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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.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Meridian Hall is a major performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre.[1] The facility was constructed for the City of Toronto municipal government and is currently managed by TO Live, an arms-length agency and registered charity created by the city. Located at 1 Front Street East, the venue opened as the O'Keefe Centre on October 1, 1960. 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 re-branded as Meridian Hall.
In 2008, the City of Toronto designated the theatre a heritage building. That year, it also 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.
The Centre was built on land formerly occupied by a series of commercial buildings, including the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, and previously it was the site of the Great Western Railway Terminal (later the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market).
The idea for a performing arts centre that could serve the needs of an increasingly dynamic city predates the building's opening by almost 20 years. In the mid-1940s, Nathan Phillips issued a challenge to Toronto industrialists to underwrite the cost of a multipurpose centre for theatre, music and dance. Response to Phillips' challenge was not immediate. E.P. Taylor, the racehorse-loving head of Canadian Breweries, which owned O'Keefe Brewing, offered in early 1955 to build a performing arts centre that would not only serve the needs of local institutions but increase the diversity of entertainment options available in Toronto. Toronto City Council immediately accepted the proposal in principle, but not until 1958 was the project finally approved to be built. Among others, United Church spokesmen opposed the idea that money from the sale of beer would be used for community development. Taylor assigned one of his key executives, Hugh Walker, to oversee building what was to be known, during its first 36 years, as the O'Keefe Centre.
The O'Keefe Centre opened on October 1, 1960, with a red-carpet gala. The first production was Alexander H. Cohen's production of the pre-Broadway premiere of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet.
Like The National Ballet, The Canadian Opera Company made the Centre its home stage, from as early as 1961 to 2006.
In early February 1996, the facility was renamed the Hummingbird Centre in recognition of a major gift from a Canadian software company, Hummingbird Communications Ltd. The $5-million donation allowed the Centre to undertake a number of capital improvements and repairs, including the installation of an elevator and an acoustic reinforcement system for the auditorium. When the Ballet and Opera moved to the Four Seasons Centre in 2006, it left a hole in the theatre's schedule. At this point, programming shifted to a multicultural schedule by include more content appealing to Toronto's many ethnic diasporas.
On 21 January 2019, the City of Toronto announced a C$30.75 million 15-year partnership with Meridian Credit Union, re-branding the Sony Centre into Meridian Hall, and the Toronto Centre for the Arts into the Meridian Arts Centre. The arts venues formally adopted their new names on September 15, 2019.
Designed by Peter Dickinson, the performing arts venue is a distinctive building and an example of a mid-twentieth century modern performing arts venue. It is four storeys high and is broken up into three main forms: the entrance block, auditorium and fly tower. The central form of the building is highly symmetrical with an open floor plan. Structurally, the performing arts venue is not over complicated and uses steel trusses and concrete to hold the majority of the building together. In addition to the structure, the performing arts venue's auditorium houses a very sophisticated acoustic system, which gives the audience the sense that the sound is surrounding them.
When it comes to materiality, the majority of the original materials are still in the building today. Materials used include: Alabama limestone, glazing, granite, copper, bronze, Carrara marble, carpet, cherry plywood panels and Brazilian rosewood. The performing arts venue is very diverse in its range of materials and employs them in such a way that they are not overshadowed by the unique forms of the building.
The interior also features a grand double-height foyer with coffered ceilings, a 30 metres (98 ft) wide mural by the famous Toronto-born artist York Wilson, cantilevered stairs, polished bronze auditorium doors, and a fan-shaped auditorium with a curving balcony.
I asked her if she was dressed like that for camping... she replied, why not?! :D
Reconfigured Mickey & Minnie Mouse to regular city folk...
It could do with a bit of a clean but considering it's now 30 years old the Richard Rogers designed Lloyds of London building still looks rather spritely.
I'm also reminded somewhat ironically that given the buildings whole 'raison d'être' was that it was flexible and could be easily reconfigured and extended to the best of my knowledge it's remained exactly as it was constructed......
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From Wikipedia : "It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme. Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK."
