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Our final view of the Pitcairn Yards is an eastward facing view from the Mosside Boulevard bridge. In the foreground are the former tracks of the Auxiliary Advance Yard while the Eastbound Classification Yard would have been to the right. It looks like the only purpose at this point in history would be for car storage or staging. In the far distance on the main line is SZ interlocking, under the control of nearby WG Tower at this point. Conrail would officially close the yards at Pitcairn in 1979. Some tracks were kept for storage, but by the end of the 80s, it was all just a memory. That is, until the mid 90s when Conrail resurrected the old yards to build the Pitcairn Intermodal Facility. Today several intermodal trains a day work the facilities at Pitcairn. While the yards at Pitcairn are a far cry from what the Pennsy used them for, it's nice that they live on in a new form today.
Auxiliary Advance Yard. Pitcairn, PA.
December 1971. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
The going away shot that follows the previous shows our eastbound about to exit Pitcairn and head under Mosside Boulevard in the distance. The remnants of the old station and platform are visible in the foreground. In the distance it looks like a signal and some tracks are still in use in the yard.
PC 7654. Pitcairn, PA.
May 1971. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
This seems to be likely shot from Mosside Boulevard bridge. This is a westward looking view of the yard. The hump and hump towers can be seen in the center of the shot. It looks like most of the remaining yard tracks are for either staging or storing coal hoppers. It appears a few engines are in the facilities on the far left. Old UJ interlocking, controlled by SZ, would have sat somewhere in this area. UJ controlled a switch from track 3 to 4, as well as a siding used to turn commuter trains.
Pitcairn Yards. Pitcairn, PA.
December 1971. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
Duple bodies are few and far these days. One that has turned up with Lanarkshire operator Halliday of Carluke in recent months is LUI 9240, a Dennis Javelin 11SDA with a Duple 320 body. It was new in July 1992 as J731 KBC to DHSS Mosside Hospital. It has also worked with Roberts of Rothiemay and JP Coaches of Forfar.
"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions." Lara Flynn Boyle
Thanks so much for my eleventh EXPLORE! April 5, Highest #170
I trekked off this afternoon (in some gorgeous sunlight) to an old derelict Primary School, which had been closed a few years ago. It's been abandoned and severely vandalised and as I walked around the (rather burnt out) interior of the building, this window sill caught my eye. It was littered with stubbed out cigarettes, I'm not a smoker, but I found the textures so appealing.
There was so much to take, even after spending a few hours at the School, I couldn't take everything I wanted, as the light was fading. I'm planning a return in the next few weeks.
Website | Project 52 | Week 14 | ODC2 - The Middle
When someone comments, "Nice frame.", I realize there's an explanation needed:
These are my attempts to fake the 'Through The Viewfinder' look.
Inspired by:
I had an eventfull time at Strathyre in Birmingham and learnt a lot in the time i was there as being my first proper coach job.And many things happened, including with this coach in the picture. We bought G45HDW second hand from Yeates at the begining of 1993 as a standard coach, thtas where the story begins. Me and the owner of the firm old man john took G45 up to Mnachester to be kitted out as an accesible executive as coaches buil tlike that very few and far between, no the conversion company were based in mosside in Mnachester and we had to take the coach to the coversion firm on an industrial estate in mosside, when we turned off the main road into the estate we were met by police with a road block ( this was a week after the riots ) to be asked what we were doing ( i was driving the company astra estate ). after explaining we were given a police escort to the unit, after we had droped it off we were given a escort out . we were saked when we picking the coach up "in about 6 weeks we explained " to witch we were told when you know the date ring MAnchester police up and we will meet you..Now that happened in the march, in the following SEPTEMBER i think it was i did my second trip in this coach over the water, but this trip was special and required 4 drivers. I don't know if any one remembers in 1993 the rescue mission that the uk undertook to croatia to send food , welfare equipment and medical staff to the then war torn country, The goverment required trucks and coaches to take the personnel and truckts to take food etc to croatia. weel we went in this coach in a CONVOY OF I THINK 50 vehicles ( trucks and coaches ) Me , Colin , tony ( at the wheel ) and ian one of the bosses, took this coach and the week long trip to croatia, it was an intresting journey meeting witch did pass without major incident. The coach was new to Bebbs , G45HDW was a Dennis Javelin / Caetano Algarve C48FTL, it isseen in the yard on 19/09/93. It later passed to North Wales firm out and about.
