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Poem.
A steep, cobbled street.
Elegant half-timbered, Tudor houses
with overhanging upper storeys jostle
up and down this remarkable thoroughfare.
Medieval inns, hotels and boarding houses
crowd together from end to end.
A little imagination can remove the modern car
and fill this sharp gradient with locals,
merchants, visitors, smugglers, pilgrims and travellers.
For a thousand years wood-fired chimneys have
belched their smoke above and around the
oak timbers and pale wattle and daub panelled walls,
leaving their sooty signature.
With the sky grey and the atmosphere obscured,
this ancient road seems little changed from the 15th. century.
Its unchanging ambience seems to lock us in a time warp,
a reliable time-machine that
earns world-wide affection.
One of the most reliable things in Ukraine for years and years, has been Ukrzaliznytsia, the Ukrainian railways. The trains always keep running, even during the current war: wherein Russia ruthlessly destroys lives of millions of innocent people. Although delays, like on most railways apart from Japan, seem inevitable. Then again, the ukrainian railways perform quite well considering the years of soviet rule and the bad funding. But at least the railway tickets are affordable, so anyone should be able to use the railways. Something you can’t say about many other european railways.
Although the rail connection between Lviv and Przemyśl isn’t the main railway crossing between the Ukraine and Poland, it is perhaps the easiest and the one allowing most passengers to travel. The daily train between Kyiv and Warszawa crossses the border near Chełm, where the train gets regauged between the ukrainian broad gauge and the polish normal gauge. This takes time and don’t allow for too many trains to cross the border. While the local train doesn't have to regauge, this diesel connection doesn't seem all that busy. Whereas Przemyśl has tracks for both normal gauge and broad gauge, allowing trains of both countries to stop there and for passengers to change trains. And this does happen in great numbers. Every day there’s one IC+ train that covers the distance between Przemyśl and Kyiv in ‘a mere couple of hours’ (still being about 10 hours). The other trains are more or less normal trains, that take over half a day to cover the same distance and sometimes even continue even further after Kyiv. One such train is the D90, which takes almost 16 hours (if not delayed) to get to Kyiv. While I was in Przemyśl I got the D90 on photo with the ЧС2-606 hauling the train slowly towards Lviv.
Oranjestad is the capital and largest city of Aruba. Oranjestad is located on the southern coast near the western end of the island country. In the local language, Papiamento, Oranjestad is often referred to simply as "Playa". As of 2015, the population of the capital was around 35,000.
The town was built around Fort Zoutman shortly after it was built in 1796. Initially, the town had no official name, being known only as the town on the Bay of Horses (Paardenbaai in Dutch), a place from which native-bred[citation needed] horses were raised and exported to neighboring Curaçao. The town has ever since been the capital city of the island.
The city is named after the first King William I of the Netherlands. The name was conferred on the city in the 1820s when interest in Aruba increased due to the discovery of (alluvial) gold deposits.
Air Aruba once had its headquarters in Oranjestad. Air Aruba suspended its operations on October 23, 2000.
Tiara Air has had its head office in Oranjestad since 2006, except between 2014 and 2016 when the company suspended services due to the Venezuelan Airline Crisis.
Aruba is an island and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) west of the main part of the Lesser Antilles and 29 kilometres (18 mi)[5] north of the coast of Venezuela. It measures 32 kilometres (20 mi) long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and 10 kilometres (6 mi) across at its widest point. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, Aruba forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. Collectively, Aruba and the other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean.
Aruba is one of the four countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Saint Maarten; the citizens of these countries are all Dutch nationals. Aruba has no administrative subdivisions, but, for census purposes, is divided into eight regions. Its capital is Oranjestad.
Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape. This climate has helped tourism as visitors to the island can reliably expect warm, sunny weather. It has a land area of 179 km2 (69.1 sq mi) and is densely populated, with a total of 102,484 inhabitants at the 2010 Census. Current estimates of the population place it at 116,600 (July 2018 est.) It island lies outside Hurricane Alley.
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Probably the only spot for decent light for a northbound on the Northcoast is right at CPF-241 in Rollinsford, NH where the Conway Branch peels off the Freight Main. The 3 GP38s take 28 empty hoppers back north to Ossipee this past Friday.
Brickarms plastic is reliably of the same quality as Lego plastic. It is on the harder and more brittle side, and it's dense, strong material. It holds up on the lathe and is not easy to cut.
Bricktactical / X39 plastic is far softer. It does not stay together on the lathe.
Despite the disadvantages, there is one advantage X39 plastic has. Its softness makes it easier to carve by hand. This grip is the direct result, and this mod is the marriage of the materials. Because of its relative softness, mild translucency, and easy sheen, the BT grip has this wonderful depth to its swirls, and I didn't have to use the lathe to make it.
What is it about an old airplane that makes old pilots nostalgic about the old days of flying; the open cockpit, leather helmet, silk scarf, a wooden propeller, and the smell of mother earth as the open-air rushed by you in it's slipstream?
