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Located at the corner of O’Connell Street and Abbey Street, the Grand Central Café Bar is located in a genuinely grand central site, but doesn’t have a long history. It links what were two premises, 10 and 11 O’Connell Street, which have been a single building since the Munster and Leinster Bank acquired No 11 in 1926. No 11 was rebuilt by Benjamin Ball in 1824.
The buildings were extensively damaged in the Easter Rising of 1916, primarily by a shell from HMS Helga. No 10 was refurbished as a result in 1917.
The buildings played an interesting rôle during the Easter Rising. They housed at that time the Irish School of Wireless Telegraphy. With all telephone lines in and out of the city cut by the British authorities, on the second day of the Rising, 25 April 1916, the rebels sent the following message in Morse code thanks to one of their number, David Bourke, who was proficient in the art of telegraphy: “Irish Republic declared in Dublin today. Irish troops have captured city and are in full possession. Enemy cannot move in city. The whole country rising.”
Ships did receive the message and relayed it to the international press, although three days later the Rising would be crushed.
Showing off the colors.
Central Montana Railroad was new and parked their engines at various spots along the line. Freshly painted at Livingston, 1810 sits on the west side of the closed elevator.
Burlington Northern provided former Great Northern GP9's. All were long end front with stripes at both ends.
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The central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), also known as the inland bearded dragon, is a species of agamid lizard found in a wide range of arid to semiarid regions of eastern and central Australia.
More modern architecture in Rotterdam. The metallic projection on the left is the corner of the wonderfully futuristic Central railway station.
A blog of my visit to Rotterdam:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg_Central St
Gothenburg Central Station serves 27 million passengers per year, making it the second largest railway station in Sweden. The station is situated in the city of Gothenburg, right by Drottningtorget. Numerous railways were built across Sweden in the 19th century. One of the first distances was the one between Gothenburg and Jonsered. As the railway grew more popular, the need for a station emerged. The Gothenburg Central Station was built between 1856 and 1858.
Parked at the Central Montana Railroad's ballast pit.The cars are former MK.
The railroad's unique dark blue unit 1838. Livingston ran out of the Conrail blue when they painted this one. Or, is it Big Sky Blue?
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The last 75 km of gravel road across the Central Plateau has been a source of motoring pleasure for me over the last 18 years. Now the state government can afford to seal it, which means that particular pleasure is over.
Huron Central Railway’s train from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury trundles past a farm at Bar River, Ont., on the forlorn Webbwood Subdivision. The highland cattle seem more interested in checking out the camera-wielding stranger than the passing freight to the Big Nickel.
A pair of Central Vermont GP-9's, #4549 and 4551 along with a Grand Trunk Western GP-9 wait to head North at the Conrail crossing at Palmer, Mass. in March of 1988.
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La iglesia de San Gil Abad se encuentra en pleno centro de Zaragoza. De su existencia tenemos noticia desde el siglo XII cuando Alfonso I el Batallador, tras la reconquista de la ciudad en 1118, cede el templo de San Gil al obispo Esteban de Huesca para que con sus productos pueda mantener a las tropas bearnesas que habían ayudado en la conquista. Aunque no se tienen noticias ni quedan restos que lo puedan avalar es casi seguro que la primitiva fábrica de la iglesia fuese en estilo románico.
Al convertirse en parroquia en 1242 el aumento considerable de feligreses hace necesario el disponer de un templo con mayor capacidad que se levantará en la primera mitad del siglo XIV tras derribar el anterior.
Tal y como lo contemplamos hoy en día la fábrica de la iglesia es el resultado de la profunda reforma barroca realizada entre los años 1719 y 1725; esta reforma alteró por completo el interior pero respetó casi en su totalidad la estructura exterior.
La iglesia mudéjar estaba orientada al Este (esta orientación se modificó con la reforma barroca) y presentaba tipología de iglesia-fortaleza con nave única de dos tramos, cabecera recta y capillas laterales entre los contrafuertes.
La reforma barroca que alteró totalmente el interior no fue tan drástica con el exterior, donde prácticamente se redujo al derribo de la cabecera y hastial rectos sustituyéndolos por ábsides poligonales a la vez que se reorientaba litúrgicamente. De la fábrica mudéjar se conservan los dos laterales. En la última restauración se derribaron las edificaciones anexas a la fachada norte (actual calle Estébanes), quedando a la vista la torre principal, las dos torres-contrafuerte y las tribunas de este lado. En el lado meridional, aunque se conserva está misma estructura, queda totalmente enmascarada por las edificaciones anexas.
Las torres contrafuerte están divididas en dos cuerpos, el bajo hasta la altura del tejado de las capillas laterales y el superior hasta la del tejado de la nave central. Una sencilla cornisa a base de ménsulas en saledizo con una banda de esquinillas debajo, continuación de la que sirve de apoyo a los tejados citados, separa ambos cuerpos. Abren en la parte baja pequeñas aspilleras de iluminación mientras que en la superior lo hacen vanos en arco apuntado. Se rematan en cornisa a base de ménsulas en saledizo con banda de esquinillas en dientes de sierra debajo. Al interior presentan machón central y caja de escaleras que discurre entre éste y el muro exterior cubierta con bovedillas por aproximación de hiladas, distribución idéntica a la torre principal.
De toda la fábrica mudéjar la parte más aparente y que más llama la atención es la torre-campanario que se ve en la imagen.
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Recently one of my friends made a joke, saying that I am The River Thames' personal photographer. Basically he was eluding to the fact that the vast majority of my snaps include the Thames... and upon further inspection by myself, I realised this is true! So, for a change here is a London Scene without the Thames. In view is St Mary Axe (or the Gerkin) and some London buses zooming by on their daily business of picking people up.
I went for sunset and happy I did. Although you can't see much of the sunset (at least not as much as you would near the river), the sky was a gentle orange and pink hue. It was a freezing evening. But happy I ventured out :)
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Soberanes Point
Carmel Highlands, CA
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Photographed around 9:30 in the morning as a fog bank began to cover the coastline. I couldn't really make out what this semi circular white "rainbow" (with no rain) was while I was there.
Being me, I looked up "fog rainbow" on google, and what do you know, it's a thing. A "fogbow". A first sighting for me, that's for sure.
A free public skatepark located in downtown Macon, Georgia.
The first phase of the skate park opened in April 2017 and instantly became a hit with the skating community. The first competition there drew hundreds of skaters from around the country, and it is used on a daily basis by amateurs and professionals, alike.
In 2019 Phase II was designed and built by California Skateparks, Inc., and they have worked with the local skating community to make sure it is created with their use in mind. It includes a competition size bowl.
This image was taken in the northern part of Central Park on an especially beautiful day in early May. I was very lucky to have no people or dogs in this scene, since the Park was very busy that day.
The oldest building I know of in Central Park sits facing north on a stone ridge at about 107th Street. Stone walls, the staircase you see on its south side, and for a century or so no roof but a flagpole rising up incongriusly. Small windows on the north side give a view to 110th St. and Harlem. The small stone fort is a blockhouse, one of a half dozen built in the War of 1812 built for American pickets to spot a British troops moving south to occupy New York City as they had 35 years earlier. The British never came, the other blockhouse are long gone, and these days it serves as a temporary safe spot for folks with nowhere else to go.