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Cross River Rail works in Brisbane have seen an extended closure of some key lines, include access to the southside freight terminals. So, a temporary container loading pad has been opened near the end of the Pinkenba branch, resulting in freight trains on the line for the first time in many years. Without a direct link from the North Coast line, trains are operated in push-pull mode.
One result is a view like this taken at Doomben, with the Aurizon train on the left having loaded and waiting to follow a suburban train, while the Pacific National train on the right is waiting to head down to the loading pad. 13 January 2024.
Line up for the photograph ladies...shot in liverpool along the leeds to liverpool canal, on the canon 750D
The Aon and Prudential Ii buildings behind Illinois Center buildings.
This was a homecoming of sorts: my first visit to the club in twenty years. I was Old Republic International’s first outside investor-relations counsel, working with top management for six years. The company is headquartered in the building. We held several meetings in the club’s private dining room, discussing communications and strategies for quarterly earnings announcements and conference calls and scripts for investor meetings. A.C. Zucaro, Old Republic’s CEO then and now, is one of the best company leaders in my experience and a true gentleman.
Perched atop the Old Republic Building at 307 N. Michigan Ave., the Sky-Line Club is one of the oldest private membership facilities in the city. Nearly 100 years ago, an old ale house from the Sussex region of southern England was carefully dismantled and shipped to Chicago. It was then carefully reconstructed here on the top floor of one of Chicago's early office towers. Paintings and furnishings from the original pub grace the interior today. The intimate space recently underwent renovation and also features an open-air terrace with fabulous 360-degree views.
Classic line-up of
G-PBYA PBY-5A Catalina
G-BUAR / PP972 Seafire
G-SPIT / MV268 Spitfire Mk.14
Weston 22/7/2017
Caught this line-up at Taunton from National Express 337 on way down to Torquay last week.
Buses of Somerset (First South West)
LK53EZA 33381 TransbusTrident/ALX400
New to First London.
MK63XAM 47535
Wright StreetLite DF.
MK63XAN 47536
Wright StreetLite DF.
T391 KLF 34091
Volvo Olympian/Northern Counties Palatine. Ex-First South Yorkshire, then First Devon & Cornwall at Camborne.
A little bumpy shell in the palm of a hand for this week's Tuesday Texture.
Captured at Cape Henlopen State Park back in Oct. with an iPhone.
I am pretty sure I used the Aukey 10x macro lens on this one.
There were hundreds of these little shells lining the edge of the beach, lying in the dark soaked sand and little pools of sea water where the gentle tidal waves had washed them in.
They looked like shiny dark pebbles on the beach. It was only when you looked very closely at them that you could see they were inhabited with little sea creatures.
Lightly edited on the iPad in Snapseed.
Reading based Class 101 Metro-Cammell Set L835 heads away from Hayes & Harlington while working the 12:17 London Paddington to Reading Thames Line service.
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The Chicago Short Line wraps up switching duties for the day and heads inbound as a caboose hop. Shortly after this shot I got to meet the fine young gentlemen in the foreground, Nate and Gideon.
A line-up of some of the entrants at this year's Nottingham Area Bus Society event. L to R:
Nottingham City Transport YN65 XFW
Barton KAU 564V
Mansfield District NNN 7M
Trent Buses TCH 274L
Burton Corporation TFA 987
Badgerline D113 GHY
Blackmore Commercials NML 619E
I like the NABS events here, but to be absolutely honest, this year's was disappointing. Off that back of 2021/22's events - which were two of the best NABS rallies so far - 2023 should have theoretically been another winner. But unfortunately, when I think back to all the other ones I've been to, this years' probably ranks as the worst, sadly. I don't think it's the fault of NABS, but lots of little things added up that probably weren't in their control:
Vehicles on Display
A fair number of vehicles showed up, and a decent variety including several I've not seen here before, but something felt lacking. At least half the vehicles on show were the 'regulars' that either live on-site or show up most years (Bartons, Bristols etc), and several more were familiar from events like EVR and Hucknall, meaning there wasn't really anything special to see this year. 2022 had things like the Cardiff artic and Stevensons Oly, 2021 had the South Notts Albion... I guess we had Trent 609 this time but it was comparatively underwhelming.
The Presence of People (or lack thereof)
Maybe it was the weather, but it was nowhere near as busy as it has been in the past couple of years, so the place felt kind of dead and empty compared to normal. The above photo of seven vehicles lined up without anybody in the way would've been nigh impossible for every event since about 2015. I didn't see many of the owners around talking to people either... the experience was more like pitching up at a coach park than being at a rally.
Lack of Traders
Typically the NABS rally brings in a good number of stalls and traders with all kinds of books, DVDs, models, pictures etc to sell... about half a dozen, I reckon. This year the number of stalls totalled two, and although the stuff for sale on one of them was varied (photos, books, models, bus badges) it was bitterly disappointing compared to the plethora of traders usually present. The only thing I bought ended up being from the GCRN bric-a-brac shop!
(also no unboxed models. If there's a bus event there needs to be unboxed models, it's the law!)
No Departure Board
The chalk board listing each departure's time, where it was going and the registration of the vehicle running it (which was updated/amended over the day) was the tried and tested method used on all previous years. This time, though, it was replaced by a paper timetable given out at the gate. This would have been fine, except it crucially neglected to say which tour was being run by which bus, making it largely useless.
It was basically confirmed by midday that this was it, and no other buses or traders had been booked to turn up. Usually there's far more stuff going on and a few late entries worth hanging on for, but this time around there was literally no reason to stay into the afternoon, so we left at half 1 and spent the next hour in the city centre. I was on the half 3 train back to Lincoln!
Nottingham Area Bus Society running day, Great Central Railway Nottingham, 16.7.23
Hopefully they'll return to form next year and have a better event.
Made using "In Color Order's" lined drawstring pouch pattern -- incolororder.bigcartel.com/product/lined-drawstring-bag-p...
Perry Barr's 4482 is seen looking a bit worse for wear when carrying Line 33 branding. It was working along New Town Row towards Birmingham city centre on 02/03/10.
Bus no.: 723-2
Classification: "Lazy Boy Xtreme" Airconditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Model: SR Euro Bus
Manufacturer: Santarosa Motor Works Inc.
Chassis: JA450SSN
Engine: Nissan Diesel PF6-A
Suspension: Leaf Spring Suspension
(Note: Specification are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice.)
Shot Location: Gracepark West Caloocan City
63214 on West North Street by Morrisons, a busy stop for the Sunshine Line providing those on the north side of the route with access to shopping centre.
A new version of my Y Class. Doesn't look too different externally, but the internal changes should make it more stable when running.
The V/Line orange and grey livery is new.
Transport for Wales class 150 DMU 150230 at Bidston Wirral with the terminating service from Wrexham Central, passengers then crossing the platform for Merseyrail services. This train returned to Wales on the 'Borderlands Line' a few minutes later via Shotton, where there is a connection with the Chester-Llandudno-Holyhead line.
This fella really knew what he was doing. In the 10 minutes we we waiting outside a GoKart Track in Orlando for my son in law to appear, this line painter got fully 20% of the lost painted. Worth his weight in gold.
Trucks are lined up on northbound I-405 as part of the project to replace more than 400 concrete panels between SE 8th and Main streets the weekend of Aug. 10-11.
The trucks are delivering new material for a strong roadbed and collecting the concrete that crews smashed apart to remove the old panels.