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By 1992, my tastes in railroad photography had morphed from quantity to quality. The Amador Central hit my radar, as it was dependent on the beleaguered timber industry, and its motive power was a pair of 40+ year old Baldwin S-12s. Just 55 miles to the south of AMC's base in Martell, California, the Sierra Railroad had a trio of Baldwin S-12s at its enginehouse in Oakdale. If you had an affinity for photogenic shortlines - especially those with elderly locomotives constructed by minority builders - the Sierra foothills in Central California were the place to be.
These photos were taken the first time I visited the Amador Central Railroad in July 1992. My wife and I had chased the SP 4449 south from Portland the previous weekend, and we were visiting our friend Tom Messer in Fair Oaks. He took me to Martell so we could chase AMC. Unfortunately, the day we chose for a visit was a day that the railroad only switched out the Georgia Pacific mill, and did not run down the hill to the Southern Pacific interchange at Ione. These are the images I recorded on Kodachrome that day.
Here is another view of the AMC 9, with some of the assorted locomotive parts that were all over the property.
By 1992, my tastes in railroad photography had morphed from quantity to quality. The Amador Central hit my radar, as it was dependent on the beleaguered timber industry, and its motive power was a pair of 40+ year old Baldwin S-12s. Just 55 miles to the south of AMC's base at Martell, California, the Sierra Railroad had a trio of Baldwin S-12s at its enginehouse in Oakdale. If you had an affinity for photogenic shortlines - especially those with elderly locomotives constructed by minority builders - the Sierra foothills in Central California were the place to be.
These photos were taken the first time I visited the Amador Central Railroad in July 1992. My wife and I had chased the SP 4449 south from Portland the previous weekend, and we were visiting our friend Tom Messer in Fair Oaks. He took me to Martell so we could chase AMC. Unfortunately, the day we chose for a visit was a day that the railroad only switched out the Georgia Pacific mill, and did not run down the hill to the Southern Pacific interchange at Ione. These are the images I recorded on Kodachrome that day.
In this image, AMC 9 is crossing CA Hwy 49, heading for the mill. The mill office is at right. A good station sign is always nice, but in this case the signage on the office will have to do.
By 1992, my tastes in railroad photography had morphed from quantity to quality. The Amador Central hit my radar, as it was dependent on the beleaguered timber industry, and its motive power was a pair of 40+ year old Baldwin S-12s. Just 55 miles to the south of AMC's base at Martell, California, the Sierra Railroad had a trio of Baldwin S-12s at its enginehouse in Oakdale. If you had an affinity for photogenic shortlines - especially those with elderly locomotives constructed by minority builders - the Sierra foothills in Central California were the place to be.
These photos were taken the first time I visited the Amador Central Railroad in July 1992. My wife and I had chased the SP 4449 south from Portland the previous weekend, and we were visiting our friend Tom Messer in Fair Oaks. He took me to Martell so we could chase AMC. Unfortunately, the day we chose for a visit was a day that the railroad only switched out the Georgia Pacific mill, and did not run down the hill to the Southern Pacific interchange at Ione. These are the images I recorded on Kodachrome that day.
While the AMC crew was switching out the mill, we looked over the enginehouse. We found AMC 10 spotted in the shop, undergoing major repair. It eventually returned to service.
The long running Ralston Type-8 morphed into the 'Tigre' line in 1938, running late, as the promised V8 from Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Cord line failed with that company, and the inline-8 which had similarly been bought it from A-C-D (used in the Auburn), was also no longer in series production from the engine works.
No matter. There was a modest stockpile of inline-8 engines which was gradually depleted in the manufacture of the Rhino model. Meanwhile 1938 brought with it a V8 engine from Cadillac, fitted to a chassis frame of Ralston's own design. The shorter engine allowed a greater allocation of overall length to the passenger area - though truth be told, more of if went to providing greater luggage capacity, and a more cab-forward look to the cars.
The Tigre MkI, still know as the Type-8 Tigre was replaced after WWII, with a MkII design, losing this Type-8 appellation. The new model appeared at the end of 1953, the car based on the new post WWII Cadillac frame, engine and underbody of the 1948-53 Series 60 (in particular the slightly longer 60 Special). The tooling was transferred to Ralston upon completion of the 1953 model year. By this stage the preceding MkI was now 15 years old, though this included the period through the war years.
