#UHB engines

[norwegianrailwaystories]

Happy birthday, Setskogen!

Happy birthday, Setskogen! Our beautiful black lady! A slightly cranky lady, but otherwise easy to handle. I was warned how difficult she was to handle beforehand, but after a few days on this beautiful loco I have to say the co-operation issues are greatly exaggerated... She is just a bit determined how she wants it. 😉 That she would reach such an age was not given... Two world wars and a fire at the locomotive shed at Skulerud could have ended the life of this machine a long time ago, but in the old days people did not give up so easily. A machine damaged by fire would probably be scrapped today, but not in 1944... Setskogen was inside the locomotive shed when it burned down to the ground one January night. All attempts to rescue her from the burning building were in vain... But as soon as the ruin had cooled down she was pulled out and taken to the workshop, and already in March of the same year she was out and about again! Less than 20 years later, her existence was again threatened, when the railway was shut down and the equipment sold or scrapped. But a group of enthusiasts managed to save both her and Høland, and thanks to that effort, they both chug around the rebuilt section of tracks to this day. She probably came to UHB a while before the newspaper wrote about her, but in the world of the books we have set her birthday to the day she was first written about since I have not been able to find out exactly when she was put into service. Anyway... 114 is a solid age, but she's still fit for her age. May she live another hundred years!

[mathewharris7703]

Today, after being inspired from @norwegianrailwaystories , I have visited the UHB. Safe to say, today has certainly been the best day ever for me.

To @little-red-toyota I just want to say thank you very much for everything today. I had a wonderful time on the train up and down the line, getting a chance to have a tour around the railway, for allowing me to enter in the cabs of Holand, Bingsfos and Pyrdz and even letting ride in Bingsfos too. Thank you much for the birthday gifts too, you are awesome!

[little-red-toyota]

Happy Birthday, Setskogen!

Today I would like to congratulate a stern, old lady on her 115 years! UHB No.4 Setskogen has kept it going through 2 world wars, a fire, several pandemics, the great depression, closures and new beginnings ... and still she chugs around as if she is a young locomotive with her entire life ahead of her. Although she snorts a bit of the younger engines occasionally, she thrives well among them and the people on the railway. To do what she is built for is the best thing she knows; to work! This is a locomotive that has grown very much on me this summer as we got many services together. The days alone with her at the Railway Museum gave me valuable experiences and lots of learning that I take with me further as I eventually become a drivers trainee. She probably was a little bored at the museum and could get a little grumpy at the end of the day up there. The trip was over as soon as she stared! A little push on the regulator, and then she had to stop! Outrageous! This is a locomotive who knows what she wants and if she doesn't get it the way she wants it, then you won't get what you want either. Then you just have to apologize and try again from the start. No messing around and compromise like with Høland and the others! It has to be done properly! We do not know exactly when she came to our railway, but on December 21 1909 she is mentioned in the newspaper for the first time, so we set it as her "birthday", it is reasonable to assume she came a few days before this, but December 21 is a date as good as any other. Happy birthday, your old troll! Looking forward to a new season in your "kitchen" next year!

Steam and shiny paint!

It's not Setskogen's fault her fire(wo)man is a little mentally challenged...

Peeking out of the shed at the Railway Museum at Hamar.

She reluctantly tolerated that I dried my clothes on her firebox one rainy day...

On summer vacation at the Norwegian Railway Museum in Hamar.

Setskogen has an aura of pride and dignity that the other locomotives lack. I can't describe it... she's just special.

She loves being reminded of how old she is...

[demiiemmi]

fuck it ill do it myself

Bellanca Aircruiser, from what I can tell this appears to be the 66/75 variant

Convair F2Y Sea Dart

Beecraft Wee Bee

Seems like a personal project that happened to have a photo shared, can't even find who made it anywhere

Lockheed Martin P-791 Airship

Condor Scnark ZK-JEK, made in New Zealand, seemingly by a single person with the goal of making a 2 seater microlight

Little Wing Autogyro, the name is literally in the picture it's not hard to find

Hiller X-18 Convertiplane experimental cargo transport

Boeing L-15/YL-15 Scout

Rose Hereth/David Rose RP-4, an aircraft designed to break the sound barrier using 2 V8s and a dream (though it seems to not yet be completed so it hasn't actually done it yet)

