Many photos have been shared of the classic "North End of the Alaska Railroad" sign that graced the bumping post at the old Fairbanks Depot. Here is a link to one in case you've never seen it: railphoto-art.org/collections/leo-king-collection/alaska-...

What we have here, however, is the rarely seen absolute south end of serviceable Alaska railroad trackage. Somehow being at the south end of the northernmost railroad in North America is less poetic, so it warrants nothing more than a simple End of Track sign. While passengers get to see the end of the line at the Seward Depot, over here on the freight dock the rails extend beyond the south throat of the yard right out into Resurrection Bay where pipe ships and barges can berth at the ARRC owned facility with access to on dock rail service. Beyond the bumping post lie the icy waters of the bay and then the vast north Pacific Ocean with the next landfall in Hawaii 2800 miles to the south.

Seward, Alaska

Thursday November 18, 2010

Photo taken by Robert Samweber, scan kindly provided by Stephan Barth for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

November 1988

G-BCDO "Friendship Lord Butler"

Fokker F27-200 Friendship

10234

Air UK

G-BCDO had previously been noted at Riem with Air Anglia on 17 August 1979.

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Danny Grew and LRS747:

Ex JA8621 All Nippon Airways and PH-OGB Limburg Airlines. To Air Anglia 31 May 74 as G-BCDO, merged into Air UK January 1980. Damaged beyond repair in an emergency landing at AMS 19 July 1990, ferried to NWI (Norwich) 29 July 1990 and scrapped during 1992.

Additional information from flickr - thanks to Dick Gilbert:

On 19 July 1990 G-BCDO was on a flight from Stansted to Amsterdam when the starboard mainleg failed to lock down. After circling to burn off fuel it landed at 1720 and the leg collapsed. It was made serviceable for a ferry flight back to the Air UK maintenance base at Norwich, but it never flew again and was broken up there in November 1991.

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=143857

This airframe as JA8621 with All Nippon Airways at OTM in April 1964:

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JA8621 with All Nippon Airways at HND in April 1968:

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JA8621 with All Nippon Airways at HND in February 1972 (later colours):

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This airframe as PH-OGB with Limburg Airlines at MST in August 1973:

www.airhistory.net/photo/446531/PH-OGB

G-BCDO with Air Anglia at NCL in April 1974:

www.flickr.com/photos/158479744@N04/50240947486

G-BCDO with Air UK at STN in January 1990 (later colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/harryclaggers/38851961334

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Back on a very frigid December day in 2006, CP's Doug Phillips gave me up close personal access to the Alyth back lot and Steam Shops.

The privately owned FM "Baby Trainmaster" had just been repainted into CPR Tuscan and Grey paint by the Alyth shops, and was still serviceable. This FM started life in the USA and is dressed in CPR colors. Unfortunately when H. Hunter Harrison took the reigns of CPR he booted the privately owned locomotives off the protected property, and the unit have succumbed to vandalism, and will take considerable work to ever operate again.

CPR 7009, Alyth Calgary AB. Dec. 17, 2006

If only! I think we have all asked mused about that one. If only this if only that but in our case for some of us the big if only is?

If only I was born a girl how different my life would have been :-)

We imagine an idealistic world of fancy frocks, long silky locks and looks a super model would be envious off.

The reality however for most would be completely different. a more mundane life of keeping house, cooking washing and sorting kids oh and having them ( not for the faint hearted) Our clothes would be dull and serviceable our hair short for convenience and time for a little glamour would be very hard to find. Yet for some of us that world be utopia.

Cobbled this outfit together while finding something to wear for Thursdays visit to see the lovely Janet.

On static display, Southern Pacific 4-6-2 2467 stands on a section of panel track in Harrison Square (at the time called Harrison Square Railroad Park). Several other pieces of railroad equipment were also on display there at this time. All the railroad equipment was eventually removed from the park and it was turned into an Asian focused park consistent with the needs of the local community. The 2467 went to the Pacific Locomotive Association and was restored to service. It is now on loan to the State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, not in operation, but potentially serviceable with a little work.

4483 and 1440, both un-serviceable, sit at the Qube Logistics Minto container depot awaiting their inevitable future of being scrapped.

