Loading ...Got a little boost from some pretty horrible retail sales numbers for September – .03% vs. expectations of +.03%
Giving us a small break on those rising rates.
The issue remains the shares, they’ve got to pick up the pace.
It’s so hard
……to get any sense of reality and truth from the financial media these days. I hate to keep quoting from Uber negative ZH, but this headline alarms me……
Something Snaps: Repo Locking Up Again As Overnight Fed Operation Oversubscribed, Repo Rate Jumps.
I can’t help, but think that there’s something lurking that will suddenly snap, and everyone on one side of the boat will run to get to the other side.
Newmont Goldcorp kicks off commercial production at Ahafo mill expansion
Newmont Goldcorp kicks off commercial production at Ahafo mill expansion
Today looking a little better than yesterday … knock on wood.
Maya – the second photo (drone?) is probably the most impressive that I have seen
Because of the length , at least the forward drive wheels must be on an articulated truck which brings to mind how is the steam delivered ? I worked in the scrap yard of a uranium mine in my youth and seem to recall seeing thick walled , multi-layered flexible , reinforced rubber hose that I was told was for steam service . I suppose something like that could be used to deliver steam to the Truck and forward cylinders . As a student and later , professionally , I was very impressed by the true engineering skills of the generations before me , in designing behemoths up to the size of Big Boy . All pencil drafting , slide rules , and books of long hand calculated tables !
The loading on the massive connecting rods between cylinders and drive wheels , and the tie connectors between the two drive wheels on each set flailing around at full speed is monumental . Just lubricating the journals had to be an art .
Gold Train
The Big Boy at Victorville.
https://railpictures.net/photo/712694/
https://railpictures.net/photo/712693/