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The Soviet submarine K-24 (B-124), yard number 511, is a maritime museum exhibit in Peenemünde under the f@ke name of "U-461".
The bright orange DSRV (deep-submergence rescue vehicle) mounted near the bow is a dummy as well.
K-24 is a projekt 651 submarine, NATO reporting name of this class was Juliett-class. The projekt 651 boats were the largest diesel-electric submarines ever build.
Primary armament were four SS-N-3 Shaddock (P-5 or P-6), or later the SS-N-12 Sandbox (P-500 4K-80 Basalt) nuclear-capable cruise missiles, main target were aircraft carrier battle groups.
Secondary armament were 6x 533 mm bow torpedo tubes with 18 torpedoes and 4x 400 mm stern torpedo tubes with 4 torpedoes.
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Добро пожаловать на борт! This is the aft torpedo room of the Russian Juliett-class submarine K-24 which is (under the f@ke name of U-461) a maritime museum exhibit in Peenemünde.
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The sail of the former Soviet submarine K-24 (B-124), yard number 511, which is a maritime museum exhibit in Peenemünde under the f@ke name of "U-461".
K-24 is a projekt 651 submarine, NATO reporting name of this class was Juliett-class. The projekt 651 boats were the largest diesel-electric submarines ever build.
Primary armament were four SS-N-3 Shaddock (P-5 or P-6), or later the SS-N-12 Sandbox (P-500 4K-80 Basalt) nuclear-capable cruise missiles, main target were aircraft carrier battle groups.
Secondary armament were 6x 533 mm bow torpedo tubes with 18 torpedoes and 4x 400 mm stern torpedo tubes with 4 torpedoes.
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Parnis with a German class 205 submarine control room as backdrop.
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A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
The Pickens Belton job returns from the Greenville & Western interchange to deliver three boxcars to Packaging Corporation of America in Honea Path.
A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
On January 14th 2022, the Greens were assigned to a 3-Yard for the last job of LS&I's ore season. Some chore-work delayed the move to Tilden until daylight began to fade, making for a nice mood somewhat fitting to the feel of knowing this may well be the U-boats' last run on the LS&I. This was the last spot I really wanted on the LS&I this winter, and since I had missed the second westbound run of the 7-Tilden, I was incredibly lucky to see the greens assigned to this task. Sometimes things just work out on a very short trip. The following day, with closing of the Soo Locks, only a 7-Hill and 3-Yard Hill ran, with no chances of greens.
The six bow tubes of U10, a class 205 submarine on display at the Deutsches Marinemuseum (German Naval Museum) in Wilhelmshaven.
The 205s were small submarines tasked with surveillance and offensive operations against surface units in the Baltic and North Sea. Main area of operations was the Baltic.
After the collapse of the Warsaw Pact they became basically obsolete.
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Wilhelm Bauer (originally designated U-2540) is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy (Kriegsmarine), completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Up close and personal with the LS&I 3009. A couple of interesting observations to note here, the unit's original Burlington Northern road number, 5303, is visible underneath the painted-over 3009. Also the door handle on the front door to the cab is a donor from a blue and white Detroit Edison U30C, of which the LS&I acquired six in the mid-90s to use as a spare parts source.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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Tralala's Diner
Mise en Scene:
NOMAD//Broken Cable Car
NOMAD // Adventurer's Desk
Apple Fall Industrial Lamp w/ Extender (Rust)
Chapel Chair - worn - Angharad Greggan - Razorbird
NOMAD // BROKEN U-BOAT
[we're CLOSED] grass field dry
The German Warship UJ-2216 was actually a luxury yacht, built in Leith (UK) for Henry de Rotschild, named Eros. She was taken over to the Marine Nationale Francaise during 1939, when she was at Le Havre, and renamed to serve in Meditarranean as AD 196.
At the end of 1942 she was captured by the Kriegsmarine, and transformed in anti submarine corvette with the name of Uboot-Jäger UJ 2216. Her new base was Genova. On September 13, 1944, she was escorting two minelayers to La Spezia harbour, when the convoy was attacked by an allied torpedo-bomber: two torpedoes hit the corvette, causing the explosion of the depth charges: the stern was completely destroyed, and the "KT" sank rapidly. Six men of the crew died, and seventeen more were missing.
Now, she is a very nice dive in Liguria, with a very scenic front twin AA-Gun.
KT-09633
The signal shot at Eagle Mills Jct has escaped me each visit to the LS&I, and it's one of two shots that brought me back to Negaunee this winter to complete my coverage of the railroad. Some small MOW plow equipment cleared both the CN and LS&I trackage here just minutes before the 7 Tilden returned, but luckily some light snow covered the stirred dirt almost immediately.
