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Sails of the Barque Europa.
The Europa is a steel-hulled barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally it was a German lightship, named Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, it was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.
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The Hutchings-Sealy building, located on The Strand in Galveston, Texas, is a historic property representing one of the earliest examples of steel frame-based construction in the state. When built, it replaced the original Hutchings-Sealy Bank building, which had an older construction type and was in need of retrofitting. Designed and built in 1895 and 1896, the building has since survived all storms and hurricanes that have passed through the area – including the 1900 storm that devastated surrounding structures and neighborhoods. In 1982, the building the Texas Historical Commission adorned the building with a special plaque for Nicholas Clayton, the building’s architect.
Retrofitted sound wall on an apartment building near the stadium of Dutch soccer club PSV Eindhoven. And no cheers were heard anymore ;-)
The 22/2/22 Macro Mondays theme is Two.
( This image just squeaks in under the three inch limit.)
About 40 years ago, the Golden gate Bridge was being earthquake retrofitted, in hopes of keeping it standing when the next "Big One" hits, and thousands of these rivets were knocked out in the process. Most landed in San Francisco Bay, but not all. I used to fish for striped bass off the rocks at Lime Point, almost directly under the north end of the bridge (since 9/11, we're not allowed down there any more), and I collected quite a few of these rivets. Others found ways of selling them to tourists, but I hung on to mine.
HMM
Stomped on my brakes to get out after stumbling upon this building in downtown.
Evidently this is an artistic expression of a new water cooling facility, retrofitted.from.a very old building, that feeds buildings cooled water for air conditioning units in the new Water Street District of Downtown Tampa.
After seeing Barbarian (don't Google, just go, so good), this reminded me of the poster and also the very ominous and foreboding nature of how that film unravels....
The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is 2,143.21 metres (7,032 ft) – 856 metres (2,808 ft) between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to cross the Seine before it empties into the ocean. Despite being a motorway toll bridge, there is a footpath as well as a narrow cycle lane in each direction allowing pedestrians and cyclists to cross the bridge free of charge. The bridge was designed by Michel Virlogeux, and the architect Norman Foster, the general studies were led by Bernard Raspaud from Bouygues, and the works management was shared between G. Barlet and P. Jacquet. The architects were François Doyelle and Charles Lavigne. Construction by Bouygues, Campenon Bernard, Dumez, Monberg & Thorsen, Quillery, Sogea and Spie Batignolles[2] began in 1988 and lasted 7 years. The bridge opened on 20 January 1995. At that time the bridge was both the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and had the record for the longest distance between piers for any cable-stayed bridge. It was more than 250 metres (820 ft) longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tatara Bridge in Japan. Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirrio. At the end of construction, the total cost for the bridge, all ancillary structures and finance costs was $465 million and was financed by Natixis. The bridge on its own cost €233 million (US$250 million). The cable-stayed design was chosen because it was both cheaper and more resistant to high winds than a suspension bridge. Shortly after opening, the longest cables exhibited excessive vibrations, so several damping systems were quickly retrofitted.
The Mural
At the start of the 2013 Edinburgh festival, Chris set up a painting residency in the Tron Kirk with 14 blank mural panels. The Tron Kirk was then operating as a lively bar and music venue. His goal was to paint a mural that captured the spirit of the traditional Hogmanay party in a huge crowd mural, filling it with real people.
In his mind, to complete the undertaking, he needed to exhibit the qualities of Scotland's national animal, the unicorn. Focus, generosity, faith and gritty determination. He had his eyes on the prize.
Clad in a red top hat and a kilt he worked from 10am to 3am for an entire month and painted over 650 portraits of real guests, chatting affably as he went. Real oasis of focus and calm in the melee of the festival. He put a sign above his head that read "If you want to be in the party, tap me on the shoulder", and yes, everyone in this painting did exactly that.
He would hold up his iPad and say "You are at a fabulous party, having an awesome time (just don't look at me)". Visitors had free reign to pose as they wanted. After the festival finished he took the mural back to the studio and added 2000 more portraits from photos he had taken.
This painting has been waiting for it's moment to shine for nearly ten years, and now has a home.
In 2018 North Bridge was partially covered by ugly hoardings as major structural repairs were undertaken on the bridge. Local businesses struggled under the weight of the hoardings and a major central artery of Edinburgh was being crippled by the weight of the infrastructure.
