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In this poignenty titled image. Poyon reconfigures countries of the world to create a new order that that displaces Western paradigms and speaks to the aspiration of a borderless world. He situates Mayan culture and experience within a global context and speaks to the urgency of migration and barriers to global mobility.
BLM solidarity continues at Sherman Oaks Galleria. After it opened in 1980, the Galleria quickly became a focus for L.A.'s San Fernando Valley youth mall culture, featured in the 1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the 1983 film Valley Girl. In 2002 the Galleria, at Ventura & Sepulveda, was reconfigured for office space.
On sweltering day in this August , I was able to make some time to get trackside at Bound Brook for a few hours .
CSX 5443 heads east towards Oak Island and the River Line with Selkirk bound traffic.
Prior to Conrail , the B&O controlled CNJ-Reading combination utilized this route to complete with Penn Central. The WM ,B&O, and RDG routed traffic to and from Philadelphia and Hagerstown into the NYC market via a diamond crossing the LV and joining the CNJ mainline.
Conrail reconfigured the area ,as the CNJ mainline was eventually sold off to NJT and utilized the route as a way around the former PRR northeast corridor for traffic moving north and south .
Post CR split the line provides CSX direct access into the NJ market something they lacked in the CR years.
CP Bound Brook Lehigh Line/Port Reading Secondary CRSO
@ Delta Air Lines ( USA )
Boeing 747-451 • msn 30267 / 1223
• ENG : 4x PW PW4056
• REG : N672US
• CAB : "C65Y338"
• RMK : Fleet number 6312
@ History Aircraft :
• 08.JUL.1999 : First flight at built site Everett ( KPAE ) WA USA
• 19.JUL.1999 : Delivered to "Northwest Airlines" NW & NWA with reg N672US
• 29.OCT.2008 : Tsf to "Delta Air Lines" DL & DAL
• SEP.2012 : re-configured "C48W42Y286"
• 01.OCT.2014 : wfu and stored at Marana Pinal Airpark ( MZJ ) AZ
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A mono version of my previous upload of silhouettes and shadows created by the Place Rogier canopy, a 64m diameter gridshell structure with an air-inflated membrane covering. Completed in 2012 it was designed by Xaveer De Geyter Architects and Ney & Partners Structural Engineers.
P.S. Over the Christmas break I've taken the opportunity to set up a new #Smugmug #photography #website. I still need to do some work to title and tag the images and then once I've done that I'll enable print and download sales. It anyone would like to take a look and let me have any comments, whether about the layout, functionality or the image selection, that would be great : www.dgphotos.co.uk/
Click here to see more photos from my Brusels trip : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157716583369188
From the RIBA Journal, "The 65m diameter disc is merely the most visible part of a €30 million project to reconfigure the metro station and connect its platform levels to the surface. This involved cutting a 30m by 15m hole into the pavement and opening the lower concourse level two storeys down to the air. The station is now accessed by escalators running diagonally through the space and a dramatic spiral staircase. Above this sits XDGA’s 230t bespoke steel structure, a sharp perimeter ring beam inset with a mesh of triangulated steels – some with timber infills, some clear to a tensile ETFE skin that stretches over the canopy.
Though centrally supported it leans assymetrically towards the square; the designers had to jump through engineering hoops for a bigger aesthetic intent. With a total area of 3,200m², architect Tom Bonnevalle explains that the idea was to ‘generate a roof form that was visible from all the approaching streets to create a landmark presence along the boulevard. We felt the circle was a simple form that everyone gets,’ he continues, ‘an iconic form that forges a strong identity for the square as well as becoming part of the wider urban realm.’"
© D.Godliman
Rocky Mountain Front Range, Denver, Colorado. The fires in Colorado increased from 12 to 14 in recent days; some with minimal containment. Once again, we are pleased to have received some rain just prior to this photo. But the air's "color filters" are altered due to the multiple fires' particulates in the atmosphere.
Hundreds of firefighters who specialize in fighting forest fires from the air (dropping fire retardant from customized aircraft) and on the ground (such as, the "Hot Shots") remain hard at work throughout the state. Hundreds more are due to arrive to work alongside these crews and offer relief for the weary in the days ahead.
It is reported that the 747 Global Super Tanker, a Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT), reconfigured and based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, may be called up to assist with these Colorado and California fires. First, the navigation system is being updated now for greater navigation accuracy.
