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AEC Society Rally 2022
London Transport RT3902 new to Croydon garage in 1950 has been with Sharpes of Nottingham since 2013 and is a regular visitor to the AEC Rally.
Newark Showground, 28/5/22.
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Turning in to Engel Park at the start of its westward trip. From Harrow Weald the bus moved to Dalston for a while before heading to Wombwell's in November.
To commemorate 50 years since the end of crew operation at Edgware garage, RT 2177 operated on route 292 (the last crew route) on Saturday 15 July 2023. I'm a bit younger than the bus, but I have to say the RT was in better condition and running more smoothly than me!
They are original blinds, from the last bus in 1973.
Legendary "Runaway Train" from the movie by Andrei Konchalovsky. Locomotives GP40 + F7 + GP7 + GP7 and my favorite villains: Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts). Stickers by OKBrickWorks, thank you Andy.
The long-gone Chiswick Works of London Transport had a famous skid pan. Rides on the skid pan were available on an open day in June 1983. It seemed to be very popular! Downstairs only! 20p a ride - wonder how much people would pay for the chance to do it now....
RT buses lined up on the Embankment. Last night of Routemasters in London
The Palace of Westminster is in the background.
The NBEC Ultramar Tank Train crosses Rt. 126 in Chatham Head, NB on the Loggieville Spur. December 29, 2003.
This one got away too, to SARL London Bus St Amant-Tallende, France. By this time, available RTs were begining to be sought after.
Browns Blue RT is seen shortly after leaving Loughborough station working back to Quorn for the Bus & Train Spectacular event 7/5/22.
Another refurbished RT - No. 2544 arrives at the terminus at Becontree Heath on route 150 on 25/4/72. This route went OMO in Oct'76. The result of the building work shown in the preceding shots can now be seen.
For my last 2010 upload I am returning to my first location. Here is Romford Market Place (St.Edwards Church) on a quiet Sunday, 17/3/68. RT1619 (KLB741) is at the stop for route 87. These were the days before ring roads and traffic-free areas - soon Romford was to lose its Market Town atmosphere under the heavy hand of the London Borough of Havering.
From my "Romfords Buses 1967-'70s" book.
Pre 2013. I remember this being here in the 80's, just sitting. From what I was told, it's been there a lot longer then that.
From a local paper in 2015. Nothing has happened to the shovel since.
"The steam shovel on Route 51 in Franklin township between Perryopolis and Uniontown has been a familiar sight in Fayette County for a very long time. Its graffiti-heavy, towering presence along the road has caught travelers’ eyes for half a century.
“It was a landmark,” said Larry Massung, 53, of Belle Vernon, who purchased the 90-ton shovel and the 28-acre property it sits on for $75,000 from Ron Piccolomini, 83, of Connellsville, in 2004.
Massung is using past tense, at least for now, because in Dec. 2013, the Koehring model 1005’s 50-foot boom was cut, allegedly at Piccolomini’s request, by his cousin Donald Stash, 65, of Waltersburg, who was looking to cut the boom up for scrap he could sell to a junkyard. Stash says that he knew nothing of the 2004 sales agreement and that Piccolomini had forgotten he had sold the shovel nine years earlier.
Massung’s attorney Marc Valentine filed a suit last year in the Fayette County Court of Common Pleas against Piccolomini, Stash and the estate of William Piccolomini, Ron’s late father who first owned the shovel. The suit alleges that Piccolomini and Stash conspired to destroy parts of the shovel in an attempt to sell them for scrap, resulting in a breach of contract on behalf of the estate of William Piccolomini.
Piccolomini’s attorney, Sarah Connelly, said earlier this month that both sides of the suit are working on a settlement and declined further comment on Piccolomini’s behalf.
Stash said Piccolomini’s health was worsening after enduring heart surgery and a stroke several years ago.
“When they served him his legal papers, he cried,” Stash said of Piccolomini. “I’m afraid this issue’s going to put him into another stroke.”
Now the debate among those close to the shovel has become whether the shovel is worth preserving at this point.
“I wish they’d cut it up (all the way) and get it out of there,” said Tom Holly, a current Dallas resident and strip mining equipment enthusiast who remembers William Piccolomini’s base strip mining operation in York Run.
Whenever Holly travels up from Dallas to visit his mother in assisted living once or twice a year, he takes pictures of the shovel. It was a part of the Western Pennsylvania landscape for Holly.
