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Red Kestrel
The Red Funnel ferries have made appearances on the blog after previous UK trips including this one here. While we were on the seafront at Cowes, we saw one of the ferries coming in but it looked pretty odd. It … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, cowes, ferry, freight, isle of wight, photo, red funnel, Red Kestrel, ship, travel, uk
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South Coast Trains
There are a few readers of the blog that like trains so this is a quick view of some UK passenger trains. We stayed in Chichester for a while and were very close to the station. We had to walk … Continue reading
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Tagged Chichester, hampshire, photo, rail, southern, train, transit, transportation, travel, uk
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HMS Queen Elizabeth
One leg of our trip to the UK included a ferry to the Isle of Wight. We took the ferry from Portsmouth and, as we drove in to town, I thought I could see the twin islands of the HMS … Continue reading
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Tagged aircraft carrier, hampshire, HMS Queen Elizabeth, military, photo, portsmouth, travel, uk, warship
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Precursor to the Lifeboat Posts
There are going to be some lifeboat posts coming up in the coming weeks. We ended up seeing quite a bit of the RNLI’s work while we were there. I shall have more detailed posts but these shots are just … Continue reading
Power for a Factory
The Dearborn factory required a large power generation facility and, in days gone by, this was provided by a large steam engine driving generators. This machine is now nicely preserved. The scale of it is a bit hard to represent. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dearborn, electrical, generation, Henry Ford, michigan, museum, photo, plant, steam, travel
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Quite a Locomotive
I know a few of the regular readers of the blog are in to trains so I hope this one pleases them. The Henry Ford Museum covers all sorts of engineering endeavors including a selection of rail vehicles. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged Dearborn, engine, Henry Ford, locomotive, michigan, museum, photo, steam, train, transportation, travel
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Another Boat Out of the Water in Anacortes
During a vacation trip to Anacortes, prior to moving to Washington, I posted some pictures of a large vessel out on the dockside being worked on. I was quite taken with seeing it so high out of the water. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Anacortes, boat, photo, ship, travel, washington, yard
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The Big House
My nephew’s graduation took place at Ann Arbor MI. I had not been there before but the main graduation ceremony was held in the football stadium. It might be able to hold 100,000 but on this day there were not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann arbor, Big house, football, graduation, photo, stadium, travel, University of Michigan
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Changing Landscapes By The Second
The weather while we were in Jackson was rather variable. Our first day was pretty sunny but it clouded over and the second day had clouds constantly moving through. You would get patches of sun showing up periodically but it … Continue reading