on ivy

Whistling wind wildly

Heart shaped leaves remind me

Sadness passes nightly

 

Rays creep in lightly

Illuminate the sky widely

Silver drops slide quietly, they remind me

Joy returns..

Brightly

 

Poem ~ Nefise Hussein

Canon T90+IlfordXP2

 

Hidden Valley - Joshua Tree National Park

... the overpowering sense of isolation felt and needed when faced with the loss of a loved one.

 

The silhouette is from an image dating back to 2015 of someone alone at the edge of a pier shrouded in fog and whom later on I found out she was grieving the sudden loss of a close friend.

 

As with all my work, all images used are my own.

September 1979: Huntington Park High School players Ricky Walker, (21), Jorge Bravo, (61), and Luis Rendon during 34-13 loss to Bell High School.

Often trade entrances into cities in Historica are modest affairs... not so however in Sultan's Gate! The cities strategic location has seen flourishing trade, which has made some merchants very rich indeed. This allowed the powerful merchant's guild to commission the lift many years before, completed in the grand style to advertise the wealth and power of the city. Goods that are perishable or particularly valuable are often sent by lift to avoid the treacherous climb up the escarpment. The lift is very safe with only a few losses, mainly from overbearing merchants ordering it's use on high wind days. (A local legend has it that a giant roc once bit through the lift chain and made off with the entire box, but this has never been substantiated.) A ride in the lift to the ground and back again is a rite of passage for many of the young thrillseekers in the city, who often try to stow away or bribe the guards for the experience.

 

Finally got around to taking and editing some pics of my Brickvention model for this year - which was originally going to be my entry into the Sultan's Gate community build on GoH (last year!), but then life happened and suddenly it was 6 months later. :P The lift actually is remote controlled using PF, which was fun to build and operate. Sorry the pics aren't that good but this was quite a challenge to photograph - significant height and length taxed my home set-up, and the large area of white didn't make things easy either.

This is a photograph that is very personal to me. I have spent a lot of time in Cuba over the past few years and I came across someone there that ended up becoming the most important person in my life, besides my family... In Spanish one's soul mate is often referred to as 'media naranja' or 'half orange'. Over the past while all has gone topsy-turvy with mine, and the sense of loss I am feeling is almost overwhelming. If two halves make a whole and one half is disintegrating away...how can you continue as a whole person if half of you is missing...?

 

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Abraham's lost something. Wonder where it could be?

Garlnash "The Red Bearun" Bonesnapper seems to have lost his steering. Will he make it out alive (again)?!?!

 

Bricksafe Gallery

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Inspired by the Flyboyz from Warhammer 40k. I'm probably going to actually come back and build the plane over again when I'm not working for a contest that I forgot about.

 

Built for MOC League 2023

Round 2

Theme - Falling with Style

For Bisi..

 

There's always a better place.

Lost and #rejected.

 

I find this pic I took while ago before I decided to upload stuff from prequel trilogy, somehow strong scene in the movie, simple image.

Hope you like it ;)

In de Amsterdamse Houtrakpolder werd ten noorden van de Transit Terminal Amsterdam (TTA) / United Stevedores Amsterdam (USA) in 2001 de Paragon Terminal (Amsterdam Container Terminal; ACT) aangelegd. De ACT kenmerkt zich door de mogelijkheid zeeschepen aan beide kanten tegelijk te laden/lossen. Een ruime spooraansluiting completeert het geheel.

 

In 2003 werd Paragon overgenomen door de Japanse rederij Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line (NYK Line), maar pas in 2006 begon Rail4Chem een containershuttle op het bij Duisburg gelegen Rheinhausen. De treinen waren grotendeels beladen met blauwe NYK containers. In de periode 2006-2009 varieerde het aantal treinen tussen de 3 en 6 keer per week. Begin 2010 werd de aanvoer van containers per schip beëindigd en daarmee kwam ook een einde aan de "NYK- shuttles".

 

In 2008 was Rail4Chem inmiddels opgegaan in ITL Benelux. ITL had vier 186'ers tot haar beschikking voor het rijden van de meeste treinen. De 186 148 was op zondag 7 december 2008 onderweg met een NYK-containertrein naar Rheinhausen als het tussen de buien door bij Utrecht Lunetten aansluiting kruis passeert op weg naar Emmerich. Vanwege de aanleg van de viersporigheid tussen Utrecht en Houten is dit punt inmiddels volledig voltooid verleden tijd.

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