Golden glow fills the sky as the morning sun tries to burn off the clouds rolling off the big lake and warm the frigid air still registering single digits. The snow measures in feet. A distinct chugging sound echoes amongst the cold, rugged hills of the northern crust of the Upper Peninsula. Such traits are typical of life on the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway, a storied ore hauler working continuous shifts to cycle the winnings of Cliffs' Tilden Mine to waiting freighters docked along Superior's shoreline at Marquette. The source of the aforementioned chug: a pair of GE U30Cs--U-Boats in casual parlance--lugging their jennies of iron-rich payload up the hill to Eagle Mills Junction. These Universals, dressed in familiar cascade green hues like so many of their brethren in their heyday, have spent the last few decades in the wilderness of Michigan, far outlasting most of their class while slaving away in this captive service. AC traction has dwindled the fleet over the years, but this pair has soldiered well into their late 40s, reaching year 2022 against all odds, becoming the final two remaining on a once-extensive roster. But another wave of newer AC power is expected in the first half of the year, and these last-of-their-breed examples will almost undoubtedly be cast aside, saved perhaps for worst-case mechanical concerns with the primary fleet or just unceremoniously discarded into oblivion. The future is murky but one thing is for certain--the days of the Universal Series in regular revenue service will die on the snow laden hills of the upper reaches of the Upper Peninsula. But in this moment, the chugging lives on.
Burlington Northern GE U30C No. 5828 leads a BN coal train eastbound at Hoffman Avenue below Dayton’s Bluff at St. Paul, Minnesota, on November 21, 1987.
Fuel to supply Bethlehem Steel's insatiable appetite arrives in town, approaching Saucon Yard. The UBoat in the consist is looking/smoking more like an Alco.
7-31-1977
Delaware beach tower from WW2
Cape Henlopen State Park at Gordon's Pond
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USA
Headlights pierce through chilled air of a northern solstice, muffled from a midday squalling from subfreezing precipitation off the big lake, to guide the way for a U-Boat of the American railroading variation on approach to Empire Junction during its daily iron-toting chores in the Upper Peninsula. Lake Superior and Ishpeming's 7-Tilden job is on its second round trip of the day from the yard at Eagle Mills, this round tasked with returning to the Tilden Mine to fill another batch of Cleveland Cliff's taconite into its train of empty "vans"--the earliest of the ancient ore haulers having entered service over four years prior to the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. The LS&I is one of the last true mine-owned ore haulers in the United States, itself serving the last active iron ore mine in the state of Michigan, utilizing a plethora of antique equipment in its historical operation to move taconite pellets from mine to ship on the shores of Superior at Marquette.
The trip was a photographic triumph, with frequent greenery on the rails and white stuff coating the landscape, along with a new camera to play and experiment with. That was, until the disastrous realization after the trip's conclusion that the camera was still set up to take jpeg photos instead of raw files. Alas, most of the excitement from the trip instantly vanished with significant image quality reduction and the lack of editing flexibility that was lost in the screw-up. The moral: remember to check all the settings when setting up the new camera.
Let's try this Flickr thing again.
Frigid winter air measures in the single digits and the fallen snow that covers the wilderness floor nearly doubles and triples that number in inches. Distant chugs bounce off the rocky hills, echoing through forests of pine trees and filing the otherwise dead, quiet air with a refreshing sign of life. Traits such as these are how one could describe winter operations on the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway in Michigan's northern Upper Peninsula. An ore carrier with a storied history that dates back to 1896, the LS&I of today still remains a scene of those days gone by, shuttling around rolling stock dating back to pre-World War II while operating some of the last General Electric U30C and C30-7 locomotives in the country. A far cry from the over 100 miles of track this joint used to operate over, the current 20 mile section stretching between the city of Marquette and the Cleveland-Cliffs Tilden Mine near Ishpeming is all this railroad needs to keep trains operating around the clock shuttling jennies full of steaming iron ore to anxiously awaiting freighters docked along the shore of Lake Superior.
Today's "7-Tilden" job, piloted by the railroad's only pair of ex-BN U30C "U-Boats," bends through the rugged hillside as they drag 60 fresh loads out of the mine for the docks at Marquette, passing the searchlight distant signal for the begin CTC with Canadian National at Eagle Mills Junction just around the corner.
Against all the odds, reaching their late 40s into year 2022, the clock is ticking on these old, worn-out, cascade green and white workhorses and one could maybe mistake the sound of their chugging 7FDL-16 motors for the beautiful song of a swan crying out just before its death. Newer AC traction wide-cab locomotives have dwindled the fleet of the "Universals" down to just these last two and word on the street is that this could be their last winter turning a wheel in revenue service for LS&I.
Keep Calm and Chug on
Although we've heard the "Last Hurrah" theory regarding the LS&I boats consistently throughout the last two years, the word is now that additional AC44's should be arriving on the property late 1st quarter of 2022. While this may not guarantee the demise of the old greens, it is certainly a fair presumption since the units generally only run when an AC44 is out of service.
So, despite a rather slim chance of greens, I made a trip to Negaunee two days prior to closing of the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie. With only 5 crews running on Friday, I was amazed to hear they would indeed run on the 7 Tilden! Whatever the cause, I was incredibly lucky to nab a few shot of the boats on their last run of the season, and possibly ever. The 3000 and 3009 are here seen approaching the 35 crossing on their second return to Eagle Mills.