In 2022 Chris was asked by Rapyd, an e-commerce company specifically focussed on empowering small businesses, to paint a mural that could transform the hoardings and help the struggling local traders.
Edinburgh city council and transport convener Scott Arthur threw his weight behind the project, and Balfour Beattie helped facilitate
the installation. Chris retrofitted a new spectacular Unicorn to the mural illustrating his inspiration, his fuel for the painting and his pride in being Scottish.
A new threshold for North Bridge from the Royal Mile was born.
Hogmanay came home and it was like it had never left.
A set of circumstances lead to CN A401 making a rare daylight run north out of Garnet. On top of that they had one of 2 SD40-2Ws that were retrofitted for LNG testing as their leader. Here they are crossing the Grand River in Caledonia, one of the more iconic scenes on the Hagersville Subdivision. They would later drop the trailing unit in London making for a solo run to Sarnia, and what would turn into a day long chase to Sarnia.
Train: CN A401 with CN 5261 (SD40-2W) and CN 2195 (C40-8W).
Caledonia, ON
CN Hagersville Subdivision
Add another bizzarro sight to the laundry list that is 2020. Not exactly where I pictured framing up my first encounter with one of CN's blasts-from-the-pasts. I've seen a handful of these moves while cursing about THA REGION, but it seems that few others knew much about the handling of this train. U700 is loaded up with all the lovely byproducts and waste not far from this spot. BP Whiting was retrofitted to handle a large influx of sticky Canadian tar sands oil a handful of years back, and plenty of petcoke is conveniently shipped outbound. CN handles at least one a week and sends it towards a Louisiana port.
A Champaign based crew starts the end of their day by getting off the Calumet Spur and onto the former EJE main at Cavanaugh. They'll encounter an impressive traffic jam ahead at Griffith before the dispatcher decides the best place to let him die is in the yard there. Not sure what else they could have done with the 3 hours they had left to work.
The Reno Arch is an iconic landmark in Reno, Nevada spanning Virginia Street at the intersection with Commercial Row. The current arch is the third installed at this location. The original arch was built in 1926 to commemorate the completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways. The current arch was installed in 1987 and retrofitted with new lights in 2009. The arch is a prominent feature of downtown Reno, and for most of its history has featured the city's motto, The Biggest Little City in the World. From Wikipedia
Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit "Petrojarl Banff" being retrofitted at Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
Best on black and full screen
THE CHRYSLER CL IMPERIAL
The Classic Era in America brought about many beautiful automobiles, but the Chrysler CL Imperial of 1932 to ’33 was hard to beat for overall greatness. It featured a potent inline eight-cylinder, a sweet-shifting transmission, and handsome LeBaron-built open bodywork, with a hoodline extended back to the windshield, emphasizing the car’s length and the size of the engine lurking beneath the sheet metal. Each body was meticulously constructed to the highest standards. The result was an automobile that was smoothly powerful, easy to drive for its era, and built with quality as the foremost consideration. It was a superb car—and it looked terrific.
Among the most sensual bodies fitted to the CL Imperial was the two-passenger Convertible Roadster, which, as its name suggested, ably combined the light, fleet look of an open roadster with the all-weather folding top and windows of a convertible. It was few in number even when new, with historians agreeing that 29 examples were delivered in 1932; fewer than a dozen remain. Like many of these cars, it was originally delivered with a four-speed transmission, but soon retrofitted with a three-speed by factory order. (why that I do not know)
Sotheby's
Personally, I couldn't say I ever was a fan of Chrysler Imperial's. They were always big, and a little over the top for my tastes. And being that they competed for market share with the "big boys" from Cadillac, Lincoln, and Packard I suppose the designers at Chrysler felt that they needed to be that way. And in my opinion when Exner put his signature all over them in the fifties they got even worse. But, the one above, this gorgeous classic from 1932, well, that's a different story, and nothing short of beautiful, even in it's 2 tone "pea soup" green! They probably should have quit while they were ahead! :)
Original construction of the Historic Atascadero City Hall began in 1914 and was completed in 1918. In 2003, the building sustained significant damage in the San Simeon Earthquake. After being closed for 10 years, and undergoing extensive renovations and retrofitting, the building re-opened in August 2013.
