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After hanging out on Pan Am waiting for the high hood on FI-1 to head east, I started to head home and as I crossed over Pratt's Junction Crossing I saw the headlights gleaming on the rails. Nice quick stumble
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Colas 56 094 stops very briefly to pick up a staff member from Platform 1.
A snatched image as I didn't realise until the last minute it would be stopping in the Platform. Enough time to quick change settings and plonk the camera on it's bag. The second the shutter had fired 56 094 rolled off. We could still hear the thrash when it was miles away!
A very cold and wet platform with the rain hammering down....
The random dusting of white on the platform isn’t a severe case of dandruff,it’s a liberal application of Kilfrost to prevent platform surfaces from freezing
Some Young History.
Like all the areas of the western slopes of NSW this was once the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri Aboriginal people. Their lands covered one of the biggest agricultural regions of Australia. There was little conflict in this region and diseases more than pastoralist action reduced their numbers considerably within a couple of years of white pastoral occupation. Like so many areas beyond the declared Nineteen Counties- the legal limit of white settlement in the 1820s and 1830s - the first pastoralist was white squatter James White in 1826. This free settler established his Burrangong station on the banks of Stoney Creek on the advice of a local Aboriginal man, Coborn Jackie. James White never married but his brother joined him and the first white child born in the region was his niece Sarah White in 1830. She lived to be 107 years old. The district was rich as the soils were volcanic soils and numerous streams ran westward to the lower areas of western NSW. The area where the sheep flocks of White rested for their lambing became known as Lambing Flat. Another pastoralist Edward Taylor planted some cherry trees in 1847. In the 1840s these squatters got licensing and later leasehold rights over the land. Until the upheaval of 1860. Gold was discovered then by James White’s nephew Dennis Regan and Alexander the Yankee with it being reported in the press in August 1860.
By mid-1861 20,000 miners were at Lambing Flat including 2,000 Chinese diggers. The Chinese were resented and some argue that the origins of the White Australia Policy stem from the xenophobia of Lambing Flat. There is no direct linkage here but the sentiments foreshadowed the Commonwealth policy of 1901. A group of white diggers drove off 500 Chinese miners in November of 1860 and violence and distrust continued as they destroyed their tents. The NSW government acted quickly and a Gold Commissioner and troops were despatched to Lambing Flat two weeks later. A further group of Chinese were driven away in December. In early January a similar incident occurred but this time the diggers threatened to attack the police troops if they interfered. Despite 30 police troops at Lambing Flat a further indecent occurred at the end of January when hundreds of Chinese were frightened off the fields and their tens burnt. A Miners Protective League was formed to expel the Chinese. This did not happen on other goldfields so why Lambing Flat? No one really knows. In March the government sent 300 troops to Lambing Flat armed with cannon and a defensive compound was erected. The last violence occurred in late June and early July 1861 when 3,000 miners attacked the Chinese, cut off pigtails and stole property and burnt tents. One European miner was killed in the melee. Next they attacked the fortified gaol in order to release some imprisoned miners for violence on the goldfields. One miner was killed by the police during the riot which happened near the current main street of Young. The Courthouse and police station were burnt down by the protesters. Calm quickly returned and the police regained control of the goldfields. Were the miners influenced by their knowledge of Eureka? Is this really a foreshadowing of the emergence of the workers unions? Five miners were tried for crimes in Goulburn Courthouse later in 1861 but were all acquitted and then the NSW government passed the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act in November 1861. The miners appeared to have won the battle. The anti-Chinese banner which the rioters carried was hidden for 100 years but re-discovered in Young in the 1960s. It is now in the town museum. The Lambing Flat Folk Museum in Young has artefacts to tell the story of the Lambing Flat riots and the bushranging era. It also has the name plate of Coborn Jackie the Aboriginal friend and advisor of James White.
