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I have lost track of both time and outfits just lately.
Being pretty much full time one doesn't always take photos or remember to post them when we do.
This was possibly last Friday or possibly Saturday.
Went for a stroll and ended up at my parents.
Felt so good to be back with my students... Great to see my friends too! They missed me! Awww... Happy Weekend!
Went for a drive looking for some shots in my local area and found this disused railway line!! Mother Nature seems to be taking it back!
Sydney Train’s K80 & K66 thunder out through Heathcote on 888C ‘Silver to the sea’ tour organised by Historic Electric Traction returning to Central from Kiama
26/7/25
Part of an upbeat 70s style track I'm working on. I post the full track later this week. www.whenwebreak.com
Amtrak Southwest Chief gets back on straight rail at Highlands after coming through the Shoo fly. A Surfliner cab car brought up the rear.
So... The ŁM-50 tracked front-end overhead loader model in 1:13 is finally finished and Johanna Gambolputty is ready to present it ;) . Pre-Christmas frenzy, however, is not the best time to film/photograph a new model so for now - just this one family photo. The other models are old, very old, but I've just overhauled them and will probably film them together with the ŁM-50, for the first time in decent quality. They deserve it, methinks, for nostalgic reasons if not anything else.
Not my usual positioning of a photo (it's normally in the middle of a road!) but I took this quickly whilst walking across a crossing at Spellbrook. I like the converging tracks and in black and white seemed about the right treatment.
The 25 de Abril Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus river. It has a total length of 2,277 metres, making it the 46th longest suspension bridge in the world.
From its inauguration in 6 August 1966 up to 1974, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the remnants of Salazar's regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge.
Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the beginning, was finally built. Today, the upper deck carries six car lanes while the lower deck carries a double track railway, electrified at 25 kV AC.
From the late 19th century, there had been proposals to build a bridge across the Tagus. In 1929, the idea advanced when the Portuguese engineer and entrepreneur, António Bello, requested a government concession for a railway crossing between Lisbon and Montijo (where the Vasco da Gama Bridge, the second bridge serving Lisbon, was later built in 1998). As a result, the Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco, created a commission in 1933 to analyse the request. The commission reported in 1934, and proposed building a road and rail bridge. Bids were obtained, but the proposal was subsequently put aside in favor of a bridge crossing the river at Vila Franca de Xira, 35 kilometres north of Lisbon.
In 1953, a new government commission started work and, in 1958, recommended building the bridge, choosing the southern anchor point adjacent to the recently built monument to Christ the King (Cristo-Rei). In 1959, the international invitation to tender for the project received four bids. In 1960, the winner was announced as a consortium headed by the United States Steel Export Company, which had also submitted a bid in 1935. The American School of Lisbon was founded largely to educate the children of the American engineers brought to Portugal to work on the construction of the bridge.
Construction began on 5 November 1962. Forty-five months later, six months ahead of schedule, the bridge was inaugurated on 6 August 1966. Presiding at the ceremony was the President of Portugal, Admiral Américo Thomaz. Also present were the Prime-Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, and the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. The bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Prime Minister Salazar.
United States Steel International Inc., based in New York, was prime contractor for the bridge. Morrison-Knudsen of Portugal Ltd., an American firm based in Boise, Idaho, was U.S. Steel's principal associate. Morrison-Knudsen had previously worked on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The bridge was designed by Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London of New York, and Tudor Engineering Company of San Francisco. The steel was imported from the US. Four workers lost their lives, out of a total of 3,000 who worked on the site. Construction took a total of 2,185,000 man-hours of work. The total cost of the bridge came to 2.2 billion Portuguese escudos, or US$32 million (US$225 million in 2011 adjusted for inflation).
Soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the bridge was renamed the 25 de Abril Bridge, the day the revolution had occurred. A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the large brass letters spelling "Salazar" from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional "25 de Abril" in its place.
The upper platform, running 70 m above water, had four car lanes, two in each direction, with a dividing guardrail. On 23 July 1990, the guardrail was removed and a fifth, reversible lane was created. On 6 November 1998, the side walls were extended and reinforced to make space for the present six lanes. Cars crossing the bridge make a peculiar hum because the two inner lanes are made of metallic grating rather than asphalt to minimize aerodynamic forces by means of pressure equalization.
Since 30 June 1999, the lower platform has carried a double track railway. To accommodate that, the bridge underwent extensive structural reinforcements, including a second set of main cables, placed above the original set, and the main towers were increased in height. The railway had been part of the initial design, but was eliminated for economy, so the initial structure was lightened. The original builder American Bridge Company was called again for the job, performing the first aerial spinning of additional main cables on a loaded, fully operational suspension bridge.
Traffic soon increased well beyond predictions, and has remained at maximum capacity despite the enlargement from four to six lanes, the addition of the railway, and the building of a second bridge serving Lisbon, the Vasco da Gama Bridge. A third bridge has been on and off government plans for some time, but the idea has been dropped presently, due to Portugal's budget constraints.
With a hand steady on the brake, Ron Belbeck brings his train to a stop roughly 15 feet from the end of the Burford Spur.
Today RLHH 496 was operating with the NECR 3840.
Micheldever Wood, Hampshire. In search of early sun at the end of the track I came away with this soft and slightly misty light instead.
Day 2: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. 750 km in 10 days. At the eastern end of Barker Inlet Beach. Google Maps said there was a track here. I guess a rock fall is a track right? Well it worked out okay, I went down it, fingers crossed :
Managed to get a few shots in the fog on my way to work this morning. This was the last shot before I had to fly away up the road, see the colour just coming through in the sky as I was leaving.
Track to Hollyhill Wood
This trail was created by Mrs Albertina Choules in the woods local to her remote home.
She was tragically murdered and set alight in 2016 during a robbery attempt on her home.
News item - www.thesun.co.uk/news/1403130/albertina-choulesfirst-imag...
For photos of the full trail is my album ... flic.kr/s/aHBqjAuyDU