Friday 12th April 2019

Former British War Department Class WD no.3677 (NB 25463/1944) is seen at Thessaloniki Depot in Northern Greece. OSE's predecessor SEK (Hellenic State Railways) obtained 16 of these locomotive through the United Nations Commission in 1946. The locomotives had been stored in Egypt after the end of the war and were surplus to requirements. Thessaloniki depot still had four on the books by 1996 with two considered to be stored Lb955 and Lb964 while this one, Lb962 was listed as "under repair" and Lb964 as serviceable.

Processed with Silver Efex Pro 2

Infrared Canon Powershot A800 (converted by Nigel Richards)

Victor XM715 is one of only two surviving Handley Page Victor K2 Tankers that is in serviceable condition, capable of taxiing at full speed

Timeline Events - Cold War Jets

Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, UK

Bi-modes apart, It's becoming increasingly rare to see electric locomotives during daytime on the WCML, as each operator runs less freight and some eschew their own stables due to lecky bills. It's not that long ago that 86s, 90s and 92s could be seen during the day but now, only G&W Freightliner seem to have faith in their 90s and even those are thinning out.

DB Cargo seem to have given up on their 92s around 2015, restricting them to Channel Tunnel/HS1 routes although some reports suggest a small number had been re-enabled to run on the WCML. GBRf appear to have stopped regular freight use with their 92s in 2018, presumably to ensure that they had enough serviceable locos for their sleeper contract.

In happier times, 92032 “IMechE Railway Division” heads 6M49, the 0822 Mossend - Carlisle Yard departmental round the foot of Castle Hill, Abington on 16 August 2016.

Mildenhall, 28 May 1988. XS458 remains serviceable, but grounded, and does fast taxi runs at its Cranfield home.

The night shed shunt, Knottingley Depot is currently being used to fit Chemical Emission Toilet Retention tanks. To the fleet of Mk1 and Mk2 coaches operated by Rivera Trains and this has seen 2 08's based at Knottingley for shunting the stock around the depot and about to move 2 Mk2's is 08605 whilst 08704 is waiting to do a similar shunt on the next road in the Wagon shops that has been more used to keeping the fleet of HAA and latter HTA Hoppers for the Aire Valley Coal services in a serviceable condition.

More to follow. Registration Serviceable Bipedal Vehicle 991754A. No classification yet.

Happy with the decals, but my technique needs some refinement. I really should buy that ND filter...

Trackside in smalltown America

In June 1999 the West Tennessee Railroad was all-ALCo/MLW. Enough reason to put it on my itinery. The two Canadian expatriates had replaced the aging RSD12. Three of the baby-Gators were serviceable backup units at Trenton and Humboldt.

The gleaming MLW M420W 3560 and 3510 were out on the line and I managed to track them down as they were switching at Dyer, Tennessee. The 3560 had a nice pound to the exhaust, almost mimicking a 16-251 engine.

As the crew was toiling about with a co-worker following in the golden F-150 I took this image at the College St crossing including Rail Road Bar and the Victory Chapel - Full Gospel. New cars to the left, the slowly crumbling smalltown literally on the other side of the tracks.

The buildings were torn down since.

Dyer, Tennessee.

June 24, 1999

#dieselrarities1999

Usually tucked away at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, these two early diesel switchers show off similar body designs despite being from two different builders. Both locomotives were positioned outside for roster shots during a Railfan Weekend event on September 8, 2002.

Oliver Iron Mining Alco HH1000 was built in 1940 and has the distinction of being the first diesel to work on the Mesabi Range and is the only surviving HH1000 (it was also delivered a year before DM&IR's first Yellowstone 2-8-8-4 monsters arrived).

Sharing the limelight with 900 on this fine day is Hallett Dock Fairbanks-Morse H-10-44 HD11, built in 1946 for Minnesota Western as their 51 and then becoming MN&S No. 11 before being sold to Hallett in 1976.

Both units are not currently part of the museum's operating collection but could be made serviceable.

First photos in ages!

I've had this model sitting on my desk for about a year now - just an original series style Star Trek model I put together while getting terribly annoyed at ST:Discovery (I kept joking that the first season would end with all the 'moral ambiguity' kicked out the window as the Enterprise showed up to fly the colours for utopianism that was in fact largely absent from an original series far closer to the 'pressured morality in war time' mode that's always treated as a departure from what Trek does - and lo . . . but I digress).

It's fairly flimsy but serviceable as a model and I probably cribbed from every Lego version of the ship on Flickr so, at the risk of pulling a Newton, credit to everyone who has done so!