In those days the usual means of navigation was using a road map, and your map was usually a highway map that showed you where you wanted to go. In the old days of flying many small towns across the United States had the name of their city written on buildings to help guide pilots safely across the skies. Yes, airplanes may not have been as reliable in those days, perhaps more engine failures, no radio communication equipment, but there's nothing like the sound of that deep throaty roar of a radial engine in front of you. Those were the days when every flight, was an adventure in itself.
U.S. Army PT-17 Bi-wing aircraft.
A stalwart workhorse, it fought through most of the war. Tough and reliable, the P-40 Kittyhawk is an awesome aircraft. And we are lucky in ANZ to have two of the finest restorers based here !
This is the Black & Decker 1/4” Drill No. 310-5 Type 1. My father-in-law gave me this drill when I moved into my first home a couple of decades ago, and I have had it ever since. I have used it for countless tasks around my house. In fact, just yesterday, I used it to install a new doorbell.
After doing some research, I found that if the label reads "THE BLACK & DECKER MFG. CO., TOWSON, MD. U.S.A.," it was likely manufactured before 1976. This means my drill is probably around 50 years old, which inspired me to submit it as my entry for my 52Frames assignment on Wabi-Sabi.
SU42-534 owned by Polregio climbs with its early morning regional train from Gdynia Główna to Hel. The steep grade up to Mrzezino often often makes the train, hauled by a de facto shunter locomotive, slow down to 20km/h or less.
Each day, Polregio deploys two SM42 or SU42 locomotives for its service between Chojnice, Gdynia and Hel and they are the last regularly running "loco+coaches" regio trains in Poland.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Since moving to the Grand Forks area, there have been three things I can count on while railfanning. One of them is that I will usually catch a train headed to or from Noyes, like this EMD-powered version a year ago. They might not always be headed into the sun but once in a while, they are.
Generally the preserve of a Cardiff Canton or Bristol Bath Road class 47/0's but on this occasion a Crewe Diesel Depot allocated class 47/3 no. 47 340 is seen rolling downhill into Maidstone East across the Medway Bridge. The train is the daily SuX 6O37 02.30 Westbury Yard to Hothfield Stone Terminal.
Maidstone East is at the bottom of a dip with gradients both ways but the stiffest climb is about to start at the east end of the platform, the loco is just taking power to tackle the 1/60 Bearsted bank. Class 47's being built without traction sanding ability were often a source of extensive delay on these trains in the Autumn months as the 1/60 gradient was largely in a damp cutting then wooded area east of the town. Many class 47/0's simply slipped to a stand on these trains as the climb was 2½ miles from a 20mph restriction at the bottom so no chance of a run up.
I recall one November morning when 6O37 stalled just short of Bearsted & Thurnham station where the gradient eased to 1/260 as it was so close to the top of the bank it was decided a 10 car formation of 2-HAP EMU's would be dispatched from Maidstone to push it over the top, the end result saw most of the 2-HAP's wrecked with burn out resistances and motors. The advent of class 56's on these trains from 1983 at least made the passenger service more reliable.
A barn in Gleason in the afternoon light. Yes, I turned around and went back for this one. In summer it's probably invisible.
“A Reliable work horse!” 💪
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( ´∀`) A gift to Celebrate my Birthday from me too you 🎂 This is my Kettenkrad I’ve been working on for about 2-3 weeks it wasn’t as difficult to build as one may think and it’s very unique from the norm! From its steering wheels used for road wheels too it’s kinda funky solutions to adding mud guards over the front of the tracks! Very enjoyable build overall was happy to get the parts to finished the background from @valiantbricksofficial and using parts purchased at BrickFair Virginia in late July I was able to finish off the mid section!
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An instruction/break down Google Doc will be added into my existing one for my BMW R75 so get the BMW while it’s still available!
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Parts Comp. - LEGO & Brickmania custom elements & Brickarms
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Multiple signs on this wall make it difficult to read. At the top there is painted lettering of "Old Reliable" and along the bottom in the same font it reads "For the Generations". The product for which this ad existed is covered by a newer "Bull Durham" painting.
Wouldn't want to overlook the metal "Washington Inn Pepsi Tap" sign. Pepsi on tap? I don't think so. The building that this sign is long gone.
There is a Falstaff Beer wall sign to the left of this ad. Look at the previous photo in my account to view that.
The ever reliable Deltas were in their twilight years unfortunately, and mainly confined to rural routes which meant nice locations for photos such as the village of Grundisburgh in April 2005.
At the north end of Westminster Palace rises the most famous of the towers, the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben. At 96 metres, it is only slightly shorter than the Victoria Tower but much slimmer. It houses the Great Clock of Westminster, built by Edward John Dent on designs by amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison. Striking the hour to within a second of the time, the Great Clock achieved standards of accuracy considered impossible by 19th-century clockmakers, and it has remained consistently reliable since it entered service in 1859.