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Happy Truck Thursday!

Old Mack fire truck

Pike County near Williamson, Georgia

This structure was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) during the 1930's. The men who worked for the CCC quarried the stone locally.

  

Returned to Chessie by the Gettysburg railway after GETY acquired its own power, Western Maryland RS3’s 189, 186, and 198 have been set aside at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland.

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Vintage Packard Interior

This one floated up from the depths of my archives the other day. I shot it some 40 years ago with a trusty Nikon on Kodachrome 25. The blue tint came from changing the White Balance over to tungsten.

 

That's Memorial Bridge in the background over which I and thousands of other commuters rushed daily in our morning commutes from Virginia into D.C. I noted this fellow weeks before getting the shot. He was out there every morning and from his age I suspected he was celebrating his good retired life, thankful that he had escaped the rat race. I can imagine he got a chuckle out of watching us rats race across his bridge.

 

Lyrics from Gordon Bok's "Hills of Isle au Haut" echo the theme of this shot:

 

"Away and to the westward

Is the place a man should go,

Where the fishing's always easy

And there ain't no ice or snow.

 

I'll haul down the sail

Where the bays run together,

Bide away my days

On the hills of Isle au Haut."

The Flamborough Lifeboat's Former Recovery Tractor

Old tractor at Swanton Farm, just north of Santa Cruz, California. I usually make a stop here when I'm on a coast drive for a cup of coffee and to buy a jar or two of fresh strawberry jam.

I found this old retired GMC truck retired behind a feed store, just caught a glimpse as I drove by so had to go back and catch this shot, the forgotten past.

A digital color conversion to black and white of and old car.

C-FMLZ, a Boeing 767-316ER, on approach to runway 05 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as ROU2385 (Air Canada rouge LP) from Shannon, Ireland. It had been in storage at SNN since June 5, 2020. Three days later, it flew to Marana, Arizona as ROU2373 and was put into storage.

 

Serial number 27597 departed the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register on March 4, 2021 and became N27597 the next day.

Everything deserves a good retirement after working hard for so many years.

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Union Pacific GP7 No. 113 sits outside the Salt Lake City Diesel Shop the afternoon of Sept. 5, 1984. The geep was built Western Pacific GP7 No. 711 in April 1953. Wearing a fresh coat of paint, UP 113 would be retired the following month and sold to the Erman Corporation. Info from UtahRails.net

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Retired from Running Moonshine in the Smokey Mountains

Well preserved snub nosed diesel; someone has applied fresh paint and put them out to pasture for display.

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Cimarron County Oklahoma

Retired, after performing decades of watchful, nightly services. . #ThroughHerLens

Life in the sun. Old tractor. Paignton, Devon

In 1990 Crayola retired eight colors and placed them in the Crayola Hall of Fame: maize, lemon yellow, blue gray, raw umber, green blue, orange red, orange yellow, and violet blue. These crayons are part of a recent celebration which brought back those colors in a "special edition" box.

To replace the retirees, eight new colors were added: vivid tangerine, jungle green, cerulean, fuchsia, dandelion, teal blue, royal purple, and wild strawberry. Crayola currently markets 120 colors not counting some "specialty colors" such as metallic colors, confetti colors and neon colors. (Courtesy: Crayola)

 

For the Macro Mondays group, challenge: Mediums.

Happy Macro Monday!

  

Old boat in the harbor

Now Caithlin has retired from the shows - and although she was a great star, I'm sure she does not mind staying at home...

Posted for the "Happy Caturday" theme "Precious memories".

Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somali cat), 18.11.2024

 

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Sun setting on the Golden Gate with a retired Naval ship docked in the foreground.

Keel bay

Achill Island

Co. Mayo

Ireland

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