During the renovation process, four historic fountains that grace the corners the building were restored to their original beauty. Built with the original construction, the fountains stopped working decades ago and were converted into planters.
Just a wider angle take on this Sunshine State scene.
I'd shot here once before about seven years ago so figured I'd go high this time since I'd shot low back then. If you missed that shot if can be found here: flic.kr/p/2iCGB5Q
Northbound Florida East Coast Railway train 202 is rolling off the last couple dozen miles of their fast 350 mile overnight run from Hialaeah Yard in Miami to Bowden Yard in Jacksonville. They are crossing the calm waters of the San Sebastian River just north of MP 37 on the Flagler Subdivision in this view looking from parallel US Route 1, North Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Saint Augustine is the historic headquarters city of the road dating from 1885 when Henry Flagler established his offices in the city, some 10 years before the FEC name came into existence. The road built three office towers in the 1920s about 500 ft behind where I'm standing that served as the railroads headquarters until 2006 when they were donated to Flagler College and the railroad relocated its leadership and administration to Jacksonville.
The train is led by LNG powered GE ES44ACs 809 and 806 built in Nov. 2014 and spliced by their custom LNG fuel tank car. Originally diesel powered the entire GE fleet has been retrofitted to run on LNG as detailed in this article: files.chartindustries.com/FEC-LNG-FloridaEastCoastRailway...
Saint Augustine, Florida
Monday March 27, 2023
THE CHRYSLER CL IMPERIAL
The Classic Era in America brought about many beautiful automobiles, but the Chrysler CL Imperial of 1932 to ’33 was hard to beat for overall greatness. It featured a potent inline eight-cylinder, a sweet-shifting transmission, and handsome LeBaron-built open bodywork, with a hoodline extended back to the windshield, emphasizing the car’s length and the size of the engine lurking beneath the sheet metal. Each body was meticulously constructed to the highest standards. The result was an automobile that was smoothly powerful, easy to drive for its era, and built with quality as the foremost consideration. It was a superb car—and it looked terrific.
Among the most sensual bodies fitted to the CL Imperial was the two-passenger Convertible Roadster, which, as its name suggested, ably combined the light, fleet look of an open roadster with the all-weather folding top and windows of a convertible. It was few in number even when new, with historians agreeing that 29 examples were delivered in 1932; fewer than a dozen remain. Like many of these cars, it was originally delivered with a four-speed transmission, but soon retrofitted with a three-speed by factory order. (why that I do not know)
Sotheby's
Personally, I couldn't say I ever was a fan of Chrysler Imperial's. They were always big, and a little over the top for my tastes. And being that they competed for market share with the "big boys" from Cadillac, Lincoln, and Packard I suppose the designers at Chrysler felt that they needed to be that way. And in my opinion when Exner put his signature all over them in the fifties they got even worse. But, the one above, this gorgeous classic from 1932, well, that's a different story, and nothing short of beautiful, even in it's 2 tone "pea soup" green! They probably should have quit while they were ahead! :)
Throttling up one last time as they cross over Morgan Creek Trestle, a 7 Work Train with 10 ballast jennies return to Eagle Mills after dumping stone in various spots on the hill all morning. The train will call Eagle Mills here and request permission from the operator before entering the yard to tie up. The ballast jennies are old ore jennies that still run on friction bearing trucks, as these were all delivered to the LS&I. All operating jennies on the railroad have been retrofitted with roller bearings and are affectionately called "pigs in a blanket."
The Mural
At the start of the 2013 Edinburgh festival, Chris set up a painting residency in the Tron Kirk with 14 blank mural panels. The Tron Kirk was then operating as a lively bar and music venue. His goal was to paint a mural that captured the spirit of the traditional Hogmanay party in a huge crowd mural, filling it with real people.
In his mind, to complete the undertaking, he needed to exhibit the qualities of Scotland's national animal, the unicorn. Focus, generosity, faith and gritty determination. He had his eyes on the prize.
Clad in a red top hat and a kilt he worked from 10am to 3am for an entire month and painted over 650 portraits of real guests, chatting affably as he went. Real oasis of focus and calm in the melee of the festival. He put a sign above his head that read "If you want to be in the party, tap me on the shoulder", and yes, everyone in this painting did exactly that.
