Auxiliary Pics V BRUTALISM 𝔸 𝔼 𝕊 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕋 𝕀 ℂ - General

We'll take this argument to PM's before this thread gets any more derailed. Check your inbox. Meanwhile, Seattle's Gas Works Park [t]https://landscapetheory1.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/img_0793_edited-1.jpg[/t] [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Gas_Works_Park_01.jpg[/t] [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Gasworksparksunset.JPG/1920px-Gasworksparksunset.JPG[/t]

Pennsboro, WV in 1908: [IMG]https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13938567_10206464193594368_5004050122286924296_n.jpg?oh=870db78409681d4844a54cdaf5435441&oe=585C0ED5[/IMG] Pennsboro today: [T]https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13913542_10206464193354362_7447317071451437277_o.jpg[/T] A EMD FT of the Great Northern Railway, the first freight-hauling diesel locomotive to enter serial production in 1939 and it's "carbody" design would be the standard until the 1960s when road-switcher, hood, and cowl unit designs started gaining popularity. [IMG]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/locomotive/images/a/ae/Emd_ft.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131214025419[/IMG]

[QUOTE=paul simon;50856018]Did a tiny little timelapse [vid]http://puu.sh/qvzai.webm[/vid] It was rainy as fuck so I gave up pretty quickly[/QUOTE] would you mind sharing how you made that? its very pleasant to watch

[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;50858409] A EMD FT of the Great Northern Railway, the first freight-hauling diesel locomotive to enter serial production in 1939 and it's "carbody" design would be the standard until the 1960s when road-switcher, hood, and cowl unit designs started gaining popularity. [IMG]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/locomotive/images/a/ae/Emd_ft.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131214025419[/IMG][/QUOTE] Those covered wagons are great to look at. No so great when you're walking through them on a 90F day when the engine's been running for hours. I think we saw an ambient temperature of 150F inside at one point.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;50854893]Uh, what the fuck is your problem?[/QUOTE] Trust me, if you lived here, you'd understand. He went a little overboard, but the local government just does whatever they can to look like a big bad powerhouse of a city, no matter what the cost is, financial or otherwise. As an example, i used to live in Lynn Valley. there's two lanes in, and two lanes out. And to get off the north shore, all the roads converge at the bottom of mountain highway and Keith road. Which constricts the entire east half of the north shore to two lanes to get to the mainland. And up at the top of all this They just built condos that could house 50,000 this year, and are putting in 4 new highrises next to the only way to get onto the highway, and not expanding the roads at all. What this means is, you have legions of people trying to get to the city through one fucking three way intersection, and about two onramps onto the highway to get across the water. The local goverment is so obsessed with "progress" and making their spreadsheets bigger, they just let development companies do whatever the fuck they want, and never plan infastructure or have any long term plans. One company just bought up a whole city block down at third and queenbury, about 15 million in shitty one story wartime houses, and god knows what they want to do with it. Should the houses go? sure, but not as one chunk to one company, but they got the ok from city hall Those four new towers down there? They take up the space where a new, less shit onramp would go. There is no other option. The big tree insulated area is in the middle of a huge ravine. But some fucking investment company wanted some towers there, and city hall wanted to make their charts have some bigger numbers and they got them. [T]http://puu.sh/qw4zR/0fe60e8af0.jpg[/T] And you might say, what does this have to do with chinese people? Well the chinese upper class is fleeing the stagnating chinese economy by all means available, and they have it in their head that vancouver is just the place to go. And the local goverment is just doing whatever they can to let them in, and give free range to them and developers, which [I]hugely[/I] jacks up the housing prices. We have a family friend who's a realtor, and he says about 25% of his sales are to, or are for the representatives of Chinese nationals who buy the house/land/etc purely as an investment, and will never set foot in the house. I've seen fullyfurnished west end mansions with windows left open and are abandoned to deteriorate while the market value just keeps ticking on higher and higher. What this means is, if you find an ok house for less than 1.2 million dollars, you're stealing it. Can you imagine living on 60,000 dollars a year, and being expected to have a [I]four million dollar[/I] mortage for [URL="http://www.findvancouverhouses.com/homes/bc/vancouver/vancouvresar2088377262110004/7710-cambie-street-vancouver-bc-v6p%203h7"][I]this?[/I][/URL] This isn't like new york, where there genuinely is a billion people trying to live in 10 square miles, this whole thing is 100% artificial, and while they're not solely responsible, chinese money is absolutely the biggest cause, so i'm sure you can understand how a lot of people resent it

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;50858440]would you mind sharing how you made that? its very pleasant to watch[/QUOTE] Camera, tripod, shutter release. And a shitload of battery The shutter release takes a picture every 'x' second or minute

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;50858440]would you mind sharing how you made that? its very pleasant to watch[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ignhelper;50859080]Camera, tripod, shutter release. And a shitload of battery The shutter release takes a picture every 'x' second or minute[/QUOTE] Camera, no tripod, no remote shutter release, and a single battery which was at 50% when I started :v: Instead of tripod, I used my camera bag for support. (I'll probably improve it by stabilizing it in post) Instead of a remote shutter release, I used Magic Lantern. (custom firmware) The camera was set to take 1 photo every 4 seconds, and I let it do that over a period of no longer than 20 minutes. And as for camera settings: [thumb]https://puu.sh/qvuEW.jpg[/thumb] [editline]10th August 2016[/editline] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqY8sy3nkM[/media]

Was the sky actually purple or is it some filter? It look hella sick

It was purple

[QUOTE=paul simon;50859600]It was purple[/QUOTE] man norway kicks ass.

[QUOTE=paul simon;50856018]Did a tiny little timelapse [vid]http://puu.sh/qvzai.webm[/vid] It was rainy as fuck so I gave up pretty quickly[/QUOTE] Timelapses are fun. But its quite hard to do a proper long one because I'm impatient and I set my camera to save directly to my laptop to save space and my laptop can only go 1.5hour max on battery. Here's one I did back in Australia: [video=youtube;VijTewonf1g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijTewonf1g[/video] I found out that its best done on a GoPro, since its tiny you can put it anywhere and just forget about it for the next 2 hours. But make sure to turn it off before the battery runs out because if you don't you'll either lose all progress or come out with a corrupted card.

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;50859074]Vancouver rant[/QUOTE] Australia has a similar problem but instead of Chinese (they do buy here but I've noticed they normally use the houses, the eastern states might be different) it's baby boomers hoarding investment properties and jacking up the prices making even affording a place to rent hard. This was really bad where I live (West Australia) because there was a mining boom and people made shit tons of money and could actually afford the stupidly high prices for awhile. This also raised prices on everything else because of the "cashed up bogan" effect where suddenly a lot previously poor and uninformed people (bogans) were pouring money in the economy with no regard of actual value of items being purchased. suddenly a pint of beer costs $10+ and it sucks unless you're in mining or accounting. However the boom is over now and a lot of the cashed up bogans ether left for other work, have a giant dept due to poor money management, or both. Also our current government (both federal and state) pretty much let all the international mining companies scoot away without paying a fair share. On the plus side the boomers are starting to die off so housing prices are very slowly coming down but they're still too fucking high. It also helps that a lot of properties here have giant backyards that can get split into 2 or 3 more lots. sadly doesn't help our state government instead of investing in infrastructure to help expasion went "HURR LETS PUT A HARBOURR IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY ROAD SO I CAN PARK MY YACHT CLOSER TO THE CITY" [IMG]http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/h/o/b/n/t/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.ghopzx.png/1434424859967.jpg[/IMG] They ripped out a bunch of +100 year old trees in the process. What a bunch of fucking cunts. It's almost fucking empty 24/7 unless they hold a "PLEASE COME HERE" event. There's room for buildings but no ones buying because the boom's over: [IMG]https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/160127/b8888442z.1_20160126224500_000_gkeejq45.3_1-1baf20l.jpg[/IMG] They also built an arena that looks like a used cum tissue: [IMG]http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/11/03/1226509/768253-arena.jpg[/IMG] And next to cum rag arena is more empty lots because HEY THE BOOM IS OVER NO ONE WANTS TO BUY LOTS DUMB ASSES. I will admit we did get a nicer bus stop out of this though. [IMG]http://aerialphotographywa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Rail(pp_mDefault_a16_pMC).jpg[/IMG] And basically they pissed the rest of the mining money up a tree. There's an outer suburb called Ellenbrook that a lot of people moved to because there was a planned rail link to it but as I mentioned a lot of infrastructure projects were canned for rich people shit. I really hope these clowns get elected out next year. /rant At least I can afford a coffee now. There's a coffee shop near me that still sells at boom prices yet there's a small cafe down the road that makes nicer coffee at half the cost :v:.