Northwest Airlines
Boeing 747-451 - cn 24224 / 803
@ Reg : N669US
@ Engines : 4x PW PW4056
@ History Aircraft :
# 19.JUL.1990 : Built Everett (PAE) and first flight
# 20.AUG.1990 : Delivered to "Northwest Airlines" NW & NWA leased from AT&T Capital Services with reg N669US and fleet number 6309 with config cabin C65Y338
# 29.OCT.2008 : Tsfd to "Delta Air Lines" DL & DAL with reg N669US / n° 6309
# OCT.2012 : re-configured "C48W42Y286"
Early on a cold October morning, a Denver & Rio Grande Western mixed freight arrives in the little town of Chama, NM, after an overnight trip from Durango, CO. Led by K-36 Locomotives #s 489 and 488, the train is passing the stock pens at the south end of town (Milepost 344.4) and will be headed for the company yards, less than a mile ahead after stopping here to pick up a herd of cattle.
This image was captured during an October 2024 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, organized by Lerro Photography. Back when the D&RGW operated this line, heavy freights traveling east out of Durango would typically double head like this. Once in Chama, trains with heavy Mikados, such as the K-36 and K-37s, would often be reconfigured, with the helper locomotives pinned on to the tail end of the train instead of up front. This is because of a weight limitation on the Lobato Trestle over Wolf Creek, just outside Chama. Separating the locomotives in the train would allow the train to ascend the steep, 4% grade to Cumbres Pass without stopping and would ensure that only one locomotive at a time was on the trestle. If the freight were long or heavy, it might also be broken into several sections, which would be brought up the hill separately and reformed into one, large train on the summit. Getting heavy trains over Cumbres Pass was definitely a laborious process.
The Ward R. Burke Courthouse in Lufkin, Texas is an excellent example of Neo-Classical architecture in a small Federal building; it is a contributing building in the Calder Square Historic District in the Central Business District and it is a continuing symbol of the Federal presence in Lufkin. The simple brick building exhibits the Greek elements of Doric columns supporting an unenriched architrave at its main entry. Simple windows with unembellished limestone lintels are reminiscent of the Renaissance Revival style. The combination of elements is characteristic of the Neo-Classical style of architecture.
The Federal presence has always been strong in the community of Lufkin. Even prior to becoming incorporated as a city, Lufkin received Federal recognition through the creation of a Post Office. The city was incorporated in 1882 during a “timber boom” period in east Texas. The present courthouse was built in 1935 under the auspices of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Louis Simon, Supervising Architect. After the passage of the Public Buildings Act of 1926, there was an increase in the construction of Federal Buildings in the United States. Public building construction was expanded in the 1930's to provide jobs during the Depression. It was during this period that the courthouse was built. Originally designed for use as the main Post Office for Lufkin, the interior of the building was reconfigured in 1988 for use solely as a federal courthouse. Though its original function has changed, the building continues to serve as a symbol of the Federal presence in Lufkin. Around the time of the reconfiguration, it was named for Ward R. Burke, a longtime civic leader in Lufkin and the surrounding area.
Several buildings in the Central Business District of Lufkin are of historic significance, and preservation of these buildings is important to the community. The Ward R. Burke Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 22, 1988 joining other buildings in the Calder Square section of Lufkin.
Information about the original listing on the NRHP can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40967918
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
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@ Korean Air Lines
Boeing 747-4B5
• MSN : 26407 / 1155
• ENG : 4x PW PW4056
• REG : HL7402
@ History Aircraft :
• 05.APR.1998 : First flight under test reg N6038E at Everett ( KPAE )
• 30.DEC.1998 : Delivered to "Korean Air Lines" KE & KAL with reg HL7402 and configured "F12C58Y306"
• AUG.2008 : painted in "Passionate Wings to Art" special colours until Feb 2009
• 2012 : re-configured "F12Y45C308"
Marvão, Portugal.
Located inside the walls of the Castle, despite clear signs of having been reconfigured in the late Middle Ages, this vaulted cistern may have been built around the 9th century with the purpose of storing rain water to supply the, still then, Arab village of Ibn Maruán. Currently, many centuries after the fierce medieval disputes, these reserves are only used for watering the gardens of the peaceful and very Portuguese village of Marvão and to ensure the reflections of a simultaneously sinister and fantastic environment.
Cisterna do Marvão, Marvão, Portugal.
Localizada no interior das muralhas do castelo, e embora apresente claros sinais de ter sido reconfigurada na Baixa Idade Média, esta cisterna abobadada poderá ter sido construída por volta do século IX com o objetivo de armazenar as águas das chuvas para abastecer o então povoado árabe de Ibn Maruán. Atualmente, muitos séculos depois das aguerridas disputas medievais, estas águas são apenas aproveitadas para regar ecologicamente os jardins da pacata e bem portuguesa vila do Marvão e para assegurar reflexos de um ambiente simultaneamente sinistro e fantástico.
