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COVID-19 wasn't particularly kind to many airlines, some coming and going with a large quantity having to restructure to cater for different travel habits. This is most certainly the case for WestJet, Canada's second largest airline which in the intervening years struggled post-pandemic but that is changing.
2025 has been a big year for WestJet which has since seen the carrier completing the full integration of Sunwing Airlines, the integration having took the best part of 2 years to complete. Furthermore, WestJet saw a 15% and 10% stakes being sold to SkyTeam members Delta Air Lines and Korean Air respectively.
Following COVID-19, WestJet's ambitions did have to be curtailed, most notably having cancelled their remaining order for 3 Boeing 787-9s they had on-order, leaving just 7 in the fleet as the carrier focused on their Western Canada operations, especially from their main hub at Calgary. With the integration of Sunwing Airlines and investment from other airlines, WestJet's future is looking promising.
On 3rd September 2025, WestJet out of the blue shadow-dropped they have placed a large order of Boeing aircraft; reported by numerous media outlets followed by Boeing and WestJet themselves, the carrier announced they will be ordering 60 Boeing 737 MAX 10s and 7 Boeing 787-9s with deliveries taking place up to 2034. Once these orders are completed, WestJet will have 102 Boeing 737 MAX 10s and 14 Boeing 787-9s in total.
What is interesting about this order as even though deliveries haven't commenced yet, WestJet is firmly committed to the large Boeing 737 MAX 10, the new fleet will enable expansion but to also replace the older Boeing 737-700/800s within the fleet. The Boeing 787-9 order is more intriguing as following the cancellation of the remaining 3 Boeing 787-9s following COVID-19, WestJet does see itself expanding long-haul again. Whether expansion will take place from Calgary, or from either Toronto or Vancouver remains to be seen.
Currently, WestJet operates 7 Boeing 787s, all of which are Boeing 787-9s. WestJet have 7 Boeing 787-9s on-order.
Golf Uniform Delta Oscar is one of 7 Boeing 787-9s operated by WestJet, delivered new to the carrier on lease from BBAM on 14th March 2019 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B engines.
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner C-GUDO on final approach into Runway 27L at London Heathrow (LHR) on WS18 from Calgary (YYC), Alberta.
Valley Railroad Yardmaster Carmen Vaccarelli (left) holds a brief conference with the crew of Valley Railroad Locomotive #97, just a minute or two before they are scheduled to depart the Essex, CT depot with a twilight North Pole Express train. Facing away from the camera is Conductor Wil Gambardella and, on the right, Engineer Chip Mahoney.
This scene was captured on the day after Thanksgiving of 2025, when the Valley Railroad was running a weekend North Pole Express schedule with no less than 13 departures.
A hot-shot freight, headed up by Tremont & Gulf Mikado #30, sails past depot in Maydelle, TX on its eastbound run as the crew picks up orders on the fly.
This 2019 re-creation was done on the Texas State Railroad. The Texas State Railroad was begun in 1883 when the state completed a new penitentiary at Rusk. An iron smelting mill at the prison was to be run by inmate labor and the railroad was constructed as a means to bring in raw materials and transport finished goods to transportation hubs and thence to market. The railroad reached Maydelle in 1906 and was completed all the way to Palestine in 1909. The line gradually expanded to both regular freight and passenger service as time went on, but never turned a profit. In 1921, the state began leasing the trackage to other railroads, practice that continued until 1969. In 1972, the Texas Legislature voted to turn the railroad over to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, to be used as a State Park and tourist attraction. The line's financial woes continued and after over 30 years of state supervision, the Texas State Railroad Authority was created, and the operation was leased to private operators. For the past 25 years, it has been operated by several firms, including American Heritage Railways (which owns the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) and Iowa Pacific Holdings. Since 2017, the operator has been The Western Group, which operates a number of regional railroads and railroad-related businesses.
