[SL] Shots of Awe
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I know you've seen this one before, but this is reconfigured as an 11x14, and it's now framed and hangs on my wall. Thanks for your indulgence, sorry to double up on this one, albeit a little different than the first time I originally put it up :)
“Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an aesthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"
- From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc18SG6uA
THE SWEETEST TABOO - SADE
FEAR/TEMOR
Standing by and letting me float free
you stand so close; I can taste your breath
my heart is racing, but my soul is slow
I am running to nowhere until I hit the wall
You play to me late into the night
you listen to me singing all day long
we hold each other so distantly
both scared to run to where we can't hide
let me closer into your arms
wrap me with love and tender kisses
walk out with me; tell me all you know
and dance me to the golden hour
I don't think it at all possible
to fall in love and remain as friends
so I let you walk alone on your reconfigured journey
it's the only way this will always end
I can write and re-write every tiny detail
but it will always play out just like this
we had a good run for all this time
but it could never be ended so simply with a lover's kiss
So you walk off like a cowboy into the sunset
and I'll drive alone along parallel lines
you take the right road, it's the right road for you
and I'll take what's left of the setting sun
The power lines above us are filled with energy
I can feel the tingling in my head
but they can't raise the flatness all around us
or erase the memories of the things we said
Fear is something that I learned from the age of seven,
do you remember that day, the day I drowned
I knew then what I'll always know
when something's lost, it can never be re-found
What you've got to do is create
your own sweet reality within your pure but burgeoning mind
nothing and no-one can take this from you
so you learn to be cruel just to be kind
You'll be ok; I know you'll make it
you're not so lost you can't be found
but what love has taught me; I know that life has brought me
the imagination and strength to stand my ground
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My artwork is a compilation of 5 of my photographs
St Clement's Episcopal Church near the Theater District in Manhattan.The Gothic church was built in 1870.
Interestingly,in 1962 the sanctuary of the church was reconfigured and converted into an Off-Broadway theater now called The Theater at St Clement's.On Sundays an altar is placed on the stage for regular worship services.I wonder if they sing Broadway tunes on Sunday mornings 🤔
This temporary structure, Flow, takes the form of a 3D ice crystal built with digitally fabricated slot-fitting wood connections. The design's loose bonds allow it to be reconfigured into various shapes, similar to the frozen and liquid states of water. This display is another one of the 7 temporary winter art arrangements transforming the lifeguard stations in Toronto Eastern Beaches. These structures are meant to draw Torontonians out of hibernation and back outdoors.
Lifting of the Fog
By Shoshanah Weiss
As Toldot entered we witnessed the emerging of the progenitors of Esau.
His hands shake us into fits.
We awaken from our deep slumber.
Rockets attack and wailing is heard throughout Israel.
Our machzorim have been put away on the bookshelves.
But, the shofar on high bids us to repent once more.
Avinu Malkeinu prayers are heard at the Kotel.
As the Philistine nation rears its bloody head from the borders of Aza again.
Where are our Shoftim and Shotrim?
Who can protect us from harm’s way.
We are not safe anywhere in the world.
Protest erupts against the Jews worldwide.
Tensions flaring
The hearts of the Klal are leaping from fear to fear.
Dreading more sleepless nights
The sirens are blaring through darkness and fog.
Each morning I am bleary eyed.
I am addicted to the news reports each hour.
As I stand from afar, my soul seeks temporary relief from the waves of Lake Michigan.
Standing at the beach, I can perceive the grandeur of G-d again.
Beaches are empty now, with dried out weeds and brown leaves scattered along the shore.
Being at the water helps me to reconfigure my thinking.
Man is a player on the stage of the world.
His vision is cloudy and murky.
Like a cataract over the eye.
Isaac became blind.
Jacob gains the birthright through his father’s confusion.
Esau’s cries are heard above Jacobs.
May my tears pierce through the fog cover of heaven.
Let our vision become cleared to herald the ram’s horn of Elijah the prophet.
Lift us up so we can have a clearing and usher in the peace.
It is mincha time.
I watch the birds fly in the sky near the horizon
My prayers become invigorated, powerful, more intense and renewed.
