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A legend into the void.
With the Long Beach Light marking the edge of the breakwater, Guthorm Maersk begins it's two day journey north to Oakland under the cover of darkness. This is the first Maersk Ship I've seen with white lettering across the hull, a nice touch up from the heavy rust most of the pre 2010 ship have accumulated over the years at sea.
During winter, the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun, there are fewer daylight hours, and the sun hits us at an angle; this makes it appear lower in the sky. There is less heating because the angled sun's rays are “spread out” rather than direct. (Shadows are longer because of the lower angle of the sun.)
Source: journeynorth.org/tm/mclass/ReasonsBack.html
* Explore - February 8, 2022
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M4.48 class flare in AR12994.
10:05-10:12 UTC
TEC140 (125mm) / 4x TZ / SolarSpectrum / ASI174
Further down the Great Northern Navan - Oldcastle branch between Virginia Rd, Co Meath and Ballybeg, lay the relatively important Station in the town of Kells. Opened in 1853 and closed with the line in 1963, like many stations where buses replaced the railway service, the station became the local bus depot.
Bus Eireann’s & formally CIE 'M class’ buses are evident on local and school services in the yard, soon to go the way of the railway and as a depot in the next few years (1995)
Fuji Neopan - Nikkormat SLR - 28mm - Nikkor lens.
The Strasburg Rail Road's free-steaming N&W "Mollie" #475 lifts the pops as she takes the 11 AM passenger train across the little dirt farm road that is popularly known as the "Pumpkinville Turnpike." The locomotive, which just days before, had been involved in an unfortunate collision with some maintenance-of-way equipment, had just been freshly repaired by the railroad's shop forces and was clearly doing just fine, albeit with a few noticeable battle scars on her smokebox door. Apparently, most of the damage was to the smokebox front, with relatively minor damage inside. The front face, which was cast iron, was replaced with a robust-looking steel plate, while the smokebox door was salvaged and reconstructed, by brazing the shattered pieces together. The engine carries the switching pilot which she apparently carried during the last stages of her N&W career, for her appearance with N&W 611 during a series of photo events being held in November of 2022.
It's not even 7AM yet and the sleepy folks in Pennsylvania Dutch Country are getting a rather spectacular wake-up call as the last operational Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler, #475, makes a spirited charge up the hill toward Esbenshade Crossing, in East Strasburg, PA, hauling a replica branch-line mixed train just moments after the early November sunrise. The occasion is a 2021 photo shoot organized by Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) and directed by John Craft.
Sporting a 4-8-0 wheel configuration, some rail enthusiasts have been known to refer to the 475 as a "Mastodon", but according to her current owners, Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, the N&W never referred to their M-Class Locomotives that way. Instead, they preferred to use the term "Twelve-Wheeler."
Norfolk & Western Railroad (Strasburg Railroad)
1906 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-8-0 Mastodon (M-Class)
N&W 475
A number of the former London Metrobuses that arrived in West Yorkshire had their destination equipment changed to the three piece Manchester displays using the workings from withdrawn former Manchester vehicles. This was presumably done as the London blinds showing the route number and intermediate points needed changing from the upper deck meaning the driver had to leave his cab area at terminus points.
Looking just like a former Manchester Metrobus from the front, the former London Buses M898 is seen in Huddersfield wearing the Fade livery but yet to receive a national fleetnumber.
Streatham Garage 20/8/91
B98 WUL MCW Metrobus
New to BN 11/84
Converted to Trainer 4/01
Sold 10/03
Saw further service with Locallink, Stanstead.
Stopping her hourly passenger train to pick up a couple of passengers at Groff's Grove, the Strasburg Rail Road's former Canadian National Mogul #89 pulls alongside her big stablemate, the former Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475. In this scene, the 475 is sitting in the hole at Groff's with a chartered photo freight, as the star attraction in a day-long photo shoot organized by Historic Transport Preservation (HTP).
