Billy on the rooty path
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Latest Arrivals
G514 is seen at Rooty Hill hauling set LR2 of the new regional R sets set to replace the XPT in the coming years, the set was transferred down from Mindyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo to Auburn Maintenance Centre in Sydney, where it will begin its initial mainline testing in the coming weeks.
Latest Arrivals
G514 is seen at Rooty Hill hauling set LR2 of the new regional R sets set to replace the XPT in the coming years, the set was transferred down from Mindyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo to Auburn Maintenance Centre in Sydney, where it will begin its initial mainline testing in the coming weeks.
Latest Arrivals
G514 is seen at Rooty Hill hauling set LR2 of the new regional R sets set to replace the XPT in the coming years, the set was transferred down from Mindyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo to Auburn Maintenance Centre in Sydney, where it will begin its initial mainline testing in the coming weeks.
Cape Lookout Trail
We hiked 4.8 miles round trip to Lookout Point on a very muddy and rooty trail. The roots were covered in mud and slippery. Luckily we didn't fall!
Rooty Path
The path with roots going through it.
Rooty Runes
If only we could read Entish. I fancy that this is part of a name, maybe...
Hand-held. AF.
Take a break at Pelcomb Portraits.
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8159 with 8157 on the rear work loaded aggregates train #2126 from Lynwood Quarry to Rooty Hill on Wednesday the 17th of April 2019.
Rooty-tooty
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II
Mamiya Sekor Z 110mm f/2.8 W
Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Still Not in Service
Mariyung Set D53 & D153 head out west to Mount Victoria while passing Rooty Hill under a test run.
Rooty trail
This was a tough trail to walk, but there was only one way to go, and that was up!
2024-07-17 Rooty Hill full
Just wandering around the paddock.. this little fella was not worried about my presence..
Also playing around with capcut... I need more practice..
The train to Rooty Hill
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New Member
Following THNSW’s purchase of LVR Alco Group’s 44 classes, 4201 & 4916 are seen with 4464 heading east through Rooty Hill on their way south to Thirlmere after picking up the 44 from Orange a few days prior.
Wingello Empty Stone #2
TT111 leads 1225 empty stone train through Wingello Station with TT109 attached to the rear.
This train was travelling from Rooty Hill to Lynwood Quarry.
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Wingello Empty Stone - 1297
Pacific National TT Class TT110 leads empty stone: run 1297 alongside fellow class member TT105 on the rear.
This train was travelling from Rooty Hill to Peppertree Quarry.
15-7-2024
Mama Burger and Baby Burger
In the early 1960s, A&W Root Beer introduced "The Burger Family" to its menu, giving its customers different burger
sizes they could purchase, including a Papa burger Mama burger, and Baby burger. A Teen Burger was added in 1963. In 1965, A&W President Fran R. Oesterie asked International Fiberglass to bring his menu to life by making three-dimensional burger family giants. Being the second oldest restaurant chain in America, this was a great score for International Fiberglass.
A&W root beer stands were encouraged (but not obligated) to purchase a family member, each of which held a burger and a frosty mug of root beer. Many opted for the enter Burger Family which ranged from 4 to 9 feet tall. They were often posted on poles or A&W building rooftops. Newspaper ads featured Burger Family members and the chain used them on its cups and wrapping papers.
International Fiberglass Company mass reproduced theseat its Venice, CA shop from the mid 1960s until around 1974 when A&W replaced the Burger Family with a new mascot - Rooty the Great American Root Bear.
The American Giants Museum tells the story of the kitschy and quirky “Muffler Man/Bunyan Giant” statues that sprang up in the 1960s as advertising gimmicks across the USA. Today, they are some of the most popular attractions for tourists traveling Historic Route 66.
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Entry to Rooty Hollow.
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Rooty Hollow.
The Rooty Tree.
The Rooty Tree during golden hour at Friar's crag along the shores of Derwentwater in Keswick in the lake district national park in Cumbria, England.
Nikon D750
Nikkor 24-70mm f 2.8 lens
36# Our trip to Norfolk Island May 2024.
History Kinston:
The town was founded on 6 March 1788 by Lieutenant Philip Gidley King and 22 settlers (including nine male and six female convicts) who landed that day from HMS Supply. They had sailed from Port Jackson just a few weeks after the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales. The settlement was initially known as Sidney or Sydney Bay, and by 1796 was being called the Town of Sydney, in honour of Viscount Sydney, British Home Secretary and patron of the First Fleet. King established a house on the hill over the town, but the mass of roots in the ground caused him to call it "rooty hill", which name was also later transferred to Rooty Hill, New South Wales when King later established a house there.