Bowing my head I give my burden over to heaven’s divine plan.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
--Adam Mansbach
Gown – Purplemoon – Maria Gown – Legacy
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Head – Catwa – HDPro Queen
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Eyes – Ikon – Hope – Industrial
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Body – Legacy Feminine Edition
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Skin (Head) - Mila – Catwa BOM – Lotte – Sugar
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Skin (Body) - Mila – Legacy – Sugar / Normal Fit
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Hair – Truth – Polly
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Trees, Throne, White Tigers – Purplemoon – Ice Queen Throne – (Retextured and Reconfigured)
No Longer Avaliable
I captured this sunset on my first evening in Varazze, Liguria, Italy. I was lucky, since that was the one and only sunset of those days. The following nights were wet and rainy and greyish.
I was deeply ingrained in my thoughts, sublimating things I would excise from my soul, reconfiguring my heart for you. For us. It was painful, really, but the beauty of the place and the magic of every single moment soothed my aching soul and my inner struggle. An amazing harmony poured into me, soothing my wounds. Varazze is one of my special places, where my soul feels at home. It's a place that helps me to deconstruct and rebuild myself. Those days were hard on me since I was tracing the very earliest steps on a new path. You were afraid of my heart, and you were right, alas, since I came to realise that something beautiful and powerful was blooming inside me. I thought I should have killed that flower at first, as inconceivable as it could seem. Yet I found out that I only needed to remould my soul without destroying anything. That I could still give you my gifts, after all, merely changing the core temperature of my very soul. That I could still hope to make you happy, after all. Somehow. That was all and everything I needed. That was what made it worth the effort. I felt a deep peace inside me when that realisation dawned on me. My inner turmoil calmed down, and my soul very much felt like that tidal pool in the foreground, so still and clear. I was ready to walk the next path on my soul’s unfolding journey.
It breaks from conventional wisdom to consider a bustling city thoroughfare to be a domain for freight diesel locomotives. A 184-ton hunk of steel seems out of place rolling mere feet from the front porch steps of dwellings and mere inches from the front bumper of your automobile, obeying traffic signals and sharing the pavement with confused drivers just trying to make their way across town. But such an atypical situation has been a typical facet of life in Michigan City, IN, since 1908, when the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend interurban railroad claimed its stake smack-dab in the middle of downtown streets. Michigan City grew with the railroad and they have coexisted quite literally through a shared corridor stretching 1.8 miles down 10th and 11th Streets for the past 114 years. The CSS&SB and its successor NICTD have modernized their transit network over the course of time and freight business for contract operator Chicago South Shore has blossomed, but the iconic street running has remained maintained but largely unchanged since its inception. The buried flangeways in 10th and 11th have endured long after most of their comparable street running tracks across the nation--a signature staple of interurban railroading--were ripped up in the early years of the previous century.
On February 6, 2022, CSS's pair of SD38-2s made a late afternoon departure from the Carroll Street shops and headed west through the streets of Michigan City, sending the echoes of horn blasts reverberating off residential structures as motorists hugged the curbs tightly for cover. A normal Saturday scene perhaps, save for the fact that this occasion was anything but normal, as come Monday the street would be closed, vehicular traffic detoured onto parallel routes, and interurban traffic temporarily suspended through Michigan City in favor of busses. The culprit: capacity improvements and an emphasis on public safety under the guise of a $500 million double-track project. Freight traffic will continue mostly-nocturnal operations as construction phasing plays out over the coming weeks, but 11th Street's nostalgia will be permanently lost as work commences to reconfigure the corridor to host separated two main tracks and one-way road through downtown Michigan City. Safety and efficiency will come undoubtedly, as will the comfort and ease for residents, commuters, and motorists who use this street regularly, but the cost will come at the expense of a historical landmark that harkens back to traditions of a forgotten era in railroading history.
Remarkably, the South Shore Line has defied the odds and greatly outlasted its electric railroad counterparts that essentially all evaporated well over a half-century ago. But for it to continue to thrive as a viable and competitive transit option built for the 21st Century, its signature attraction at the heart of Michigan City must be sacrificed. So while "The Last Interurban" prepares to write the next chapter in its lasting history, we watch as these two SD38s rumble down unadulterated 11th Street for one of the final times and take with them the memories of 114 years into the setting sun.