Finally... After three consecutive Bricklink orders of dark green pieces, it is finished.This is my B-25 from the United States Air Force of World War II. Considering I wanted to accompany minifigures and landing gear into the build (which I did so successfully), I think it's a good attempt at one of my first bombers. Sorry for the lack of postage by me lately, for I had to wait a considerable time for Bricklink orders to arrive in order to complete this beast. Im glad that it's finally off my chest, though. It was a lot of work, but I can say that its features/design I went for will suffice for my standards. I hope you all like it, comment on what I should do next!
The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного), commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat. It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. A world famous landmark, it was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600 [Wikipedia.org]
Layout
Instead of following the original ad hoc layout (seven churches around the central core), Ivan's architects opted for a more symmetrical floor plan with eight side churches around the core, producing "a thoroughly coherent, logical plan" despite the erroneous latter "notion of a structure devoid of restraint or reason" influenced by the memory of Ivan's irrational atrocities. The central core and the four larger churches placed on the four major compass points are octagonal; the four diagonally placed smaller churches are cuboid, although their shape is barely visible through later additions. The larger churches stand on massive foundations, while the smaller ones were each placed on a raised platform, as if hovering above ground.
Although the side churches are arranged in perfect symmetry, the cathedral as a whole is not. The larger central church was deliberately offset to the west from the geometric center of the side churches, to accommodate its larger apse on the eastern side. As a result of this subtle calculated asymmetry, viewing from the north and the south presents a complex multi-axial shape, while the western facade, facing the Kremlin, appears properly symmetrical and monolithic. The latter perception is reinforced by the fortress-style machicolation and corbeled cornice of the western Church of Entry into Jerusalem, mirroring the real fortifications of the Kremlin.
Inside the composite church is a labyrinth of narrow vaulted corridors and vertical cylinders of the churches. The largest, central one, the Church of the Intercession, is 46 meters tall internally but has a floor area of only 64 square meters. Nevertheless, it is wider and airier than the church in Kolomenskoye with its exceptionally thick walls. The corridors functioned as internal parvises; the western corridor, adorned with a unique flat caissoned ceiling, doubled as the narthex.
The detached belfry of the original Trinity Church stood southwest or south from the main structure. Late 16th and early 17th century plans depict a simple structure with three roof tents, most likely covered with sheet metal. No buildings of this type survived to date, although it was then common and used in all of the pass-through towers of Skorodom. August von Meyerberg's panorama (1661) presents a different building, with a cluster of small onion domes.
Chertsey Tavern, Chertsey, Canterbury, NZ.
The Chertsey Tavern's first licence was granted in Dec.1877 to a Mr A Stenning (earlier that year Peter Kelly had "applied for a hotel licence for his house, now in course of erection at Chertsey. The licence was refused, the Bench deeming the applicant an unsuitable man to conduct a house." - The Press, 06 Sept.1877).
In those early years, hotels and bars were seen as useful places for men to gather socially. However, there was also criticism of the effects of alcohol on pioneering families, with allegations that men spent more in one night on grog than their families spent in a month on food.
The vocal temperance movement forced the closure of all hotels in Ashburton in June 1903. However this did not include hotels in nearby towns, so the prohibition saw a rapid increase in traffic between Ashburton and Chertsey! Ashburton remained 'dry' until 1949...
Edgar and Diane Smith bought the Chertsey Tavern in 1977, though it was leased out for 12 years.
They closed the doors for the last time in May 2015. A sign on the front window says: "Bar closed. Owners retired."
Thirsty locals must now go to nearby Rakaia or Ashburton. Mind you, there's a perfectly good pub up for grabs now...just sayin'.
After arrival from Tottenham Yard, freshly painted SSR locomotive shines in the night as it stands in the platform at Heidelberg leading fellow hood locomotives T395, T364, T386, T356, T363 & P14 on Hurstbridge Line works train 7176. 28/10/22
cr7998 on Train Orders commented that the photo "appears to be from the steps of JD Tower at Hyattsville, MD. The train is westbound on the Washington Subdivision. The hoppers with the yellow ends were older cars that were prohibited from interchange service, these cars also had several yellow X's painted on the side to indicate that the cars were confined to on-line service. The track that diverges from the main is the Alexandria Subdivision to Potomac Yard."
