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CP 6012 leads a trio of overhauled, rebuilt, or otherwise repainted set of EMDs powering Cartier-Toronto CPKC 422-21 down the MacTier Subdivision, knocking down the approach-lit intermediates at Mile 7.9. The power planners up north bless this road train regularly with the unique sight of seeing an SD40 lead every now and then, which is generally unseen outside of work train and MoW service, or maybe even the rare wayfreight local. Road trains were what they were built for, so seeing them in their original environment is always worth going for in this late date regardless of how modernized they look compared to the previous generations of CP Rail paint. The other locomotives in the consist are in a similar boat, 2283 is a former GP9u now GP20C-ECO, and 6248, former SOO 6048 which fortunately didn't get rebuilt once acquired by CP.
CN 5349 leads CN L515 (East) through Flossmoor heading towards Matteson Junction and eventually Kirk Yard in Gary.
Not a great photo but SOO Ex-MILW GP40 2057, CP GP40-2 4609, and SOO GP38-2 4434 leads a lengthy transfer freight from the BRC. Today, this unit is not running with the CP anymore as it now operates for a different railroad down near the St. Louis, MO area.
CP Elgin Subdivision
River Grove IL
10/6/13
French postcard by Editions Jacques Haïk. Photo Combier, Mâcon. Claude France as the Princess Gonzaga and Nilde Duplessy as her daughter Irène de Nevers. Publicity still for Le Bossu/The Duke's Motto (Jean Kemm, 1925). 'Sword and dagger tale. All families will want to see Le Bossu." Selection Etoile-Films. The film was based on the homonymous novel by Paul Féval, who was co-scenarist for the film as well. Le Bossu was probably the first production of cinema owner Jacques Haïk, who would become an active French film producer and film distributor in the early sound era.
Plot: Jealous of the other man's riches, the Prince of Gonzaga (Marcel Vibert) kills Nevers (Jean Lorette) in a treacherous duel and marries his widow, Aurore (Claude France). But Nevers' friend, Chevalier Lagardère (Gaston Jacquet), steals Irène, the child of Nevers and Aurore. Several years after, he returns pretending to be the Hunchback of the Rue Quincampoix. He unmasks Gonzaga and holds Irène's (Nilde Duplessy) hand in return.
Claude France (1893-1928) was a French actress of the 1920s.
Born Jane Joséphine Anna Françoise Wittig in Emden, Germany, Claude France debuted in cinema in 1919, in the film Le Carnaval des Vérités by Marcel L'Herbier. Afterwards she performed in memorable films such as Le Père Goriot (Jacques de Baroncelli 1921) after Balzac, Le Diamant vert (Pierre Marodon 1922), Pax Domine (René Leprince 1923), Violettes impériales (Henry Roussel 1923) with Raquel Meller , L'autre aile (Henri Andréani 1923), Moderne Ehen (Hans Otto 1924) with Helena Makowska, Pension Groonen (Robert Wiene 1925), Le prince charmant (Viktor Tourjansky 1925) with Jaque Catelain, Le Bossu (Jean Kemm 1925) starring Gaston Jacquet, and L'Abbé Constantin (Julien Duvivier 1925) starring Jean Coquelin. Claude France was Madame de Pompadour in Fanfan-la-Tulipe (Rene Leprince 1925), Potiphar's wife in Le berceau de dieu (Fred LeRoy Granville 1926), the title character in Lady Harrington (Hewitt Claypoole Grantham-Hayes, Fred LeRoy Granville 1926), a double role as Mme Cornelis and Mme Termonde in André Cornelis (Jean Kemm 1926), and the female leads in Simone (E.B. Donatien 1926), L'ile d'amour (Berthe Dagmar, Jean Durand 1927) costarring Pierre Batcheff and La Madone des Sleepings (Marco de Gastyne, Maurice Gleize 1927) costarring Olaf Fjord and Vladimir Gajdarov. In January 1928, two months before her greatest triumph La Madone des sleepings opened in the cinemas, Claude France's career was cut short when she died at the age of 34. Grief stricken (over Paul Brunet, the man who left her) she committed suicide by opening the gas.