He would hold up his iPad and say "You are at a fabulous party, having an awesome time (just don't look at me)". Visitors had free reign to pose as they wanted. After the festival finished he took the mural back to the studio and added 2000 more portraits from photos he had taken.
This painting has been waiting for it's moment to shine for nearly ten years, and now has a home.
In 2018 North Bridge was partially covered by ugly hoardings as major structural repairs were undertaken on the bridge. Local businesses struggled under the weight of the hoardings and a major central artery of Edinburgh was being crippled by the weight of the infrastructure.
In 2022 Chris was asked by Rapyd, an e-commerce company specifically focussed on empowering small businesses, to paint a mural that could transform the hoardings and help the struggling local traders.
Edinburgh city council and transport convener Scott Arthur threw his weight behind the project, and Balfour Beattie helped facilitate
the installation. Chris retrofitted a new spectacular Unicorn to the mural illustrating his inspiration, his fuel for the painting and his pride in being Scottish.
A new threshold for North Bridge from the Royal Mile was born.
Hogmanay came home and it was like it had never left.
The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is 2,143.21 metres (7,032 ft) – 856 metres (2,808 ft) between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to cross the Seine before it empties into the ocean. Despite being a motorway toll bridge, there is a footpath as well as a narrow cycle lane in each direction allowing pedestrians and cyclists to cross the bridge free of charge. The bridge was designed by Michel Virlogeux, and the architect Norman Foster, the general studies were led by Bernard Raspaud from Bouygues, and the works management was shared between G. Barlet and P. Jacquet. The architects were François Doyelle and Charles Lavigne. Construction by Bouygues, Campenon Bernard, Dumez, Monberg & Thorsen, Quillery, Sogea and Spie Batignolles[2] began in 1988 and lasted 7 years. The bridge opened on 20 January 1995. At that time the bridge was both the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and had the record for the longest distance between piers for any cable-stayed bridge. It was more than 250 metres (820 ft) longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tatara Bridge in Japan. Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirrio. At the end of construction, the total cost for the bridge, all ancillary structures and finance costs was $465 million and was financed by Natixis. The bridge on its own cost €233 million (US$250 million). The cable-stayed design was chosen because it was both cheaper and more resistant to high winds than a suspension bridge. Shortly after opening, the longest cables exhibited excessive vibrations, so several damping systems were quickly retrofitted.
The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is 2,143.21 metres (7,032 ft) – 856 metres (2,808 ft) between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to cross the Seine before it empties into the ocean. Despite being a motorway toll bridge, there is a footpath as well as a narrow cycle lane in each direction allowing pedestrians and cyclists to cross the bridge free of charge. The bridge was designed by Michel Virlogeux, and the architect Norman Foster, the general studies were led by Bernard Raspaud from Bouygues, and the works management was shared between G. Barlet and P. Jacquet. The architects were François Doyelle and Charles Lavigne. Construction by Bouygues, Campenon Bernard, Dumez, Monberg & Thorsen, Quillery, Sogea and Spie Batignolles[2] began in 1988 and lasted 7 years. The bridge opened on 20 January 1995. At that time the bridge was both the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and had the record for the longest distance between piers for any cable-stayed bridge. It was more than 250 metres (820 ft) longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tatara Bridge in Japan. Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirrio. At the end of construction, the total cost for the bridge, all ancillary structures and finance costs was $465 million and was financed by Natixis. The bridge on its own cost €233 million (US$250 million). The cable-stayed design was chosen because it was both cheaper and more resistant to high winds than a suspension bridge. Shortly after opening, the longest cables exhibited excessive vibrations, so several damping systems were quickly retrofitted.
Hiding away from the eyes of the general public, this neat little critter spends her retirement days shuffling cars around within the confines of Charter Steel in Saukville, Wisconsin in a mostly intact coat of WC maroon and gold paint with it’s WC road number. The CN owns the Mill-Saukville portion of this line specifically to serve Charter Steel with a local based in Germantown, while the WSOR owns everything north up to Kiel and west to Ackerville with a local based in Granville. A quick picture search indicates that the retrofitted safety railings along the top of the hood were installed within the last couple of years. They’re not pretty, but at least the paint matches.