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, regular steam-hauled passenger services based on Wolsztyn in Poland have continued throughout, although to an amended format, namely three turns Monday-Friday from Wolsztyn to Zbaszynek and return, and two return diagrams to Poznan on Saturdays. These have been in the hands of the two serviceable locos, Ol49-59 and Pt47-65 (which returned to traffic on 23rd March), running day in, day out as though nothing has changed with the world around, and with few people, other than the traincrew and regular travellers to experience this continuing steam activity. If anyone thinks that this is entirely a tourist operation, then think again! PW work is currently underway between Nowawies Mochy and Wloszakowice until mid-June 2020, relegating steam to the other lines, but let's look back to more carefree times, just three months ago but feeling like much longer, when services were running Monday-Friday on the Leszno line:

Signs of a hard overnight ground frost remain on the woodyard logs on Friday 24th January 2020, as Wolsztyn's solitary serviceable 2-6-2, Ol49-59, hammers up the grade away from Wloszakowice working the 11:48 Wolsztyn to Leszno passenger service, comprising the one serviceable passenger coach on this day. Suffering from steaming problems, this early 1950s-era loco, one of 116 originally built between 1951 and 1954 by Fablok of Chrzanów, was taken out of service later that day and did not return to traffic on the two regular weekday return services between Wolsztyn and Leszno until 30th January. The 'standby' locomotive, Pt47-65, was waiting to be reunited with its tender, away for repair, which was expected to be returned within days of this photo, but in the event took several more weeks. The management, shed staff, and loco and train-crew based at Wolsztyn work wonders with keeping this steam operation going against all odds, despite continuing funding difficulties. Whether the same format of these operations will continue beyond 2020 is very much in the balance and a decision will be taken in October, but let's hope for a positive outcome - they deserve it!

© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission

Due to a lack of serviceable 91s, Virgin Trains East Coast hired XC02 rake of coaches and 43384. This produced the unusual sight of Virgin Red 43311 on a rake of Cross Country coaches. It is seen departing Newcastle working 1Y32 Newcastle to Kings Cross.

Its Tu2-034 again, the 750mm gauge Borshava Railway's only serviceable locomotive! It is just as well that the services run only three days per week. It is seen passing the western suburbs of Vynohradiv running alongside Vulytsya Hychki (Hychki street) This is train 6609, the 17:55 from Khmil'nyk and the last inbound service of the day on 23rd April 2017. This pot-holed road is in good condition compared to most in this part of Ukraine!

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A ride on the Chemin de fer de Vivarais from Tournon to Colombier-Le-Vieux. Metre-gauge 0-6-0-6-0T compound Mallet 403 is at the head of the 10.00 train at Tournon Saint Jean station. Since 2013 this has been the eastern terminus and the dual-gauge section to the SNCF station in Tournon is no longer in use.

403 was built in Switzerland for the cdf de Viverais in 1903. Despite its pristine appearance the loco will be withdrawn for overhaul in the near future. The railway has one other serviceable Mallet at Tournon and 2 under overhaul, the latter at Lamastre.

This is the off-season and on Tuesdays only one train runs and this a shorter journey to Colombier-Le-Vieux rather than the 2 hour full 30km journey to Lamastre.

South Shore 801 parked in the Michigan City yards, 8-11-79. By this time it was serving as a parts source for the two serviceable 800's. Note that the "dead line" track included a former CTA 4000 series L car!

The Portland - a sailing hold scow, built of kauri in 1910.

She traded in and around Auckland until 1932

when she came to Nelson, and traded between the Tasman Bay harbours and Wellington for over 40 years.

The Portland is one of the few surviving serviceable hold scow in New Zealand,

most of these ships were taken to the Pacific for war use and never came back.

The Portland is currently moored at Pounawea in The Catlins.

But I hear rumours she's sold and may be moving back to Auckland. Rumours...

ehive.com/account/3021/object/42312/Photograph_[Scow_The_Portland]

www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/158184/all-hands-pumps-...

The antonym of upstream — where I have explored until the path expired — is downstream. Somewhere in between is a bit of an urban morass of bridges, car parks, construction sites, roads…just an unappealing mess. If I want something interesting in the downstream department I'll need to go to the other side of the tracks — figuratively and literally.