Blohm & Voss BV-141 Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft

Bartini Berieve VVA-14, a ground effect based, VTOL, amphibious aircraft. It was intended to have inflatable pontoons on outer sections of the fuselage to allow it to land on water, sand, marsh, or basically any other surface, as well as 12 lift jets in two rows along the aircraft body, meant to allow it to have VTOL capabilities so it could take off from anywhere, alongside 2 high power turbofans resting atop the hull to allow it to reach speeds of 760 km/h and altitudes of 33,000 ft using its more conventional wings. Almost none of these features ever came to fruition before the Soviet Union pulled funding to invest in less risky projects while they were on the brink of collapse. oh uh. what were we talking about again?

Bréguet 1050 Alizé

Rutan Model 202 Boomerang

Budd RB-1 Conestoga

MacCready Gossamer Condor, the first ever human powered aircraft. like. flintstones car. but a plane

A modified Northrop F-5 for DARPA sonic boom testing.

Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST, an aircraft developed by the Lockheed Skunk Works division for NASA's 'Low Boom Flight Demonstrator' project, designed to create a significantly decreased percieved volume sonic boom by using the aircraft shape to direct the majority of it up and into space, away from people on the ground, to demonstrate the possibility for supersonic flight over civilian populations in the current day

Another photo of the Convair F2Y Sea Dart

Lockheed XFV Salmon, a tail sitting VTOL aircraft prototype created to demonstrate VTOL technologies in fighters

Stipa-Caproni, an experimental, barrel shaped aircraft that basically made the entire fuselage a ducted fan

SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère, a tail sitting VTOL aircraft similar to the Lockheed XFV, though with a less conventional annular wing design

McDonnel Douglas MD-81(UHB), a propfan/unducted or open rotor turbofan technology demonstrator, an engine design meant to have the performance of a turbofan with the efficiency of a turboprop, though it never came to fruition due to excessive noise and an inherent decrease in maximum blade tip speed as opposed to a more standard ducted turbofan, though recently CFM International has continued development of technologygy

Hawker Siddley Nimrod (Left: R1, Right: MR2), a British maritime patrol aircraft developed as a modification to the de Havilland Comet, the first ever jet airliner

Lippisch-Dornier Aerodyne, a wingless, VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle

Honda HA-420 HondaJet, a light business jet with unconventional over-the-wing engines, positioned allow for the structure within the aircraft for rear mounted engines, allowing Honda to have a smaller cabin length then they otherwise would've been able to squeeze out of the aircraft while not decreasing (or possibly increasing) the total internal cabin size

Rockwell B-1 Lancer, a supersonic, swing wing, heavy bomber.

Left: Northrop YB-35, an experimental heavy bomber designed to be highly efficient due to the reduced parasitic drag and structural weight not responsible for lift. Right: Northrop YB-49, YB-35s converted to jets as the program stalled due to the US Government not wanting to invest heavily in propellor based aircraft as jet aircraft became more common.

Douglas X-3 Stiletto, an experimental aircraft used to test design features suitable for sustained supersonic flight, including the first use of titanium in major airframe components.

Boeing X-32 "Ugly Duckling", a demonstrator designed to compete in the Joint Strike Fighter program, losing to the Lockheed Martin X-35 (developed into the F-35) due to major design inefficiencies (mainly the inability to fly supersonic and have VTOL capabilities without a long, manual transition between configurations which the X-35 was capable of, automatically, mid flight)

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise

Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane

Solar Impulse 2, an experimental solar powered aircraft concept

NASA AD-1, an experimental aircraft designed to test the feasability of an oblique wing design at low speeds (kinda stupid plane because the oblique wings are most beneficial at high (and particularly supersonic) speeds)

Korabl Maket (KM) (Caspian Sea Monster), a Soviet ekranoplan designed as a demonstration for how the ground effect can be used to allow gargantuan aircraft to fly with relative efficiency. Named the Caspian Sea Monster after an American reconnaissance sattelite photographed it resting in a harbour in the Caspian Sea

This appears to be the RC Aircraft PeterStripol made in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hgUlIYeA-7k for Flite Test as one of its wings failed mid flight at 12:30

there, that should be all of them, happy?

weird and unsettling aircraft

[airmanisr]

N980DC Farnborough 4-9-1988 by Lewis Grant Via Flickr: N980DC : McDonnell Douglas MD-81-UHB Company trials aircraft for the Ultra-High-Bypass "propfan" engine, with a General Electric GE36 Unducted Fan installed in place of the P&W JT8D jet on the port side only.

