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Streamlined Business Car A-11 brings up the rear of the Museum's "Migration Train" which is bringing beautifully restored equipment from Jackson St Roundhouse to its Osceola Wisconsin operation for the summer
Colorado & Southern 839 (MTM's BN 6234) crossing the Cedar Bend Drawbridge over the St. Croix River. Photo made possible by a S&B Productions photo charter and MTM's Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railroad.
Esperando a que el correo libre canton la 1657 se dispone a tirar de este especial Espinosa-Guardo compuesto por el Estrella del Cantabrico el Historico y un coche del Costa Verde. Espinosa de los Monteros 2014/08/26
MTM's SDP40 325 & SD9 6234 pose side by side on the wye at Dresser after turning around for afternoon light.
Only just a few months ago, both engines would've both been BN Cascade Green. But over the summer 325 went to Relco in Albia, IA and got a full restoration to GN Simplified Orange.
Both EMDs were donated to the Museum in the 2000s (6234 9n 2003, 325 in 2009) from BNSF. All these years later and both are still running strong in their retirement gig.
Both locomotives look fantastic in the September sun.
The original streetcar of MTM and still a favorite of mine.
There are so many people that worked hard to make this site happen and keep it running so well that I couldn't begin to name them all but I think back to the 70s and I remember the Sandbergs, Bensons, Bill Cordes, Dave Norman (who was there tonight!) and Scott Heiderich who spent so many hours on this effort. But most of all, the late George Isaacs was the visionary that really made this happen. My hats off to all of them and the people who keep it running today. This is one of our city's great treasures
From Wkipedia:
The first streetcar operated by the Minnesota Transportation Museum was Twin City Rapid Transit Company streetcar No. 1300. The car, which now appears much like it did in the 1930s-1950s era, was built by Twin City Rapid Transit as a fast interurban streetcar in 1908, with a top speed of about 35 miles per hour (56.35 km/h). When in operation for Twin City Lines TCRT No. 1300 was based at the East Minneapolis Station (carbarn) and often operated on the original Como-Harriet route.
The museum eventually split into different groups and the Streetcars are now found at:
Tijola Station, RENFE, ex Great Southern of Spain. 26/09/2017
Loco is RENFE 303 -139 - 0 . (11339) MTM 122/1964. Dumped/abandoned. Station partially restored for tourist train,
around 2000, project discontinued.
I’ve been on a head shrinking kick for a week and a bit now since I didn’t want to waste any of my acetone. I tossed in an Orange Top MTM head first but her scalp tore cuz her head glue was SO stiff and inflexible even after soaking in acetone.
I also have a huge excess of these purple top MTM heads so I decided to shrink one cuz while the playline sized Lea head isn’t huge, paired with the super plain screening her features were really washed out and bland.
Surprisingly her head glue became super soft and she shrank perfectly to the pre-2005 Lea head size so I stuck her on a knock off Fashionista with a light-ish skin tone.
I also still am not happy with her default look cuz it looked super unfinished so I painted in some shading around her eyes and painted her eyebrows to be less brown and more black. It’s a very small change but it makes a huge difference to her face…
GY WDP-4D 40117 resting at mainline of Khanapur junction with empty rake of 12750 Bidar - Machilipatnam Superfast Express...
Nostalgic:
- MTM: Purple top
Neutra:
- MTM: Pink top
- Carrers doll: Soccer Player
LA Tan?:
- MTM: Light blue top
Coppertone?:
- Carrers doll: (Whih 3 outfits)
- Carrers doll: Martial Artist
Tropic Tan:
- MTM: Blue top
Light Brown?:
- MTM: Orange top
- Carrers doll: Soccer Player
- Carrers doll: Skateboarder
Brown:
- MTM: Yellow top
- Gabby Douglas Barbie
All data shown here is a research paper, contrasted in different sources of information, but I can not guarantee complete accuracy.
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 23 June 2023 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of six gravity assist manoeuvres at Mercury. This image was taken at 09:51:07 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 3, when the spacecraft was 1406 km from the surface of Mercury. Closest approach of 200 km took place shortly before, at 09:44 UTC. In this view, north is up.
The cameras provide black-and-white snapshots in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution. This image has been 'block replicated' to 2048 x 2048 pixels. Some imaging artefacts such as vertical striping are also visible. The back of the high-gain antenna and part of the spacecraft’s body is also visible in front of Mercury in this image.
While clearly a heavily cratered region, this image also highlights some of Mercury’s volcanic history. Mercury’s smooth plains were formed by volcanic eruptions of runny lavas that spread across the planet 3.7 billion years ago – such as the plains visible between BepiColombo’s high-gain antenna and towards Mercury’s limb.
The eruptions that formed these plains did not commonly build volcanoes that we are familiar with on Earth. The floor of the 125 km wide Heaney crater (next to BepiColombo’s high-gain antenna in the centre of this image) is covered in smooth volcanic plains, and a small mound is illuminated. This is a rare example of a candidate volcano on Mercury, which will be an important target for BepiColombo’s high resolution imaging suite once in orbit.
North of Heaney, past the high-gain antenna, is Amaral crater (105 km wide) with a clearly defined rim and a central peak cluster. The region surrounding Amaral is pockmarked with so-called secondary craters caused by material ejected from Amaral during its formation re-impacting onto the surface nearby. This texture is common around fresh craters on Mercury.
The gravity assist manoeuvre was the second at Mercury and the fifth of nine flybys overall. During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to help steer on course for Mercury orbit in 2025. The Mercury Transfer Module carries two science orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. They will operate from complementary orbits to study all aspects of mysterious Mercury from its core to surface processes, magnetic field and exosphere, to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its parent star.
Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO