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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.
Union Pacific ES44ACH #2526 drops downgrade at Marcel late in the afternoon with the Westbound ZLCLT (LATC-Lathrop) Intermodal train.
Just shy of ten minutes from Washington's Union Station, Amtrak's #2205 Acela decelerates for the work zone at Landover Interlocking, which will be replaced by a new control point just north of this photo. The ex-PRR tower is one of several that dot the Northeast Corridor.
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a mixed-use complex in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Once a major passenger train station, it went into sharp decline during the postwar decline of railroad travel. Most of the building was converted to other uses, and now houses museums, theaters, and a library, as well as special travelling exhibitions. Since 1991, it has been used as a train station once again.
Built in 1933, it is a monumental example of Art Deco architecture, for which it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially as an interchange point between railroads serving the Northeastern and Midwestern states with railroads serving the South. However, intercity passenger traffic was split among no fewer than five stations in Downtown Cincinnati, requiring the many travelers who changed between railroads to navigate local transit themselves. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which operated through sleepers with other railroads, was forced to split its operations between two stations. Proposals to construct a union station began as early as the 1890s, and a committee of railroad executives formed in 1912 to begin formal studies on the subject, but a final agreement between all seven railroads that served Cincinnati and the city itself would not come until 1928, after intense lobbying and negotiations, led by Philip Carey Company president George Crabbs. The seven railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the Norfolk and Western Railway; the Pennsylvania Railroad; and the Southern Railway selected a site for their new station in the West End, near the Mill Creek.
The principal architects of the massive building were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, with architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank brought in as design consultants; Cret is often credited as the building's architect, as he was responsible for the building's signature Art Deco style. The Rotunda features the largest semi-dome in the western hemisphere, measuring 180 feet (55 m) wide and 106 feet (32 m) high.
The Union Terminal Company was created to build the terminal, railroad lines in and out, and other related transportation improvements. Construction in 1928 with the regrading of the east flood plain of the Mill Creek to a point nearly level with the surrounding city, a massive effort that required 5.5 million cubic yards of landfill. Other improvements included the construction of grade separated viaducts over the Mill Creek and the railroad approaches to Union Terminal. The new viaducts the Union Terminal Company created to cross the Mill Creek valley ranged from the well built, like the Western Hills Viaduct, to the more hastily constructed and shabby, like the Waldvogel Viaduct. Construction on the terminal building itself began in 1931, with Cincinnati mayor Russell Wilson laying the mortar for the cornerstone. Construction was finished ahead of schedule, although the terminal welcomed its first trains even earlier on March 19, 1933 when it was forced into emergency operation due to flooding of the Ohio River. The official opening of the station was on March 31, 1933. The total cost of the project was $41.5 million.
During its heyday as a passenger rail facility, Cincinnati Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and 108 out. Three concentric lanes of traffic were included in the design of the building, underneath the main rotunda of the building: one for taxis, one for buses, and one (although never used) for streetcars. However, the time period in which the terminal was built was one of decline for train travel. By 1939, local newspapers were already describing the station as a white elephant. While it had a brief revival in the 1940s, because of World War II, it declined in use through the 1950s into the 1960s.
After the creation of Amtrak in 1971, train service at Cincinnati Union Terminal was reduced to just two trains a day, the George Washington and the James Whitcomb Riley. Amtrak abandoned Cincinnati Union Terminal the next year, opening a smaller station elsewhere in the city on October 29, 1972.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_T...
Macy’s has been in San Francisco’s Union Square for over 75 years, but they have announced this is their last year, they will be closing this store and leaving San Francisco in 2025.
Caligraphy work "نهایت" (means extremity in persian) done by "Ahmad Reza Dadkhah Bidgoli" an Iranian talented young painter.
This transcendental painting represents concepts such as freedom, integration, connection, union of diffrences and the expansion of meanings from inception into extremity.
painted on 2×1 m canvas with acrylic colors.
The Dutch barge "Hoop op Welvaart" moored in the redeveloped Brentford Basin of the Grand Union Canal (Main Line).
Walk : Grand Union Canal (Main Line) Brentford to Bulls Bridge - GUC Paddington Arm to Paddington Basin - 18.1 miles.
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.
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
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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