Photo of The Day

[Lightengine]

What is that thing running through the scooter? A big gun barrel or something?

Is it the 'Weapon of mass destruction' that didnt exist?

[kneighbarger]

Ray that is one cool rail truck. Any more photos of the rear?

Marc great photos, love the filling of the barrel and dumping the tip car.

Ken

[eTraxx]

This was posted up on Facebook. Have no idea where or what .. but is just plain cool.

[Lawton Maner]

The pale yellow rail truck is for repairing overhead catenary in the Butte, Montana copper mines.

The armed moped is sporting what appears to be a 105mm recoilless rifle.  The rear view of the breach is the clue.  They were mounted on Jeeps and any light wheeled equipment to annoy enemy armor.  The Marines had an early Armored Personal Carrier called an Ontos which sported 6 of them and was very good at shoot and skoot practices.  The 25 metre backblast made them dangerous to stand behind and the dust kicked up screamed "here I am" to  the enemy.

The other photos appear to be WWI French 20 cm railroad equipment, based on the uniforms of the troops in them.  The turntable for supplying an artillery gun is quite good, as are the rest of them.

Can't comment on the mining photo other then from the rail cars in the background it was taken somewhere in Europe in the first part of the last century.

All in all an interesting collection.

[Ray Dunakin]

Ray that is one cool rail truck. Any more photos of the rear?

Sadly, no. I haven't been able to find any other pics online yet.

[marc_reusser]

A smaller version of the scooter....

Hanoi

[marc_reusser]

I know somewhere there was a discussion of these but cant recall where...so I'll jus put this here.

[marc_reusser]

Project reference....

[mad gerald]

I know somewhere there was a discussion of these but cant recall where...so I'll jus put this here.

... the Maunsell Army [sic!] Forts (Nore, Red Sands, Shivering Sands) where mentioned in this thread, pages 102/103 ...   ... nice shot showing heavier weather ...

BTW: I am still dabbling with the idea building one of these "stilt houses"   ... but don't know when and if I could manage a "tiny" scale like 1/35 ... even in 1/35 scale it would measure approx. 30 x 30 cm (floor space) ...

cheers

[Ray Dunakin]

Beautiful composite shot of the night sky taken from the Atacama desert in Chile:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140127.html

[finescalerr]

Wow. Gorgeous photo. Unfortunately, that link is likely to expire someday. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

I saw this tractor loco on another forum, and really liked it. I think it's a Fordson:

[Hydrostat]

Great find, Ray! Do you know anything about the railway's purpose?

Volker

[Scratchman]

Ray, the tractor loco is a McCormick Deering.

Here's one on a Universal power shovel.



Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[Scratchman]

More McCormick-Deering photos.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mccormick+deering&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4CPsUuLoJcXZoASDnoL4BQ&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1338&bih=707

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/