Ken Borek operates a fleet of these DC-3s retrofitted with PT-6 turboprop engine...they have been used in Antarctic and in the frozen northern areas of Canada and Alaska
There were comments on my shot of the North Train with the set of GP38's, and how people like them without the Mother/Slug set. I ran into this nice 4 pack of 38's at Bryant Yard on my way to work. The bummer was they were on their way to the shop for the day, but man the 3808 looks nice and clean! The IANR has retrofitted some of these 38's with a cylinder looking cover on top of the exhaust on some of the units to probably protect against sparks? Unfortunately one thing it does is collect fuel and then it dips down the middle of the units making them dirty over time. Not all of them have the retrofit.
An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 80 minutes into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron. These trains make a daily trips to and from Two Harbors to load ore pellets bound for shipment on the Great Lakes. CN has went to these ex-CNW dash 8's now for power replacing the 4-3000 horse older units that was the standard power for awhile. These units have to be retrofitted with straight air to assist trains down the mountain grade into Two Harbors. Here the train passes the south end of Fairbanks as CN continues the CTC project south towards Two Harbors.
After the defeat of the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the British started to strip the French boats and reuse anything of value. When it came to the cannons however, it was found that they were too large to be retrofitted onto British ships. Determined to find a way to flaunt their victory over the French, the British decided instead to use them as street bollards throughout the East End of London.
This idea proved so popular that after the original cannons had all been used, replicas were made and these started to adorn more and more London streets. They continue to be made today, with their distinctive shape being an iconic feature of London’s streets.
Although most of the original cannon-bollards have been replaced over the years, a few still remain.
(www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/French...)
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100x: The 2024 Edition
49/100 London landmarks by night
The N700 series (N700系, Enu nanahyaku-kei) is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train with tilting capability developed jointly by JR Central and JR West for use on the Tōkaidō and San'yō Shinkansen lines since 2007, and is operated by JR Kyushu on the Kyushu Shinkansen line.
N700 series trains have a maximum speed of 300 km/h (186 mph), and tilting of up to one degree allows the trains to maintain 270 km/h (168 mph), even on 2,500 m (8,202 ft) radius curves that previously had a maximum speed of 255 km/h (158 mph). Another feature of the N700 is that it accelerates more quickly than the older 700 series Shinkansen trains, with a maximum acceleration rate of 2.6 km/h/s (0.72 m/s2). This enables it to reach 270 km/h (170 mph) in only three minutes. Further advancements led to the development of the N700A, an incremental evolution of the N700. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series sets have been retrofitted with most of the improvements added to the N700A series, and are now classified as "N700A".
Because of these improvements, trains can travel between Tokyo and Osaka on a Nozomi run in as little as 2 hours and 22 minutes on the fastest service.
Ōsaka Station 大阪駅, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
BNSF L-CHI105 is about to cross the Sanitary and Ship Canal over the former swing bridge at Lemont. Leading the train is one of forty EMD GP60s built for the Santa Fe in the late 1980s.
Designated at Bridge 24B by the Santa Fe, the bridge was built circa-1898 during the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal. One of the lowest bridges along the entire canal, it was retrofitted into a movable swing bridge by the Navy during World War II to allow passage of Balao and Gato-class submarines built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin en route towards the Gulf of Mexico. The bridge last opened in 1954 and was fixed by the end of the 1970s.
© All rights reserved. A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency
This comes from a long night shoot with multi-layered fog around the Golden Gate Bridge.
I suppose I have a couple anecdotes to go along with this image that aren't too boring. The curvy road (a part of Conzelman Rd.) you see used to be open to public traffic before the earthquake retrofitting began. That's how I preferred to get down to Fort Baker in my 67 Buick Electra, 'back in the day,' as they say. And maybe you remember the location from "Magnum Force" where David Soul pulled over the pimp in the Caddy. I'm guilty of stopping at that spot and reenacting the scene with a friend. That's a little embarrassing.
In any case, thanks for having a look!
Original construction of the Historic Atascadero City Hall began in 1914 and was completed in 1918. In 2003, the building sustained significant damage in the San Simeon Earthquake. After being closed for 10 years, and undergoing extensive renovations and retrofitting, the building re-opened in August 2013.
During the renovation process, four historic fountains that grace the corners the building were restored to their original beauty. Built with the original construction, the fountains stopped working decades ago and were converted into planters.
