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Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) of Portland Stone, which forms the most southerly part of Isle of Portland, and therefore also the county of Dorset, England
The obelisk at the southern tip of Portland Bill. Built in 1844 as a warning that there is a shelf of rock protruding out to sea. Not sure that's what it says to me, but its an impressive thing nonetheless.
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Title: Portland.
Publisher: [S.l. : s.n., 185-]
Scale: ca. 1: 32, 000
1 map; 30 x 36 cm.
Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Shows magisterial districts and residences. Photocopy, negative.
Petersen Collection. The Petersen Collection at the Homer Babbidge Library is comprised of negative photostats of maps of New England villages from a variety of atlases. The specific provenance of the map is not known. The image was inverted from its negative state to a positive image. Reproduced from the negative photostat at the Map and Geographic Information Center, Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut.
Portland is heavily quarried for its famous Portland stone. At Portland Bill evidence of quarrying is visible right by the sea. The very rusty crane must once have been used to load small ships with stone, but is now used to hoist boats out of the water. Partly buried rails still poked out of the eroded ground leading to this quay, showing how stone was brought to this point.
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Coast Starlight and Portland part 1, 22 January 1981
In January 1981, the Coast Starlight was the last Amtrak train in the western US to use steam heated equipment and Superliners were being introduced on the train.
I spent the nights of 21 and 22 January riding to and from Portland on 14 and 11, getting steam heated equipment on both trains. I stayed up late the night of 21-22 January and saw the southbound Starlight when we met it in Sacramento River Canyon and that night's train had Superliners.
I took notes of the consist, but I'm not sure where they are right now.
The norhtbound train had an ex-ATSF Pleasure Dome as its lounge and the dome-parlor-obs from Wabash's Blue Bird on the end, as well as several dome coaches, including at least one from the NP.
I have more photos of the Starlight in Portland, but they will be in another album. This one has the trip north and things other than the Starlights that I shot in Portland.
After staying up late, I must have slept through Klamath Falls as my first photos are of the train at Odell Lake. There are a few more shots out the vestibule as we go over Cascade Summit, then we have a few shots in Eugene and some car interiors.
I grouped the Portland photos as BN and the Amtrak Pioneer, exterior photos of Union Station, interior photos of Union Station and a Portland Terminal Alco S2
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I photographed this sign a few weeks ago and IwateBuddy complained that he could not see a pointer to Japan. Well, here it is: Sopporo, 4456 miles that-a-way.
The building in the background is one of the oldest buildings in the downtown Portland area. It is called the Pioneer Courthouse. I think it is used as a post office now.
Hadlock Field is home to the Portland Sea Dogs, the Eastern League Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Opened in 1994, it has a seating capacity of almost 7,000 and is named after long-time Portland High School baseball coach Edison Hadlock.
After affiliating with the Boston Red Sox in 2003, the Maine Monster, a replica of Fenway Park's the Green Monster, was added to left field. A replica Citgo sign and Coke bottle were also added to make the field look even more like Fenway Park. Previously they were affiliated with the Florida Marlins since becoming an Eastern League expansion team in 1994.
Hadlock Field is home to the Portland Sea Dogs, the Eastern League Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Opened in 1994, it has a seating capacity of almost 7,000 and is named after long-time Portland High School baseball coach Edison Hadlock.
After affiliating with the Boston Red Sox in 2003, the Maine Monster, a replica of Fenway Park's the Green Monster, was added to left field. A replica Citgo sign and Coke bottle were also added to make the field look even more like Fenway Park. Previously they were affiliated with the Florida Marlins since becoming an Eastern League expansion team in 1994.