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The one shot I was after while away; we stayed at a hotel in Turin which was part of Fiat's old Lingotto factory until the seventies. This is eight portrait shots, second attempt, at a time when there was no-one else in sight, thirty-degree heat in an extremely perilous crouch at the very top of the bank.
The building atop, the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Art Gallery - not the ugly, incongruous glass and steel one being built behind - contains an exhibition full of works by Canaletto, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani and others. I love this place.
The factory was completed in 1923. Unlike any other car factory to date, the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked rooftop test track. It was the biggest car factory Europe had ever seen and was the second largest in the world.
Designed by engineer Giacomo Mattè-Trucco, the five story building featured a simple loop rooftop test track with two banked turns that consumed a 1620 foot x 280 foot portion of rooftop. The test track's banked turns were constructed from an intricate series of concrete ribs in a construction technique that had not been used frequently before Lingotto's construction. It's safe to say the technique had never been used for a test track six stories in the air.
The rooftop test track at Lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought, but an integral part of the manufacturing process; the Lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line. As each Fiat was put together it would progress upwards through the building story by story. Each floor was sequentially designated to specialize in a major part of assembly. What would start on the ground floor as raw materials and individual parts became a running driving Fiat by the time it spiraled its way to the top of the building.
When a Fiat had finished its climb through the 16,000,000 square feet of Lingotto it exited the building by way of the roof. Each Fiat was taken on to the roof and around the banked race track to make sure the prior five floors of manufacturing had done their jobs to satisfaction. The Lingotto test track was even briefly featured in the Italian Job. During the famous escape sequence the red white and blue Mini's go three wide on the banked rooftop race course with police in hot pursuit.
If you're in Turin, go. It's worth the trip. Plus you can go to the track for free if you use a little confidence or you can buy a ticket for the exhibition and go with your ticket.
Ricoh 35 Deluxe : 45mm Riken Ricomat f/2.8 : Kentmere 100 : PMK Pyro
Trying out a nice little Ricoh rangefinder camera from the mid-50's
Ricoh 35 Deluxe : 45mm Riken Ricomat f/2.8 : Kentmere 100 : PMK Pyro
Trying out a nice little Ricoh rangefinder camera from the mid-50's
This shot is part of the series I'm doing on "Exploring the Tide Pools", Seaside Cardiff State Beach, CA.
Metra MPI MP36PH-3S 402 was out and about on a joy ride shortly after delivery. It was passing the Stone Avenue stop on the BNSF Chicago Subdivision in 2003.
BNSF wasn't impressed with these things and Metra eventually reassigned them to other lines.
UP 4842 and another SD70M lead a PTC test train consist, SPRPAP 12, southbound towards Villa Grove with 28 empty ballast cars in tow. This train was not testing the Villa Grove or Pana Subdivisions at this time.
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37175 seen passing through Loughborough working the 3Z20 2122 Derby RTC - Westbury Down Yard 11/10/21.
MBTA Genset 3249 leads Mass Coastal train MC-1 south at Sagamore, MA while undergoing testing after receiving work from MPI.
I have taken part in a Government Covid survey for over 3 years. In the beginning someone came to the house and gave me all the paraphernalia to undertake the test, waited outside(in the cold and rain) whilst I did it, and then undertook a survey on the doorstep. These days I just have to do a lateral flow test with a kit provided and fill in a survey on-line.
For The Smile on Saturday group - theme "A Single Drop"
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ET22-947 with several wagons after bogie (probably the brakes, too) overhaul but yet before repainting during a come back test ride to Bydgoszcz Overhauling Workshop (today known as rolling stock manufacturer PESA Pojazdy Szynowe). The train passes Terespol Pomorski station and consists of one Russian sleeper, short two section Bhp double decker set and single Bdhpumn double decker wagon. June 5, 2002.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ET22-947 z kilkoma wagonami po rewizji układu biegowego i pewnie hamulca, w trakcie powrotu z jazdy testowej do ZNTK Bydgoszcz mija stację w Terespolu Pomorskim. Krótki pociąg ma w składzie wagon sypialny RZD, dwusekcyjną "bipę" oraz jednego "Puna". 5 czerwca 2002 roku.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
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A BNSF rack train runs north through the approach to the Eads bridge and up Terminal Railroad's high-line at an obvious location.
Sucky, washed out colors courtesy of about a million western wildfires that have made St. Louis and just about the entire continental US appear to have a permanent overcast. I'll have to try this again when blue skies are back, probably after the election.
37 254 brings up the rear of 1Z23, the 06:50 Bristol Kingsland Road - Derby RTC test train as it crosses the River Evenlode at Whitehill near East End and heads towards Finstock
37 116 was leading