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Even though the 630 didn't spend much time on the CNO&TP during its career, it was still an amazing site to see Southern steam on the CNO&TP. Here train 957 gets back underway at Corinith, KY after a lube stop for 630.
I can't remember if I had been out or was about to go out but I do remember it was to a posh restaurant many many years ago.
This week we are going twenty-six years to 1994 to see MA 15 at The Square in Tallaght. The bus is in an all-over ad for Chartbusters. This was a video rental store that was set up in 1993. The founder, Richard Murphy, had previously set up another video rental chain in 1980 called Xtra-vision. This chain expanded across Ireland, England and into some parts of the US. Mr Murphy left the company in 1991 and two years later tried the same concept again with Chartbusters. At its peak, this video-rental company had 54 stores around Ireland. But the recession of the early-2000s hit hard and the company ceased-trading in 2010. Around the same time Xtra-vision started to experience difficulties and by 2016 was in liquidation. It now exists as an online brand, and with vending machines in supermarkets around the country. Online streaming services also contributed to the demise of the company.
MA 15 was one of twenty minibuses delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1993. The first twelve were for City Imp routes and the remainder were for Localink routes. The 203 was one such route, along with the 201 and 202 which operated in Tallaght (and later the 204). These routes started in the late 1980s as the T01, T02 and T03 and connected the housing estates around Tallaght with the village centre. When The Square shopping centre opened, the routes had their termini moved to there. The 203 was withdrawn around 1996 and the 201 and 202 continued on until 2009. 07/05/1994
South Tynedale Railway "Earth Day" 22/04/19
Hunslet 0-4-2T "Green Dragon" runs round its train at Slaggyford.
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For our 250th Throwback Thursday we are going back 11 years to AV 210 on Fleet Street with a service on route 50. The original route 50 was introduced by the DUTC (Dublin United Tramway Company) in 1925 and operated between the city centre and Crumlin. In 1945 the route passed to the Dublin City Services of CIE, and then to Dublin Bus in 1987. From 1962 until 1994 it's terminus was near the junction of Whitehall Road / Whitehall Road West. 1994 saw it undergo a bit of a substantial change when the route effectively became City Imp route 150 to Rossmore. At the same time a new route 50 was created that ran from the city centre to Killinarden in Tallaght. In 1998 the route was extended again to the new development at Citywest. In 2006 the city centre terminus was moved to Ringsend Garage. The end of the 50 came in 2011 during the Network Direct review of bus services. With these changes, Mayberry Road in Kilnamanagh lost its bus service after having one for thirty years.
Route 50 made history in 1937 when the first double-decker bus went into service on the route, R1 of the DUTC. Fellow double-decker AV 210 entered service with Dublin Bus in 2001. It was withdrawn in 2015 and moved to Swanbrook's in the UK.
The building in the background is the old Irish Times building being renovated for new use after the newspaper moved to new offices on Tara Street in 2006. 22/10/2009
I ran across this original Monterey Pop Festival poster and had to share. Here was a line up of some of the hottest bands of their day and look at the ticket prices!!!!! Now days it's more like a $100 to see ONE band of this caliber!
Those were the days my friend.
Retro gear, retro birds, retro scene.
The Spitfire Mk.1a in the foreground is a veteran of Operation Dynamo.
Pomona CA Jack, taken during a 1994 visit. Jack's still there, but looks a bit newer. That's my Hertz Ford Aerostar too.
This is a Print scan of one of three Yamaha XS650s I owned/chopped back in the 80s.. Oh, and the dog was called Bonnie..... Yep, had a Bonneville as well....
DeGrazia remembered well the criticism he received in those early days from people who thought his art was no good. They did not like how DeGrazia followed his own rules in art. On one occasion, DeGrazia was sitting Rosita's Mexican restaurant (located next to his gallery) and a man walked in and shouted to him from across the room. He said," Hey! You DeGrazia?!" DeGrazia did not reply, and kept talking with his friend. The man, who obviously did not like DeGrazia, strode over to DeGrazia's table and interrupted him. He said to DeGrazia, "You're that guy who thinks you can paint on whatever you want, right? No rules, you just do whatever you want!" DeGrazia still did not say anything. There was a basket of tortillas on the table, so DeGrazia took one out and began to paint it. When he finished, he took his brush and he autographed the angry man's clean, white shirt. Before the man stormed out, cursing at DeGrazia, the only thing DeGrazia said to him was, "Now I have painted on everything." The man did not bother to take his original tortilla painting with him, so DeGrazia kept it and it is also on display at the Gallery In the Sun. Happy Throwback Thursday!
17th March of St. Patrick's Day and in the American date format that is 03 17 so what better way to celebrate the day than with a shot of AV 317. Another aspect of St. Patrick's Day is that it brings a lot of diversions for bus routes with the city centre shut down for the parade. Gardiner Street becomes the main cross city route for buses that usually use O'Connell Street. AV 317 is seen operating one such route, the 19A. This operated from Jamestown Road in Finglas to Limekiln Avenue in Greenhills but at this point it did not have much life left to it. Network Direct replaced the 19A with the 9 in August 2011.
AV 317 is seen in Mountjoy Square. 17/03/2011
This week we are going back twenty years to 1997. Dublin Bus was just 10 years old at the time and were considering a new livery for the buses. One optioned considered was to keep two tone green livery (though shades slightly different) with the orange stripe, but to present it in a much more radical way. Two buses received this test livery - double-decker RH 86 and single-decker AD 24. The latter is seen here on O'Connell Sreet operating cross-city route 3 from Sandymount to Larkhill.
In the end Dublin Bus went with a cream/orange/blue livery. O'Connell Street, 19/07/1997
Stumbled onto a really old sent email in an unused school email account and happened to find this shot. I thought this was long gone with hundreds of older photos on my old computer. This was my first days of actually shooting pictures f trains and starting to railfan more seriously. I got this picture with my old POS point and shoot of UP 1983, the WP heritage engine leading a manifest west through Elmhurst back on July 15, 2010. This was one of those random surprise catches while just hanging out be the tracks. tried my best to edit this photo but it was such a shitty quality shot it was hard to do anything with.
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Originalfoto aus der State Library of Queensland.
Not an original rover by any means, but Kenny made a little extra this month by exceeding his Futuron tech theft quotas, and decided to upgrade his rims.
A rare sight on the River Line as two SD40-2's are the sole power for Q434 - if only the photo could capture the sound of the elder statesmen EMD's giving every ounce of horsepower they had to get the train moving.
Yet more West Cumbrian sunshine serves to illuminate Tuesday's 6K73 Sellafield - Crewe flask train.
Nos.57003 & 57007 power a trio of FNAs away from the more southerly of Kirksanton's two level-crossings.
Each crossing has a dedicated keeper with ground-frames operating all the guarding signals, in fact a signalling cable can be seen running lineside.
This week's Throwback Thursday is quite simple to describe - it is a KD, it's on St, Stephen's Green and it is in an all-over ad for "McKenna's Electric".
KD 236 was delivered to Donnybrook Garage around 1982, as part of a batch of 14 buses that started with KD 223. According to Wikipedia KD 236 entered preservation at the end of its career with Dublin Bus.
McKenna's Electric was run by the same family that owns the Power City stores throughout Ireland. St. Stephen's Green, 11/07/1991