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Excerpt from the plaque:
A Chirp by Noel Harding: A Chirp was originally installed at Harbourfront in Toronto back in 2006. Filled with seeds and nuts for urbanized birds and squirrels, the piece was intended to be an active agent in this waterfront micro-environment of Toronto, a process that was disrupted by the City courtesy an alteration to the work that denied foraging animals’ access to its interior through a small hole in the base of the piece.
Relocated out here to The Tree Museum, A Chirps map/territory ratio may have been reimagined and reconfigured, but it is no less meaningful for having been so. Urbanization is, after all, not so very far away; fescue and bluegrass lawns are now an everyday part of Cottage Country as land is planted with non-indigenous flora to suit the tastes and habits of urban escapees. As a container, Harding’s work even effects a possible reading as a kind of micro-sanctuary; set off the ground atop a pedestal, the inverted garden shed cradles arguably even isolates and protects a tiny little fragment of the natural world, pointedly reminding us of the truly precarious condition of things, and that human intervention doesn’t necessarily have to be to the detriment of the living world.
The fans are out in force to capture what will soon be history as CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 noses out toward Lowell Street on the South Reading Branch with MEC 517 leading five empty tank tank cars from the Rousselot plant and one spacer after making the trip out to deliver the final load. The plant is winding down operations and will be closing later this year after being in business in some form for 206 years and with rail service for 173 of those!
The conductor will activate the signals and then flag traffic as the train steps out through the middle of Peabody Square in front of the District Courthouse and beneath the 50 ft tall Soldiers and Sailors monument built in 1881 and inscribed with the 71 names of local residents who died in the Civil War. Prior to 2016 if you'd taken this same shot the monument would have been behind the train in an island in the middle of traffic at the center of the square. However in early 2016 a more than $3 million project to reconfigure the square led to it being moved 30 ft back to this new plaza in front of the courthouse that the train cuts right through. This truly unique and remarkable location will see what may very well be its final train ever two days later when the local returns one more time to retrieve the last empty and take it back to Boston ending an era.
Fortunately, there will be no lack of photos, and the memory of the last trains will live on in stills and videos for future generations of fans to marvel over what once.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Tuesday August 29, 2023
A 16,000-ton Symington Yard to Kirk Yard freight passes the junction and depot with the Minneapolis Sub at Owen. This area has been completely reconfigured from the Soo Line days, and nowadays, trains can come and go at 40mph on the connection to Minneapolis. Owen is located at MP 308 on the CN Superior Sub and is 61 miles from Stevens Point, the next crew change point for this train.
Photo: taken CN property by CN employee.
This was used for this site....http://aviation.com/firstclass/top10-rich-famous-1.html =0))) Originally operated by American Airlines, this 1968-vintage Boeing 727-100-series jet was bought by D.J. Aerospace, one of Donald Trump's companies, for use as the real estate tycoon's personal jet. Reconfigured to hold 23 in luxurious comfort, with soft pale-leather armchairs, gold-plated seatbelt buckles, oil paintings, Waterford-crystal lamps, the 727 flies with a flight attendant to make sure those onboard receive top-class service. The tail number VP-BDJ shows the aircraft is registered in Bermuda, and the "DJ" in the registration stands for "Donald John," Trump's first names. The "Trump" logo on the side is 30 feet long and four feet high and is made of 23-carat gold leaf.
At Development Seed we don't have personal desks but 'sprint tables'. We reconfigure teams around tables according to the projects we're working on.
Dakota and Iowa trains join on the BNSF Aberdeen Subdivision at Elk Point.
The old Milwaukee Road bridge over the Big Sioux River in North Sioux City, SD, collapsed earlier this year, cutting the DAIR off from their yard in Sioux City. DAIR road trains have been detouring over the BNSF Marshall Subdivision (with BNSF leaders).
Because of the bridge collapse,
the yard in North Sioux City is now a stub end yard. At Elk Point, power was reconfigured to have a Westbound-facing unit for the return trip.
Here is the Southbound DAIR train, now on the BNSF Aberdeen Subdivision, departing Elk Point, SD.
Nikkormat FTn w/Nikkor 50mm f 2.0 Prime
Dulles International
Washington Dulles International Airport (/'d?l?s/ DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) is an international airport in the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia, 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C.[3]
Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles (1888–1959),[4][5] the 52nd Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi; 52.6 km2)[1] straddling the Loudoun-Fairfax line.[6] Most of the airport is in the unincorporated community of Dulles in Loudoun County, with a small portion in the unincorporated community of Chantilly in Fairfax County. The airport serves the Washington metropolitan area.
Dulles is one of the three major airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area with more than 21 million passengers a year.[7][8] Dulles has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area, including approximately 90% of the international passenger traffic in the Baltimore-Washington region.[9] On a typical day, more than 60,000 passengers pass through Dulles to and from more than 125 destinations around the world.[7][10] Dulles Airport has recently surpassed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in monthly passenger boardings and is on pace to exceed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's annual passenger numbers for 2018 after having fewer passengers ever since 2015.[11] However, Dulles Airport still ranks behind Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger boardings, despite being a larger facility with more gates.
History
Origins
Prior to World War II, Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington, on the site now occupied by The Pentagon and its parking lots. It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital.[12] Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region.[13] The initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park, but protests from residents, as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time, led to reconsideration of this plan.[14] One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County, while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland into an airport.[12]
The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958;[14] the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada, who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result of the site selection, the unincorporated, largely African-American community of Willard, which once stood in the airport's current footprint, was demolished, and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned.[12]
Dulles was also built over a lesser known airport named Blue Ridge Airport, chartered in 1938 by the U.S.. The airport was Loudoun County's first official airport consisting of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X". The location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today.[15][better source needed]
Design and original construction
Dulles Airport in 1970
The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17, 1962.[4][5] As originally opened, the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C, 1R/19L, and 12/30). Its original name, Dulles International Airport, was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport.[16]
The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, and it is highly regarded for its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight. In the 1990s, the main terminal at Dulles was reconfigured to allow more space between the front of the building and the ticket counters. Additions at both ends of the main terminal more than doubled the structure's length. The original terminal at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan was modeled after the Saarinen terminal at Dulles.