The town of Yong was surveyed in March of 1861 during the goldfield violence. The name of Lambing Flat was already tainted by then and the town was named Young after Sir John Young the Governor of NSW from 1861 to 1867. Town blocks were sold in May 1861 and before the end of that year Young had a Post Office, a school, a bank, an Anglican and a Catholic church and a newspaper. A hospital and a new Courthouse were erected in 1862. At that time Young was having about 124,000 ounces of gold escorted out of the town annually. But the rush was over by 1864 and less and less gold was being located by 1867. The town turned into an agricultural service centre with a saw mill (1865), a flour mill (1866), a brewery (1877) and finally railway (1885). The town then got a tannery, a soap factory, a work boot factory, a brick kiln, meat works and butter factory all before 1900. In 1889 Young became the first town outside of Sydney to have a domestic electricity supply for its residents. The arrival of the railway in 1885 allowed farmers to experiment with fruit crops as the train could speed them to markets in Sydney. Apples, oranges and plums were the first grown commercially in the 1890s and one farmer in the 1890s had a cherry orchard with 7,000 fruiting trees and 3,000 seedling cherries. Others followed suit and by 1908 Young was railing 15,000 cases of cherries to Sydney each season. Major expansion of the cherry industry occurred in the 1920s with 77 orchards near Young and it was soon the second most important cherry growing region of NSW after Orange. Young began holding a cherry festival in 1949 and still does each year in early December when picking is in full swing.
Some interesting buildings in Boorowa Street and vicinity are:
•In Zouch Street is the Gothic Anglican Church built in 1893. Architect was Edmund Blacket. The first Anglican Church was built on this spot in 1865. Adjacent is the red brick 1937 Rectory and the 1866 Anglican school room.
•Continue along Cloete St. Take next left into Lynch St. Here is the Methodist Church built in 1909. Now the Uniting Church. Built in Arts and Craft style with horizontal banding bricks, tower etc. The first Methodist Church was built in 1865. Turn around and go along Lynch Street.
•On the corner is the 1928 neo classical style Courthouse with Doric columns.
•Next to it is the much altered Post Office and clock built in 1878. The original Post Office stood here when built 1862.
•Cross the roundabout to see the School of Arts building and library. Built in 1904 as a single storey with two gables.
•Next door is the former AMP Society building on the corner. Built in the 1920s with a curved Doric pillared entrance with the AMP statue logo above. A friend in times of need.
•Opposite is the Presbyterian Church. Built in 1920 of greenish grey coloured feldspar quartz. Young’s first Presbyterian church was built in 1871. Turn around and turn right at the roundabout into Boorowa St.
•On the corner is the Baroque style Commercial Bank of Sydney built in 1890. Two different style porches for the entrances.
•On the right painted grey is The Great Eastern Hotel built in 1904. A typical Australian hotel but with triangular pediments.
•At the next roundabout is the Commercial Hotel. Built in 1930s in Spanish Mission style in red brick.
•Next on left is Millard’s Department Store built in 1917. A major three storey edifice in the street.
•Opposite is Young Town Hall built in 1875. In 1922 the Soldiers War Memorial Clock tower was added. Turn around and go back to the roundabout and turn right. Just along the road is the marked Federation building built around 1901. It has a stepped pediment along the roof. It is important as it was the store of one of the last 19th century Chinese traders in Young – Billy Hayes (anglicised.) He ran it to the 1960s.
•Turn right here next you will see on the right the five storey red brick Millard’s flourmill. Cross the creek.
•You will see St Mary’s Catholic Church. Gothic in style and erected 1874 of local granite with Welsh slate roof. Granite addition to the nave made in 1934. Just behind the church on the side street is the Catholic Convent built in 1891. Gothic looking gables and excellent cast iron lacework on balconies. Now part of the Catholic College.
•Opposite is the Lambing Flat Museum in the old original town school. It opened in 1883. The first town school began in 1861 with the first government school on the site on the present railway station.
•Beyond the park is Young High School. It began as the first Courthouse on these goldfields in 1861. A second grand classical Greek temple building Courthouse opened in 1886 at a cost of £12,000. It was given to the Education Department in 1924. With additions it opened as the Young High School in 1947.
•Young railway station. The railway reached here from Harden in 1885 when the Gothic station was built. It is now the Information Centre.
Pulpit Pond, continued.
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"Oh, I can't believe it," I said as we pulled into the driveway, "the sun is almost down, and I still don't have a photo for the day."
"Look!" she said. "The horses are out! Quick you grab your camera, and I'll get the carrots!"
