i am interested in both 
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The Red coloring is the result of the existence of red sandstone full of iron oxide. This mineral-rich sedimentary rock gets washed off the mountainsides when it rains and turns the water into a red or pink hue (the exact tone is based on the volume of precipitations).
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I think on this occasion, I will opt out of giving either one, if you don’t mind.
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i knew it!
You coward 
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I wonder how many parking bays that would take up, if it was parked across them! 
I also wonder how many car lengths it is equivalent to.
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David when restored it was 100 feet long. It was powered by two V8 engines one at the front and one engine at the rear.
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That’s amazing and very interesting. Thank you for the information.
You are very welcome. Cheers
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Just to clarify, the train itself would be from the lead (technically probably graphite), as well as the obvious wooden part of the pencil?
Amazing!
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yes, it looks like that to me, i tried to find a ‘making of’ video, but did not succeed until now
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no making-of, but the artist is Cindy Chinn, and with that knowledge there are some videos to be found. e.g. this one here:
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She can also be found at thesawlady.com. She also works in many different mediums.
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These are actual carved leads of pencils, while they are still attached to the wood counterpart. Amazing stuff. Please be sure to read the description about the teardrop.
I normally post from oldest file to newest, but these seem to fit in with today’s post about the Saw Lady.
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This is facinating. Thank you for expanding upon the information already given by Lukas.
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Thank you for the link. She really is such a talented lady!
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Here’s a little something different for this usually rather merry topic. It happened recently somewhere in the US, when a lady who a few years lost one of her legs in an accident, finally got a handicap parking space near her home. Then one of her neighbours started parking there, and she put a note on his car window asking him please to stop doing that. The next day she found a note in return - it read like this:
"Hey handicap! First, never place your hands on my car again! Second, honey you ain’t the only one with ‘struggles.’ You want pity go to a one leg support group! You messed with the wrong one! I don’t care what your note said shove it, but you touch my car again I will file a report, I am not playing! I let the office know the cry baby one leg touches my property I will cause trouble so go cry your struggles to someone who cares cause I’m walking away with both mine! "
What can one say? Some people are just obnoxious 
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This is d______eful and disgusting on EVERY SINGLE LEVEL imaginable!!! I don’t mean the fact that you have posted it (I am certainly not having a go at YOU here).
As a constant wheelchair user (born with Spina Bifida - you can Google that if you wish) myself and someone who has had to have BOTH legs removed due to complications in more recent years (yes, seriously), I find that person’s reaction dispicable.
“Hey handicap”…oh my goodness, if someone DARED to say that to me (I think I will keep it polite for the forum and not say what my actual reaction would be)…
… The word ‘handicap’ or even ‘handicapped’ is deplorable when used in the context of disibility anyway, however, I won’t rant on about that.
Some human beings - and I use that term rather loosely for some of them - really are the lowest of the low.
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