Perth has gone down the shitter, honestly I can't wait to leave but it's near impossible to even just do that due to how expensive it is to move due to the isolation. Elizabeth quay was a good idea when it was thought up and started work on, however moving riverside drive was stupid and one of the reasons for me getting my bike licence so I can just lane filter due to the absolutely rooted traffic around the area now. Can't help but feel bad for the people living in Ellenbrook, they got fuuucked over bad.

So they've started restoration work on Big Boy 4014 now that 844 is done: [video=youtube;UFD07mJQH6k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFD07mJQH6k[/video] [URL]https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/big-boy-no-4014-restoration-begins[/URL] Can't wait to see that thing running under it's own power. And here's 844(Which FYI she's never been retired and the only steam locomotive in service with a Class I Railroad and a guest appearance by a former Southern Pacific engine) at Cheyenne Frontier Days. [video=youtube;wMTUd3qBaNg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTUd3qBaNg[/video] And if anybody's wondering about the metal plates attached to the front end of the locomotive, those are smoke deflectors which I believe keep smoke from obscuring the cab's view of the line ahead. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_FEF_Series[/URL]

[QUOTE=paul simon;50856018]Did a tiny little timelapse [vid]http://puu.sh/qvzai.webm[/vid] It was rainy as fuck so I gave up pretty quickly[/QUOTE] Taken a bit earlier the same day: [url=http://puu.sh/qAort.jpg][img]https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8675/28931814046_2a2728e55d_h.jpg[/img][/url] (click for massive) This is the town of Kabelvåg in Norway, where I live. I love this place.

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[video=youtube;fc5rgNmtwPw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc5rgNmtwPw[/video] [editline]13th August 2016[/editline] More to the right means more in the left channel. More to the top means more in the right channel.

[QUOTE=paul simon;50859230]Camera, no tripod, no remote shutter release, and a single battery which was at 50% when I started :v: Instead of tripod, I used my camera bag for support. (I'll probably improve it by stabilizing it in post) Instead of a remote shutter release, I used Magic Lantern. (custom firmware) The camera was set to take 1 photo every 4 seconds, and I let it do that over a period of no longer than 20 minutes. And as for camera settings: [thumb]https://puu.sh/qvuEW.jpg[/thumb] [editline]10th August 2016[/editline] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqY8sy3nkM[/media][/QUOTE] Is it a canon camera, and is it this magic lantern which allows you to set the continous picture shooting?

[QUOTE=G-Strogg;50885335]Is it a canon camera, and is it this magic lantern which allows you to set the continous picture shooting?[/QUOTE] Yes and yes. Magic Lantern is super easy to install, and it has lots of fancy features for timelapse photography.

[QUOTE=paul simon;50885361]Yes and yes. Magic Lantern is super easy to install, and it has lots of fancy features for timelapse photography.[/QUOTE] Ok, sounds neat, I'll give it a try!