A Roger Puta Photograph
German postcard by H.S.K.-Verlag, Kölm (Cologne), no. 505. Photo: Paramount. Ray Milland in Copper Canyon (John Farrow, 1950).
British actor and director Ray Milland (1905-1986) had a screen career that ran from 1929 to 1985. He appeared in many Hollywood movies as the archetypal, unflappable British gentleman. Milland is best remembered for his gut-wrenching, Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), for the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones on a mountain called Cymla, above the town of Neath in Wales in 1905. Milland was the son of Alfred Jones and Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott). As a child, he took the name of his stepfather, Mullane, and was known in his early career as Jack Mullane. He later took his stage name Raymond Milland from the flat area of land called the mill lands in Neath, which he remembered fondly from his youth. In 1925, Milland enlisted as a guardsman with the Royal Household Cavalry in London. As part of his training, he became skilled in fencing, boxing, horsemanship and marksmanship. An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning many prestigious competitions, including the Bisley Match in England. When his duty service was completed in 1928, Milland stumbled into acting when a British filmmaker spotted him at a party and offered the 22-year-old a bit part in the romance The Plaything (Castleton Knight, 1929). More small and big roles in the British cinema and on stage followed. Among his British films were the silent ‘backstage’ drama Piccadilly (Ewald André Dupont, 1929) starring Anna May Wong, the adventure The Flying Scotsman (Castleton Knight, 1929) and the drama The Informer (Arthur Robison, 1929). Raymond Milland was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout while performing on the stage in London, and travelled to America under a short-term contract with MGM. MGM shortened his first name to Ray and continued casting the acting novice in minor supporting roles. MGM agreed to loan him out for more substantial parts in Will Rogers' Ambassador Bill (Sam Taylor, 1931) at Fox in which he tries to overthrow the boy-king of a fictional European country, and Warner Bros.' Blonde Crazy (Roy Del Ruth, 1931) in which he competes with con-artist James Cagney for Joan Blondell's affections.
When his contract with MGM expired, Ray Milland bounced around taking whatever roles he could get, including a supporting part in Fox's Charlie Chan in London (Eugene J. Forde, 1934). He returned to England for roles in This Is the Life (Albert de Courville, 1933) with Gordon Harker and the comedy Orders is Orders (Walter Forde, 1934), a satire on Hollywood movie-making. Finally, based on the strength of two films he made with Carole Lombard - Bolero (Wesley Ruggles, 1934) and We’re Not Dressing (Norman Taurog, 1934) - as well as the endorsement of his leading lady, Paramount Pictures signed Milland to a long-term contract. He would remain with the studio for some twenty years. Charming and debonair, he can be seen as suave, self-assured romantic leading man in a number of excellent drawing-room comedies, mysteries and adventures, including The Big Broadcast of 1937 (Mitchell Leisen, 1936), The Jungle Princess (William Thiele, 1936) featuring Dorothy Lamour, Beau Geste (William Wellman, 1939) with Gary Cooper, and I Wanted Wings (Mitchell Leisen, 1941) with Veronica Lake. At Film Reference, Frank Thompson writes: “The quintessential Milland performances of the ‘leading man’ variety are contained in Leisen's delightful Easy Living and Kitty. The darker, more sinister side of his personality first came to the fore in Farrow's Alias Nick Beal, a film in which Milland plays the Devil himself.” Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937) was a depression-era screwball comedy and social satire written by Preston Sturges and starring Jean Arthur. Reel Classics calls it “an often-overlooked delight”. Kitty (1945, Mitchell Leisen) was a variation on Pygmalion, in which a London aristocrat (Milland) takes it upon himself to make a lady of a guttersnipe (Paulette Goddard). Milland had a terrible accident during the filming of Hotel Imperial (Henry Hathaway, 1939) with Isa Miranda, when, taking his horse over a jump, the saddle-girth broke and he landed head-first on a pile of bricks. His most serious injuries were a concussion that left him unconscious for 24 hours, a 3-inch gash in his skull that took 9 stitches to close, and numerous fractures and lacerations on his left hand. When the Second World War began, Milland tried to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces, but was rejected because of his impaired left hand. He worked as a civilian flight instructor for the Army, and toured with a United Service Organisation (USO) South Pacific troupe in 1944.
