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My 2005 Lincoln LS parked on sheikh zayed road. This car is pretty decent; not worth the AED 145 000 it was selling for, but worth the AED 80 000 (including free Thuraya phone!) I paid for it.
Decent enough acceleration 0-100km/h in maybe 7 seconds), and 210-230kph top speed. Comfortable, and small enough to drive around. I financed it for 5 years for cheap, so I'll probably keep it around until it hits 150-200k km, and just drive it into the ground. That will probably be around 2008/2009 unless I leave the country more.
E&LS 202 is a Baldwin model DS-4-4-1000. Built in 1948, it was originally owned by Calumet & Hecla mining company and worked on their railroad serving the copper mines in the Calumet, MI area until operations there ceased in 1968. It continued to serve the E&LS for many years afterward until being retired recently.
The E&LS remarking on the cab has worn away over the years, revealing the original Calumet & Hecla herald.
7/5/14
In a strange twist of social demographics a large part of the LS6 post code empties of people over Christmas. Most students leave at the end of term, the rest drift away until the weekend before the 25th.
By Christmas Eve nearly all of the itinerant renting population have left, and on Christmas morning, even the diehard transient inhabitants depart back to their family homes.
Which leaves us permanent residents in an empty playground of deserted streets.
The fine irony is that the people who live here for half the year never see it like this.