The railway came here to a small town in 1887. Part of the rationale for its construction related to national security and the creation of a transport corridor inland and away from the ports such as Twofold Bay which would be vulnerable to invasion from the seaward side. The fear of Russian invasion ran deep and having a bogie man handy is always a good way to get an ambition financed! Despite there being precious little need for it, the railway pressed on over the river, passed by the majority of the population and kept on its way to the South. It was only in the late 1940s that the suburbs flanking the river started their southward creep.

When in 1911 a new Federal Capital Territory border excised that bit of the community between the railway tracks, which it followed, and the river, where I want to go, this little community became a bit of a 'no mans land', nearby to amenity and yet administratively remote from the putative National Capital. Left without sustaining services — postal, reticulated water, electricity, sewerage — there is a notion that the posh new city would prefer that this little community would simply go away. It didn't.

Unnecessarily I was guided down another dead end street to begin my exploration; downstream. It was a tedious jaunt, a trudge really, and thankfully all downhill. I would later learn that I could have simply followed the river all the way from the metropolis with far less bother. The guide, it seems, was written by posh new city-centric types who hadn't considered that anything exists outside of their borders! This, it seems, is not news.

The benign neglect previously noted may not have gone away. I am standing here on a street, the one I've been guided to trudge down, and looking up at a power transformer attached to these two wooden poles. Each carries a bright shiny yellow placard which, inter alia, bear the declaration: Conditionally serviceable pole…Do not climb this pole. One wonders whether if these poles cannot bear my meagre weight perhaps I shouldn't stand here either?

RMS shunting loco 08762 at Great Yarmouth Vauxhall carriage sidings site, with 31452 in the foreground, These sidings are leased to Eastern Rail Services, a company that specialises in supplying carriages and other vehicles in period condition, including for filming. 31452 is fully mainline registered and is described as serviceable.

60 032 and 60 060 stand in the scrapline at Toton slowly being consumed by nature whilst one of their replacements skulks in the background. The storing of perfectly serviceable locomotives, being replaced by the Class 66's, was something conceived long before DB inherited the fleet.

St Mark's Campanile is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The current campanile is a reconstruction completed in 1912, the previous tower having collapsed in 1902. At 98.6 metres in height, it is the tallest structure in Venice and is colloquially termed "el paròn de casa" (the master of the house). It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the city.

Located in Saint Mark's Square near the mouth of the Grand Canal, the campanile was initially intended as a watchtower to sight approaching ships and protect the entry to the city. It also served as a landmark to guide Venetian ships safely into harbour. Construction began in the early tenth century and continued sporadically over time as the tower was slowly raised in height. A belfry and a spire were first added in the twelfth century. In the fourteenth century the spire was gilded, making the tower visible to distant ships in the Adriatic. The campanile reached its full height in 1514 when the belfry and spire were completely rebuilt on the basis of an earlier Renaissance design by Giorgio Spavento. Historically, the bells served to regulate the civic and religious life of Venice, marking the beginning, pauses, and end of the work day; the convocation of government assemblies; and public executions.

The campanile stands alone in the square, near the front of St Mark's Basilica. It has a simple form, recalling its early defensive function, the bulk of which is a square brick shaft with lesenes, 12 metres wide on each side and 50 metres tall. The belfry is topped by an attic with effigies of the Lion of St Mark and allegorical figures of Venice as Justice. The tower is capped by a pyramidal spire at the top of which there is a golden weather vane in the form of the archangel Gabriel.

The Magyar raids into northern Italy in 898 and again in 899 resulted in the plundering and brief occupation of the important mainland cities of Cittanova, Padua, and Treviso as well as several smaller towns and settlements in and around the Venetian Lagoon. Although the Venetians ultimately defeated the Magyars on the Lido of Albiola on 29 June 900 and repelled the incursion, Venice remained vulnerable by way of the deep navigable channel that allowed access to the harbour from the sea. In particular, the young city was threatened by the Slavic pirates who routinely menaced Venetian shipping lanes in the Adriatic.

A series of fortifications was consequently erected during the reign of Doge Pietro Tribuno (in office 887–911) to protect Venice from invasion by sea. These fortifications included a wall that started at the rivulus de Castello (Rio del Palazzo), just east of the Doge's Castle, and eventually extended along the waterfront to the area occupied by the early Church of Santa Maria Iubanico. However, the exact location of the wall has not been determined nor is its duration beyond the moment of crisis indisputable.

