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StoneRoad

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Sadly, I'm going to miss an interesting crane / hgv episode later this week as I shall be back at the workshop.

A couple of 5 compartment wooden [NER] carriages are being extracted from a site with very limited access. As the guy said, they got there, I can get them out again.

Hopefully, I might get some images of the action.
No images as yet, but the carriages got out and went on their travels to temporary storage.
 
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Amos

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I'm no expert, but I'm not sure it should look like that!
photo shows a concrete mixer with it's drum about to fall off.

edited to add that this is not my photo and has come from Mickey King onTikTok.
 

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Water pipeline construction in our locality, requires a big entrance for the Tunnel Boring Machine. This beauty arrived this afternoon, ready to dig...
Yes, that's definitely a well looked-after 'beauty'.

Having seen plenty of them on my trips to the USA, a bonneted six-wheeler with it's chrome reflecting the sun definitely has a certain 'presence' in your rear-view mirror... :)
 

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Yes, that's definitely a well looked-after 'beauty'.

Having seen plenty of them on my trips to the USA, a bonneted six-wheeler with it's chrome reflecting the sun definitely has a certain 'presence' in your rear-view mirror... :)
Oh, I am a sucker for a 1970s - 1980s era "classic" Kenworth, Mack or Peterbilt. I have driven in FL, OK, WA, TX, NM + CO; I have seen some really stunning examples.
Other makes - Freightliner springs to mind - seem to lack the road-presence.

The International I photo'd, locally in south Hampshire, had to negotiate some very tight residential roads and parked cars...
 

StoneRoad

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Oh, I went to Whitby Steam Rally on 1st August 2026 - and was slightly surprised at how many "Commercials" were lined up, a lotv more than I imagined would be entered.

I did take a few images - they'll be here:- https://www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/album/1390484
when I've sorted them out with titles / captions etc. I mostly look at the older vehicles.
Can't remember off-hand whether I took an individual shot of the Peterbilt that was there.
 

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On Friday in Sheffield an 04 plate Foden went past me, not seen a Foden for a while in use
 

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Cowley

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On Friday in Sheffield an 04 plate Foden went past me, not seen a Foden for a while in use

That’s funny. I was passing Dawlish Warren on the train earlier and the grotty fair had a Foden parked up with a generator behind the cab.

You definitely don’t see many around these days.
 

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