[sentinelchicken]

Erickson Aero Tanker earlier this year took delivery of an ex-Delta MD-88, N990DL, and it's presently being used as a spares source for the MD-87 fleet at Erickson's base at Madras Municipal Airport in Oregon. In the distance is the 10,495 foot volcanic peak, Mount Jefferson ("Seekseekqua" to the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs whose reservation is nearby). Mount Jefferson is the second highest peak in Oregon after Mount Hood. ⁣ ⁣ When Delta placed its order as the launch customer for the MD-88 in January 1986 (30 firm orders with 50 options), McDonnell Douglas was initiating an aggressive drive to get the MD-91/92 variants to launch which would have been powered by either the GE36 UDF (unducted fan) or the Allison 578DX UHB (ultra high bypass) engine. 1988 was the planned launch date for the MD-9X propfan program and while narrowbody resources were being heavily committed to the MD-9X propfan, the company was giving very serious consideration to market opportunities re-engining the MD-80s with propfans. ⁣ ⁣ The proposed MD-80 re-engining propfan program would have been launched after the the MD-9X program was underway. As the two programs would have shared common engineering resources, it was not unrealistic in those days to expect that was the direction the McDonnell Douglas was headed. ⁣ ⁣ One of the selling points for the MD-88 for Delta Airlines was the possibility of such a re-engining program. For McDonnell Douglas, getting the Delta order breathed life into the MD-80 program that was losing ground to the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320. ⁣ ⁣ This aircraft, N990DL, was delivered to Delta in December 1991 and was withdrawn from use in April 2020. The final MD-88s were delivered to Delta in 1993 and the last MD-88s departed for the boneyard in June 2020. ⁣ ⁣ #avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #MDJ #Madras #Oregon #airport #planespotting #instaplane ⁣ #McDonnellDougas #MD88 #Delta #N990DL #EricksonAeroTanker⁣ ⁣ #instagramaviation #splendid_transport #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight ⁣ #AvGeeksAero #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge #AvGeekNation (at Madras Municipal Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcwlF2PLFIo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hermionehershbe]

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[spaceexp]

Interstellar Technology’s second rocket crashes seconds after liftoff at Hokkaido

Interstellar Technologies logo. June 30, 2018

Interstellar Technologies rocket third launch failed

The launch of what would have been Japan’s first privately developed rocket to reach outer space failed Saturday after it burst into flames just seconds after liftoff from Hokkaido, its developer said. Officials of Interstellar Technologies Inc., founded in Hokkaido by former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie, said the rocket, Momo-2, exploded at around 5:30 a.m., just after it was launched in Taiki. The unmanned 1-ton rocket, which was 10 meters long and 50 cm in diameter, marked the second failure in a row for Interstellar Technologies. Last July, it tried to get its Momo-1 rocket to an altitude of over 100 km but had to abort after losing contact some 70 seconds into the flight. It originally planned to launch Momo-2 in late April but pushed back the date due to a nitrogen leak. The failure suggests a difficult road ahead for private rockets. The project members were shocked and dismayed.

"Civilian rocket" big explosion. lost propulsive force right after launch falling in Hokkaido

Video above: The launch of a private rocket took place early in the morning of June 30 in Hokkaido · Tokachi Town in the Tokachi district immediately after launch, the aircraft dropped and the explosion flames. The third challenge also failed. “I could not immediately understand what happened,” Interstellar Technologies President Takahiro Inagawa said at a news conference. “We could not accomplish what we were expected to do. I feel sorry for that,” Inagawa said.

Interstellar Technologies rocket

While noting that nothing has been decided regarding the next launch, he said, “I feel that I would like to keep giving it a shot.” Horie, who called it “an unprecedented failure,” said he was willing to take another shot. “We have to find ways to improve,” he added. Inagawa said Momo-2 lost thrust four seconds after liftoff and that the main engine probably encountered a problem. “Since the first rocket flew to some extent, the latest failure right after liftoff was unexpected,” an official of the venture said.

