Print me a Pizza

This Company can 3D print an entire pizza in one minute - you can watch it HERE. It makes a heart shaped pizza.  The company doing this is Beehex. It is a NASA-spinoff company that was founded to automate personalized meals for astronauts on deep-space missions. It is mostly used to decorate cakes and cookies.   There's a review of the best 3D food printers in 2018.  They range in price from $5,000 to $2,000 and print thick pastes, chocolate and 'anything formable.'  Think of this catchy phrase "Real Food, freshly printed."  Or what about this introduction:  From pixels to plate, food has become 3D printing's delicious new frontier. We did miss the 3D food and drink display at the 2019 Restaurant Canada Show in Toronto - it was in February.   But so far I don't see any 3D food printing in Toronto.  We're behind New York where one can get 3D printed chocolates using the Makerbot Replicator 2.  How about Peter Zaharatos who is a chocolate artist creating chocolate art using 3D printing. And there are eye-popping pictures at Chocedge.com  Today's pictures come from Winterthur.  The second one shows the railway station.

All Aboard for a Trip

Are there steam trains in Florida?  We're driving to Florida tomorrow for a month's stay.  I found the St. Marys Railroad just north of Jacksonville, and that's closeby to St. Augustine.  We'll be on the Wild West Express, so you will be seeing more train pictures as February progresses. At the end of February we'll be in Clearwater for a train symposium and outside Orlando to the Sundance display.  I know that's one of everyone's favourites. It is All Aboard today - at Strasburg, PA.

Smithville - Our Train Heritage

Our last post was about Strasburg in the rain.  It must have been my fate as 2 days ago I found some railroad history down the road from my Grimsby town in Niagara.  

This is the Smithville Railway Station.  As the first one,  built in 1895, was hit by lightning and burned, this one replaced it in 1903.  It was built by the TH&B Railway who built a rail line from Toronto to Buffalo.  Today it houses the West Lincoln Historical Society who owns it and restored it.  More history at:  http://www.wlhs.info.

We've got three versions of the station. The first one has a touch of HDR treatment to bring out the sky and roof details.  I decided on script for the second to tell the many stories that a railway station represents.  The third has the addition a faint imprint of a postcard, to represent the sense of excitement of a trip that a rail trip would mean back then.