A darker turn into the mystical night. We tend to think of darkness as evil, but it's from the darkness that light emerges and to which it surrenders itself again.
Yin to the previous Yang, the Dark Blue-Green Feminine emerges as the voice of the darkness, the deep, the receptive, the Mother of all things. Light, of course is present, emerging too, but night is the time of the Feminine.
The RE-forming of the church is a creation process, not a destruction. Scanning left to right across the image you can almost feel the shifting and hear the creaking and moaning of stone and wood as the church reconfigures its reality. Light seems to be coming from inside as well as out. This is no inert structure. It's alive and dynamic.
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Music Link: "The Rising of the Moon", Dead Can Dance. This track is not ( yet ) on any of Dead Can Dance's albums but it's quite common for this utterly unique duo ( Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard ) to perform music that they've written but haven't put down on record.
Here is Lisa Gerrard in one of her solo moments. If you've never heard her sing her voice is something that can raise the hair on the back of your neck and send electricity roaring through your nervous system - in a thrilling, breathtaking way. She has an incredible range from a very deep alto, right on up to an extremely high and crystalline soprano. When she sings, I've always maintained, it's as if something beyond this world comes in through her. Whatever that might mean, seeing her sing live is an experience like no other. Since this image evokes the spiritual Feminine I thought who else to choose for music other than Lisa Gerrard?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24WKcNIG2uQ
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2014. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
They carried thousands of Sydneysiders each day for more than eight decades.
And, while their days in operation ended early this year, parts of the four wooden escalators that adorned Wynyard Station remain as part of a large sculpture suspended above their modern replacements.
"Interloop" is the name of the new artwork above the York St exit of the station that reuses the escalators which had been used since 1932.
Known as "Interloop", the sculpture loops together two pairs of reconfigured escalators more than 50 metres long and incorporating 244 wooden treads and four combs from the station's original wooden escalators.
Weighing more than five tonnes, the sculpture was installed last weekend at the bottom of the new escalators at the York Street entrance to the station.
It is the creation of Sydney artist and sculptor Chris Fox, and took six months to design and engineer, and 12 weeks to fabricate with over a kilometre of welding.
"Interloop is a project that really talks about past journeys and future journeys – this idea of two stitching stairways that interloop over each other using these heritage treads," he said.
"It is a major project to pull off in such a high-profile location. This is so visible – it's fantastic."
It also marks the completion of an upgrade to Wynyard Station that has resulted in a larger concourse, more ticket gates, new lifts and escalators, and better ventilation for passengers on platforms.
Until their removal, the station's wooden escalators were among just a handful still in operation around the world.
Source: SMH
Reconfigured some of the BAM parts which I bought recently, am quite happy with these minifigures now!
Pembroke Lakes Mall, often referred to as Pines Mall or Pembroke Lakes, is an enclosed shopping mall located in Pembroke Pines, Florida, a suburb of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Located on the intersection of State Road 820 (Pines Boulevard) and State Road 823 (Flamingo Road), it is in between Interstate 75 and Florida's Turnpike. Owned and managed by Brookfield Properties, the mall was opened in 1992, and has 1,135,374 square feet (105,479.7 m2) on one floor. As of 2018, Pembroke Lakes is one of South Florida's most popular malls. The anchor stores are Round One Entertainment, AMC Theatres, 2 Dillard's stores, JCPenney, and 2 Macy's stores.
After a planned fall 1991 opening, the mall opened to the public on October 28, 1992 as the third final Homart property, with a 181,847 sq ft (16,894.1 m2) Burdines, an 80,823 sq ft (7,508.7 m2) Mervyn's (both opened on September 19), a 141,751 sq ft (13,169.1 m2) Sears (opened September 29), and a 147,760 sq ft (13,727 m2) J. C. Penney (which also opened another at Miami International Mall) as anchors. Just like Pompano Fashion Square also in Broward County, Mervyn's was the only single level anchor store while Burdines, JCPenney, and Sears had 2 levels.
The JCPenney and Burdines stores in the mall replaced their stores at Hollywood Fashion Center while Sears relocated from the Hollywood Mall. A 157,473 sq ft (14,629.7 m2) Dillard's later filled the fifth anchor pad between Sears and the main entrance as a fourth multi-level store. This was their second location in South Florida (the first was at The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale) and opened on August 16, 1995; the store opened almost three years after the other 4 anchors. This was likewise done at North Point Mall a year later, while stores also opened at the newly opened Seminole Towne Center and Lakeline Mall during this time (Another area store at The Mall at Wellington Green eventually opened within that mall in 2001). Only two years later, in 1997, Dillard's converted the Mervyn's store into a second location, housing the men's and home departments, thus reconfiguring their existing store to house ladies and children's clothing.
