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Lima 1949
Union Pacific 900075
Steam Rotary Snow Plow
UP 900075 is a steam-powered rotary snow plow. It is effectively a giant snow blower, with its steam engine – housed entirely within the streamlined car body for easier maintenance in winter conditions – powering a large blade at the front that throws snow to the side of the tracks. It is not self-propelled and was designed to be pushed by a locomotive. Diesel-powered rotary snow plows are still employed by railroads but the last steam-powered rotary plow was retired in the 1970s.
Electro-Motive 1982
Amtrak 945
AEM-7 main line passenger locomotive
Amtrak 945 is an 11,000 volt electric passenger locomotive built in LaGrange, Illinois. It is the fastest locomotive at IRM. It was designed for a maximum speed of 125mph, which it would reach in service on the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. It was retired in 2018 and acquired by IRM, where it is preserved as a static display.
PC&F 1975
Milwaukee Road 992300
NE Caboose
Milwaukee Road 992300 is a standard railroad caboose designed for general freight service over the Milwaukee Road system. It has a widened (or “extended vision”) centered cupola on the roof to provide the conductor better visibility over his train.
GE 1960
Union Pacific 18
D-E Turbine A Unit 8500 GTEL
Union Pacific 18 is an example of the most powerful locomotive ever built in America. Rated at 10,000hp, it consists of the cab unit; the main power unit containing a turbine engine, similar to a jet engine, numbered 18B; and a tender to carry fuel for the turbine. The railroad designed these locomotives specifically to pull freight trains between Omaha, Nebraska and Ogden, Utah and 18 is one of only two in preservation. Their poor fuel economy and high maintenance costs of the turbine led to their retirement in the late 1960s.
The above texts all come from the IRM website.
National Train Day was a marketing thing that Amtrak came up with. They had some interesting displays of equipment at Union Station in Chicago. They quit it because they didn't have the budget for it. But, as usual, things created by the government never truly fade away. 😜
Here are some pictures I took at Union Station in 2010.
Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois 42.227986, -88.527277
July 27, 2024
My Illinois Railway Museum album
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Male Ringed Teal in Regents Park.
The Ringed Teal is native to Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil, it is a small teal that is very easy to maintain in captivity on a basic waterfowl diet. When it was first available to aviculture it was considered delicate and only suitable for maintaining in a tropical house. Over many successive generations the Ringed Teal has adapted to Captivity and become very hardy and can easily withstand a UK winter with no requirement for additional protection provided some open water can be maintained. The Ringed Teal is not believed to be threatened in the wild and is one of the more common waterfowl in captivity. As with many other southern hemisphere waterfowl the Ringed Teal does not have an eclipse (non breeding) plumage so the striking colours of the males plumage are maintained throughout the year once adult plumage is assumed at about fourteen weeks of age.
Southern Shorthaul Railroads Westons tip duties is usually done with SSR101 & SSR102, CLF1 (Formerly CL2) replaced SSR102 while it was at Cardiff for some TLC. Here we see CLF1 & SSR101 at Westons during the tip. Thursday, 28th October 2021.
A Red-eyed Vireo checking things out at my favorite forest. This migratory song bird holds the record for most songs given in a single day among bird species with more than 20,000 songs.
Common Merganser
Common Mergansers are streamlined ducks that float gracefully down small rivers or shallow shorelines. The males are striking with clean white bodies, dark green heads, and a slender, serrated red bill. The elegant, gray-bodied females have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest. In summer, look for them leading ducklings from eddy to eddy along streams or standing on a flat rock in the middle of the current. These large ducks’ nest in hollow trees; in winter they form flocks on larger bodies of water.
For more info: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Merganser/overview
Packard series
Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.
Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.
In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.
This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.
Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.
Got the whole lot in this time! Wild Ringed Necked Parakeet in Kensington Gardens. Spot the robin, I have only just noticed it!
great egret tucks the long neck up against the body and points the toes to keep wind resistance to a minimum
GM10, with 42103 at the rear, approach Glenfield as they head for Glenlee with the AK cars as SK83.
Wednesday 12th August 2020
When the forced perspective adventure began, the one24thscale team naively imagined we could focus on the sleek, streamlined cars of the nineteen thirties. Ken marveled at how, during the greatest economic crisis the nation ever experienced, some of the greatest works of automotive art had been created. I share that sense of wonder. We wanted to celebrate those cars.
The Danbury Mint, 1934 Packard LeBaron was one of only a handful of die cast models we had to work with on that first day of shooting. We soon learned, yes there are lots of gorgeous models of cars of the rich and famous available from makers of die cast models. What proved difficult was finding scenes to use them in. There are only so many mansions around town to use as backdrops. In the rural settings we revisit time and again, about the only place for a rich man's car, is hot rodding down a country lane, disrupting the peace and quiet. Well, we did that story, a couple of times.
We even staged our own Concours de Elegance one hot July day, under the trees on the west lawn of the Grant-Humphreys mansion. We were able to spotlight a lot of high end cars in that series.
Finding a stage for the gorgeous cars of the deco era was the idea behind this set. It is meant to evoke a nineteen thirties, car dealer's salon. The buying experience was once very different, especially for high-end buyers. Though, I doubt they would have served you a Latte while you talked about financing.
In the months ahead, pandemic willing, you can expect to see more from this new time machine. Stay tuned!
No forced perspective trickery happening here! This is a photograph of a 1/24 scale die-cast model car in a 1/24 scale custom built 1930's car dealership.
Danbury Mint 1934 Packard Lebaron
Vintage streamlined passenger cars exit Loray Canyon at North Pass west of Montello, Nevada with Big Boy 4014 in charge.
