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Of all rail locomotives produced on planet earth nothing has ever touched the versatility and the staying power of the EMD SD40-2. The SD40 series was produced by Electro-Motive Diesel beginning in January of 1966, and lasting until the final Canadian Pacific order of SD40-2F's in late 1988. The two-decade long production run undergirded the reputation these engines had as the most reliable on the rails. As rival General Electric comparatively fumbled with their U Series, and Dash 7 series motors, EMD was raking in order after order for their easy to maintain SD40-2.
Even in 2025 it is still possible to find hundreds of examples of EMD SD, and GP series EMD's working daily in class one, and shortline service.
In this image CSX 8830, formerly Conrail 6435, is paced at 1/10th of a second through the woods in south Alabama. The 8830 was on the point of the then-daily Nashville, Tennessee, to Mobile, Alabama, road train Q519. This lazy spring afternoon 519 was rolling off the miles towards the final destination of Mobile. When viewing a moving train through a zoomed in lens you notice every bump in the rail as the flexicoil trucks that defined the way these motors looked do their best to absorb the impacts even after 45 years in continuous service. At every crossing the side mounted bell dings in the same manner it always has. Even though it's nearly 25 years into CSX ownership the long-since technologically outclassed 8830 continues to roll out the miles some 48 years after Conrail 6435 rolled off the shop floor in La Grange, Illinois.
Reliability Defined.
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1937 Railton with Hudson Deluxe 8 engine/chassis and Limo body by the English Coachbuilder Rippon Bros made for the Works Manager Colonel Rippon as a personal estate car. Rippon Bros, Coachmakers began in 1555, and served the original Queen Mary (yes that one) and Queen Elizabeth 1 as official coachbuilders. They made their first auto body in 1905 for an early Rolls Royce.
This Railton boasts many luxurious features such as aluminum coachwork, dual sliding roof panels, and fitted 3-piece luggage just to name a few. One particularly luxurious amenity is the an inlaid walnut cabinet in the passenger compartment which transforms into a table and contains a matchbox, cigarette and cigar boxes, a silver plated cognac flask, a corkscrew, and a chocolate box. In addition to its refined finishings and due to its intend use as an estate car, this Railton boasts many unusual features, such as a waterproof compartment concealed under the luggage for carrying sport rifles and a reinforced trunk lid that doubles as a shooting platform capable of supporting two men.
The Hudson powered Railton was named for British automotive engineer Reid A. Railton, who designed both a land speed record setting automobile and a water speed record setting boat. The Railton was built in England from 1933 until the beginning of World War II with less than 1,500 being produced. The company was started by the innovative car and boat builder, Noel Macklin who was looking for a new car-making venture after he sold his Invicta car company in 1933. He hoped that combining American engine power and reliability, with a Rolls Royce like luxurious body would sell........and a few Brits found the car a practical marriage of both. Rare and desirable
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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Hornet is also used by the air forces of several other nations, and since 1986, by the U.S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels.
The F/A-18 has a top speed of Mach 1.8 (1,034 knots, 1,190 mph or 1,915 km/h at 40,000 ft or 12,200 m). It can carry a wide variety of bombs and missiles, including air-to-air and air-to-ground, supplemented by the 20-mm M61 Vulcan cannon. It is powered by two General Electric F404 turbofan engines, which give the aircraft a high thrust-to-weight ratio. The F/A-18 has excellent aerodynamic characteristics, primarily attributed to its leading-edge extensions. The fighter's primary missions are fighter escort, fleet air defense, suppression of enemy air defenses, air interdiction, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance. Its versatility and reliability have proven it to be a valuable carrier asset, though it has been criticized for its lack of range and payload compared to its earlier contemporaries, such as the Grumman F-14 Tomcat in the fighter and strike fighter role, and the Grumman A-6 Intruder and LTV A-7 Corsair II in the attack role.
The Hornet first saw combat action during the 1986 United States bombing of Libya and subsequently participated in the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War. The F/A-18 Hornet served as the baseline for the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, its larger, evolutionary redesign.
If you want reliability you can't get much better than this!
These are quite rare, l don't remember ever seeing a cross country before.
322,000 miles
I can always count on seeing these deer. Not the best shot as then deer are in shade with bright light behind them.
92032 ‘IMechE Railway Division’ hums into Northampton station on the morning of 13th August 2013 with 4m01, the 0148 Felixstowe to Trafford Park service.
During 2013 GB Railfreight briefly made use of these 1990s-era electric locomotives on a container haul from Felixstowe to Trafford Park. For unknown reasons, GBRf's use of class 92s on these trains was short lived. However, following refurbishment, from 2015 GB started using their fleet of class 92s for sleeper trains between London and Scotland. Their reliability improved and in 2025 they continue to operate these trains.
