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You've mentioned that when your boiler tickets expire you need new boilers. How does that work? Can the whole boiler be removed from the frames?

"We don't necessarily need to have them replaced, but the boiler and firebox needs to be revised to renew the certificate. The last boiler shop in Norway closed down in the 80's, so bigger repairs and revisions of steam locomotives can no longer be done in Norway. Then the boiler, firebox or the entire engine itself needs to be shipped to another country where they still do these jobs. Minor boiler revisions, like Setskogen's in 2023, can still be done at our workshop in Sørumsand. Basically they go through the entire boiler, looking it over, pressure testing it and such. If a locomotive needs to go to another country, they load it onto a truck and drive it there. Like UHB No.2 Urskog who is currently in Czechia for her revision. Or SB No.5 "Markus" who is in England right now. Also SB No.6 "Lukas" is having his boiler revised, but instead of shipping him entirely to England, they picked him apart and only sent his boiler and firebox. I've attached some photos taken by the author who witnessed the entire process of dismantling him."

This is "Lukas" in June 2024, running passenger trains.

In late August 2024, the process of taking him apart started:

First, they needed to remove the funnel, dome cover and the cab. The crane is a useful tool for that!

Once the boiler was removed from the frame, they put the cab back. Now this is all that is left of him, standing in SB's workshop. It's hard to imagine that only 11 days before this photo was taken, he was moving under his own steam, pulling passenger trains!

The boiler and firebox loaded and secured on a flatbed, ready to be shipped to England for revision.

"Lukas" is expected to be back in service in 2026 or 2027. We look forward to seeing him back in action!

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Dating Odyssey

im pregnant and its nobodys. it aint even mine

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I slowed down Rock Lobster because I suspected the results would be special and if you can't listen to audio right now I've drawn a visual representation for you:

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The Ghost Buckeye (Junonia prosopon), descended from a species driven to extinction by urbanization and habitat loss, has evolved specifically to ward off humans. When intimidated, they display the uncanny face-like patterns on their wings. The image it creates has inspired many legends about unearthly distorted creatures, and has consecrated entire areas of forest as haunted.

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Yes I made the youtube bait style thumbnail and title, frankly I think both are really fun?? But mine are almost 100% honest!! This space dragon is canonically 976,973,871 meters long. Close enough!! I cannot stress how adorable the writing is in this book. It almost feels like a little kid had to have come up with some of the ideas because they're so excessive.

It also presents a truly fascinating universe in which MOST inhabited planets are currently in a nearly barren or post-apocalyptic state brought about by one nightmarishly deadly lifeform and there are several simultaneous ongoing threats to the entire existence of the universe. So it's a little SCP Foundation and a little Pokemon Pokedex, but it's decades older than both!

I'm going to read the rest of the book sometime this week, or Sunday! But I might also squeeze in another different twitch stream before or after!

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Mountain

Artist: Ann-Sophie De Steur TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

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This is a positive post

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I think one of my favorite music genres is when a fan has to take it upon themselves to make a cool musical number for a character in a non-musical and they go so hard they make that entire piece of media sound significantly more grandiose and high stakes than it actually was.

the latest example I am aware of is for inside out 2.

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A better world is possible

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Finally happy with how to draw my Splat Bio AU's "Shrimp" and "Crabs". It only took four years and staring intently at unboxing videos of a very expensive articulated coconut crab figure to figure out what the fuck is going on with their faces

Since it's been a while the Splat Bio AU's main goal is to consolidate the number of different lineages evolving into sapient land people. The biggest group of truly terrestrial crustaceans in the Mollusk Era are descended from the humble coconut crab, Birgus latrans. There are two sapient species from this lineage, colloquially referred to as Shrimp and Crabs. Which is confusing, because neither of them are either of those things but that is a common theme of the Splat Bio AU. It's fine.

They grow pretty slowly compared to a lot of the other people because molting over and over again to big size takes a while. They probably have a very different way of conceptualizing age and life stages accordingly but I'd have to think about it later.

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No matter how much Osmosis Jones yaoi you draw it still takes place inside Bill Murray.

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Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.

But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.

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see, the concept of Caped Crusader harley quinn is that as a therapist she deliberately charges so much money that she only gets the richest possible clients, who come to her because they assume if she's charging that much she has to be the very best, then if she determines them to be horrible corrupt people through all their private confessions she kidnaps them and puts them through ironic tortures until they're emotionally broken and do anything she'll say, such as give all their money to the poor, then she lets them out in such a disoriented state they usually get themselves killed if they don't end up in a 1950's asylum (this is set in the 1950's).

Interesting choice to make her such an overwhelmingly morally correct hero right out the door like that, not even a grey antihero or anything! What's batman's fucking problem

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Art Fight | Decima for @edspear

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