The design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect rainwater, a low-rise hotel, and a row of office buildings along the north side of the main parking lot. The design also included a two-level road in front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the Capital Beltway (I-495) about 17 miles (27 km) to the east. (Eventually, the highway system grew to include a parallel toll road to handle commuter traffic and an extension to connect to I-66). The access road had a wide median strip to allow the construction of a passenger rail line, which will be in the form of an extension of the Washington Metro's Silver Line and is expected to be completed in 2020.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Dulles_International_Air...
...prinsa intre blocurile socialiste. / ...caught between socialist blocks of flats.
Cartierul evreiesc din Bucuresti a fost distrus de dictatorul Ceausescu in anii '80. Piata Sf. Vineri si imprejurimile - Calea Vacaresti, Rondul Udricani, str. Mircea-Voda, str. Labirint, str. Avram Goldfaden, Calea Dudesti, etc., au fost profund afectate. Ce se vede astazi sunt ramasitele unui cartier odinioara prosper, cu case frumoase si strazi fermecatoare.
The Jewish Quarter of Bucharest was razed by dictator Ceausescu in the 1980s. St. Friday Square and the surrounding area were irreversibly destroyed and reconfigured. What can be seen today are the remains of a once prosperous neighbourhood, with beautiful houses and charming streets.
Articol despre mostenirea evreiasca din Bucuresti, reprezentata de templele si sinagogile ramase:
www.rezistenta.net/2010/07/mostenirea-evreiasca-bucureste...
Articol dedicat Rondului Udricani:
www.rezistenta.net/2009/05/rondul-udricani.html
Articol despre Piata Sfanta Vineri:
www.rezistenta.net/2009/08/piata-sfanta-vineri-ieri-si-az...
Articol despre strada Mircea-Voda si Rondul Udricani:
www.rezistenta.net/2009/10/rondul-udricani-si-strada-mirc...
Articol despre posibile evolutii ale Rondului Udricani:
www.rezistenta.net/2010/02/rondul-udricani-posibile-evolu...
Articolele mele despre Bucuresti, aici:
Indeed, mayor Anne Hidalgo wishes to replace, reconfigure these hallmarks of Parisian, nay urban life.
The classic NYC signal bridge and station stand guard as a Norfolk Southern intermodal train heads east for New Jersey. This scene was changed forever in 2017 when NS reconfigured the tracks in this area, removing the signal bridge, moving the main tracks, and building a fancy new Amtrak platform where the track equipment is left center.
One of the ten 25th Anniversary ES44AC's is on the point of BNSF train Z-NBYWSP1-12U on Main Track 1 of the BNSF Emporia Sub at Edgerton as it heads for KC for a crew change while fighting the typical congestion on the Transcon.
Starting on May 1, 2022, BNSF reconfigured priority numbers in intermodal train symbols. "1" is the highest priority instead of "9", so Z9's have all become Z1's. 5/14/22.
On Thursday morning I decided to go grab breakfast in Palmer after work and see what CSXT might serve up along the way. The weather was overcast, but as all my friends like to poke fun at me for, cloudy bongas on the B&A is kinda my brand!
After shooting Q436 at CP60 I headed west four miles to CP64 to wait for I022, the hot daily Syracuse to Worcester intermodal. Right on schedule they appeared and are seen holding the main (the straight rail is the controlled siding and had been since the tracks here were reconfigured 18 years ago when the massive new auto unloading facility opened in Spencer) as they diverge through the interlocking.
In the small yard at left is the damaged Loram rail grinder (missing one of its power cars) that was involved in a collision four days earlier when they rear ended a parked freight train at CP60 allegedly at 20 MPH. The damaged power car is sitting off the rails on the ground still at the wreck site, while here multiple personnel could be seen working on and around the machine presumably trying to effect repairs so it can be returned to service or towed home to the Loram shop in Minnesota. Here is a local news report on the incident with some photos: www.wcvb.com/article/spencer-massachusetts-train-collisio...
East Brookfield, Massachusetts
Thursday February 24, 2022
The twenty-one-story Railway Exchange Building is located at 600 Locust Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri and occupies the entirety of city block 128, bounded by Sixth Street on the east, Locust Street on the north, Seventh Street on the west, and Olive Street on the south. The building was designed by the St. Louis architectural firm Mauran, Russell & Crowell in 1912. The design & construction of the Railway Exchange Building was met with great fanfare and claims that the building would be "the most spacious office building in the world" and a "perfectly fireproof building." Though these claims cannot be easily verified, the building designers took pains to incorporate the latest fireproof technologies and safety measures into the design. The proposed safety features even convinced the city to allow a variance to the ordinance that limited height of downtown buildings. The result was the construction of St. Louis's largest commercial & office building with more than 31 acres of floor space in its 21 floors.
