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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-14-2023, 06:32 AM
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Looks like that International was built to get itself, or someone else, out of tough situations with all wheel drive (lock out hubs) and the big heavy bumper with a towing winch.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-26-2023, 06:08 AM
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What I wouldn't do to add that Mustang to my collection
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-15-2023, 09:57 AM
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I echo all the others in welcoming to your "Retirement"
I've been "Retired" for almost 7 years,( with a couple of sneaks back to work as a distraction and a few extra bucks) I'm busier now than I've ever been, with a lot less money in my pocket and still haven't settled into any sort of routine. I can also categorically say that time speeds up when you retire. I regularly wakeup on Monday then suddenly realize that it's Friday and wonder where the week went.
I wish you nothing but Good Luck with your diagnosis and hope it doesn't make visiting the doctor becomes your social life.
I also wouldn't get rid of all your cars keep a couple of your favorites and take the time to enjoy them to the fullest.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-01-2022, 07:03 PM
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The (new to me) Black Beauty after a cleanup and a coat of wax is covered up for the winter
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-19-2022, 01:08 PM
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In 2015 I retired from the "Marine Division" of the corporation that started the Agawa Canyon freight then Tourist run. (Algoma Central Railroad/Corporation) The Marine Division also had in it's fleet among it's workhorses, a ship called the Agawa Canyon. I served as Chief Engineer on the "Canyon" or sometime "Agony Canyon", as it was referred by it's crew, as it plied the Great Lakes carrying millions of tons of bulk cargos from 1970 till it's retirement in 2010.
It also looks odd to not have the "Bear" in the round Algoma Central Railroad logo on the front of the Locomotive
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-20-2022, 07:59 AM
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They may be better equipped for the 100-meter mosey but still essential to the quarter-mile drag strip:lol:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-17-2021, 06:13 AM
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I'm not 100% sure, but based on the time the photo was taken, the freighter looks to be possibly a WW2 Liberty Ship
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-19-2021, 03:46 PM
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Sunrise on the Halifax Waterfront
Canada's last WWII Battle of the Atlantic Corvette HMCS Sackville
Yachts tied up outside a local "Watering Hole"
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-05-2021, 06:05 AM
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Halifax Harbour Ferry, named after local fallen Afghanistan war Hero Craig Blake, leaving Dartmouth for the scenic run to Halifax,
Usually the ferries are decked out with signal and other flags on Canada Day. But this year Canada Day was a subdued affair because of the Covid 19 Pandemic and the discovery of hundreds indigenous children in unmarked graves outside former "Indian Residential Schools" across the country.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-03-2021, 08:50 AM
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3 photos of retired aircraft from the Royal Canadian Air Force taken as part of a 50mm lens only competition
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-29-2021, 04:32 AM
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The Kilo Moana is a very special vessel built with what is known as Swath Technology. The original hull design was created for the Canadian Hydrographic service by Canadian Naval Architect Frederick G. Creed and there was, until 2020, a similar vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard fleet named after him. The special double underwater hull design creates a much more stable platform than an a traditional vessel. Ideal for the specialized survey work the and research the Creed did and the Kilo Moana continues to do throughout the world's oceans in sea conditions impossible for a traditional vessel.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-15-2021, 03:12 PM
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With Captain G. Byers to help him along the way. Theodore said goodbye to the Big Harbour (Halifax) for the final time a couple of days ago going to his new home in Hamilton Ontario. It is believed he will working entertaining the young and young at heart in ports around the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States.
In the coming days he will be seen making his way up through the St. Lawrence Seaway
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-05-2021, 04:58 PM
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Not quite as famous as Thomas, Theodore a friendly tug boat with stories told by Papa Denny Doherty (Mama's & Papa's) of him and his friends adventures around the "Big Harbour" (Halifax)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-29-2021, 03:56 AM
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Quite the engine bay
Like the "Warning" sticker on the Firewall
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-25-2021, 09:27 AM
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Halifax Harbour Passenger Ferry tied up for the weekend
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-19-2021, 04:40 AM
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The CMA CGM 16000 TEU Marco Polo. This is the largest Containership ever to enter Halifax Harbor.
While shooting from the opposite side of the harbor I had to create a 5 shot panoramic view at 500mm to better show the actual size of the ship against the surrounding area.
The images were taken with a K1ii and Sigma Bigma 50-500 Zoom using Aperture Priority, F-6.1 1/801 sec. Shutter Speed & ISO 200
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-12-2021, 03:35 AM
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I like how they take advantage of low tide to do quick underwater repairs
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-14-2020, 11:03 AM
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I believe the yard bought the ship from the owners (the Government of Canada) when it was decommissioned. The Government usually dispose of assets like this at auction. Usually at a price less than a long term lease from another shipyard.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-12-2020, 08:43 PM
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It's my understanding that the ship was used as a mobile work platform/accommodation ship for the yard workers during sea trials
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-12-2020, 07:32 AM
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The ship in the photo was once the Canadian Car Ferry "Bluenose" that ran for many years from Yarmouth Nova Scotia to Bar Harbor Maine
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-26-2020, 06:22 AM
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Some Classic Cars at a recent and probably last inprop to get together for the season
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-26-2020, 08:16 AM
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Based on my experience with the same Marine engines (EMD or Alco). Each engine will burn close to 125 - 150 gallons of diesel fuel per hour out of the saddle tanks at full throttle
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-03-2020, 12:33 PM
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Royal Canadian Air Force Aerobatic Team "The Snowbirds" lining up with the flight line of #12 Wing Shearwater Air Force Base. Home base for the 4 Helicopter Crew along with 2 HMCS Fredericton Crew Members lost in a crash off Greece last Wednesday
The Snowbirds are currently making flights across the country to raise the spirits of a Nation under a lockdown due to the Covid 19 Pandemic
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-11-2020, 11:04 AM
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The Mustang is home again after Winter Hibernation
Not quite warm enough to drive with the top down but getting there :cool:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-10-2020, 04:18 AM
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An old abandoned Deuce & Half in a field after playing around with new favorite editing software Paintshop Pro
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