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Paola and Cosenza, Italy, 17 March 1980
In March 1980, when I was on a 1 month rail pass tour of Europe, regular steam operations were pretty thin on the ground in western Europe. East of the Iron Curtain, many countries still used steam, but they did not honor Eurailpass, required visas to visit and were not known for being friendly to railfan photographers.
Continental Railway Journal was the CTC Board or Flimsies of the world steam scene at the time and I'd gotten a couple of copies in the UK that described steam operations in western Europe. Spain had the Ponferada line, but that didn't seem to be accessible via RENFE, and my attempt to see the Portuguese meter gauge lines had been stymied by a rail strike in Portugal that stopped the overnight Madrid-Lisbon train at the border. The town where I awoke that morning reminded me of the place where Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katherine Ross get off the train in Bolivia in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
A passenger service that was running behind steam and was run by the state railway was on the rack line in southern Italy from Paola on the main line on the coast up into the hills to Cosenza. The day services were run by railcars that shuttled back and forth on the rack line, but there was a through overnight Rome-Paola coach attached to a train en route to Medina that was cut at Paola and pulled up the mountain by a little 0-6-0 rack tank engine. A 2nd class coach was also on the rack train, but, IIRC, that only ran Paola-Cosenza. 2nd class passengers had a middle of the night transfer. The through 1st class car was older, but not being the Arthur Dubin of FS coaching stock, I couldn't tell you how old.
I wish that I could say that I spent the night listening to the engine hard at work on the grade, but this was my 4th night in a row sleeping on trains (Amsterdam-Munich, Munich-Paris, Paris-Rome, and now Rome-Paola) and I was too tired. I'd slept across one seat of the compartment until 2 guys came into the compartment at some time in the night and I just rolled onto the floor in my sleeping bag and went back to sleep. I remember awakening to bits of stack talk, thinking that I really should stay awake and listen to it, and then falling right back asleep.
Marathon train riding has its downsides, as I was learning. A stationary bed is a good idea after a couple of nights on the train.
Anyway, we arrived in Cosenza on time and I staggered out of the train and got some photos of 981-008. The crew was friendly and posed for a photo before they took the engine to the turntable and engine house for servicing before it repeated its task that night.
However, a cop saw me and started hassling me in Italian, presumably about taking photos. Maybe I was off the platform in the yard and that is what he was upset about, but I left the station and found a place to get some breakfast,. This was the only time I was hassled about photography in 3 trips to Europe
After dealing with the cop, I didn't take any photos of the railcar that took me down the mountain. Once on the railcar, I took a couple of photos of stored steam engines as we left town, but then I fell asleep again for most of the run down the mountain and missed what was some pretty nice scenery. When I'd wake up, I'd look around, think, "Wow, this is nice." and then before that thought inspired me to pull out the camera for a shot, I was snoring again.
The railcar left the platform pretty quickly at Paola, so I ddin't get a photo of it there, either.
I read that this rack stretch has been replaced with a regular adhesion railway to Cosenza, so the rack railcars no longer run there and, of course, steam is long gone.
A nice variety of older FS electrics came through Paola during my wait for the train back to Rome. The run up the coast would be worth repeating sometime when I'm not dog tired.
The main Rome station has showers for travelers to use, so I was able to clean myself up on trips through Rome. That night I took an overnight train to Venice, then came back to Rome and saw a bit more of 2the city before taking a train to Florence in the afternoon, then getting back to Rome in time for the overnight train to Nice. Le Mistral took me to Paris, then I worked out some overnight run to Ostend, Belgium to catch a ferry to Dover and trains to Keighley, West Yorkshire for the Worth Valley's March steam fest, which saw Bulleid 4-6-2 City of Wells' return to service and, finally a place to sleep that didn't move for a couple of nights.
One of the palaces at the end of the main shopping street of Cosenza, Corso Mazzini, reflected in a water basin (part of a sculpture representing a helmet of the ancient Bruttians) in front of the town hall. The British flags are of the British School Group where you can learn English.
The old heart of Cosenza is in a terrible state - this is one of the better parts, right in front of the 800 year old Duomo (you can recognize the theme in the illumination above the street) I frankly wouldn't dare venture into the worst parts.
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...un cuore che si alimenta attraverso la corrente!
"CUORE ELETTRONICO"
"QUESTO CUORE DA QUALCHE ORA HA INIZIATO A PULSARE..."