Lamentations 2:22 “You [LORD] called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors (dangers) on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived in the day of the LORD’S anger. Those I have cared for and brought up with tenderness, My enemy annihilated them.”
When a neighbor decided to reconfigure the flowers planted in her raised flowerbed, she was going to toss the green bits away.
Fortunately I love gardening surprises...so I quickly planted them in a shady spot. This was the wonderful result of my adoption.
CS-TOP, an Airbus A330-202, on approach to runway 24R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. "PEDRO NUNES" was arriving as TAP9187 (Transportes Aereos Portugueses, S.A., operating as TAP Air Portugal) from Lisbon, Portugal.
This aircraft was reconfigured as a dedicated freighter in December 2020 and now wears "AIR CARGO" titles. This flight's payload was reportedly COVID-19 vaccines.
The weather and the elements, along with living a hard life, are slowly reconfiguring this massive piece of mining machinery. Love the way the steel is splitting open, almost like an eggshell cracking so new life can emerge.
The cubicle, bastion of the corporate environment for several decades, has evolved into open plan scenarios that reportedly promote collaboration between workers. It's also cheaper to build, and more easily reconfigured to meet changes in staffing. So it goes.
Princes Square - a luxury shopping mall on Buchanan St, in the heart of Glasgow's shopping district. The circle at the lower center of thi photo is part of the Foucault's pendulum. The shiny brass sphere is part of the pendulum and is hanging from the ceiling (out of the photo). A very close look shows the cable extending from the brass ball to the ceiling.
"The new five-storey, 10,450-square-metre (112,500 sq ft) retail centre occupies a pre-existing cobbled Princes Square dating from 1841, which was reconfigured by enclosing the entire space below a new clear glass domed and vaulted roof." "In 2016, it was voted Scotland's best building of the last 100 years." Quotations from Wikipedia 2025-08-12
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After a Chesapeake & Ohio SD50 arrived next to an empty CSX hopper train in Garrett, Pennsylvania, the train’s power was reconfigured. After the lead GP40 pulled onto the main line, it was coupled to the SD50, and they pulled forward to allow the trailing units to be placed on the main. The two units then coupled to the train, and are seen here ready to pull the train onto the main.
It's August in 1976 and we're in a town that doesn't exist anymore. The location is Elizabeth, GA and we're staring at a L&N U30C on the point of a coal train going nowhere. He's pulled down to our location, which I believe was on a bridge. The street might actually be US 41, which is like a "mother road" to me. The sign on the signal bungalow identifies the spot as Elizabeth, a town which lost its charter in 1995, mainly because even though it was incorporated, the town never elected any officials and never performed any civc functions. Today, the town is completely within the city limits of Marietta. As for the railroad, the tracks are still in use, though everything looks to be reconfigured. The neat U30C lasted long enough to be on CSX's roster, but today, it doesn't exist, either. You think it might be in Elizabeth??? After 46 years, who knows for sure?
Featuring TOP1SALON and Petrichor.
Somewhere in the course of reconfiguring my computer over the last two weeks so I could play other games without completely frying my CPU, I messed up my settings so I can no longer take absurdly large shots. Sadly, 4K is going to be the new normal from now on.
"An Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several.... Israel’s military has carried out several air strikes in parts of southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis." 19/XI/25 + www.newarab.com/news/israeli-massacre-lebanon-kills-14-dr...
"to name racism [in looking at health inequality] provides space for flawed interpretations assigning ethnicity, culture, behaviour, or an inappropriately biologized understanding of race – rather than racism – as the relevant risk factors (...) a common practice within the extant literature on PCI health inequities in Israel as has been comprehensively noted by scholars (...) Because the purpose of describing racial health inequities is to ultimately change them, utilising the most accurate framework is crucial for designing appropriate interventions. Naming racism as the root cause radically reconfigures potential solutions, which might otherwise tend to be superficial, race-blind, or victim-blaming rather than transformative. When utilising a critical analysis of the root causes of health inequity in Israel – settler colonialism and resultant structural racism – the inadequacy of many existing explanations for worse health outcomes becomes clear, and prior research highlighting social determinants of PCI health that lack explicit discussions of racism can and should be recast as evidence of its pervasiveness." - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2023.221460...