The adoption of Cadillac underpinnings provided the Ralston Tigre MkII with the calibre of running gear demanded by the marque's premium position, though with a much reduced outlay, particularly compared to their premium US-based builders such as Packard. Key differentiation with the originating Cadillac was the Ralston themed 'X' radiator grille, unique bumper treatment, and completely reprofiled rear fender tops, truncating in a rocket-pod tail lamp cluster, instead of the Cadillac 'fin'. Not elements sat completely at ease with the carryover Cadillac based structure.
An update to the Tigre MkII in 1956 led to the MkII-B. a few of the elements were cleared up in the styling, plus the addition of a number of 'flourishes' that had emerged during the 1952-55 model years. Chief among these were 'tailfins' no longer the preserve of Cadillac, but sprouting taller and wilder each year on all US domestic brands. Compared to the 1954 model, the MkII-B had slightly taller fins, but they were much more prominent in the styling, as they were accentuated by both chrome trim separating them from the fender bulge, and also incorporating one of the zones for the bi-colour and tri-colour themes.
In 1958 the car was upgraded further with the advent of the MkII-C. This model again received changes to the fender, front and rear. At the front, the fender height was increased, making the car look both more modern, and also tying the top ridge into the unmodified doors and sides. The rear fender was modified to include a tapering fin, which then led to a tail lamp treatment which was to evolve further into a 'rocket pod' on subsequent models. The 'X' theme was continued to include a 'X' rocket, mounted centrally in the trunk lid. This could alternatively be swapped out for a conventionally styled horizontal trim, if the Continental spare wheel option was included (though this had also phased out of popularity over a short time period). The new trunk lid also shared the tapering profile of the fins. Although this look less modern compared to the newly squared up trunk lids from GM and Ford's divisions, it suited the 'classic' lines of the Ralston Tigre model, leading many to state that the MkII-C was perhaps the most conservatively handsome of mid-century Ralston models, particularly on the SWB closed models.
Additional styling changes included a modest reinterpretation of the grille, including the addition of 'Dagmars' at its extremities, and a new front bumper including marker lights.
The 1954 car launched with the same tune 331 CID (5.4 litre) V8, producing 230 bhp (175 kW), for 1956 this was raised to 285 bhp (213 kW) with an increase in capacity to 365 CID (6.0 litres). The 1958 MkII-C retained the 365 CID V8, but power increased to 310 bhp (230 kW).
Shown here is the 1958 MkII-C Convertible in two-colour treatment Dark Red, and Rose Beige.
This Lego miniland scale Ralston Tigre MkII-C Hardtop Coupe (1958) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 108th Build Challenge - The 9th Birthday, titled - 'LUGNuts Turns Nine' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 63rd build challenge, - "Designing the Ralston Tiger" featuring fictional vehicles styled with an 'X' form in the styling.
Timekiller Festival II 2016 Applications are now open!
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Date: January 15 – 23, 2016
Location: slGoth @ Morphe, Inc. Northwinds
Join us for the New Year celebrating the past, present, and future in the theme “Gothic Steampunk”
20 graphic designers, live DJ’s, and live story telling
Special Guest live music performance TBA
It’s sure to be a dark and thrilling time
La semaine prochaine je pars en Alsace chez ma grand-mère.
J'emmène avec moi Peter et ex-Morphée qui se prénomme maintenant .. *roulements de tambours* Walter.
Pourquoi Walter ?
Parce que je trouve ce prénom infiniment prout prout, hautain et tout le tralala. Puis les prénoms de garçons sur des filles, j'adore ça !
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Aujourd'hui je suis allé faire des photos dans un champs près de chez moi.. bon, on voit pas trop la différence avec mes photos dans mon jardin.
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Aujourd'hui *que de choses dans ma vie ..*, j'ai fais connaissance avec le monde du plagiat. La personne reprenait mes photos, mes poupées, mes textes, et même l'ancien nom de blog..
J'ai du faire toutes les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel en voyant cela.
Moi qui m'emporte assez rapidement, j'ai essayé de garder mon calme. Je lui ai sorti ses 4 vérités et la demoiselle *si elle n'as pas non plus menti sur cela* a de suite supprimé son blog. Elle a même eu l'audace de dire qu'elle "quitte sckyrock car la base ne lui plaît pas."
Si c'est pas du foutage de gueule qu'on m'explique.
*mavie.*
Moi qui pensais que le plagiat n'arrivais qu'aux autres, je me suis trompé !
Si elle passe par là je lui fais une pt'ite dédicace !
*désolé pour le pavé, j'avais bien besoin de ça.*
This is my first time doing morph so if you have any tips in regard with tools I could use in photoshop, please let me in the comments.
