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USS Constellation

...steaming there completely uncamouflaged, unarmored, and unwashed

This tableaux captures an engine that was worked tirelessly in an occupied Polish railyard and depot, conscripted as a heavy switcher to move supply trains under Nazi supervision.

The similarly captured-and-conscripted TKS tankettes!

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Deutsche Reichsbahn immediately took over all PKP facilities and re-stamped the captured Polish locomotives back into Nazi German inventory — that's what I think this is!

Prussian T12 2-6-0T to PKP Class OKi2:

After WWI, in Poland, the newly formed PKP (Polish State Railways, er: "Polskie Koleje Państwowe") obtained dozens of these exact Prussian T12 locomotives as war reparations. Former Prussian locomotives! Poland designated them as the OKi2 class (The "O" designated passenger trains, the "K" indicates a tank engine, and the "i" is for the 2-6-0 wheel layout). One of these gang-pressed OKi2's in post-war in Germany, protesting the East/West Germany division:

Deutsche an einen Tisch.

Which opens up a little story about a spunky Prussian-designed side-tank steam locomotive, shunting hard during WWI, paid as repatriation to the Poles, kidnapped by the Nazis, and surviving in a split Germany!

Along the Water Level Route

This is an eastbound Amtrak's Maple Leaf rolling through Palatine Bridge, New York. We're on the former New York Central along side the Mohawk River (part of the railroad's so-called Water Level Route).

(Still confused by _which_ bridge it's all named after lol)

#ToyotaThursday Spotted this clean 1983 Toyota Pickup/Hilux 4WD (3rd Gen Hilux, 1978-1983) #Toyota #ToyotaPickup #ToyotaHilux #ToyotaHilux4WD #Pickup #Hilux #Hilux4WD #ToyotaMotors #ToyotaMotorCorporation #JapaneseAutomobile #JapanesePickup #Japanese4x4pickup #carpotting #carhunting #SFcarspots #ToyotaBySteve #ToyotaTrucksbySF

Bm3-kiskobusseja hankittiin VR:lle kaksi kappaletta vuonna 1939. Ne olivat rakenteeltaan samanlaisia kuin vuotta aiemmin toimitettu yksittäinen Bm2-yksikkö, mutta Bm3:n rakentaja oli Motala Verkstad, kun Bm2:n rakensi ja suunnitteli Hilding Carlsson. Bensiinikäyttöiset kiskobussit poistettiin käytöstä 1950-luvun lopussa. Ylemmässä kuvassa Bm3 #22 rakenteilla Motalassa, alemmassa #21 Kouvolassa noin vuonna 1948.

2-10-2T is a brutal configuration for a locomotive! I'm going to shoot myself because I'm not sure if these pics are the same class, but hoooo yah — Power! Tractive effort!

The new german Cobra 600 jet-powered interceptor drone, shown here equipped with a single Iris-T radar-guided BVR missile.

You can still afford at least a couple hundred "Lock-On-After-Launch" IRIS-T munitions for the cost of (1) F35 airframe only.

What's most interesting is that the cost to abort an interdiction is approximately zero, so, scramble the Cobra 600 with payload and when it turns out to be a weather balloon that IRIS-T remains unfired and the whole thing RTB while you send up the WWI biplane with two old Hans and a WWII machine gun.

Very niche.

...1982

The deadlines are long gone but fortunately a number were purchased at scrap prices and many preserved — summer road trip stretch goals right here...