The Railway Exchange Building was designed as a home for the newly merged Famous-Barr Company. By the time Famous and Barr were merged, each had established themselves as a prominent department store in St. Louis. William Barr & Company opened as a dry goods store in 1850 on Fourth Street while one of St. Louis's most recognized retail names, Famous Shoe and Clothing Company began on Franklin Avenue in 1873. In addition, many local businesses operated on the upper floors of the building, and the building's official name derived from the abundance of railroad company tenants occupying these spaces when it opened. Because of the architectural requisites necessary for a department store of this scale, new technologies had to be incorporated into the building designs. These included heating & cooling devices as well as lighting and inter-level customer moving mechanisms like elevators & escalators. The company moved into its impressive new home in the late summer of 1913 which included two restaurants, three level escalators, four elevator shafts for public use, and seven stories of retail commercial space that incorporated all elements of a department store that any retail company owner would marvel at, and which made Famous-Barr the largest department store in the city. The new building enticed shoppers to explore the many levels of goods & services, with the most sought after items placed strategically at the center of the store and on different levels, encouraging customers to browse other merchandise in the store and buy on impulse. Within four years the company found itself with so much business that it reconfigured the store for ease of shopping, and did the same again in 1923 & 1927. Famous-Barr became the largest retailer in the city, and remained in the downtown store until 2006, when Federated Department Stores bought out the business and replaced Famous with Macy's.
On June 11, 2009, the Railway Exchange Building was determined to be locally significant under the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under criterion A in the area of Commerce, and criterion C in the areas of Engineering & Architecture. All of the information and much, much more is located on the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration found here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/63820955
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
With this tower on borrowed time I thought it wise to get a few more photos. While it isn't going anywhere immediately, eventually it will be demolished as part of the reconstruction and replacement of the Charles River drawbridges leading into North Station.
The drawbridges and the tower were built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.
The two bascule bridges were constructed when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. Originally two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.
The MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.
The east side of the tower is less photogenic than the west side facing the tracks with its large cast concrete name on the side. But with the sun shining and the morning light on this side I decided to capture Boston and Maine heritage F40PH-3C 1030 seen here heading from North Station on a house move to BET as it comes off Span 2 on Main 3 thru the Tower A interlocking.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Friday October 3, 2025
I rarely photograph trains here despite working a mile away but made an exception because I wanted to photograph 1030. While waiting around I shot 14 trains in 50 min including four different models of locomotive...I suppose it's not that boring after all!
Three minutes after shooting train number 12 came train number 13, a house move from North Station to BET for fuel and service. MBTA Wareham rebuilt and repainted (in the standard scheme) GP40MC 1138 has pulled up on Main 3 and is holding on span 2 waiting for Amtrak 680's arrival before they get their light to proceed through the Tower A interlocking.
For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself (out of sight at left) which was built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.
The two bascule bridges also date from that same year when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. At the time of their construction two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.
All of this is on borrowed time however, as the MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wednesday September 24, 2025
Sometimes you find quality in places you really aren't expecting it.
I've been a fan of the French Dip sandwich since I was a kid. There's just something nice about some good rare roast beef served in au jus on a nice crusty roll.
Unfortunately, most places don't do a good French Dip. They use overcooked, cheap roast beef; low-grade salty bullion; and soft buns that quickly get waterlogged.
There is, of course, the occasional exception. That place that makes a good case for having inventing the sandwich in the first place, Phillipe, makes a seriously good French Dip (I particularly recommend their Lamb Dip). And, to this day, my gold standard for a good French Dip is the version that was made by the Harrison Roadhouse in East Lansing, Michigan (with extra-rare, cold roast beef on a delicious onion bun, served with a rosemary-infused au jus). Alas, the Harrison Roadhouse itself stopped making it more than a decade ago.
However, a few months ago I was in the Manchester, NH airport waiting for a flight, and decided to try out the recently reconfigured Milltowne Grille restuarant behind security. One of the items on the menu was the "Roast Beef Panini."
Upon ordering it, I found that it was basically a French Dip, and, unlike the vast majority of airport food, was well done. The beef was nice and rare. The panini bun was just the right level of crustiness to keep from getting soggy. And the au jus was nice and beefy, and not overly salty. And the cole slaw on the side was a nice basic southern-style (not overly creamy) rendition. Not perfection, but very, very good. Excellent when you consider the environs.
But I didn't have a camera that time, so I had to come back. This time, the sandwich was still as good as before.
@ Virgin Australia [ VA / VOZ ] Australia
Boeing 777-3ZG ( ER ) - msn 37943 / 898
• ENG : 2x GE GE90-115B
• REG : VH-VPH
• RMK : Named "St Kilda Beach"
@ History Aircraft :
• 08.NOV.2010 : First flight at built site Everett ( KPAE )
• 18.NOV.2010 : Delivered / V Australia / VH-VPH / C35W40Y288
• 07.DEC.2011 : Tsf / Virgin Australia / VH-VPH / C33W40Y288
• MAY.2016 : re-configured "C37W24Y278"
@ Air Canada
Boeing 777-333 ( ER ) - msn 43250 / 1174
• ENG : 2x GE GE90-115B
• REG : C-FNNW
• RMK : Fleet number "747"
@ History Aircraft :
• 30.JAN.2014 : First flight at built site Everett ( KPAE )
• 11.FEB.2014 : Delivered to "Air Canada" AC & ACA with reg C-FNNW and configured "C36W24Y398"
• MAY.2016 : re-configured "C28W24Y398"
The "Hephaestus Forges" are dropped on-site from orbit in parts. Once assembled and connected to Zodiac's server via tight beam, the franchise holder downloads schematics from a vast catalogue. Raw materials are loaded into the mass converter and the specified vehicle is fabricated (or existing vehicle reconfigured). In this way, isolated colonies may purchase and readjust the equipment to meet their needs.
"Zodiac Inc - You've reached the stars."
So, long after the sun has fallen I gear up and head out. On location and half way through setup I discover I've forgotten one of the trigger units.
No big deal, I'll just use nikon's creative lighting system.
As I'm mentally tip-toeing around all the settings that'll need to be reconfigured, a light rain has begun and is quickly intensifying. I tear down and pack up, head home and start brainstorming other ideas for the day.