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Kastell Rostormel/ Restormel Castle - Kernow/ Cornwall
"Restormel Castle (Cornish: Kastel Rostorrmel)[1] lies by the River Fowey near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England, UK. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Once a luxurious residence of the Earl of Cornwall, the castle was all but ruined by the 16th century. It was briefly reoccupied and fought over during the English Civil War, but was subsequently abandoned. It is now in the care of English Heritage and open to the public." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restormel_Castle
Last friday evening, I headed down to Neabsco, Virginia as I knew CSX M300 was on its way from Richmond. My initial plan was to launch my drone, as the evening light here is usually very good. However, a line of storms moving in from the west quickly had me reconfigure my plans, as the drone camera isn't as good in tough lighting conditions. Instead, I opted for a different spot on the docks, and to use my DSLR for a different angle. While it wasn't my intended shot, I am still rather pleased with the outcome, and happy with my decision to forego the drone. Sometimes you just have to roll with what they give you, and even the best laid plans have to change on a dime.
Located at 4984 Dundas Street West, this Village of Islington mural, titled Islington - The way we were - Part II was painted by John Kuna in 2006. The accompanying plaque for this mural says:
This mural is the companion piece to #5 in the series (they were on opposite walls from each other.)
Coordinates: 43.647221 -79.530392
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Designed as a companion piece for the mural on the opposite wall, this mural depicts Islington ca 1912. Together they form a unique historical diorama with the first one looking east and this one looking west along Dundas Street.
This mural shows the old Islington Hotel and drive shed as well as neighbouring shops then located on the north side of Dundas Street at Burnhamthorpe Road. The Islington Burying Grounds are seen in the distance and in the foreground workers are depicted preparing the road to be paved in the ongoing development of Islington as a thriving community.
In 1912 Burnhamthorpe Road was located west of its present location. As shown in the mural, it ran between the Islington Hotel and Clayton's Butcher Shop. The hotel's drive shed stretched across the current intersection which has now been reconfigured to connect Burnhamthorpe Road and Cordova Avenue.
An overview of Lehigh Valley’s Bethlehem Engine Terminal reveals a variety of power in various states of readiness. As an SW1 leaves the turntable and heads out to work, two RS-11’s are on one of the turntable tracks, and the cab of an RS-3 can be seen in the servicing area. Farther out on the servicing tracks, a set of C420’s is being reconfigured, while a Reading/B&O power set is on the ready track. This power came in on train NE-84, and will take NE-87 to Potomac Yard after it arrives in the Lehigh Valley.
L&N’s Baxter Tower witnesses yet another mine run heading for a Harlan County tipple; this time it’s R613-30’s pair of CW44’s getting their 80 system empties for NRG moving again after lining themselves toward the Poor Fork Branch. Main 1 here was recently removed and the south end of Loyall reconfigured.
We live on the edge of town - our open space is being reconfigured for new housing.....a difficult thing to watch.
Cotton Belt GP60 No. 9644 pulls a Eugene, Oregon to Chicago, Illinois forest products train through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City, Utah the evening of Aug. 13, 1996. Trackage through this part of the city was reconfigured in 2007-08 to eliminate the diamond crossing, and sharp curves in an effort to raise maximum train speeds. At the same time, a commuter rail line was built, select grade crossings were removed, and the area became a 'whistle free' Quiet Zone. I admit to missing the slow, noisy, and gritty Grant Tower of the past.
Providence and Worcester Railroad's PR-3 slowly moves down the East Providence branch alongside impatient drivers and past industrial remnants from a once more industrious town. This particular factory building has been reconfigured to office space, which certainly beats tearing it down in the face of a more technology driven rather than manufacturing driven industry. Remarkably, the switch for the spur that once connected this property to rail service is still in place, although most of the spur has been either removed or certainly covered over. P&W 2009 makes up the rear as the train returns to Valley Falls after working several customers along the line. Pawtucket, RI
Work on the CREATE program's Forest Hill grade-separation project, much-touted and publicized by the railroads involved, (NS, BRC, CSX and Metra) has finally commenced, or at least, visible construction has. To the left of this very long CP manifest heading west on the BRC towards Clearing Yard, are the beginnings of foundations for the flyover (which CSX's B&OCT / Barr Sub will use to cross the BRC and NS mains) as well as trackbed being prepared for reconfigured CSX-BRC connection tracks.