Integral to this defensive network, an iron harbour chain that could be pulled taut across the Grand Canal to impede navigation and block access to the centre of the city was installed at the height of San Gregorio. In addition, a massive watchtower was built in Saint Mark's Square. Probably begun during the reign of Tribuno, it was also intended to serve as a point of reference to guide Venetian ships safely into the harbour, which at that time occupied a substantial part of the area corresponding to the present-day piazzetta.

The defensive system begun under Pietro Tribuno was likely provisional, and construction may have been limited to the reinforcement of pre-existing structures. Medieval chronicles suggest that the laying of the foundation for the tower continued during the reigns of his immediate successors, Orso II Participazio (in office 912–932) and Pietro II Candiano (in office 932–939). Delays were likely due to the difficulty in developing suitable construction techniques as well as locating and importing building materials. Some of the early bricks dated from the late Roman Empire and were salvaged from ruins on the mainland. For the foundation, alder piles, roughly 1.5 metres in length and 26 centimetres in diameter, were driven into a dense layer of clay located around 5 metres below the surface. The piles were topped with two layers of oak planking on which multiple layers of stone were laid.

Fabrication of the actual tower seems to have begun during the brief reign of Pietro Participazio (in office 939–942) but did not progress far. Political strife during the ensuing reigns of Pietro III Candiano (in office 942–959) and, particularly, Pietro IV Candiano (in office 959–976) precluded further work. Under Pietro I Orseolo (in office 976–978), construction resumed, and it advanced considerably during the reign of Tribuno Memmo (in office 979–991). No further additions were made to the tower until the time of Domenico Selvo (in office 1071–1084), an indication that it had reached a serviceable height and could be used to control access to the city. Selvo increased the height to around 40 metres, which corresponded with the fifth of the eight present windows. Doge Domenico Morosini (in office 1147–1156) then raised the height to the actual level of the belfry and is credited with the construction of the bell tower. His portrait in the Doge's Palace shows him together with a scroll that lists the significant events of his reign, among which is the construction of the bell tower: "Sub me admistrandi operis campanile Sancti Marci construitur...".

The first belfry was added under Vitale II Michiel (in office 1156–1172). It was surmounted by a pyramidal spire in wood that was sheathed with copper plates. Around 1329, the belfry was restored and the spire reconstructed. The spire itself was particularly prone to fire due to the wooden framework. It burned when lighting struck the tower on 7 June 1388, but it was nevertheless rebuilt in wood. On this occasion, the copper plates were covered in gold leaf, rendering the tower visible to distant ships in the Adriatic. Marcantonio Sabellico records in his guide to the city, De Venetae urbis situ (c. 1494), that mariners looked to the gilded spire as a 'welcoming star':

Its peak is high such that the splendour of the gold with which it is sheathed manifests itself to navigators at 200 stadions like a star that greets them.

The spire was once again destroyed in 1403 when flames from a bonfire lit to illuminate the tower in celebration of the Venetian victory over the Genoese at the Battle of Modon enveloped the wooden frame. It was rebuilt between 1405 and 1406. Lightning again struck the tower during a violent storm on 11 August 1489, setting ablaze the spire which eventually crashed into the square below. The bells fell to the floor of the belfry, and the masonry of the tower itself cracked. In response to this latest calamity, the procurators of Saint Mark de supra, the government officials responsible for the public buildings around Saint Mark's Square, decided to rebuild the belfry and spire completely in masonry so as to prevent future fires. The commission was given to their proto (consultant architect and buildings manager), Giorgio Spavento. Although the design was submitted within a few months, the estimated cost was 50,000 ducats, and financial constraints in the period of recovery from the wars in Lombardy against Milan (1423–1454) delayed construction. Instead, Spavento limited repairs to the structural damage to the tower. A temporary clay-tile roof was placed over the belfry, and the bells that were still intact were rehung. The outbreak in 1494 of the Italian wars for the control of the mainland precluded any further action.

On 26 March 1511, a violent earthquake further damaged the fragile structure and opened a long fissure on the northern side of the tower, making it necessary to immediately intervene. Upon the initiative of procurator Antonio Grimani, the temporary roof and the belfry were removed and preparations were made to finally execute Spavento's design. The work was carried out under the direction of Pietro Bon [it] who had succeeded Spavento as proto in 1509. To finance the initial work, the procurators sold unclaimed objects in precious metals that had been deposited in the treasury of St Mark's in 1414 for a value of 6,000 ducats. By 1512, the tower itself had been completely repaired, and work began on the new belfry made in Istrian stone.

