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View from the Sedrun multi functional station inside the Gotthard base tunnel.
The exit of the tunnel in this direction is 20 km away, in the other direction it is even 37 km away.
By chance I had the opportunity to visit the tunnel through the SBB gottardino program. Once the tunnel goes into full operation in December 2016, it will no longer be possible for the public to have such a close look.
NS 21D getting ready to depart Charleston's Seven Mile Yard. The OLS Unit which was working as a Yard Switcher had come towards the outer limits of the Yard to pick some cars.
My partner's dogs Oski and Lucy associate me with walks, so that every time I visit, they get very excited.
So we don't use the word 'walk' or 'the W word' but instead refer to taking them for a Weetabix, though there are signs already that they've made the connection, leaving us no choice but to change it again.
Maybe I'll be taking them for a honey nut cluster at the weekend if the weather will allow it.
An Operation Lifesaver consist like no other was assigned to promote safety along the Wasatch Front in late October 2006.
Powering the train were factory fresh UP SD70ACe units 1989 and 1996 bracketing a pair of stainless steel Budd passenger cars.
The unique train was photographed in the Fourth South Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah the afternoon of Oct. 27, 2006.
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Obsidian Task Force has now secretly invaded Germany, and are now undergoing an attack on the capitol.
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LMG stuff.
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Two different forms of transportation momentarily meet as the BHS heads lite to switch Odyssey. The MASSIVE Cargill terminal at the port sets the backdrop for this scene. This may or may not be what I've heard called the "100" Crew. I clearly have a lot to learn about this operation... but that's what makes things fun!
17th July 2017 - Panavia Tornado GR.4 'ZG750' (better known as Pinky) of the Royal Air Forces XV(R) Squadron originally from RAF Lossiemouth, but now based at RAF Marham departs the RIAT.
This squadron saw active service during Operation Granby, the UK’s codename for the Gulf War and the aircraft carries 11 ‘battle honours’ on its tail, recalling the Tornado’s almost continuous service on operations worldwide since 1991.
I'm so pleased to have finally caught this as its due to be retired and sent for spares reclamation in the beginning of August. There is a campaign to get her saved as a museum exhibit.
We stumbled by chance on a coast guard rescue operation while visiting Las Teresitas.
Helicopter and boats were searching around a specific spot on the coast.
We checked later and found out that tragically two young swimmers got trapped in a small cave and drowned before help arrived.
The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen is a railway museum situated south of the city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded by DGEG, the German Railway History Company in 1977 and is based in a locomotive depot that was built between 1916 and 1918 and ceased operation in 1969. Then DGEG took over the whole area of 46.000 m2 and built up the biggest railway museum in Germany. In the middle of the museum, there is an engine shed with fourteen tracks. A preserved turntable, coaling, watering, and sanding facilities are still in operation. This museum is integrated into The Industrial Heritage Trail (Route der Industriekultur) a route of monuments from the history of the industry.
At the southern end of the Earth, a NASA plane carrying a team of scientists and a sophisticated instrument suite to study ice is returning to surveying Antarctica. For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge has been on a mission to build a record of how polar ice is evolving in a changing environment.
The information IceBridge has gathered in the Antarctic, which includes data on the thickness and shape of snow and ice, as well as the topography of the land and ocean floor beneath the ocean and the ice, has allowed scientists to determine that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in irreversible decline. Researchers have also used IceBridge data to evaluate climate models of Antarctica and map the bedrock underneath Antarctic ice.
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When the elevator door opened to the rooftop pool at Central Palace Hotel in Saigon, I did not expect to see THIS.
The black helicopter is a stylized replica and tribute to one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War—Hubert Van Es’s 1975 image of a rooftop evacuation during the Fall of Saigon. Installed on a platform in the hotel’s rooftop swimming pool, it directly overlooks the original photo site. That photo can be viewed here:
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Established in 1876, Bodie is the most complete Ghost Town in the U.S.
The last residence left in 1942 when the U.S. government forced all non essential mining operations to close down, due to the war effort.
At its height, Bodie had a population of approximately10,000 and about 2000 buildings.
Somewhere around 17 gold mines were in operation as well.
Today there is just under 200 building standing.
Bodie is located close to Bridgeport, Ca. at an elevation of almost 8400ft. Very close to the Ca.- Nv. border.
Manicomio di R. i did a revisit during my holiday.
This clinic was built in the end of the 19th century. It was first used as a hospital for the mentally ill and later it was used as a military academy.
The building we visited was known as the building where also people were treated with electroshock therapy and operations to the nervous system.
I can imagine a lot of pain and suffering within these walls.
the clinic closed it’s doors in the end of the 20th century when many of these asylums had to close their doors.
Revisited this location in August 2014
They created a temporary home for the emergency services to being able to renovate their current operation base.