“I just felt sad that it got cut up,” Holly said.
James Stine, chief executive officer of Mining Equipment Demolition in Mahanoy Plane, Pa., thinks the shovel can be fixed.
“It’s an outstanding piece,” Stine said. “In its day, it was the cream of the crop.”
In fact, it was featured in an article titled “Stripping in Cramped Quarters” in the Dec. 1954 edition of Coal Age magazine, which reported William Piccolomini’s contract with U.S. Steel to strip an 800 by 1,800-foot area in York Run with two Koehring 1005 units and two Koehring 605s in addition to four excavating units, four bulldozers and the services of 12 men.
The June 1952 edition of Coal Age mentions the Koehring 1005 model in relation to a similar, “recently introduced” Koehring Hi-Lift stripping shovel, and Holly, who has 1005 Koehring brochures, says the model was first launched in 1951.
In the 1960s, though, the shift from cable-operated shovels to hydraulic shovels rendered the 1005 Koehring obsolete. So after many strip-mining sessions, Piccolomini’s shovel settled in its current location.
“It got too cumbersome to move around,” said Stash, who worked with William Piccolomini on several strip-mining projects in the mid-1960s.
So there it sat, collecting several decades’ worth of graffiti.
“That’s horrible,” Holly said of the graffiti that has accumulated all over the shovel over the years. “Make the sons of a gun who did it come back and clean it up.”
The shovel will have a fresh start if Massung gets his way.
Massung says that during a meeting to complete the sales agreement between himself and Piccolomini for the 28 acres in 2004, his wife asked what would happen to the steam shovel on the property. He says that Piccolomini responded that he didn’t have the heart to cut it and needed money to move it, and then asked Massung to take sole possession of the shovel.
A copy of the sales agreement shows that a final provision stating that the buyer would accept the title to and responsibility for the Koehring 1005 shovel was hand-scribbled above the signatures of all parties involved.
Massung still plans to build a hot dog shop called the Shovel Shack next to the shovel, something he says he had been planning for years before it was cut up. After Stine saw a photo of the cut up shovel last year, he reached out to Massung to inform him that it could still be restored. Stine estimates it would cost $65,000 to fix the shovel, which he says would entail fabricating a new 37-foot dipper stick.
“When I saw Larry’s shovel cut up, my first thought was, it’s all there, it can be welded back together,” Stine said. The $65,000 proposal was submitted from Mining Equipment Demolition on Jan. 1, and three months later, Stine is looking forward to Massung opening his shovel-themed hot dog shop, which Massung calls his retirement plan.
“It’ll be a neat place, to be honest with you,” Stine said.
In the meantime, the shovel will sit, idle as ever, as its fate is decided in the legal realm.
“I hope Massung realizes it was an honest mistake,” Stash said.
“I want (Stash and Piccolomini) to put it back together,” Massung said.
Another Country area route to have short workings was the 406 from Kingston to Reigate. RT 4727 (RG) is seen on one such working at Tadworth station. Thursday 2nd May 1974. O-3
Legendary "Runaway Train" from the movie by Andrei Konchalovsky. Locomotives GP40 + F7 + GP7 + GP7 and my favorite villains: Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts). Stickers by OKBrickWorks, thank you Andy.
The 40a was a rather obscure Mon-Fri only service between Herne Hill and Poplar/North Woolwich. It was never supposed to have RTs on it and it was completely withdrawn in 1978. This is the unlovely Poplar stand, above the Blackwall Tunnel entrance.
This is my 5th version of the AT-RT and finally one that I am happy to post online. I have gone through a lot of iterations and failures to get to this point.
Specs:
Height ~130mm (16 studs)
Width ~65mm (8 studs)
Length ~90mm (11 studs)
100 Parts
Features:
Interchangeable minifigure placeholder allows display without minifig.
Highly poseable legs.
Accurate joint features.
Angled front shields.
Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-45176/
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AT-RT MOC
This AT-RT is mini-fig scale and is apart of my next MOC of the Week which will be posted next Monday. I hope you enjoy.
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Parked at the former trolleybus stand on Wangey Road, 3251's conductor, Alan Money chats to his driver. I seemed to encounter Alan every time I came east before moving permanently in 82. He's now involved with several preserved vehicles. The bus is also preserved, being one of the Romford Green Line batch.