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Had no idea this was coming, totally lucked into it. Even got a sucker hole in the clouds.
Shot on the morning of September 13th 2020, at the recently modified Duplainville interlocking.
7021 is the CP's tribute to the soldiers fighting in arid climates, and looks pretty good paired up with an SD40-3.
There's no telling how much longer these old searchlights will be in service, so I would have been happy with a couple of dirty old beavers.
La torre civica, conosciuta con il nome di Campanone, è un monumento storico della città di Bergamo.
Il Campanone fa parte della rete del Museo delle storie di Bergamo gestita da Fondazione Bergamo nella storia.
La struttura è situata nella parte alta della città di Bergamo, ovvero nella parte racchiusa tra le Mura Venete. Posta a fianco del Palazzo della Ragione e del Palazzo del Podestà, raccorda il lato sud con quello occidentale di Piazza Vecchia, che per secoli è stata il centro politico della città orobica.
La torre venne costruita nel periodo compreso tra l'XI ed il XII secolo. Inizialmente venne utilizzata come casa-torre di proprietà della famiglia Suardi, uno dei casati più potenti di quei tempi, appartenente alla schiera dei ghibellini[2]. Indicata con il termine hospicio, che nel medioevo corrispondeva alla definizione di grande casa, divenne nel '300 hospicio magno comnis pergami in quo morantur rectores comunis Pergami apud turrim dicti hospicii, quindi grande ospizio dove abitavano i rettori presso la torre. Probabilmente in questo tempo la torre venne ampliata. Forse vennero edificate altre stanze però sulle proprietà vescovili sostituirono infatti la porticus nova che si trovava sul lato della piazza di san Vincenzo.
Era l'epoca in cui la contrapposizione con i guelfi raggiunse l'apice, tanto che ogni famiglia facoltosa residente nella città soleva erigere una torre: tanto più alta era la costruzione più prestigio acquisiva la famiglia.
Nel frattempo tutto attorno si era sviluppata Piazza Vecchia, cuore delle istituzioni politico-amministrative, e piazza del Duomo, centro religioso cittadino. La torre, dalla cui sommità si potevano ammirare entrambe le piazze, si trovò ad essere un riferimento per tutti gli abitanti. La torre nel XIV secolo ospitava anche le carceri cittadine.
Qualche secolo più tardi la struttura venne acquisita dalla municipalità bergamasca, che vi collocò alcune campane. Queste, oltre a scandire il tempo, servivano anche per richiamare a raccolta la cittadinanza, soprattutto in momenti di calamità.
Inoltre la campana maggiore, benedetta nel 1656 e ribattezzata dagli abitanti Campanone, alle dieci di ogni sera batteva cento rintocchi per indicare il coprifuoco che ricordava la chiusura delle quattro porte di accesso alla città. Questa usanza si ripete tuttora a memoria degli eventi passati, così come quando si riunisce il Consiglio comunale, si svolge la processione del Corpus Domini o si tiene il concerto di tutti i campanili della città il 25 agosto, organizzato dalla Federazione Campanari Bergamaschi, giorno della vigilia del patrono Sant'Alessandro.
Così come avvenuto per numerosi monumenti situati nelle immediate vicinanze, a partire dalla seconda metà del XX secolo l'edificio venne coinvolto in un progetto di rivalutazione in chiave turistica, con un intervento di ammodernamento che introdusse un ascensore che permette di dare un'alternativa a chi non vuole raggiungere la sommità della struttura mediante la scaletta.
Focus stack (10 images). Shot with two off-camera flashes (Leica SF60 /Leica SF C1 trigger) placed along sides of a 15 inch Foldio Studio light box at 90 degrees to subject. Strobes also modified with MagMod MagSphere diffusers to spread light off translucent polypropylene sides of Foldio Studio.
Bridge Graffiti" by Patti Deters. Examples of colorful graffiti art are on display on the supports under the Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minnesota. Each cement pillar makes the perfect canvas for spray paint art, aka graffiti, some of which shows creative talent. Please enjoy more of my urban, landscape, and outdoor images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/bridge-graffiti-patti-de....
Giant multiple-row panoramic picture based on 42 individual photos. The original file was too large for Flickr (320 Mb), hence I reduced it a little. The picture's resolution is (a ridiculous) 32920 x 9792 pixels. Flickr's zoom does do justice to this picture, as the original actually allows one to zoom in on individual houses and see them in great detail.
Valldemossa is a village and municipality on the island of Majorca, part of the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. It is famous for one landmark: the Royal Charterhouse of Valldemossa, built at the beginning of the 14th century, when the mystic and philosopher Ramon Llull lived in this area of Majorca.
Since the 19th century Valldemossa has been promoted internationally as a place of outstanding beauty, largely as a result of the affection of distinguished traveller and cultural writer, the Austrian Archduke Ludwig Salvator.