No life dates of Nilda Duplessy are known. When she entered the film sets in 1922, she had already been a Parisian stage actress for a while, notably in revues by Rip at the theaters Capucines, Femina, and Vaudeville, while she could be seen in Le Bel Ange vint at the Theatre Michel and in Le Tracassin at the Potinière. Remarking her fine beauty, film director Gaston Roudès selected here for Le petit Moineau de Paris (1923), starring Régine Bouet. Not convinced herself, she returned to the stage. Robert Boudrioz called her back to the sets for the more substantial role of Marina de Dasetta opposite Sylvio De Pedrelli In L'Epervier (1925). She played the wife of a couple of Hungarian aristocrats who get rich by cheating at cards. A young French noble (Youcca Troubetzkoy) falls in love with her. She is ashamed about her fraud and breaks with George (Pedrelli). The result was so convincing that Jean Kemm gave her the part of Irene de Nevers in the historical adventure film Le Bossu (1925) [see our blogpost on the film filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2014/10/le-bossu-1925.html ]. Duplessy confirmed her film acting talent with Barocco (1925) by Charles Burguet. After three years of absence, Duplessy took to film acting again in 1929 in the late silent film Les capes noires (Gennaro Dini, 1929) starring Régine Bouet, and filmed at Coimbra, and in the Franco-Spanish-Mexican production El león de Sierra Morena (Miguel Contreras Torres, 1929) also with René Navarre, and shot in Spain. In the 1930s French sound cinema Duplessy acted in a few more films, but always supporting parts.
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45015 leads a class 47 and another class 45 light engine south from Toton onto the high level avoiding lines, 1st September 1980.
Locomotive History
45015 was originally D14 and was the fourth of the up-rated BR/Sulzer Type 4's released from Derby works, entering traffic in November 1960, allocated to Derby MPD. The first five class 45's were built with nose-end gangway doors similar to the class 44's and split headcode boxes, however this feature was quickly discontinued from the rest of the class and from D16 the doors were no longer fitted although the split headcode boxes were still fitted for a while. In 1967 Derby works started replacing the split headcode boxes on some of the class 45 Peaks with the type fitted from new on the class 46 locomotives and D14 was one of the locomotives so fitted. From 1976 the Peaks started to have their headcode boxes replaced by sheet metal with two marker lights as seen here. After twenty five years service 45015 was withdrawn in March 1986 and eventually entered preservation on the Battlefield Line. However little work has been done on the locomotive and it is little more than a rusting hulk and is most likely to be broken up rather than restored.
leads 75W across the NS' Southern-East district that passes through rural locations like this one in Eckerty, IN
It was built new for NS in 2012 and is one of 20 units on the roster painted in the colors of roads that NS has absorbed over the years.
My nephew and niece on our recent film photography outing. They each had an Olympus 35mm P&S camera we had given them, while I tagged along and documented the adventure. Some of their photos were really pretty good!
CN 2313 leads a small westbound "A406" freight, crossing the "Odell Loop Road", mile 61.11 of the CN Sussex Subdivision, on a breezy winter day.
Atlantic Canada was, yet again, walloped with more wonderful snow over the last few days. Due to the high wind gusts, alot of the trains were having issues making their way to their destinations.
This photo was taken while standing almost at the top of a 7 foot snowbank. Ahhh, spring is only a few days away....
March 19, 2015.
A single dirt road leads from the BTPI (Bataan Technology Park, Inc) formerly known as PRPC - (Philippines Refugee Processing Centre especially during the cold war) to a hanging bridge about thirty to forty meters in length spanning the Batalan River. This road and foot bridge serve as the only link between Kanawan (also refered as Canawan) and the lowlands.
From the bridge, a trail of caked mud and loose stones slopes upward (the average slope is forty-five degrees), leveling off on a grassy plateau where the Aetas have built most of their houses. The entire climb from the hanging bridge takes about thirty minutes. Other houses, that are situated in the hulo or in places farther from the center of the sitio or village, are built near the fields they cultivate. To get to the hulo requires another 15 minutes of hiking through rolling hills.
REF: www.unu.edu/unupress/food2/uin07e/uin07e09.htm
This photo is taken on our way to the Sitio and from this spot, the sitio is very near and the guy in the frame is actually carrying basic essentials needed for the week.
It was wonderful interacting with them on their natural habitat and listening to their problems and grievances. This was one of the life time experience I have encountered in my life so far.
PROCESSING:
Two layers of which one layer I have turned the clouds into a HDR to give some better effects (according to me) and increased the exposure and gamma for the rest of the picture using Adobe PS CS3
37407 leads 3S01 09:22 Stowmarket D.G.L. to Stowmarket back through Acle on 13/11/18 having turned back here and missing out Great Yarmouth due to late running. 37405 was on the rear.