Motoring through Thwaite, Yorkshire Dales. Described as, "probably the oldest and toughest regular event for old cars, motorcycles and light commercials certainly in Britain", the Beamish run is approaching it's 50th year and follows some of the routes used by manufacturers to test the same vehicles when originally built.
Unfortunately the event has been cancelled the last two years due to the COVID virus.
From a period starting in the summer of 1988 a couple of 3-car Tyseley Class 117's were sent to Newton Heath to cover Pacer diagrams due to ongoing reliability issues.
Here set T308 51413, 59509 and 51371 waits time prior to departing with the 16.21 to Chester via Stockport.
* T308 was the last Class 117 to remain in service on BR and following withdrawal in 1996, the driving cars were eventually converted to water jetting vehicles for use with Chiltern Railways and returned to BR DMU Green livery.
They were finally withdrawn in 2015, and both cars have survived into preservation.
"The Canon AE-1 Program builds upon the legacy of its predecessor, the Canon AE-1, which revolutionized the photography industry upon its release in 1976. The AE-1 was among the first SLR cameras to feature a microprocessor, making it more accessible to amateur photographers with its aperture-priority auto-exposure mode. With its user-friendly design and reliability, the AE-1 became one of the best-selling cameras of its time, solidifying Canon's reputation as a leader in the industry.
The AE-1 Program, introduced in 1981, further refined the original AE-1 model by adding program auto-exposure mode, hence the "Program" designation. This new feature allowed the camera to automatically select both aperture and shutter speed, providing even greater convenience for photographers while still offering manual control options.
Together, these cameras represent milestones in the evolution of SLR photography, combining technological innovation with user-friendly design to make high-quality photography accessible to enthusiasts of all levels."
Above written with help from ChatGPT.
Bought mine when 15ish year old, still work like a watch.
Combining the strength of metal with the reliability and ease of grip of Thermold plastic composite mags. Ungroup them once to easily recolor the two color sections. Shown here scaled to 50, scale to 25 for use.
Inspired by the one on garde's raptor AR. Please credit GARDEHUSAR for these if you use them, the two-tone idea was his.
This week marks another important milestone for the Galileo project, with its ground segment formally gaining a brand-new asset.
Galileo’s new Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) facility is a 13.5-meter diameter parabola dish mounted on top of a 10-meter-high building structure of steel and concrete. Known as the acronym TTCF-7, it is based within the premises of Europe’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, beside its older sibling TTCF-2.
“It has taken several months of intense, very demanding work to complete this highly sophisticated asset,” comments ESA Technical Officer Bobby Nejad, coordinating with the GMV, Indra Sistemas and CPI Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH companies responsible for the antenna’s design, development, and on-site deployment.
“A big part of the challenge come from its location; we needed to get it working flawlessly in a hot and humid environment beside the Amazon rainforest before handing it over to its operator. Its entry into service has been eagerly awaited, providing sufficient spare capacity to modernise the rest of the ground segment and keep up with the needs of the Galileo constellation in space as it continues to grow.”
With 28 satellites flying in orbit, Galileo has grown to become Europe’s single biggest public satellite constellation, and it continues to grow with 10 more satellites on the ground due to be lifted into space.
Each Galileo satellite requires regular ground contacts to gather its housekeeping telemetry and receive new telecommands to continue its mission. TT&C antennas are built for exactly that purpose and are therefore an indispensable element of every satellite ground infrastructure.
These Galileo antennas are uncrewed, operated on a fully automated basis from the two Galileo Control Centres (GCCs) which are located several thousand kilometres away in Oberpfaffenhofen Germany and Fucino in Italy.
Galileo’s other stations are TT&C distributed over the entire globe at remote locations like Noumea and Papeete in the South Pacific, Redu in Belgium, La Réunion close to Madagascar, and a high-latitude site at Kiruna in northern Sweden.
This latest antenna will also play an important role during the upcoming modernisation activities of the earlier TT&C antennas in the station network, which have already been in service for several years. TTCF-7 will take over their tasks during the maintenance activities when they need to be taken offline.
The challenge will only grow as the remaining Galileo First Generation satellites will be launched in the next few years, ahead of the follow-on Galileo Second Generation models.
Galileo’s ground segment is one of the most complex developments ever undertaken by ESA. It is not only challenging due to its size, technical performance, and wide geographical distribution, but it also having to fulfil very stringent reliability and security requirements to make the delivered navigation service attractive and competitive, but even more importantly, safe for the end user.
