Enhanced opening-page photo pool

[Roderick Smith]

It has been great watching the expanded range of photos on the opening page.
I got a Russian one just now: It transliterates as Iosif Stalin, ie Josef (or Joseph) Stalin.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Roderick Smith]

Today I got PS Turgenev on the opening page.
How many new photos exist?
When were they posted (and by whom)?
Where have the descriptions been posted?
I am keen to know more after seeing that photo.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Eddy Matthews]

All the most recent photos on our homepage were sent to me by Jorma via email Roderick.

Hopefully he will step in here and give you more information on them.

[Eddy Matthews]

Roderick, here's the little bit of information I have on some of the new photos on the PD's homepage - Quotes taken from Jorma who sent the photographs:

I have noticed there is always a new paddler on the opening page when I visit padlleducks. Here you get four more for that use. Elias Lönnrot and Finlandia Queen are in service on finnish lakes, Finlandia Princess is sold to Germany some years ago. The Ilmarinen is the first paddler on our lake-system.

Here agein some pictures for homepages. This is my model of paddler Elias Lönnrot, built 1991. The model is 139 cm long,  made of veneer. The real ship was constructed 1986 and is in service on Lake Keurusselkä, Finland.

Here again some Scandinavian paddlers for homepage. Skibladner is the oldest paddler in the world still operating, built 1856 - on lake Mjösa, Norway.
Another boat is "Hjejlen" from Danmark, built 1861 and still going strong.

[Jorma]

Hello, Roderick!
The russian paddlers on homepages are from my collection. I have some beautiful photos of soviet-style paddlers from -50`s. They were in service on river Dnepr. Most of these ships were built in Kiev, nowadays capital of Ukraine. In 1986 I saw one of those paddlers half sunken in river Dnepr. I think today there are all scrapped.
I have also some pictures (postcards) about old Russian paddlers from tsar`s time. Many finnish paddleships were sold to Russia before the revolution. Some finnish shipyards have also built paddlers in Russia for russian clients.
There were hundreds of paddlesihps in the russian red army 1917-1927. The ships came from many european countries, as Belgium, France, GB, Sweden, Italy, Finland etc.
If you are interested of these vessels, please contact me by e-mail: jorma.tuomi-nikul@pp.inet.fi  or on the pages of paddleducks.
regards
Jorma Tuomi-Nikula
Finland

[Roderick Smith]

I certainly am interested Jorma, and I guess that many others are too.
There is a thread in 'Preserved paddleships' for Russian paddlesteamers.
However, the ones in your collection are not preserved.
Perhaps start a new thread in the 'Research' for these, styled like the APAM series: a short history, some specifications, and a photo for each?
I am guessing that many of these would have come from large batches of identical vessels, like the ones mentioned in 'Preserved'.

I have reached the end of supplying material from those countries where I have had some experience and photos: Australia (but there is always fresh material coming), New Zealand (we have several locals now), Argentina, Myanmar and India.  I have put up my Swiss photos, and we have locals to cover Europe (notably Switzerland and Germany, but some Italy, Hungary and other countries available).  UK members are actively involved with the surviving vessels there.  I am still resolving a mystery South African one on Orange River (Oranje Rivier), but it appears to have been a short-lived one off.  Ausgrabie Falls, and variable water, prevented that river from becoming a major commercial waterway.  I have some notes somewhere on one of the Finnish boats, present at a festival on an inland lake (accessed by canal from Helsinki?).  One day I will get there in summer and not mid winter.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Jorma]

I certainly am interested Jorma, and I guess that many others are too.
There is a thread in 'Preserved paddleships' for Russian paddlesteamers.
However, the ones in your collection are not preserved.
Perhaps start a new thread in the 'Research' for these, styled like the APAM series: a short history, some specifications, and a photo for each?
I am guessing that many of these would have come from large batches of identical vessels, like the ones mentioned in 'Preserved'.

I have reached the end of supplying material from those countries where I have had some experience and photos: Australia (but there is always fresh material coming), New Zealand (we have several locals now), Argentina, Myanmar and India.  I have put up my Swiss photos, and we have locals to cover Europe (notably Switzerland and Germany, but some Italy, Hungary and other countries available).  UK members are actively involved with the surviving vessels there.  I am still resolving a mystery South African one on Orange River (Oranje Rivier), but it appears to have been a short-lived one off.  Ausgrabie Falls, and variable water, prevented that river from becoming a major commercial waterway.  I have some notes somewhere on one of the Finnish boats, present at a festival on an inland lake (accessed by canal from Helsinki?).  One day I will get there in summer and not mid winter.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[AlistairD]

I have just discovered that by clicking the "refresh" button the photos change in random order

Alistair

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All the most recent photos on our homepage were sent to me by Jorma via email Roderick.

Hopefully he will step in here and give you more information on them.



Regards
Eddy






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[Eddy Matthews]

Either click "Refresh" on your browser, or just keep clicking on "Home" on the webpage and the image will change....

It's a totally random selection, so you'll never know what is going to come up...

[Eddy Matthews]

Yet more images added to our homepage, thanks again to Jorma....

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD’s …….Eddy….is there a site glitch?....logging on = asking to log on again…….Derek



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[Roderick Smith]

I am going rusty on some of this in retirement.

Assuming that we have 40 photos in the home page pool, and you sit pressing refresh for 40 times.
Your chances of getting 40 in 40 are very slim:
40! ways of getting the 40, out of 40^40 possible sequences.
This is 1 in 10^16.
To interpret this: if you try the experiment every day,
you get a chance every 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 years.

More realistically, if you keep pressing until a particular boat appears:
the chance of it appearing on any one press = 0.025
the chance of it not appearing = 0.975.
the chance of it not appearing in 40 presses = 0.975^40 = 0.36, which is pretty high.
If you go for 40 refreshes every night, you will miss seeing it on 1 night in three; you will see it in 2 nights in three.
If you keep pressing until it appears, sometimes you will get there with fewer than 39 presses; sometimes you will go longer.
On average, the number of failures before success will be 39.
Almost certainly, you won't have to go beyond 156 failures before it appears.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor