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Rob and I have just abseiled down the pinnacle on the right of frame. Rob is just reconfiguring the rope at his end to head off up the next section of the Lagginhorn.
This was an epic challenge to make work in post-production. The lighting was pretty unforgiving (no room for an off camera flash ;) ). I think there's work to be done on the colour version yet, but the black and white looks pretty epic for now, I think!
It's a well-worn figure of speach but the uniquely literal context here was hard to look past...
A few people have noted their fear of heights in previous comments. Not the adventure for you!
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With less than perfect lighting for a northbound chase, the crew struggles to reconfigure the rock train as it passes S&W Concrete. RJC SD40-2 #8169 is now in charge as they work to add SD40-2 #7195 back to the consist.
Golden Monoliths
par/by SpY
Rue Faidherbe (Rambla), Lille
Imagined for lille3000’s 7th edition, the Golden Monoliths by Spanish artist SpY guide the visitors and participants of the parade to the heart of the city and its Fiesta. The gold titans seem like a modern take on the 17th century city gates, that welcomed the opening of carnivals and processions. They transform the urban landscape of Lille through the installation of fourteen golden shipping containers in a vertical position, aligned along its main street.
This monumental intervention reconfigures the everyday perception of the public environment, turning industrial objects into symbols that alter our understanding of space.
The street ceases to be a simple space of transit and becomes a ritual corridor, a passageway between
Originally conceived as utilitarian structures for global transportation and trade, the containers are decontextualized and coated in gold. Far from being a decorative gesture, this treatment converts their industrial purpose into an artistic resignification that oscillates between the functional and the symbolic.
SpY subverts the original identity of the containers through an installation that transforms the utilitarian into the mythological, in an exercise in spatial perception that invites reflection on the cult of consumption in modern society.
Source: fiestalille3000.com/en/exposition/golden-monoliths-2/
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À l’image des portes de ville du 17ème siècle qui accueillaient l’ouverture des carnavals et des processions, les Golden Monoliths de l’artiste espagnol SpY guident le public et les participants à la parade au cœur de la ville et de sa Fiesta. Ils transforment le paysage urbain de Lille avec quatorze conteneurs dorés érigés à la verticale le long de la rue Faidherbe.
Cette intervention monumentale reconfigure notre vision quotidienne de la ville, transforme des objets industriels en symboles qui modifient notre perception de l’espace.
À l’origine conçues comme des structures utilitaires pour le transport et le commerce global, les conteneurs sont décontextualisés et peints en or. Loin d’être un geste décoratif, cette métamorphose vient bouleverser leur essence industrielle et leur confère un sens artistique entre fonction et symbole, utilité et mythologie.
After departing the Greenfield Village Roundhouse, Locomotive #1 "Edison" backs down the roundhouse track toward the main line, where she will pick up her train and become a second section on the daily shuttle train around the village. This image was captured during the annual "Old Car Festival", when the Greenfield Village Railroad typically runs a pair of trains during the high-traffic hours. And of course, at this event, there is no shortage of vintage vehicles constantly plying the streets of the village.
Locomotive #1, named for Henry Ford's friend, Thomas Edison, is a pretty unique little engine. A product of the Manchester Locomotive Works, she started out life in 1870 as an 0-4-0 switcher, but when she was acquired by Henry Ford, over 60 years later, Henry wanted a 4-4-0 and had her reconfigured in his Rouge Shops in Dearborn. Some may say that she's a mongrel and not historic or authentic....but she's been in this configuration for 90 years!
Originally, the car hood ornament was developed as a practicality, to cover up the access point for the radiator in the front or center of the hood. Over time, cars were reconfigured, and this point of access was no longer necessary, but the car hood ornament remained, usually bedecked in chrome so that it would stand out against the base paint of the car.
Photo by IndisPoptart
This is the diorama display I created for Uncanny Dreams 2012. You *may* recognize the walls - I cut down, reconfigured, refinished, and painted the walls from my SD scale bedroom set.
Both dolls face-ups/mods/blushing by MONIEE
Lydia is a Dollstown Seola 7 in OrientalSkin
Lullaby is a DIM Benetia Half-Closed Eyes Head on the Leekeworld Art/Mikhaila Body with Dollmore Dollpire Hands & Leeke Mouflon Horns
I recently gave this set to my amazingly talented friend - Allison Wonder - and it is currently undergoing a WONDER-ful renovation!
FEC GP40-2 #435 shoves about 8 platforms of double stack land bridge to Quality Container in Miami, FL. This remnant of the old Kendall Branch was part of the old Little River Belt Line connecting to the main line to Florida City and Key West near SW 88th St and US1. This portion in particular has always been industrial, but was reconfigured in 2017 when FECI leased the land to Quality Container. Every other day or so they handle containers either brought in from the Port Train or brought in on mainline trains. As of Summer 2022, Happy Floors transloads from the south end of this property.