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@ Alaska Airlines
Boeing 737-890 ( WL )
• MSN : 35180 / 2090
• ENG : 2x CFMI CFM56-7B27
• REG : N563AS
• RMK : Fleet Number "563"
@ History Aircraft :
• 16.OCT.2006 : First flight at built site Renton ( KRNT )
• 30.OCT.2006 : Delivered to "Alaska Airlines" AS & ASA with reg N563AS and configured "C16Y141"
• 2014 : re-configured "C16Y147"
Arriving from Newark this afternoon as "Ravn Flight (RVF) 8730" carrying the New Jersey Devils NHL team. New Pacific Airlines (formerly Northern Pacific Airlines) initially planned to serve Asia from Anchorage with scheduled passenger flights, but the closure of Russian airspace threw a wrench in those plans.
They eventually started service out of Ontario, California to a handful of destinations in the US, but this was terminated less than a year later with the aircraft all being reconfigured into 78 seat VIP charter aircraft.
I was in my blind on the edge of the swamp, with the window facing NW. Intuition told me to peek out the very small NE-facing side flap, and I saw this otter vigorously ripping pieces from some unknown swamp creature. In order to get the scope right up against the wall I had to completely reconfigure the legs on my tripod, shortening the two close to the wall and lengthening the third one to balance it. I first took a few stills, and then shot video - flic.kr/p/EGSSYu until he left.
After the otter was out of sight we went out in the swamp and found what was left of this unlucky little mud turtle.
Digiscoped using manual focus.
@ 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
Long-abandoned drive-in theater in Massachusetts. I’m not one to reconfigure scenes … the toilet seat was there when I arrived, and nearly complied with the rule of thirds as I shot the photo.
"Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles Reconfigured Using 3,144 Bikes in Toronto"
Nathan Phillips Square downtown Toronto during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival 2013, where this Ai Weiwei exhibit was. Toronto has so much to offer, especially when it comes to culture.
If you wish to read about more of the events at the festival I can share a link to a notorious Toronto Blog below,
This was an angle I always wanted to try but it doesn't work on a sunny day so figured with it being overcast it was now or never because after this there was only one more train to go!
CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 cuts thru Peabody Square on the South Reading Branch with MEC 516 trailing only two cars, a spacer and the last loaded inbound car of hydrochloric acid for the Rousselot plant in Peabody which is closing later this year after operation in some form for 206 years and with rail service for 173 of those! They will pull five empties this day then return two days later to pull this one drawing to a close rail operations thru this unique and famous location forever.
I'm standing on the steps of the Peabody District Courthouse and the train has just cleared Central Street and is about to Cross Lowell Street in the center of town. Rising in front of 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 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 is such a unique and remarkable location and it is truly a loss that trains will no longer travel through here.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Tuesday August 29, 2023
Selective color
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
@ Singapore Airlines
Airbus A380-841 - cn 019
- Engines : 4x RR Trent 970
- Reg : 9V-SKG
@ History Aircraft :
• 07.NOV.2008 : First flight under test reg F-WWSP at built site Toulouse (TLS) France
• 03.JUN.2009 : Delivered to "Singapore Airlines" SQ & SIA with reg 9V-SKG and configured "F12C60Y399"
• NOV.2015 : re-configured "F12C60W36Y333"
The westbound Zephyr is meeting an eastbound BNSF oil train here at Cliff. For those that remember the west switch of Cliff in the pre-UP days, the switch was a "Y" switch. Both main and siding slightly diverged from the single main track. However, UP reconfigured the switch to be more traditional, with the mainline being straight and the siding truly diverging.
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The Colón Free Trade Zone is a deepwater seaport in Panama dedicated to re-exporting a wide variety of merchandise to Latin America and the Caribbean. It is located in the province of Colón on the Caribbean coast near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. A free-trade zone is a geographic area where goods may be imported, stored, handled, manufactured, or reconfigured and re-exported under specific customs regulation and generally not subject to customs duty. Print Size 13x19 inches.
The Land of Lost Content Museum on Market Street in Craven Arms, a small market town in Shropshire.
