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Portland TriMet New Flyer DE40LF hybrid bus number 2561 in front of the latest design New Flyer D40LF. TriMet currently operates two hybrid buses and has no plans to purchase any others.
Megan, mid 30s, has been living in Portland for the past decade and loves life here. Prior to Portland she lived in California.
Megan's passion is definitely music. She plays a few instruments and has plans to take it a step forward.
"People should follow their dreams and do what they long to do," Megan says. "It's important to love and respect each other but as important it is to love yourself, too."
(@ Portland OR, USA)
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So I cheated and tilted the picture to have the water tube (whatever that's actually called) vertical, as far as I remember the street was pretty level. It sort of implies that the building was crooked.
HMS Portland F79 Type 23 (aka Duke-class) Frigate of the British Royal Navy arrives on the River Mersey for the CLT. She was assisted on the berth by Boluda tugs VB Belgie and VB Sandon.
Little fact: During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time. (WIKI SOURCE). She is the eighth HMS Portland
IMO: 8949733
Pennant Number: F79
Name: HMS Portland
Vessel Type - Detailed: Military Ops
MMSI: 234627000
Call Sign: GDIS
Flag: United Kingdom
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Commander: Ed Moss-Ward
Gross Tonnage: .......
Displacement: 4,900t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 133 x 16.1 m
Draught: 7.3m
Motto: Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour"
Ordered: February 1996
Builder: Marconi Marine, Clyde, UK
Laid down: 14 January 1998
Launched: 15 May 1999
Sponsored by: Lady Brigstocke
Commissioned: 3 May 2001
Refit: LIFEX 2018 onwards
Propulsion Systems: CODLAG: x4 1510kW (2,025shp) Paxman Velenta 12CM 4 stroke 12 cyl diesel gens & x2 GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000shp) AND x2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines delivering 23,190kW (31,100shp) - these sounded absolutely amazing! Truly impressive!
Speed: In excess of 28kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 7,500 nautical miles (14,000km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 185 (accommodation for up to 205)
Sensors and processing systems: Sonar 2087
Electronic warfare & decoys: UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1 Seagnat & Type 182 towed torpedo decoy & Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament: Anti-air missiles: x1 32-cell GWS 35 Vertical Launching System (VLS) for: x32 Sea Ceptor missiles (1–25+ km). Anti-ship missiles: Up to x2 quad Harpoon launchers (x8 missiles). Anti-submarine torpedoes: x2 twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns: x1 BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun & x2 30 mm DS30M Mk2 guns, or, x2 30 mm DS30B guns & x2 Miniguns & x4 General-purpose machine gun
Aircraft carried: x1 Westland Wildcat HMA2, armed with x2 anti submarine torpedoes OR x1 Westland Merlin HM2, armed with x4 anti submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities: Flight deck & Enclosed hangar
There are several areas where a car park has been converted into a semi-permanent market, sort of like an outdoor food court.
I've tried a couple, and the food is both cheap and decent.
August 13, 1981. The Portland Terminal Railroad was a joint terminal railroad owned by the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. Today, its jointed owned by the BNSF and UP. Here, ALCO S4 42 works a cut of cars around their yard in Portland, Oregon.
Portland, Pennsylvania
September 2024
Photo taken with an Olympus Pen EES-2 and Kodak Ultramax 400 color print film.
Inactive 1875 Portland Breakwater Light in Portland Harbor, Maine. The lighthouse is a 26’ cast iron and brick lined tower. Station established in 1855. Automated in 1934, deactivated in 1942.
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 (NRHP Structure #73000238) as the Portland Breakwater Light.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS No. ME-112 as the Portland Breakwater Lighthouse).
Shops on Julia Street (? - Correct me if I'm wrong somebody please!) Portland, Victoria, Australia, August 1979.
In downtown Portland near Chinatown, Ground Kontrol has become an attraction of sorts. It is a video game arcade consisting exclusively of old games, run by dedicated hobbyists. After all, considering that the early 1980s is considered the "Golden Age of Video Game Arcades" - where arcade machines had enough power and memory to allow intuitive game interfaces, but still primitive enough that gameplay and strategy mattered more than pretty graphics - video games from that era are still very desirable even today (and that is my own preference).
The video games featured run the gamut from the late 1970s examples (Space Invaders, Galaxian) to the early 1990s examples (Street Fighter II Champion Edition, NBA Jam), though of course the most enjoyable ones are early to mid-1980s ones such as Galaga and Xevious; I spent about an hour or so inside.
Ex Portland Cement Shunt Loco No2 Valley Heights Loco Depot picture taken by one of the crew.
The Blue Circle Southern Cement Company operated a short private railway to connect their cement plant at Portland the NSWGR line to Mudgee. Although only two kilometers or so in length, the line featured a sharp gradient up to the cement plant. Blue Circle Southern Cement at Portland operated an interesting stud of industrial steam locomotives, often augmented by hired NSWGR locomotives (particularly members of the Z(26) class of 2-6-2ST engines) and was one of the last commercial steam locomotive operations in Australia, with second-hand diesel locomotives taking over as late as 1983. Complete closure of the cement plant followed a few years later.
One of the early locomotives supplied to Blue Circle Southern Cement for their Portland railway was "Stevo", a handsome 0-6-0ST built by Robert Stephenson & Co of Darlington, England (builder's number 2994 of 1899) which arrived new at Portland in 1907. (Apparently Stevo had been awaiting a buyer at Darlington for several years after construction in 1899.) It received road number "2" at Portland.
No.2 "Stevo" entered preservation in 1974 when acquired by the Parramatta Park Steam Tram Preservation Society. Although nominally operable, No.2 "Stevo" was apparently too heavy for the light track then in use at Parramatta Park and saw only infrequent use.
Fortunes changed for No.2 "Stevo" in 1993 when it was sent to the NSW Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere in 1993 for contract restoration. By sheer good luck it had not yet returned to the Parramatta Park Steam Tramway site at the time of the arson attack in May 1993 which destroyed the Parramatta Park loco shed and contained wooden rollingstock. Steam Tram 103A and steam locomotive 1022 were severely damaged, with Stevo at Thirlmere suddenly the only remaining operable asset.
The Parramatta Park Steam Tram Preservation Society later relocated to Valley Heights and have progressively rebuilt their collection and operations there. Accordingly No. 2 "Stevo" was relocated from Thirlmere to Valley Heights in 1999. Here it is displayed on one of the roundhouse roads and is occasionally steamed for the Valley Heights Steam Tramway service.
Voodoo Doughnuts 2 in Portland, late at night... This is the banana, chocolate, peanut butter vegan doughnut. It's also known as a 4-day doughnut.