Dover and Rockaway River RP-2 with the equipment for the next day's Operation Toy Train runs west through Dover, NJ, on NJ Transit's Morris and Essex Line. The train would run the next day over DRRV rails from Rockaway to Phillipsburg, to collect toys for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots.
Rose-breasted grosbeaks, Rondeau Provincial Park, July 24, 2023.
Pheucticus ludovicianus.
Two males share the record for the oldest Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Both birds were at least 12 years, 11 months old when recaptured and released during banding operations. One was banded in 1972 in Vermont and found in the same state in 1984. The other was banded in Maryland in 1976 and recaptured in 1987 in the same state.
source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Traffic rolls on as 93M and it's lone Operation Lifesaver GP38-2 glide over Herr Street in downtown Harrisburg as they return to Harrisburg Yard from the Steelton Industrial Track.
Coal was the reason for the existence of the East Broad Top Railroad. The 33-mile, narrow gauge line was built to transport coal from the mines in hills of West Central Pennsylvania to the standard gauge lines of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad, which interchanged with the EBT in Mt. Union. Of course, coal also fueled the EBT's locomotives, making the entire enterprise possible. In this image, the crew of EBT Locomotive #16 heads to the coal tipple at the south end of the yards in Rockhill Furnace, to fuel their locomotive for the upcoming day's operations.
This image was captured during an April, 2023 photo shoot at the East Broad Top Railroad, which featured the newly-restored Mikado #16. A close examination of the image reveals that the track immediately adjacent to the coal tipple had been removed as part of a project to rebuild the entire structure. Once the EBT Foundation completes this restoration work, the coal tipple should once again be fully operational.
At the 2008 event, enough trash was collected to fill 10 40-yard dumpsters.
(Courtesy: Eileen Maher)
A Respondek operation that has largely been dormant for over a decade has recently come back to life, making me wonder if the end times are near. I finally stumbled upon the crew of Illini Terminal (ITS) GP-9 1604 (built as CRI&P 1328 in 1959) working some hopper cars out of storage for interchange with BNSF at Litchfield, Illinois, a process that ended up taking several hours as they were mixed in with a dozen or more empty tank cars. This is perhaps the most interesting thing I've seen all year.
Now, if only I could catch the Vandalia Railroad in action...
After running west on the Provo main from Springville to Starr, UP 951 pulls its 10-car train east toward York Summit at Rocky Ridge, Utah on May 4, 1995. This Operation Lifesaver Special will make a second turn from Springville the same day, but running only to Payson before reversing direction.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_Mountain_(Alberta)
ELEVATION 2281 m 7486 ft
Sulphur Mountain (Nakoda: Mînî Rhuwîn) is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area. Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.
Two hot springs have been commercially developed. The lowest is the Cave and Basin National Historic Site and the highest is the Banff Upper Hot Springs.
A gondola on the eastern slope goes to the summit ridge which has an upper terminal containing three restaurants, a gift shop, and multiple observation decks. The summit ridge provides views both westward up and east down the Bow Valley. A boardwalk can be followed on the north side to the top of Sanson's Peak (2,256 m or 7,402 ft).
The original, and more scenic, summit access is along an old fire road (Sanson Road) on the Southwest face of the mountain with a distance of 5.8 km from the Banff Sundance Canyon trail system near the Bow River. Another 5.4 km switchback trail route exists under the gondola with trailhead access from the Banff Hot Springs parking lot near the gondola terminal.
The mountain has been the site of two research facilities. In 1903, a meteorological observatory building was completed atop Sanson Peak. This building still exists and visitors can look through a window to see its interior complete with rustic furnishings. In the winter of 1956-57, the National Research Council built a small laboratory on Sanson's Peak in order to study cosmic rays as part of Canada's contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station remained in operation until 1978 and the building was removed in 1981. A plaque now marks the site's location.
The hot springs at the base of Sulphur Mountain are home to the endangered Banff Springs snail and the now-extinct Banff longnose dace.
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Operation Barbarossa started on June 22nd, 1941, with the Germans rapidly invading the Soviet Union and decimating Soviet forces in virtually every battle. Hitler's plan was to conquer Eastern Europe for future German colonization called "Lebensraum". Ukraine was especially desired since at the time it was the breadbasket of Europe. When the Germans were conquering the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians and other peoples welcomed them as heroes because of the fact they "freed" them from communist oppression. The Holodomor was fresh in the average Ukrainians memory which was an artificial famine that killed millions and they were still resentful towards Stalin.
Two groups that wanted to take advantage of this moment was the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) which was into Italian fascism, was led by Andriy Melnik and the younger more violent OUN-B, was National Socialist which was led by Stepan Bandera. They originally existed because they were angry that Poland was "occupying" the province of Galicia which is claimed by both Poles and Ukrainians (even to this day).