Mosside police raid armed suspect detained by the Greater Manchester Pigs
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Starting the day as a quite tidy coach, by the second heat of the bus racing at Buxton this Duple bodied Dennis Javelin had lost a few bits and gained many bumps and bruises !
New to the DHSS Mosside Hospital, it was latterley operated by Halliday Coaches, Carluke.
NWL 885 H. Leaving the Mosside Farm, the Nuffield / Leyland training school, just outside Bathgate factory. On this time, it were owned by the Leyland Truck & Bus Division, Leyland UK. "Original photo supplied by JVP", (who's also behind the wheel !!) leyland.conforums.com/
One of the photos from my most recent series, Roadside Elegies, is in an exhibition organized by the New Orleans Photo Alliance and juried by the excellent toy camera photographer Susan Burnstine, who talks in the last 10 minutes of this podcast about the process of jurying the show. The opening is tonight, and while I wish I could be there, it's a good thing I didn't arrange to, since I'm home sick with a chest cold and fever.
Toy Stories: Hi-brow Photos From Low-fi Cameras contains 36 photographs made with toy cameras (such as a Holga) and pinhole cameras. They are all great images, and produced by some fantastic photographers, a number of whom – like Bill Vacarro and Annabelle Texter – have their artwork on Flickr.
My work, Roadside Elegies, pairs photographs of roadside death memorials with photographs of roadkill. all taken with a 4x5 pinhole camera over the course of the last 5-6 years. The diptych above is titled Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA / Opossum #2.
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The 2nd one I have seen in Canada, the other was in Saskatchewan years ago.
A rare tractor in Canada
I wear a Nuffield Cap when attending Show & Shines. It came from NZ so is likely the only one in the Americas
The 4/60 was built from 1961 to 1967 and had a BMC Diesel 28T/TA/TD four cylinder 3.77 liter engine.
producing 57.7 bhp 168 lbf ft @1250 rpm
Transmission was 5 forward and 1 reverse.
Hydrualics 2000psi, 2830 lb lift, Cat 1 & 2 lift
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3/42 and 4/60
* 1961-1964
* 3/42 2.8L 3 Cylinder (100mm) 39.2bhp 1. Pedal operated Diff lock std 2. All tractors built at Bathgate in
Scotland from 1962
* 4/60 3.8L 4 cylinder diesel engine. Produced by boring-out the 3.4 litre.
Two new models were given three figure numbers, instead of "three" and "four". Model numbers were introduced to help farmers and dealers instantly recognize the engine size and horsepower of the tractor, the 4/60 had a four cylinder diesel engine which developed 60 bhp at 2,000 rpm. The 3/42 had a 3 cylinder diesel engine which produced 42 bhp at 2,000 rpm.
The two new tractors had improvements to the engines and had hydraulic depth control together with independent hydraulics a new simms injector was fitted with a mechanical governor.
The 4/60 and 3/42 were built at the Morris-Motors factory, Ward End Birmingham, England. Production was later transferred to the B.M.C factory at Bathgate, Scotland.
The Bathgate factory was established in 1961 on about 250 acres of land, just outside Edinburgh. The training center for dealers and service engineers was sited opposite the factory at Mosside Farm, this measured 166 acres. It may be of interest to note that all the pictures for the sales brochures for nuffield tractors show photographs of machines in a farm environment. Either at work plowing etc or in rural settings.