Original: www.flickr.com/photos/ingerdenoapte/24530341284/in/dateta...
Model: Jean Marc Madec
The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg
Started out as a standard gear shot and morphed into a Mickey Mouse and then into a robotic face screaming out a bad pun :)
A newly morphed juvenile American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) hiding in wetland plants. Oregon.
Images taken by hoan luong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
The long running Ralston Type-8 morphed into the 'Tigre' line in 1938, running late, as the promised V8 from Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Cord line failed with that company, and the inline-8 which had similarly been bought it from A-C-D (used in the Auburn), was also no longer in series production from the engine works.
No matter. There was a modest stockpile of inline-8 engines which was gradually depleted in the manufacture of the Rhino model. Meanwhile 1938 brought with it a V8 engine from Cadillac, fitted to a chassis frame of Ralston's own design. The shorter engine allowed a greater allocation of overall length to the passenger area - though truth be told, more of if went to providing greater luggage capacity, and a more cab-forward look to the cars.
The Tigre MkI, still know as the Type-8 Tigre was replaced after WWII, with a MkII design, losing this Type-8 appellation. The new model appeared at the end of 1953, the car based on the new post WWII Cadillac frame, engine and underbody of the 1948-53 Series 60 (in particular the slightly longer 60 Special). The tooling was transferred to Ralston upon completion of the 1953 model year. By this stage the preceding MkI was now 15 years old, though this included the period through the war years.
The adoption of Cadillac underpinnings provided the Ralston Tigre MkII with the calibre of running gear demanded by the marque's premium position, though with a much reduced outlay, particularly compared to their premium US-based builders such as Packard. Key differentiation with the originating Cadillac was the Ralston themed 'X' radiator grille, unique bumper treatment, and completely reprofiled rear fender tops, truncating in a rocket-pod tail lamp cluster, instead of the Cadillac 'fin'. Not elements sat completely at ease with the carryover Cadillac based structure.
An update to the Tigre MkII in 1956 led to the MkII-B. a few of the elements were cleared up in the styling, plus the addition of a number of 'flourishes' that had emerged during the 1952-55 model years. Chief among these were 'tailfins' no longer the preserve of Cadillac, but sprouting taller and wilder each year on all US domestic brands. Compared to the 1954 model, the MkII-B had slightly taller fins, but they were much more prominent in the styling, as they were accentuated by both chrome trim separating them from the fender bulge, and also incorporating one of the zones for the bi-colour and tri-colour themes.
Another emergent theme was the incorporation of the Continental-style rear external mount spare wheel.
Somewhat more curious was the chrome trim along the body side, which seemed to not quite know what it wanted to be, but sort of wandered from the front fender vent back to the leading edge of the rear fender bulge, forming the the leading edge of the 2nd-colour zone covering the rear fender.
The 1954 car launched with the same tune 331 CID (5.4 litre) V8, producing 230 bhp (175 kW), for 1956 this was raised to 285 bhp (213 kW) with an increase in capacity to 365 CID (6.0 litres).
The Tigre MkII-B was in turn replaced by the MkII-C in 1958.
Shown here is the 1956 MkII-B Convertible in tri-colour pale yellow, tiger brown, and midnight black.
This Ralston Tigre MkII-B Convertible (1956) has be built on Lego miniland scale for Flickr LUGNuts 95th Build Challenge, - 'Designing the Ralston Legacy' - a challenge to design the fictitious Dragon 'Motorcycle' model for the fictitious Ralston company, though any of the previous Ralston challenge vehicles, the Tiger or the Rhino are also eligible to be submitted. The chief stipulation is that the model must feature a 'X' in the styling.
Yes, often… or mostly Canadian politics is just ass-backward.
At least it was in 1953.
When the RCAF bought two of these, it became the only air force on the planet to fly jet transports exclusively.
No problem with these COMETS by the way… a great de Havilland aircraft that was sold to numerous airlines worldwide, and eventually morphed into an equally successful military version (not just an executive military transport), the Nimrod, which was picked up by the RAF and a few others.
No wait!… wait… wait, there was a problem with these first run jet engine pioneering airliners… a very serious problem indeed… a structural one.
The Comets right off the assembly line were involved in a SERIES of mysterious and fatal accidents. CP-AIR, once the biggest competitor of Air Canada, got a wee break in the purchase price of its first Comet to tour their brand-spankin’ new jet airliner all around Asia, to help de Havilland whip up some additional sales.
