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One of the local seagull population has an early afternoon siesta at Moor Street as 2P18 to Lichfield Trent Valley slides by in the background.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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BNSF 7869 and 7089 take the short siding at Ash Hill to wait for a westbound Z-train, as they start to bring forty-five loads of Coiled Steel bound for Pittsburgh, California to a stop. The unit steel train will wait at Ash Hill for awhile with the small spec that is BNSF 7989, which is waiting for an eastbound Z-train to get far-enough ahead of it so it can head out.
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My next Dungeness car meet shot is this 1949 Chevrolet Deluxe.
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Thought I'd upload a joiner of our wall from the weekend seeing as it lasted less than 24 hours. #Notbitter
Achoe - Jasik - Otaku - Poer - Rews
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Out today with Pauls Pix 53 for a wander around Lewes, and there was 2 lots of coffee and cake and soup for lunch :)
What a night! On my way home today, my trusty old truck died along the way. Unfortunately, I was stranded in the shady part of Richmond, Ca. I called AAA, gave my information, and they got me a tow truck. Since my battery were dead my hazard signals weren't working, drivers started honking asking me to move along. Homeless folks offered to push my car to the corner, but i declined politely. It was a good 15 min until PD showed up and provided traffic control. Still passing drivers were mad at me, some gave me a single finger salute. Finally the tow truck arrived and hauled my truck about 40 miles from where it stalled. The driver was a chatty fellow, which was great because I learned a lot about the car towing industry. We talked about the crazies/weirdest incident that he was involved in, to why and how he became a tow truck driver.
Other than that, my truck needs a new alternator and a battery. Maybe a fresh coat of paint, but that can wait. good night everybody!
Strobist: SB600 | ~ƒ/8 | 43" reflective | 24mm | ISO 100 | ƒ2.8 | 200s
Conrail ALCA 9 roars through Fleetwood on the Reading Line in 1989.
The building in the background was at one time home to the Fleetwood Metal Body company, an automobile coachbuilder purchased by Fisher Body and integrated into General Motors in 1931.
The name lived on in the Cadillac Fleetwood automobile.
Forty Saints @2021 Protaras, Cyprus
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I'm late again, but with good cause. Last nights Halloween party was a lot of fun! More photos to come on my next day off from work.
February 1, 1992: Using trackage rights over CSX's Clinchfield, an N&W SD40 and an SD40-2 lead a southbound "Interroad" train over Copper Creek Viaduct near Speers Ferry, Virginia.
(Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide.)
Forty years ago today, 4 September 1982, RM 514 would almost certainly have been spending its first day as an officially withdrawn bus along with around two hundred RM`s de-blinded and ready for transfer away from their home garage to storage. Most would end up being dismantled for scrap including this one though it hung on at Aldenham until the following Spring being one of the last to be broken up there by outside contractors who worked their way through almost one hundred RM`s over the course of six months. I caught it at New Cross Garage on 21 August 1982 when it had just a couple of weeks left.
Back in 1996, a typical matched set of Burlington Northern SD40-2s was nabbed rolling autoracks eastward on the Aurora Sub just above Cassville.
A brief nap, as in There's just time for forty winks before we have to leave . This expression supposedly was first recorded in 1828 and relies on wink in the sense of “sleep,” a usage dating from the 14th century.
RIP HARLEY
Photo manipulation -Gimp/Pixlr
Art Week Gallery Theme ~ Artsy Animals ~
Yes, yes, I know. Bad editing. Didn't have time. Don't have time. I don't even have photoshop. Just Picnik. More photos tomorrow. I promise.
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Random Fact about me:
I'm not nearly as dumb as I let people think I am.
Privately-owned Class 40, 40013 / D213 "Andania" - on long-term hire to Locomotive Services Group - looking as immaculate as ever blazes through Hartford with the return leg of Saphos Trains' "The Bristol Forty" (1Z44 15:06 Bristol Temple Meads to Lancaster).
Back to my 365 one day behind, after posting another coyote image. I have many more excellent coyote and wolf images, but I don't want to fall behind in my 365. If you haven't seen my coyote shots, they are right beside this image in my stream.
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A broadside view of freshly repainted Conrail 6434 at "91 Bay" in Oak Island Yard. The little "can opener" logo on the sill was typically applied to Juniata repaints. As of this date some units were already receiving "Conrail Quality" paint. The white frame stripe started appearing around 1990.
CR 6434 SD40-2
Sometimes the sunset in the west bounces lovely light to the east. Haven't quite learned the art of a landscape, but I liked the hues.
Too dark?
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Fact: If you have not seen the following video, you must immediately. I've watched it several times over the past couple months. So you should see it. That is all.
Song: Validation.
The Grade I Listed Lincoln Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549) before the central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt.
Remigius de Fécamp, the first bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal seat there between 1072 and 1092. Up until then St. Mary's Church in Stow was the "mother church" of Lincolnshire (although it was not a cathedral, because the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 9 May of that year, two days before it was consecrated. In 1141, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Bishop Alexander rebuilt and expanded the cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185. The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the UK. The damage to the cathedral is thought to have been very extensive: The Cathedral is described as having "split from top to bottom"; in the current building, only the lower part of the west end and of its two attached towers remain of the pre-earthquake cathedral.
After the earthquake, a new bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as St Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. Rebuilding began with the choir and the eastern transepts between 1192 and 1210. The central nave was then built in the Early English Gothic style. Until 1549 the spire was reputedly the tallest medieval tower in Europe, though the exact height has been a matter of debate.
The two large stained glass rose windows, the matching Dean's Eye and Bishop's Eye, were added to the cathedral during the late Middle Ages. The former, the Dean's Eye in the north transept dates from the 1192 rebuild begun by St Hugh, finally being completed in 1235.
After the additions of the Dean's eye and other major Gothic additions it is believed some mistakes in the support of the tower occurred, for in 1237 the main tower collapsed. A new tower was soon started and in 1255 the Cathedral petitioned Henry III to allow them to take down part of the town wall to enlarge and expand the Cathedral.
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile died and King Edward I of England decided to honour her, his Queen Consort, with an elegant funeral procession. After her body had been embalmed, which in the 13th century involved evisceration, Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral, and Edward placed a duplicate of the Westminster tomb there.
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Union Pacific ‘high speed’ SD40-2s No. 8073, 8063, 8041, and 8070 find themselves pulling a low priority, slow moving train through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City, Utah on Jan. 28, 1978. 100 UP SD40-2 units were geared to operate at 80 mph speeds on priority intermodal trains. They were typically sandwiched between two DDA40X units, also geared for 80 mph operation.