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Saskatchewan

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(Original) Sunset Route, Part One

I believe this location, off East Marsh Station Road in Davidson Canyon, southeast of Tucson, is where a newer alignment of the Sunset Route flies over that of the original.

In addition, an historical marker states that the adjacent Cienega Bridge, built in 1921, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken October 26th 2018.

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Specialized hauling

A very special high and wide movement pauses in Griffith, Indiana. Couldn't have been that hot though, the crew was uptown at beans when I shot this.

Griffith, Indiana. January 1975.

#tren

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Hamma Hamma

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SS Jeremiah O'Brien.  Liberty ship built during World War II and named after the American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien. Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944.

www.nealmcclure.com

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Ship Camels

The ship camels was first used in the 17th century and is a floating body attached to the ship to give it more buoyancy and thus overcome flat places. It was developed by the Amsterdam carpenter Meeuwis Meindertsz Bakker, who used this construction for the first time in April 1690 to bring the warship Princes Maria, built in Amsterdam, over the shallows of Pampus (Netherlands).

Model of an East Indiaman with Camels, anonymous, 1742 © rijksmuseum         

Bakker received an annual salary from the Admiralty of Amsterdam as a reward for his achievements, which were among the most important in Dutch shipbuilding at the time. Already Cornelis van Yk, master shipbuilder of the Dutch East India Company, treated this instrument in his work De Nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst in 1697. Before the camels were used, the ships were only lightened (i.e. taken off weight) or lifted slightly with air-filled water barrels. The ships were then tugged over the shallow areas of the Enkhuizer Sand and the Pampus.  These camels were also used in Russia and Venice.

The construction

Ship of the line Mont Saint Bernard, 82-guns, fitted with Ship Camels,  anonymous

Ship camels were a two-part floating dock with a length of about 40 to 50 metres, the parts of which were connected by chains. These pontoons were equipped with oars, roasting pills, hand pumps, watertight compartments in the hull and sometimes a tween deck with logis and galley for the operating crew. The pontoons owe their name to the fact that the two pontoons with a floating ship reminded of a camel with two humps. Both halves were designed as watertight floating bodies that could be flooded and bled. If these were flooded, the ship to be lifted was floated in and fastened between them. Strong cables were pulled underneath the ship and beams were put through the piece ports, which then lay on the pontoons of the camel.

Ship camel system which allowed large ships to cross shallow banks, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), Italy, 18th century

The camels’ compartments were then emptied using pumps, similar to modern floating docks. Due to the draught reduced by up to three metres, pontoons and ships could then enter the port without the ship having to be partially unloaded (lightened). As soon as one had passed the shallow, the floating bodies were flooded again and the ship floated freely. The shape of the floats was concave on the inside to accommodate the ships well. In order to preserve the hull structure of the ships, camels were available in different sizes for the respective dimensions of the ships in order to achieve the greatest possible form-fit. The team was moved by the sails of the lifted ship and the tugs. These floating docks were used in the Netherlands until 1825, as the camels became superfluous with the opening of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal.

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SPMW 1, Narrow Gauge Porter 0-4-0T

Reportedly, SPMW Narrow Gauge SPMW 1 was built in 1903 by Porter as, builders number 2857.

SPMW 1 at Bayshore, Yard, San Francisco

Southern Pacific Maintenance of Way (SPMW) 3 foot gauge 0-4-0 number SPMW 1 in San Francisco, CA, on Sunday, January 9, 1938. It reportedly was scrapped six days later. From the Jack Darrough Collection, used with permission. Potographer identified as T.C. Wurm.

#spmw #narrow gauge

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Hollywood Boulevard, 1946.

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Pol Espargaro

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General Purpose

It’s just a geep, as they were called—short for general purpose. I didn’t take many roster shots, but this is a decent one, with good light on the distinctive, and durable, Blomberg B truck.

This particular model, an EMD GP9, was built in January of 1956, sans dynamic brakes, as was common for the Illinois Central. Later, it would have it’s nose chopped, rebuilt into a GP11, and renumbered to 8736. As such, it would continue to serve wearing the so-called Death Star logo of the later iteration of the Illinois Central (post-ICG). Beyond that it worked for the Columbus and Greenville Railroad, and perhaps lastly for the Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway.

In the above image, taken during the ICG era, the locomotive is sitting on a side track on the west side of Bloomington, Indiana. This is on the Illinois Central line to Indianapolis, known as the Hi-Dry.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken February 5th 1977.

#gp9

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kurokawa onsen by lazy fri13th

#hot spring egg

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Here we have Thomas.

This is also Thomas?

This…This is…also Thomas?

Damn the Rev got busy lol

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CBRNART

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