CP Air’s Comet didn’t get far.
It crashed. And all lives were lost!
And airlines began bailing out of their Comet purchase orders faster than you could say SQUARE WINDOWS.
Square windows?
Yep.
Square passenger windows alongside pressurized cabins turned out to be the problem.
At high speeds and high altitude, too much fuselage stress occurs and cracks developed around the square window areas. Cracks mean rapid depressurization of the cabin occurs and the aircraft disintegrates or becomes unflyable. To give you an idea about the power of the decompression forces which are involved… in one such deadly accident… crash investigators found the carpet from the passenger area had been sucked into one of the airliner's wings!
And that’s why you NEVER SEE square windows in airliners to this very day… because of those legendary Comet crashes.
Meanwhile, in our own Canadian backyard we had a fully functioning JET TRANSPORT or airliner… with absolutely NO history of serious flaws… never had square windows (AVRO Canada knew that was a mistake) that just sat there idle at Malton International Airport from 1949 on.
Namely, the AVRO Canada C-102 Jetliner. See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfPhIT7VLVg
Canadian Political Logic: DON’T BUY your own successful plane…buy someone else’s flawed one!
And the RCAF then had to wait, while de Havilland fixed the freshly completed RCAF Comets by thereafter retrofitting them with oval windows.
Fast forward to 2007.
And Canada…… let’s pull out of Afghanistan by 2009 EVEN THOUGH the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai is begging Canada to stay… and help keep his country from descending back into anarchy.
But watch, in 2009 … Canada will “pull out” courtesy of the Bloc, or the Liberals and Karzai’s sober assessment and pleas will have been forgotten–
Jack. Stupid. Asses.
As reported by Graeme Smith of the Globe and Mail today, President Karzai made these sobering assessments, and points among others:
“Even the current number of troops isn't enough to give the Afghan government the confidence it needs to fight corruption and solve problems of human rights, because those reforms would force confrontations with (the) armed factions.”
"We definitely need the steady, strong backing of the international community, and that has not been there.”
"The presence of Canada is needed until Afghanistan is able to defend itself, and that day is not going to be in 2009.”
“You can look around. You can see the enemy is not yet finished, is not yet defeated. Therefore it's our responsibility, all of us, to continue to work to defeat terrorism. And we cannot defeat terrorism unless we secure Afghanistan. If we do not, it will become a base for them again."
CANADA prides itself on its comprehensive foreign aid programs for struggling nations… but is she ready to "scrap it out" and just simply take out those Afghan “neighbourhood bullies” who, by the way, are dismantling all our OTHER good Canadian efforts?
(The above photo has been PS enhanced by Paul Cardin of Streetsville, Ontario)
© RCAF photo
© Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre
© Special Projects IR
© RCAF.com
© Globe and Mail
Today we had a beautiful sunset in Austin. It started with quite a bit of orange and the morphed into the red you see in this photo. It later deepened into a nice purple just before getting dark. Very dramatic.
This was taken at Ladybird Lake in downtown Austin. This particular spot is almost directly across from the Long Center and Parmer Auditorium. To the right of the photo you can see the train tracks crossing the Colorado River and just beyond that the Pfluger Footbridge.
Brecht Bug Rogers in a rocket ship in space - A Brechtbug newspaper cartoon in color without the paper - insect comic strip comics bug bugs Gadfly and Brechtbug Buck Rogerz space travel moon planet crater craters pen ink science fiction space ship rocket ship galaxy sci-fi 2013 windshield of a Marx wind up tin toy rocket ship vintage antique Newspaper Science Fiction Sci-Fi comic strip hero action figure spaceman Buddy brother screen grab photoshopped space ship Morphed Buck
Because of many pedators, I put several monarch caterpillars in a protective enclosure while they pupate. For this caterpillar, the metamorphosis occurred sometime between 8 p.m. last night when the still recognizable caterpillar was hanging in "J" shape and at midnight when I took this photo. Webster Groves, Missouri.
Last year's "Hello Kitty" Avengers morphed in the horror movie characters in "Hello Kitty" motif. Honestly? I'm not sure which version is more disturbing.
From L-R: Candyman; The Shining twins; Dr. Herbert West (Re-Animator cosplayed by my friend Ryan); Beetlejuice; Captain Spaulding (House of a Thousand Corpses); Serial Mom (not too sure about this one); Michael Myers (Halloween); Chucky (Child's Play); The Grudge ghost girl; Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th); Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre); Patrick Bateman (American Psycho); and Ghostface (Scream).