@ JetBlue Airways
Airbus A320-232 ; cn 1650
• ENG : 2x IAE V2527-A5
• REG : N531JL
• RMK : painted in "New York City Police Department"
@ History Aircraft :
# 08.NOV.2001 : First flight under test reg F-WWDV at built site Toulouse ( LFBD ) France
# 13.DEC.2001 : Delivered to "JetBlue Airways" B6 & JBU leased from GECAS with reg N531JL - named "Rhapsody in Blue" and configured "Y162"
# 2003 : re-configured "Y156"
# 30.OCT.2006 : Tsfd to "Blue Wings" QW & BWG leased from GECAS with reg D-ANNF
# 09.JAN.2007 : Tsfd to "Air Berlin" AB & BER leased from Blue Wings with reg D-ANNF
# 01.APR.2008 : Return to "Blue Wings" leased from GECAS with reg D-ANNF
# 26.MAR.2010 : return from lease GECAS with reg N531JL
# 12.AUG.2010 : Return to "JetBlue Airways" B6 & JBU with reg N531JL and named "All Blue Can Jet" with cabin config Y150
# MAY.2017 : Re-named "Blue Finest" and painted in "New York City Police Department" special colours
6844 Seismologic Vehicle (1983) seems like a more advanced version of 6841 Mineral Detector, taking advantage of the balloon tires and reconfigured tow hinge.
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!
Only a minute after shooting train eight headed outbound trains 9 and 10 raced themselves inbound. Train 212 from Bradford has won the race and can be partially seen on the Boston side of the river while still crossing the Charles River drawbridge on Main 4 is train 406 arriving from Wachusett with F40PH-3C 1050 handling the duties on the hind end.
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
ANA is already reconfigured the rest 763ERs without winglets to the domestic setting config. Therefore, no longer have chance to see them on international flights.
Finnaly some progress on my playscale Ghost. For more then a year I couldn't figure out the sloped sides but after some inspiration from the well known HUGE minifig scale one, stacked bricks turned out to be the best soloution.
Also, a small sneak peak of the interrior details. Reconfigured the rooms to be more acsesible at this scale.
Hope to finish it this year!
The National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Kallang, Singapore. It opened its doors on 30 June 2014, replacing the former National Stadium at the same site, which was closed in 2007 and demolished in 2010.
The stadium features a domed roof structure with a retractable roof and configurable seating on the lowest tier to make it the only stadium in the world that is custom designed to host football, rugby, cricket and athletics events. It is also the worlds largest retractable dome.The lowest tier has mechanised and automated retractable seating configurations, allowing the stadium to host concerts and other entertainment purposes at any given point of time. It takes approximately 48 hours to reconfigure seating arrangements to suit an upcoming event. Depending on the seating configurations, the stadium has either a maximum seating capacity of 55,000 for football and rugby, 52,000 for cricket or 50,000 spectators for athletics events/concerts.
St. James' Church is an Episcopal parish church located at the intersection of Madison Avenue and E. 71st St. Founded in May 1810 as a summer chapel for New Yorkers with country homes north of the then city, it has grown into one of the largest Episcopal churches in New York City. The church was completed in 1885 and dramatically reconfigured in 1924 by Ralph Adams Cram. The building was completely renovated during the early 2000s. The funeral for Montgomery Clift was held here.
Just a black and white version of this scene that works well on a bleak day...both literally and figuratively.
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
This beach that I visit often has been "reconfigured" by the recent hurricane Joquin, which fortunately was a near miss. It gave some nice new photo ops though. :-)
Buchón G-AWHK (‘Yellow 10’) was built in Spain by Hispano Aviación in 1959. It is to all intents and purposes a Messerschmitt Bf-109 airframe, but this license-built version trades the original Daimler-Benz engine for the Rolls-Royce Merlin
Spain had signed licensing agreements with Messerschmitt in 1942 to produce the Bf 109G-2 and had received tooling and jigs in preparation for starting production, as well as 25 uncompleted fuselage and wing assemblies. Due to priority to the Luftwaffe, Messerschmitt was unable to oversee the start-up of the production line. In addition, Hispano Aviación was also unable to acquire the Daimler-Benz DB 605 engines due to wartime shortages. It was not until 1947 that the factory started to produce complete airframes. As a replacement engine comparable to the DB 605A the Hispano-Suiza 12Z-17 was fitted to these aircraft. Aircraft with this engine were designated HA-1109-K1L (65 being produced). In 1954 Hispano Aviación re-engineered the airframe to accept the Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-45 and produced the HA-1112-M1L. Production of the Hispano Aviación HA-1109 and HA-1112 Buchon ended in 1958; however, Spain continued to use the HA-1112 operationally until late 1967.
This aircraft appeared in the Battle of Britain film :)
Stored or under restoration
Bf 109 E-3 2023, ex-Bf 109E-7, ex-8./JG 5 "Black 9" (pilot Ofw. Walter Sommer) - crashed 27 May 1943, Military Aviation Museum[107] Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Bf 109 F-4 8461, ex-5./JG 27, Malcolm Laing.[108]
Bf 109 F-4 10144, ex-6./JG 5 "Yellow 7" (pilot Fw. Albert Brunner) - crashed 5 September 1942, Air Assets International, Lafayette, Colorado.
Bf 109 G-2 10394, ex-6./JG 5 "Yellow 2" (pilot Fw. Erwin Fahldieck) - crashed 29 April 1943, Malcolm Laing, Texas.
Bf 109 G-2 13500, ex-II./JG ? "Red 4".
Bf 109 F-4 10212, ex-JG 5, Air Assets International, Lafayette, Colorado.
Bf 109 F-4 10256, ex-11./JG 5 "<", (pilot Fw. Horst Carganico) - crashed 22 July 1942, Mickael R., Framingham, Massachusetts.
Bf 109 F-4 10270, ex-JG 5 "<", Mickael R., Framingham, Massachusetts.
Bf 109 F-4 10276, ex-JG 5, Air Assets International, Lafayette, Colorado.
Bf 109 G-2 13927, ex-6./JG 5 "Yellow 6"
HA-1112-M1L c/n unknown C.4K-30, ex-471 Sq "471-26", movie: Battle of Britain, Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 120 C.4K-77 (N700E), Yellow 3 , Planes of Fame, Chino, California. Under restoration to fly with Merlin 228 and reconfigured 109G-style cowling.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 129 C.4K-61 (G-AWHE), movie: Battle of Britain, Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas
HA-1112-M1L c/n 137 C.4K-116 (N6109), Quantico, Virginia.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 145 C.4K-105 (N6036), movie: Battle of Britain "Red 4", ex-Edwards Collection, Richard Hansen, Batavia Illinois.
HA-1112-M1L c/n unknown C.4K-111, ex-471 Sq "471-15", movie: Battle of Britain, Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 166 C.4K-106 (N90607), movie: Battle of Britain "Yellow 8", Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 187 C.4K-99 (N90604), ex-7 Sq "7-77", movie: Battle of Britain "Yellow 5", Yellow 5 , Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 190 C.4K-126 (N90603), movie: Battle of Britain "Red 9", Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 195 C.4K-135, movie: Battle of Britain, ex-Victory Air Museum, St Louis, Missouri.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 223 C.4K-154, movie: Battle of Britain, Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 178 C.4K-178, movie: Battle of Britain, ex-Victory Air Museum, The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group, Geneseo, New York, rebuilt with DB601N engine.
HA-1112-M4L c/n unknown C.4K-112, Accepted: Spanish AF, Assigned: 7 Sqd (codes:7 - 92), Assigned: 40 Sqd (codes: 40 - 2), Movie: 1969 Battle of Britain (markings: Red 11), Sold: 1970 Wilson Edwards (N1109G) currently in storage with the Edwards Collection, Wilson Edwards, Big Spring, Texas marked as Red 11)
Messerschmitt AG was a German share-ownership limited, aircraft manufacturing corporation named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt from mid-July 1938 onwards, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in particular the Bf 109 and Me 262. The company survived in the post-war era, undergoing a number of mergers and changing its name from Messerschmitt to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm before being bought by Deutsche Aerospace (DASA, now part of Airbus) in 1989.
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 7th Sept 2025 Battle Of Britain Air Show
The Richmond Olympic Oval is an indoor multi-sports arena in the Canadian city of Richmond, BC. The Oval was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics and was originally configured with a (long track) speed skating rink. The venue has since been reconfigured and now serve as a comunity multi-sport park (Wikipedia)
I have a proposed new Summer Olympics Sport - Rhythmic Equestrian. In looking at the various sports symbols on the link that Janet had for the theme discussion for this week, the red ribbon for Rhythmic Gymnastics really caught my attention. I decided a red ribbon had to be in my picture this week. I still have my twist tie figures from the Twist theme in April, so I reconfigured one of them and added a twist tie red ribbon and a couple of my wife's "horse" miniatures (Unicorn and Pegasus). HMM
Caught on a cool autumn day. Boeing shut this production line rather than upgrading the 757, which in hindsight seems like the first hint that they'd lost their way. The 757 was a 707-720-727-737-like fuselage with the old-school 727 triple turbofan engines replaced by a pair of high-bypass turbofans,
The 727 wing was remarkably advanced, for the early 1960s able to lift the airliner out of short runways like NYC's La Guardia and then reconfigure itself for high speed cruise, before reconfiguring again to land on short runways at their destination. The 3 jet design with the engines back in the tail assisted by adding no engine or pylon drag to the wing. The VC-10 and Tu-154 used the same setup.
The 757 got a new, supercritical wing with with 15-18 years further aerodynamic and structural refinement over the 727. It also got longer landing gear to allow large diameter turbofans under the wings. The first order for one was placed in 1978, the first flight was 1982. The production line was closed not long after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, because the 20+ year old design wasn't competitive with the Airbus 321, a 10 years newer design, which has itself be upgraded to the "neo" form with significantly improved engines 16 years later.
Boeing concentrated money and resources on upgrading the 737 to its "NG" third generation (The MAXs are a fourth generation) and stretching the 777. Single aisle "narrow body" airliners larger than the 737 were neglected, and Airbus ran away with that segment of the market.
The 767, numbered higher, went into service before the 757 and would have needed its own redesign to have stayed in production. The 1 aisle vs 2 aisle designs have different aerodynamics and different passenger number sweet-spots.
The cold facts are, with 737, 747 and 777 available, Boeing had NO airplane with more than 225 but less than 300 seats, and a range around 4000-4400 miles. The 787 hits the high end, 248, 290 or 330 seats, 7300-7600-6300 mile range. The A321 offers 180 to 244 seats, range around 4000 miles. Boeing walked away from that market.
"Break those under pressure."
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The Astraea Type A, developed around ~2032 AD, is an assault rifle based off the now abandoned AR-15 and SCAR platforms. Designed to be as adaptable and reliable as possible, Kurai developed a plethora of accessories to compliment the rifle, some of which can be seen in the current display model, such as the red dot sight and the foregrip.
Seeing as how the AR-15 platform was reliable in its time, KTD developed a rifle that would possess that same reliability yet enhance it with the usual skilled craftsmanship that the armaments group possessed.
On paper, the Astraea Type A is merely an AR-15 based rifle but the rifle itself is much different, contrary to belief. The internals do not function in any sort of way similarly to that of the AR-15 rifle but instead utilizes a bolt system akin to that of the SCAR. Although not exact to FN's design, there were still some striking similarities.
The rifle is internally suppressed, yet still possesses phenomenal range in its class as if the suppressor never existed. There is a gas block but it is never exposed; the block is moved back significantly and is concealed by the RIS. Why this is the case is unknown as no design schematics ever comment on the placement or the reasoning behind this placement.
In order to enhance its reliability and effectiveness, the Astraea Type A was designed to be ambidextrous and offered basic implementations in its design to sustain reliability. One such feature is the recoil mitigation system, which works by countering the force of a shot by traveling in the opposite direction. The bolt moves back enough to operate smoothly, but the system absorbs the shock and movement created by the recoil as a result of a transfer of kinetic energy. The energy becomes transferred towards the recoil mitigation system rather than the whole weapon itself.
The Astraea Type A has seen use in the battlefield and in urban environments, especially in regions and countries that are facing internal conflict. It has been used in roles outside of its assault rifle configuration; the Astraea can be reconfigured to be a DMR or a CQC viable weapon at any time. The amount of accessories developed for the Astraea made this possible and thus, it is difficult to determine what the weapon actually is.
Regardless of its configuration, the Astraea completes its job with high efficiency in the least amount of time possible and it is this result that has made the weapon so well known on the field. The weapon is an example of excellent craftsmanship, as always expected by the Kurai Tactical Division.
*Display model is the right handed model. Left handed and ambidextrous receivers are also available
The central feature of this memorial garden is a stone of remembrance with a dedicatory plaque, flanked on either side by propellers from a crashed Short Sterling Bomber. Around these features are benches, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
The garden was opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent on June 30th, 2001.
A little way back is the control tower (hidden by the memorial)
A partial history of RAF Manston
On 10 September 1939, No. 3 Squadron flew in equipped with Hawker Hurricanes and Manston was put under the command of No. 11 Group Fighter Command. During an eventful Battle of Britain, Manston was heavily bombed; at its height (August 1940) diary entries recorded a steady stream of damage to aircraft and buildings. The station was also littered with unexploded bombs. This caused many staff to move to nearby woods for at least a week. Others were dispersed to surrounding housing. For example, WAAF’s (members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force) stationed at Manston were billeted at the nearby Ursuline Convent in Westgate on Sea.
Barnes Wallis used RAF Manston to test his bouncing bomb on the coast at nearby Reculver prior to the Dambusters raid. A prototype is on public display at the Spitfire & Hurricane Museum. Hawker Typhoon attack aircraft were based there later in the war, and also the first Meteor jet squadron of the RAF. It was used as a departure point for airborne forces in Operation Market Garden. It was one of the few airfields installed with the Fog, Intensive, Dispersal Of (FIDO) system designed to remove fog from airfields by burning it off with petrol.
Along with RAF Carnaby and RAF Woodbridge, Manston was developed as a South coast emergency landing ground for bomber crews. These airfields were intended for use by returning bombers suffering from low-fuel and/or suspected damage to their pneumatic (wheel brake) and/or hydraulic (undercarriage) systems. All three airfields were equipped with a single runway, 9,000 ft (2,700 m) long and 750 ft (230 m) wide. There was a further clear area of 1,500 ft (460 m) at each end of the runway. At each of the three airfields, the runway was divided into three 250 ft (76 m) lanes. The northern and central lanes were allocated by flying control, while the southern lane was the emergency lane on which any aircraft could land without first making contact with the airfield.