The four sides of the brick attic above have high-relief sculptures in contrasting Istrian stone. The eastern and western sides have allegorical figures of Venice, presented as a personification of Justice with the sword and the scales. She sits on a throne supported by lions on either side in allusion to the throne of Solomon, the king of ancient Israel renowned for his wisdom and judgement. This theme of Venice as embodying, rather than invoking, the virtue of Justice is common in Venetian state iconography and is recurrent on the façade of the Doge's Palace. The remaining sides of the attic have the lion of Saint Mark, the symbol of the Venetian Republic.

On 6 July 1513 a wooden statue of the archangel Gabriel, plated in copper and gilded, was placed at the top of the spire. In his diary, Marin Sanudo recorded the event:

On this day, a gilded copper angel was hoisted above Saint Mark's Square at four hours before sunset to the sound of trumpets and fifes, and wine and milk were sprayed in the air as a sign of merriment.

A novelty with respect to the earlier tower, the statue also functioned as a weather vane, turning so that it always faced into the wind. Francesco Sansovino suggested in his guide to the city, Venetia città nobilissima et singolare (1581), that the idea of a weather vane atop the new tower derived from Vitruvius’ description of the Tower of the Winds in Athens which had a bronze triton mounted on a pivot. But the specific choice of the archangel Gabriel was meant to recall the legend of Venice's foundation on the 25 March 421, the feast of the Annunciation. In Venetian historiography, the legend, traceable to the thirteenth century, conflated the beginning of the Christian era with the birth of Venice as a Christian republic and affirmed Venice's unique place and role in history as an act of divine grace. As a construct, it is expressed in the frequent representations of the Annunciation throughout Venice, most notably on the façade of St Mark's Basilica and in the reliefs by Agostino Rubini at the base of the Rialto Bridge, depicting the Virgin Mary opposite the archangel Gabriel.

As recorded by Marin Sanudo, structural work on the tower terminated in June 1514. The remaining work was completed by October 1514, including the gilding of the spire.

Decrepit dock on Lake Beauclair. Can only see this from a boat. Hidden gems of Florida.

Argyle Stairs.

Argyle Street, The Rocks takes its name from Gov. Macquarie who gave it the name in honour of his childhood home, County Argyle, Scotland.

In the early days of the colony The Rocks was an isolated community which was separated by a steep rocky outcrop of which buildings occupied which in turn meant that people were forced to travel to gain access to the other side of Sydney.

This was often undertaken by travelling around Dawes Point or the alternative route to access the eastern side was to negotiate a series of barely serviceable stairs.

It was not an ideal situation and it remained unaltered until 1911-12 when the Sydney Harbour Trust realigned Gloucester and Cumberland Streets and Argyle Cut was widened to 9 metres and the Argyle Stairs were constructed to replace the original wooden stairs that provided access to Bunker’s Hill.

Today the Argyle Stairs provide pedestrian access to Cahill Walk that runs above Circular Quay and beside Cahill Expressway and if you follow it you will find yourself on the walkway that takes you across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Rocks.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Taken in the magic 20mins before dawn as the sky goes from black to deep space blue.

60 015 the resident heavy shunter used to load trains in Dove Holes Quarry at Peak Forest is seen with a short set of repaired MMA wagons in the quarry sidings. Sadly this will be the last winter of DB Tugs working this job as from June 1st Victa Railfreight take over all loading operations in the Cemex owned quarry with DB and GBRF just contracted to hook and haul with departing loaded trains.

The original plan for Victa Railfreight was for two pairs of hired 37s with one maintenance spare to carry out the work done by the DB class 60 and available 66s off incoming services. That prospect has gone very quiet of late probably driven by a lack of available serviceable 37s in time. It may still be the long term aim as the contract is for something like 5 years. Rumour of hired Colas 60's has also proved somewhat unfounded so what will turn up to forfil this task come June the 1st will no doubt be revealed in due course.

A colored pencil set. I haven't done any macros in ages and I'm rusty. This needed a bit more depth of field.