"The visitor entrance leads into the old kitchen with its soaring fan vaulting, high lantern and collection of 18th and 19th Century copper; much of it previously used in this kitchen - note the boot warmer! The skulls you see on the wall are turtle skulls, used to make turtle soup in the 18th Century and served in the turtle shaped soup tureen." - info from the Burghley House mini guide.
"Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.
The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Stamford and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Peterborough city centre.
The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.
Burghley was built for Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, between 1555 and 1587, and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace. It was subsequently the residence of his descendants, the Earls, and since 1801, the Marquesses of Exeter. Since 1961, it has been owned by a charitable trust established by the family.
Lady Victoria Leatham, antiques expert and television personality, followed her father, Olympic gold-medal winning athlete, IAAF President and MP, David Cecil, the 6th Marquess, by running the house from 1982 to 2007. The Olympic corridor commemorates her father. Her daughter, Miranda Rock, is now the most active live-in trustee. However, the Marquessate passed it in 1988 to Victoria's uncle, Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter, and then to his son, William Michael Anthony Cecil, both Canadian ranchers on land originally bought by the 5th Marquess, who have not lived at Burghley.
The house is one of the main examples of stonemasonry and proportion in sixteenth-century English Elizabethan architecture, reflecting the prominence of its founder, and the lucrative wool trade of the Cecil estates. It has a suite of rooms remodelled in the baroque style, with carvings by Grinling Gibbons. The main part of the house has 35 major rooms, on the ground and first floors. There are more than 80 lesser rooms and numerous halls, corridors, bathrooms, and service areas.
In the seventeenth century, the open loggias around the ground floor were enclosed. Although the house was built in the floor plan shape of the Letter E, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, it is now missing its north-west wing. During the period of the 9th Earl's ownership, and under the guidance of the famous landscape architect, Capability Brown, the south front was raised to alter the roof line, and the north-west wing was demolished to allow better views of the new parkland. A chimney-piece after the design of Venetian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi was also added during his tenure.
The so-called "Hell Staircase" and its neighbour "The Heaven Room" has substantial ceiling paintings by Antonio Verrio, between 1697 and 1699. The walls to the "Hell Staircase" are by Thomas Stothard, who completed the work about a century later. The Bow Room is decorated with wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Back from its Cornish holiday approaching Tredington Level crossing with the 0Z53 1015 Bodmin - Toton .
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68018 leads a Canterbury West - Leeds service across the Eynsford Valley, a first for the Spanish built class 68's on their inaugural visit to Kent.
New Haven Railroad ALCO A-1 class American 4-4-0 steam locomotive 1267 leads a commuter train that is seen at a platform in South Station at Boston, Massachusetts, 1936. Now this is really making use of an old steam locomotive that still has slide valves. As you can see the first car coupled to the tender is an almost new at the time, Osgood-Bradley Pullman coach, aka: American Flyer", which indicates that the old works with the new.
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Monson Railroad Locomotive #3 leads a 2023, New Year's Eve double-header at Edaville Railroad as it approaches the station after a photography excursion, which lasted two hours and covered some relatively rare mileage at the beloved New England attraction. Having Monson #3 on hand was a treat for the fans of the "old" Edaville, as she was probably the most heavily used locomotive here, from the park's inception in 1947, until it closed down in 1991, and the original, 2-foot equipment was repatriated to Maine. As of late 2023, the #3 was on loan for the near-term to Edaville from the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum, while Edaville's other steam locomotive, the Hudswell-Clarke #21 is under repair. The road engine for this trip was Edaville's own Porter #11, a former 30" gauge saddle-tanker that has been converted to 24" gauge and equipped with a fully functioning tender.
Interestingly, the large oil-lamp-style light box that the Number 3 is wearing in this image is the same one that she wore at the original Edaville operation in the late 1900s, when all of the former Maine, 2-footer locomotives had false diamond stacks and lamp boxes, presumably in an effort to back-date them and make them look like what the public was used to seeing on TV and in the movies.
Krewe of Muses Parade New Orleans 02-16-2023. Irma Thomas is heading the parade as Honorary Muse. Visible is her High Heel Ruby Slipper Float.
some info; www.wwltv.com/article/entertainment/events/mardi-gras/irm...
