Close up of 1/100 Golden Gate Bridge with new girders attached
After ten minutes of terror of an epoxy join (ran out of 1/100 rivets…) it is one with the tower. The top lattice was replaced and is undergoing a fit check; it was cut on a Cricut from .020 styrene sheet based on an SVG pattern made in Inkscape. Very happy with Inkscape + Cricut + styrene combo!
1/100 scale model of the girders that interface the main span to the tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, freshly painted. There are four bearing surfaces that allow the deck to move longitudinally.
After mixing up a fresh batch of International Orange (not a standard Tamiya color) this subassembly is almost ready to install on the bridge tower.
1/100 scale model of the girders that interface the main span to the tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, freshly painted. There are four bearing surfaces that allow the deck to move longitudinally.
After mixing up a fresh batch of International Orange (not a standard Tamiya color) this subassembly is almost ready to install on the bridge tower.
Oof sounds like the not wearing a helmet caused a collision!
Is it too early to call this Diridonian?
My colleagues made this camera. I got to touch it once (to mate a single connector) in a clean room. Didn’t think much of it then, but I think of that moment every time I see this image!
…taken by a camera built in Palo Alto
Fit check of some new girders made from styrene strip on my 1/100 scale Golden Gate Bridge tower. Main structure is pine, with various 3D printed fiddly bits.
Fit check of new girders that constrain the end of the main span. It was hard to research this part of the structure; it is not often photographed (and dark when it is.)
It projects a small area of shadow known in southern parts as a “sombrita”
Not coincidentally, Dumbarton and Valley Link sit on the politically disfavored Altamont rail alignment.
Yup #2 is close enough to be dangerous.
Nope, got snookered last time I was there
BART fails at the basic wayfinding task of telling you which train will next leave for SF from which platform at what time. It’s not hard.
Looks headed for 15 GW by this summer, if seasonal trend continues?
Theater?
It’s a 1:100 paper bus, thrown in for scale!
A bit over 7’6”
Model of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge with new roadway lateral joint truss assembly being checked for fit.
Initial fit check!
Varying sizes before, varying sizes now with 2 @ 7 EMU exception
I’m pretty sure they went so far as removing the door buttons from the cabs!
Ha, we wish! The reductions were in the SP days when they got rid of firemen and brakemen.
They never had 8-car trains, max was six. IIRC union rules were one conductor up to 2 cars, two up to 6 cars, three for 7 and longer. There was a special exception made for EMU with “only” two.
GLM has been game-changing
for the community that monitors meteors. Great example!
It’s also one of the many new capabilities that would be lost in the current plan to stop flying a GLM-like instrument after the current fleet reaches end of life.
These are not quite as ancient (1998)
Part of my scale model of the Golden Gate Bridge tower that sits just below the roadway and restrains lateral motion of the bridge deck using pinned joints
Creative juices flowing today, in 1/100 scale.
Will you put a gradient on it like the real sky?
Fresno Area Rail Transit
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
It’ll definitely get worse and if crowding ever reaches the levels experienced in 2019, it’ll be time to reduce bike capacity to increase passenger capacity
I guess this falls into the category of good problems to have!