GRAZIE, GRAZIE DI ESISTERE! MIO "ANGELO"
LA TUA FORZA( ora è anche la MIA) MI DA CORAGGIO... E GRAZIE A TE E PER TUTTE QUESTE COSE CHE MI DAI!
TI DEDICO QUESTO MURALES
"Negli immensi misteri del tempo e dello spazio
sento le tue braccia intorno alle mie spalle e non ho paura..."
The old town in Cosenza in undeveloped commercially with vacant storefronts, and the city appears depressed, but the place is unspoiled and extremely photogenic. It contrasts with a city like Taormina in Sicily with loads of wealthy visitors, tourists and designer shops. We met no other tourists in Cosenza, and virtually no one spoke English.
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Cosenza is a city located at the confluence of two historic rivers, the Busento and the Crathis, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. The municipal population is of around 70,000; the urban area, however, counts over 260,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the homonymous Province of Cosenza, which has a population of around 733,000.The ancient town is the seat of the Cosentian Academy, the second academy of philosophical and literary studies to be founded in the Kingdom of Naples (1511) and one of the oldest in Europe. To this day, the city remains a cultural hub with several museums, theatres, libraries, and the University of Calabria.Cosenza stands 238 m above sea level in a valley between the Sila plateau and the coastal range of mountains. The old town, overshadowed by its castle, descends to the river Crathis; the growing modern city lies to the north, beyond the Busento, on level ground.The ancient Consentia, capital of the Italic tribe of the Bruttii, was a bulwark of the Italic people against the Hellenic influences of the Ionian colonies. It was in this province that the Battle of Pandosia was fought, in which a small Italic army composed of Bruttii and Lucanians defeated Alexander the Great's uncle, Alexander of Epirus. Over the centuries, Cosenza maintained a distinctive character, which marked it out among the cities of the region. Under Emperor Augustus it became an important stopover on the Roman via Popilia, which connected Calabria to Sicily. During the Roman Empire, although merely a colonia, the town benefited from municipal privileges.
Cosenza nota anche come "città dei Bruzi", è un comune italiano di 69.760 abitanti, capoluogo dell'omonima provincia, la più estesa e popolosa della Calabria.Città tra le più antiche della regione, capofila di una conurbazione di circa 270.000 abitanti nella rappresentazione estesa nel cui perimetro (Rende) è ubicata l'Unical, il più grande campus universitario italiano e una delle migliori università d'Italia tra i grandi atenei secondo la classifica stilata dal Censis. Il capoluogo bruzio è sede della RAI regionale (TGR), di un museo all'aperto (unico nel suo genere in Italia), dell'Ufficio ANAS per l'Autostrada A3 e rappresenta uno dei principali poli regionali da un punto di vista economico, urbanistico, culturale, sociale, organizzativo e di servizio.Il territorio comunale è proiettato da anni verso la fusione con i comuni dell'area urbana cosentina nell'interpretazione ristretta (Castrolibero e Rende) che darà vita ad una città unica, il nodo centrale di un sistema urbano complesso, policentrico e dinamico.Cosenza è identificata anche come Atene della Calabria per via del suo passato culturale; l'Accademia Cosentina, ad esempio, è la seconda del Regno di Napoli e una delle primissime accademie fondate in Europa. Ancora oggi resta una città in cui arte e cultura affondano bene le proprie radici, non a caso nel mese di ottobre del 2008 è stata riconosciuta come Città d'arte dalla Regione Calabria con una delibera volta ad evidenziare il patrimonio storico-artistico della città, con importanti ricadute sull'aspetto commerciale (fiore all'occhiello dell'economia cittadina) e turistico del territorio[19]. Il 12 ottobre 2011 il Duomo di Cosenza è stato dichiarato dell'UNESCO "patrimonio testimone di una cultura e di pace"; si tratta del primo riconoscimento assegnato dall'organizzazione in Calabria.Storicamente svolse il ruolo di capitale dei Bruzi ed in seguito capoluogo della Calabria Citeriore (o Calabria latina).
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Mario Runco Jr. (born January 26, 1952), is a former United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. He is an Earth and planetary physicist.
Contents
1 Personal data
2 Education
3 Special honors
4 Experience
5 NASA experience
6 Space flight experience
7 References
Personal data
Mario was born in the Bronx, New York on January 26, 1952. Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, his family moved to Yonkers, New York in his early teen years. He is married to the former Susan Kay Friess of Sylvania, Ohio; they have two children, Maria and Carl. He enjoys ice hockey, baseball, softball, camping, model railroads, toy train collecting, and astronomy among other interests. He played intercollegiate ice hockey on the City College of New York and Rutgers University teams. Mario's parents Mario and Filomena Ragusa Runco (originally from Lago, in the province of Cosenza, Italy) still reside in Yonkers, and Sue's parents, Fredrick and Margaret Bidlack Friess, reside in Sylvania, Ohio.