This is what I came up with...not at all what was in mind for the night, but it's a 365, and sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
Yo strobers, over here!
sb700 - 1/8" speed grid - high camera left - triggered with the forgotten v6.
@ British Airways
Boeing 747-436 - cn 25814 / 1079
- Engines : 4x RR RB211-524G
- Reg : G-CIVI
@ History Aircraft :
# 22.APR.1996 : First flight at built site Everett ( PAE ) WA USA
# 02.MAY.1996 : Delivered to "British Airways" BA & BAW with reg G-CIVI and configured "F14C70W30Y185"
# FEB.2009 : Painted in "oneworld" alliance Airlines special colours
# JUN.2016 : re-configured "F14C86W30Y145"
sand patterns change at least twice every day, as the tide washes in and reconfigures everything
posted today for The 12:12 Project theme: This Too Shall Pass
see all the project postings here: www.facebook.com/The1212Project
Jetstar Airways VH-EBF Airbus A330-202 c/n 0853.
This aircraft was ordered new by CIT Aerospace International. 2007 rolled off the Airbus production line at Toulouse, France. First flown as F-WWYU 23 July 2007, powered by General Electric GE CF6-80E1A3 engines. 3 August 2007 entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EBF registered to Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney.
24 August 2007 leased to Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney as the registered operator and sub-leased to Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd, Sydney as the registered operator. Departed Toulouse on the delivery flight to Australia as JQ7990. It arrived at Melbourne (Tullamarine) on completion of the delivery flight from France 26 August 2007. Delivery route: Toulouse - Melbourne (non-stop). During the pre-service maintenance the aircraft remained un-named. 2 September 2007 operated its first revenue service Sydney (Kingsford Smith) - Osaka (Kansai) as JQ017. August 2015 operated its final Jetstar revenue service.
26 August 2015 returned to Qantas Airways at Brisbane for post-lease maintenance. The aircraft was reconfigured to seat 28J / 243Y passengers. This aircraft was fitted with Panasonic eX3 IFE in Business Class and WIFI to iPad in Economy. 23 September 2015 operated its first Qantas service Brisbane - Sydney (Kingsford Smith) as QF525. The aircraft is named 'King Valley’. 23 March 2020 ferried Melbourne (Tullamarine) - Melbourne (Avalon) as QF6121. Withdrawn from service and stored at Melbourne (Avalon) due to COVID-19 pandemic. 7 November 2022 operated its final revenue service Perth - Sydney (Kingsford Smith) as QF654. This aircraft had been ear-marked for conversion to freighter configuration as an 'A330-P2F’. The freighter conversion was undertaken by the Airbus-ST Engineering joint venture Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW).
The freighter conversion was undertaken by the Airbus-ST Engineering joint venture Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW).
Current with Express Freighters (Qantas Freight).
Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-332(ER)(WL) - cn 29696 / 740 - N175DZ
Engines : 2x GE CF6-80C2B6F
@ History Aircraft :
# 16.FEB.1999 : First flight
# 04.MAR.1999 : Delivered to "Delta Air Lines" DL & DAL with reg N175DZ and config cabin "C36Y185"
# DEC.2010 : Painted in "SkyTeam" special colours
# JAN.2012 : Winglet fitted
# OCT.2012 : Re-configured "C36W32Y143"
With the disappointing news recently that Rousselot will be closing their Peabody plant by the end of 2023 I decided I better make the effort to photograph CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 (technically I guess L055 now) making the trip up the Eastern Route to Salem and the freight only Danvers and South Reading Industrial Tracks to access the plant.
The closure of this plant will bring to the end all freight operations north of Everett Junction on the Eastern Route unless any new customers materialize along the commuter zone. With rail operations to end around June, well before the plant finally shuts down, now is the time to get out.
Having made the 17 mile run up from BET in Somerville and run around at North Street Yard they are now tiptoeing west (timetable east) out the branch 2 1/4 miles to the plant at the 5 MPH maximum on to the South Reading Industrial track. Having made this exact same chase the week prior and shot this broadside view here: flic.kr/p/2onRs2R I opted for more of the classic sidewall three quarter angle this time.
They are crossing Lowell Street with their train cutting right through Peabody Square in front of Peabody District Court while still hanging back across Central Street. Rising behind the loco is the 50 ft tall Soldiers and Sailors monument built in 1881 and inscribed with the 71 names of local residents who died in the Civil War. Prior to 2016 if you'd taken this same shot the monument would have been in front of the train in an island in the middle of traffic at the center of the square. However in early 2016 a more than $3 million project to reconfigure the square led to it being moved 30 ft back to this new plaza in front of the courthouse that the train cuts right through. This is such a unique and remarkable location and it will truly be a loss when trains no longer travel through here.
Holding down the job is CSXT's ex Pan Am GMDD GP40-2W MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472) which was given this mysterious retro fresh Guilford gray paint job at Waterville in August 2020 and has been frequently assigned to BO-1 since then. If you haven't seen what she looked like sparking fresh check out this shot:
If you've not seen it, here is one of several news articles on the closing of the plant which has been in operation in some form for over 200 years! www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-a...
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday March 16, 2023
With the disappointing news recently that Rousselot will be closing their Peabody plant by the end of 2023 I decided I better make the effort to photograph CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 (technically I guess L055 now) making the trip up the Eastern Route to Salem and the freight only Danvers and South Reading Industrial Tracks to access the plant.
The closure of this plant will bring to the end all freight operations north of Everett Junction on the Eastern Route unless any new customers materialize along the commuter zone. With rail operations to end around June, well before the plant finally shuts down, now is the time to get out.
