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Space Shuttle Discovery, making its way to its new permanent home in Dulles, VA, stopped by Washington, DC for a few fly-over photo ops.
The SCT shuttle from Islington to Port Augusta with GM40,SCT001 and a crew van has pulled up on the Rocky River crossing loop just after sunrise on 5-12-10
Diecast toy space shuttle wing for the Macro Mondays challenge, Wing. Area shown is about 70mm wide.
Part 1: In 2027, the Interplanetary Exploration Alliance began flying the space orbiter shuttle Indefatigable on routine missions to carry elements of the I.E.A. Vanguard to orbit for assembly in space.
RTB (Ruhr Tal Bahn Cargo) Vectron 193 229 and a sister with the Curtici (Romania) - Genk (Belgium) shuttle - distance 1600 km - on the way north while driving through the station Kimpling (Upper Austria)
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Stormtrooper 1: Looks pretty dead out there.
Stormtrooper 2: Better then being on prison duty.
Stormtrooper 1: Yeah, guess you have a point.
Based on this design > turned the asymmentrical shuttle into a balanced ship with the added side pod. The engines turn into cruise, speed and landingmode. Canopy opens too..
We return to our alternate universe with our modern knowledge to reimagine the iconic imperial lambda shuttle from Star Wars.
Only 80ies parts used. Fits one pilot and a lot of passengers. This was a fun build and im pretty impressed how studfree it could have been made in the mid 80ies allready with the limited part palette. The folding mechanism for the wings works, more pics to follow soon. Cheers
Permanently laid up in its own display building, the Space Shuttle ‘Atlantis’ makes for an impressive sight at its display angle.
10-11-2024
I imagine that in the future, most airports will look like this one, where you can just hop right on a space shuttle bound for the nearest planet or galaxy. Not really a space station, this is the Bangkok International Airport and is one of the coolest structures I've ever seen. Down each terminal wing are long corridors of curved glass that let in a ton of beautiful sunshine. Subtle touches are everywhere including full orchid gardens around nearly every corner. Truly awe inspiring! No wonder Thai people are always smiling :)
I just got back from my vacation to Thailand / Japan and had a wonderful time. I must have taken one bazillion photos (at least) that I've only just begun to go through. I really lucked out with the weather and every day was sunny. It was also very warm and humid which I wasn't all that prepared for... but I definitely got my dose of Vitamin D for the year! Anyway, expect a steady stream of posts over the coming months.
As for the shot, another 9 expsosure set in order to capture the full range of light information, taken hand-held (though I do need to credit the railing with the assist). The taxi driver drove like a man possessed to the airport, and since I got there early, it gave me some extra time to troll around the beautiful airport and as luck would have it, found that the gate next door was completely vacant. I quite like the empty colorful rows of seats. Anyway, definitely another one to add to my collection of funky architecture!
Looking forward to catching up on everyone's streams! Hope you all have a fantastic week!
The Barbours Cut container terminal in the Port of Houston sends traffic to the rest of the country via shuttle trains that run to UP and BNSF's primary Houston-area intermodal facilities.
Here is UP's shuttle train, MBCHO (which is symboled as a manifest train), rolling through Deer Park Jct on the south side of the Houston Ship Channel.
In another 20 miles or so, the train will arrive and make connections at UP's Houston Intermodal Terminal at Settegast Yard.
The track in the foreground leads to Frontier Logistics's large warehouse and small SIT yard. They're switching this morning, hence the blue flag placed on the lead.
MBCHO 24 (Manifest- Barbours Cut Terminal [La Porte, TX[ to Houston, TX [Settegast Terminal])
UP C44ACCTE #5573
UP C45ACCTE #7709
Deer Park, TX
December 24th, 2024
Temporary shuttle service to link Lang Farm and Monksmoor estates with Services D1 and D2 towards Rugby and Northampton during roadworks on the A45.
Stagecoach 36947 (SN63 KGG) Sedgemoor Way, Daventry.
23rd August 2021
I used to work for a company called Spar aero space. I got to work on parts of the Canada arm and dedicate this shot to that mission of the last shuttle flight.
Y112 & K183 top n tail as they climb towards Warrenheip with an SRV shuttle bound for Yendon. 23/5/26
K183 climbs away from Wattle Glen with a shuttle returning to Hurstbridge, and a burst of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy day.
31/8/25
With the setting sun in the distance, KCS 4171 rolls eastward through Houston's West End.
On the drawbar is a long string of empty hoppers returning to the Motiva refinery in Port Arthur for another load of petroleum coke. Pet coke is a byproduct of oil refining (essentially a solid carbon rock with some nasty stuff in it), often sold overseas to be burned for power production. In early 2024, CPKC started running these shuttle trains from Port Arthur to the port of Corpus Christi for export.
C870 23 (Petroleum Coke Empties- Corpus Christi to Port Arthur, TX)
KCS SD70ACe #4171
CP DRF-43 / AC4400 #8071
Houston, TX
April 12th, 2025
Just bought the Elysium art book the other month, was inspired to recreate the slick shuttle by Christian Pearce. As usual, late to the bandwagon, but hope y'all enjoy nonetheless. Is stull very much a work in progress, but so far has room for about 8 crew, heaps of cargo space, working cargo ramp, pilot's hatch, retractable landing gear, countermeasure dispensers, rotating thrusters, and is sturdy enough to swoosh. Is heavily Inspired by Craig's Deus Ex VTOL and Space Shuttle WIP.