Ray Milland had made over 60 feature films by the time he won an Oscar for his portrayal of an alcoholic trying to kick the booze in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945). It would be pinnacle of Ray Milland's career and an acknowledgement of his serious dramatic abilities. The surprise shown by the critical establishment at Milland's proficiency in the role suggests that nothing much had ever been expected of him. Milland was the first Welsh actor to ever win an Oscar. He was also the first actor not to have spoken a single word during his acceptance speech, preferring to simply bow his appreciation before casually walking to the stage exit. For this performance, he was also given an award at the first Cannes Film Festival. Five years later, he gave a strong performance in Close to My Heart (William Keighley, 1951), starring with Gene Tierney as a couple trying to adopt a child. As Milland grew older and his value as a romantic lead began to wane, the more sinister aspects of this self-assuredness became more evident. In 1954, he starred as the suave and mannerly accomplice opposite Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954). Other films that exploited the murderous glint in Milland's eloquent eyes include The Thief (Russel Rouse, 1951) a Film Noir without any dialogue, and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (Richard Fleischer, 1955) with Joan Collins. He made many television appearances. He starred as a professor in the CBS sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley (1953-1955). The program was renamed in its second season as The Ray Milland Show. From 1959–1960, he starred in the CBS detective series Markham. In the late 1960s, he hosted rebroadcasts of certain episodes of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days under the title Trails West.
In 1955, Ray Milland started directing films, such as the western A Man Alone (Ray Milland, 1955) with Raymond Burr, and the well-paced espionager Lisbon (1956, Ray Milland) with Maureen O’Hara for Republic Pictures that he also produced and starred in. He did it with surprising proficiency, but the films failed to make him successful. He achieved more success with directing for television. According to Kit and Morgan Benson at Find A Grave, he “was considered a solid and capable director and producer.” Milland returned as a film character actor in such fascinating low-budget horror films as The Premature Burial (Roger Corman, 1962) and The Man with the X-ray Eyes (Roger Corman, 1963), the latter providing Milland with the wittiest, most energetic role of his later career. He appeared in the TV classic Daughter of the Mind (Walter Grauman, 1969) in which he was reunited with Gene Tierney, and he played Ryan O'Neal's father in the hit tearjerker Love Story (Arthur Hiller, 1970). He can also be seen in such dreadful horror films as The Thing with Two Heads (Lee Frost, 1972), the British Crazy House/The House in Nightmare Park (Peter Sykes, 1973), and Terror in the Wax Museum (Georg Fenady). One of the best of that bad lot is Frogs (George McCowan, 1972), a surprisingly enjoyable entry from the ‘nature-run-amok’ horror subgenre. Milland wrote an autobiography, Wide Eyed in Babylon, published in 1974. Toward the end of his life, he guest starred in TV series as Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, 1978-1979) and the Harold Robbins’ adaptation The Dream Merchants (Vincent Sherman, 1980). His last film was the Spanish fantasy-adventure The Sea Serpent (Gregory Greens, 1986) with Timothy Bottoms, after which his declining health forced him to retire. A book-loving homebody, Milland kept away from the Hollywood glitter and was rarely mentioned in the gossip columns. At 81, he died of lung cancer in Torrance, California in 1986. He was survived by his wife, Muriel ‘Mal’ Weber, to whom he had been married since 1932. They had a son, Daniel, and an adopted daughter, Victoria. Frank Thompson at Film Reference: “Hollywood never quite knew what it had in Ray Milland, but he continuously showed himself to be an adventurous artist, always interested in exposing his established image to radical and surprising lights.”
Sources: Frank Thompson (Film Reference), Lynn Dougherty (Classic Movie Favorites), Kit and Morgan Benson (Find A Grave), Reel Classics, AllMovie, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Original Digital Painting with Procreate, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencil. 24 hours painting time.