Education
Graduated from Sacred Heart School in the Bronx in 1966 and Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx in 1970; he received a bachelor of science degree in Earth and Planetary Science from the City College of New York in 1974, a master of science degree in Atmospheric Physics from Rutgers University in 1976, and an honorary doctor of science degree from the City College of New York in 1999.
Special honors
Awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal and Navy Pistol Expert Medal. Also awarded three NASA Space Flight Medals (STS-44, STS-54 and STS-77), two Navy Sea Service Ribbons (USS Nassau and USNS Chauvenet), and the Navy Battle Efficiency Ribbon (USS Nassau). Mario was also the recipient of the City College of New York's Townsend Harris Medal (1993), and the Cardinal Hayes High School John Cardinal Spellman Award (1993). As an undergraduate, he received the City College of New York Class of 1938 Athletic Service Award.
Experience
After graduating from Rutgers University, Mario worked for a year as a research hydrologist conducting ground water surveys for the United States Geological Survey on Long Island, New York. In 1977, he joined the New Jersey State Police and, after completing training at the State Police Academy, he worked as a New Jersey State Trooper until he entered the United States Navy in June 1978. Upon completion of Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in September 1978, he was commissioned and assigned to the Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory in Monterey, California as a research meteorologist. From April 1981 to December 1983, he served as the Meteorological Officer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau. It was during this tour of duty that he earned his designation as a Naval Surface Warfare Officer. From January 1984 to December 1985, he worked as a laboratory instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. From December 1985 to December 1986, he served as Commanding Officer of Oceanographic Unit 4 embarked aboard the naval survey vessel USNS Chauvenet, conducting hydrographic and oceanographic surveys of the Java Sea and Indian Ocean. His last assignment within the Navy was as Fleet Environmental Services Officer, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Mario joined NASA in 1987 and remained on active duty as a NASA astronaut until 1994.
NASA experience
Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1987, Runco qualified for assignment as an astronaut mission specialist in August 1988. A veteran of three space flights (STS-44 in 1991, STS-54 in 1993, and STS-77 in 1996), Mario has logged over 551 hours in space which includes a 4.5 hour spacewalk during his STS-54 mission. His technical assignments to date include having served in Operations Development, where he assisted in the design, development and testing of the Space Shuttle crew escape system; in Mission Support, at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), where he performed test and evaluation of Space Shuttle mission-specific flight software; at the Kennedy Space Center, in Astronaut Support, where he assisted in preparing Space Shuttle missions for launch, and in the Mission Control Center as a Capsule (Spacecraft) Communicator (CAPCOM). Mario currently serves as an Earth and Planetary Scientist and is the Lead for Science and Utilization of the International Space Station's Destiny Module Science Window and the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), of which he provided input to both design teams.
Space flight experience
On his first flight, Runco served on the crew of STS-44 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis which launched on the night of November 24, 1991. The primary mission objective was accomplished with the successful deployment of a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite. In addition, the crew conducted two Military Man-in-Space Earth Observation experiments, three radiation monitoring experiments, and numerous life sciences experiments in support of long duration space flights. The mission concluded after completing 110 orbits of the Earth. Atlantis returned to a landing on the lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 1, 1991. Mission duration was 6 days, 22 hours and 50 minutes.
Runco carried by fellow astronaut Gregory Harbaugh during their EVA on the STS-54 mission.
Just over a year later Mario served as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-54 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-54 (January 13–19, 1993) launched and landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The six-day mission featured the deployment of a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-F). Also carried in the payload bay was the Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer (DXS). This astronomical instrument for studying stellar evolution scanned the local vicinity of our Milky Way galaxy and recorded the low-energy X-ray emanations believed to originate from the plasma remnants of an ancient supernova. Crewmate Greg Harbaugh and Runco also became the 47th and 48th Americans to walk in space during a 4.5-hour space walk designed to evaluate the limits of human performance during extravehicular activities (EVA) in anticipation of the construction of the International Space Station. In what was called the "Physics of Toys", which has since become a popular children's educational video, the crew also demonstrated how everyday toys behave in space to an interactive audience of elementary school students across the United States. Mission duration was 5 days, 23 hours and 38 minutes.