The beginning, or the start before the drift of tuned Tavria, the drive of the car became rear, the power of the engine is raised, the suspension is strengthened and reconfigured to DRIFT and all this in its garage, by amateur forces.
In the late afternoon light, VH-EBF as Jetstar 3 to Honolulu (HNL/PHNL) from 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) - 12 October 2014!
Delivered new to Jetstar 24 August 2007, and stayed with the company until 20 August 2015, where it was reconfigured, repainted and named ‘King Valley’ and currently with Qantas , though currently listed as ‘stored’…
I really liked the A332 in the Jetstar livery!!!
This is an interesting case of recycling the Venetian way.
At one point there was a palazzo with quite a grand exterior staircase up from the small entrance courtyard. All that remains now is the staircase and the front of the palazzo on the first floor at the top of the stairs. The rest has disappeared except the central floor of the palazzo at the top of the stairs. Apartments have been reconfigured out of the other spaces on either side of what would have been this portego, the reception hall.
In a simplified view, the Colorado River Aqueduct transfers water from the Colorado River to the municipal water systems of Los Angeles County, California. Of course, not much is simple when we're discussing water in California. Most municipal water systems have tie-ins to neighboring systems. In an earthquake, or catastrophic system failure, water officials can quietly turn some valves and fill reservoirs through the reconfigured plumbing. The Colorado River Aqueduct also ties in with portions of San Diego County. It's operated by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Your tax dollars at work.
This is a view of the aqueduct as it crosses the Mojave Desert on the way to Los Angeles. The channel is roughly (my estimate by uncalibrated eyeball) twenty feet wide.
It's tough to find a place where you can photograph the aqueduct from a public road. I found one about two months ago and finally made it back around sunset to get this shot.
There's a wad of public policy issues tied to water in California. The book Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner reveals some of them.
Per capita water use in Sacramento is 271 gallons per day. In Oakland and other East Bay Area cities, it's 171 gallons. Los Angelenos, though, use only 155 gallons a day.
— Hofer, Garry, editor, "In Search of a Permanent Solution," Aqueduct 2000, Special Bulletin 1998, pp.2.
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After shooting I014 with the 911 at Rochdale I thought I could make it to the top of the parking garage before they pulled in. Alas they were the fastest CSXT crew in history and despite making all the lights, by the time I sprinted from the fourth floor to the roof of the parking garage (since the top level was chained off precluding driving all the way up like usual) I literally missed the shot by 30 seconds as I watched the head end disappear behind the garage! It was a (no) photo finish, but at least one other person got it...
Anyway, to get a sense of what might have been here is the well known scene only about 45 min later as regular daily I022 (Syracuse to Worcester premium intermodal) arrives between two run of the mill Gevos and is seen crossing over at CP45 to enter the west end of the yard at the east end of CSXT's Boston Sub mainline. Looking on behind the units is long closed New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when the Boston and Albany built Union Station and reconfigured the trackage in the area in conjunction with tenants New Haven and Boston and Maine whose lines entered from the south and north respectively.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Monday January 10, 2021
Venetian Pool is a historic U.S. public swimming pool located in Coral Gables, Florida. Completed in 1924, it was designed by Phineas Paist with Denman Fink.
Venetian Pool, opened in 1924 as "Venetian Casino," was created from a 4 acres (16,000 m2) old coral rock quarry, abandoned in 1921. The pool was founded by George Merrick as part of the development of Coral Gables, which was created in Mediterranean Revival style and utilized a large amount of coral for ornamental features of the community. The remaining quarry was reconfigured by architect Phineas Paist and designed by artist Denman Fink. Named for Mediterranean city of Venice, Italy, the pool included a Venetian style bridge and classic mooring posts.