Having made the 17 mile run up from BET in Somerville and run around at North Street Yard they are now tiptoeing west (timetable east) out the branch 2 1/4 miles to the plant at the 5 MPH maximum on to the South Reading Industrial track. This view is taken from the same spot as this shot: flic.kr/p/2onypvK and I've not moved an inch, only rotated my lense 90 degrees counter clockwise.
They are crossing Lowell Street with their train cutting right through Peabody Square in front of Peabody District Court and still hanging back across Central Street. On the right side of the frame behind the train is the 50 ft tall Soldiers and Sailors monument built in 1881 and inscribed with the 71 names of local residents who died in the Civil War. Prior to 2016 if you'd taken this same shot the monument would have been in front of the train in an island in the middle of traffic at the center of the square. However in early 2016 a more than $3 million project to reconfigure the square led to it being moved 30 ft back to this new plaza in front of the courthouse that the train cuts right through.
This is such a unique and remarkable location and it will truly be a loss when trains no longer travel through here.
Holding down the job is CSXT's ex Pan Am GMDD GP40-2W MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472) which was given this mysterious retro fresh Guilford gray paint job at Waterville in August 2020 and has been frequently assigned to BO-1 since then. If you haven't seen what she looked like sparking fresh check out this shot:
If you've not seen it, here is one of several news articles on the closing of the plant which has been in operation in some form for over 200 years! www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-a...
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday March 9, 2023
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Here's the head shot of the blue jay at my feeder. If you missed yesterday's shot of its back, here it is. I don't know if it was a young bird not yet smart enough to be wary, or whether it was ill, though it didn't appear sick, except for its hunkered down posture, which is not typical of sassy blue jays.
It seems like we CAN believe in miracles, though the prognosis is still guarded for Peggy Sue and some of the other marshside menagerie critters. But it is now possible to think that the little one may really have beaten back an attack of distemper. Please visit Mary Anne's site to see the story of what has been happening, and please do what you can to help, whether it be sending money to defray some of her expenses, if you can afford to, or sending prayers or healing energy.
I'll be very busy with work today, as I must catch up with what I missed while my water heater was installed. If Peggy Sue has a guardian angel in Alice, I have one in Andy, my next-door neighbor, who installed the unit for me, which took many long hours due to fittings that wouldn't fit and his having to reconfigure the piping. While he worked, I mostly kept him company and served as plumber's helper when needed (not often). Now that it's up and running, I can turn my attention back to my work. I'll try to catch up with you later. If I don't, please understand. Thanks. Have a lovely day.
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A southbound "Wicket" freight rolls along St. Paul Avenue in Waukesha on former Milwaukee Road trackage. A year later the interchange in town was reconfigured and this trackage was operated by Wisconsin Central to serve a customer behind the photographer. Bob Bullermann photo, Brian M. Schmidt collection
While the main reason we went south along the River Sub was to hunt down the Winona local we opportunistically shot whatever else we could before and after their run down the street. The CPKC turned out to be exceptionally busy and we ended up photographing 7 other trains, all eastbound, including five road trains, one local, and Amtrak.
Here is an eastbound CPKC road local that runs twice daily from St. Paul to LaCrosse and back gathering up and delivering cars at various points along the mainline where other locals are based (Hastings, Wabasha, Winona, etc.) serving the countless industries and customers lining the mainline. What I believe is job J20 is seen framed up by the Tower CK station sign on the west side of town right at MP 310 just west of the Bierce Street crossing.
This interlocking is where Union Pacific's island trackage in town connects to CPKC's mainline but in days of old was a diamond crossing between the Chicago and Northwestern's mainline to South Dakota and the Milwaukee Road. An interlocking tower was in operation here until 1989, the very last manned one in the state, though no trace remains of it today. The diamond lasted well into the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern era but was removed when the trackage was reconfigured and the former CNW was tied in to CP's mainline just west of here at Minnesota City. Today the ex DME nee CNW is now also the property of CPKC which operates as far west as Tracy where they connect with the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern.
To see some pics of what the tower looked like check out these links:
www.railpictures.net/photo/717534/
www.cnwhs.org/imggallery/displayimage.php?album=8&pid...
towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2021/09/winona-mn-tower-ck-...
Winona, Minnesota
Monday May 8, 2023
Allison V-1710 powered and fitted with genuine Bf-109 G-10 cowling and a reconfigured tail unit.
Aircraft used to film the movie Battle of Britain
Our next stop was the end of the line in Frostburg. We had lunch on board while the locomotive was serviced. Then 1309 performed a single run up to the station. One of our diesels was placed on the rear of the freight train to lead it downhill. The tracks in the grade crossing leading to the turntable will need to be reconfigured before the engine can be turned. The crossing is used by multiple school buses each week day and work will hopefully be started this summer when school is out of session.
@ Virgin Atlantic Airways ( UK )
Airbus A330-343 - cn 1231
• ENG : 2x RR Trent 772B-60
• REG : G-VINE
• RMK : named "Champagne Belle"
@ History Aircraft :
• 06.MAY.2011 : First flight under test reg F-WWYA at built site Toulouse ( TLS ) France
• 08.JUL.2011 : Delivered to "Virgin Atlantic Airways" VS & VIR leased from AerCap with reg G-VINE and cabin W59Y255 and stored at LDE
• 23.NOV.2011 : Lease to "Ryan International Airlines" RD & RYN with reg N771RD
• 13.AUG.2012 : Returned from lease to "Virgin Atlantic Airways" VS & VIR with reg G-VINE
• APR.2013 : re-configured "C33W48Y185"
A lawyer, a mechanic and fishmonger walk into an old factory …
This building in Herkimer, N.Y., is an example of survival by adaptation, I guess. It is reconfigured for a variety of post-industrial uses in the finest tradition of patchwork improvisation, and still towers over its residential neighborhood a century after it was built.