Info of the parade;
A history of Mardi Gras New Orleans; www.mardigrasneworleans.com/history/
907 leads little ALCos 873 & 850 with EMD 1203 and an empty GWA grain train that was supposed to go to Wudinna, but loaded at Cummins instead on Mar 27, 2019
67005 leads 1Z34 to Great Yarmouth through Wymondham on 27/02/12. 67006 is on the rear. Signs of the impending resignalling can be seen at Wymondham with point motors and TPWS trainstop loops being installed. Rather strangely I was the only photographer at Wymondham recording the Royal train passing the old mechanical signalling almost certainly for the last time before this section of the Breckland line gets resignalled by December 2012.
55009 leads the team of 0z20 through Rugby station Platform 2 after missing its scheduled stop, lovely roar as she passed. Oh, the sun?? Yes, you guessed it, behind the clouds, again!!
UP 3201 leads the westbound Granite Job. The UP recieved this train this morning from the BNSF in Cheyenne, and they take it to a location west of Cheyenne called Granite (you can probably figure out why). It usually takes about 8 or 9 hours to get the job done.
I must say, it's pretty cool seeing an old vet SD40-2 leading newer GE locomotives.
UP Laramie Subdivision
West of Cheyenne, WY M.P. 527
11/14/2013
4421 leads a west bound freight off the Port Road at COLA Tower Columbia PA on a sweltering summer day in the late 1970's.Train is headed to Enola with loaded auto traffic from Thurlow yard. These motors were LOUD and these two are screaming after being stopped with a heavy train prior to picking up train orders and proceeding. Yes Virginia..it WAS time for the weed burner ....LOL
Columbia PA /COLA Interlocking Columbia & Port Deposit Branch PC
Photo by NYtrainspotter@yahoo.com/Dave S
Union Pacific's 4-6-6-4 Challenger #3985 (Alco 1943) leads the SCYOG special west at MP 931.5 on the Evanston Sub, the original Overland Route mainline of transcontinental railroad fame. She ran in regular service from 1943 to 1957 and then was placed on dispaly in Cheyenne. Restored by volunteers in 1981 she ran often in UP excursion service until sidelined in 2010 and for the length of that time held the mantle of world's largest operating steam locomotive.
I was fortunate to get to see her several times in action including double heading with 844 and I even got a cab ride in her down in Louisiana when I was working for UP on the Livonia Service unit while she was on a tour.
In 2005 I found myself working as an MTO for the UP in Salt Lake City at the time she was scheduled to come through our Service Unit on the start of a month long six state tour to the Pacific Northwest. Back then UP confidently ran their steam locomotives with no diesels in the consist...although this train did have an original Western Pacific bay window caboose tucked behind the auxiliary tenders being delivered from Cheyenne to the railroad museum in Portola, one of the stops on the tour.
Once I found out about this trip I knew there was one spot I wanted to try to photograph her. I'd always heard of the famed Curvo Tunnels at the top of the Wahsatch Grade just west of the Wyoming state line. This spot is surprisingly obscure considering its history and the fact that it isn't far off the interstate. I suppose the fact that it is virtually inaccessible is why you see very few photos from here and why it's not well known. But being a UP manager I had a gate key and ostensibly I was permitted on the property so headed out I80 from my home in Salt Lake to the Wahsatch exit at the top of the grade. Rather than joining the other fans there at the crossing by the old water tank I headed west about 3.5 miles on the right of way access road to this point.
Standing above the west end of the tunnels looking down at the famed flyover I waited. 3985 would be taking the normal westbound track meaning she'd exit the upper tunnel. This was originally known as Tunnel 2 (as only the second one west of Omaha) when General Dodge's men furiously worked to bore its 757 ft length in late 1868 and early 1869.
When EH Harriman upgraded and double tracked the line in 1916 a second 1223 ft long tunnel was bored beneath the original necessitating a flyover here at the west portals. The new tunnel is known as Tunnel 6 and the original tunnel was renamed Tunnel 5 and lengthened to 692 ft when it was concrete lined in 1924. Owing to an easier grade of 1.14% on the new line it became the eastbound uphill track and the 1.77% grade of the original transcontinental railroad became westbound creating a situation of left hand running west of Curvo. To learn more about this location here are two great links for more reading:
trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2019/03/curvo-t...
utahrails.net/articles/weber-echo.php
The scene here is right out of a model railroad and just too cool to be real, so I just KNEW it would make a great shot. Except for one minor problem that I didn't calculate owing to my general naivete at the time. This spot is three miles east of the summit at Wahsatch and on the steep descent hence the train would be braking...not working hard upgrade...and not making any smoke! I sure wish I'd thought of this before as I'd have chosen to stay somewhere east of the crest. Oh well, it was still cool to see and I figured I'd get some other great shots on the chase down Echo and Weber Canyons for 60 miles to Ogden.
