Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, I understand. When we watch Downton Abbey we turn on the Cajun subtitle. ;-) Sent from my iPhone Sonny Carter http://www.SonC.com/look > On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:51 AM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > The main reason it fell out of favour was the sealing of the vacuum tube > in which the piston from the train was sucked along. The tube had flaps > made of leather which were sealed (and greased) by tallow (a rendered > animal fat). Every rat for miles around went to a massive party on the > tallow coated seal and the train kept losing its pulling vacuum. > Preventing the rodent parties became a huge overhead, an alternative was > desperately needed, so the atmospheric was quietly shelved. > > Speaking of atmospheric, I watched the first episode of True Detective > (it's set in Louisiana), and, Sonny, I don't understand how any of you > understand each other. I needed an interpreter! > > Douglas > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:40 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Doesn't Look Much.... > > >> I was wondering about the "Atmospheric", so I went to the Wikipedia >> article: >> >> The standard gauge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gauge> line was >> 9,200 feet (2,800 m) in length with an average uphill gradient of about 1 >> in 110. Vacuum power via a 15-inch (380 mm) pipe was used for the ascent >> to >> Dalkey, speeds of up to 40 mph (64 km/h) being achieved, and the return >> journey was by means of gravity. The vacuum tube fell 560 yd (512 m) short >> of the Dalkey station, and the train relied on momentum for the last >> stretch of the journey. To commence the journey from Kingston the train >> had >> to be pushed by hand until the piston engaged with the >> tube.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway#cite_note-2>Trains >> ran every half-hour between 8:00am and 6:00pm. >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >>> >>> George, the wall is the original boundary wall of Bray railway station >>> which was built in 1854. Its 160th birthday is on the 10th July this >>> year. >>> Don't whether the wall is actually that old as the line was extended >>> southwards to Greystones in 1855, but it is no younger than 1855. So it's >>> probably 159 years old, but might be 160... >>> >>> The original line from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire was the third oldest >>> railway in the world (and the first commuter line in the world) when it >>> first opened in 1834, and it in turn was extended to Dalkey using the >>> tracks of the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway (the first of of its type in the >>> world too) and then to Bray over the next twenty years. >>> >>> Wikipedia has a bit on it. >>> >>> Things are very old around here - me especially.... >>> >>> Douglas >>> >>> >>> "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote >>> >>> neat cityscape >>>> >>>> is that stone wall as old as it appears? >>>> On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: >>>> >>>> ... Like Fun. >>>>> The back entrance to the Fun Palace Casino looks like a cavernous maw >>>>> that swallows a punter's money. >>>>> >>>>> Bray, Co. Wicklow. >>>>> Fuji X100S. >>>>> See Large. >>>>> >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/DoesntLookMuch.jpg.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> 1714 >> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information