Yes! Thanks for the Orology Lesson on Plate Tectonics Dr. Jonathan. Wish I could have taken my Drone to Hawaii. There are some spectacular mountains (cliffs!) that I would love to share with the world! Guess I can do it from the ground.... Or from Sea Level !
Yeah, looks amazing. I would love to go to Hawaii one day. I wouldn't mind living there actually, like Magnum PI.
Yeah, when I retire (which I hope can be soon!) I would like to retire in Hawaii. Florida is just boring.
Flying around the High School Construction Site again. Wow, my part of the world sure got green quickly!
It's done the same here too. I've been taking pictures of the fortified walls around our city, started a couple weeks ago when the trees were just a tiny bit green, then went out again yesterday and everything has gone super green!
Got pics? The architecture you have over there is amazing. I need to visit the U.K. in the near future!
This is a picture outside the wall that goes all the way around the city. We actually live just the other side of the wall here on the inside. At the bottom of the grass hill it would have been deeper and full of water when it was in use. Now tourists, and sometimes locals for the peace and quiet, just walk around on top of the walls. And here is a picture from above, showing where soldiers used to walk, where tourists now walk instead.
Wow, very nice! Beautiful scenery you have there, the buildings are quite exquisite as well. And see? Walls work! Bet there are no Illegal Aliens in there.
A sad day has come. There is one less Hump Yard in my Country.... CSX has although kept the repair and maintenance yard here.
No, it's not porn it's: Hump yards are the largest and most effective classification yards, with the largest shunting capacity, often several thousand cars a day. The heart of these yards is the hump—a lead track on a small hill over which an engine pushes the cars. Single cars, or a block of coupled cars, are uncoupled just before or at the crest of the hump, and roll by gravity onto their destination tracks in the tracks where the cars are sorted, called the classification bowl. The speed of the cars rolling down from the hump into the classification bowl must be regulated according to whether they are full or empty, heavy or light freight, varying number of axles, whether there are few or many cars on the classification tracks, and varying weather conditions, including temperature, wind speed and direction. As concerns speed regulation, there are two types of hump yards—without or with mechanisation by retarders. In the old non-retarder yards braking was usually done in Europe by railroaders who laid skates onto the tracks. The skate or wheel chock was manually (or, in rare cases, mechanically) placed on one or both of the rails so that the treadles or rims of the wheel or wheels caused frictional retardation and resulted in the halting of the railway car. In the United States this braking was done by riders on the cars. In the modern retarder yards this work is done by mechanized "rail brakes" called retarders, which brake the cars by gripping the wheels. They are operated either pneumatically or hydraulically. Pneumatic systems are prevalent in the United States, France, Belgium, Russia and China, while hydraulic systems are used in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Classification bowls in Europe typically consist of 20 to 40 tracks, divided into several fans or balloons of tracks, usually with eight classification tracks following a retarder in each one, often 32 tracks altogether. In the United States, many classification bowls have more than 40 tracks—up to 72—which are often divided into six to ten classification tracks in each balloon loop. Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, the world's largest classification yard, is a hump yard. Other large American hump yards include Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, the second-largest in the world, Robert Young Yard in Elkhart, Indiana, Clearing Yard in Chicago, Illinois, Englewood Yard in Houston, Texas, and Waycross Rice Yard in Waycross, Georgia. Notably, in Europe, Russia and China, all major classification yards are hump yards. Europe's largest hump yard is that of Maschen near Hamburg, Germany; it is only slightly smaller than Bailey Yard. The second largest is in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. Most hump yards are single yards with one classification bowl, but some, mostly very large, hump yards have two of them, one for each direction, thus are double yards, such as the Maschen, Antwerp, Clearing, and Bailey yards. According to the PRRT&HS PRR Chronology, the first hump yard in the United States was opened May 11, 1903 as part of the Altoona Yards at Bells Mills (East Altoona). Other sources report the PRR yard at Youngwood, PA which opened in the 1880s to serve the Connellsville coke fields as the first U.S. hump yard. My Google-Fu is strong....