Burdines merged with Macy's in 2003 and then became simply Macy's in 2005, housing women's and kid's clothing. Shortly thereafter, in 2006, Macy's would also fill the sixth anchor pad as a second location for their men's and home departments. This 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m2) single level store was built between the food court and original Macy's. A four-story parking garage was also added next to both Macy's stores.
In 2016, GGP announced that the mall's Sears shrunk to 101,621 sq ft (9,440.9 m2) make room for a 40,130 sq ft (3,728 m2) square foot AMC movie theater, which opened in 2017. Sears closed on September 15, 2019. In Q3 2019, Round One Entertainment announced that a new location would open in Pembroke Lakes Mall with an original opening date of Spring 2021, in the former Sears vacant anchor store, making it the first and only Round1 in the State of Florida. Due to the ongoing pandemic, construction was severely delayed. Round One Entertainment officially opened to the public on June 11, 2022.
Round1 Entertainment is open as of June 11, 2022.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_Lakes_Mall
www.pembrokelakesmall.com/en.html?cmpid=lc_yext_yext_othe...
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ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite shows the aftermath of 18 February’s ‘coronal mass ejection’.
Acquired at 0445 GMT, a little more than three hours after the initial eruption, the image demonstrates the Sun’s magnetic field reconnecting in the form of loops. Look down and left of the centre of the solar disc to clearly see this distinctive belt of loops.
Coronal mass ejections are triggered by a rearrangement of initially opposing magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona. Stored magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy, potentially triggering a huge outward eruption. In the process the magnetic fields are reconfigured into a more relaxed state.
Fields that have recently reconnected are heated to perhaps 10 million degrees, then cooling to the one million degree temperatures that are visible to Proba-2’s SWAP imager. A second Proba-2 sensor, LYRA, measures the Sun’s energy intensity at the same time. Both instruments are operated for ESA by the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
All the latest solar images from ESA and NASA are fed to the Helioviewer website, where you can make your own images and animations – www.helioviewer.org/
R-Four (short from Reconfiguring Reinforced Rocket-fuel Repulsorcraft) was a multipurposed speeder prototype developed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC) some time before 22 BBY. One existing craft built for Coruscant firefighters was abandoned and lost due to start of the Clone Wars.
This shot shows a high-speed horizontal mode allowing extra maneuverability with retracted vertical stabilizers.
Read the comments for an extra information.
Welcome to New Lancaster, the quaint home of Sir Zebulon O’Callan. When he was young, Zeb was an engineer who was critical to the creation of the SteamCore, the powerful reactor that powers all of London. Now in his old age, Zeb still loves to experiment and tinker around, and there are rumors that he is leading a study for Queen Victoria on the safety of the SteamCore. The machine, which started running in 1819, has been running now for almost 50 years. However, it was only meant to run for 25, which leads many to concern for its safety…
Hey guys, this the result of almost all of my building over the last month.. This was originally meant to be a compliment to my "Zephyr’s Knave" steampunk ship. However, with the emergence of the "Vapourlypse" sub-genre of steampunk, I figured I could help the genre grow a bit by reconfiguring the story of this creation to match the backstory of the new sub-genre.
The build itself was a long process. The rock was the first thing I built, and it was certainly a learning process. Inside is a big mess of technic humble-jumble, but the result is a highly stable rock. I only had a few minor emergencies with it towards the end of my building, when two of the rock panels fell of; however, those were quickly resolved. Next, the windmill was built. The windmill is based off of this graphic. It was a fun little thing to build, and certainly interesting, because of its octagonal shape. I especially liked how the deck and railings turned out.
This is also my first creation to include power functions. I received an old-school motor and battery-box from a friend which I was able to put to use to make the blades of the windmill turn. You can see the video here.
I also have to give a bit of credit to Slyowl and Legohaulic, because I took a lot of inspiration from both of their floating island designs.
Some of the minifigures which I bought/ assembled recently, including the CMFs from the older Lego store. I reconfigured the rocking horse girl's head, I think she looks cute! :D
SEPTA’s AEM7 test train has been reconfigured to point south, and is now leaving Lansdale to return to Philadelphia.
Although I didn't meet him for anothr 30 years, an 8-year-old version of Flickr member Darryl Rule can be seen next to the signal box by the crossing shanty.
Six elegant Wright Renown-bodied Volvo B10BLEs that Stagecoach acquired with First's Wigan operations in December 2012 (21174, 21176, 21178, 21179, 21180 and 21187) made their way to the South Wales fleet the following Spring. Four were allocated to Merthyr Tydfil depot from Summer 2013 for use at Brecon outstation as replacements for Alexander PS-bodied Volvo B10Ms 20385, 20387, 20388 and 20389 on Services 39B/39 (Brecon-Talgarth-Hay-on-Wye-Hereford).
