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To me as an urban planner, Union Square (as it's formally known) is a spectacle of ultra high density mixed use development. This development is built over the Kowloon MTR Station and sits on 13 hectares of land reclaimed from Victoria Harbour. A high end shopping mall, Elements, occupies well over a million square feet above the train/MTR station. The roof of the mall is used as a quasi public plaza and as access to the multiple towers on site. There are over 8,000 housing units here, as well as the 118 storey Intrenational Commerce Centre and W Hotel.
Housing prices are shocking. At the "Harbourside", the 75 storey blue tower second from left for example, a lower floor 743 square foot two bedroom apartments was listed at $21 million HKD ($3.4 million Canadian/ $2.7 million USD )in December 2017 .
When I first visited this development in 2008, it seemed completely isolated from the city and was not at all a friendly place to get to as a pedestrian. In 2017, it's in the middle of a sea of cranes and new buildings.
In future, there will likely be better connectivity, as more massive development, the West Kowloon Cultural District, is currently taking place on 40 hectares of land adjacent to Elements/Union Square.
Union Terminal in Cincinnati Ohio. this is now a historical museum, and I was informed today that in the '80s it was a mall.
Illinois Railway Museum 63, at their museum on Saturday, October 15th, 2022. Carries Cleveland RTA livery.
Built in 1947 as Twin Cities 352, it was sold to Cleveland RTA in 1953, acquired by Trolleyville Museum in 1985 and the IRM in 2009.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Union Pacific - Geneva subdivision
Metra: Union Pacific West Line
LaFox Metra Station
LaFox, Illinois
Olympus E-510 DSLR
Olympus ED 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 zoom
ISO 400 RAW
39mm -- 1/250 -- f.8.0
My Entry for Week 1 Challenge Greeble de Mayo.
Greeble Union Jack.
The Flag of Great Britain with the three colours of the Union...Red, White and Blue. (places right hand on heart in a dramatic fashion ). Note the cup of tea central to being British!
Greebles: Pseudo-technical detail added to a LEGO creation to enhance its appearance. Frequently seen in LEGO space and mecha creations.
NB.
Legohaulic has started Greeble de Mayo Challenge here:
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Week 1 Challenge May 1st - May 10th
- Your greebles must be comprised of 3 different colors
- Your greebles may not use any gray colors.
- Your greeble must fit within an 8x8x8 area. You are free to build a 1 stud 'frame' around you greebled area.
While the sun sets on this beautiful September Saturday, Marion Union Station shows off it's own beauty under the exterior lights. AC Tower stands guard, waiting for the next train to come through the interlocking.
Marion, Ohio.
good to catch up with Abang during the semester break, it was another great trip and i definitely enjoyed it
Union Pacific GP9 247 was sold to in January, 1985 to Fritz Enterprises in Riverdale, IL for scrap, but the junkyard activated it and decided to use it to switch gondolas around their scrap yard and interchange to the B&OCT Barr Yard, seen to the right.
What apparently no one told Fritz was that the UP frequently stripped the sale units of their still needed components in order to keep sister units running. In the case of the 247, the radiators and fans were removed, making it, in the words of the operator, "run a little hot." Wait until summer!
The 247 merrily switched cars around the yard for a few months, then disappeared presumably scrapped by her less than happy owners. The scrap yard went back to being switched by the B&OCT.
247 was one of 5 units built in June 1954 to dieselize the Camas Prairie Railroad, a joint operation between the UP and Northern Pacific in Idaho.
Riverdale, IL 4/8/1985
Photo by John Eagan
The Union Inn at Saltash Waterside near Plymouth situated under the Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Tamar Bridge in Cornwall. A unique setting with the Union Jack Flag painted over the front of the building makes it a worthwhile visit along the River Tamar. This image was taken on Christmas Day 2019 during a foggy morning between the two counties of Devon and Cornwall.
An array of Amtrak equipment reposes on the station tracks of Chicago Union Station in the late 1990s. Although all of this equipment is still in active service, it won't be found in operation on any Midwest routes. (Scanned from a slide)
Denver Union Station consists of the historic terminal building and, on the site's former rail yards, an open-air train hall, a 22-gate underground bus terminal, and a light rail station. The train hall stands immediately behind the historic building and houses tracks for Amtrak and the future commuter rail lines. An entrance between the train hall and the historic building lead directly to the underground bus terminal, which stretches west for two city blocks along 17th Street until it terminates at an above-ground light rail station. Wikipedia
UP 8317 leads a train of coal cars southbound through tunnel 29 along the Lone Pine Subdivision ~ (Searles) San Bernardino County, CA
Saint Paul's Union Depot is an historic railroad station and transit hub located in the Lowertown neighbourhood of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It serves inter-city rail, inter-city bus, and local bus services.
There actually have been two Union Depots in St. Paul. The first was completed in 1881, and combined the services of several different railroads into one building (hence the "union"; see Union station). In 1888 the old station had its peak year, handling eight million passengers. That year, about 150 trains departed daily. Around this time, the building was remodelled with a taller central tower and other alterations to the roof line. This station burned in 1915.
The current structure was started in 1917 but was not completed until 1923 because World War I caused construction to halt for several years.
During its heyday, the depot hosted the passenger trains of nine railroads, and more than 20 million pieces of mail passed through the station to the neighbouring St. Paul Central Downtown Post Office annually. At its peak in the 1920's, there were 282 train movements daily. The waiting room stood atop nine platforms serving 18 tracks; the eight northern ones closest to the head-house were stub-end tracks, while the other ten ran through. However, track ownership and track rights west of the station meant that most trains operated as though the station was a stub terminal. These trains, when they were intended to continue beyond the station, instead backed up to a wye just to the east to get to other main lines.
Scanned from Kodak Tri-X 400
(shot at ISO-250 and expired from Jan-2014)
Chicago, IL
April 2021
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