The Mural
At the start of the 2013 Edinburgh festival, Chris set up a painting residency in the Tron Kirk with 14 blank mural panels. The Tron Kirk was then operating as a lively bar and music venue. His goal was to paint a mural that captured the spirit of the traditional Hogmanay party in a huge crowd mural, filling it with real people.
In his mind, to complete the undertaking, he needed to exhibit the qualities of Scotland's national animal, the unicorn. Focus, generosity, faith and gritty determination. He had his eyes on the prize.
Clad in a red top hat and a kilt he worked from 10am to 3am for an entire month and painted over 650 portraits of real guests, chatting affably as he went. Real oasis of focus and calm in the melee of the festival. He put a sign above his head that read "If you want to be in the party, tap me on the shoulder", and yes, everyone in this painting did exactly that.
He would hold up his iPad and say "You are at a fabulous party, having an awesome time (just don't look at me)". Visitors had free reign to pose as they wanted. After the festival finished he took the mural back to the studio and added 2000 more portraits from photos he had taken.
This painting has been waiting for it's moment to shine for nearly ten years, and now has a home.
In 2018 North Bridge was partially covered by ugly hoardings as major structural repairs were undertaken on the bridge. Local businesses struggled under the weight of the hoardings and a major central artery of Edinburgh was being crippled by the weight of the infrastructure.
In 2022 Chris was asked by Rapyd, an e-commerce company specifically focussed on empowering small businesses, to paint a mural that could transform the hoardings and help the struggling local traders.
Edinburgh city council and transport convener Scott Arthur threw his weight behind the project, and Balfour Beattie helped facilitate
the installation. Chris retrofitted a new spectacular Unicorn to the mural illustrating his inspiration, his fuel for the painting and his pride in being Scottish.
A new threshold for North Bridge from the Royal Mile was born.
Hogmanay came home and it was like it had never left.
An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 80 minutes into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron. These trains make the 168 mile round trip to and from Two Harbors many times daily to load ore pellets bound for shipment on the Great Lakes. CN has went to these ex-CNW dash 8's now for power replacing the 4-3000 horse older units that was the standard power for awhile. These units have to be retrofitted with straight air to assist trains down the mountain grade into Two Harbors. Here the train works between Jones and Sparta on the Iron Range Sub.
Ken Borek operates a fleet of these DC-3s retrofitted with PT-6 turboprop engine...they have been used in Antarctic and in the frozen northern areas of Canada and Alaska
An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 78 miles into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron, MN. These trains make the 168 mile round trip to and from Two Harbors many times daily to load ore pellets bound for shipment on the Great Lakes. CN has went to these ex-CNW dash 8's now for power replacing the 4-3000 horse older units that were the standard power for awhile. These units have to be retrofitted with straight air to assist trains down the mountain grade into Two Harbors. Here the train works between Iron Jct and Wolfe on the Missabe Sub. Caleb and the conductor were having a competition to see who could wave bigger! :-)
New meets old and some other new. Ferromex parallels CPKCdeM in the state of Hidalgo. The retrofitted and formerly electrified Linea A meets Linea B for a small stretch here, and the decades-gap of engineering is evident. This FXE auto train set off the detector just to the east 10 minutes ago; FERROMEX DETECTOR DIRECION NORTE, or something to that effect. Parked the car and could easily hear the two modern GEs screaming up the grade. The newest Cebra scheme for Ferromex is extremely handsome and becoming more and more common.
There is a connection between the two railroads up ahead at Aragon, about a mile or two to my west (railroad north)
It won't win any award for pretty but the range of patina and aging is outstanding. Helios KMZ 44.2 Chrome model 58mm retrofitted to Nikon F., F/10. Shot with a 65 year old lens on an entry level Nikon D3200.
On a cool frosty morning, CN 8947 leads stack train Q120, as they approach the hotbox at Maccan, Nova Scotia. Looks like 8947 has been retrofitted with an LED headlight.
February 19, 2018.
The N700 series (N700系, Enu nanahyaku-kei) is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train with tilting capability developed jointly by JR Central and JR West for use on the Tōkaidō and San'yō Shinkansen lines since 2007, and is operated by JR Kyushu on the Kyushu Shinkansen line.