The hilltop site was chosen as it was usually fog-free and had no approach obstructions. Being close to the front line, the airfield became something of a magnet for badly damaged aircraft that had suffered from ground fire, collisions, or air attack but retained a degree of airworthiness. The airfield became something of a "graveyard" for heavy bombers and no doubt the less-damaged portions of aircraft landing or otherwise arriving here sometimes provided spare parts for other Allied aircraft in need of repair. The museums on site display some startling aerial views dating from this era and the post-war years. After the war, the runway was reconfigured, becoming 200 feet wide with a full-length parallel taxiway, both within the original paved width.
The memorial is sited behind the Spitfire and Hurricane memorial building which was still closed due to Covid restrictions
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Wiki - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges in the U.S. state of Washington, which carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) across the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. Historically, the name "Tacoma Narrows Bridge" has applied to the original bridge nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" which opened in July 1940 and collapsed four months later, as well as the replacement of the original bridge which opened in 1950 and still stands today as the westbound lanes of the present-day twin bridge complex.
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940. It received its nickname "Galloping Gertie" due to the vertical movement of the deck observed by construction workers during windy conditions. The bridge collapsed into Puget Sound the morning of November 7, 1940, under high wind conditions. Engineering issues as well as the United States' involvement in World War II postponed plans to replace the bridge for several years until the replacement bridge was opened on October 14, 1950.
By 1990, population growth and development on the Kitsap Peninsula caused traffic on the bridge to exceed its design capacity; as a result, in 1998 Washington voters approved a measure to support building a parallel bridge. After a series of protests and court battles, construction began in 2002 and the new bridge opened to carry eastbound traffic on July 15, 2007, while the 1950 bridge was reconfigured to carry westbound traffic.
At the time of their construction, both the 1940 and 1950 bridges were the third-longest suspension bridges in the world in terms of main span length, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and George Washington Bridge. The 1950 and 2007 bridges are now the fifth-longest suspension bridge spans in the United States, and the 31st-longest in the world.
Tolls were charged on the bridge for the entire four-month service life of the original span, as well as the first 15 years of the 1950 bridge. In 1965, the bridge's construction bonds plus interest were paid off, and the state ceased toll collection on the bridge. Over 40 years later, tolls were reinstated as part of the financing of the twin span, and are presently collected only from vehicles traveling eastbound.
At the end of March Stagecoach lose the contract for route 473. Here is Stagecoach London 15113, a Scania Omnicity, heading off from Stratford to North Woolwich.
Note the E400 in the background - this is running west on the reconfigured road layout in Stratford town centre.
Formerly the Holt Hotel, now apartments. They've since reconfigured the sign to say "HOLT". Looks like they used the original letters. Nice job!
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)
View along Rio de Ca'Garzoni towards Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal. The light coloured building on the left is Palazzo Garzoni which was completely renovated a few years ago and reconfigured inside to make condos. The closer building on the left is still waiting for a similar renovation....
9H-MIP HI FLY MALTA AIRBUS A380-800 msn 006 painted in "Save the Coral Reefs" special colours Jul 2018
re-configured "Cargo (Covid-19)" Jun 2020 ferried from Beja to Toulouse before repainted in white on Dec 17 2020
last operational flight for HiFly Malta
KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 21 DEC 2015
"United 1999 Heavy" climbing out from RWY 25R en route to Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport (KIAH).
Production Site: Renton (RNT)
First Flight: 27 SEP 2001
Delivery to American Trans Air (ATA): 12 OCT 2001 as N554TZ
Leased from Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)
Hex Code: A71008
Fleet Number: 554
Configuration: Y247
Engines: 2x Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4C
To ATA Airlines: 19 MAR 2003 as N554TZ
Leased from Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)
Hex Code: A71008
Fleet Number: 554
Configuration: Y247
Engines: 2x Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4C
Withdrawn from use on 28 OCT 2005
To Continental Airlines: 30 DEC 2005 as N57864
Leased from Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)
Hex Code: A76F68
Fleet Number: 864
Configuration: C24Y192
Engines: 2x Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4C
Winglets installed in FEB 2010
To United Airlines: 01 OCT 2010 as N57864
Leased from Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)
Hex Code: A76F68
Fleet Number: 0864
Configuration: C24Y189
Engines: 2x Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4C
*** Update ***
Reconfigured "C24Y210" in MAR 2018
Lease with Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC) terminated in SEP 2023
A broken wall of dreams only differs, if I change my view and reconfigure, that I need to break through a wall, and chase my cloistered dreams that call, only them will the barrier will fall
Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, was the final day that scheduled South Shore Line commuter trains would be running down 11th Street in Michigan City, Indiana. The following day buses were to replace trains between the Carroll Avenue station in Michigan City and the Dune Park station. This arrangement will continue into the fall of 2022. In the meantime, workers will be laying double track and reconfiguring 11th Street. When the project is completed the street running will be gone. Shown is an eastbound on Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday, July 20th, Boardwalk Empire Productions filmed a few scenes for the HBO show "The Plot Against America" in Hoboken Terminal. The morning of the shoot the four ex-LIRR P72 coaches on loan from the New York, Susquehanna & Western Technical & Historical Society had to be turned and reconfigured to set the stage properly for the afternoons outdoor shoots on Track 15 in the depot. The cars were labeled for New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Metro-North's GP40PH-2M 4906 was used to power the move around the West End wye with a Black River & Western GP9 on the marker. The train is seen here passing West End tower on the return trip to Hoboken Terminal.