Their tenure was sadly only brief and they were replaced on the service in January 2015 by four of the then remaining 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs reconfigured with Cummins units.
This July 2013 view is of 21187 as she emerges from Oxford Road in Hay-on-Wye whilst returning to Brecon.
After withdrawal, she was purchased by Newtons of Crumlin but did not see further service.
In my first departure from a landscape photo since around Remembrance Day, here is an image that was taken on the same January 2013 winter photography session that my previous two uploads of the frozen Bow River were taken on.
There are always so many fascinating shapes and textures and colours in the shallow water that freezes over at this spot, but also gets randomly unfrozen at spots due to the flowing water underneath.
This particular arrangement of ice studded with rocks and pebbles and flowing water underneath thin ice really caught my eyes as there were so many different colours and textures in it!
I have found all sorts of neat things frozen into the shallow, clear water at this spot over the years; as I have stated in previous uploads, it is one of my favourite spots for photography, but now sadly is completely reconfigured and not nearly as picturesque due to the floods!
Hope you all enjoy the photo, and that you are all having an excellent Thursday so far!
On the 14th of November last year I posted a different crop of this image and as it was my favorite photograph I dedicated it to my father who had just been diagnosed lung cancer. Yesterday afternoon he lost his battle with cancer...
May you rest in peace...
You will be missed...
Funny thing I had just revisited this place last Saturday!
Even though we've lived apart,
I do not love you less.
There's provision in the heart
For storing tenderness.
There's a love that like a star
Must reconfigure space
To turn the far-flung wanderers
Towards some predestined grace.
Time matters not, nor pain, nor death,
Nor fate as hard as stone.
This truth needs but a single breath,
And that we now have known.
Ah, Father! What a joy to live
With love at last expressed!
Life has no greater gift to give
Than that with which we're blessed.
Corsair International
Airbus A330-243 - cn 320
@ Reg : F-HBIL
@ Engines : 2x RR Trent 772B-60
@ History Aircraft :
# 21.MAR.2000 : First flight
# 31.MAR.2000 : Delivered to "Corsair" SS & CRL with reg F-HBIL and config cabin "C18Y332"
# 2012 : re-configured "C26Y278"
That's what the guy said who walked by as I was taking this one. I was just looking for a suitable background for the newly reconfigured Bianco, no longer burdened by the low rider front rack and now with 52mm Lefols and 42mm Extra Legers. The problem with the low rider being on this bike was that the back end is so long it was impossible to use the matching rear low rider rack, so I thought I'd try the pair on something else and lighten up and simplify this one. Still some tweaking to do but I'm liking it.
Japan Airlines
Boeing 777-346(ER) - cn 32437 / 736 - JA739J
@ Engines : 2x GE GE90-115B
@ History Aircraft :
# 25.JUL.2008 : Everett ( PAE ) First flight
# 31.JUL.2008 : Delivered to "Japan Airlines" JL & JAL with reg JA739J and config cabin "F8C77W46Y115"
# JAN.2014 : Re-configured "F8C49W40Y135" and new livery
@ Singapore Airlines [ SQ / SIA ]
Boeing 777-312(ER) - msn 34581 / 710
• ENG : 2x GE GE90-115B
• REG : 9V-SWP
• PAX : configured "F8C42Y228"
@ History Aircraft :
• 02.APR.2008 : First flight at built site Everett ( PAE ) WA USA
• 11.APR.2008 : Delivered / Singapore Airlines / 9V-SWP
• MAR.2016 : Re-configured "F4C48W28Y184"
Wonderful exhibition in the Tate Modern at the moment. 8 or 9 huge screens showing recordings of dance captured over the last 40 years. the following are my impressions of the space and the exhibit. Its brilliant, you must go if you can :-)
The Tate describes the exhibit as follows:
Award winning artist and filmmaker, Charles Atlas presents a new version of MC9 (2012), a multi-channel video piece exploring the intersections of media and dance. Atlas revisits and reconfigures material that he had made with and about Merce Cunningham over a period from 1971- 2010.
Just reconfigured as a spray aircraft, and awaiting paint.
This is from a scanned slide, it was previously published here, but this is a slightly better scan
Scans of 20 year old photos. From the late 80s to early 90s
AS-19 USS Proteus
Naval auxiliary ships carry out a variety of missions in support of combatants. Along with destroyer tenders, the submarine tenders are the largest of the active auxiliaries. Their crews are formed mainly of technicians and repairmen. USS Proteus was commissioned as a diesel sub tender in 1944. After participating in the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay and tending submarines briefly in Japan after the war, Proteus was "retired" to New London, Connecticut, where she was assigned - though not in commission - as the "station ship" at the Submarine Base, providing support services from 1947 until 1959.
