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Little bit down in temrs of my photography currently , have seen & done so much and its enhanced my life , its taken over , the web site has not worked but had to try it , many others have and failed that are better than me ! Have has two weeks off work and im back next week , seriously have to think about putting the camera away for some time !!!
I dont post many B&W images , the colour version here was good the sun hit the crops and turned them so golden , may post that soon !!!
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Here is my first published work even though i did it as a freebie its great seeing your work on a web site !
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Here is the flickr set
Sorry - no athletes on screen ;-)
Februay 2009: I started a new group Reinhardswald to show the whole area.
Seriously:
"Beberbeck" is part of an agricultural area utilized for farming. This area is located in Hessian in the middle of a forest which is called "Reinhardswald". Many people (but not crowded) use this area for local recreation like hiking.
Only a few people do live there, most of them in an old people`s home.
Now the goverment plans to build there a big hotel resort with round about 6.000 beds. Golf courses shall be created, lakes and stuff like this.
If realized it would be the biggest resort in Germany.
Conservationist fear that this plans will destroy the nature. They worry about that lot of water would be needed for hotels and golf courses. That could lower the groundwater level. Thousands of people around get their drinking water out of this area.
There are only small streets through the forest - not big enough for the upcoming trafic.
It's questionable if 6.000 beds can be filled. It's not a sunny area, no golf sport is possible during winter season.
The old people's home would be closed, they do not fit the modern world.
At the moment the goverment is looking for investors. More than 2.000.000 Euro are gone for questionable preliminary work.
Looks like we change intact nature into a dubious project followed by ruins of abandoned hotels.
Guess, what I would prefer?
Für die Deutschsprachigen gibt einen sehr schönen Link der weitergehende Infos zu dem geplanten Projekt liefert.
Möge sich jeder selbst ein Urteil bilden!
One more from the Copper Coast at Christmas, it always amazes me how different this beach can look with the coming and going of the tide...
Lelystad, July 2016.
A sad piece of Tracker parked next to the Aviodrome museum at Lelystad.
159 entered service as an S.2F-1 (later S-2A) in June 1960. In 1969 it was modernized to S-2N (N for Netherlands) and in 1971 to US-2N and used for towing aerial targets. The Dutch Navy had already retired its aircraft carrier in 1968.
In January 1976 this Tracker was retired and send to the Aviodome museum at Schiphol airport. When the museum moved to Lelystad in 2003, 159 was shipped to its new location on a pontoon.
As you can see it's in a terrible shape - it already was in 2003. The end is near. Since there's no museum that wants to have it (not even for free), 159 is expected to be scrapped soon.
A long walk yesterday left me a bit sore, but peaceful. A coyote track along the shore, seeing two bald eagles passing overhead and the distant sound of geese all made it a memorable experience.
Thanks for your visit - I'll try to visit your streams soon!
Incredible and too rare italian track frame, the WILIER is copper plated, which became the traditional color
scheme for the Wilier professional team bikes after World War 2.
It' s in good condictions, no dents only some scratchs.
49x51cm C-C
SOLD
The Norfolk Tank Museum is very proud to take ownership of what is believed to be the only surviving example of a 3 Ton Crossley Halftrack, built in 1926. The Crossley was originally restored by an enthusiast, Ian Simpson, who had rescued it from a scrap dealer. Sadly, Ian passed away in 1994 before completing the restoration and left the Crossley to the Museum Service, eventually the Crossley ended up at the Royal Logistic Corps Museum who carried on the renovation but, unfortunately due to moving from its current location at Deep Cut will no longer be able to display it.
The Norfolk Tank Museum intends to carry on the excellent restoration work that Ian and the volunteers at the Royal Logistics Corps Museum have already started, with the completion of various items including the Bonnet, Mudguards, Engine Covers, and hopefully the purchase of a set of Tracks. Originally the Crossley would have had a ‘Bikini Roof’ over the Driver’s Cabin and possibly a full Canvas over the rear section, this is something the Museum will also be particularly investigating when researching the Vehicle.
The Crossley Brothers came into being in Manchester in 1867, they manufactured pumps, presses, and small steam engines. In 1906 Crossley Brothers became Crossley Motors and began building cars, by World War One they were producing Cars and Trucks for the British Army. In 1948 Crossley Motors was bought-out by Associated Equipment Company (AEC) who then carried on production of the Vehicle for many years.
In 1925 following World War One, the British Army ran a competition for manufacturers to produce a 'Halftrack' Vehicle with good Off-Road Capabilities as well as On-Road Performance. Crossley signed a licence agreement with Citroen-Kégresse to produce a 15/20 CWT Halftrack using the Kégresse Track System. The new Crossley Halftrack performed very favourably in the competition and the order was given for 115 vehicles to be built and to be shared between the Army and the Royal Air Force. In 1926 Crossley produced the 20/30 CWT unfortunately, the production numbers are not known.
The Crossley is powered by a 4.5 litre four-cylinder, water-cooled petrol engine producing 65hp, with a 4-speed gearbox and a 2-speed transfer box and the weight is approximately 5 tons. There were possibly three versions produced, a General Service Vehicle, a Staff Car, and an Artillery Tractor.
The Crossley’s Track System is credited to Adolphe Kégresse a French Military Engineer who had managed the Russian Tsar’s cars before the revolution of 1917. Adolphe had converted the Tsar’s cars to Halftracks to improve their off-road ability. The system utilised a rubber or canvas track stretched between a drive wheel at the back and an adjuster wheel at the front, with a series of four sprung bogies in the middle. The rubber track was driven by friction, unlike other Tacked Vehicles which have a sprocket and teeth that engage with the track to produce drive.
The original concept for a Halftrack Vehicle was conceived by Alvin Orlando Lombard, an American blacksmith, he devised the 'Lombard Steam Log Hauler' which used tracks to disperse the weight of the vehicle and its load over a greater area. He built 83 between 1901 and 1917 in order to pull logs through the snow and ice of the New England mountains. During World War One the most famous Halftrack was the 'Holt Tractor' a further development of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler with a gasoline engine. Holt had purchased Lombard’s patent in 1907. In the late 1920's the US Army purchased several Citroen-Kégresse Vehicles along with a licence to develop their own M3 and M4 Halftrack versions which were then used during World War Two. The Germans also developed their own range of Halftracks using the Citroen-Kégresse design.
If you have any information about this vehicle, or parts to complete the build, please contact the Norfolk Tank Museum on 07703337714 or email info@norfolktankmuseum.co.uk
Taken in 2015.
Track 4 at the Hackescher Markt S-bahn station in Berlin. The train approaching in the distance was an S5, S7, or S75, any one of which we could have taken to Tiergarten, our hotel stop.
This is the Blue/Pink Line El tracks running above the residential buildings by 18th St. in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
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Featured in Chicagoist Around Town 04/19/11
Track maintenance equipment rolls through Goshen, Indiana, on the Chicago Line of Norfolk Southern en route to its next project.