NJT X4906 @ West End Tower, Jersey City, NJ
MNCW GP40PH-2M 4906
BVDR GP9 811
The Gothic Bank first opened in 1887 as the head office for the English, Scottish & Australian Bank (ES&A Bank) and is considered one of the finest examples of Gothic-Revival architecture in Australia. Above the bank sits the Verdon Chambers, comprising 10 rooms of immaculately preserved artwork and ornate features.
The building has been carefully restored and reconfigured by interior architects Foolscap Studio and a team of heritage consultants, restoration experts, joiners, engineers, exhibition designers and builders. Today it hosts the ANZ Banking Museum and features original mosaics, 23 karat gold leaf stencilling, joinery repurposed from the original blackwood teller counters and bespoke pieces from local furniture makers and glass blowers.
Self-portrait, thinking that Ray might be asking for one again. Inspired by Steve Martin. The framed photo on the wall was taken of me @ 1978/79 by Lady Ostapeck, and I've incorporated two of the same "props" that I supplied for that portrait: a published transcript of the trial of five "Jesuits and Priests" for conspiracy to murder the King of England (Charles II), from 1679; and what is either a lute reconfigured as a guitar, or an early guitar designed to look like a more "prestigious" lute (aka a "galoot" — hence the word!), probably dating from the late 18th or very early 19th C. I've long been interested in antiques, and at the time my primary hobbies were playing guitar and folksinging, and collecting old books. For this portrait I've incorporated my more current hobby and passion, wine collecting — including my favorite category, old Madeira, with the bottle on the table being my favorite of what I've owned and enjoyed.
This image is the cover of a new album I am commencing tomorrow. The album will be my "Covert Photos Diary". That is, all the photographs I take covertly, when I am supposed to be locked up at home. I do not have the virus. I am quite certain I will not get the virus. And I will not allow my freedom to use my camera to be taken away lightly.
* I will follow all the rules of safe social distancing.
* I wash my hands.
* I do not associate with members of the public on my photographic trips.
But I will not be held under virtual house arrest.
This afternoon from about four to eight I travelled to George Town and stopped along the way to shoot anything that took my interest (my photo count was 286 by the way). The only person I spoke to at all was the take away shop owner from whom I bought a coffee. Poor lady, her business is dissolving before her very eyes.
When I taught public policy at university this crisis was an extreme example of what we called, "A wicked problem" (i.e. whatever decision is made will cause immense hardship and suffering). Every link in the chain of this disaster is wicked beyond our wildest imaginings.
Some people are dying, sadly, but many more are being ruined and will not come back from this in a completely reconfigured world economy. And spare a thought for our youth (the least threatened by the virus) who are having their future mortgaged away from them by their governments. Somebody has to say it!
The Pixie was introduced several years before the First Colony War in order to replace it's predecessor, the FFs-32 Sylph. By this time, UEF high command had not realised the potential of the Kampfer and kept production of the Seraphim I to a minimum. Pixies could be configured for both space and atmospheric combat and many saw use in the First Colony War where their relative ineffectiveness against the modified Seraphim Is fielded by the Arcadians was what convinced the UEF to mass-produce Kampfers. Although ineffective against Kampfers, the Pixie would continue to see use throughout the Second and Third Colony Wars due to being cheap and flexible. Many variants would be produced, notably the FFs-S9D Super Pixie.
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-My second spacefighter. When reconfigured, can also be used for atmospheric combat. :)
-Wanted to go chibi on this one but still keep a sense of military functionality.
-Fits a fig. With cramming. :P
-Landing gear and wings fold away.
-The black part is not the cockpit window. Actually, there aren't any windows. :P
The big white part above the black bit is supposed to be the sensor array whilst the black part is like an extended camera box or something. >.<
-Swooshable! :3
Chicago Union Station's Great Hall is undergoing still more renovation- this time, the replacement of the huge skylight. The work does little to interfere with the daily flow of Metra commuters, and those waiting in the cavernous space for their Amtrak trains. The coming years will see even more work on the station, as concourse spaces are reconfigured and new retail opens- not to mention the several additional stories planned to be added above the headhouse for residences and hotel space.
