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Grunewald Station in the suburbs of Berlin. The point of departure for so many Jews during WW II. A re-work of an earlier colour photo.
No. 34007 Wadebridge near Ropley with a Sitmar Line headboard - not a train I'd ever heard of, but it ran between 1960 + 1967 connecting with a liner heading from Southampton to Australia.
Preparing for the next day's snow. The guy with the black backpack has all bases covered. Seattle, Feb. 2019
Took a drive by my old neighborhood today to see this fabulous, long-vacant, building that started life as a silk factory in the 1890's and then switched to making fishing line in the 1940's. When I first moved to Petaluma, in 2002, there were still machines clanging away inside, but that all stopped several years ago and it's empty now. I've heard rumors of several different projects planned for this huge building, from condos to boutique shops, but apparently all have fallen through.
This is my very own fictional London Underground line. It runs from the Brentwood area to Dorking, via Thamesmead, Central London and Redhill.The line also runs from Gordon Hill, joining up with the main section at Fenchurch Street. Using the help of TFL maps, A to Z and AA road Atlas', I made this line go beyond the M25 twice!
Stations listed below in order of the line's length:
Main Line:
Brock Street, Brentwood South, Warley, Great Warley, Brookmans Park Drive, Cranham, Upminster, St Mary's Lane, Upminster South, Corbets Tey, Hacton, St George's Hospital, Hornchurch Park, South Hornchurch, Dagenham Gore, Dagenham Dock, Thamesmead North, Thamesmead South, Birchmere Park, Thamesmead Central, Thamesmead West, North Woolwich, Silvertown, Custom House for ExCel, Canning Town East, Poplar, Rotherhithe, Wapping, St Katherine's Dock, Fenchurch Street, Bank, Fleet Street, Holborn, St Pancras International, Bloomsbury, Marylebone, Paddington, Holland Park, Exhibition Centre (For Kensington Olympia), Brompton, Battersea Central, Clapham North, Loughborough, Peckham Rye, Nunhead, Forest Hill (Sydenham), Sydenham Hill, Gipsy Hill, Norbury and Thornton, Streatham South, Mitcham Junction, Hackbridge and Carshalton, Wallington South, Kingswood, Tadworth, Chipstead South, Hooley, Merstham, Redhill, South Reigate, Leigh, North Holmwood, Dorking.
Enfield Branch:
Gordon Hill, Enfield Town, Ponders End, Lower Edmonton, Northumberland Park, Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow Marshes, Lea Bridge, Clapton Park, Old Ford, Globe Town, Bethanal Green, Spitalfields, Aldgate. Line then joins at Fenchurch Street.
Woodmansterne Branch:
Line branches off at Wallington South and calls at Woodcote and finally Woodmansterne.
Service patterns would be the following:
* Brook Street to Dorking
* Gordon Hill to Woodmansterne
* Upminster to Redhill
* Northumberland Park to Paddington
* Gordon Hill to Dorking (Peak Hours only)
* Fenchurch Street to Redhill (Peak Hours only)
* Wallington South to Woodmansterne shuttle (Evenings and all day Sundays only. Through service from Gordon Hill provided at other times.)
* Gordon Hill to Redhill (Evenings and all day Sundays only.)
BR Merchant Navy Class 4-6-0 35028 'Clan Line' built at Eastleigh Works in 1948 + EWS Class 66/0 - 66177
5Z36 13:10 ILFORD E.M.U.D. - 15:35 STEWARTS LANE T&R.S.M.D on 18/03/2014 at Kensington Olympia, London W14
A stranger walks along the waters edge at dusk.
Canon 50D with 400 F5.6L lens (640mm eq.). 1/640th sec at F5.6, ISO 800.
He lines them up...in the tub, when he's playing and as a compromise before nap time :)
They are there waiting for him when he gets up.
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View On Black the way it should be seen!
-- Let the sound of the shutter always guide you to new ventures.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrates it!
A young Zebra
Its An Addiction ~ Tutorial Challenge #11
This effect was created using this tutorial Portrait to sketch
I did this in Paintshop Pro X4 and had to slightly adjust the following steps:
Step 2: To Desaturate: Go to the Adjust menu, Click on Hue and Saturation, Set both values on the screen to 0.
Step 4: To invert the layer: Go to the Image menu and click on negative image.
Step 5: There is no colour Dodge blend mode in PSP X4 so I just used the Dodge Blend mode
The rest is pretty much the same! :)
Press 'L' to view on black.
Tribune Tower
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 stratetgies 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.
Fleetmaster was just below the slightly fancier Fleetline in the model lineup, either of which is a classic bomb.
A line of trees refected into a faux pond created by flooding of the nearby river in The New Forest
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An impressive line up of Spitfires at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. All aircraft were capable of flight and ranged from a Mark 1 to a Mark 19
Some of the tractors lined up outside Normanby Hall in Scunthorpe. This was part of the September 2013 gathering.
Track panel replacement north of Queensboro Plaza on the Astoria N/W lines on Sat., August 4, 2018, the second of three weekends of work. (G.O. 5448-18.)
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
Photo by Mark Clayton for Metro harvested from The Source:
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Leaders of the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today joined federal, state and local elected officials in the Mid-Wilshire District of Los Angeles to break ground on the long awaited Metro Purple Line Extension Project, the largest, most ambitious public works project in the Western United States.
In July, Metro’s Board of Directors approved a contract with Skanska, Traylor and Shea (STS), a Joint Venture, to construct the Purple Line Extension Project. Construction of the subway extension will connect West Los Angeles to the region’s growing rail network, making it possible to travel between Downtown Los Angeles and Westwood in 25 minutes. The first subway segment will extend the Purple Line 3.9 miles from the existing Wilshile/Western Purple Line terminus near Koreatown into Beverly Hills. Three new underground stations are planned at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega, providing fast, frequent, high-capacity transit service farther west along busy Wilshire Boulevard.