Valldemossa is a very attractive tourist destination, as it shows early Spanish culture.
In October 1836, Chopin met a French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) at Liszt's house. In the summer of 1838, Sand and Chopin became lovers. They spent the following winter from 8 November 1838 to 11 February 1839 together with Sand’s two children in Mallorca. At first, they stayed in Palma de Mallorca and then at the Charterhouse in Valldemossa.
Already after a month, Chopin was writing about Valldemossa in rather sad tones, complaining about the weather and local cuisine. The Mediterranean climate was to agree with the composer; however, that year’s winter was particularly rainy and Chopin caught a cold. On top of that, the piano that was imported from Europe especially for him, was lost during the transport. After the piano was found, it was waiting later for weeks at the Palma port for the duty to be paid. During this time, Chopin was forced to play on a poor Majorcan piano. Despite the difficulties, he was working on his next pieces. It was in Mallorca where the collection of 24 preludes was completed (including prelude in D-flat major nicknamed "Raindrop").
There was not much left after the visit of the couple of lovers. The locals, afraid of tuberculosis, burnt most of the furniture of the rooms Chopin and Sand had lived in. Museums dedicated to the famous couple are located in the monastery cells 2 and 4. Memorabilia collected there include letters and manuscripts, portraits and sketches, as well as the Majorcan piano, on which Chopin had been composing since January 1836. There are also a Chopin's death mask and a lock of his hair, preserved in a George Sand's book. The museum is private and was founded in 1929 by Anne-Marie Boutroux de Ferrà and her husband Bartomeu Ferrà i Juan.
The Chopin Festival organised by Festivals Chopin de Valldemossa has been held since 1930 in August at the Carthusian monastery.
Railtours of the 1980s
After arrival at Weymouth Town station behind Class 46 Peak 46026 'Leicestershire & Derbyshire Yeomanry' on the 'Class 46 Tribute' railtour, I lost no time in getting down to the Weymouth Quay branch to capture this rare opportunity - a Class 33 taking the Waterloo-Weymouth Quay Boat Train down the branch :) A sight that has now sadly been consigned to history.
A basher can be seen enjoying the experience in Mark 1 coach S3923.
More on the 'Class 46 Tribute' here: www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840617_1.htm
Locomotive History
D6519 / 33106 entered traffic in August 1960 as D6519 allocated to Hither Green MPD. In April 1966 D6519 was transferred to Eastleigh which would become its home depot for the next twenty three years before a final transfer to Stewarts Lane in February 1989. In March 1967 it received push-pull apparatus and high-level brake pipes and jumper cables and became part of the class 33/1 sub class. 33106 survived in traffic for thirty years until withdrawn in November 1990. Following withdrawal it was broken up by Coopers Metals on site at Eastleigh MPD in September 1992.
Push-pull Class 33s - During the mid 1960’s third-rail electrification was expanding on the Southern Region, however it was not considered to be justified to extend beyond Bournemouth on the South West Main Line, and so in 1966, D6580 was fitted with experimental push-pull apparatus and high-level brake pipes and jumper cables to make it compatible with Southern Region Electric Multiple Unit stock. Tests were carried out on the Oxted Line using a 6-coach rake of unpowered EMU coaches (designated TC, the T standing for Trailer). Following successful completion of trials, D6580 and eighteen other members of the class entered Eastleigh works in 1967 to be converted Class 33/1, fitted with a modified version of the push-pull apparatus (fully compatible with Class 73 Electro-Diesels) and painted in the new BR corporate blue with full yellow ends. With the advent of the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme, these modified locomotives were numbered 33101–33119. At one time class 34 was earmarked for these modified Class 33 locomotives but in the end was never used.
The above fascinating information courtesy of John Woolley Photos :)
Class 33 - in December 1957 British Railways ordered forty-five Type 3 diesel-electric locomotives from the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRCW) for Southern Region duties. They were required as part of the general modernisation resulting from Phase I of the Kent Coast Electrification scheme. The number was later increased to a total of ninety-eight including twelve special ’slim line’ locomotives for use on the width-restricted Tonbridge-Hastings line. Based on the BRCW type 2’s (Class 26/27) of the Scottish Region, the Southern locomotives were more powerful with eight cylinder Sulzer engines and Crompton-Parkinson electrical equipment. All were delivered new to Hither Green MPD, beginning in 1959, and were allocated the numbers D6500-97.
All 86 of the first delivery were built as standard locomotives, numbered D6500 to D6585. Under TOPS they became class 33/0 and the surviving locomotives, excluding the 19 that were converted for push-pull operation (33101 to 33119), were renumbered 33001–33065. The 12 narrow-bodied locomotives were originally numbered D6586 to D6597, and later renumbered 33201 to 33212. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_33
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration.
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