Photos from a visit to the railway museum Ajecta in Longueville, France.

DB Cargo #Class66 66658 hauling 6E01 1005 Wolverhampton Steel Terminal > Boston Sleaford Sidings through Nottingham

Private Operator Piaggio P.180 Avanti Reg. N228KS Colorado Springs Airport, KCOS May 2026 #aviationphotography #planespotting #N228KS #PiaggioAvanti #P180 #KCOS #ColoradoSprings #turboprop #fujifilm

Hiking along Kiyotaki River, near and west of Kyoto.

Whilst they feel fairly common, there aren’t too many L-29s flying in Europe. This one in Czech colours is based in Slovakia.

Volvo B9S, Umeå, Sweden. Pattern is birch leaves, because "city of birches".

Lunch.

Rien de tel qu'un => #nezcassé à livrée TEE type => #BB15000 pour oublier la morosité ambiante, ici à hauteur de #MézièressurSeine (78) en 05-20, filant vers Mantes et la Normandie. 📷Carlito del Carlos, source : le FB "Trains De France Et Etrangers Sur Le Réseau Français"

The 600 mm gauge railway on the small Swedish island Östergarnsholm, east of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. It was human and sometimes sail powered and used to bring kerosene drums to the lighthouse.

Seems I'm capable of growing things to eat. But I can't remember what these are, so it's probably a good thing I only do it for fun on a very small area.

Think I'm done with my #bastillebuild. I was thinking of adding a photographer to the diorama but couldn't find a suitable figure. If one turns up in the future I may add it. #histscalemodels

Small layout, also with moving trucks and a really well done working crane. youtu.be/VnbQFG7-bIg?...

Changing from one Bombardier Regina to another in ~3 min in Borlänge, Sweden, a couple years ago. 1. The one I just arrived from Stockholm in. 2. A parked one. 3. The one I arrived in continues to Falun. 4. Same platform, other track, this one goes to Mora.

Lunch.

On the to-read-next shelf. Sort of, since new books like "Radiant Star" can be added and read before all other new ones (those to the right) of it. Old ones in last read order, new ones in basically publishing order — even though that doesn't have anything to do in which order I'll read them.

de Havilland Tiger Moths in different Swedish Air Force trainer paint schemes. Pre-digital photos from a fly-in? airshow? in Västerås, Sweden.

Photos from a visit to Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection, Gardermoen.

Visitor.

Photos from visit to museum in Göteborg, Sweden, so long ago I think it's time to go back.

Some kind of festival in Hirosaki, Japan, when I was there years ago.

Rescue services vehicles in Paris.

Saab B 17 at an airshow in Sweden.

Netrail class Da electric locomotive painted to look like an old Märklin model, of a Swedish locomotive but painted green to sell on other markets. Other end even has a 87:1 Märklin coupler. At the Swedish railways' museum, Gävle, when I was there spring 2016, just before it closed for renovation.

It looks like I am, at least in principle, a potato grower now.

Lamy Xevo. I don't exactly need more pens and I'm generally not in favour of twist mechanisms. Nor the M16 cartridge and that it's hard to find alternatives. But this one feels right, is light, and sits quite low in a shirt pocket, so it could be a carry-but-don't-write-a-lot pen.

My last 2 torches with incandescent light bulbs, both Surefire. Nearest is an E1 Executive. The other one is… a mix of parts. M2 light assembly on a C2 body with a clicky tailcap. Bought 2nd hand, so I don't have the original parts. But I do have a KL3 LED I can use if/when the bulb finally fails.

Swedish stealth demonstrator research project TD2, circa 2001, by multiple companies. Engine and tracks from CV90. Dummy, but heated, gun, with on purpose harder to hide location than possible. No direct vision, only electrooptical. Not shown are pop out balloons to change its shape.

A veteran tram belonging to Amitram in Lille, France.

Vall de Sorteny, Andorra.

Sunday lunch.

My small Pelikan fountain pens. M215ST — interesting because it's heavier. M205 — can't recall why I thought white was a good colour. M205 demonstrator — my notes says used in 2024, but I don't remember that. M200 — really good writer, not used a lot. M405 — best looking and in use. #fountainpen

Two of my slide rules. I'm sure I've got a third, but it's probably in a "good place".

600 mm gauge industrial electrical locomotive at a lime stone quarry's shipping terminal, near Stassfurt, Germany.

My stapler and all my unused staples (the boxes are nearly full). It's a Sharpo Baby made by Swedish company Isaberg/Rapid and if it's as old as the boxes look, long ago.

A display in a Swedish museum where a BGTGB 965 (Volvo TL31) recovers a LTGB 912 (Volvo TL22).

Two de Havilland Vampires at RIAT 2018.

Mockups for Soviet OPFOR. thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2020/08/sovi...

Swedish narrow (891 mm = exactly 3 Swedish foot) steam locomotive at Uppsala Ö, a few summers ago. The train in the background is at another station, Uppsala C. Stations used to be separated by 100+ m.

Passenger train departing Falun, Sweden.

Bloodhound missile outside museum in Norrtälje, Sweden. (Or maybe it's a missileshaped training object rather than a deactived missile. I forgot to ask.)

Passenger train in Arboga, Sweden. Locomotive is an Rc6 built by ASEA in 1985. 76 ton, 3600 kW, 160 km/h. This was this time of year, but a few years ago, so I'm not sure but I think there was another at the other end to avoid need for run around. I think only EMUs on this route now.

Industrial battery electric loco on preserved Swedish narrow gauge railway Jädraås-Tallås Järnväg. This was the summer week with forest fire risk, so no steam locomotives. Built 1917 for a 6 km railway with ~6 km range at 13 km/h. In daily use until 1951 and as backup in 1960s. Now new batteries.

#Ferret photo from long ago.

NSB type 69D, Oslo, when I visited Norway a few years ago.

Swedish narrow gauge steam locomotive "Tallås", built in 1898 and in commercial service until 1969, has just departed station Tallås headed towards Jädraås, on preserved railway Jädraås – Tallås Järnväg, when I was there a rainy summer day.

Library in Malmö, Sweden.

Swedish tram built in 1924 photographed at museum tramway in Malmköping, years ago. Used in regular traffic until 1959, for infrastructure maintenance like snow plowing until 1989 when it was backdated to 50s look and then used as veteran vehicle.

Left: View of the Solovetskii Monastery from the Land, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1915 (original colour). Right: Same, by me. If I'd known about his photo I'd chosen the same spot to stand.

A motorized draisine of a type which built Kalmar Verkstad built 195 of in 1959–1967. Volvo car engine, empty weight 1500 kg, load 1000 kg. Photographed when I visited the railway museum in Ängelholm, Sweden, a couple years ago.