The Gothic Bank first opened in 1887 as the head office for the English, Scottish & Australian Bank (ES&A Bank) and is considered one of the finest examples of Gothic-Revival architecture in Australia. Above the bank sits the Verdon Chambers, comprising 10 rooms of immaculately preserved artwork and ornate features.
The building has been carefully restored and reconfigured by interior architects Foolscap Studio and a team of heritage consultants, restoration experts, joiners, engineers, exhibition designers and builders. Today it hosts the ANZ Banking Museum and features original mosaics, 23 karat gold leaf stencilling, joinery repurposed from the original blackwood teller counters and bespoke pieces from local furniture makers and glass blowers.
On this day one year ago I made a quick day trip across the border over to Detroit with one goal in mind, shoot the signals at Delray. Rumors had been circulating of closing the tower and reconfiguring the junction, so l knew their time was short. Unknown to me at the time, this would be my last trip across the border for quite some time as a few days later the border would be closed and has remained closed for non essential travel. As of November 2020 the junction has been reconfigured and these NYC Target lights are nothing but a memory.
CN M383
CN 2720 / CN 8925 / CN 5784
NS Detroit Line
Delray MI.
The beast that will torment the foes of Our Great Empire, the monster that prowls from Amazon to Arabia; the Algoz MBT is the Empire's newest, hardest hitting tank. Shown in jungle-cam pattern, the Algoz can easily be reconfigured and repainted for action in other theatres (Note to potential customers, if you ask nicely enough/fork over some extra dough, i'll make you a custom camo'd tank).
The Algoz features a high quality 25mm HMG in addition to it's rugged 120mm main cannon; which fires high density sabot rounds.
Comment and criticize, please!
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 remaining 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs reconfigured with Cummins units.
This fading light shot from October 2013 shows 21176 climbing Cerrigcochion Road in Brecon, with the Beacons forming the backdrop, when operating the last Service 39B trip of the day to Hay-on-Wye.
She was sold for scrap during the Autumn of 2015.
This 747SP started life as Clipper Lindbergh in 1977 with PanAm, sold to United in 1986, retired from service in 1994, and in 1997 purchased by NASA as the next generation airborne telescope platform. Reconfigured at L3 Waco, and after ten years of major reconfiguration, flew as SOFIA for the first time in 2007. "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", SOFIA, 'NASA747' departs Palmdale on flight number 8 of observing cycle 9Q.
CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 cuts thru Peabody Square on the South Reading Branch for the very last time. GP40-2W MEC 516 has three cars in tow, two empty cement hoppers used as spacers bracketing the final empty hydrochloric acid tank car they just pulled from Rousselot. The plant is closing later this year after being in operation in some form for 206 years and with rail service for 173 of those!
They are pulling over Central Street with the train trailing thru the square and over Lowell Street right in the center of town. 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.
Once they clear they will pull to a stop on the Danvers Branch and pause for lunch beside the post office before heading to Salem and the mainline back home to Boston for the final time.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday August 31, 2023
Took a photographic walk along the alley behind the business district in East Liberty along Penn Avenue, a stretch that has seen many changes over the decades. I found several stupendous walls reflecting the passage of time and fashion, left raw and exposed because this is a back alley meant for deliveries, trash, etc. and no effort has been made to render them more presentable. (In this case, the front facades of the same buildings are not in especially presentable shape, either). Now that East Liberty has gone upscale in recent years, this kind of quaint connection to the past is likely to be tidied up--a sign of good times, for some anyway, and better times yet to come, but also a loss for those, like me, who find beauty in these untidy places.
This section has a nice remnant from the early 1960s, I would guess, in the Astro Pizza sign. The dull, chipped multitoned red paint on that building provides a sobering contrast to the space age optimism of the cheerfully colored pizza sign. Most recently that place was Yen's Chinese restaurant, now closed. The building awaits demolition to clear the way for yet another bland modern building with living and office space, to be built by profit-motivated developers capitalizing on the "Target effect," the pervasive reconfiguration of the entire area that took off after the Target store opened across the street a few years ago. The rusty, worn, dead-vine-encrusted building in the middle displays a few of the black block letters from a previous generation.
As I have stated in other posts, as a resident of an adjacent neighborhood, I think much of this development is a great thing. We certainly don't fault Target--we love having it right there 5 minutes from our house (although they probably negotiated a sweet tax deal with the city). With all the new activity, there are great stores, restaurants, cafes opening all the time. It has become a neighborhood that people with money actually want to live in, whereas in the past it was an area to be avoided, shunned, driven around (in the 1960s the business district was encircled by a wide ring road designed to enable suburban motorists to bypass the congestion and the businesses altogether, whereupon many of the businesses failed, adding to the misery). Eventually no one was ever there unless they happened to live there, in one or another of the subsidized housing projects for people with little or no income. Those projects--the state of the art in urban planning in their day--have just about all been detonated and cleared away. A few of them are still there but will be gone within a year. The ring road has been reconfigured to return the area to a semblance of what it once was, and the new businesses are thriving. The existing residents can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood that has been their home for decades. No one knows for sure where they will go. Many of them are elderly and/or disabled. Their entire family and social circles existed within this very small area. With this in mind, plus the fact that, like this wall, most of the dilapidated ties to the past will disappear, it's not surprising that I am ambivalent about the forward march of progress.