The Strasburg Rail Road's former Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 makes an early evening charge up the grade from Cherry Hill to Esbenshade Road, passing through the property of the Cherry Crest Farm as a sort of finale to the November 2021 photo shoot organized by Historic Transport Preservation. Having photographed this railroad many times over the years, I can say with no hesitation that the late afternoon and evening shots at this spot are my favorite scene on this railroad. The pretty, low-angle light, the trees framing the locomotive and the large farm complex in the distance make this shot a winner in my view. The summertime version of it is even better, with leaves on the trees and often crops in the fields to the left and right.
Photographer's Note: I debated posting this image in my Strasburg Flickr Album, mainly because of the presence of the photoline shadows in the foreground. If I were directing the show, I probably would have placed the line further up the hill behind me, and had everyone on their knees. That said, the quality of the light on this scene was just too nice to file this picture in the bit-bucket. I'll leave it to the viewers to decide if it is worthy.
With the early November sun just beginning to appear behind a veil of cirrus clouds, the Strasburg Rail Road's ex Norfolk & Western M-Class Twelve-Wheeler #475 makes a spirited charge toward Esbenshade Road in East Strasburg, PA, kicking off a day-long photo shoot, organized by Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) and led by John Craft. On this day, the venerable N&W "Mollie" hauled a 9-car mixed train, not unlike those that this class of engines pulled on various rural branch lines in the N&W system well into the 1950s.
Taking Inspiration from an Ian Molloy Image of a Limerick Based M Class Leyland Leopard posted on one of the Facebook groups recently....i have Modelled here M67 (67 IK) with its unusual Fibreglass C Class Front & Panelled Weathering.
Wood Green 31/3/01
MCW Metrobus B127
New 12/84 & entered service at WN 1/85.
Privatised to Leaside 9/94.
Withdrawn 3/02.
West Yorkshire was no stranger to everyone else's cast offs, something that started in earnest at deregulation in 1986 when former Manchester 'Standards' in large numbers.
This continued into the FirstBus era with Huddersfield and Halifax bearing the brunt of the cascades.
Huddersfield is the location here for former London Buses M1247, by now 31046 in the First National series and seen leaving the bus station on the Golcar Circular.
From the banks above the earthen cut just east of Carpenters Crossing, we watch as Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475 makes her westbound charge toward East Strasburg, hauling a vintage mixed consist, about 90 minutes after sunrise. It's a chilly morning in November of 2021 and the frost is still apparent in the agricultural fields lining the Strasburg Rail Road's track. The occasion is a photo shoot, organized by Historic Transport Preservation (HTP), and led by long-time Rail Photographer, John Craft.
M824 and TA91 at Harrow Weald Garage 18/8/99.
M824 was new to FW 3/83 & withdrawn 4/01.
TA91 was new to HD 8/99 & withdrawn from W 9/10.
Victoria 4/8/01
MCW Metrobus.
New to HT (Holloway) 1/85 & privatised to London Northern 9/94.
Taken over by Metroline 8/98.
Withdrawn 8/01 & sold to Ensign.
Ilford 15/2/03
MCW Metrobus MKII E472 SON
Leased by London Buses for Harrow Buses as M1472 1/88.
Bought by Capital Citybus & numbered 179 4/92.
Renumbered 172 1999 & 35472 11/03.
Withdrawn 2/04.
picture by Shell
Shell VLCC 210.000tons
1968 built by IHHI
1983 scrapped
After "NEVERITA" i joined "MACOMA" for 6 months.
Shelltankers BV new flagship.
On board januari 15th 1969, left her july 11th 1969,
just after my 27th birthday party my nicest birthday party ever
on a Shell tanker.
I did not like her, as she was hastily built to last only a maximum of 15 years.
Cheaply built and it showed in many details.
She proved (to me) to be a very bad and dangerous design.
Experienced some harrowing moments.
This type of ship was much to big for those days.
I left her in July 1969, just before these things exploded.
Lucky me !
December 1969
Within a few days of each other, three of her sisterships exploded while cleaning cargo tanks.
"MARPESSA" did sink,
"MACTRA" and
"KONG HAAKON VII"
were very heavily damaged.
Several crew members disappeared in these explosions.
Never to be found again.