USS Proteus was overhauled and reconfigured in 1959-60 to service FBM subs. With the new strategic submarines - and their missiles, launch systems, and nuclear power - came the need for a new class of tender. Since USS Hunley (AS-31) - purpose-designed and built for that mission - was some years from completion, a quicker alternative had to be found. Meanwhile, Proteus had served more than a decade at New London, tending both the older World War II boats still in service and their nuclear-powered counterparts coming on line in increasing numbers. As such, she was still in good condition and ready to sail. Thus, Proteus was quietly moved to Charleston Naval Shipyard, cut in half, and fitted with a new 44-foot hull "plug," fabricated in place. This additional section contained special nuclear-material storage facilities, handling, testing, and machining areas, and other necessities for servicing both nuclear-powered attack and ballistic-missile submarines. Other specialty shops and machinery were installed to maintain the fire control, navigation, and launcher systems that first appeared on the new SSBNs. The final element of the conversion was the installation of a huge X-Y crane, capable of lifting more than 30 tons, and equipped with extension arms that could swing out over a submarine to load equipment, supplies, and most importantly - Polaris missiles.
Proteus's conversion was completed in late 1960, and in January 1961, she hosted George Washington at New London, completing the first tender refit of an SSBN. Since the original Polaris missile had a range of only 2,500 miles, the early SSBNs had to be based relatively far forward to be able to reach targets deep in the European and Asian continents. Therefore, in March 1961, Proteus established the first advance SSBN refit site at Holy Loch, Scotland, where her first "customer" was USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599). Later relieved by Hunley, Proteus then instituted a second advance SSBN site at Rota, Spain. The Chief of Naval Operations deployed Submarine Squadron 16 to Rota, Spain, on Jan. 28, 1964, and embarked upon USS Proteus (AS-19). USS Lafayette (SSBN 616) completed its first FBM deterrent patrol with the Polaris missile and commenced the first refit and replenishment at Rota. After the second USS Holland (AS-32) was completed, Proteus was off yet again - this time with USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) - to inaugurate a third overseas basing site at Apra Harbor, Guam, where she had already tended submarines during World War II. Polaris system support continued until the last SSBN - the Robert E. Lee, departed Guam in July 1981. Subsequently she was retired from FBM service and was fitted as an attack submarine tender.
In addition to carrying out her primary duties both at Guam and on WESTPAC cruises between 1964 and 1992, Proteus and her crew also provided assistance for typhoon victims and refugees from the fall of Saigon and helped out during the aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo eruption. She was finally decommissioned in September 1992 - and even then was recycled for service as a berthing ship (IX-518) at Bremerton until 1999.
The Stout Scarab is a 1930–1940s American car, designed and manufactured by Stout Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan
The Scarab's interior space was maximized by dispensing with external running boards and expanded the cabin to the full width of the car, giving it a long wheelbase with engine and gearbox placed directly over the rear axle, driver and steering mechanism almost directly above the front wheels. Passengers and driver entered through a single door, inside they found a flexible seating system which could be easily reconfigured (except for the driver's seat, which was fixed) a small card table could be fitted between passenger seats if needed. Interiors were appointed in leather chrome and hardwoods. Design elements, including the car's emblem, were inspired by the ancient Egyptian ” scarab” motif. Visibility to the front and sides was similar to that of an observation car, although rearward vision was negligible and there were no rear-view or wing mirrors. Only nine examples, all slightly different, were ever built. The Walt Disney movie “Saludos Amigos” was released in the United States on February 6, 1943, seen here playing at the Globe, Times Square
( thanks to Bing for all photo )
Two UP GEs power a AYMO through CPF-335 in Westminster, MA. Everything here is now gone; the interlocking was reconfigured and the searchlights removed with the coming of the MBTA layover facility, and only ACSES-equipped locomotives can lead in MBTA territory to comply with PTC requirements.
Dusk on the Junction Bridge, in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The Junction Bridge was originally built in 1884, and reconfigured in the 1970s. It was abandoned by the railroad and converted into a pedestrian bridge in 2008.
Freshly-painted power for the Santa Fe "San Jac" local at Perris, January 1996. Today this trackage has all been reconfigured as part of the Metrolink commuter rail extension to Perris.
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
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!
Here's the sixth train I lensed, inbound Keolis/MBTA train 012 from Rockport is crosing the drawbridge over the Charles River on Main 2 into North Station with F40PH-3C 1064 shoving on the rear.
