Tagged With "Iron Maiden"
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Re: Where in the World is TravelGumbo, #104
I would love to pay the fair maiden a call Mac. But alas, I fear, you may have courted her emotions and beat me to the post !
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Re: Hole-y cow! Swiss cheese 3000 years old?
3,000 years old? ? Would that make it extra mature or vintage ?
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, 13 Dec 2013: Sati Handprints - 15 Jodphur Queens left their handprints...
That is an amazingly sad story. But that's for sharing that wonderfully symbolic photo, Mac.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, 13 Dec 2013: Sati Handprints - 15 Jodphur Queens left their handprints...
My main purpose in traveling is to see how things are done elsewhere. I try only observe and not overlay my personal opinion on what is there. After all, the point is to see and learn. Sometimes, as in this case, it can be hard to lay aside those personal feelings. The old custom does speak volumes about the importance to these people of tradition and structure in their lives. Thank you for the thought provoking photo.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 26, 2015: Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" #229, Two Harbors, Minnesota
This behemoth locomotive is the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range (DM&IR) 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" which is now preserved at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Eighteen of these powerful coal burning locomotives were built between 1941 and 1943. The 2-8-8-4s were retired between 1958 and 1963 as diesel locomotives took over. Sadly, only three of the 2-8-8-4s still survive...Number 229 pictured above, Number 227 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, and Number...
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Is this the luxury aircraft of the future?
The Airlander 10 is 302 feet long and was designed by British Hybrid Air Vehicles(HAV) for the U.S. military. An even bigger Airlander 50 is in prototype. It combines the characteristics of fixed wing aircrafts, helicopters and balloons. The...
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Boeing throws a 50th birthday party for 737
Boeing's 737 had its first flight 50 years ago, and had a birthday party Sunday at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
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Boeing's biggest Dreamliner takes off
Boeing's newest completes its maiden flight, and the company expects to begin deliveries early next year.
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Southern Sweden may have another 'Vasa'
Swedish archaeologists believe they've found the partially-intact wreck of the warship Bleklinge near Karlskrona in southern Sweden.
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Burden Iron Works, Troy NY—a trip through industrial history
Jonathan L finds another small museum with a great story: the history of the early industrial revolution along the Erie Canal.
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Maymont Mansion, Richmond, Virginia (Where Gumbo was #366)
Gumbo was visiting home of James and Sallie Dooley, known as Maymont. The mansion is located at 1700 Hampton Street, Richmond, Virginia.
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Iron Maiden's Singer Manages African Nation's Airline
Iron Maiden's lead singer and also a pilot, Bruce Dickinson, re-launched the national airline of the African nation of Djibouti with a cargo flight on Monday. Air Djibouti currently has only one plane but intends to take delivery of 5...
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June 26, 2018: World's largest Iron (?)
While wandering through the streets of Delhi, DrFumblefinger came across a small laundry using this massive hand-held iron to press its linens.
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Titanic replica on track, but not to sail
A full-size replica of RMS Titanic takes shape in China, while another, intended to actually go to sea, remains on the drawing board.
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Not-So-Hidden Gems in Historic Lewisburg
Stephanie Kalina-Metzger shares some of the travel treasures she discovered while visiting Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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HMY Britannia.
Ian Cook takes us on a phototour of the retired Royal Yacht Britannia, and provides a detailed account of her design and distinguished service to Great Britain.
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Norwegian orders even more cruise ships
The big cruise lines just keep on growing. Norwegian's order will add a ship a year.
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Tacoma — Water, a little history and lots of Glass!
Tacoma is a city I’ve driven through numerous times but never thought much about. I was aware it was a port city situated on Puget Sound, and that it had a huge dome (Tacoma Dome) just off the I-5 freeway. I knew Tacoma is...
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Where Gumbo Was #4.0: Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor, California
Here's the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach's Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance...
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Hole-y cow! Swiss cheese 3000 years old?
British archaeologists have found evidence that cheese-making in the high Alpine regions may date back to the Iron Age, 3000 years ago.
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Viking plans round-the-world cruise for new ship
Viking Ocean Cruises will launch its fourth ship next year, and send it on a 5-month round-the-world maiden voyage.
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Here's a chance to really dig Spain!
A team of British archeologists is using crowdfunding to finance an excavation in a Spanish Iron Age hill fort, and to recruit willing diggers.