The European Union for the Space Programme Agency, EUSPA, oversees all operational activities that make use of the ground segment as part of its responsibility for Galileo operations.
It is the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of a robust ground segment deployed over the entire world, able to seamlessly interact with the space segment that enables Galileo to be the world’s most accurate satellite navigation system delivering metre-level precision for its more than four billion users around the globe.
Credits: ESA-B. Nejad
Trust: a firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.
Humans have a natural disposition to trust and to judge trustworthiness. This can be traced to the neurobiological structure and activity of a human brain. Some studies indicate that trust can be altered e.g. by the application of oxytocin.
Oxytocin (not to be confused with OxyContin, the painkiller at the centre of the opioid epidemic) has been called the “love chemical,” the “hug hormone,” the “elixir of trust,” and even the “moral molecule,” among other monikers.
There is a lot of hype out there,the snake-oil salesmanship rampant in a shady industry of sprays, balms, and elixirs claiming to harness the power of oxytocin to win friends, lovers, and clients.
The intense interest in oxytocin has been a double-edged sword. While science tries to sort out the nuances of what the hormone does and how, the popular press and the public have run wild with the concept of a feel-good hormone that could seemingly right society’s wrongs.
As studies continue some people wait in hope and some of us wonder why you would need a "chemical additive" to make friends.
(in my opinion messing with your brain's chemistry is a risky business).
Jupiter-9 85mm 2.0, vintage 40mm "Royal" extension tube, edited in Affinity, custom tone map Coolvanda
I slightly shifted my framing, choosing a lateral composition. That collapsed branch, almost touching
the water, immediately caught my attention.
The fog still dominates the scene. Camera and lens are wet, but I trust their reliability.
Its almost material density reflects a soft light. Visible things are never completely visible, and the
image remains suspended.
An emotion must reach me at the exact moment I press the shutter.
Ho spostato leggermente l’inquadratura, scegliendo una composizione laterale. Quel ramo
accasciato, quasi immerso nell’acqua, ha trattenuto il mio sguardo.
La nebbia domina ancora il luogo. Macchina e obiettivo sono ormai bagnati, ma confido nella loro
affidabilità.
La sua densità quasi materica riflette una luce morbida. Le cose visibili non lo sono mai del tutto, e
l’immagine resta sospesa.
Un’emozione deve arrivare nel momento esatto in cui premo il pulsante.
Number 2, a 1925 Bentley 3-4½ litre - BF 6428 - entered by William Medcalf and Peter Scott, seen competing in the Flying Scotsman Rally 2013.
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Riviera class 47s 47805 t n t with 47815 on hire to grand central pass Beningbrough with a service from sunderland to York where an hst worked forward to kings cross. this was due to the lousy reliability of the G C hsts.
C&NW C41-8 8577 shows off it's special "Safety and Reliability" paint at Boone, IA in August of 1993.
Well, this was certainly what I was after today, shame about the awful lighting- again. Full apologies to Scotty Skully as once again, I couldn't quite move the sun from behind the cloud so the 'the light is non exsistant'.
Nonetheless, Grand Central liveried, DB Cargo owned class 90 no. 90026 powers south at Westwood Road on the main with classmate no. 90020 dead in tow atop Mk4 DVT no. 82230, a mk4 set and further Mk4 DVT no. 82201 and a further Mk4 set working 5Z90 Alstom Widnes- Wembley InterCity depot empty coaching stock move on 7th August 2020. The 90s and stock will eventually be used on Grand Central's new London Euston- Blackpool return service that has been delayed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
I believe the Grand Central sets are GC01 and GC04.
The Class 90 locomotives were introduced between 1987 and 1990 for use on both freight trains and passenger trains. 50 locomotives were produced by BREL at Crewe Works for use on the West Coast Mainline. The locomotives have a top speed of 110mph and are fitted with thyristor controls instead of the traditional tap-changers which their predecessors used. 26 locomotives were soon dedicated to Freight Traffic and were renumbered as Class 90/1 with their top speed limited to 75mph and ETH isolated. 90001- 90015 were operated by Intercity on express trains from Euston, 90016-90020 were operated by Rail Express Systems on travelling post office trains and 90021-90050 were ran by Railfreight Distribution on Freight trains with 90021-90024 remaining as Class 90/0 locos for possible rescue use or work on passenger trains. Upon privatisation of British Rail 90001- 90015 went to Virgin Trains for use on WCML express workings, 90016- 90040 went to EWS and 90041- 90050 went to Freightliner. The first change to this came in 2004 as Virgin Trains began to retire locomotive hauled series, 90001- 90015 were progressively transferred to Anglia for use on express trains out of London Liverpool Street replacing the ageing Class 86/2s that were in use on services at that time. Initially, the Class 90 locomotives were unreliable and a few 86s remained in use however, by 2006 reliability had significantly improved and the 15 90s had taken over the service.