Delivered in February 1993 as passenger plane to Lauda Air and went on to Ukraine International, Blue Panorama, reconfigured to freighter in 2015 by an US leasing company and on to Jet Time and now ASL Ireland.
Wouldn't you know it. A friggin' ribbon right where I need to plant my pod! Hard to see, but there is a line of pilings that I was exposing, but I had to reconfigure the pod and manhandle the ribbon just enough to keep the pod secure. Shot with and edited on the iPhone 6s.
Pre-dawn at North Beach,
Explored 1/3/16 #118
Built in 1850 for Dr. William L. McRee as a Greek Revival-style house, likely with Slave labor, this mansion, known as The Cedars or the Tate House, was purchased around 1855 by Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Samuel McDowell Tate (1830–1897), who was a secessionist, and his wife, Jennie Sophronia Pearson Tate (1843-1902), who had ten children while living in the house. The house was renovated in 1866-1868 by the Tate family in the Second Empire style, adding the current porch, a mansard roof, an octagonal tower on the principal facade, and a one-and-a-half-story rear ell. Tate was elected to the North Carolina Legislature in 1874, and pushed to have the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Broughton Hospital built adjacent to Morganton.
The house is clad in flemish bond red brick with doric pilasters, a mansard roof, gabled dormers, double-hung windows, porches with slender turned columns, and decorative awnings with stickwork brackets. Inside, the house featured a central hall plan in the original 1850 section, a large dining room and a kitchen in the rear ell, as well as several bedrooms and parlors. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 2001, the house was rehabilitated and adaptively reused to house the new office and service branch for the Morganton Savings Bank, expanding the rear wing and adding a drive-through service canopy on the rear wing, and reconfiguring the interior to house the bank's offices. Today, the house is home to the Morganton Federal Savings and Loan Bank, and features a restored exterior facade, with carefully landscaped grounds that maintain the gardens and lawns in the yard, and carefully screen the parking areas from the street.
Hey everyone, I found a little trick to return photo pages to the look and functionality that ended with the new photo page rollout this week. Many folks have changed their language preference to something other than English in order to get the old design back. I found a different way that I hope will work even after the change is rolled out to non-English language versions of Flickr. Since this involves reconfiguring your browser, it's not for everyone. For those of you comfortable downloading and working with browser extensions and plug-ins, this is fairly simple. Curious? You can read about it here: www.elmofoto.com/Hacks/FlickrHackr
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-Lorenzo
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@ American Airlines
Boeing 767-323 ( ER ) ( WL ) • msn 33082 / 899
• ENG : 2x GE CF6-80C2B6
• REG : N343AN
• RMK : painted in "oneworld"
• RMK : Fleet Number "343"
@ History Aircraft :
• 04.FEB.2003 : First flight at built site Everett ( KPAE )
• 14.FEB.2003 : Delivered to "American Airlines" AA & AAL with reg N343AN and configured "C30Y195"
• OCT.2013 : Winglets ( WL ) fitted
• JAN.2014 : painted in "oneworld" special colours
• AUG.2014 : re-configured "C28W14Y163"
Some of the minifigures bought/ assembled recently... Tried to reconfigure the Atari boy to another minifig but it didn't turn out nice so I revert to his original self... Haha, I love Kelly Kapoor there with the Friends hat! She matches so well... :D
New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R160A no. 9277 (Alstom, 2005-2010) is the lead motor on a Coney Island-bound F train seen rising up onto the Culver Line structure as it approaches Ditmas Ave Station. The interlocking at this location was built by the IND when they extended their four-track South Brooklyn Line and "recaptured" the three-track BMT Culver Line, which originally curved west here towards 9th Ave Station on the BMT West End Line.
The interlocking is currently being reconfigured as part of the Culver CBTC project, and the 5 switches merging the four tracks into three there will soon be only one: where the two express tracks merge into one. This work has finally begun after lengthy delays with the manufacture of the Special Work Portions (SWPs) for this project: the Manhattan-bound local track B2 has been "hard railed" and its switch removed.
The operational flexibility will not be lost, though; crossovers allowing moves between the express and local tracks have been added within the tunnel, sheltering them from the elements and reducing the chance of delays due to snow in the winter.
Golden Monoliths
par/by SpY
Rue Faidherbe (Rambla), Lille
Imagined for lille3000’s 7th edition, the Golden Monoliths by Spanish artist SpY guide the visitors and participants of the parade to the heart of the city and its Fiesta. The gold titans seem like a modern take on the 17th century city gates, that welcomed the opening of carnivals and processions. They transform the urban landscape of Lille through the installation of fourteen golden shipping containers in a vertical position, aligned along its main street.
This monumental intervention reconfigures the everyday perception of the public environment, turning industrial objects into symbols that alter our understanding of space.
The street ceases to be a simple space of transit and becomes a ritual corridor, a passageway between
Originally conceived as utilitarian structures for global transportation and trade, the containers are decontextualized and coated in gold. Far from being a decorative gesture, this treatment converts their industrial purpose into an artistic resignification that oscillates between the functional and the symbolic.
SpY subverts the original identity of the containers through an installation that transforms the utilitarian into the mythological, in an exercise in spatial perception that invites reflection on the cult of consumption in modern society.
Source: fiestalille3000.com/en/exposition/golden-monoliths-2/
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À l’image des portes de ville du 17ème siècle qui accueillaient l’ouverture des carnavals et des processions, les Golden Monoliths de l’artiste espagnol SpY guident le public et les participants à la parade au cœur de la ville et de sa Fiesta. Ils transforment le paysage urbain de Lille avec quatorze conteneurs dorés érigés à la verticale le long de la rue Faidherbe.
Cette intervention monumentale reconfigure notre vision quotidienne de la ville, transforme des objets industriels en symboles qui modifient notre perception de l’espace.
