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I'm downloaded daily. I am part of a composite. I'm upgraded daily, All my wires without traces. I'm hooked into machine. We live in the future. The future. It's here, It's bright, It's Now. We're being hooked into machines.
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As I snapped this shot, I imagined the amount of noise that would've been occurring while in production. To stand there listening, and not hearing a sound from all these machines is mind blowing.
Today's Steam Sunday offering is another frame from this classic Connecticut scene from a fun Saturday on a lovely late summer afternoon.
I swung by Essex to check out the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Society train show and then after cooling off with a beer at Surfridge Brewing I headed to the only spot on the railroad where you can photograph a train on a sunny day.
The last regularly scheduled northbound is the 2 PM train but they have to deadhead back later to pick up the passengers who opted for the boat trip on the Connecticut River. Normally it wouldn't head back up until about 3:50 PM but it left 20 minutes earlier and was flying white flags as it had what appeared to be a wedding party on board that would be dropped off somewhere along the line before the train returned for its regular scheduled return passengers.
The wide open field surrounded by a bend in the Falls River at about MP 4.5 on the line has been a popular photo location for generations and is always worth a visit. This day Valley Railroad 2-8-2 'Mikado' #40 was doing the duties handling the six car train. Built by ALCO at their Dunkirk (N.Y.) works in August 1920, this locomotive has had a long and interesting career. It was one of an order for three identical units constructed for The Portland, Astoria & Pacific Railroad to haul train loads of logs and lumber. Unfortunately, the PA&P was never completed so the locomotives sat idle until they were sold to other railroads. No. 101 (our locomotive) was sold to the Minarets & Western Railway for similar service. When that railroad could not pay it’s debts, the locomotive was given to the Southern Pacific Railroad, which sold it to a used locomotive dealer which in turn sold it to The Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad in North Carolina as their No. 40.
On the A&R it pulled freight and passenger trains until about 1950 when it was retired and stored in their engine house. Here it remained until it was discovered by an employee of the Valley Railroad. It was purchased in 1977 and loaded onto flat cars for it’s trip to Essex where it has been for the past four decades.
Information above courtesy of the Valley Railroad web site and more history can be found here:
essexsteamtrain.com/about/history/
Essex, Connecticut
Saturday September 9, 2023
Latest addition to my Crocs cycle gang.
Dithered over the name of this one forever. Wanted "___-dozer," but I couldn't get it to work. Killdozer? Taken. Rolldozer? Stupid. Etc.
There are lots of crazy vending machines in Japan, but I find it hard to believe that a machine that only sells Sriracha can be profitable.
new photo from the 'lime plant'
www.out-of-memory.eu/Abandoned_Tour_14/LimePlant_Building...
more from my ABANDONED places tour '14:
www.out-of-memory.eu/Abandoned_Tour_14/Abandoned_Tour_201...
more on my URBEX page:
Our son was born with a coarctation of his aorta, which required surgery when he was 13 days old. It was a sudden thing for us. Jen was taking him to his first doctor's well-visit, and less than 24 hours later he was in the operating room, having the narrow part of his aorta snipped out, and the loose ends reconnected. Now he's two-and-a-half years old and aside from the one-inch scar on his back, there's no way anyone would know that there was ever anything wrong with him.
This photo was taken the night before his surgery, hooked up to the respirator, various monitors, and other assorted machines.
There's more photos of him on Jen's Flickr photostream.
....with a difference. Vending machines are a bit thin on the ground around here so Ive had to be inventive yet again.
Today the We're Here group members are using vending machines
A board from the PCB Order, designed by Levi Luckenbaugh.
I love the idea of circuit board as machine.
It looks like the Mystery Machine from the Scooby Doo series has been hoisted up on massive tires!
Taken in northwestern Alabama.
A lone figure watches the chemical tanker 'Bonar Quest' into the lock at Barry Docks as it departs, having offloaded into the Dow Corning chemical works.
The nose of the ship, oddly, has an imprint as if the last man to do this was splatted againt the very nose of the prow.
First sketches and models for the Time Machine, a new interactive art project created by Pataphysical Studios.
In this brainstorm session, each team member sketched out their own ideas, then discussed them with the group, to design our upcoming time travel experience together.
Next, we plan to create a composite design with some of these ideas, to integrate them into a single blueprint.
To be continued ...
View more 'Pataphysical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157623637793277
View our Time Machine slides:
docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y-0SCKxvIOaM8wnz6h9TRl1Ek...
View more Time Machine photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659761749014
Learn more about Pataphysical Studios: pataphysics.us/
Kraków
A tamping machine or ballast tamper is a machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks more durable. Prior to the introduction of mechanical tampers, this task was done by manual labour with the help of beaters. As well as being faster, more accurate, more efficient and less labour-intensive, tamping machines are essential for the use of concrete sleepers since they are too heavy (usually over 250 kg (551 lb)) to be lifted by hand. Whilst also available as a plain tamper with no lifting or lining function this article will focus on the multi function machines.
Early machines only lifted the track and packed the ballast. More modern machines, sometimes known as a tamper-liner or tamping and lining machine, also correct the alignment of the rails to make them parallel and level, in order to achieve a more comfortable ride for passengers and freight and to reduce the mechanical strain applied to the rails by passing trains. This is done by finding places where the sleepers have sunk from the weight of the passing trains or frost action, causing the track to sag. The tamper lifts each sleeper and the rails up, and packs ballast underneath. When the sleeper is laid down again, the sagged rails now sit at the proper level. In cases where frost action has caused adjacent rails to rise higher, ballast tampers can raise rails above their original level to make the line level again. "Lining" rails doesn't involve ballast tamping, it merely ensures the rails are perfectly parallel and straight as possible. Combining tamping and lining into a single machine saves time and money, as only one machine needs to be run over the track to perform both functions.