Sleeper Temporary Tattoos, available at www.the-sleeper.com

from accessoire, via anthro. looks a bit strange b/c i'm wearing toeless tights under. must take a pic that really shows off these babies...

Devastated by the famine gripping Ireland, forced to immigrate on ships beset with cholera and starvation, and having survived the hellish quarantine conditions at Grosse-Île, hundreds of destitute men, women and children arrived in Toronto in the 1840s. An Asylum (Sept, 1847, to May,1848) sheltered some of the women and children. Toronto cuimhin leis an gorta.mor

Creator: Irish and Scotch Relief Committee

Date: 1847

Identifier: 1847.Irish.vs

Format: Ephemera

Rights: Public domain

Courtesy: Toronto Public Library.

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temporary exhibition of various Russian trophy of Russia-Ukrainian conflict in St Petersburg, Russia

Tried this wig on Nashira, but it's a bit too big. Solution? Stuff it under a flower crown! hehe

(These crowns are currently available in my etsy shop)

She's getting a complete make-over soon, so I figured I should play with her as-is for a bit. ♥

I also removed her eyelashes, since they seemed to just get in the way.

View of the new temporary modular offices which will help modernize the Administration Building to improve services for visitors at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, April 1, 2019 (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)

With the addition of many CSX locomotives moved to the Wabtec location in Erie, PA, the yard has started to run out of room. Wabtec decided to move some old locomotives out near Water St in Lawrence Park, PA giving unique opportunity to photograph these locomotives.

Taken: 2/2/24

Power: GECX 001 (C40-8)

roof covered with a tarp. 130507-06

One of the 43 Wright GB Kite Hydroliners put to use in Crawley by Metrobus in 2023/2024 is seen in the town in 30th November, 2025. Sister 6069 was burnt out in a dramatic fire a few days later leading to the temporary withdrawal of the entire fleet.

preparing for the big dream

Atomized Paint

How to body paint with an air brush:

Airbrush Series 3 of 8

STEP THREE

The Pounds per Square Inch (PSI) pressure emanating on the skin from the airbrush should not exceed 20 PSI.

I use 3 to 12 PSi on the face and around the eyes; up to 15 PSI for face painting or special F/X makeup for a sheer finish and between 15 to 20 PSI for body applications.

Step Four

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Temporary processing facilities are constructed in Donna, Texas, Feb. 8, 2021, to safely process individuals encountered by, and in the custody of, the U.S. Border Patrol. The facility will provide processing capacity in the RGV while the permanent Centralized Processing Center in McAllen is renovated.. U.S. Border Patrol photo by Michael Battise

The temporary overbridge at Teignmouth railway station, erected during repairs to the very fragile original. Captured on 13 September 2015.

Camera: Olympus FE-120 digital compact.

Via Morrison's, and on Sundays...

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Woking Town Centre

Abellio 39A/39B/39C/40 and Carlone Buses 592/593: The driver will make appropriate arrangements for any passengers requiring Morrisons.

"Saturday afternoon, June 10, 2017, seven temporary rainbow colored crosswalks and one representing the transgender pride flag will debut along 17th Street NW, in the heart of the traditional LGBTQ neighborhood of the nation’s capital. A community-led initiative, the crosswalks are designed to be a highly visible symbol of Washington, D.C.’s long-standing place as a welcoming city for LGBTQ residents and visitors.

Today a press preview event was held with Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, her LGBTQ staffers and appointees, community members, and regional TV and print media. One of the crosswalks was painted in advance to preview to TV and print media of the D.C.,Maryland,Virginia, Area.

- Randy Downs, Dupont Circle ANC 2B05”

More info at rainbow17th.org #DCRainbowCrossWalks #DCTransgenderPrideCrosswalk

Title: A Temporary Shelter.

Creator: Unknown

Date: ca. 1908

Part Of: Collection of photographs of Mexico

Place: Mexico

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12 x 17 cm

File: ag1998_1231_01_06_r_temporary_opt.jpg

Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.

For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see:

digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mex/id/3198

View the Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints

Rue de la Corraterie, Genève

Prehistoric plastic ala ButaNoHana.