Interstellar Technologies rocket description

The launch costs tens of millions of yen. The company raised about ¥28.4 million ($257,000) through crowdfunding. Momo-2 was scheduled to fall into the sea after reaching outer space. Equipment developed by Kochi University of Technology to gauge how sound waves propagate at high altitude was installed in its nose. About 600 people gathered to observe the launch. For more information about Interstellar Technologies, visit: http://www.interstellartechnology.com/home.html Images, Video, Text, Credits: The Japan Times/Kyodo/Hokkaido News UHB/Taiki cho/Interstellar Technologies, LLC/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

[norwegianrailwaystories]

These two seems to be plotting something.... I think Høland might have a bad influence on his younger diesel fueled friend.

A/N: We had a great day at UHB today despite not being able to run any trains due to the drought. A little slow start, so I was thinking not many would come, but after the first I had five more read throughs with full seats each time! Also a super booksale afterwards, so much so the shop ordered half of what is left of my stock. :-) Many also asked for the second book, so I will have to put in an extra effort to finish it this summer. I should get more time now that I have vacation from work.

I don't think Høland liked having a face mask on though, he did try to smash my knee cap in... So we decided to punish him by leaving the face on until next weekend. XD

[little-red-toyota]

Granfos is now officially a member of the "family" at the Norwegian Railway Museum. ❤️ Here is a little welcome video they have made using my photos from the rescue mission. Granfos has finally come to a loving home. I just can't wait to get started on his repairs, it's going to be so much fun! I'm gonna spoil him rotten! Translation of the info on the page:

"New" locomotive to the Norwegian Railway Museum

On Monday December 9th we got a new member of the narrowgauge family at the park railway at Martodden. The locomotive Granfos travelled by trailer from Lommedalsbanen (the Lommedal Line) in Bærum.

The idea of getting the locomotive to Hamar instead of it being scrapped and melted to nails came from the museum's Vasco T. Duarte and the Urskog-Høland Line's Linda Cecilie Malum-Soløst this summer. Linda joined the transport from Lommedalsbanen to Hamar and made sure to bring nameplates and factoryplates.

Granfos will be restored. The plan is to use the locomotive at the Tertitten railway for shunting, back-up and snowplowing.

This is the third time this locomotive is saved from scrap, so all good things are three.

More about the locomotive's background story

The locomotive was built by Levahn Mek. Verksted A/S in Oslo and delivered to Granfos Brug as a standardgauge shunting locomotive. Granfos Brug Ltd./A/S Granfoss Bruk was a paper factory by the Lysaker River at Lysaker in Bærum.

In the mid 80's the locomotive was found in a scrapyard by volunteers from the Urskog-Høland Line (UHB). They were looking for scrap metal to make parts for the steam locomotives. Vidar Skilnand bought it for his own savings and brought it to UHB's workshop. There the locomotive was restored and re-gauged to 750mm narrow gauge. In 1987, Granfos was put to work at UHB alongside "Odda" (a Levahn locomotive from Odda Smelteverk (Odda Smelters)).

After the locomotive Bingsfos was built at UHB in the mid 90's, Granfos was taken out of commission and stored in a field, along with Odda. The locomotive was considered scrapped in 2002, but luckily it ended up at Lommedalsbanen in Bærum.

For the third time, in 2024, Granfos again faced the danger of being harvested for parts and being scrapped. But no. The story continues at the Norwegian Railway Museum in Hamar.

Before Granfos is ready to work for us, a lot of work needs to be done, mainly the engine and gearbox among other things. Granfos is one of the last diesel locomotives in Norway to be re-gauged to 750mm gauge, and the Norwegian Railway Museum was lucky to get hold of it!