However, the Ukrainians would learn that the Nazis were replacing one form of oppression with another. Hitler hated Slavic peoples and wanted them enslaved, "transferred" (possibly to Siberia) or at worst exterminated. When the OUN declared an independent Ukrainian state, that was shut down as quickly as possible. The Nazis committed atrocities against the Ukrainians which soon led to the growth of more partisan groups and led to some joining the Soviet army by the time they started "liberating" it from the Nazis.
In a last ditch effort, the Nazis freed imprisoned Ukrainian nationalist leader, Stepan Bandera to inspire the Ukrainians but that ultimately failed. Even during his imprisonment all the OUN-B did was mass murder Poles in the provinces of Galicia and Volhynia. Today he's seen as a controversial figure as he is popular in Western Ukraine which is full of Catholic Ukrainians and hated in Eastern Ukraine which is full of Orthodox Russians.
A heavy chain suspended from our Yew tree. We inherited it when we moved in. I suspect it was used in some kind of paint spraying operation.
April 2030, after information that has been intercepted by the crushed Warsaw Pact about the weak points of DARKWATER's defense around New York City and the massive planning that followed, the attack may commence. Platoons of EU soldiers infiltrate and squeeze through the cracks in the defense system. The most efficient way to infiltrate was to move through towering crates and harbor ships to attack the grand city.
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The Remains of St Edmund's Chapel and Old Hunstanton Lighthouse.
The present lighthouse was built in 1840 although there has been a Lighthouse on the site since 1665. This first lighthouse was built of wood with an iron basket of burning coals as a light. Hunstanton lighthouse had the world's first parabolic reflector which was built here in 1776.
The present lighthouse ceased operations in 1922, since when it has been a private residence and a Holiday Let.
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Had the opportunity to visit a purple martin enthusiasts place near Blenheim, Ontario, Canada, June 12, 2019.
He showed Anne and me the operation and it is an impressive operation.
He opened and checked the houses and in one there were recently hatched martins.
We also saw chicks in the process of hatching out but my camera chose that moment to break.
In the early season when there were no insects he cooked up scrambled eggs and feed the martins by throwing bits of egg into the air.
Progne subis
The Purple Martin not only gets all its food in flight, it gets all its water that way too. It skims the surface of a pond and scoops up the water with its lower bill.
source - Cornell lab of Ornithology
NASA’s Operation IceBridge collected some rare images on a flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile on Nov. 5, 2014, on a science flight over western Antarctica dubbed Ferrigno-Alison-Abbott 01. Following a routine calibration pass over Punta Arenas airport, the NASA DC-8 overflew the USS Constellation which is being towed for demolition after 53 yeas of service. The crew then snapped a few shots of a calving front of the Antarctic ice sheet. This particular flight plan was designed to collect data on changes in ice elevation along the coast near the Ferrigno and Alison ice streams, on the Abbot Ice Shelf, and grounded ice along the Eights Coast.
The Breguet BR 1150 ATLANTIC procedure trainer is an almost fully equipped training cell for the training of the tactical crews of the maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
The Breguet Atlantic, also known as the BR 1150, is a maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) that was developed multinationally.
The aircraft is used for patrol flights as well as for submarine hunting.
The Breguet Atlantic is the only aircraft in the world that was built exclusively for this range of tasks from the outset, while other maritime reconnaissance aircraft are usually developed on the basis of civilian aircraft.
The machines of the German Navy are now retired, but are still in operation in other countries.
In addition to the version for the MPA task, the Bundeswehr also had the BR 1150 M equipment variant for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance.
Signals itelligence (SIGINT)
AERONAUTICUM - German Airship and Naval Aviation Museum Nordholz.
Der Verfahrenstrainer Breguet BR 1150 ATLANTIC nahezu vollständig ausgestattete Trainingszelle für die Schulung der taktischen Besatzungen der Seefernaufklärer.
Die Breguet Atlantic, auch BR 1150, ist ein Seefernaufklärer (Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) der multinational entwickelt wurde. Das Flugzeug wird für Patrouillenflüge sowie zur U-Jagd eingesetzt. Bei der Breguet Atlantic handelt es sich weltweit um das einzige Flugzeug, das von Anfang an ausschließlich für dieses Aufgabenspektrum gebaut wurde, während andere Seeaufklärer im Regelfall auf Basis ziviler Flugzeuge entwickelt werden. Die Maschinen der Deutschen Marine sind heute ausgemustert, werden aber in anderen Ländern noch weiter betrieben. Neben der Version für die MPA-Aufgabe gab es in der Bundeswehr noch die Ausrüstungsvariante BR 1150 M für Fernmelde und Elektronische Aufklärung.
Signals itelligence (SIGINT)
AERONAUTICUM - Deutsches Luftschiff und Marinefliegermuseum Nordholz.
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