So after grabbing these shots I headed west as it was only a short 3 1/2 miles of access road till I'd reach the gate and access back to I80 at Castle Rock to continue my pursuit. I was a half mile from the highway and in sight of it when I heard a demoralizing HISS and my flat tire alarm flashed on. Yup, I'd caught a spike...and that was all she wrote. Here I was on the ballast access road more feet in the clear of the westbound main changing a tire. Of course all the Salt Lake bound crews recognized the Silver Pathfinder with DRGW plates belonging to one of their bosses. Many laughs and grins were cast down my way from high in the cabs of the countless trains that passed me while I fumbled with the jack on the uneven ballast.
Eventually the tire was successfully changed and I caught back up with 3985....alongside the platform at Ogden Union Station already on display! A chase lost...and the last time I'd ever see her under steam.
But I have these unremarkable images (poorly scanned from prints) from one of the west's coolest locations...and the memory and story to last a lifetime.
Summit County, Utah
Thursday August 25, 2005
47812 leads 56081, 56104 & 56098 in a siding with 58016 and 47847 on the adjacent line at Leicester depot.
The Class 56s are available for spot hire from UK Rail Leasing while 47812 is running on behalf of Rail Operations Group and was recently used for transferring Class 319s to store and for delivering Class 707s from the Channel Tunnel to Clapham Junction.
"The Carinthian road is next to the Graben, one of the most famous streets in the Vienna city center. It begins at Karlsplatz or Friedrichstrasse and leads past the Vienna State Opera straight to the center of Vienna, Stephansplatz and St. Stephen's Cathedral. There the pedestrian zone is continued in a westerly direction by the moat. In a north-easterly direction, after Stephansplatz, Rotenturmstraße connects, which leads to the Danube Canal.
Vienna (/viˈɛnə/; German: Wien [viːn]) is the national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with about 1.9 million inhabitants (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country's population), and its cultural, economic, and political center. It is the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had 2 million inhabitants. Today, it is the second-largest German-speaking city after Berlin. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations, OPEC and the OSCE. The city is located in the eastern part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In July 2017 it was moved to the list of World Heritage in Danger. Additionally to being known as the "City of Music" due to its musical legacy, as many famous classical musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart who called Vienna home. Vienna is also said to be the "City of Dreams", because of it being home to the world's first psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Vienna's ancestral roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city. It is well known for having played a pivotal role as a leading European music center, from the age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic center of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque palaces and gardens, and the late-19th-century Ringstraße lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks.
Vienna is known for its high quality of life. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouver and San Francisco) for the world's most livable cities. Between 2011 and 2015, Vienna was ranked second, behind Melbourne. In 2018, it replaced Melbourne as the number one spot and continued as the first in 2019. For ten consecutive years (2009–2019), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual "Quality of Living" survey of hundreds of cities around the world. Monocle's 2015 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna second on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within." The UN-Habitat classified Vienna as the most prosperous city in the world in 2012/2013. The city was ranked 1st globally for its culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and sixth globally (out of 256 cities) in the 2014 Innovation Cities Index, which analyzed 162 indicators in covering three areas: culture, infrastructure, and markets. Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners. Between 2005 and 2010, Vienna was the world's number-one destination for international congresses and conventions. It attracts over 6.8 million tourists a year.
Evidence has been found of continuous habitation in the Vienna area since 500 BC, when Celts settled the site on the Danube. In 15 BC the Romans fortified the frontier city they called Vindobona to guard the empire against Germanic tribes to the north.
Close ties with other Celtic peoples continued through the ages. The Irish monk Saint Colman (or Koloman, Irish Colmán, derived from colm "dove") is buried in Melk Abbey and Saint Fergil (Virgil the Geometer) served as Bishop of Salzburg for forty years. Irish Benedictines founded twelfth-century monastic settlements; evidence of these ties persists in the form of Vienna's great Schottenstift monastery (Scots Abbey), once home to many Irish monks.
