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In the summer of 1968 my family was returning from a vacation in Arizona, As was usual, we always found an excuse to travel close to a railhead. It's a warm late evening in the desert at the then open and working working El Garces Santa Fe station in Needles CA. We were up late to see the westbound San Francisco Chief make it's station stop here. My dad took this photo of the ATSF station clock. It has always amazed me how, back in those days, time was the most critical thing to be measured. My grandfather was a conductor for the Southern Pacific for 43 years and always carried a pocket watch with him that had to be inspected and certified by the railroad to be accurate to the second. This clock in Needles was no different, with it's notification that it is officially 2 seconds slow. Oh how times have changed.
First off, I would like to say that I am very behind with uploading photos, and it's only going to get worse as I start my new job in the next few weeks. But anyways, it's the middle of the night in Pewaukee,WI as CP 581 sits tied down with a now solo NS EMD SD80MAC, a recrew showed up at about 2300, took the second unit to eastwards to Rondout, and left the Mac here dead in the water. Even as of now, this train has yet to move an inch
Part of the rapidly growing river population around East London.
A by-product of living on the river is the heaps of junk springing up on shared towpaths !.
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A male model arcs into a controlled inversion against a muted purple backdrop, legs folding overhead as the arms anchor softly behind. The pose reveals sculpted lines, quiet tension, and a deliberate play between structure and release.
Precision National Corporation SD24 6327 on the BN at Clyde, Illinois on an unknown day in April 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 6327 was built in October 1959 as Southern SD24 2508 ( c/n 25604 ), renumbered in 1972 to 6327. It was sold to PNC in January 1978, leased for about a year as PNC 6327 during 1979-1980 to the BN, sold to the ICG during 1980, rebuilt to ICG SD20 2027, eventually becoming IHB 2923.
Gallarus Oratory, a 1200 year old building on the Dingle Peninsula which has survived perfectly apart from a slight sagging of the roof. I loved the precision of the window and door lining up like this...
HTT!
This is probably the most precisely straight partline I've ever done. It looks like stock, if stock scalps came with alpaca.
Precision National Corporation SD24 6335 on the ICG at Markham, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in November 1959 as Southern SD24 2516 ( c/n 25612 ) on EMD Order 5606, it was renumbered by the Southern in 1972 to 6335, sold to PNC during January 1978, and leased out by PNC. This unit was not rebuilt, but scrapped by PNC.
Very clean looking cutaway on an old wreck.
Different wreck at Pin Mill in Suffolk, Fascinating place with loads to look at I've only been here twice once tide in once tide out and took 3 different cameras over the course of two trips.
Looking at the 16 mega pixel Pentax K5 llS, a 24 mega pixel Nikon D7100 and the full frame Nikon D800E.
If anyone knows of any similar places to this in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk please leave a comment I would love to visit all of them.
April 1976. Precision National GP10 3445 sits at the East Park engine house at Conway, Pennsylvania. Precision National was another rail equipment leasing company in the 70s and 80s before going bankrupt.
The wayward pair of foreign motors on CSX B815-11 was backing through the interlocking at Mexico to pick up the exact same CSX GE that some wise person in Jacksonville has ordered the crew to cut off over five hours previous.
-- with ghostlike precision
and simplicity
i measure the distance between my life
and my lifelessness
i look pale in the mirror
and colder in the morning
Just one more before I clutter off into non flickr mode.
Yesterday Nancy Rose , myself and hubby attended the Air Show in Shearwater NS. The wind was particularly nippy and the sky, as far as photos were concerned was pretty gray. That said the aerial displays by the Snow Birds was impressive as was the aerobatics display that followed them. I am posted a couple from this event today as I shall be non flickring most of the week again I suspect!
Officially known as the Canadian Forces 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, the Snowbirds are Canada's military aerobatics or air show flight demonstration team whose purpose is to "demonstrate the skill, professionalism, and teamwork of Canadian Forces personnel". The squadron is under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Forces Air Command and is based in CFB Moose Jaw, near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Snowbirds are the first Canadian air demonstration team to be designated as a squadron.
I took this shot because I was curious what the squirrel had in its mouth. Turned out to be an old pecan it had dug up. I thought the 2 teeth holding the nut looked very cool so kept the shot.
Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger)
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Como decÃa fotos atrás, las golondrinas son buenas voladoras, y se mueven rápidas y con gran precisión, tanto para beber agua con vuelos rasantes como para cazar insectos o dar de comer al vuelo a sus polluelos, en este caso uno tan desarrollado como el progenitor.
Por otro lado me satisface la acutancia (o precisión) de este objetivo todoterreno, de esos que tan malas opiniones reciben. La imagen es un recorte de una foto con focal de 250mm, a unos 12 o 15 metros de las golondrinas y disparando a pulso con enfoque manual. Lo único que no me gusta es el extraño bokeh que ha quedado con el diafragma a f/9.
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Cunit, Tarragona
M-FWPR sits at Yard Center with KCSM 4527, a rare Grey KCS De Mexico AC4400 The crew had just been informed to tie down after only making it from Villa Grove to Yard Center in about 6 hours. Precision Railroading takes a back seat in some cases, it seems.
On 27/02/19 I kept an eye on the 0E19 move from Longport EMD to Hull KGV Docks, to convey 66998 back for export. It was always going to be tight as it was booked through Derby at precisely 1700...when I finish uni! Luckily I finished early and as I went through the ticket barriers, Northern Belle 57312 passed by...that was that then!
As the ensemble went away towards a green signal, they ended up stopping short. This was because a party from ROG had met the train, and one member went to change the tail lamp, which appeared to be a bike light strapped to the lamp bracket with cable ties! He added a standard lamp, then thankfully the crew had a brief chat, during which time I'd run up the platform (with bike) and got just one photo. I also got one video on my phone of the lot departing...I can actually be heard panting in the video!
This is a phone picture as there was not time to get my camera out...below is the video:
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Precision measurements tools, old and new. A digital calliper, a couple of years old and a micrometer which was my father's so must be a good 70 years old, and still works perfectly!
73 of 121 pictures in 2021 - Precision
Home built Precision bass project.
Top - bare wood
Middle - grain filled, sanded, stained and ready for some nitro clearcoat
Bottom - finished article
Body - Swamp ash Precision bass body
Neck - Maple Jazz bass neck
Nut - Tusq synthetic ivory
Pickup - Seymour Duncan SPB-1
Vol & tone pots - CTS
Jack socket - Swithcraft
Machine heads - Gotoh
Bridge, scratch plate and other hardware - Generic stuff
Strings - Fender
Seen arriving Oshkosh, WI as part of the 2016 Wisconsin Special Olympics Truck Convoy. Always a great event!!
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