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[luluozie-blog]

Chapter 7 Patah Hati

Aku tiba di rumah dini hari, ke dapur dan mencari kopi, kemudian membuka laptopku. Saat di Jogja kemarin, Dimas sempat bertanya-tanya apakah aku masih menyimpan foto itu di dompet, dan bahkan aku baru menyadari, aku belum mengganti wallpaper di laptopku bertahun-tahun, masih foto yang sama. Beberapa hari lalu aku pernah mencari Vlog milik Dharma, sekarang giliran Vlog milik Chyntia. Vlog milik Chyntia kebanyakan adalah tutorial dasar belajar cello. Kunci-kunci nada, dan ternyata ada tutorial memasang senar yang putus di sponsori iklan toko alat musik milik ibunya. Aku melihat koleksi videonya yang lain, ada video Chyntia berjudul “Gypsy Airs” dia memainkan cellonya dengan tempo cepat selama 2 menit, kemudian menit berikutnya masih di video itu Chyntia memberikan tutorialnya dengan animasi tempo lambat. Aku menggaruk kepala, lagu apapula itu. Di akhir video, Chyntia mengucapkan terimakasih kepada idolanya Luka Sulic musisi cello asal Kroasia.

Bagaimana dengan Yuki?

Sejak dulu Yuki tidak begitu akrab dengan social media. Jejaknya sulit ditemukan meskipun mengetik namanya di google. Sekali, aku pernah menemukan jejak nya di Website KBRI di Jepang, saat dia menjadi salah satu relawan korban gempa. Yuki pernah membuat facebook, isinya kebanyakan tag foto atau tag post dari orang lain. Tapi dua tahun belakangan ini kosong.

“Kau sudah sampai rumah, Nak?”

Aku menoleh dan tersenyum pada Ibu.

“Iya, bu. Baru saja,” aku berdiri, menaruh kopiku, dan membuatkan ibu teh hangat. Aku menguap lebar. Badan pegal-pegal, ingin tidur sejenak. Ah sudahlah sudah pagi. Sebentar lagi aku harus berangkat ke kantor. Aku meregangkan tanganku.

Ibu duduk di belakang laptop tersenyum menatapku dalam diam, aku menggaruk kepala yang tidak gatal, pasti ada sesuatu yang ingin dikatakan.

Aku berdeham pelan, dan mulai pura-pura sibuk memperhatikan laptopku begitu teh hangat tadi sudah berpindah tangan.

Tatapan Ibu sama seperti tatapan matanya sepuluh tahun yang lalu saat Ibu bertanya padaku siapa nama gadis itu yang telah membuat aku tiba-tiba tersenyum aneh sepulang sekolah, sesosok yang pernah aku lihat dari kejauhan saat hari pertama di SMA, yang pernah aku ajak bicara saat dia sendirian di kantin, dan dia juga pernah tak sengaja melewati depan rumahku pertama kali saat berjualan Yogurt, dan juga seorang gadis yang pernah memberikan aku tiket untuk datang ke konsernya. Yuki juga pernah menemani ibu membuat kue dan memasak. Mereka berdua sangat akrab.

Aku bukan anak SMA lagi, rasanya tidak nyaman ditatap Ibu seperti itu.

“Andi.”

Aku mengangkat wajah, nyengir menatap Ibu. Ibu balas tersenyum padaku.

“Yuki kemarin menelepon, dia bilang kau akan ke Jepang dan akan menyempatkan bertemu dengannya, apa benar?”

Aku mengangguk.

Ibu kembali tersenyum. Kemudian kembali menatapku dengan tatapannya yang tadi. Aku menarik napas. Aku tidak mau membahas Yuki lagi kali ini.

Hening.

Ibu mulai bicara lagi saat aku mengalihkan mataku dari laptop dan menatapnya kembali.

“Andi, kau sudah dewasa, dan ini adalah keputusanmu. Pastikan, saat kau nanti bertemu lagi dengan Yuki, kau sudah selesai dengan dirimu sendiri,” Ibu tersenyum menatapku.

Mataku tidak berkedip, hening lagi sesaat.

Lalu Aku tersenyum cengengesan, tidak balas berkomentar, menyeruput kopiku yang masih panas.

Ibu lebih dari tau dan mengerti aku tidak pernah lagi mencoba untuk membicarakan Yuki sejak dua tahun yang lalu. Sudah bertahun-tahun lamanya aku sangat merindukannya. Bertahun-tahun pula sebelumnya aku berusaha untuk bisa datang ke negeri asal Yuki dilahirkan. Bertemu dengan pamannya di daerah Sapporo. Tapi sekuat apa pun aku mencoba, menyempatkan atau bahkan meminta Lisa untuk mengirimku ke Negara Yuki, selalu tak sengaja kutemui berbagai rintangan yang harus aku hadapi. Sikut-sikut menyikut antar tim engineer yang lain, tim ku akhirnya malah dikirim ke Kalimantan, berikutnya ke Flores, Aceh. Ada beberapa jenjang yang harus aku lalui selama berbulan-bulan. Tapi tidak pernah berhasil. Tapi tahun ini, saat aku memiliki kesempatan untuk bertemu dengan Yuki, kondisi dan kenyataannya ternyata amat berbeda dengan ekspetasiku.

