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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 58mm f/2 with a reversed rear element
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For Smile on Saturday! - capture the time
This Regulator clock kept time in the house when I was a little boy in the 1960s. It tick-tocked outside my bedroom and I became so accustomed that I could lie in the quiet darkness trying to hear it, but perceiving only its echo over the hardwood living room floor before my parents laid down wall-to-wall carpet. My brain cancelled out the rhythmic noise.
My father said he had picked the clock off a rubbish heap somewhere. On the back is scrawled in pencil, "Oct. 19, 1918."
My parents must have given it to me when they replaced it with a fancy new one that never kept time properly. Around that time I had finished university and college and had my own apartment in 1988. A few years later the hinge of the glass cover broke off in my hand, but the frame of glass itself remains intact. Then the clock stopped working.
I don't think it would be difficult to repair but I wasn't the kind of person who opens things and fiddles with them without knowledge. I've kept it, hoping I'd find someone to repair it. Since 2015 it has hidden in the back of a pile of boxes in the basement. I was surprised to be able to find and retrieve it so easily. Maybe I'm curious and fearless enough now to remove the face and see if I can figure out what stalled the mechanism.
It's in many ways a timepiece.
Ironically, after shooting this set of photos for Smile on Saturday and transferring it to Lightroom, I noticed the last frame was timed past midnight, making it ineligible as POD for Project 365. The time on this shot is 11:59. The correct time was only 10 pm. I must have set the camera clock back instead of forward for Daylight Savings Time. It's funny how this antique clock that doesn't even work managed to tell me through a photo that the hi-tech camera had it wrong, for "capture the time."
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Not one from the Lincoln County War, but one from the propane grill in the yard.
In 2008 I had gotten my Canon 40D. A little at a time, I began getting lenses for it, including this EF-S 60 mm macro lens.
For weeks, maybe months, I was on hands and knees getting as close as I could to just about everything that'd hold still. And even a lot that wouldn't.
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Regulators. We regulate any stealin' of his property. We’re damn good too. But you can’t be any geek off the street. You gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean. Earn your keep. Regulators, mount up!
DRS' 88010 'Aurora' and 68004 'Rapid' pass the along the sea wall at Saltcoats with 6M23 from Hunterston to Sellafield. This service is used to move nuclear material from the Hunterston nuclear power stations to Sellafield for processing.
Hunterston in North Ayrshire is home to 2 nuclear power stations - Hunterston A and Hunterston B.
Hunterston A operated between 1964 and 1990 and is in the process of being decommissioned by NDA licensee Magnox Ltd. The decommissioning process is planned to end in 2072 at which point the buildings will be demolished and site cleared.
Hunterston B - operated by EDF Energy - is still active having started operations in 1976. The station has managed to remain operational for longer than initially expected (decommissioning was due to start in 2011), but operations will cease within the next few months with the decommissioning process planned to start no later than the 7th of January 2022.
Within the last decade Hunterston B has gained media attention after it was discovered that the number of fractures in the reactors exceeded the operational limit specified in the safety case. The reactors were shut down while investigations were carried out and a revised safety case submitted to the regulator. Each of the 2 reactors were subsequently restarted in August 2020 and September 2020 respectively.
Quite a bit going on in this shot. In additional to the manifest rolling east through the siding at Rocky, we see a regulator on the main to the right. You might also notice that the spur switch to the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead is also open. The main track here at Rocky is currently out-of-service. UP is checking for track damage on the main after a derailment last Friday. They are also storing some MOW equipment on the main and on the spur in the meantime. The tank car that derailed can be spotted to the left on the house track.
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Subject: As long as it ticks
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Explored Highest position: 59 on Tuesday, September 15, 2015.
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This is the face of my replica antique Regulator chime wall clock. I've owned and enjoyed this beautiful clock for many years. The case is a dark brown wood, hexagon shaped around the clock face and the bottom part of case holds a pendulum. It chimes on the hour.
Pan Am's flag fell today but just shy of two years ago we lost this road to another Class 1 buyout. I'd respectfully argue this was the bigger loss. I only got to see it once, and just days before the buyout at that. I'm sooo glad I made the effort in the midst of covid to go see then for the first and last time. Here is another frame from that day and the caption I wrote at the time with something I shared long ago:
Central Maine and Quebec Railway westbound Job 1 is departing Jackman at MP 73.6 on the Moosehead Subdivision with the Canadian crew on board having just swapped out with the crew that brought the train over from Brownville Jct. At left is the original Canadian Pacific station erected in 1910, now unused and derelict it amazingly was a stop for VIA Rail's Atlantic until 1994.
I was fortunate to photograph three trains on the Moosehead this day including this Job 1 with pure CMQ power, an SD40-2F "barn" and both of the road's AC400CWs. Job 2 featured a tired CP AC4400CW leader, a CMQ barn, another CP unit and a leader geep.
