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Wordless Wednesday : Queen of Hearts

5/21, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake

in Yokohama
A Part of Wordless Wednesday

Bonne journée(30): A steam locomotive

5/18, 20145/10, 2014 tanu

In the present age, steam locomotives are mostly working only for a pleasure train. One of the reasons is, of course, an environmental issue. However, I think the main reason would be a difficulty of maintenance rather than CO2 emission. Operators are always checking here there and everywhere at each stations.

今日では蒸気機関車は、ほとんどの場合、観光列車として動いている。ひとつの理由は、もちろん環境問題だ。だが、思うに、主要な理由は二酸化炭素の排出というよりメンテナンスの難しさだろう。運転している人は、どの駅でもそこかしこを確認している。

For a long while, I have forgotten what was happened when a steam locomotive worked. Grey smoke and gusty steam with a full blast sound. Then heavy ashes falling.

Have fun with an ancient technology once in a while.

ここしばらく、蒸気機関車が動く時に何が起こるかをすっかり忘れていた。灰色の煙と激しい蒸気とつんざくような音。そして大量の灰。

たまには、いにしえの技術で楽しもう。

I will post another picture of the locomotive again as a part of Wordless Wednesday.

Photo, photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art

5/17, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

An industrial design is a kind of art, sometimes for me. Especially, a mechanical architecture has both complexity and systematic faces inside of it in nature. Today, it is difficult to see the fundamentals when we glance it.

In spite of difficulties of knowing fundamentals, we sometimes find a sophisticated architecture in it. Perhaps, it is because we always learn from nature.