This is my most complex, carefully crafted, work to date. The black grid and shapes are all hand-drawn and painted. The red yellow and blue fills likewise. The white overlays were added last and sit on top of the primary fills.
Because it was painted in layers, I also can produce the ‘Primary Variation’ - a version without the white overlays. Although this one is what I envisioned from the start, the Primary Variation may be the stronger image. Opinions welcome.
Arthur Moment said : Our revolution is a licensed Middle Class product. The last unseen seen. Thanks for the ride.
This March 1989 Kodachrome shows a rather burnt U30B leading this southbound train at Carleton, Michigan.
Stuck behind my airlines and below my sander, a GBO which was handed up to me rides along all day. It was issued to alert crews if the new speed limit sign which can be seen in yellow out of focus to the right of the smoke stack. It’s not often I’m given a GBO or any orders during the day, so this stood out to me a little bit and made for a classic scene.
The last of my Spring pre-orders have arrived and the first one is Fine Print Elise. For 2015 the theme for Fashion Royalty is inspired by the early 60s. I can say that this is where Integrity Toys’ comfort zone is. Fashion Royalty is known for vintage flair and glamour of that period. Along with the theme they have new face designs for each of the dolls. It’s stylized in a way that their reminiscent to the paint styles of vintage dolls from the mid-century era. You see this is where the risk that they took got tricky because for me this somehow affected the sales of the collection. The dolls don’t stand a chance from other versions from past collections and from the 2016 Cinematic Convention collection. They just don’t compare. There’s nothing edgy about these dolls. They’re stripped off of that. Obviously this isn’t my favorite collection in terms of face design. I realize how hard it is to redesign faces because it's like reinventing the wheel over and over again and that's why we see a lot of rehashed screenings lately. But the new face styles in this collection are kind of a step back. They just feel odd to me. They're more appropriate for Monogram or Victoire Roux.
I do have to say that the Madame look that they gave Elise fits her character. The hairstyle works for her. In fact I love it. I really hope they use this hairstyle for her again on a version with toned down make-up and a better face design. Also the color palette is like a flashback to Vivid Impact Agnes. That doll is dreckitude! That’s all I’m gonna say. Fine Print does come with good fashion pieces though. The coat feels luxurious. The printed pencil dress seems like a good addition to the wardrobe even though I’m tired of seeing the same neckline. The shoes are basic. Very similar to Style Notes Isha. In fact I think they’re just the same as well as the earrings, but with the addition of the bracelet and the magnetic brooch. The must-have piece though is the Hermès inspired hand bag. It has a pearlescent finish. It’s well-made. It has an open closure. I hate to be a Debby Downer but I feel this version of Elise/Elyse will go down as one of the worst versions of her. For 2016 I want Integrity to push for more chic, edgy, modern and less matronly looks for Fashion Royalty. I’m not saying that they should be as edgy as the Nu.Face girls but think of the way Victoria Beckham, Karolina Kurkova and even Naomi Campbell wear dresses by David Koma, Antonio Berardi and Azzedine Alaïa. Age appropriate, classy but very fashion forward. Let's give that Madame look a rest for a change. They can have several seats for now.
Every hand is needed. The lady hands over some train orders for the DVZO train operating between Schlieren and Dietikon as our train with the big steam engine gets ready.
A couple of local enthusiasts take in the sight and sound of 55012 CREPELLO as it throbs away in the late afternoon gloom of Paragon station on 26th February 1981 before leaving with 1A28 16:30 Hull - King's Cross.
Zenit EM f/2 30th/sec Ektachrome 64
For everything you ever wanted to know about these magnificent machines, go to www.napier-chronicles.co.uk
Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) have hatched in Sierra Valley and are swarming. We saw a dense black mat of them fifty yards wide crossing an asphalt road from grass to chaparral, but the whole of the crossing swarm was more like a quarter mile of road. One reason they are all marching mostly one direction is that they are cannibals - bigger ones eat smaller nymphs - so keep moving to either eat or avoid being eaten. The wet winter set off the mass hatching and this swarm of at least a million will persist for months or even years, eating every plant in its path.