Mario most recently served as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-77 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour (May 19–29, 1996). STS-77 carried a number of technology development experiments as well as a suite of microgravity science experiments. The technology development experiments included two deployable satellites both of which were deployed by Runco. For the deploy of the Spartan/Inflatable Antenna Experiment, Mario was the Remote Manipulator System (Robotic Arm) operator. The other deployable was a small Satellite Test Unit (STU) which used residual atmospheric drag and the Earth's magnetic field for attitude control and stabilization. STS-77 also featured the fourth flight of a SpaceHab module as an experiment laboratory. Mario also filmed some additional Physics of Toys scenes for a sequel to the original educational video and subsequently made several appearances on the children's television show Sesame Street. Mission duration was 10 days and 39 minutes.
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Paola and Cosenza, Italy, 17 March 1980
In March 1980, when I was on a 1 month rail pass tour of Europe, regular steam operations were pretty thin on the ground in western Europe. East of the Iron Curtain, many countries still used steam, but they did not honor Eurailpass, required visas to visit and were not known for being friendly to railfan photographers.
Continental Railway Journal was the CTC Board or Flimsies of the world steam scene at the time and I'd gotten a couple of copies in the UK that described steam operations in western Europe. Spain had the Ponferada line, but that didn't seem to be accessible via RENFE, and my attempt to see the Portuguese meter gauge lines had been stymied by a rail strike in Portugal that stopped the overnight Madrid-Lisbon train at the border. The town where I awoke that morning reminded me of the place where Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katherine Ross get off the train in Bolivia in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
A passenger service that was running behind steam and was run by the state railway was on the rack line in southern Italy from Paola on the main line on the coast up into the hills to Cosenza. The day services were run by railcars that shuttled back and forth on the rack line, but there was a through overnight Rome-Paola coach attached to a train en route to Medina that was cut at Paola and pulled up the mountain by a little 0-6-0 rack tank engine. A 2nd class coach was also on the rack train, but, IIRC, that only ran Paola-Cosenza. 2nd class passengers had a middle of the night transfer. The through 1st class car was older, but not being the Arthur Dubin of FS coaching stock, I couldn't tell you how old.
I wish that I could say that I spent the night listening to the engine hard at work on the grade, but this was my 4th night in a row sleeping on trains (Amsterdam-Munich, Munich-Paris, Paris-Rome, and now Rome-Paola) and I was too tired. I'd slept across one seat of the compartment until 2 guys came into the compartment at some time in the night and I just rolled onto the floor in my sleeping bag and went back to sleep. I remember awakening to bits of stack talk, thinking that I really should stay awake and listen to it, and then falling right back asleep.
Marathon train riding has its downsides, as I was learning. A stationary bed is a good idea after a couple of nights on the train.
Anyway, we arrived in Cosenza on time and I staggered out of the train and got some photos of 981-008. The crew was friendly and posed for a photo before they took the engine to the turntable and engine house for servicing before it repeated its task that night.
However, a cop saw me and started hassling me in Italian, presumably about taking photos. Maybe I was off the platform in the yard and that is what he was upset about, but I left the station and found a place to get some breakfast,. This was the only time I was hassled about photography in 3 trips to Europe
After dealing with the cop, I didn't take any photos of the railcar that took me down the mountain. Once on the railcar, I took a couple of photos of stored steam engines as we left town, but then I fell asleep again for most of the run down the mountain and missed what was some pretty nice scenery. When I'd wake up, I'd look around, think, "Wow, this is nice." and then before that thought inspired me to pull out the camera for a shot, I was snoring again.
The railcar left the platform pretty quickly at Paola, so I ddin't get a photo of it there, either.
I read that this rack stretch has been replaced with a regular adhesion railway to Cosenza, so the rack railcars no longer run there and, of course, steam is long gone.
A nice variety of older FS electrics came through Paola during my wait for the train back to Rome. The run up the coast would be worth repeating sometime when I'm not dog tired.
The main Rome station has showers for travelers to use, so I was able to clean myself up on trips through Rome. That night I took an overnight train to Venice, then came back to Rome and saw a bit more of 2the city before taking a train to Florence in the afternoon, then getting back to Rome in time for the overnight train to Nice. Le Mistral took me to Paris, then I worked out some overnight run to Ostend, Belgium to catch a ferry to Dover and trains to Keighley, West Yorkshire for the Worth Valley's March steam fest, which saw Bulleid 4-6-2 City of Wells' return to service and, finally a place to sleep that didn't move for a couple of nights.