In 976, Leopold I of Babenberg became count of the Eastern March, a district centered on the Danube on the eastern frontier of Bavaria. This initial district grew into the duchy of Austria. Each succeeding Babenberg ruler expanded the march east along the Danube, eventually encompassing Vienna and the lands immediately east. In 1145 Duke Henry II Jasomirgott moved the Babenberg family residence from Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria to Vienna. From that time, Vienna remained the center of the Babenberg dynasty.
In 1440 Vienna became the resident city of the Habsburg dynasty. It eventually grew to become the de facto capital of the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) in 1437 and a cultural center for arts and science, music and fine cuisine. Hungary occupied the city between 1485 and 1490.
In the 16th and 17th centuries Christian forces twice stopped Ottoman armies outside Vienna, in the 1529 Siege of Vienna and the 1683 Battle of Vienna. The Great Plague of Vienna ravaged the city in 1679, killing nearly a third of its population.
In 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna became the capital of the newly formed Austrian Empire. The city continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what became the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city functioned as a center of classical music, for which the title of the First Viennese School (Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven) is sometimes applied.
During the latter half of the 19th century, Vienna developed what had previously been the bastions and glacis into the Ringstraße, a new boulevard surrounding the historical town and a major prestige project. Former suburbs were incorporated, and the city of Vienna grew dramatically. In 1918, after World War I, Vienna became capital of the Republic of German-Austria, and then in 1919 of the First Republic of Austria.
From the late-19th century to 1938 the city remained a center of high culture and of modernism. A world capital of music, Vienna played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, among many, the Vienna Secession movement in art, psychoanalysis, the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern), the architecture of Adolf Loos and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. In 1913 Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Josip Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin all lived within a few kilometres of each other in central Vienna, some of them becoming regulars at the same coffeehouses. Austrians came to regard Vienna as a center of socialist politics, sometimes referred to as "Red Vienna"(“Das rote Wien”). In the Austrian Civil War of 1934 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Army to shell civilian housing such as the Karl Marx-Hof occupied by the socialist militia." - info from Wikipedia.
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57303 DS Leads the Northern Belle through CLAY CROSS with 57312 NB on the rear of the 11:48 DERBY - DERBY via Scarborough Mothers Day Northern Belle special , Sunday 11th March 2018
HL203 leads FL220 hauling 6L65, the 2014 Melbourne Cup Southern Aurora round the curve at Dysart. The train stabled in Benalla overnight, seen here some 70 minutes after departure with passengers scheduled to be dropped off at Broadmeadows for a day at the races, before being picked up later in the day for a return run to Sydney. 04/11/2014.
Drs 37059 leads sister 37405 and Northern Belle liveried 47790 on a Crewe-Norwich move literally in the last few seconds of light at Brandon at 1700 on 200215, the 47 is to be used on the short set as none others avaiulable,the 37/4 is down to start driver training over the next few weeks ready for the short set use in the future
New Haven Railroad heavyweight round roof combo MUT trailer leads other powered MUT coaches eastbound along the electrified main line as enters the station platform area in Bridgeport, Connecticut, ca 1960. These Osgood-Bradley round roof MUTS built between 1926-1931 provided excellent service over the years. There were only two combo baggage coaches ordered. In this view you can really see the detail of the hair pin fence that separates the two express tracks from the station platform tracks. There are a couple people seen on the arriving train platform.
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that leads to deep thoughts. I've been driving a lot lately, and it's where I do some of my best thinking...not that I remember to write anything down.
Christel Jacques, 55, leads her Wildlife Club of 8-year-old children on an outing to learn about mangroves. The Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles are school-based clubs where 90 per cent of the club leaders are women. Jacques, who has received a national award for her work with the clubs, aims to “sensitize pupils to be friendly to the environment and how to become a responsible citizen, so that we could have a sustainable Seychelles.”
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
SBB Re4/4 class 420 number 420 342-8 leads 421 376 and 420 344 through Mulenen at the head of a lengthy intermodal train.
CN 2304 leads A406 a few miles west of Hampton, New Brunswick, along the Sussex Subdivision. The frozen Kennebecasis River is the backdrop of this shot. I had to race ahead for this shot, so I wasn't able to adjust the cameras settings. Looks like it worked out decent.
Somebody should go and cut those trees down near the tracks...
February 3, 2015.