This would be my first and last chance to photograph the CMQ Railway on their last weekend of existence as the Canadian Pacific is taking back over their historic property on June 4th. And while it is going to be sad to see the CMQ go I suppose if anyone was to have to take over it is kind of nice to see a Class 1 return to Maine and on a line that was historically their own.
Construction began in 1886 on the International Railway of Maine (a CPR subsidiary) and was completed in June 1889. This route in conjunction with the purchase of several smaller roads to the east and the west in Canada and trackage rights over the Maine Central's former Eurpean & North American Railway line between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. This route across Maine gave CPR access to the ice free port of St. John, New Brunswick and made the road a true Transcontinental System.
For the next century the line would be an important link in CPR's network and as late as 1974 they continued to invest in the property when they purchased the former E&NA route that they had maintained trackage rights on for 85 years between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. However, within a decade CP Rail was seeing dramatic declines in traffic on its eastern lines and in 1988 the CP created an internal shortline known as the Canadian Atlantic Railway to operate all lines east of Megantic, QC in Maine, New Brunswick, & Nova Scotia. Over the next few years nearly all the branch lines in those two provinces were abandoned. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP Rail to apply for abandonment with U.S. and Canadian regulators, however the company was denied in lieu of selling the track to another operator. Several short line railroad companies subsequently entered into negotiations with CP Rail to purchase the entire CAR.
Negotiations for purchasing the lines in New Brunswick, Maine and Quebec with the short line operators fell through in early 1994 and CP Rail reapplied for abandonment of its line across Maine between Saint John and Megantic, later extended west to Lennoxville. An abandonment date of December 31, 1994, was established should no purchaser be found in the interim.
Ultimately in January 1995 two buyers were found which kept the historic route intact but split it between two operators. All trackage east of Brownville Jct. became the property of J.D. Erving limited which operated the lines seamlessly as the Eastern Maine Railway and New Brunswick Southern Railway.
Meanwhile the Moosehead Subdivision to the west and the CP lines in Quebec were sold to the Iron Road Railways which operated them as subsidiary Canadian American. Iron Road would also come to purchase other CP lines in Quebec and Vermont as well as the entire the Bangor and Aroostook system creating a more than 800 mile long system. However, this network would prove no more viable to Iron Roads than it was to CP and by 2002 Iron Roads was bankrupt.
In January 2003 Ed Burkhart's Rail World Inc. purchased the assets and created the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway to operate them. A bit over a decade later the MMA was itself bankrupt following the horrifying disaster at Lac Megantic. In March 2014, Fortress Investment's newly formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway acquired the line from the bankruptcy trustee. Having grown business and upgraded the physical plant to again make the road financially viable Fortress put it up for sale and in a strange turn of events Canadian Pacific was the winning bidder. So 32 years after CP first spun it off into Canadian Atlantic and three more operators after that, they are back on their historic home territory! What a strange twist.
Jackman, Maine
Saturday May 30, 2020
This was a quick photo op just before one of our many night patrols. I'm guessing by some of the sniffle-gear that this photo was taken mid to late December.
Sniffle-gear n. 1. Clothing designed to keep the whiners warm.
She always wondered why it couldn't be different. Why things never change. And why she always feels...abandoned.
Marché de la BoquerÃa - Boqueria Market - Mercat de la Boqueria - Barcelone - Catalogne - Espagne - Barcelona, Catalunya - Spain
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Où est le fameux régulateur (la balance) ? Il est toujours au service de ceux qui veulent se faire peser mais il s'est déplacé de quelques mètres... il se trouve désormais à l'intérieur du marché de la BoquerÃa , à l'entrée de l'accès aux bureaux.
Jusqu'en 2009, il était installé sur sur Las Ramblas, à l'angle du bâtiment El Regulador, là ou se trouvait la bijouterie et atelier Bagués, une bijouterie emblématique avec une grande tradition familiale de la famille Bagués-Masriera . Le nom du bâtiment est connu pour l'ancien régulateur qui se trouvait à l'entrée sur lequel chacun pouvait se peser gratuitement.
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Where is the famous regulator (the scale)? It is still at the service of those who want to be weighed but it has moved a few meters... it is now inside the BoquerÃa market, at the entrance to the offices.
Until 2009, it was installed on Las Ramblas, on the corner of the El Regulador building, where the Bagués jewelry and workshop was located, an emblematic jewelry store with a great family tradition of the Bagués-Masriera family. The name of the building is known for the old regulator that was located at the entrance on which everyone could weigh themselves for free.
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Another close call in that the lady in the red jacket is a Virgin employee and she is waiting for the 1928 London Kings Cross-Newcastle service which was breathing down my neck. With the regulator open and belting through Grantham station No 46233 looked and sounded great. I've removed some of the Christmas trimmings from the smokebox door.
The York Yuletide Express York-Peterborough(steam) LMS Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 No 46233 Duchess of Sutherland
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6U40 1030 Upminster Tamper Sdgs to Diss Recp engineers movement seen passing Barham pits on the GEML at 1321.
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