Running empty cars from Winchelsea to Lake Modewarre where the train will pick up the charter passengers after planting trees, B76,S302 stop for a quick photo on 13-8-2000
Tyrion didn't want to walk with me... he was too scared. I quickly looked at his teeth to determine his age, and since he seemed young, I felt comfortable to just pick him up, and walk off the ramp.
I thanked the two Los Angeles Animal Services officers who knew my rescue work and were very happy that he wouldn't end up in their shelter.
Here is Quick Curl Barbie with her original hair set. Barbie is wearing "Party Separates #7841" from 1974.
A P-51 Mustang called Quick Silver flying at the Kwik Fill Rochester International Airshow in Rochester, New York on Sunday, August 17, 2014.
Details best viewed in Original Size.
I photographed this squirrel raiding the food bowl of the Red Panda at the Denver Zoo. The resident Red Pandas seemed oblivious to the theft of their food. The squirrel then left, was gone for a couple of minutes and then, either the same squirrel or its cousin, came back for more. According to Wikipedia, the Douglas Squirrel is a pine squirrel is sometimes known as the chickaree or pine squirrel with variant spellings of the common name of Douglas' squirrel and Douglas's squirrel. Douglas squirrels mostly eat seeds of coniferous trees such as Douglas fir, Sitka Spruce and shore pine. They also eat acorns, berries, mushrooms, the eggs of birds such as Yellow Warblers, and some fruit including strawberries and plums. Unlike many other types of tree squirrel, they lack cheek pouches in which to hold food. They are scatter hoarders, burying pinecones (which they cut from the trees while green) during the autumn. They often use a single place, called a midden, for peeling the scales off cones to get at the seeds. The discarded scales may accumulate for years, into piles more than a yard (meter) across as the same site is used by generations of squirrels. Their predators include American martens, Bobcats, domestic cats, northern goshawks, and owls; although they quickly acclimatize to human presence, humans can be a threat to them, through robbing of their cone caches to find seeds for tree cultivation and through the destruction of old growth forest. However, the squirrels' numbers appear to be unaffected by commercial thinning of forests.
Would it still be historically accurate to give a Russian the gaiter legs on the right? I was going to get a matching marine torso to use with it yesterday but thanks to friggin CB day they sold out within 30 minutes.
I've learned to love those little lucky rays of sunshine, the ones that miss every branch and obstacle to shine on some bare bit of earth below. Sure, I could stand in a field someplace, and get all the light I want. But I choose a point of desperation, a rushing moment passing, quickly blinking away. We both know that says something about me. My whole heart comes back to the hard way, the narrow gauge of now and then. I've never had much interest in taking pictures, it's just my excuse for adventure, to feel with no one watching. If you're here now with your heart intact, then that's everything I've wanted for my memories.
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"Stefano" the 1954 Lancia Appia with 1964 NSU Quickly. The NSU is having mechanical problems, but the Lancia is running well after some minor maintenance.
A quick tip
Although often light straight on the model can be considered "not so good" it can sometimes really make a model jump out when used with the right expression, styling and backdrop.
Nadine did the styling here and trust me it was a throw away dress ;). Shot against our opulent red FD signature series #clickpropsbackdrops
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French Machine Gunner takes quick nap while his unit stops.
Due to a sudden general mobilisation, speed was essential to reach the predetermined defensive positions.
Ausbildung der QRF - Kräfte (Quick Reaction Force). Bergen eines Verwundeten, am 18.04.2008.
©Bundeswehr/Andrea Bienert
Is the brick I found special?
Partnumbers 3001old, 3001 and 3001special as used on BrickLink (but excluding the 3001oldf1 and 3001f1 variants).
Yesterday’s thrift loot
I’ll admit it: I did not wash the things I thrifted on Saturday before I wore them on Sunday. But I did wear layers beneath them, so is that less gross?
My neighbor and I spent two and a half hours at the Salvation Army on Saturday. She has way more shopping stamina than I do. The upside is that, while she’s trying on 30 tops, I continue browsing and finding goodies of my own, like this dress and blazer. In fact, I got the idea to pair them together while in the store. Genius takes time.
Jacket, Cabi (thrifted). Dress, H&M (thrifted). Turtleneck, A New Day. Leggings, B. Allen. Boots, Steve Madden. Bag, A+ designed by Aldo.