The Château de Trévarez (lit: Pink Castle or Red Castle)[1] is a stately home in the commune of Saint-Goazec in Finistère, inBrittany, France. It was commissioned by James Kerjégu, Chairman of the General Council of Finistère, and built at the end of the 19th century by the French architect Walter-André Destailleur.
Trévarez is one of the most recent châteaux built in France. Construction was completed around the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1941, the château was taken over by the German occupying forces. The castle was bombed on 30 July 1944 by the Royal Air Force.[1].....Apparently it was used for rest and recuperation for German and Japanese UBoat crews, It was bombed by four RAF Mosquito's and was actually empty at the time !!
Georgia Central L784 smokes it up by the former SAL depot in Bellville with containers for the inland port at Cordele.
Southbound on what now is the Falls City Sub. The Uboat is missing a number board but the paint still looks good.
3-29-1986
Union Pacific GE U30C No. 2851 leads an eastbound freight east of North Platte, Nebraska, in July 1983. Trailing the U-Boat are a pair of EMD SD40-2s.
The Burlington GP30 #953 pulls a westbound freight thru Ottumwa, Iowa in this eye-popping scene from the summer of 1969. This photo is taken near South Market street with the South Jefferson street bridge in the background. Virtually nothing remains of this magnificent scene. Quite a collection of power!
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John Harker collection.
My first trip in 1979 to the Tehachapi's allowed me to see F45's SD26's UBoats from both SP and the Santa Fe along with 45’s and so many more. An Eastbound with 4 different EMD models is drifting through Cameron and is just minutes away from getting back on home rails at Mojave.
....the grackles know your real name*...
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The Props:
NOMAD // BROKEN U-BOAT (NEW @ seraphimsl.com/2017/08/17/thereafter-the-sl-post-apocalypse/)
Utility Poles V2 -- Vikki Placebo
~isil~ Scrap Wind Turbine (Steel)
DC Watching Crow
[The Forge] Plague Doctor Mask (NEW @ seraphimsl.com/2017/08/17/thereafter-the-sl-post-apocalypse/)
.aisling. Yrnan Armor
BBB Breastplate
.Shi Messiah Rings #1-3
Maitreya Lara
Windlight: Bristol
* Movie "It" by S. King. Said by Bev to Pennywise. It frightened him...
Railfans watch as a U23B brings a cut of cars by the North Milwaukee station. J. David Ingles photo, Brian Schmidt collection
(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR NJDOT U34CH 1776, west on the ex-Erie mainline at Ridgewood Junction, Glen Rock, New Jersey. May 28, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo
See the 1776 in action in my Youtube link.
Erie Lackawanna, CR, NJDOT, EL U34CH's #3352 -#3374 -#3355 westbound on the ex-Erie mainline at HoHoKus, New Jersey. August 2, 1976. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
For a shorth time, the newly formed Conrail was short power, and borrowed NJDOT's Erie Lackawanna U34CH's on the weekends. It created a problem for NJDOT, as they were returned low on fuel, or lucky they were even back for Monday mornings commuter rush hour. So this did not last long.
During our holiday on Gran Canaria, we were mostly in the water.
We even did a submarine tour – a small, exciting expedition with a real yellow submarine into the lively underwater world off the coast of Puerto de Mogan.
This small trip comes highly recommended for both parents and children.
'QUILT 42' makes contact with 'QID 179' during a high priority AR mission.
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The Pickens Belton job returns to Honea Path with three boxcars from the Greenville and Western interchange near Belton. These were delivered to Packaging Corporation of America in Honea Path, the only company the job served this day. Meanwhile, the Anderson job ran with two U boats as well, but also finished much earlier than usual with only five cars from NS in Anderson, and no need to wait on the Belton job.
Back in 2018, I found the Pickens 9500 & another U18B making a pickup in Homeland Park, SC. This was a super foggy early morning and they would go on to work Michelin after making this pickup. I’d love to shoot these guys again soon before these old GEs go away. The chase didn’t go as planned this day so only came home with about 2 shots.
LS&I's two remaining serviceable UBoats, 3000 and 3009, run light power toward the Tilden Mine on the 3 Tilden job through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction.
LSI 3009
LSI 3000
After dropping off the empties, the 7-Tilden returns to Eagle Mills Jct on its way back to the yard.
Today's panoply of railroading goodness comes to us from Tacoma, Washington in September, 1973.
The unknown photographer is standing on the 11th street overpass shooting slides southeast towards Tideflats Yard. Behind him/her is the end of the Pacific Extension and the waters of Tacoma Bay. Come 1974 the electrification sections would be abandoned, followed by the entire extension in 1980. Such a waste.
Eventually, the carcass processing and paper mill disappeared - taking the "Tacoma Aroma" with them. The UP and BNSF currently handle traffic on this peninsula.
Meanwhile, Mt. Rainier stands silent vigil over the comings and goings of Man.
A fantastic image, power lines notwithstanding.
Putrica Stoneriglo collection.
With minor adjustments.