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Airport 'Inner Chef' competition live at O'Hare
In a cook-off mimicing Iron Chef, contestants will compete at Chicago's O'Hare for prizes and a spot on airport restaurant menus.
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737MAX makes its maiden flight
Boieing's newest model, the 737MAX, makes its maiden flight. The updated 737 has new fuel-efficient engines and other new features.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 26, 2015: Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" #229, Two Harbors, Minnesota
The engineering skills that produced these mammoths must have been colossal. I can get lost for hours looking at one of these works of art. My wife never gets the sense of history that goes with these living monuments to our past. So I take bundles of photos - "Move along - nothing to see here" "yes my dear"
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 26, 2015: Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" #229, Two Harbors, Minnesota
I've seen that locomotive and it's H-U-G-E! Hard to appreciate how massive from any photos. Thanks for sharing these and reminding me when machines were still built like, well, machines!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 26, 2015: Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" #229, Two Harbors, Minnesota
Hi Garry and DrFumblefinger DrFumblefinger, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm glad you enjoyed this POD. Garry, your story is so funny yet so true. It sounds like my wife and your wife have very much in common and would probably get along great. These machines are just so amazing, I too could admire them for quite a long time. What can I say...maybe it's a guy thing... boys and their toys, and all that. Hopefully one day you and I will be able to meet, ditch our wives, and go check...
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 26, 2015: Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" #229, Two Harbors, Minnesota
I know just what you mean Ottoman ! How can an intelligent person look at huge model train layout and just say : "Ok - what does it do ?" Like casting pearls before swine ! Like getting your 15 seconds viewing the Mona Lisa and just taking photos. Like watching the Space Station pass across the sky like a huge sparkling jewel. "Yes - I know it's the same every time - but it's an amazing piece of..... doesn't matter.."
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Re: June 26, 2018: World's largest Iron (?)
A few years ago we went to a commercial laundry in Kerala and, like you, I was intrigued by the huge irons they used. I was even more fascinated by the fact that they were 'coal-powered'. I attach a photo of what they look like inside.
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Re: June 26, 2018: World's largest Iron (?)
Makes me wonder, Professor, how often hot ashes burn the very clothes and linens they are pressing?
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Re: June 26, 2018: World's largest Iron (?)
I do not know the answer to that question, but the irons seemed well up to the job and the operators clearly knew what they were doing. There were huge quantities of bed sheets, towels, and clothing involved. I actually wonder whether the people working there would consider what we might view as a 'normal' iron as an improvement.
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Re: Bombardier gets huge Cash infusion from the Quebec Government
Bombardier has orders for 243 of its 603 C Series aircraft, which are facing significant delays after a 2013 maiden flight and cost overruns, with about Can$2 billion more than the Can$3.4 billion initially planned. The French-speaking province of Quebec announced a US$1 billion investment in Bombardier to help the fledgling jetliner program get off the ground after the Canadian company posted a US$4.9 billion third quarter loss. A commercial success will take years of Government funding.
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Outdoor Art at Rockefeller Center
Take a stroll with PHeymont through Manhattan's biggest outdoor art gallery and its history.
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Staycation cruises proving popular
Short roundtrip cruises with no port calls sell fast as a new market—or is it the return of the 'cruise to nowhere?'
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Rockefeller Center: Making the Art
The building of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s was not only a mammoth construction project, it was a monumental (pardon the pun) art project.
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Learning from the Past in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Stephanie visits a city famed for America's most disastrous flood and finds there is much more to its history
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SAS: Book now for 2028 electric flight
SAS is booking seats for its first electric flight, with no route set and the plane not yet built.
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Hugest cruise ship gets cheers, jeers
The next 'world's largest cruise ship' nears its first voyage to mixed advance reviews
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The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, Denver
This is a must-see when in Downtown Denver. Samantha shares pictures of the elegant and Historic Brown Palace in Denver, CO.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, 13 Dec 2013: Sati Handprints - 15 Jodphur Queens left their handprints...
One of the saddest sights that I have experienced in my travels is to be seen at the “Iron Gate” ( Loha Pol ) of the massive Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India.
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New cruise ships just keep on coming
The race to build new and mostly bigger cruise ships continues with no end in sight
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Queen christens Britain's new biggest cruise liner
The Britannia, 11th in the world but biggest in the British cruise industry, has been christened by Queen Elizabeth and will shortly begin her maiden voyage to the Mediterranean. The ship can accommodate over 3600 passengers.