[quote]"It's a terrible idea! We have no idea if it will work or if anyone will ever buy the technology. I'm watching a billion of our dollars going into an unfinished product. A prototype. They will build it and a week later the wheels will fall off. In 30 years we will look back at this day and ask ourselves [i]what were we thinking??[/i]", Taylor said. The Kingsway resident was one of many who opposed the new Advanced Rapid Transit Plan proposed by the city as only blocks away a backhoe dug into the wet earth in the ceremonial ground breaking of the new Terminal Avenue Rapid Transit Demonstration line. A small fragment of even bigger dreams to come. -The Vancouver Sun, March 1 1982[/quote] [img]http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t665/AaverageJoe/IMG_20160813_1348279_zpstyospngb.jpg[/img] [i]A brand new third generation Advanced Rapid Transit vehicle sits idle beside one of the original automated trains at Vancouver's downtown Stadium - Chinatown SkyTrain station. The technology, much of which designed in Canada and only 20 years ago was looking for a new owner and had only one successful installation is now one of the most popular systems sold under the Innovia ART brand from Bombardier Transportation and holds multiple titles for the longest driverless rail networks on the planet. The automated and motorless rail technology now sees use in a dozen cities worldwide with another half a dozen open contracts for new lines or expansions, some of them in regions previously thought impossible to penetrate by foreign companies such as Japan.[/i]

[QUOTE=Whomobile;50876470]'straya[/QUOTE] The west is going to shit. Our goverments have to pull their heads out of their asses and start doing their fucking job, and not just worship spreadsheets and measure their dicks with rulers that have the inch markers suspiciously close together. If they don't, the human race is going to slide back 300 years because nobody has the spine to believe in anything even potentially controversial, or work for anything bigger than themselves that isn't a multinational soul consuming corporation or a political rat pack. Mark my fucking words, unless something big changes, we're hosed. I know it's a tangent but shit like this and the subprime shitstorm are the canaries in the coalmine What happened to the days of Bismarck and churchill? [QUOTE=Bbarnes005;50876868]So they've started restoration work on Big Boy 4014 now that 844 is done: [video=youtube;UFD07mJQH6k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFD07mJQH6k[/video] [URL]https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/big-boy-no-4014-restoration-begins[/URL] Can't wait to see that thing running under it's own power. [/QUOTE] y'know between this, 611, Tornado/Prince of Whales and 5550, it's a good time to love steam

[QUOTE=pentium;50893212][img]http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t665/AaverageJoe/IMG_20160813_1348279_zpstyospngb.jpg[/img] [i]A brand new third generation Advanced Rapid Transit vehicle sits idle beside one of the original automated trains at Vancouver's downtown Stadium - Chinatown SkyTrain station. The technology, much of which designed in Canada and only 20 years ago was looking for a new owner and had only one successful installation is now one of the most popular systems sold under the Innovia ART brand from Bombardier Transportation and holds multiple titles for the longest driverless rail networks on the planet. The automated and motorless rail technology now sees use in a dozen cities worldwide with another half a dozen open contracts for new lines or expansions, some of them in regions previously thought impossible to penetrate by foreign companies such as Japan.[/i][/QUOTE] Yea, I was wondering why everyone says its a shithole to live there

I find it amazing how London still uses 44-year-old trains on some parts of the Underground. [IMG_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/1972_Stock_at_Kilburn_High_Road_1.jpg/1280px-1972_Stock_at_Kilburn_High_Road_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] After looking up that picture, I found some interesting information about future plans for the Tube and possible automation: [quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1972_Stock#Future_replacement]The Deep tube programme (DTP) originally covered the replacement of the trains and signalling on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines, and had been expanded to cover rolling stock requirements arising from the planned extension of the Northern line to Battersea, the eventual replacement of Central line trains and proposed increased service frequency on the Northern and Jubilee lines. The EVO tube concept design, a lighter articulated train with walk-through cars, was introduced early in 2011.[2] In early 2014 the Bakerloo, Piccadilly, Central and Waterloo & City line rolling-stock replacement project was renamed New Tube for London (NTfL) and moved to the design and specification stage. The proposal introduces fully automated trains and signalling to increase capacity first on the Piccadilly line in 2025, followed by the Central, Waterloo & City, and Bakerloo lines by 2033. The fully automated trains may not have drivers; however, the ASLEF and RMT trade unions representing drivers strongly oppose this, saying it would be unsafe.[/quote] For comparison, here is the newest train, the 2010 S8: [IMG_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/LUL-S-Stock-arrives-Croxley.jpg/1280px-LUL-S-Stock-arrives-Croxley.jpg[/IMG_thumb] Some of the best features of the newest Tubes include the fact that you can actually walk through the entire train now, so there's a reasonably lower risk of becoming sardines. Also visible: Disabled seats. [IMG_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/LUL-S-Stock-special-needs-car.jpg/1280px-LUL-S-Stock-special-needs-car.jpg[/IMG_thumb]

