At first, it may seem very simply and obvious: the flange keeps the wheel on the track, right? Nope, that’s not the answer! To understand why, let’s first get some background on how train wheels are made: The primary take away from the above video is that train wheels are big and come together with…
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Rachel’s grandmother passed away last week, so we’re making the trek to Montana for the funeral service. We were going to visit Portland this weekend, but that trip has been preempted by this. Since the funeral isn’t until Monday, we decided to inject some fun and take the train to Montana and then fly back.…
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Krakow, Poland
29 July 2009
50.0 mm || 1/2500 || f/2.8 || ISO200 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
50.0 mm || 1/1600 || f/2.8 || ISO200 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
18.0 mm || 1/25 || f/3.5 || ISO800 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
18.0 mm || 1/100 || f/3.5 || ISO1600 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
18.0 mm || 1/125 || f/3.5 || ISO200 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
18.0 mm || 1/160 || f/3.5 || ISO200 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
18.0 mm || 1/2500 || f/3.5 || ISO200 || NIKON D70
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Prauge, Czech Republic
20 July 2009The thing that sucks the most about traveling by train is that it can take all..
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Arbon, Switzerland
14 July 2009Today, I did nothing. And it was great. It was nice being in a, somewhat, familiar settings and just being lazy and sleeping in, watching TV, and getting laundry done (although, that was more of a challenge than…
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Paros, Greece
1 July 2009We (Charlie and I) bid our farewells to Finn and Cecilie and then made our way down to the ferry terminal. The ferry boats they use to island hop are something else and not anything like the ones we use in Washington….
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Moscow, Russian Federation
9 June 2009I’m going to be honest, I didn’t really do anything today. Mostly because I wasn’t feeling to well. I dragged my feet in the morning, but eventually made it to breakfast and a shower.
I packed my bags …
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Moscow, Russian Federation
8 June 2009Having gone to the Central Armed Forces Museum yesterday, my plan for today was to go the Cosmonaut Museum.
I headed out on the metro with Eric and Casper. We made our way to the Cosmonaut Museum, tak…
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A really long day today with lots of traveling.
Took a train from Florence to Rome (1.5 hours)
Rented a car and then drove to Agnone (3 hours)
Investigated Agnone, where my mothers, mothers, father was born.
Learned they make world fam…