“The Purple Line will ease traffic along the congested Wilshire corridor and will make traveling from the westside to downtown faster and greener.” said Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles and Metro Board Chair. “When it comes to infrastructure, L.A. is on the move. We are right now investing 36 billion dollars in our transportation infrastructure to ease congestion and create thousands of jobs. All together, this is the largest public works project in the nation. In the car capital of the world, we are looking to reduce traffic and cut air pollution by giving people car-free options to get to work and play.”
The Purple Line Extension is a critically important rail project that is partially funded by the 2008 Measure R sales tax that was overwhelmingly approved by two-thirds of L.A. County voters. The first segment of the subway is expected to be completed in 2023 with a project budget of $2.821 billion. In addition to this local funding, Metro received a $1.25 billion Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) from the Federal Transit Administration to help pay for the first segment. The U.S. Department of Transportation also granted Metro a low-interest loan of $856 million from a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) to complete the funding package for the project’s first phase. Combined, these nearly $2 billion in project commitments represent the biggest federal transportation investment for a single construction segment in the history of Los Angeles County.
The remaining $821 million in project funding for the first segment includes Measure R, City of Los Angeles local funding, and other existing local and federal funds.
“Today we launch the construction of the first subway segment along the Wilshire corridor to West Los Angeles,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Zev Yaroslavsky. “No transit corridor in our region is in greater need of mass rapid transit. The area to be served is one of the most dense employment centers in the county and is plagued by some of the worst traffic congestion in the country. This groundbreaking is long overdue and will be well received by people who work and live in the Westside.”
“Breaking ground on the Purple Line extension is an important step toward completing this key transit option for Angelenos, which will help relieve congestion and boost the local economy,” said U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein. “I applaud the efforts of everyone who helped us reach this point, but we have work left to do. The federal government is committed to providing $1.25 billion of the $2.8 billion cost for phase one, but future phases will require an estimated $3.5 billion. I will continue to strongly support federal funding to complete this important transit project.”
The project is planned to be built in three sections. Section 2, which will include Wilshire/Rodeo and Century City stations, is scheduled for completion in 2026. Section 3, which will include Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA Hospital stations, is planned to open in 2035. When all three project sectionss are complete, the Purple Line will extend westward from Wilshire/Western for nearly nine miles with a total of seven new stations.
Metro is currently seeking additional federal funding that could accelerate subway construction for Section 2 in the form of a $1.1 billion grant from the federal New Starts program, and a $307 million low-interest loan from the federal TIFIA program.
“Los Angeles has made enormous strides to expand transportation options and accelerate construction of projects that will create jobs, improve mobility, and spur economic growth,” said U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. “The Purple Line Extension is another major accomplishment. I am proud that the TIFIA Program from MAP-21 provided key financing of $856 million that enabled this project to move forward.”
“The Purple Line extension puts Angelenos to work building a 21st century transit system for our city,” said U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra. “Connecting the Westside to the greater Los Angeles area by subway will create over 25,000 jobs, increase ridership and result in a boon for our local economy. This project is the right investment that will keep Los Angeles on the move.”
The full nine-mile project is projected to generate about 62,000 daily weekday boardings at the seven new stations. Today, there are 39,000 daily boardings on the Purple Line between Union Station and Wilshire/Western. By 2040, 150,000 daily boardings are expected on the Purple Line between Union Station and Westwood/VA Hospital.
During peak periods, trains are expected to run every four minutes. During off-peak periods, they are expected to run every 10 minutes. It will also create tens of thousands of jobs and generate increased economic activity for the region.
Over 300,000 people travel into the Westside every day for work from throughout the region. More than 100,000 people leave the area for outside destinations. These numbers will increase over time. The Purple Line is expected to provide a much needed transit alternative for traveling to and from West Los Angeles, one of the county’s most densely populated, job-rich areas. The area is also home to major world-class destinations.
“I’m delighted that construction on the Purple line extension is beginning,” said U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman. “This rail link will fundamentally change how the people of L.A. get around and provide a direct route to some of the great sites in the Westside. After section one is finished, you’ll be able to hop on the subway downtown and visit the La Brea Tar Pits, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Petersen Automotive Museum and Restaurant Row.”
The subway extension is expected to reduce reliance on automobiles, help reduce roadway congestion, reduce travel times and reduce greenhouse gases.
“The Purple Line Extension will continue to make Los Angeles a great place to work, live and play,” said U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass. “This extension is an example of what can happen when federal, state and local leaders all work together—bringing billions of dollars into the Los Angeles economy and creating thousands of jobs over the next decade, while building on a vital rail line that will benefit Angelenos for generations.”
“The subway extension project is important not just for the Westside, but for the entire region,” said Pam O’Connor, Santa Monica Mayor and Metro Board member. “Whether you’re traveling to or from West L.A. making the trip will be easier by utilizing the Metro system that connects Angelenos through virtually every part of the county.”
The Purple Line extension also will offer improved connectivity to the entire Metro Bus and Rail network, as well as municipal bus lines and other regional transportation services. It is just one of several projects designed to improve transit options and mobility in the area. Other planned improvements include the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit Project and Expo Phase II line to Santa Monica.
“This project’s groundbreaking is the culmination of many years of consensus-building on the Metro Board,” said Ara Najarian, Glendale City Council member and Metro Board member. “Our Board unanimously supported the design and construction of the Purple Line Extension, and we are very glad to see construction begin as we make Los Angeles County a world-class destination with rich transit amenities.”