Originally constructed as a Queen Anne-style house circa 1885, this building was expanded and converted into a Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style structure by architect Lawrence Monberg in 1945-1946 to house the medical practice of the Quisling Brothers, whom were doctors. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building has been expanded several times with additions that match the original materials and forms of the building, but lack much of the same ornament and details found on the original section of the building. The clinic opened at the location in 1935 in the former house, and enclosed the house’s front porch and modified the interior to house offices. The style of the building evokes the “ocean liner” ships and “stream liner” trains of the era.
The building features buff brick cladding, long ribbons of windows with orange brick panels between them, stone fins that accentuate the building’s horizontality, with the second-floor windows on the front facade being narrower than those on the first floor. The building’s corners are rounded, softening the appearance of the structure, which is echoed in the “porthole” circular window next to the entrance door, decorative oversized aluminum handles at the original front entrance, which sits below a curved concrete canopy with circular openings, a curved corner, and aluminum lettering spelling “Quisling Terrace” atop the canopy, with a quarter-circle stoop and steps below. The front of the building includes light wells for the basement and brick planters, which echo the appearance of the rest of the building. The main massing of the original building is two stories in height with a smaller and deeply setback third floor with curved corners and few windows, with the entire building capped with a low parapet and low-slope roof. An addition built in 1964 to the southeast of the building is taller than the original structure, standing five stories tall, and matching the buff brick cladding and curved corners of the original building on the front, but with simpler details, with less complex canopies, less variety of trim, and a boxier overall form, which seems to mimic the nearby Edgewater Hotel and Quisling Towers. The addition has been heavily modified with window openings enlarged and metal railings added to create balconies for the apartment units that now occupy the building. The interior of the building has been fully modernized and renovated, leaving very few historic character-defining features, but has allowed for full preservation of the exterior of the building.
The building is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 1998, after the Quisling Clinic had closed, the building was threatened by demolition for a new building, but was saved by a local developer, whom converted the clinic in a historic preservation adaptive reuse project into affordable housing for people making below area median income. The renovation fully reconfigured and altered the interior, which had been renovated multiple times since the 1940s, and enlarged window openings on the rear and side facades to add small balconies outside many of the apartment units. The building today remains in use as an apartment building, known as Quisling Terrace, after the family that built the building.
This is a mid-1950s PRR company photo of the ROW near 79th and Stony Island. The Mall Tool Co sign in the background was removed during construction of the Skyway. It was reconfigured and installed on the roof of the South Chicago Savings Bank and was a local landmark in the 1960s and 70s.
Photo from the Joe Stefanelli collection, courtesy Jack Tomisek.
@ Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-3H4 ( WL ) • msn 28398 / 2917
• ENG : 2x CFMI CFM56-3B1
• REG : N653SW
• RMK : Fleet Number "653"
@ History Aircraft :
• 28.JUL.1997 : First flight at built site Renton ( KRNT )
• 11.AUG.1997 : Delivered to "Southwest Airlines" WN & SWA with reg N653SW and cabin config Y137
• 2009 : Winglets ( WL ) fitted
• 2013 : re-configured "Y143"
• 30.APR.2017 : Withdrawn from use and stored at Kansas City ( KMCI )
• 15.AUG.2017 : Stored at Victorville ( KVCV )
Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street in central Glasgow, Scotland. It was first designed and built in the 1840s by John Baird and other architects. It was developed in 1986 to a design by Edinburgh architects, the Hugh Martin Partnership. The new five-storey, 10,450-square-metre (112,500 sq ft) retail centre occupies a pre-existing cobbled Princes square dating from 1841, which was reconfigured by enclosing the entire space below a new clear glass domed and vaulted roof. An expansion was completed in summer 1999, extending the centre into Springfield Court and providing a further 1,860 square metres (20,000 sq ft) of retail area and a new retail frontage to Queen Street. Quoted from Wikipedia
With the run-around having been completed in Sonora and the train reconfigured with the caboose on the tail and the 42 on the point, engineer Joe Francis settles in for a westbound ride as the short freight drifts downgrade from Lime Spur toward Jamestown. An empty tank car and two loaded hoppers of lime trail behind the Baldwin with the headlight not yet switched on. The train will stop and do some switching at Keystone where it will add a couple of loaded wood chip cars to the consist before packing it in and heading for Oakdale.