À l’origine conçues comme des structures utilitaires pour le transport et le commerce global, les conteneurs sont décontextualisés et peints en or. Loin d’être un geste décoratif, cette métamorphose vient bouleverser leur essence industrielle et leur confère un sens artistique entre fonction et symbole, utilité et mythologie.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Meridian Hall is a major performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre. The building opened as the O'Keefe Centre on October 1, 1960, and it has hosted a variety of international attractions and stars. From 1996 to 2007, the building was known as the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts. From 2007 to 2019, it was known as the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. On September 15, 2019, it was renamed Meridian Hall in partnership with Meridian Credit Union.
The theatre, designated a heritage building by the City of Toronto government, underwent renovations to restore its iconic features such as the marquee canopy and York Wilson's lobby mural, The Seven Lively Arts. Restoration of the wood, brass and marble that were hallmarks of the original facility was undertaken, along with audience seating, flooring upgrades, new washrooms and reconfigured lobby spaces. Following two years of renovations and restoration work, the building reopened its doors on October 1, 2010, fifty years to the date of the first opening night performance.
Daybreak at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco earlier this year.
Shot taken from Pier 14 with Treasure Island in the distance.
"The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the United States.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the California Gold Rush days, with "Emperor" Joshua Norton famously advocating for it, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened on Thursday, November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, with trucks, cars, buses and commuter trains on the lower, but after the Key System abandoned rail service on April 20, 1958, the lower deck was converted to all-road traffic as well. On October 12, 1963, traffic was reconfigured to one way traffic on each deck, westbound on the upper deck, and eastbound on the lower deck, with trucks and buses allowed on the upper deck."
As a misty dawn began to break over the Tengger Sand Sea the figures started appearing.
At first it was a trickle, a few hardy souls briefly appearing before disappearing into the ether. Before long it became a deluge as more and more shadowy forms skulked past, some on motorbikes, others on horseback. Most were on foot but all held a common purpose.
Their destination was Mt Bromo, an active volcano in East Java and one of Indonesia’s truly iconic images. Try as it might, the morning sun could not break through the smoke belching forth from its crater.
Early start
The day had begun in the early hours of the nearby village Cemoro Lewang. A convoy of jeeps raced across the flatlands, their passengers sitting silently, trying to gauge their surroundings as the impenetrable blackness raced by.
Before long they reached the viewing platforms of Mt Pananjakan. An already formidable formidable crowd had gathered to take in the otherworldly grandeur of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.
Below lay some of the conservation area’s volcanic inhabitants, seemingly emanating from the swirling fog itself. The collapsed crater of Mt Bromo, dormant Mt Batok and in the far distance Mt Semeru, a gigantic cone rearing over the entire landscape, the constant plume of grey smoke, ash and stones rising from its peak reminding visitors of its destructive, and most definitely active, power.
Cosmic ebbs and flows
A dense mist was already ebbing and flowing around the vast plain, bestowing upon the area a somnambulant quality, ideally suited to the park’s mystical atmosphere. As the crowds descended upon the volcanic sand sea the fog, if anything, had grown thicker as smoke continued to pump from Bromo’s crater. The outline of strange swirling forms quickly grew and reconfigured themselves before disappearing completely.
Finally though, the sun had finally broken through the cloud cover. Despite the clear skies above a new challenge presented itself in place of the morning’s limited visibility: the unforgiving Indonesian humidity. Soon enough the exhausting climb up Bromo’s side slowed to a crawl as brows were mopped and water bottles downed in thirsty gulps.
Strange altars
In this state of semi-exhaustion, the landscape took on newer, odder dimensions.
Serene Batok seemed to pulsate gently as it lay covered in casuarina trees, their verdant green swathes at odds with the surrounding shades of white and grey and somehow surviving in spite of the volcanic ash from its neighbour.
The impression was that of a long-forgotten alien moon, an effect heightened by the smoke pouring from great fissures at Bromo’s base, covering the jagged craters and extending out to the edge of the desolate sand sea.
After the final, lunging climb came to an end, it was easy for the visitors to stand overawed in the presence of these ancient monoliths. Under the gaze of the incessant mid-morning sun the volcanic trio offered only a glimpse into their ultimately unknowable natural power. The fog, uncomprehending, continued its ebbing gyrations across the park’s floor.
from: www.eyeinthemiddle.com
Excerpt from www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=340:
Fort Malden National Historic Site of Canada
Amherstburg, Ontario
Address : 100 Laird Avenue South, Amherstburg, Ontario
Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 1921-05-21
Dates:
•1796 to 1799 (Construction)
•1796 to 1813 (Significant)
•1812 to 1812 (Significant)
•1813 to 1815 (Significant)
•1837 to 1838 (Significant)
•1820 to 1820 (Other addition)
Event, Person, Organization:
•War of 1812 (Event)
•Royal Canadian Volunteers (Organization)
•The Black Militia (Organization)
Other Name(s):
•Fort Malden (Designation Name)
•Fort Amherstburg (Other Name)
Existing plaque: 100 Laird Avenue South, Amherstburg, Ontario
This post was begun by the Royal Canadian Volunteers in 1796 to replace Detroit and to maintain British influence among the western Indians. As the principal defence of the Detroit frontier in 1812, it was here that Isaac Brock gathered his forces for the attack on Detroit. The next year, with supply lines cut and control of Lake Erie lost to the Americans, the British could not hold the fort, which they evacuated and burned. Partially rebuilt by the invading Americans, it was returned on 1 July 1815 to the British, who maintained a frontier garrison here until 1851. *Note: This designation has been identified for review. A review can be triggered for one of the following reasons - outdated language or terminology, absence of a significant layer of history, factual errors, controversial beliefs and behaviour, or significant new knowledge.