July 19. 2024
Onslow Court, Worthing, Sussex, UK.
Designed by ATW Goldsmith in the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco and built in 1933. Previously on this site stood 'Onslow Vineries', a large house with extensive grounds used as a vinery.
(Ref. onslowcourt.org)
I don't remember having taken a photo of the Brighton starlings where so many of them have had their wings back. I'm not sure if this was because it was windy (it was VERY windy!), or whether they were preparing to swoop low over the water. The blue in the background is the sky reflected on the sea. This was taken early on when it was still light.
Found at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pa. This streamlined locomotive, designed for bi-directional operation was mainly used for passenger trains, but a few were re-geared for freight service. The GG1 survived longer than any other locomotive design, lasting from 1934 to well into the 1980s. The 79.5 foot long 230+ ton GG1 was built on an articulated frame which permitted its 2-C+C-2 wheel arrangement to negotiate tight curves even in congested areas. Power was picked up from an overhead 11,000 Volt AC catenary wire by a pantograph and the voltage stepped-down through an on board transformer to feed the 12 single phase 25 cycle traction motors. Each of these motors developed 385 HP giving the GG1 a total of 4620 HP in continuous operation and allowed speeds up to 100 mph. The body of the locomotive also housed large blowers for motor and transformer cooling, a steam boiler for passenger car heat, electric controllers and sanding boxes.
The hood ornament on a '40 Chevrolet has the Art Deco look of a streamlined locomotive of the same era.
The streamlined dream like clinker built oak of The Skidbladner calls out to those that can pack their sea chest as a seat from which to person the oars on an imaginary journey and hopefully the visitors will have notions of goods in their sea chest to trade and room there also to bring back their hard won treasures? This now land bound longboat affords a great prospect to experience Viking visions. The replica of the archaeological recovered Gokstad ship now sits next to a reproduction longhouse and both have room enough to house your imagination and also to inspire your dreams.
The Viking Unst Project,
A968
Brookpoint, Haroldswick, Scotland, ZE2
60.7853, -0.8343
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Skidbladner
"The streamlined Goosander is a handsome bird and a great fisher - its long, serrated bill helps it to catch and hold its slippery fish prey...It nests in riverbank trees, but can be seen on lakes and reservoirs in winter...
"The Goosander is a medium-sized duck and a member of a group called the 'sawbills' because of their long, narrow bills with saw-like 'teeth' which are good for gripping fish... A long, streamlined bird, it is perfectly shaped for swimming after fish...Goosanders are gregarious birds, forming flocks of thousands in some parts of Europe..."
"Male Goosanders are white, with dark green heads, black backs and long, red, hooked bills...The white sides and breast sometimes have a pink glow...Females are grey, with a gingery or reddish-brown head and a white throat..."
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Privately Owned Streamlined Locomotives 42101 and 42107 with Lachlan Valley Railway’s 4702 and 4708 on the rear. Fly over the Wingecarribee River at Burradoo with a rake of Southern Aurora carriages in tow bound for Goulburn Workshops
The streamlined Redbone Coonhound, an American original, is even-tempered, mellow, and kindly at home but a tiger on the trail. Vigorous activities like hunting and swimming between long periods of rest is the rhythm of coonhound life.
The streamlined dream like clinker built oak of The Skidbladner calls out to those that can pack their sea chest as a seat from which to person the oars on an imaginary journey and hopefully the visitors will have notions of goods in their sea chest to trade and room there also to bring back their hard won treasures? This now land bound longboat affords a great prospect to experience Viking visions. The replica of the archaeological recovered Gokstad ship now sits next to a reproduction longhouse and both have room enough to house your imagination and also to inspire your dreams.
The Viking Unst Project,
A968
Brookpoint, Haroldswick, Scotland, ZE2
60.7853, -0.8343
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Skidbladner
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/117965.
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections.
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
Northern gannets fold their wings all the way back until the tips touch when they are diving for fish. This was at St. Vincent's Beach, Newfoundland and Labrador where the northern gannets were diving for a small fish known as caplin (cA-plin, long A sound). They are so incredibly fast that I took many photos of splashes before I got this shot!
The streamlined dream like clinker built oak of The Skidbladner calls out to those that can pack their sea chest as a seat from which to person the oars on an imaginary journey and hopefully the visitors will have notions of goods in their sea chest to trade and room there also to bring back their hard won treasures? This now land bound longboat affords a great prospect to experience Viking visions. The replica of the archaeological recovered Gokstad ship now sits next to a reproduction longhouse and both have room enough to house your imagination and also to inspire your dreams.
The Viking Unst Project,
A968
Brookpoint, Haroldswick, Scotland, ZE2
60.7853, -0.8343
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Skidbladner
GM22 providing extra power assists G534 working T173 Linx Shuttle through Belfield for Enfield, 18/1/2022.
6228 Duchess of Rutland on an up express with a mixed rake of stock near Hincaster Junction, south of Oxenholme in July 1939. A colourised b/w photo taken by Hubert Foster.
Cormorants fly carrying a considerable amount of added weight from their last dive and this Little Cormorant is no exception. Unlike most waterbirds, their plumage allows water to penetrate the outer feathers, reducing buoyancy and improving underwater control while hunting.
This effect persists for several seconds after takeoff, turning a benefit underwater into a cost in the air. During this brief phase of flight right after takeoff, the soaked neck and body feathers retain water, increasing mass and aerodynamic drag.
What is visible here is not just the act of flight right after leaving the water, but also the residual cost of a dive optimized feather structure with water, being carried into the air.
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