With the edit button restored, No. 3 has been inserted in its right place in the earlier post, and here continues the completion of the postings for the UK for this trip:
No text will be missing by the end of this day, Wednesday, 13 June. But, I still have no idea which photos you can see and which have vanished in the transmittal. If photos are missing, then let me know, and I will use the edit buttono to put them at the locations of their captions.
Meanwhile, for the sake of my own sanity and self-preservation, I have assembled two pdf books for Jack's Southern Euroepan tour and now am working on the one for Great Britain.
With others receiving Jack's travel report not posting its insallments, I guess it is left to me to do so. To make it easy, I will wait until all the British Isles reports are received, have the book on those reports reviewed by Jack to check on my editing, keep a Word version when putting it into Pdf, and then post the whole thing in one new thread in one new posting. I wll then ask that this thread be removed with the new one replacing it. Then also do similarly for the second half of the three-week tour. Meanwhile, this can stay as is. Now see below as per 1 June '18.
But rather than start a new thread, I am asking the moderator to delete all my posts after the first two. As soon as this is done and I visit the website, at a wideband location, I will in one posting add installments 3 - 11 or 12 to complete Jacks UK visit report with all installments in proper order. Thanks!
Thanks for all this David. I feel for you...definitely a frustrating and difficult task for you...and all this after years and years of incredible and significant information and contributions. Your enthusiasm is admirable.
I certainly hope these tribulations will end soon.
he Edit button has been returned to me, and I plan on posting all photos with then next few days. Meanwhile, here is a continuation of the story, photos to come:
Despite the weather I had a good day. Reverting back to Wednesday, where we traveled to Daugavpils for another day on the trams, will now be discussed.
We had a very nice dinner in the restaurant of a nearby hotel and saw that other members of the group had the same idea. Before we knew it it was time to board our bus, and it was a quick 3-hour trip back to our hotel in Riga. We had an excellent afternoon in a very pleasant city.
Still a lot of photos to be posted and a few Blackpool captions relocated to the right place, but there is progress. Particularly notable are the Isle of Man photos, including the narrow gauge interurban and two narrow-gauge steam lines.
I had problems today with Imgur. Pictures dissapearing as soon as I tried to use the copy image button. I may have solvd the problem for use tomorrow, but if anyone has suggestions. Let me know.
Today, Tuesday, the 19th. This posting is a test. The German WWII 2-10-0 sent to Russia and used in Lithuania and Estonia and now on a plinth outside the Talilin RR Sta:
Bad news today. Started having problems with Imgur, then the problems grew to encompass every website, which started govomg the timed out message. No problems until I pulled up Imgur, and problems don't exist with the narrow-band server at the Yeshiva ---- except that Imgur is unavailable with narrow-band!
So no progress on adding photos today, unless someone can email me a suggested alternative.
Apologies and thanks
This is a test posting. I am going to try every possible way of posting a picture while still on the Yeshvia's narrow-band server and not using an additonal website. I am by no means assured of success, but I feel an obligation to at least try;
jpg:
Didn;t work
pdf:
didn;t work
gif:
didn't work, would have distorted colors anway.
tif:
didn't work
png:
Libra Office
None of these ideas worked. Anything else worth trying?
posted a few pix today 21 June before Imgur started giving problems
Was able to add some more photos today, and should complete Talilin on Sunday, 24 June, completing Jack's Baltic States narrative.
Hopefully, Imgur will work well Sunday, and I will be able to add all the required photos for the text that follows without any problems.
Sunday, 24 June '18: Success!
Above and below: The Tondi terminal loop is shared by routes 3 and 4. On this Sunday KT4s provided all service on route 3, while CAF Urbos hauled passengers on the 4. The lower view is from the railway station.
Instead of riding back to the main station when returning from our railroad trip, we alighted at Ulemiste, where we observed the new tram extension (which opened on September 1) and walked along it back to line 4 at Majaka Poik.
With good luck yesterday on posting the photos I planned to post, hopefully, this will be true tomorrow, Tuesday the 26th. So I here is the text for comopleting Jack's visit to Helsinki, today, Monday, with the photos to be added tomorrow when hopefully I will be able to use the HOC-Mt. Scopus wifi.
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daveklepper Apologies for an error of ommision. For some reason a great photo of a typical Isle-of-Man tank loco at Douglass, that should have been in the narrative, did not get included in the main posting, so herewith:
Apologies for an error of ommision. For some reason a great photo of a typical Isle-of-Man tank loco at Douglass, that should have been in the narrative, did not get included in the main posting, so herewith:
This appears to be a Northern Ireland Railways 5'3" gauge Class WT 2-6-4 tank engine. One of these is preserved and operates in both Eire and the Northern Counties.
Compare this with the IoM locomotives illustrated earlier in the thread.
Peter
Apologies for the error. But very happy to hear of the preservation.
Peter, may I ask you to copy the photo to a new thread in the Steam and Preservation Forum, with a detailed descriptions of the locomotive and museum?
Thanks
More Isle of Man
and more
Horsecar Barn at Douglas Head:
The Douglas horsecar line has one double-
Manx Electric ERA 1976 visit at the Douglas Head Pavilion
Unsure of the next two locations:
At Laxey, two Snaefel Mountain cars at left on their 42-inch track, ERA trip train on its 3-inch track on the right:
The sub switch at Laxey leading to the small Snaefel carhouse there.
An Achen (Germany) car-body that was the first to provide newer model trucks and motors to replqace the original Snaefel equipment
Going up the mountain
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