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After speaking at RuPy 2009 in Pozna, Poland some of speakers went to diner. The food was very very tasty. The group of people consisted of Mike Dirolf (MongoDB), Eleanor McHugh (Hardcore Ruby), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Julian Fischer (Avarteq, Enterprise-Rails, RailsHoster), Serge Smetana (Rails Performance) and James Williams (Grails). Great people, great minds. I hope we'll meet again, soon.
The view heading east toward Dundee from Ninewells with the Taybridge (centre) over which a small jet plane is approaching Dundee Airport.
Ballast maintenance equipment on the Simplon Line along lake Leman for the SBB-CFF-FFS railroad. The blue rig runs back and forth "on rails" set on the side of the yellow/grey railcars...Treytorrens, canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Old rails in the woods. According to Larch Mountain expert Don Nelson: "This iron rail was probably first used by the horse-drawn streetcars in 1870’s Portland. When Mr. Bessemer’s process made turning iron into steel affordable, most iron rail was pulled up and sold for scrap. This rail was likely purchased used and laid down on a short spur line off the main RR line out of Palmer. It wouldn’t be subject to the heavy wear and tear of heavily loaded trains returning with their loads of old-growth timber. The forest service sold a stand of timber about 30 or 40 years ago and a logging road was graded over the top of part of the rail line and this rail was taken up and pushed into the pile you see here. Somehow this survived the scrap drives of WWII, probably because no one knew it was here or maybe because the work of getting it out was more than it was worth."
66 kilos: Brent Metcalf (USA) vs. Soslan Ramanov (Russia)
Beat the Streets NYC. Wrestling event at Grand Central Terminal, NYC, NY USA
This is the Original looking & none restored Bescot Curve bridge, minus hand rails, metal thieves, and damage done by heavy Plant and concrete crushing machines being constantly moved on/off site by DSM Demolition, who currently occupy this area beyond the bridge.
Work is starting on the new streetcar line in Milwaukee including digging out the space for the new tracks on St. Paul Avenue. Rails are being stored at two locations for eventual installation.
Rails belonging to Milwaukee's first streetcar system-The Milwaukee Electric Railway (TMER)-were revealed during construction on St. Paul Avenue at Plankinton as you can see here.
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In 1893 a railroad was completed to the town of Monte Cristo to haul the ore mined out of the mountains to market. The West Fork Sauk River (seen on the right) repeatedly flooded the railroad and eventually the rails were abandoned. Here, the river exposed the old rails again during spring flooding.
"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do."~Barbara Ann Scott
Evidence remains in a few places of the colliery that once operated on the site of Rothwell Country Park. Here, rails can still be seen embedded into the concrete surface of the tipping yard, where coal was transferred from colliery wagons to mainline trains.
They're already tearing up the temporary balloon loop at Positivgatan. Tramline closed south of Axel Dahlström this weekend, on Monday trams will be running from the new station at Frölunda torg. They're busy laying the rails. The station will still be a construction site for many more weeks.
Something I'm working on in my spare time. It's still rough around the edges (e.g. search looks horrid).
It's supposed to be integrated into a bigger system, such as the publishing system I'm also working on.