N700 series trains have a maximum speed of 300 km/h (186 mph), and tilting of up to one degree allows the trains to maintain 270 km/h (168 mph), even on 2,500 m (8,202 ft) radius curves that previously had a maximum speed of 255 km/h (158 mph). Another feature of the N700 is that it accelerates more quickly than the older 700 series Shinkansen trains, with a maximum acceleration rate of 2.6 km/h/s (0.72 m/s2). This enables it to reach 270 km/h (170 mph) in only three minutes. Further advancements led to the development of the N700A, an incremental evolution of the N700. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series sets have been retrofitted with most of the improvements added to the N700A series, and are now classified as "N700A".
Because of these improvements, trains can travel between Tokyo and Osaka on a Nozomi run in as little as 2 hours and 22 minutes on the fastest service.
Ōsaka Station 大阪駅, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
I'd shot here once before about seven years ago so figured I'd go high this time since I'd shot low back then. If you missed that shot if can be found here: flic.kr/p/2iCGB5Q
Northbound Florida East Coast Railway train 202 is rolling off the last couple dozen miles of their fast 350 mile overnight run from Hialaeah Yard in Miami to Bowden Yard in Jacksonville. They are crossing the calm waters of the San Sebastian River just north of MP 37 on the Flagler Subdivision in this view looking from parallel US Route 1, North Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Saint Augustine is the historic headquarters city of the road dating from 1885 when Henry Flagler established his offices in the city, some 10 years before the FEC name came into existence. The road built three office towers in the 1920s about 500 ft behind where I'm standing that served as the railroads headquarters until 2006 when they were donated to Flagler College and the railroad relocated its leadership and administration to Jacksonville.
The train is led by LNG powered GE ES44ACs 809 and 806 built in Nov. 2014 and spliced by their custom LNG fuel tank car. Originally diesel powered the entire GE fleet has been retrofitted to run on LNG as detailed in this article: files.chartindustries.com/FEC-LNG-FloridaEastCoastRailway...
Saint Augustine, Florida
Monday March 27, 2023
By all accounts, when it came to horsepower ratings, Detroit had reached the summit in 1970. Several milestone cars come to mind, like the 450hp LS6 Chevelle, the 370hp Ram Air IV GTO Judge, 370hp W-30 4-4-2 and 425hp Hemi 'Cuda. Also by this time, insurance companies had wised up to the race-ready cars coming from the Motor City and sky-high premiums became the rule rather than the exception. This, coupled with looming emissions standards and unleaded fuel, cast ominous clouds over further development of the muscle car. n response to the insurance surcharges, the Big Three began offering what could be dubbed "junior" muscle cars. Among them were the 1970 Dodge Dart 340, the Chevelle Heavy Chevy of the early 1970s, the Pontiac GT-37 and, probably the wildest of all, the 1970 Oldsmobile Rallye 350 with its retina-searing Sebring Yellow paint from stem to stern.
The Rallye 350 was introduced on February 18, 1970, by Oldsmobile General Manager John Beltz and made its debut at the 1970 Chicago Auto Show. However, some were built as early as the second week of January 1970. The car consisted of option package W-45, which included blackwall tires, a W-25 fiberglass hood, the L74 350 V-8 engine, N34 Custom Sport steering wheel, D35 sport mirrors, FE2 Rallye suspension, N10 dual exhaust and W35 rear deck air spoiler. All of these items would have been included on a true Rallye 350.
Oldsmobile built 3,547 copies of the Rallye 350--a relatively small number that might back up reports that dealers found it difficult to sell the wild-looking coupes, due at least in part to the yellow bumpers. We've heard that, in response to this, some dealers took off the urethane-coated pieces and installed standard chrome bumpers--so don't be too alarmed if you find an original car with chrome bumpers; it may not necessarily be a fake. Several Olds experts corroborated the belief that chrome bumpers were retrofitted at dealerships, but there is no way of knowing for sure how many cars received this treatment. What is known is that every Rallye 350 left Lansing with yellow bumpers.