And the Norther Line is still horrifying. Makes my eyes itch and my snot black.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;50909347]trains[/QUOTE] New York City's subway still uses a limited number of R32 cars, which were first delivered in [I]1964:[/I] [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/MTA_NYC_Subway_J_train_leaving_Lorimer_St..JPG/1920px-MTA_NYC_Subway_J_train_leaving_Lorimer_St..JPG[/t] [QUOTE=Wikipedia]The remaining 222 cars had undergone SMS (Scheduled Maintenance Service) or a Life Extension Program back in 2011, at a cost of $25 million, to extend their useful lives through at least 2017. They were expected to be fully replaced by the R179 fleet beginning in 2016; however, as of July 2015, the MTA plans to keep an unspecified number of cars in service until at least 2022 due to more delays in the delivery of the R179 replacement cars, along with a previously unanticipated fleet expansion necessitated by the renovation of the 14th Street Tunnel. Any R32 cars not replaced by the R179s will be replaced by the R211As instead. At 51 years (the longest for an R-type car), the R32s are the oldest New York City Subway cars in regular passenger service, well past the specified service life of 35 years, as well as some of the oldest rolling stock of any metro system anywhere in the world. According to railfan James Greller, they often cited for their superior durability and craftsmanship, along with the structural reinforcement done to their bodies during the GOH (General Overhaul) period; five other car types built after them have been mostly or completely retired. They are also the only cars currently in service that were built for the New York City Transit Authority prior to its merger with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968.[/QUOTE] For reference, the newest contract number is R188, delivered from 2011-2015: [t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/R188_7_train.jpg[/t]

[quote]The proposal introduces fully automated trains and signalling to increase capacity first on the Piccadilly line in 2025, followed by the Central, Waterloo & City, and Bakerloo lines by 2033. The fully automated trains may not have drivers; however, the ASLEF and RMT trade unions representing drivers strongly oppose this, saying it would be unsafe.[/quote] Fun fact: The automation technology you're buying is, yep, coming from the same company that delivered the Vancouver system. Likewise the Unions in Toronto didn't like the idea of driverless trains, simply because it makes parts of them obsolete. Toronto's response? [img]http://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150322scarbrt.jpg[/img] Lawl, pay a driver a union wage to sit in a cabin and open and close the doors. The rest of the system did its own thing and completely cancelled out the savings of being automated.

Taking the Tube makes me so glad for Singapore's train system. Large interiors, air-conditioned, every station has platform screen doors, and it mostly runs without disruptions. And three of the five lines are completely automated too.

Platform doors are gross. They're often afterthought anti-suicide barriers.

I kinda like platform doors even if they're an afterthought. I wasn't lying about the bus port being better in the Perth rant, it went from looking like somewhere you'll get murdered: [IMG]http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2013/12/16/1226784/494810-07981312-664a-11e3-bdad-d26236de09de.jpg[/IMG] [t]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/21949757.jpg[/t] to this: [IMG]http://puu.sh/qGzmH/5beffafd53.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://puu.sh/qGznV/3034c27d63.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://puu.sh/qGzES/4204454134.jpg[/IMG] I have to admit is is mostly unnecessary but god damn you can't tell me the station doors don't make it look 100% more cooler.