The Normandy American Cemetery in France is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 and the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its ½ mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.

In honor of all those who fought and continue to fight so that we may enjoy the freedoms that we so often take for granted.

Scanned from film.

©2011 LKG Photography

Not to sound like an old geezer or anything, but this town is growing too fast. I know I won't be able to see this bridge from here next year. And this spot wasn't here two years ago.

This is my temporary setup until my mac mini arrives..

(I'm thinking about getting a nice 24" monitor like the one I have at work)

Signage points the way to the new southbound platform at Wilson on CTA's North Side Main Line. The station, over a century old, is being completely rebuilt, and the first new section to reopen is the Track 1 side of the southbound platform. For now, southbound Red Line trains are using it, but will move to the other side of the platform once Track 2 is rebuilt. Here, a northbound Red Line train pulls into the original middle platform. To the left is the disused express platform, which once served North Shore Line trains to Milwaukee and intermediate points. When recontruction is finished, Wilson will once again have local and express service.

I spent at least 8 years looking at the trash cans and gravel under the deck, and really wanted to enclose it. Not wanting this to be a time consuming or costly project, I used 1 x 3 strapping and drywall screws. Once enclosed, the whole thing just sort of fell into place. I limited the colors to black, green and galvanized metal. The terra cotta colored window boxes above have since been moved.

Crews have installed a temporary concrete barrier to separate traffic during construction.

Sharing the kitchen table whit my brother for some geeking.

Foam bedding mats in the temporary housing facility June 26, 2019 in Yuma, Ariz. as part of an ongoing response to the current border security and humanitarian crisis along the Southwest border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Jerry Glaser

I took the time to only briefly glance over toward the southwest corner at the Horn Lake Goodman Rd. Schnucks Kroger and snap a picture, but it certainly looks like they have used the old salad bar as a temporary deli front counter (or something!). Things have changed so much on this end of the store, it's hard to tell for sure exactly what's going on. Unfortunately, along with the Schuncks decor disappearing, most of the Albertsons stuff looks to be headed for the dumpster as well. Here's this same general area just five weeks prior: flic.kr/p/fPnH9F

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Kroger, (1997-1998) built (as Seessel's), Goodman Rd. at Horn Lake Rd., Horn Lake MS

The fate of the earthquake damaged Christchurch Cathedral is likely to be demolition, though there may be a compromise in that a section of the remaining structure could be preserved.

Meanwhile the safety barrier provides opportunity for up-lifting street-art.

Roof repairs at the Spirit AeroSystems facility

Temporary wooden wall...

Nasty Sons: Romeo and Mega

I don't know whether it was coming or going but I think the horse is no longer there.

Kodak pro100

I made a temporary table at my son’s house in Bellingham,Washington.

"and this too shall pass" a tender voice diligently reminds me.

"it's just another yoga pose; breathe through it. it's temporary," my yoga guru teaches. "how you react in this pose says a lot about how you will handle events in your everyday life."

am i breathing?

am i demonstrating grace?

Transferred from the Southern Region, but temporarily stored at Birkenhead Mollington Street Depot, Class 508, 508008 awaits the call to traffic on August 9th 1984. The units would have their set numbers altered into the 5081xx series. When operating on the Southern the units had been formed with two intermediate trailer cars, but on being transferred to Merseyrail they were reformed as 3-Car sets and the surplus trailers were added to Class 455/7 fleet.

My office on a cold, very cold tuesday afternoon. The street below is Leiden's busiest shopping street: Haarlemmerstraat. Even though my office (a.k.a. bedroom) is not that well isolated with just one, thin layer of glass, I can hardly hear the people walking by below...

Mormon Rocks, Cajon Pass, California

Dropping numbers of Ebola cases allowed the German Red Cross and the German Military to convert their jointly run Ebola treatment unit (ETU) into a novel Severe Infection Temporary Treatment Unit (SITTU).

The facility, located at the Samuel Kanyon Doe sports complex (SKD) is in immediate vicinity of the Chinese run ETU and applies procedures developed for Ebola in order to avoid cross infections of patients and ensure safety for its healthcare workers.

