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C&NW SD40-2 #6827 rounds the curve at MP 20 in Lombard. Built in 1974, she became UP #2975 after the merger.
Enviro 200MMC 722 (TX21 ONE) in North Western Busway livery leaves Runcorn High St for Liverpool, 15 June 2021. Celebrating 50 years of the Busway.
MP Travel of Eccles: 573 (K573 RRH) a Northern Counties bodied Leyland Olympian, painted in red, white and black fleet livery. This vehicle is captured here in Manchester's Heaton Park whilst attending the 2017 Trans Lancs Rally.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 3rd September 2017.
Ref No. 0039494.
Lt. Kain partaking in Exercises in the Northrop-Grumman testing facilities on the Moon with a full Combat Load including a pair of ShortShot SMGs and 2 Large Blast Shields.
As much as I like the hangar scene I did, I acknowledge that it doesn't really show off the design all that well, thus this!
Missouri Pacific Railroad GP7 1654 at McCook, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 1654 was built in February 1952 as MP GP7 4213 (c/n 16137), renumbered to 211, renumbered again to 1654 (1st), and retired around August 1979. It is pictured on its last mile at Pielet Brothers scrap yard.
While the Gallant was a very effective design, it's design focus of Surface Combat inevitably led to the need for a dedicated Space Combat suit. The SK-S13D and MP-GAT(MSV) were only stopgaps and each had it's limits, the SK-S13D was limited in it's maneuverability and the Suit lost a lot of flexibility due to being locked into it while the MP-GAT(MSV) had to deal with high costs to convert and to provide a sizable force would have put significant strain on the number of Gallants left for the other variants. That being said, they did provided significant information and essentially acted as prototypes for the MP-L4N "Lancer".
The Lancer is a unique design that makes use of everything learned from the Sled and Space Mobility Gallant Prototype. The Thruster pack from the Space Mobility Gallant was refined and includes a smaller pair of secondary thrusters to complement the 4 primary thrusters. The Legs which cause the Technical Staff headaches when working on the Space Mobility Gallant were replaced with 2 'Maneuvering Vanes'. The thruster Vanes are essentially a collection of adjustable maneuvering thrusters with the entire 'Vane' mounted to a modified Powered Gallant Pelvis Frame and Joint. Individually each maneuvering thruster is weak but when working together and properly oriented they lend the Lancer unprecedented Maneuverability. As a result the Lancer requires large amounts of fuel during operation which is mounted in a large External Tank with 2 small Reserve tanks, one on each Maneuvering Vane.
The Upper Torso, while visually similar to the Gallant's, has been completely redesigned to advantage of operating in Zero-G. The Manipulators still function on the Universal Standard and can handle a wide range of weaponry.
The removal of the Legs does result in the Lancer not being able to function outside of Zero-G(Tests are scheduled for how they function in the Moon's Gravity Well) and as a result they require a special mini-gantry when being stored outside of a Zero-G environment.
The Picture above showed Technicians and Pilots inspecting the first delivery of Lancers from Northrop-Grumman.
Had some fun with this one, inspired by the idea behind the Zeon Dra-C design, but done up more to my tastes.
MP Travel Volvo B12B "9700" W16 MPT sets out from Crewe on a rail replacement service to Wilmslow today, 10th February, 2019. It was new to Group Travel, Audnam, as FJ56 KUB.
Missouri Pacific Railroad GP7 134 at McCook, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 134 was built as StLB&M GP7 4119 in July 1950 (c/n 11552), renumbered to MP 134 an an unknown date, retired in August 1979 and is seen here at Pielet Brothers scrap yard. Note the extra front numberboard, for which I have no explanation. However I received a comment by Joseph Yarbrough as follows -
On the MoPac, a select few GP7's had a "crew cab". These units were bought originally by the Texas & Pacific and Gulf Coast Lines. Outwardly they looked like any regular Geep with the exception that the crew-cabs were modified with an extra set of number board cut-out windows that were exactly the same size as the number boards located just below the usual number boards on the short hood/nose. Behind the windows inside the cab sat a spare seat... right beside the typical toilet. The "crew-cab" GP7s used by I-GN and STLB&M (series 4116-4123) were equipped with crew-cabs (modified circa 1953): 4117, 4119, 4120, 4122, and 4123. Since no other unit's received the crew cab, it's speculated that this modification may have been a "Texas thing" for the brakeman to ride inside the unit.
I don't know what the box behind the cab on this side was for. Anyone know, please leave a comment.
Near the end of 1993 a fallen star sits on the siding at Ft.Gibson Oklahoma, probably reduced to MOW service, but air lines and trucks reveal better days gone by. Copyright © Revenge Photography. All Rights Reserved.
Wearing some interesting graffiti, MP 705777 sits in West Chicago yard. This is a 2980 cu. ft. car built in July 1981.