The Land of Lost Content is an independent museum containing Britain’s foremost collection of pop culture ephemera, obscure objects and ordinary things from the pre digital era. Belonging to eccentric artist and compulsive collector Stella Mitchell and collectors of design history, the Hemingway family, the Land of Lost Content is used as Hemingway Design’s personal design archive.
Stella explains
"This museum is the result of a lifetime’s work. I realised when a student that other museums were ignoring the lives, experiences and possessions (and the hopes and dreams) of the ‘ordinary’ people of Britain. I was always fired with the desire to right this wrong; and fuelled with the artistic need to create something of merit that might just knock a few peoples socks off!"
"My husband Dave and I opened our first museum to the public in 1991 – we have run it on a web of shoestrings ever since – no sign of funding (but we didn’t look for it too hard). 99% of the collection has been chosen by me over about 45 years and increases daily – and the displays are reconfigured and updated annually."
Not everything is or can be displayed. apart from lots of extra exhibits, there are also collections of ‘undisplayables’ – Scrapbooks, Song sheets, Magazines, Posters, Programmes, Postcards, Tickets, Catalogues, Pamphlets, Broachers, Adverts and Records.
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For the third time in 6 weeks or so I was back in this one of a kind location for the signature must have shot of CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1. As many times as I've done this it never gets old, and you can always tweak your angle. This time was worth it just for the variety of shooting something other than stalwart 507 as sister Pan Am blue GP40-2W MEC 516 (GMDD blt. Apr. 1976 as CN 9657) is currently assigned to the job having been swapped out Sunday night.
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 Rousselot plant at the 5 MPH maximum on to the South Reading Industrial track. They are cutting right through Peabody Square in front of Peabody District Court while still hanging back across Central Street and about to curl over Lowell 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.
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... It sure will be sad when the last train runs through the square drawing the curtain closed on all freight operations on the former Boston and Maine lines on the north shore. Sic Transit Gloria...
Peabody, Massachusetts
Tuesday April 25, 2023
Central Maine and Quebec Job 420-25 departs Brownville Jct, bound for Millinocket.
Around this time CMQ was wrapping up a rebuild of the Millinocket Subdivision, which saw new rail installed on curves, tie and surfacing work, along with Millinocket Yard being reconfigured with new switches. At the same time new switches and track work were being done at Brownville Jct, such as the recently installed switch in front of the 3057.
The 3057 was the only SD40-2 CMQ owned. If I remember correctly, the unit was damaged in a derailment during MMA and sat behind Derby with its fuel tank missing, as well as parts the shop crews robbed off of it. I think CEFX sold it at a discount to CMQ, which in turn got it going again and used it until the sale. Recently the unit was sold to the North Plains Railroad and it is sitting at North Bay Ontario awaiting mechanical work.
Central Maine and Quebec Railway
Train: Job 420-25
8/25/2017
Brownville Jct, ME
CMQ Brownville Jct Yard
AGR 2725 was delivered to the Chicago & Northwestern RR in 1969 As an SD45. It has been reconfigured as an SD40M-2 and is now owned by the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railroad which is owned by G&W.
Here it is seen operating with a BAYL crew in the yard in Dothan.
@ 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"
After picking its cut of cars at the Buzzi Unicem USA cement plant, UP train LMC51-20 heads into Bonner Springs, KS on Main Track 1 of the UP Kansas Sub to set out industry cars for the LMW32. This local is running from 18th St. Yard in Kansas City, KS to Topeka, KS.
The power for the train is a GP60 and a GP62, which was reconfigured to give it the ability to easily run long-hood forward. 4/20/17.
Le plasticien Jean-Michel Othoniel qui vit et travaille à Sète depuis quelques années a proposé (et offert) à la ville de Sète de réaliser une œuvre sur la place Victor-Hugo, entièrement reconfigurée.
NJ Transit 4105 makes a quick station stop at Great Notch before proceeding west on the Boonton Line. The view from the Long Hill Road overpass today looks quite different, if you can even see past the safety barriers installed when the line was electrified up to this location. Today Great Notch Yard occupies the space near and through the curve in the distance. Great Notch station (at the time, just a bus shelter and a bit of pavement) is now a distant memory, replaced by the much larger Montclair State University station. Those changes brought more frequent service and access to New York Penn Station directly via the reconfigured "Montclair-Boonton Line". I wish I had paid more attention to the Boonton Line in those days, especially the now abandoned east end.
