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Body: Heil STARR
Chassis: Autocar ACX
Company: Republic Services
Location: Salem, OR
Date: March 2014
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Cross town cars don't stop here no more. I never posted this shot from the past. This service station has waited a long time to receive another gas shipment. The gas tanker got lost so far from any interstate. It's been a long time since the RR land grant ads avowed how much tilling the plains could attract weather systems and farmers and ranchers flooded to the area. As if the Koch Bros volatile fossils couldn't bleed into our atmosphere and pay us back. When this early service station was in business, The attendant still needed a comfortable arm chair. Now, it seems as though travelers want to jet over this spot entirely. Apparently few cars even pass the old station. Anywhere there was habitation, settlers put extra effort into starting stands of trees.
This proves that the word "plain" can be a double entendre. Plain means plain! Anything that sticks above the sparse grass (including two pines for miles) is interesting out here but that takes beaucoups time and investigation. Mostly, the sky held little to show, other than a good sunburn on that April day in 2006. Summer was still lying in wait for a couple of months back by the mountains. Where will shelter from the elements be found out here then? The ancient Greeks didn't have few enough elements to describe this landscape.
This is on\near the Pawnee National Grasslands beyond Grover in northeast Colorado. Boy, did the railroad land sales brochures in the latter half of the 1800s ever lay this barren soil to eastern hicks. The brochures claimed that plowing this "fertile" land would cause an increase in the normal rainfall. No rain today, could that claim have been optimistic puffery or an outright lie to gain land sales? Was advertising more viable so many years ago? Surely not the Union nor the Denver Pacific's advertising! Perhaps the problem was a hick problem - at least the weeds are making a stand. The buffalo were far better stewards of this land than the hicks ever could be.
Arriva North East 7551 YX17 NOH In Golden Square Berwick Upon Tweed On the 11:05 X15 Berwick to Newcastle Service
A standby vessel of a kind long since superseded by more modern designs, Shetland Service entering Aberdeen Harbour July 2005.
WDA664T was a Leyland Fleetline FE30AGR / Park Royal H76F new to West Midlands PTE as their 6664 in January 1979. On disposal in October 1990 it passed to A1 Service Member James Brown of Dreghorn and remained in the fleet until the company passed to Stagecoach in January 1995. This was taken on a nice peaceful Sunday morning at South Beach Ardrossan as WDA664T skirted around the coast.
"Soul Service Station"
artist: Alison Saar
Desert X 2025
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Drawing inspiration from gas stations that have populated the American West, including the Coachella Valley, Saar’s station offers more than practical services; it provides fuel for the soul. She invites weary travelers to get “their blues flushed, spirits inflated, hearts charged, and souls filled.”
Inside the station, a sculptural assemblage handcrafted by Saar contains a collection of devotional objects. Saar has collaborated with Coachella Valley students to create foil repoussé medallions expressing prayers and wishes for healing and hope. These community-crafted elements, combined with furnishings made from salvaged materials, form a sanctuary that merges collective dreams with Saar’s vision of a spiritual oasis. At the center stands a life-size, hand-carved female figure, the guardian and healer of the site, exuding strength and protection.
Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
1 of 3 ex-Ontario trucks. Kevin was at the same auction that these were bought from. NASA refurbished them completely all in house, from engine rebuilding to painting.
22nd May 2005. Class 24 D5054 visiting from the East Lancs Railway passes class 104 unit at Consall on the Churnett valley Railway
SY 0785, 0939 and 0989 are at the forefront of a number of SY class locomotives during the morining shift change at one of the servicing points on the Fuxin Coal Railway.
a little disappointed with the clarity...was in a rush on the way to work this morning...beautiful frosty, foggy morning
Usually 925 stops for a shunt at Oamaru, but not tonight - green signals are lit and the train rolls through town with Pacific Ocean waves crashing in beside the yard.
Train 925, DFT 7132 DC 4801, Oamaru SIMT, NZ
Travelsure YJ05 XMS In Golden Square Berwick Upon Tweed On the 10:55 236 Berwick to Eyemouth Service
Operated by: Republic Services Inc. North Las Vegas, NV
Unit Number: 3299
Body: Heil Half/Pack
Chassis: Peterbilt 520
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Seen on a commercial route near downtown Las Vegas.
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After being withdrawn and now it's back as we see Arriva Buses Wales East Lancs Lowlander Y703 XJF 4188 as this have escaped from the withdrawal section at the Arriva Depot and now this is operating passangers while its doing the route 44A to Llangefni then connects to the number 44 to Holyhead.
Dinner service is in full swing at the downtown restaurants as CSX M982-03 glides through town at ten miles per hour. The train will take the restricting signal at Junta Tower into the Southbound to clear for Q155 before dropping all but three cars of his 1800' train.
Northen Rail train leaving for for Sheffield from Pontefract Baghill Station. This is the 11.43 one of only two trains to Sheffield from this station.
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The St. Marks Light is the second-oldest light station in Florida. It is located on the east side of the mouth of the St. Marks River, on Apalachee Bay.
In the 1820s, the town of St. Marks, Florida was considered an important port of entry. The town served as a port for the prosperous planting region of Middle Florida and some counties of South Georgia. Growers hauled their agricultural products down to the port town in wagons by way of an early road which connected the then territorial capital of Tallahassee to the town of St. Marks. Later, this road would be widened and improved upon by the Tallahassee Railroad Company and would become the state's first railroad.
Once the agricultural products reached the new port town, they were loaded aboard boats for shipment to New Orleans and/or St. Augustine. There were, however, problems in navigating both the Apalachee Bay and the St. Marks River. In many places both bay and river were shallow, and it was not too uncommon for boats to run aground and/or get mired in the muddy shallows
After a survey was completed of the St. Marks area by Robert Mitchell, the Collector of Customs at Pensacola, and a site chosen for the lighthouse, it was discovered that the initial construction sum of $6,000 would be insufficient. The appropriation was increased to $14,000, and by mid-1829 a contract was signed with Winslow Lewis of Boston for the construction of a tower in the St. Marks area for $11,765. The finished product was not accepted by the Collector of Customs for St. Marks, Mr. Jesse H. Williams, because it had been constructed with hollow walls. Williams felt that the tower should be constructed with solid walls and, therefore, refused to accept the work.
Calvin Knowlton was brought in to rebuild the tower. He oversaw its completion, and in 1831, Williams, satisfied that the light was built according to the contract, accepted the work. That same year saw the tower's whale-oil lamps lit for the first time by Samuel Crosby, who had been appointed the first Keeper of the St. Marks Lighthouse the previous year.
The lighthouse was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1960, and in 2000 the Coast Guard spent $150,000 in 2000 to stabilize the lighthouse. In 2000 or 2001 the lighthouse's fourth-order Fresnel lens was deactivated and a modern solar-powered beacon was placed outside the lantern room. The historic Fresnel lens remained in place in the tower for over a decade. In July 2005, Hurricane Dennis broke a window of the lantern, flooding the inside of the tower.
In October 2013 the Coast Guard deactivated transferred ownership of the lighthouse to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. The lighthouse was deactivated in 2016 and the Coast Guard's solar beacon was removed. Financial grants from the Florida Department of State and Duke Energy in 2016, plus crowdfunded donations, were put towards repairs and restoration. On October 31, 2019, a replica of the original fourth-order Fresnel lens was lit in the tower. The light is now maintained as a private aid to navigation and is lit seasonally.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marks_Light
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