German medical personnel work together with newly trained Liberian staff in order to create a lasting impact.

Monrovia, Liberia, on 7 March 2015

Photo: UNMEER/Simon Ruf

On September 26, 2012, we had a temporary house guest--a sweet little female Goldfinch who got disoriented and flew into the slider door between my deck & my sunroom. She flew off, into the yard, but Duane saw her take a hard landing on the grass under the apple tree. We followed her into the yard, where we found her sitting quietly in the grass--not a very safe place to recover, since we have neighborhood cats and foxes. Duane gently scooped her into his hands & she flew out, but lit again on the grass. We decided she was, probably, in shock. To give her some time & a safe place to recover, I went to get our emergency bird box. We bedded her down & left her to herself in the covered box for about ten minutes. Then, Duane took the cover off. She was sitting up, with her wings in proper position. When she saw me approach to take her picture, she looked at me and flexed her muscles. She gave me one shot & then flew off, through the deck railing and into the back woods. I love happy endings!

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the "Toy Train", is a 610 mm narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. Built between 1879 and 1881, the railway is about 78 kilometres long. Its elevation level varies from about 100 metres at New Jalpaiguri to about 2,200 metres at Darjeeling. Four modern diesel locomotives handle most of the scheduled services; however the daily Kurseong-Darjeeling return service and the daily tourist trains from Darjeeling to Ghum (India's highest railway station) are handled by the vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. The railway, along with the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the Kalka-Shimla Railway, is listed as the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site. The headquarters of the railway is in the town of Kurseong. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia.

HISTORY

A broad gauge railway connected Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Siliguri in 1878. Siliguri, at the base of the Himalayas, was connected to Darjeeling by a cart road (the present day Hill Cart Road) on which "Tonga services" (carriage services) were available. Franklin Prestage, an agent of Eastern Bengal Railway Company approached the government with a proposal of laying a steam tramway from Siliguri to Darjeeling. The proposal was accepted in 1879 following the positive report of a committee formed by Sir Ashley Eden, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Construction started the same year.

Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. constructed the railway. The stretch from Siliguri to Kurseong was opened on 23 August 1880, while the official opening of the line up to Darjeeling was on 4 July 1881. Several engineering adjustments were made later in order to ease the gradient of the rails. Despite natural calamities, such as an earthquake in 1897 and a major cyclone in 1899, the DHR continued to improve with new extension lines being built in response to growing passenger and freight traffic. However, the DHR started to face competition from bus services that started operating over the Hill Cart Road, offering a shorter journey time. During World War II, the DHR played a vital role transporting military personnel and supplies to the numerous camps around Ghum and Darjeeling.

After the independence of India, the DHR was absorbed into Indian Railways and became a part of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in 1958. In 1962, the line was realigned at Siliguri and extended by nearly 6 km to New Jalpaiguri (NJP) to meet the new broad gauge line there. DHR remained closed for 18 months during the hostile period of Gorkhaland Movement in 1988-89.

The line closed in 2011 due to a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake. The line is currently loss-making and in 2015, Rajah Banerjee, a local tea estate owner, has called for privatisation to encourage investment, which was fiercely resisted by unions.

WORLD HERITAGE SITE

DHR was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1999, only the second railway to have this honour bestowed upon it, the first one being Semmering Railway of Austria in 1998. To be nominated as World Heritage site on the World Heritage List, the particular site or property needs to fulfill a certain set of criteria, which are expressed in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and its corresponding Operational Guidelines. The site must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. The protection, management, authenticity and integrity of properties are also important considerations.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

The DHR is justified by the following criteria:

Criterion II - The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is an outstanding example of the influence of an innovative transportation system on the social and economic development of a multi-cultural region, which was to serve as a model for similar developments in many parts of the world.

Criterion IV - The development of railways in the 19th century had a profound influence on social and economic developments in many parts of the world. This process is illustrated in an exceptional and seminal fashion by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY

Since 1881, the original route has been retained in a remarkable condition. Only minimal interventions of an evolutionary nature, such as the reduction of loops, have been carried out. Most of the original steam locomotives are still in use. Like Tea and the Ghurka culture, the DHR has become not only an essential feature of the landscape but also an enduring part of the identity of Darjeeling.

MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL STATUS

The DHR and all its movable and immovable assets, including the authentic railway stations, the line, and the track vehicles, belong to the Government of India entrusted to the Ministry of Railways. The Northeast Frontier Railway documented all the elements of the DHR in a comprehensive register. Apart from that, it handles the day-to-day maintenance and management. But moreover, several programs, divisions and departments of the Indian Railways are responsible for operating, maintaining and repairing the DHR. This includes technical as well as non-technical work. In principle, the only two legal protection mechanisms that apply to the conservation of the DHR are the provisions of the 1989 Railway Act and that it is a public property which is state-owned and therefore protected.

THE ROUTE

The railway line basically follows the Hill Cart Road which is partially the same as National Highway 55. Usually, the track is simply on the road side. In case of landslides both track and road might be affected. As long parts of the road are flanked with buildings, the railway line often rather resembles urban tramway tracks than an overland line.

To warn residents and car drivers about the approaching train, engines are equipped with very loud horns that even drown horns of Indian trucks and buses. Trains honk almost without pause.

Loops and Z-Reverses (or "zig-zag"s)

One of the main difficulties faced by the DHR was the steepness of the climb. Features called loops and Z-Reverses were designed as an integral part of the system at different points along the route to achieve a comfortable gradient for the stretches in between them. When the train moves forwards, reverses and then moves forward again, climbing a slope each time while doing so, it gains height along the side of the hill.

STATIONS

NEW JALPAIGURI JUNCTION (NJP)

New Jalpaiguri is the railway station which was extended to the south in 1964 to meet the new broad gauge to Assam. Where the two met, New Jalpaiguri was created.

SILIGURI TOWN STATION

Siliguri Town was original southern terminus of the line.

SIIGURI JUNCTION

Siliguri Junction became a major station only when a new metre-gauge line was built to Assam in the early 1950s

SUKNA STATION

This station marks the change in the landscape from the flat plains to the wooded lower slopes of the mountains. The gradient of the railway changes dramatically.

LOOP 1 (now removed)

Loop No.1 was in the woods above Sukna. It was removed after flood damage in 1991. The site is now lost in the forest.

RANGTONG STATION

A short distance above Rangtong there is a water tank. This was a better position for the tank than in the station, both in terms of water supply and distance between other water tanks.

LOOP 2 (now removed)

When Loop 2 was removed in 1942, again following flood damage, a new reverse, No.1, was added, creating the longest reverse run.

REVERSE 1

LOOP 3

Loop No.3 is at Chunbatti. This is now the lowest loop.

REVERSE 2 & 3

Reverses No.2 & 3 are between Chunbatti and Tindharia.

TINDHARIA STATION

This is a major station on the line as below the station is the workshops. There is also an office for the engineers and a large locomotive shed, all on a separate site.

Immediately above the station are three sidings; these were used to inspect the carriage while the locomotive was changed, before the train continued towards Darjeeling.

LOOP 4

Agony Point is the name given to loop No.4. It comes from the shape of the loop which comes to an apex which is the tightest curve on the line.

GAYABARI

REVERSE 6

Reverse No.6 is the last reverse on the climb.

MAHANADI STATION

KURSEONG STATION

There is a shed here and a few sidings adjacent to the main line, but the station proper is a dead end. Up trains must reverse out of the station (across a busy road junction) before they can continue on their climb. It is said that the station was built this way so that the train could enter a secure yard and stay there while the passengers left the train for refreshments.

Above Kurseong station, the railway runs through the bazaar. Trains skirt the front of shops and market stalls on this busy stretch of road.

SONADA STATION

Sonada is a small station which serves town of sonada on Darjeeling Himalayan railway. It is on Siliguri - Darjeeling national highway (NH 55).

JOREBUNGALOW STATION

This is a small location near Darjeeling and a railway station on Darjeeling Himalayan railway. Jorebungalow was store point for tea to Calcutta. This is a strategical place to connect Darjeeling to rest of the country.