“Terkadang hidup yang kau keluhkan adalah hidup yang orang lain inginkan, Kawan.” Yuki menenangkan hatiku. Tiga tahun lalu, saat aku misuh - misuh cerita tentang obsesi dan perjuanganku selama berbulan-bulan yang tak kunjung bersambut.

Aku ingin bertemu dengannya. Walaupun mungkin hanya beberapa jam, karena pekerjaanku.

“Bersyukurlah, setidaknya kau terhindar dari berbuat curang, "Yuki melanjutkan lagi kalimatnya.

Aku bercerita pada Yuki ketika kami sedang bermalam di laboratorium. Aku memakai komputer Ketua Asisten Lab milik Dimas, ada perangkat tambahan webcam di atas monitor tabungnya.

"Kau masih muda, Andi. Jalanmu masih panjang. Ingat, kau juga masih mahasiswa. Entah sudah berapa lama bolos kuliah kau,” Dimas meneriakiku dari bilik aslab, menirukan suara perempuan, dia menebak apa yang akan Yuki katakan berikutnya. Aku diam, wajahku memerah.

Yuki tergelak, “Itu suara Dimas ya?”

Aku mengangguk. Yuki tertawa lagi. Sejenak aku diam memperhatikannya tertawa geli, aku ingin bertemu langsung, bukan percakapan virtual seperti ini.

“Sekarang giliranmu bercerita,” sahutku, menguap setelah Yuki selesai tertawa.

Yuki tersenyum, tawa nya sudah selesai, dan dia memajukan kursi di depan laptopnya di belahan bumi lain di benua yang sama.

“Kau mau dengar apa saja yang aku kerjakan selama sebulan ini, Andi?” mata Yuki berbinar - binar, penuh cahaya. Sinar dari matanya yang sangat aku sukai.

Aku mengangguk.

* * *

Aku berpamitan pada Ibu, mengabari akan pulang tengah malam lagi. 30 menit kemudian, Aku berlarian di stasiun, mengecek arloji, berlari ke arah jalur kereta yang akan berangkat lebih dulu.

Aku menghela napas begitu sudah ada di dalam gerbong, dan ada suara perempuan memanggilku.

“Andi,”

Aku menoleh. Chyntia?

Aku terdiam, kenapa akhir-akhir ini aku sering berjumpa dengan orang-orang yang membuatku teringat akan sosok Yuki?

Chyntia tersenyum dan mendekat, berdiri di sampingku. Tetap berjarak. Chyntia sejak dulu tau aku tidak suka berdiri terlalu dekat dengan perempuan. Meski aku sangat akrab dengan dia dan Yuki.

“Kau jadi bertemu dengan Yuki?”

“Diundur, Chyntia. Seminggu lagi.” sahutku, tersenyum.

Chnytia menatapku, aku melihat ke depan kearah jendela kereta.

“Ternyata kau tidak banyak berubah, Andi,” Chyntia tersenyum. “Setelah pertemuan tak disengaja sore itu, bersama Rio ponakan kami. Aku dan Dharma membicarakan kita berempat waktu dulu. Dan ternyata hari ini malah bertemu kau lagi.”

Pintu kereta mulai tertutup, kemudian membuka lagi. Orang-orang berlarian bahkan ada yang melompat cepat-cepat masuk ke dalam kereta. Kemudian kali ini benar-benar tertutup dan kereta mulai bergerak perlahan. Aku memperhatikan jendela, ada beberapa orang menghela napas, terhenti di depan pintu kereta yang sudah tertutup.

Meskipun masih di stasiun pertama, tapi isi gerbong sudah padat, aku meminta Chyntia untuk pindah ke pojok dekat pintu, supaya tidak terlalu berdesakan dengan penumpang lain yang isinya kebanyakan laki-laki.