NJTR 4105 GP40PH-2 (ex-CNJ 3679 GP40P)
L'Avion (Elysair)
Boeing 757-230(WL) - cn 25140 / 382
- Engines :
- Reg : F-HAVN
@ History Aircraft :
# 10.JUL.1991 : First flight at production site Renton ( RNT ) WA USA
# 29.JUL.1991 : Delivered to "Condor" DE & CFG with reg D-ABNF
# 22.DEC.2006 : Tsfd to "L'Avion" ( Elysair ) AO & AVI leased from GOAL with reg F-HAVN and config cabin C90
# 22.APR.2009 : Tsf to "OpenSkies" EC & BOS leased from Aerolease with reg F-HAVN and config cabin "F24C40" and named "Gloria"
# JUN.2012 : re-configured "C20W28Y66"
we had strong southerly winds yesterday & this morning, coinciding with very high (and low) tides, and the beach has been completely reconfigured — streams have new courses, there are stones & tide pools where there none before, and lots of still-closed clams strewn everywhere. i had to get out and prowl around… (the cats elected to nap)
Give and take - a reconfiguring of the sign by a passing vehicle.
This IS NOT a selective colour photograph. The background is a naturally grey (steel building) structure and a grey painted wall.
Appeared in 'Explore' October 22nd. 2017.
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The Llandaff Cathedral is the main church of the Anglican diocese of Llandaff, a suburb of Cardiff (Wales). It is one of the two cathedrals of the Welsh capital, along with the Catholic one located in the center of the city. The current building dates back to the 12th century and was built on the site of an earlier church. The cathedral is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, as well as the three Welsh Saints Dubricio, Teilo and Odoceo.
After the serious damage suffered by the bombings in the Second World War, the ecclesiastical building was restored and reconfigured thanks to the architect Giorgio Pace of York who brought back the splendor and use of the structure in June 1958.
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La cattedrale di Llandaff è la chiesa principale della diocesi anglicana di Llandaff, sobborgo di Cardiff (Galles). È una delle due cattedrali della capitale gallese, insieme a quella cattolica situata nel centro della città. L'edificio attuale risale al XII secolo e fu costruito sul sito di una precedente chiesa. La cattedrale è dedicata ai santi Pietro e Paolo, oltre ai tre santi gallesi Dubricio, Teilo e Odoceo.
Dopo i gravi danni subiti dai bombardamenti nella seconda guerra mondiale, l’edificio ecclesiastico è stato restaurato e riconfigurato grazie all’architetto Giorgio Pace di York che ha riportato allo splendore e in uso la struttura nel mese di giugno del 1958.
Scarlett must've had a busy day, because she was subdued when I let the goats out into the playpen at Belmont Audubon Habitat tonight. There's been a lot going on in the goat pavilion (a repurposed greenhouse) as it gets reconfigured.
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
Ruth Ewan (née en 1980 à Aberdeen) vit et travaille à Glasgow.
"It Rains, It Rains" emprunte son titre à la chanson folklorique « Il pleut, il pleut,
bergère », écrite par le poète, homme politique et acteur révolutionnaire Fabre
d'Églantine, qui aurait récité calmement les paroles de la chanson lors de sa propre
exécution en 1794.
Le projet de Ruth Ewan se compose d’une installation – Back to the Fields, conçue
en 2015, entièrement reconfigurée pour l’espace emblématique de la nef du
CAPC – et d’objets qui dérivent du calendrier républicain.
L'Entrepôt Lainé (autrefois appelé aussi Entrepôt réel des denrées coloniales) est un bâtiment construit en 1824 par l'architecte Claude Deschamps. Il était destiné à l'origine au stockage sous douane des marchandises en provenance des colonies, avant leur expédition à travers l'Europe. Le bâtiment abrite aujourd'hui le CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux et Arc en rêve / centre d'architecture.