The next change came when 90050 caught fire in late 2004, it was placed in storage and Freightliner hired in 90016 to replace it. During this time 90016's lease has became permanent and the loco has been painted in Freightliner's Green livery.
Several of the DB locos are stored out of use at the electric depot in Crewe with at least one example having a tree growing out of it. 90016, 90041, 90046 are painted in Freightliner Green, 90047, 90048 and 90050 are painted in Freightliner Grey. 90042, 90043, 90045 and 90049 are painted in Freightliner Powerhaul, 90044 is in the Freightliner G&W orange and black livery.
In January 2015, 90042 returned to service. In April 2015, DBS started to run pairs of class 90 locomotives on trains previously operated by class 92s.
In late 2019, the arrival of the FLIRT units on the Great Eastern Mainline resulted in the Greater Anglia Class 90s becoming redundant. 90001 and 90002 were transferred to Locomotive Services Limited in Crewe. 90003-90015 have been transferred to Freightliner.
The Douglas Dakota - military variant of the iconic DC-3—played a crucial role during WWII and beyond, renowned for its rugged reliability and versatile service across theatres of war. Still admired today, this legendary aircraft continues to fly at airshows and commemorations.
Rhyl has recently gained a Plaxton President bodied DAF DB250 which was pulled out of the disposal fleet after seeing a number of years use in the Arriva North West fleet at Bolton and for time at Birkenhead, it was of course new to Arriva London as DLP80. This example is based at Rhyl for the Monday to Friday, Park and Ride service for Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan after a Lowlander bodied example has had two allocations to Rhyl before settling at Harwarden (Chester depot) for a school contract requiring a lower height example, another Plaxton President also saw use between but was less than successful with reliability unlike 4180.
4180 looks very well for its years as it unusually finds a Saturday allocated on the 36 Rhyl - Rhuddlan - Dyserth - Prestatyn - Rhyl circular.
Number 17, a red 1964 Mercedes-Benz 220SE - AMO 735B - entered by John Moodie (driver) and Mark Haddon (navigator) is seen here competing in the HERO's (Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation's) Land’s End to John O’Groats Reliability Trial and Classic Car Tour (LE JOG) Scotland December 2018.
Any additional information clarifying the vehicle's make, model, modifications made and its specific history will be welcomed.
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Even thought the curvature of the earth has been enhanced very slightly in this birds eye view, the Ford grain truck and the silver tile elevator are what makes this image so cool. Having only 90 seconds to deploy the drone and elevate to 100 feet, BNSF 8532 won’t slack up on its 50 mph speed for me with westbound grain loads here at Danville, KS. on 10-07-2020. Compare the painted silver tile grain elevator with almost hidden steel annex bins to the mega bushel white concrete elevators built 50 years later. Today the Danville Co-op elevators only ship grain out by truck, not in covered railroad hoppers. And as best I can find, the Ford C is 57 years old………..good old Ford reliability!
This rifle was designed as a compromise for cost effectiveness, reliability, and ease of use for the average soldier. all the controls are ambidextrous and the ejection can be reversed from right to left by reversing the bolt and closing the folding dust cover on the side you don't want shells ejected out of. the Type-85SN also has a dual stage trigger and is striker fired to keep operation of the weapon simple, and it can use most AR type magazines chambered for the 5.56mm NATO caliber, but this rifle can also be chambered for 6.5 Grendel or 6.8 SPC from the factory.
Cost: 1000$ USD.
CP 2622 is an EMD SD40‑2, part of one of the most iconic and longest‑serving locomotive classes in North American railroading. Built in the 1970s, these units became the backbone of Canadian Pacific’s freight operations for decades, known for their reliability, rugged construction, and ability to handle everything from mountain grades to long prairie hauls.
Locomotive 2622 worked across CP’s transcontinental network, hauling mixed freight, grain, coal, and manifest trains through the Rockies, the Prairies, and the Fraser Valley. Like many SD40‑2s, it carried the classic CP red paint and the distinctive long hood profile that defined the era of second‑generation diesel power.
Even as newer, higher‑horsepower locomotives entered service, units like 2622 remained valued for their durability and ease of maintenance. For railfans, they represent a golden age of Canadian diesel railroading — a time when the SD40‑2 was the unmistakable sound and silhouette of CP’s mainline.
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