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[john70t]

[red 928]

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[IROC]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I thought this was very cool. The more you know!

That is indeed super cool, you probably could have posted that as a thread of it's own and it would have gotten traction . more boring things get threads all the time, hell we get loads of em repetitively with pool and mustangs.

[GH85Carrera]

[shadowjack1]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Reminds me of some of the old convertibles. That looks expensive and like a major fuch-up.

I can't imagine that would be on the engineer. I would assume that routes would be planned out and would include information about the tallest cars that could be used.

[craigster59]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I thought this was very cool. The more you know!

Probably the most unusual record in my collection! In post WWII Russia, Stalin banned the possession of any western music. All records allowed in the country had to be of Russian composers. But there was an underground hungry for Western popular music—everything from jazz and blues to rock & roll. But smuggling vinyl was dangerous, and acquiring the scarce material to make copies of those records that did make it into the country was expensive and very risky.
An ingenuous solution to this problem began to emerge in the form of “bone music," or sometimes called "bones 'n' ribs" music, or simply Ribs.
A young 19 year-old sound engineer Ruslan Bogoslowski in Leningrad changed the game when he created a device to bootleg western albums so he could distribute them across Russia. Problem was he couldn't find material to bootleg his pressings onto, vinyl was scare as were all petroleum products after the war. Then, one day he stumbled upon a pile of discarded X-rays. It worked. At the time, Russian law mandated that all X-rays had to be destroyed after 1 year of storage because they were flammable so he dug through trash bins and paid off orderlies for x-rays and for 20 years he handmade about 1,000,000 bootlegs onto X-ray film of everything from classical to the Beach Boys, eventually spending five years imprisoned in Siberia for this rebellion.
For over 20 years, Bone Music was the only way Russian music lovers could get western music, which they played at "music and coffee parties" in their kitchens, away from the KGB ears and eyes.
So I had to find one. This is a 78 rpm recording of the Indian Song "Awaara" by Raj Kapoor on an exposed Chest X-ray. Probably around 1951. Each Rib, was handmade, and one of a kind.
Bone Music. A testament to the underground courage to subvert authority, rebellion, and the love of music. The spirit of rock n roll.

I had heard of that, but not quite as much detail, and never seen one or seen a photo of one. That's very, very cool!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Glen, do you know where that is? Looks like California, AZ or NM.

I spent a lot of quality time here:

[shadowjack1]

My neighborhood after Katrina. Somewhere is my house and my 79 911.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by masraum

Reminds me of some of the old convertibles. That looks expensive and like a major fuch-up.

I can't imagine that would be on the engineer. I would assume that routes would be planned out and would include information about the tallest cars that could be used.

There are at least three people who should have caught this before it happened. The dispatcher should know the route and the clearances before they scheduled a train onto a particular line. The train conductor should also know the route clearances and the height of loads in his train. The engineer just operates the locomotives and drives the train. He has to be checked out on the route and know all the speed restrictions, length of his train and other things and have some idea about the loads in the consist.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by shadowjack1

My neighborhood after Katrina. Somewhere is my house and my 79 911.

Ouch, just glad you weren't in there too.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

There are at least three people who should have caught this before it happened. The dispatcher should know the route and the clearances before they scheduled a train onto a particular line. The train conductor should also know the route clearances and the height of loads in his train. The engineer just operates the locomotives and drives the train. He has to be checked out on the route and know all the speed restrictions, length of his train and other things and have some idea about the loads in the consist.

Thanks for the info. Clearly, I know squat about how trains run. My assumption was that the engineer, probably mostly just being a driver, wasn't the main guy responsible for knowing all of the details of the route, that stuff having been taken care of before he got involved.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Glen, do you know where that is? Looks like California, AZ or NM.

I spent a lot of quality time here:

I believe it was the continental divide in New Mexico. I am sure a reverse image search will bring it up with more details.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I believe it was the continental divide in New Mexico. I am sure a reverse image search will bring it up with more details.

Let me get right on that

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I spent a lot of quality time here:

Thousand Oaks Drive In?

[Seahawk]

100%

Originally Posted by craigster59

thousand oaks drive in?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Really stunning images.

The frozen waterfall has a landscape painting quality, almost like a painting of a lone conifer.

And the photo of the Indian also has a quality that really makes it stand out.

I remember when I lived in Japan, in the winter when the trees had lost their leaves, and the branches were covered in snow, but the bark looked black where there was no snow, the view was breath taking.

[GH85Carrera]