08935 shunts the former British Thomson-Houston type 1 D8243 alongside Bristol Temple Meads station on a winter's afternoon in early 1985.
Latterly classified as the class 15, the BTH Type 1s didn't survive the purge of non-standard traction that occurred in the late 1960s. Four of the class were retained into the 1970s to act as non-powered train pre-heating units.
This particular locomotive spent its early life based in East London. Reconfigured as a pre-heating unit in 1969, it stayed on the Eastern Region through the 1970s, but moved to Marylebone for pre-heating stock for steam specials in the early 1980s. In 1985 the unit spent some months at Bristol Bath Road. It was eventually withdrawn in 1987.
Given its rarity, it was scrapped remarkably late. in 1991, 22 years after its original withdrawal from service, it was scrapped at Vic Berry's in Leicester.
Photograph by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.
The unknown photographer identified themselves as 'Badgerline Enthusiast'. Badgerline was a bus company based in Weston Super Mare but operating into Bristol.
Photographs I've seen from the gentleman clearly focus on Bristol in the years from about 1979 to 1985. He also travelled more widely, particularly on railtours to Cwmbargoed, Cheddleton and the West Highlands.
If anyone can provide the true identity of this mystery photographer, I'd appreciate it.
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.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
arch.: H.P. Berlage
Pablo Reinoso - Retour végétal (2015).
In the era of deforestation and climate change, the sculpture’s overflowing wooden slats communicate a sense of urgency, pointing to the necessity of rethinking our collective modes of existence and of reconfiguring our relationship to the natural world.
KITT vs KARR Instructions are up: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-50444/Flashback_Bricks/kitt-vs-k...
It's a two-for-one sale! Recreate your favorite scenes from Knight Rider with this set that pits the heroic KITT (the prototype of the car of the future) against the evil KARR (the prototype of the prototype of the car of the future...it's a long story).
Both six-stud wide cars feature opening doors and carry one minifigure (although they don't need one, they can drive themselves). Instructions build KITT in his Super Pursuit Mode, but he's easily reconfigured into his standard mode, or drop the top and let Michael Knight cruise around in convertible style.
Hopton's Almshouses are almshouses and a committee room in Southwark, London, SE1 at Hopton Gardens, 10–11 Hopton Street, all of which are Grade II listed.
They were built in 1746–49 by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to the designs of the builder Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will.
Originally built as 26 homes for poor men of Southwark of good character, in particular those from the Parish of Christchurch, Southwarkn of, the buildings were extensively reconfigured in the 1980s and now comprise 20 single bedroom homes for older people from Southwark. The Committee Room is still used by residents and the extensive gardens are an oasis of green in a heavily built up part of London.
The Almshouses were transferred from Hopton's Charity into the management and trusteeship of historic Southwark charity, United St Saviour's Charity in 2012.
(Wikipedia)
British Airways
Airbus A319-131 G-EUPD (cn 1142) with 2x IAE V2522-A5 Engines / First flight : 19.NOV.1999 / Delivered : 10.DEC.1999 to BA with cabin config CY132 ; painted in "Olympic Dove" special colours Jun 2012 and later re-configured "CY143" Feb.2015
The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
Menindee Slogan Bus:
The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
2020.08.25 - A short street reconfigured for pedestrian oriented traffic.. speed bumps, guide poles and flower pots dotting the road
This was shot in 2011 on my junky old camera, so apologies for the quality. In a scene that has since changed greatly, UP SD90/43MAC 8206 leads a manifest out of the west end of Proviso Yard in Melrose Park, Illinois, crossing under the Indiana Harbor Belt and approaching the 25th Street grade crossing. Since then, the IHB bridge has been rebuilt, 25th Street is now an overpass, and the interlocking here was reconfigured to accommodate the long-planned third main track between the west end of the yard and River Forest, eliminating a major bottleneck for east-west UP traffic in the area. UP 8206's number slot is now taken by an ES44AH- I am not sure of this particular MAC's disposition.