This is due to all machines being photographed in situ at Mosside Farm. In August 1964, the 4/60 and 3/42 were replaced by the 10/60 and the 10/42. The main difference here being the new gearbox which offered ten forward gears and two reverse, as opposed to the old 5 forward 1 reverse. These speeds were obtained as a result of a high / low range gear system operated by two levers. The high and low situated on the left hand side of the gear box. The side pully was dropped in favor of a rear mounted pully, the hydraulic lift was strengthened and the instrument panel redesigned to incorporate a rev counter. "Self energizing" disc brakes were also introduced as a new feature on the ten.
NWL 885 H. Automn 1975. Mosside Farm Tractor Training Centre, Bathgate. "Original photo supplied by JVP", leyland.conforums.com/
Another Pittsburgh bridge built in the heyday of the 30s.
From the Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County:
The McKees Rocks Bridge is a complex string of structures stretching nearly 1.5 miles across the wide, flat valley of the Ohio River. The focal point of the group is the 750-foot two-hinged trussed arch river span. Reminiscent of New York's Hell Gate Bridge by Gustav Lindenthal (builder of the Smithfield Street Bridge), the top chord of the arch flattens out to meet the massive stone entrance pylons. Built during a peak in Allegheny County bridge construction, this structure is one of the most self-consciously monumental bridges in the county. The West End Bridge, about two miles upstream, and the Westinghouse Bridge, in East Pittsburgh, also show intentions of grand designs. Stanley L. Roush, architect for the City of Pittsburgh, shows his role in dressing the McKees Rocks Bridge in tall stone pylons.
The top of each entry pylon includes the Seal of Allegheny County in stone relief. Carved stone panels face out from the portals:
But the river span makes up only 1/10 of the length of this group which is practically a pattern book of bridge types. It includes, from east to west: a 77-foot deck girder, three cantilever spandrel-braced deck arches (334 ft, 324 ft, 338 ft), 750-foot river span, another cantilever spandrel-braced deck arch (340 ft) and its counterbalancing deck truss span (194 ft), eight Warren deck trusses (each about 163 ft), an elevated concrete section of 1,145 ft which includes a pedestrian underpass at Olivia St, a trio of two-lane vehicle underpasses at Helen St, Munson Av and Chambers St, a pair of crescent trussed through arches (300 ft each) crossing the rail yards, a single lane vehicle underpass at Harriet St, finally touching down in a ramp which meets Island Av in McKees Rocks.
The string of structures is so long and complex that the western section threading its way through McKees Rocks Bottoms is described on its own page.
Travelling toward McKees Rocks, the roadway bends about 30 degrees to a nearly direct westward course just before reaching the eight Warren deck trusses. In doing so, it skirts the northern tip of the remains of a prehistoric Native American mound. The mound has been altered over the years since the European settlers arrived, and today it is topped with oil storage tanks. The mound was built up as an extension of the natural exposed rock formation which gave the town its name. The eastern tip still shows an exposed rock outcropping, but this area has been used as a stone quarry and storage facility; its natural beauty and prominence as a landmark has been lost.
When the bridge opened in 1931, it was linked to the new Ohio River Boulevard by a traffic circle at Termon Av. The ORB was one of four major road building projects which were designed as tree-lined parkways. The others in the same bond issue were Saw Mill Run Blvd, Allegheny River Blvd and Mosside Blvd (Monroeville, then Patton Twp). All of these roads except Mosside Blvd were given bridges with ornamental railings, rows of shade trees and entrance pylons with carved stone reliefs depicting historical scenes from Pittsburgh's past."
Bathgate. 'The Swans', Mosside Ponds with railway wagons in the background.
Date: No date.
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Scan of A R Edwards Series sepia postcard.
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Mosside police raid armed suspect detained by the Greater Manchester Pigs
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First Minister posing with Linda, Joey's widow, and Barbara, George's sister, in front of posters of three sporting heroes: David Healy, George Best and Joey Dunlop
The Police officer that is walking across the road is about to nearly arrest me for taking pictuers of this incident i was then taken away from the local area and told fuck off before i stick that camera where you wont like it.... charming
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