The only engine offered for the Rallye 350 package was the L74 350-cu.in. V-8, rated at 310 horsepower with a single four-barrel carburetor, which could be ordered in any F-85 or Cutlass. The 310hp engine had a 10.25:1 compression ratio and 390-lbs.ft. of torque at 3,200 rpm, using a single four-barrel 4MV Rochester Quadrajet carburetor. Oldsmobile engines of this era featured super-strong blocks with heavy doses of nickel, which makes them especially durable. The cylinder heads should have a "6" cast on the left front and right rear of the castings. The base 310hp 350 could sprint from zero to 60 in 7.0 seconds flat. On a drag strip, the Rallye 350 could get down the track in 15.27 seconds at 94.33 mph. The optional Muncie M21 close-ratio box was the sole four-speed choice. The only automatic available was an optional Turbo Hydra-Matic 350.
credit: Hemmings
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Merwede, Boats, Skipper, People (uncut)
In Holland, using a pleasure craft like the one depicted on the FG requires no boating license, also on busy rivers like the Merwede. Sometimes, this can pose problems over simple issues such as right of way.
The other ship is the Willem-Marie. It was built 110 years ago as a steam tug, converted to diesel in the 1980s, and was in active service until 2021. After retrofitting a steam engine, it is now a museum ship, berthed in Schiedam.
This is number 320 of People at work.
The daily ERS movement from Caen to Paris-St-Lazare (necessary in order to balance the rotations) is seen here passing Jouy-Mauvoisin behind BB 15016. Note that the diagonal red lines of its Multiservices livery are inverted compared to most other locos sporting that livery: this is because together with BB 15019 and 22347 (and also CC 72006, but with a blue line rather than a red one), it was among the first locomotives to wear the Multiservices robe, and acted, as it were, as prototypes for this livery - and they were never retrofitted to align with their later siblings. Jouy-Mauvoisin, 17-09-2019.
Every now and then on NYS&W's Utica line during the early years, there would be unit stone trains. I always called them "Hot Stone" because trainman Joe White always used the term "hot" for a special box car move or if a car just HAD to be in Binghamton to make a connection. "Hot Stone" was seasonal; spring through fall. Barretts Construction in Binghamton, NY have their own gravel pit near Cassville, NY. They loaded Susquehanna trains at Richfield Jct on an old iron overpass that was retrofitted with a dump chute. Barrett dump trucks convoyed from the pit to the dump site loading anywhere from 20-40 hoppers. Then it was off to Binghamton! Smaller cuts of stones rode along with the local jobs UT1/BH1 which was quite common, but at times if a crew went on duty at Richfeild Jct to load stone, this RJ1 or BHX would highball straight to Bingo creating "Hot Stone" because Barretts needed it ASAP and crews would be running short on time. It made for a great.chase. Here we find a BHX sailing along south of Sherburne, NY with a single Alco C430 and 20 loads of stone. This train would have to make at least two trips from RJ to Paris summit up the 1.8% grade before putting everything together for the race to Binghamton.
P14 and T363 drop down Warrenheip bank as 9187 from Newport to Ballarat East with a 6 car X'Trapolis train to be retrofitted to be more disability friendly.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Europa is a steel-hulled barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally she was a German lightship, named Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, she was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.
Europa cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to Antarctica, and between South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, and Cape Town.
In 2002 and 2013 she rounded Cape Horn. In 2010 she participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.
In 2013-2014 Europa circumnavigated the world together with two other Dutch tall ships, Tecla and Oosterschelde. They sailed from South Africa to Mauritius, Australia and New Zealand. In October 2013 Europa participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney. From New Zealand, the ship sailed an official Cape Horn rounding (October - December 2013). In June 2014 Europa completed her circumnavigation by arriving in Amsterdam.
SAIL Amsterdam is a maritime event held once every five years in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Tall ships from all over the world visit the city to moor in its eastern harbour. SAIL Amsterdam 2025 is the tenth edition, and the first one since 2015 as the 2020 event was cancelled. It was one of the main events celebrating Amsterdam's 750th birthday. It was also 50 years since the first SAIL Amsterdam was held.
My video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6z_F08lp5s
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Yesterday, on the vernal equinox, we took a little walk uptown. I took this photo of the Moore House from the parking lot. I liked how town hall emerged from the background. I removed some wires and signage.
"Moore House was originally built by the Moore family around 1850 as a home, and later was turned into a general store. The family was one of the first to settle in Carleton Place. The log structure was retrofitted and moved to its present location in the spring of 2007." (www.captroybrown.ca/moorehouse.html)
If you click the above link, there is a photo of the house being moved to its present location.
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