"MACOMA"
is pictured here with the inert gas system added after those explosions occurred. (The big box near the funnel at starboard)
VLCC's of similar design without inert gas systems went on exploding !
In 1974 her sister "METULA"
runs aground in the Straits of Magellan, 50,000 tons of oil are lost.
The engineer on Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 closes his throttle as his short mixed train passes the yard limit on approach to a rural station where they'll pick up passengers and the mail. This little re-enactment was staged during a November, 2021 Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) photo shoot on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, which is the current home of the 475. The farm pictured here is one of several Amish farms that line the 4.5 mile shortline. This particular one is indeed located just inside the yard limits of the line's East Strasburg Yard.
Clapham Junction 24/8/91
B92 WUL
New to BN 11/84
Converted to Trainer 2002
Sold to Carousel, High Wycombe 5/04
Drogheda Bus station in the 1980,s.
MD103 loads on the service to Dublin in the company of 3 'C' class and a lone KC
Scan from a print.
As his chartered photo freight sits in the hole at Groff's Picnic Grove, awaiting the passage of the hourly passenger train, a Strasburg Rail Road Engineer takes advantage of the down time to top off the oil cups on the running gear of the former Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475. Weighing in at over 200,000 lbs, and generating more than 40,000 lbs of tractive effort, this beast sits on 56" drivers and is one of the taller steam locomotives you'll find in tourist service in the US, along with her stablemate, the former Great Western Decapod #90.
North Woolwich 6/10/99
New to V as M1012 4/84
Sold to Blue Triangle 8/99
Withdrawn and sold to Alpha , Liverpool 7/05
Sold for scrap 7/07
strobist: sb-25 1/2 power, in silver umbrella camera left and above, ebay slaves. graduated orange filter
Waits at Liverpool Street, Eastern Terminus of route 11, before making it's journey through central London to Fulham Broadway in the West 16/2/02.
MCW Metrobus, new2/85 & privatised to London General 11/94.
Sold to GTL, Liverpool via Ensign 5/02.
Sold for scrap 5/05.
With M1378 at Kensington Olympia 10/3/01.
MCW Metrobus B256 WUL.
New to HL (Hanwell) 5/85 & privatised to Centrewest 9/94.
Withdrawn 11/01 & sold for scrap 3/03.
Looking a whole lot cleaner and prettier than she likely did in her last days on the Norfolk & Western, 12-Wheeler #475 charges westbound through the Fairview section of the Strasburg Rail Road main line, not far from the Verdant View Farm. Today, she's hauling a short mixed train for a photo shoot organized by Historic Transport Preservation.
Earls Court 9/3/01
MCW Metrobus OJD 884Y
New to X 7/83 & privatised to Centrewest 9/94.
Transferred to First Capital as 335 7/99.
Withdrawn & stored ar X 7/00.
Reinstated by Centrewest at X 10/00.
Transferred to First Capital 4/01.
Withdrawn 3/02 & transferred to First Huddersfield as spares.
Turnpike Lane Bus Station, Wood Green 20/11/01
MCW Metrobus.
Both on route 121, which starts here and runs North to Enfield Lock.
M1219 New 4/85 & withdrawn 12/03
M716 New 12/81 & withdrawn 5/03.
On a Central line replacement service at Bank 4/8/01.
MCW Metrobus MKII.
New as M1467, hired for Harrow Buses at HD 12/87.
Acquired by Reading 1992.
Finsbury Park 31/3/01
Waiting to leave the Southern end of route W3 and return to Northumberland Park.
New 11/81 & entered sevice at E 1/82.
Privatised to Leaside 9/94.
Withdrawn & sold to Ensign 5/03.
On a rail replacement at London Bridge 3/8/02.
MCW Metrobus A991 SYF
New to GM (Victoria) 3/84 & privatised to London General 9/94
Sold to Ensign 8/00 & on to Trimmer Travel, Romford 10/00.
Ensign's yard, Rainham 29/5/01.
T486 new to SP 6/82 & Sold to Ensign 2/01.
M997 new to GM 3/84 & sold to Ensign 1/01.