For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself 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.
Rising above at left can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wednesday September 24, 2025
A Conrail Metuchen-based local, which I assume was ME-2, works the lead to Integrated Packaging in New Brunswick. 5314 is crossing Jersey Ave. on what I believe was called the Mengel Lead. This lead once served several industrial customers, but by the mid-2000s it was down to one; it would become dormant by the end of the decade. Today there is no trace of this grade crossing or the rails leading to it from the east, as that area has been reconfigured. There are or were still rails in the weeds west of the crossing. The Integrated Packaging site still exits but it has been subdivided and, as is typical today, the tenants no longer require rail service. Jersey Avenue once hosted a series of grade crossings as there were many rail-served industries in this area south of downtown New Brunswick. 5314 had been tagged at some point, and the NS logo on the long hood was mostly obscured in an attempt to cover over the graffiti. It remained logo-less for several years.
Conrail ME-2:
NS 5314 GP38-2 (ex-CR/PC 8132)
Compared to the labor frame, pre-Solar Calendar vehicles are costly to transport and finite in their utility. In response, Zodiac Incorporated developed the highly customizable "Ursa" vehicular platform, which can be fabricated, equipped, reconfigured, and reprocessed, all by their patented "Forge" factories. Utilizing simple tech and even simpler means of operation, the only thing stopping an outer colony from fielding a massive fleet of Ursas is the available population.
"Zodiac Inc - You've reached the stars."
c. 1974
Taken with a Nikkormat FTn w/Vivitar 28mm f 2.8 Prime on Ektachrome 64. Film was hand processed and mounted in my darkroom.
Almost 50 year old slide scanned and color corrected as best as possible using a 17 year old Microtek scanner and PS CC!!
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...
Julia Morison 2013 sculpture, "Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers".
The art work consists of 10 modular objects that function as trees and houses.
The 10 "treehouses" are shaped like kahikatea trees, once common in the area.
The sculpture was commissioned by Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group and produced by SCAPE Public Art.
The Tree Houses are a work of public art that serves as a piece of transitional architecture.
Drawing on the city's past and looking into it's potential future, the individual pods can be reconfigured and moved to new locations.
The sculpture is located by the Avon River just off Colombo St.
I hadn't shot from platform level in a while but decided to check on the progress of the new center island platform work. In retrospect I should have photographed this train from atop the parking garage as the light and angle are far superior. Nevertheless, here's one for the journal anyway.
CSXT's L048 crew is on board an 80 car M426 (Selkirk to Waterville manifest) destined for Barbers where they will hand the train off to a former Pan Am crew. The train is curling through CP45 on CSXT's Boston Sub (ex Boston and Albany) and entering the Providence and Worcester's Gardner Branch (ex Boston and Maine) for a three mile run on trackage rights back to home rails. 21 yr old AC4400CW 562 is passing is long closed former New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when the Boston and Albany built Union Station and reconfigured the trackage in the area in conjunction with tenants New Haven and Boston and Maine.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Friday March 3, 2023
Located at the corner of McCoppin and Market Streets just west of the Octavia Boulevard/Central Freeway onramp in the Mid-Market section (despite what the geotagged map says) of San Francisco.
Since the northern spur of the Central Freeway was torn down, Octavia Boulevard was widened, and the surrounding streets reconfigured, this area has experienced significant gentrification.
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Dylan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Kv0vF41Bc&ab_channel=Monotone
After switching ends and uncoupling from their southbound leader 425, LA&L's road crew spots a loaded centerbeam at Matthew & Fields lumber yard in Henrietta, NY on the former Lehigh Valley.
I made brief mention of this type of move in my Diamond Packaging post, and as described, this is the best example of how the crew executes their southbound spots for north facing switches. All three customers on the north end of the LA&L are north facing, presenting an extra maneuver required of the crew any time they have cars to spot for said industries. The customers are as follows: Genesee Reserve, Diamond Packaging, and of course Matthews & Fields. Before departing Genesee Junction southbound, the crew will split the power at some point during their switching work while building the train, bracketing the cars destined for any of the three customers mentioned above. Genesee Reserve tends to be the least worked of the three, so chances are when you see a centerbeam it's more often than not destined for M&F. If you see a box car or cars, they're most likely for Diamond. Of course, lumber can also show up in box cars so they're fair game for any of the three, but it's less common to see those at the lumber-oriented customers.