The Venetian Pool has gone through several phases. A large additional island was created to allow Venetian style gondolas to dock alongside though the gondolas were later removed. A high diving platform was constructed above the grand waterfall and was also later torn down
Melodía de sombras (Melody of Shadows, 2016) is a heap of testa non pertinente that invokes classical sculpture and, at the same time, commemorates the fallen in the conflicts that permeate our national reality.
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Artist Cynthia Gutiérrez (born 1978 in Guadalajara, Mexico)
The work of Cynthia Gutierrez denotes a constant search to analyze memory at different levels, generating tensions or fissures in established schemes. Her reflections and processes depart from situations of conflict; from indefinite, unstable terrains with a vulnerable condition that allows movement in multiple directions. From fragments, she reconfigures images that alter habitual trajectories and destabilize structures offering alternatives that simultaneously operate between reality and fiction. She articulates historical elements from a new posture with distorted chronologies that evidence the impossibility of generating accurate memories, and reveal the transience of history.
( cynthiagutierrez.com/biography/)
Dans son travail, Cynthia interroge constamment l'instabilité de la mémoire ainsi que la pertinence des narrations historiques officielles. Dans Melodía de Sombras, l'artiste sature l'espace d'exposition en y plaçant une grande quantité de têtes classiques empilées. Elle questionne ainsi, par une répétition et un agencement inspirés par les ruines, le caractère identitaire de ces sujets, la multiplicité des visages dissolvant l'identité du masque particulier en un anonymat universal.
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( Eldorado: 27 avr - 03 nov 2019)
New switches and rail are staged at CP 421 as an east-bound NS freight rolls under the old NYC signals in Elkhart. NS would subsequently reconfigure the entire interlocking, shifting the mainline south and eliminating the diamond for the Kalamazoo branch.
Princes Square - a luxury shopping mall on Buchanan St, in the heart of Glasgow's shopping district. "The new five-storey, 10,450-square-metre (112,500 sq ft) retail centre occupies a pre-existing cobbled Princes square dating from 1841, which was reconfigured by enclosing the entire space below a new clear glass domed and vaulted roof." (The clear glass dome is visible at the top center of this photo.) "In 2016, it was voted Scotland's best building of the last 100 years." Quotations from Wikipedia 2025-08-12
The cold damp weather resulted in a lot of condensation to enhance the steam plumes. The consist included eight passenger cars followed by two diesels to pull the train back to Cumberland. At the present time #1309 cannot use the turntable in Frostburg, MD until a vertical curve on the approach track is reconfigured.
This is an interesting case of recycling the Venetian way.
At one point there was a palazzo with quite a grand exterior staircase up from the small entrance courtyard. All that remains now is the staircase and the front of the palazzo on the first floor at the top of the stairs. The rest has disappeared except the central floor of the palazzo at the top of the stairs. Apartments have been reconfigured out of the other spaces on either side of what would have been this portego, the reception hall.
After World War II, Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was commissioned to create an arts complex on the Lake Michigan shore, with a museum, performing arts center, and veterans’ memorial. After the architect died in 1950, his son Eero Saarinen took over the project. When fundraising proved insufficient, Saarinen reconfigured the plan without the performance space. Construction began in 1955, supervised by Milwaukee architects Maynard W. Meyer & Associates.
Eero Saarinen’s innovative design for the War Memorial Center was influenced by the abstract geometry of modern French architect Le Corbusier. Saarinen incorporated many of Le Corbusier’s ideas: lifting the bulk of a building off the ground on reinforced columns; eliminating load-bearing walls to allow a freeform façade and open floor plan; and using plazas, courtyards, and rooftop terraces to allow an interaction between internal and external spaces.
The building, a concrete, steel, and glass cruciform floating on a pedestal, included three major components, as Saarinen described:
“One is the base, which builds the mass up to the city level and contains an art museum; the second, on the city level, is the memorial court with a pool. The court is surrounded by the polyhedron-shaped piers, which support the building and also make frames for the breathtaking views of the lake and sky. The third part is the superstructure, cantilevered outward thirty feet in three directions, which contains the meeting halls and offices of the veterans’ organizations.”