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D) It was at the Cape of Good Hope that Bligh and Christian quarrelled for the first time and this was to continue at sea. The two men had very different temperaments – Fletcher Christian was the sensitive and gentlemanly man of honour – William Bligh, although a courageous commander was a man who inflamed others easily with his abusive manner and pettiness. This was to cause continual discontent among the crew throughout the voyage, It would be a long 4 months to Otaheite.
35# Our trip to Norfolk Island May 2024.
KiNGSTON:
History
The town was founded on 6 March 1788 by Lieutenant Philip Gidley King and 22 settlers (including nine male and six female convicts) who landed that day from HMS Supply. They had sailed from Port Jackson just a few weeks after the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales. The settlement was initially known as Sidney or Sydney Bay, and by 1796 was being called the Town of Sydney, in honour of Viscount Sydney, British Home Secretary and patron of the First Fleet. King established a house on the hill over the town, but the mass of roots in the ground caused him to call it "rooty hill", which name was also later transferred to Rooty Hill, New South Wales when King later established a house there.
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c) Surviving Cape Horn.
Bounty’s route to the South Seas was to be via the southern tip of South America around the treacherous Cape Horn. Bligh knew that the delays in England and the advancing season could make rounding Cape Horn more hazardous. He applied to the Admiralty and was granted permission to sail the safer but longer route around the Cape of Good Hope. Ultimately he chose to risk Cape Horn.
Bounty has dad weather from the outset and only 6 days out to sea, a gale did much damage to the ship. This forced them to put in to Teneriffe to take on extra stores. Bligh decided that they woul sail on to Otaheite (Tahiti) without stopping again and reduced the crew’s ration by one third.
It was 4 months before Bounty reached Cape Horn and met with its huge seas and gales. She was a small ship and with no portholes below deck, had little light or ven
tilation and with a third of the ship’s area devoted to storage storage for plants there was also very little space. After battling raging storms for a full mouth, with men now ailing and injured, Bligh finally admitted defeat and turned for the Cape of Good Hope. It took 5 weeks in port at False Bay to repair the damage done at The Horn and restock their supplies.
Vales Point Coal
SSR locomotive CEY004 along with class members CEY003 and CEY001, combine to haul train VP04, weaving its way under all the electrical wires, consisting of 44 loaded PHEH/PHYH wagons through Rooty Hill. This train's final destination is Vales Point.
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5# Our trip to Norfolk Island May 2024.
Early settlement:
Norfolk Island was uninhabited when first settled by Europeans, but evidence of earlier habitation was obvious. Archaeological investigation suggests that in the 13th or 14th century the island was settled by East Polynesian seafarers, either from the Kermadec Islands north of mainland New Zealand, or from the North Island of New Zealand. However, both Polynesian and Melanesian artefacts have been found, so it is possible that people from New Caledonia, relatively close to the north, also reached Norfolk Island. Human occupation must have ceased at least a few hundred years before Europeans arrived in the late 18th century. Ultimately, the relative isolation of the island, and its poor horticultural environment, were not favourable to long-term settlement.
The old town dating from 1788 occupies several winding irregular lanes at the head of Kingston Pier. The modern town, as laid out by the Royal Engineers during the 1830s, consists of a Roman-style grid plan. There are two long east west roads: Bay Street along the foreshore and Quality Row, the town's principal thoroughfare, along the foothills. These two boulevards are connected by short cross streets of Pier Street, Bounty Street, and the former Bligh Street (now part of the drive to Government House). Stone bridges carry these streets across Watermill Creek. Four roads wind upcountry from the edges of the grid: Country Road, Middlegate Road, Rooty Hill Road, and Driver Christian Road. All the buildings are located either in the old town or along the Quality Row, with the exception of Government House which is located on a small knoll called Dove's Plot Hill. The middle and west of the plain forms the Kingston Common and Kingston Recreation Ground, with the golf links occupying the eastern end, and Kingston Cemetery in the northeast. This broad greensward with the Kingston swamp in its centre separates the two long boulevards.
rooty tooty photoshooty
Zashley is showing off her new DEPUTY'S DAZZLER from [WAFFLE]
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