Description of Historic Place
The Fort Malden National Historic Site of Canada is an extensive, park-like area defined by surviving earthworks, a brick barracks building and a classically inspired structure of a domestic nature, situated on the banks of the Detroit River opposite Bois Blanc Island in Amherstburg, Ontario.
Heritage Value
Fort Malden was designated a national historic site of Canada for its role : as the principal military station for the defence of the western frontier for the period 1796-1813; in the War of 1812; in the defence of the western frontier during the border raids of 1837-38.
The heritage value of Fort Malden National Historic Site of Canada lies in the association of surviving cultural resources with the military role of the fort in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fort consisted of a deep protective ditch lined with pickets and a raised earthen parapet with bastions and mounted artillery which helped to define its interior parade square. The fort's only surviving building is the Men's Brick Barracks built in 1820. Fort Malden was established in 1796, and built as Fort Amherstburg by the Second Battalion Royal Canadian Volunteers in 1797-1799. It was strengthened in 1812, but evacuated and burned by the British in September 1813. The Americans partially rebuilt the fort in 1815. After the War of 1812, Fort Malden returned to the British and in 1837-38 was reconfigured in order to serve as a border post.
Key features contributing to the heritage value of this site include:
the cultural landscape as a remnant defence work with its siting, the form and footprint of its earthworks, parade square and other man-made landscape features and surviving building; siting on a steep bank above the Detroit River.
Men's Brick Barracks its massing as a long low single-storey rectangle with a moderately pitched hipped roof punctuated by large brick chimneys and the duplication of these shapes at a more modest scale in the 1840s brick addition to the building; the dominant porch and symmetrical definition of its main facade with a central door, flanking doors with sidelights, and the balanced arrangement of doors and windows on other facades; defensive loopholes on the south and east walls of the 1840s addition; original exterior materials and their craftsmanship (rubblestone foundation and brick walls); surviving evidence of original interior layout, materials and finishes including brick partition walls and centrally placed chimneys, roof framing, original plaster and trim; siting at perimeter of the parade square.
Archaeological remains vestiges of buildings, defensive works and activities.
Landscape features footprint and form of the earthworks and parade square with their view of associated ditch, bastions, and glacis (on neighbouring property); the scale and location of these works in relation to each other and to the Brick Barracks; evidence of historic entrances to the fort from the town and from the river to the fort; viewplanes to and from Fort Malden, to the narrow channel of the Detroit River and Bois Blanc Island and the view to and from the southwest bastion down Dalhousie St. to the town of Amherstburg and the former naval yard.
Here's a down-the-throat view of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's recently-restored 2-6-6-2 Locomotive #1309 as she poses for night photos just outside the west portal of Brush Tunnel (MP 172.2) in Corriganville, MD. In this view, you can easily see how the former 2-track tunnel has been reconfigured by removing one track and creating a rail-trail of sorts, for bikers and hikers. Called The Great Allegheny Passage, this trail runs 150 miles from Cumberland, MD, all the way to Pittsburgh, PA, including the 16 mile segment from Cumberland to Frostburg, MD, which parallels the route of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. As you can see in this image, the 914 ft. long Brush Tunnel has lights inside, along with barriers to separate the rail trail from the railroad tracks. It also has plenty of signs warning hikers and bikers to avoid the tunnel when the train is coming, simply because the noxious fumes and cinders from this massive, coal-burning locomotive can get pretty intense as she hauls the heavy passenger trains westbound up the hill to Frostburg.
Excerpt from st-pauls-lindsay.ca:
The first record of an Anglican service in Lindsay was dated November 27, 1836 and stated that “Rev. T. C. Wade preached at Mr. Rae’s on Concession 2.
In 1846, the Crown granted an acre of land on the south side of Kent St. (west of William St.) to the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto. In 1858 the Rev. John Vickers, B. A., was appointed Rector and in 1859 a large frame church was built on the Kent Street land.
Two years later, in 1885, Mr. Adam Hudspeth, Q. C., Church Warden, donated a parcel of land to the church and the Rev. Weston-Jones led the parish in the building of the present church on Russell St. The total initial cost was $19,032.70. The current structure is representative of the Gothic style of pointed architecture. The bell tower, which rises with the spire to 130 feet, is strongly buttressed in a plain early English style. The spire is topped by an intricate finial of hammered iron. The exterior side walls of the building are supported by buttresses. The church was designated as a Historical Site in 1990.
In 1958 the present pipe organ was installed. This organ was refurbished and upgraded in 2001 and is regarded to be one of the finest in the area. Renovations to the church, including new pews and lighting, were done in 1970.
During the last few years there have been many improvements made to the fabric of the church. In 1997 the bell tower underwent extensive renovations and the wheelchair access was added at this time. The following year, 1998, the inside of the church was redecorated and new carpet installed. At this time the sanctuary and chancel were reconfigured. The altar was brought forward to the front of the chancel and the choir pews moved to the back. In 2000 a new kitchen was built and washrooms to accommodate the disabled were installed. In 2006 the Marsh Memorial Hall was renovated upstairs and down and a new metal roof was installed.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia:
The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts is a major performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre. The building opened as the O’Keefe Centre on 1 October 1960, and it has hosted a variety of international attractions and stars.
The theatre, designated a heritage building by the City of Toronto, underwent renovations to restore its iconic features such as the marquee canopy and York Wilson’s lobby mural, The Seven Lively Arts. Restoration of the wood, brass and marble that were hallmarks of the original facility was undertaken, along with audience seating, flooring upgrades, new washrooms and reconfigured lobby spaces. Following two years of renovations and restoration work, the Sony Centre reopened its doors on 1 October 2010, fifty years to the date of the first opening night performance.