Spectra`s as non pcvs are fairly rare, a couple in the north west and again a similar number in the midlands. This is former reading YJ51ZVO which has operated with ensign & mass. It was perhaps lucky to escape mass as many of those perfectly serviceable deckers went for scrap. Now a mobile bar and hospitality vehicle in the south.

43465 approaches Charfield with Rail Adventure’s second XC ECS move of the day forming 5Z26 1436 Laira to Chaddesden Sidings on 14th October 2023

43484 was the rear power car and there were 9 perfectly good, serviceable, comfortable mk3 coaches with storage space aplenty.

Fortunately this left Temple Meads ahead of the stopping sprinter to Gloucester and was 12 minutes early, which helped with the light.

The mk3 coaches were 42378 42373 42376 45004 42372

42368 45001 42371 44072

Man, I've never posted anything Suicide Squad related before. This is new for me.

Anyways, I've been trying to figure out a decent way to make the more Tron-Style Multiplex that appeared in the 2000's for a while now, and I think this is fairly serviceable a solution.

Each one is just the CMF Laser Mech with the armor, helmet, and wings removed. Simple as that.

Also featuring some members that also appeared during the 2000's that you've seen before.

Let me know what you think!

Native Floridsdorf-built BR52 pair 52.7084 (52.6900) stand serviceable at Wien Strasshof depot.

'Das Heizhaus' Strassof stands today on the original 1950s expansive steam depot site as a railway museum

20th April 1975

52.7084 (smoke deflector-less example) is Wiener Lokfabrik 16537/43 retired 20-10-75.

Royal Air Force - RAF

Teasin Tina one of only two surviving Handley Page Victor K.2 Tankers that is in serviceable condition, capable of taxiing at full speed. This aircraft is part of the Cold War Jets Collection at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.

13-03-2016

With a lack of serviceable Class 91s, VirginTrains rolled out a pair of 'Thunderbirds' to top-n-tail the 15:05 Kings Cross - Leeds service, with 67012 powering north, and 67005 on the rear.

Cross Country 43285 arrives at Birmingham New Street with the 1M49 1153 from Plymouth , a service being used to maintain serviceability and crew competence whilst the HST's are seeing reduced use .

Once clear of all passengers the set will do a tour of Birmingham as the 5T61 Birmingham NS - Birmingham NS , returning to work the 1V61 1642 to Plymouth .

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SEPTA Norristown Highspeed Line (former Philadelphia & Western interurban)- three October 1989 shots illustrating the brief period of operation of former Chicago Transit Authority 6000-series L cars. SEPTA obtained them as one of the stopgaps to keep operations going until the new fleet arrived (these were later replaced by some modified Philly L cars), the serviceable original fleet of Brill "Bullets" and Strafford cars (the last of which can be seen in the background on a training run) having dwindled in numbers.

This Revolver is an accurate, reliable, and easy to operate weapon that can be chambered for most 9mm based cartridges with the swap of the cylinder. Made of hefty steel alloy and durable plastic, this revolver will be serviceable for a long time

Cylinder Capacities available: 5 Chambers, 6 Chambers, 8 Chambers.

Cost: 1000$ USD

Another wider take in this scene that perfectly encapsulates the feel of railroading on Cape Cod both past and present.

The Cape Cod Central / Mass Coastal Railroad welcomed a big crowd to their second annual Railfans Day on Saturday August 17, 2024. The big draw for photographers this year was the operation of their two serviceable (they also own a third) classic original New Haven FL9s coupled back to back just as they would have operated leading the Neptune or Day Cape Codder up from New York City back in the early 1960s.

New Haven 2011 and 2026 (blt. Sep. 1960 ans Sep. 1957 as NH 2038 and 2007 respectively) are leading the second of three trips back to the festivities in Hyannis from Bourne as they hustle through the marsh and over the small bridge over Mill Creek crossing at about MP 62 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Railroad Cape Mainline as they slow for their stop in the village just a quarter mile ahead.

Sandwich, Massachusetts

Saturday August 17, 2024

Bus from mobile exhibition of the Museum "Mosgortrans". All vehicles are serviceable and on the go.

Work Motor S-475, formerly 6719 leads an eight car "Drag" on the south incline from the State St. Subway. It is passed by a southbound Midway Orange Line train in July 1998. S-475 was leading it's consist to 61st St. yard to pick up several crippled and serviceable 1-50 series cars and a few flat cars to take to Skokie Shops. This was the second trip of the day to retrieve cars from 61st.