In 1957, the War Memorial Center was dedicated “To Honor the Dead by Serving the Living.” The western face of the building features a memorial mural by Wisconsin artist Edmund Lewandowski, a mosaic of 1.4 million pieces of marble and glass. The original Museum had a dramatic entryway from the central courtyard, with stairs down to three large exhibition galleries. A 1975 addition designed by David Kahler greatly expanded the Museum’s gallery space.
After many, many years of on-again off-again discussion and planning, a project to double track the South Shore Line from Gary to Michigan City, Indiana is finally underway. Unfortunately, eliminating the single-track bottlenecks will involve removal of the "Last Interurban"s most famous element- the street-running on 10th and 11th Streets in Michigan City. This will also reconfigure the 11th Street station, meaning that passengers will no longer board and alight in the middle of the street, ending the very last example of an old-time interurban practice once seen across the country and especially in the Midwest.
On a chilly, slightly hazy afternoon, a westbound train passes one of the houses on 11th St that were acquired and condemned for the "Double Track NWI" project here. The work will involve narrowing and reconfiguring 11th St for one-way traffic, and using the remaining space, plus the area of the vacated properties, to install new, double track main line, out of, but immediately adjacent to, the street. 11th Street station will be rebuilt with high-level platforms, and will re-use the old Insull-era station building, long since closed.
Can't quite decide on how I feel about the colours in this Nightshift Shawl I cast on the other day. Do I keep knitting to see how it turns out or do I rip it out and reconfigure the yarn and colours??? Decisions Decision Decisions.................
Princes Square - a luxury shopping mall on Buchanan St, in the heart of Glasgow's shopping district. The sculpture at the top is a peackock with its feathers displayed. "The new five-storey, 10,450-square-metre (112,500 sq ft) retail centre occupies a pre-existing cobbled Princes square dating from 1841, which was reconfigured by enclosing the entire space below a new clear glass domed and vaulted roof." "In 2016, it was voted Scotland's best building of the last 100 years." Quotations from Wikipedia 2025-08-12
@ Singapore Airlines
Airbus A380-841 • cn.008
• ENG : 4x RR Trent 970 Engines
• REG : 9V-SKD
@ History of Aircraft :
≠ 19.MAR.2007 : First flight with reg F-WWSE at built site
Toulouse ( LFBO ) France
≠ 26.APR.2008 : Delivered to "Singapore Airlines" SQ & SIA
with configured "F12C60Y399" and leased from Doric
≠ NOV.2015 : Re-configured "F12C60W36Y333"
≠ 27.JUN.2018 : WFU & Stored at Lourdes ( LDE ) France
The beginning, or the start before the drift of tuned Tavria, the drive of the car became rear, the power of the engine is raised, the suspension is strengthened and reconfigured to DRIFT and all this in its garage, by amateur forces.
Saw "The Big Show" by the Women Painters of Washington in Columbia Center. Large paintings, mounted on moveable walls that can roll on spiral tracks to reconfigure the space. Really clever gallery design, lots of interesting paintings as well. Not sure why they left this wall unused, but it makes a nice addition to my "Opportunity" series.
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Using CP power, KCS Train Y-KC101-18 gets ready to roll across the KCT High Line Kaw River Bridge after waiting on a UP Train ahead to move on into 18th Street Yard. This train commonly used DME/ICE/CP Power at the time, but these transfer agreements have since been reconfigured, and virtually all of the blue and gold Cedar American Rail Holdings schemed units are gone.
Locomotive: DME 4005
3-18-11
Kansas City, MO
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@ Northwest Airlines
Boeing 747-451
- MSN : 24224 / 803
- ENG : 4x PW PW4056
- REG : N669US
- RMK : Fleet Number 6309
@ History Aircraft :
# 19.JUL.1990 : First flight at built site Everett ( KPAE )
# 20.AUG.1990 : Delivered to "Northwest Airlines" NW & NWA leased from AT&T Capital Services with reg N669US and config cabin C65Y338
# 29.OCT.2008 : Tsf to "Delta Air Lines" DL & DAL leased from AT&T Capital Services with reg N669US and configured "C65Y338"
# OCT.2012 : re-configured "C48W42Y286"