GHUM STATION

Ghum, summit of the line and highest station in India. Now includes a museum on the first floor of the station building with larger exhibits in the old goods yard. Once this was the railway station at highest altitude overall and is the highest altitude station for narrow gauge railway.

BATASIA LOOP

The loop is 5 kilometres from Darjeeling, below Ghum. There is also a memorial to the Gorkha soldiers of the Indian Army who sacrificed their lives after the Indian Independence in 1947. From the Batasia Loop one can get a panoramic view of Darjeeling town with the Kanchenjunga and other snowy mountains in the back-drop.

DARJEELING STATION

The farthest reach of the line was to Darjeeling Bazaar, a goods-only line and now lost under the road surface and small buildings.

LOCOMOTIVES

CURRENT

STEAM

All the steam locomotives currently in use on the railway are of the "B" Class, a design built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and later the North British Locomotive Company, between 1889 and 1925. A total of 34 were built, but by 2005 only 12 remained on the railway and in use (or under repair).

In 2002, No. 787 was rebuilt with oil firing. This was originally installed to work on the same principle as that used on Nilgiri Mountain Railway No.37395. A diesel-powered generator was fitted to operate the oil burner and an electrically-driven feed pump, and a diesel-powered compressor was fitted to power the braking system. Additionally, the locomotive was fitted with a feedwater heater. The overall result was a dramatic change in the appearance of the locomotive. However, the trials of the locomotive were disappointing and it never entered regular service. In early 2011, it was in Tindharia Works awaiting reconversion to coal-firing.

In March 2001, No.794 was transferred to the Matheran Hill Railway to allow a "Joy Train" (steam-hauled tourist train) to be operated on that railway. It did not, however, enter service there until May 2002.

DIESEL

Four diesel locomotives are in use: Nos. 601-2, 604 and 605 of the NDM6 class transferred from the Matheran Hill Railway.

PAST

In 1910 the railway purchased the third Garratt locomotive built, a D Class 0-4-0+0-4-0.

Only one DHR steam locomotive has been taken out of India, No.778 (originally No.19). After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Railway, it was sold to an enthusiast in the UK and restored to working order. It is now based on a private railway (The Beeches Light Railway) in Oxfordshire but has run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.

IN POPULAR CULTURE

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has long been viewed with affection and enthusiasm by travellers to the region and the Earl of Ronaldshay gave the following description of a journey in the early 1920s:

"Siliguri is palpably a place of meeting . . The discovery that here the metre gauge system ends and the two foot gauge of the Darjeeling-Himalayan railway begins, confirms what all these things hint at... One steps into a railway carriage which might easily be mistaken for a toy, and the whimsical idea seizes hold of one that one has accidentally stumbled into Lilliput. With a noisy fuss out of all proportion to its size the engine gives a jerk - and starts... No special mechanical device such as a rack is employed - unless, indeed, one can so describe the squat and stolid hill-man who sits perched over the forward buffers of the engine and scatters sand on the rails when the wheels of the engine lose their grip of the metals and race, with the noise of a giant spring running down when the control has been removed.

Sometimes we cross our own track after completing the circuit of a cone, at others we zigzag backwards and forwards; but always we climb at a steady gradient - so steady that if one embarks in a trolley at Ghum, the highest point on the line, the initial push supplies all the energy necessary to carry one to the bottom."

The trip up to Darjeeling on railway has changed little since that time, and continues to delight travellers and rail enthusiasts, so much so that it has its own preservation and support group, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society.

Several films have portrayed the railway. Especially popular was the song Mere sapno ki rani from the film Aradhana where the protagonist Rajesh Khanna tries to woo heroine Sharmila Tagore who was riding in the train. Other notable films include Barfi!, Parineeta and Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman. The Darjeeling Limited, a film directed by Wes Anderson, features a trip by three brothers on a fictional long-distance train based very loosely on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

TELEVISION

The BBC made a series of three documentaries dealing with Indian Hill Railways, shown in February 2010. The first film covers the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, the second the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the third the Kalka-Shimla Railway. The films were directed by Tarun Bhartiya, Hugo Smith and Nick Mattingly and produced by Gerry Troyna. The series won the UK Royal Television Society Award in June 2010. Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited also showcases three brothers riding the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

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