Car S-475 is now an exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington DC and has been restored to it's as built appearance and number, 6719, and is in an interactive display depicting transit in Chicago.

Built in 1959, 6719-6720 were the last of 720 6000 series cars built by St. Louis Car Co. 520 of which used salvaged parts from Green Hornet PCC streetcars. They were followed by the fifty 1-50 series single cars, also using salvaged PCC parts.

Alphen aan den Rijn, 15 December 2024.

At the start of the concession Qbuzz didn't have enough serviceable buses, therefore a wide variety of buses were drafted in from various other smaller operators. This bus, the former GVB Amsterdam 1401 suffered serious accident damage and was sold in 2023. After repairs Drenthe Tours bought the bus.

The National Express drivers’ strike in 2023 brought disruption to the region for six consecutive days - between the 20-25th - as drivers fought for increased pay. Services resumed on Sunday 26th March, following the acceptance of a new offer.

This site at National Express Accessible Transport in Aston was among several strategic bases of operation for serviceable buses during the duration of the strike - following reports of union members blocking vehicles from leaving the garage to operate the skeleton service that had been put in place.

© David K. Edwards. You simply trim off the useless excess (the redwood tree) and the remaining stump forms a serviceable if grotesquely uncomfortable bench.

Alternative title: "Yeah, Fuck You Too."

Man oh man, I freakin love this movie. I cannot express enough how much I love this movie and the novella that it's based on, "Who Goes There?". Sure, there's the 1951 film version "The Thing From Another World", which is a classic, though lackluster, and there's the 2011 prequel, which is serviceable, but deeply faulty, but it's the 1982 film by John Carpenter that reigns supreme with its acting, tense and frigid atmosphere, paranoia, gut-wrenching effects, and unsettling score.

I actually had plans to make this for a long time. I've had the ideas for a lot of the figs, particularly Bennings, floating around my head for a while, and I bought a Husky fig at Brickcon specifically for this project, but it was the magnificent Xeno79, and his excellent set of Thing figs that prompted me to finally go through with this.

I'm not satisfied with every fig here. but for the most part I'm really proud of how this all turned out. I'm not gonna go through parts, but I will list everybody in order. For those of you late to the party, the top tier is the entire cast before the titular alien begins to infiltrate their ranks, and the second tier is post-infiltration, and the fate of each of the characters. Also hey, they're yellow.

From left to right: Norris, Doctor Copper, Windows, Clark, Bennings, Childs, Macready, Garry, Blair, Fuchs, Nauls, and Palmer.

The Things themselves (Itself?) was pretty damn hard to replicate, but I think I made due alright. Blair-Things' head is an old Castle Horse Headdress full of pointy things.

Anyways, this was crazy fun and satisfying to make, and I'm glad I finally got myself to do it.

Also this post is one giant spoiler-warning for those of you that ain't seen this masterpiece yet.

Let me know what you think mates, and if I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was me?

Taken at the 80th anniversary of D Day air show at IWM Duxford.

The Red Devils Parachute display team. I have never jumped out of an aircraft in my life, (a serviceable or unserviceable one) nor will I ever do so.

This does not mean that I can't appreciate the skill and bravery of those that do so.

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124 Pictures in 2024, theme # 100 Something You've never Done

Taken a year before the Italian AF began to phase out the G.222, the type has served the Italians well. After retirement it did not fare quite so well, with the U.S. Government buying and refurbishing around 18 examples to pass on to the Afghan airforce, these were beset with serviceability issues which culminated in 16 being scrapped.

The type was replaced by the much updated C-27J Spartan, which has gone on to win reasonable export orders.

Currently stored serviceable at the Crewe Heritage Centre, Direct Rail Services Class 37/4, No. 37423 "Spirit of the Lakes" seen in the morning sunshine.

DRS have put all their English Electric Type 3's up for sale on a rehire back contract, for RHTT duties in the winter.

Back in 1980, D&H was hurting financially. They needed every serviceable unit they could get. From what I was told be the local railroaders, the folks at Colonie combined the parts from two out of service RS3s to come up with an operating No. 4126. Compared to the blue, gray and yellow, I was never a fan of the dip blue scheme. That said, I think No. 4126 looked pretty spiffy in its fresh paint, resting between shifts at Oneonta, NY on Feb. 18, 1980.