“Kau tidak banyak berubah, Andi. Masih tetap seperti dulu.”

“Apanya?”

“Kau tetap sopan pada perempuan, tidak pernah sekedar usil menepuk bahu kami, tidak mau salaman, sebisa mungkin tidak menatap lama-lama.”

Aku tertawa. “Benarkah?”

“Secara fisik kau memang berubah. Tapi sifatmu sepertinya kurang lebih masih sama.”

Aku nyengir. Chyntia belum tau kehidupanku di kampus dan di tempat kerja bagaimana. Hal-hal paradoks yang harus aku jumpai pada perempuan dan aku hindari demi menjaga diriku sendiri sebagai laki-laki.

“Sepertinya kau dulu amat menyukai, Yuki.” Chyntia nyengir.

Aku mengernyit, dan tertawa, berusaha menyembunyikan apa yang pernah aku rasakan. “Maksudmu?”

“Caramu menatap Yuki berbeda dengan caramu menatapku, Andi.” Chyntia terkekeh. “Aku juga pernah melihatmu dengan teman-temanmu yang lain, kau malah usil dan ramai. Bersama kami kau lebih banyak diam, mungkin… karena ada Yuki,” Chyntia tersenyum lembut.

Kalimat Chyntia ada benarnya. Wajahku datar tanpa ekspresi, supaya Chyntia tidak bisa membaca apa yang sedang aku pikirkan.

“Andi, boleh aku menebak?”

Aku menaikkan alis, menebak apa?

“Kau terlalu sibuk jatuh cinta diam-diam, sampai tak ada satupun yang tau, kau patah hati begitu dalam*.”

Mataku tidak berkedip. Tak lama setelah Chyntia mengucapkan kalimat itu, kereta kami berpapasan dengan kereta lain. Hanya ada suara kereta yang berpapasan. Hening.

***

Suatu pagi, sehari setelah aku dan Dimas dihukum oleh guru BK. Pagi itu aku melihat Yuki menangis tanpa suara di kelas dari kaca yang menyatu di atas pintu. Hari ini dia datang lebih pagi dari biasanya. Hanya ada Yuki seorang diri di dalam kelas. Pintu terbuka lebar, Yuki tidak menyadari aku memperhatikannya.

Aku urung masuk kelas, menunggu di luar.

Sekolah masih sepi, hanya terdengar kicau burung, bau daun yang basah selepas hujan dini hari tadi, dan suara sapu lidi Mang Ijal.

Sepertinya Yuki masih lelah pasca tur konsernya selama seminggu mengelilingi kota-kota besar yang menghabiskan waktu latihannya berbulan-bulan. Selama beberapa hari ini Yuki mulai merasa tertekan, Guru Seni di sekolah kami menunjuknya untuk

Selain itu pula, bulan depan grup orkestranya djadwalkan mengiringi acara drama musikal yang akan tayang di televisi.

Aku menunggu di luar kelas, entah sudah berapa menit, sama sekali tak ada suara dari dalam kelas. Hening. Aku membuka ranselku, mencari buku harian. Mengecek agenda dan jadwalku selama sebulan, Latihan soal Fisika, latihan soal Matematika, Latihan Soal Kimia, Latihan soal Biologi, deadline tugas-tugas makalah dan presentasi yang belum aku selesaikan, jadwal Ulangan Harian Bersama (UHB) setiap Sabtu, jadwal rapat ekskul sore hari, jadwal ekskul di hari Minggu, jadwal praktikum minggu ketiga bulan ini, jadwal ronda RT akhir bulan nanti menggantikan Ayah saat beliau keluar kota. Aktivitas Olahragaku di Hari Minggu setelah subuh sebelum kegiatan pagi di sekolah.

Aku melotot keheranan, menepuk dahi, sejak kapan buku harianku jadi penuh begini dengan jadwal. Mencoba mencari oase, membalik halaman terakhir, ada sketsa wajah Yuki yang pernah kubuat. Sketsa ini umurnya sudah lebih dari satu tahun.

“Hai, Andi. Kau sudah lama disana?”Aku gelagapan, cepat-cepat menutup buku harianku. Yuki tiba-tiba muncul di sampingku dari salah satu pintu yang terbuka. Pipinya sudah kering, warna hidungnya seperti biasa. Tidak ada tanda-tanda habis menangis. Tapi sinar di matanya yang amat kukenal belum kembali. Wajahnya terlihat lelah.