Specifically in the case of Matthews & Fields, there's even more which goes into the move. The connection to the old Lehigh is just south of a road crossing, forcing the crew to tie down their train slightly further north on a mile plus stretch of trackage between crossings. This same area is where the switch for Genesee Reserve is also located. They will then cut away and head south for the switch onto the Lehigh with just the engines on both ends of whatever freight is bound for M&F. There are three road crossings on the old Lehigh, with one over a major roadway hooked into a traffic light system to halt vehicle traffic. Having an engine on the south end versus riding a shove makes crossing that roadway slightly easier on these guys. The third crossing on the line doesn't actually see use anymore, leftover from the bygone days of how they used to serve M&F. The silo fixtures rising in the background behind the power are for a mill which used to be a customer. The mill track formerly crossed over the road and fed into Matthews from the south side, rather than the north as pictured here. Some years ago M&F decided to reconfigure their property and install their own dedicated switch on the north side of the lumber yard. Rail can still be seen right up to the road on both sides, showcasing where the track used to lead into Matthews. As one customer left the business, the other evolved. As a result, you don't see too many joint spurs anymore with multiple customers served by a single track. Although near Genesee Jct, R&S does just that with Metalico and 84 Lumber still (which makes it impossible to shoot 84 as a result).
Of note, the old Lehigh trackage was merely a branch line up in Rochester to serve customers, stemming off of their mainline south of here near Rush, NY. Today's trackage is truncated to just south of the switch into the mill here for headroom, and sits unused for the time being. Active remains of the LV are a bit scattered across the state, with others being used now by the likes of the Finger Lakes Railway to the east, and Depew, Lancaster & Western to the west. Other miscellaneous asides about M&F are merely anecdotal. Once in a blue moon if the road crew is running short on time due to a particular heavy workload in the early half of the day, they have been known to take cars for Matthews and even Diamond all the way south back to Lakeville, sticking them back on their next northbound train for later spotting. In such cases, splitting of the power is then not required, and as such I have witnessed them making the multi-mile shove to Matthews as a result, with the conductor riding the rear all the way there. I was told for a long time that there was some rule where they weren't allowed to shove across the.major roadway without an engine to protect, but clearly that's just not the case, and quite frankly an odd rule to have. While most of the time empty car pickups will come on the northbound trip, tying down their train just south of the Lehigh switch and going down light power, occasionally Matthews may not release their cars until later in the afternoon. If the crew feels they have sufficient time, they will tie their southbound train down in the same spot as if they were delivering a car, going out light power, then leaving the empty car or cars at the switch for the Lehigh, then returning to their train light power. The cars will then be added to their northbound train the next day they run. Matthews & Fields are a rather interesting customer in that regard, with the number of scenarios generated on how they're worked any given day. Each example of course prompted by its own unique circumstance, but stuff like this just goes to show that some industries aren't so cut and dry as they appear on the surface.
A final word on this place, I recall the first time I got a chance to shoot it, the crew had gone down light power to pick a couple empties. While standing in a similar spot, a man and woman had pulled into the lot at here and were walking around near the train. From my view, the man was seemingly drunk, and the woman with him was taking his picture in front of and near the train, obstructing my shot the entire time they were making the pickup. Funniest of all, they had the gall to give a strange look for trying to take photos when they were doing the exact same thing, and executing it far more poorly. They say you'll encounter weirdos in this hobby, but not all of them are necessarily railfans. Simply being next to the tracks is enough some days to bring the wackos out of hiding.
Reconfigured the Trolls minifig, I think she looks okay?! And happy the orange bricksuit guy looks nice now... The hairpiece is tricky because many male hairpieces can't fit the bricksuit...
United Airlines
Boeing 757-224(WL) - cn 27297 / 641 - N14107
@ Engines : 2x RR RB211-535E4B
@ History Aircraft :
# 05.OCT.1994 : Renton ( RNT ) First flight
# 14.OCT.1994 : Delivered to "Continental Air Lines" CO & COA leased from GECAS with reg N14107 and config cabin C16Y159
# 03.2006 : WL fitted ( Winglets )
# 01.OCT.2010 : Tfd to "United Airlines" UA & UAL leased from GECAS until Jun 2016 with same reg
# DEC.2011 : Re-configured "C16W45Y108"
The Flamingo Isle District was created by a special act of the Texas Legislature in 1965. It was dormant for many years. In 2003, it was reactivated and reconfigured. The District now contains 852 acres, consisting of the Harborwalk development & some surrounding undeveloped acreage. The District is wholly within the boundaries of the City of Hitchcock, Texas. The District is principally concerned with the construction & maintenance of the bulkheading within Harborwalk and the dredging of the canals & the channels to the Intercoastal Waterway. It is wholly supported by ad valorem taxes paid by landowners within its boundaries. The District is governed by a five member Board of Directors, composed of residents & landowners in Harborwalk. Please browse our site for more information about the District. Link to a point of interest nearby:
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