Please excuse grainy photos, am yet to borrow a camera for this one.
Went over to the coast to watch the shuttle go up. The photos did not come out very well, but the launch was pretty cool being there. Next time We are getting alot closer!!
From moth trap in my garden.
Thank you all who fave and comment on my photo'/video's,much appreciated.And thank you all for looking.
view from Melbourne FL
The rocket's upper trail dissipated as it reached the higher atmosphere.
The setting sun gave the nice orange and pinkish hue to the lover level.
Local trees in my neighbor's yard blocked view of the actual launch stage.
I figured I would upload one more from last weekend's Thirlmere Festival of Steam, and this one made the cut.
2705 and 3016 have just arrived into Buxton at the end of their shuttle, and will shortly detach from the consist and run-around to guide the shuttle tender first back to Thirlmere.
Concentrated on my camera session to the Sagrada Familia, appeared this curious scene with a plane and one of the cranes building the temple. I moved a few meters to have two objectives well aligned.
The Sentec Aerospace Bureau S-18 (Sparrow) was designed to ferry small shipments between major shipping ports. With minimal space for its crew of two, the shuttle devotes much of the aft cavity for cargo.
The Sparrow is also equipped with twin 20mm rotary cannons (just fore of the cockpit) which are protected from re-entry conditions by retracting behind hull panels.
The craft is capable of re-entry and planetary landing, although requires a space elevator in order to escape orbit.
Notable design features include the directional antenna at the front, full 3D vernier RCS, and gold-tinted canopy.
It also features fully retractable landing gear and weapons (but I forgot to photograph these).
RTBC 193 791 met een PCC-shuttle (41713) komt door de Eempolder richting Frankfurt Oder
15 april 2023
Just another picture perfect frame from this great spot.
There is still some fall color hanging on if you get out and look for it. On this picture perfect Friday I did just that hunting the last pockets of autumn leaves to be found along Amtrak's Springfield Line. I started my day here at the Connecticut River bridge for a quick succession of three trains, one each from CTrail, Amtrak, and Connecticut Southern.
Here is the third northbound train I saw cross the river here in just under 40 min, not a bad return on investment for my drive out after work! This is Amtrak train 490, a New Haven to Springfield shuttle with the standard push-pull Amfleet and ex Metroliner cab car pushed by a P42DC 97 (GE blt. Jun. 1997) seen on Amtrak's Springfield Line main near MP 50 crossing the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge between the towns of Windsor Locks and Enfield. The 1470 ft long double track bridge (though only one track is in service) dates from 1903 when the circa 1866 iron bridge was rebuilt by the New Haven Railroad, but even that structure was the second one on the site replacing a wooden Howe truss that first crossed here in 1843 by NH predecessor Hartford and Springfield Railroad.
Enfield, Connecticut
Friday November 5, 2021
A couple of hours digging new track followed by a couple of hours shuttling and testing at Riven Rock.
This is out in the Wairarapa (Carterton/Mt Holdsworth), about an hour and a bit out of Wellington.
Today's story and sketch "by me", I have caught up with the "PBR" Playa Beautimus Resort's buffet shuttle, a forty seven Ford Woody bound for the Las Vegas Strip. The shuttle runs Monday thru Friday searching out the best buffets in Vegas and today driver Don Dandy a new shuttle driver, in fact today is Don's first day driving a forty seven woody, in fact it is the first internal combustion engine powered vehicle he has ever been in, even as a passenger. Don Dandy is a Darterian from the Planet Ahangi. Don was previously employed as a goat herder on Ahangi. Randy met Don by accident when Randy was orbiting Ahangi in an experimental "HG" Flying Saucer for the Darterian Space Agency powered by a new exotic fuel "Hyper Gollywizz", made from specially fermented Goat Waste. Which is a natural and abundant source of fuel, Ahangi has over seventy million goats, so if they can ever eliminate the lumpy bits in the fermentation and filtering stage, the fuel would have not clogged the spinner jets that caused the "HG" saucer to drop out of orbit like a large shinny stone. Randy hit the surface of Ahangi at around Fifteen hundred miles an hour, right in the middle of a pasture luckily where there were no goats they were all at the nearby lake swimming, Ahangi goats love water. Randy did get a bit lucky the mobile herder shack he landed on helped cushion the impact. But Randy was pretty banged up and still disoriented when Don returned to his totally destroyed shack, Randy heard Don weeping as he peaked out from under the wreckage, he signaled Don in intergalactic sign language to get the first aid kit next to him, which he did and quickly read the crash test dummy repair instruction page printed in Darterian. Don cleared away the curious goats who had begun eating parts of the Saucer, placed Randy on clean patch of the pasture, and began applying copious amounts of crash test dummy living tissue putty on Randy's missing or smooshy places, then followed the illustrated two thousand mile an hour medium tan flesh tape application instructions, and watched Randy closely the next two weeks, following the recommendation not to give Randy more than one of the pre mixed tequila cocktails, or moon pies in the first aid kit per hour, no matter how much Randy whined, which was actually only the first week, and that whining was because Randy was laying on a wheel from Don's smashed moped, Don hadn't noticed it that first week. When Randy was well enough to travel he called the Man Cave emergency number, and within minutes JB was out the back of the Man Cave Stargate on route to Ahangi. Randy was sorry for destroying Don's shack, and so thankful to Don for the first aid he performed, he offered him a job at the "PBR", above you see JB and Randy watching Don picking up his first shuttle riders, until next time taa ta the Rod Blog.