Belum lama,” Sahutku, tersenyum kaku padanya. Aku berdeham, “Wajahmu kenapa?”

“Aku belum tidur, kemarin latihan sampai tengah malam. Aku baru sampai rumah dini hari tadi.” Yuki tertawa, suaranya serak.

Aku terdiam, tidak sanggup berkomentar, aku tidak begitu mengenal dunianya. Aku hanya khawatir dia jatuh sakit.

Hening.

Yuki tersenyum, lalu meninggalkanku untuk sarapan di kantin.

Pelajaran pertama dimulai, aku melihat ke belakang, ke arah Yuki. Ternyata dia tertidur di meja.

Aku memberi isyarat pada Siti untuk membangunkannya. Yuki terbangun, mengucek-ucek matanya, aku menghela napas. Yuki menguap lebar dan mengeluarkan tugasnya dari tas, dan mengumpulkannya seperti teman-teman yang lain. Aku mencari tugasku yang ada di meja tadi barusan. Hilang kemana?

Aku ke depan dan memberi tau Ibu guru, tugasku tidak dibawa.

“Tadi Yuki yang mengumpulkannya ke depan, Andi bersama dengan tugas miliknya,” sahut Bu Ina nyaring sehingga seisi kelas bisa mendengar suara beliau.

“Cieh….,” seisi kelas riuh rendah menyoraki kami berdua.

Aku menepuk dahi, dan Yuki tergelak di kursinya. Kantuknya seketika hilang.

Ah, sudahlah.

Pulang sekolah Yuki menghindariku, dia diam seribu bahasa. BIasaya dia akan tersenyum riang dan mulai membicarakan rencananya di akhir pekan, atau sekedar menanyaiku tentang pertandingan sepakbola tadi malam, membicarakan komik yang baru terbit, Seri Novel Harry Potter yang baru terbit, dan Yuki tidak bisa membacanya, waktu dia akhir-akhir ini banyak dihabiskan untuk latihan biola. Tapi, kali ini Yuki langsung keluar dari kelas dan melewatiku begitu saja.

"Andi, jangan kau pikirkan, dia bukan sedang marah padamu. Ini siklus musiman yang biasa terjadi padanya.” Chyntia berusaha menjelaskan padaku ketika suatu sore aku menunggunya keluar dari gerbang sekolahnya. Sudah seminggu Yuki mendadak jadi aneh. Selalu menghindar saat jam istirahat atau sepulang sekolah. Ternyata ada hal yang aku tak mengerti dari salah satu kebiasaan Yuki, kebiasaannya menyendiri dan mendadak jadi tertutup. Menghilang dan menghindar dari sahabat-sahabatnya untuk kemudian akhirnya muncul kembali dan tertawa riang seperti biasanya. Chyntia bercerita padaku bahwa ini adalah siklus musiman, siklus musiman yang bisa terjadi entah berapa tahun sekali atau beberapa kali dalam setahun.

Chyntia hari ini mengenakan seragam putih dan rok kotak-kotak pendek. Aku jadi terlihat mencolok berada di depan gerbang sekolahnya. Tapi aku tak peduli.

Chyntia terlihat berpikir sesaat, dan sedikit merenung

"Hmm… dari ceritamu, sepertinya kali ini akan lebih lama dari biasanya. Jangan khawatir, dia akan membaik. Aku yakin dia akan cerita padamu ketika masalahnya telah selesai.”

Aku belum beranjak, masih merasa ada yang janggal dengan Yuki.

Aku belum beranjak, masih merasa ada yang janggal dengan Yuki.

*quotes by @tiasetiawati

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Høland decided to show up on June 10th too! He will keep Bingsfos company at the station during the event.

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Engines are adorable. Even diesels.

"Why do you have to point out diesels especially...? Because you normally don't think they are as much worth as other engines? What kind of tractionist bullcrap is that? Engines are engines, no matter the fuel. We don't do that weird segregation shit on this railway!"

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Can engines get nosebleeds?

"Pfff.... he he, you should ask Setskogen about that!"

"I do NOT nosebleed! I don't know what you're talking about!"