What can I say I was arrested by the F.B.I (Flickr Bureau of Investigation) and thrown in prison for a week.
I was charged with
● Impersonating a proper photographer
● Posting pictures of myself on flickr, which caused distress to others
● Being an obstruction to low flying aircraft due to my height
The FBI have been watching me for a while apparently and using 600mm lenses to stay hidden.
They grew suspicious after looking at my pictures 199,000 times but wondered how I reached over 200,000 views.
Anyway I was interrogated at Flickr headquarters in San Francisco, they wanted to know how I got into Explore without using pictures of nails and nail varnishes, teddies, dolls with button eyes, dolls with large breasts, pictures with bokeh and oof shots.
I didn't crack even after 20 hours of lamps in my face down in the basement so they transferred me to flickr Penitentiary.
They chloroformed me for the 10 minute journey across the road, I woke up a few hours later in my cell but damn that chloroform stuff really makes your bottom hurt.
Flickr Penitentiary was one hell of a scary experience especially as I shared a cell with Mr Big.
Mr Big was great for getting stuff, and I mean the hard stuff, I'm talking about class 10 cards none of this class 4 crap, the read and write times of the class 10 stuff sent me dizzy and on a high helping me to get through this horrible experience.
The Penitentiary was separated into groups I was in the Nikon group called the Nikon Bad boys then there was the Canon group called the 'L' class maulers and it was these two groups who ruled the place.
Another group was formed of smaller groups to make them stronger, they contained Sony, Pentax and Fuji and thanks to their combined numbers they where 10 strong.
Then you had the bridge camera and compact camera group, everyone just felt sorry for them, at night when it was really quiet you could hear them crying themselves to sleep, only if they spent a bit more on a proper camera.
The last group was the film users who were lifers, they had been in there forever.
The film users walked around like mindless zombies talking to pigeons and the walls telling them how digital is the work of the Devil and how you can't beat breathing in the fumes of film chemicals. They also ran the library bringing photography books to our cells on a trolley.
You are probably wondering how I got the scar on my face well I was mopping the corridor along the cells when three Canon users came round the corner and grabbed me.
Two held me down whilst the other one threatened me, he must have been a 5D MKIII owner as he looked like the boss and was very confident, the two apes looked like 550d owners to me, just following orders as they lacked the proper equipment.
Boss man told me to stay out of Explore if I knew what was good for me then slashed my face with what looked like a sharpened class 10 sdhc card attached to a toothbrush.
I was in the infirmary for the rest of the day with a nasty scar for my troubles.
Not long after I was released on bail thanks to my lawer a very famous landscape photographer who really knows what he's talking about, very knowledgeable and methodical.
Thanks to my lawer I also got the the set up used by the FBI for my police mugshot.
Taken With
►Nikon D300s
►Nikon 16-85 @45mm
►Tripod + Cable Release
►Elemental Ultra Pro 600 studio lamp with 42 inch Beauty Dish + Honeycomb cover
►2x Jessops 360 AFD flashguns
►Yongnuo RF-602 trigger + receivers
I was really impressed with their equipment and how they used it.
The elemental lamp was to the side of the camera and pointing down at my face and set at 1/2 power, the honeycomb cover helped to channel the light at my face.
1x flashgun was placed behind me pointing at the wall and set at 1/4 power.
1X flashgun was placed in the same position as the main lamp but lower down and set at 1/8 power to add light to the mugshot board.
All fired off camera using Yongnuo RF-602 trigger + receivers.
Thanks for reading about my experience and press 'L' on your keyboard to view this prisoner on black.
Now I'm out I will try and pop past your streams soon.
P.s anyone who reads this, leaves a comment, adds this as a fav, is a contact or just visits out of curiosity is now an accessory to the charges and will be subject to investigation by the FBI.
Perhaps I should have told you that at the begining Doh !