@ Lufthansa
Boeing 737-330 - cn 25359 / 2158
• Reg : D-ABEI
• Aircraft Name : "Bamberg"
• Engines : 2x CFMI CFM56-3B1
@ History Aircraft :
# 24.OCT.1991 : First flight - Renton ( RNT ) WA USA
# 07.NOV.1991 : Delivered to "Lufthansa" LH & DLH with reg D-ABEI and configured "CY127"
# 2011 : re-configured "CY140"
# 29.APR.2013 : std at Berlin ( SXF ) Germany
# 06.FEB.2014 : returned to service
# 17.DEC.2015 : Tsfd to "Automatic LLC" with reg N359AU and stored at Orlando ( SFB ) FL.USA
@ American Airlines
Boeing 777-223(ER) - cn 30798 / 333
- Engines : 2x RR Trent 892
- Reg : N751AN
- Fleet Number : 7BK
@ History Aircraft :
# 26.MAR.2001 : First flight at construction site Everett ( PAE ) WA USA
# 04.APR.2001 : Delivered to "American Airlines" AA & AAL with reg N751NN and configured "F16C35Y194"
# MAR.2016 : Re-configured "C45W45Y170"
After photographing fireworks along the Illinois River at Ottawa, what do a couple of railfans do with the rest of their night? Go seek out the Illinois Railway of course! The Illinois Railway is a primary sand-hauling shortline that never sleeps. In the Ottawa area, it runs almost every day, around the clock.
Without reconfiguring the flashes, this car with it's unique graffiti was second out on this new set of cars. Later on, while editing photos, I realized I had shot this car before, not 2 weeks prior!
Thanks, Gilbert Sebenste, for the sharing your flashes to get this shot! Gilbert's image can be seen here:
It's hard to belive it's been nearly a year since the last freight train cut thru Peabody square though hope remains that they will return someday. Until that day comes here's another from that historic last run.
CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 cuts thru Peabody Square on the South Reading Branch with MEC 516 trailing only two cars, empty cement hoppers to be used as spacers to bracket the final empty hydrochloric acid tank car they are headed out to pull from the Rousselot plant. The facility is closing later this year after being in operation in some form for 206 years and with rail service for 173 of those! Once they return a little later the rails through the this unique and famous location will fall silent, quite possibly forever.
I'm standing in the center of town looking across the square at the Peabody District Courthouse at the train which has just cleared Central Street and is about to Cross Lowell Street. Rising 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 is truly a loss that trains will no longer travel through here.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday August 31, 2023
The mixed-media works of Vik Muniz are composed from found objects – food, dirt, garbage – then repurposed and reconfigured into intricately layered re-creations of canonical and historical art works which are then photographed for the final piece.
Ex works East Midlands Railways 156422 stands in platform 1 at Nottingham, 21st March 2022. It has been painted in the current Northern Livery but is branded for East Midlands Railways and is obviously Northern bound in the near future. Having had a ride on it recently whilst the exterior looks ex works and no doubt it has had a mechanical overhaul the interior has had a deep clean and patch repair only. It has also been reconfigured electrically to a standard Class 156 allowing it to be renumbered back to 156422 from 156922, which it has carried since transfer to East Midlands Railways from Greater Anglia in 2020.
Diana Ross & The Supremes: Reflections
Reflections of my neighbourhood. This is the gallery Paneifico. It's located kitty-corner from my building.
It is another testament to the heritage of Strathcona. With it's history starting in early 1920's, it was one of the two local competing bakeries. This was home of the Italian bakery and the Ukrainian bakery was directly across the street.
When it was purchased by it's currents, long since it's days a bakery, the home and bakery space were reconfigured into 5 studio live/work spaces for the fast growing demand from artists desiring to live on the eastside.
The beginnings of the Eastside Culture Crawl happened here in 1994.
Reflecting on the life I lived before moving to this very unique and special community gives me a feeling of such gratefulness.
This is place where arts and culture are supported, defending and continue to be fought by those who believe that cultivating art for the future is all our responsibility. Youth art programs thrive in communities like ours because of this belief.
culturecrawl.ca/buildings/paneficio-studios
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