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Chippenham Crossing
5201 Chippenham Crossing, Richmond, VA
This was clearly a shopping center development that flopped. Only Ukrop's/Martin's was built on this site, and there are vacant parcels to the left and right of it that were intended to be used for other businesses. The lack of any development left the supermarket completely isolated and honestly difficult to access, since there's no signage or indication of the center from Route 10. I feel like the only way you'd be knowledgeable that it actually exists is if you were a local!
The crossing arms at Country Club Drive in Lake Mary were not working today. Work crews were on scene working on the problem. Trains had to stop to let a conductor off to stop traffic before the train could proceed.
by Betty Lambert.
Vancouver, Pulp Press, 1979. hardcover variant.
31o pp/292 printed, offset with letterpress spine. 5-1/8 x 8, perfectbound in pebbled paper-covered boards in dj.
a novel, reprinted in 198o by Viking as Bring Down the Sun, again in 199o (as Crossings) by Douglas & McIntyre, & yet again by Arsenal Pulp in 2o12. Pulp's hardcovers were not produced in great quantity & are seldom encountered.
dj worn & with small sticker to cover the printed price (inadvertently uncorrected from the paper edition), some dampstaining to free edges but tight with no buckling...
75.oo
While taking one of the photos from below, I noticed someone crossing the bridge on foot. After that, I had to go on a mission to figure out how to scramble up there myself.
Title: Grade Crossing
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20434191
Date: Ca. 1961
Creator: Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)
Image ID: 5003pb57f065
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
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Leaving Port Townsend behind, weather cold gentle and stable, crossing Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington State
The Roll on Roll off Ferry Queenscliff heads from Queenscliff to Sorrento and is seen passing the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.
Port Phillip Bay - Victoria.
The Loomis Street crossing in Naperville, IL whacks out again! This occurance was a bit more unusual than the last times though! I ended up calling it into BNSF, but they never showed up to fix it! The gates and bells worked fine when a train went through, but they did this whenever there wasn't a train!
From a brief afternoon photo shoot at Qingdao's Zhongshan Park.
Qingdao Zhongshan Park is, I think, one of the two biggest parks in the city (with adjacent Taipingshan Park). Zhongshan Park was built in 1901, originally called Xu Park (and then No. 1 Park). It was given its current name in 1929 to honor the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan to the Chinese). At 69 hectares, it is the largest comprehensive park in Qingdao. There are more than 300 varieties of ornamental trees (more than 100,000 trees in all). The park is famous for its cherry trees which blossom during April and May every year. (However, I saw very few in bloom in mid-April.) There is an annual cherry blossom festival at that time. The other annual festival is a lantern festival in August. Among the attractions in the park are the Wisteria Corridor, Peony Pavilion, Little West Lake, Sun Wen Lotus Pond, and various other landscapes of lakes, hills, ponds, and so on. There is also an amusement park – geared mostly towards children (a common sight in Chinese parks) – and a cableway which connects Zhongshan Park to the peak of Taipingshan Park and the TV Tower there.
I’ve lived in China for almost three years now; about two years in Shanghai and one year in Tianjin. Shandong province is the province that’s on the sea between the two cities. (From Shanghai to Tianjin by train is around 5 hours; by plane, 2 hours.) Qingdao, probably the most well-known city in Shandong, is a charming city, to say the least. In my opinion, it’s exceptionally photogenic – with very nice beaches, great architecture, good geography/topography, and terrific food.
Qingdao also happens to be known for the most famous of Chinese beers (Tsingtao), which is actually a company started by the Germans. (For what it’s worth, Chinese beers are quite watery and Tsingtao is somewhat like the Budweiser of Chinese beers. That being said, I’m happy to drink an ice cold Tsingtao on a hot summer day whereas I wouldn’t say the same thing about a Budweiser.
So what to make of Qingdao then? Before colonial powers swept in and started chopping up China piecemeal, Qingdao was basically a sleepy fishing village. During the Ming dynasty, a battery was built here. In 1898, the Germans seized control of Qingdao when two missionaries were killed. (Personally, it seems alarming to me that a country could lose a city because two foreigners happened to be killed – and China sure lost a lot that way during the 19th century. I guess that’s the downside to outmoded military technology; the Europeans and Americans basically plundered China…) At any rate, Qingdao was ceded to the Germans for 99 years, but that didn’t last long, thanks to World War I.
During the 15-20 years that the Germans did have control of the town, they managed to build a handful of churches (still standing) and missionaries, in addition to the aforementioned Qingdao brewery. Because of that, a lot of the European architecture has a heavy German influence and there are still a few random signs of German heritage around town.
From the Germans, Qingdao didn’t land directly with the Chinese. It spent 8 years under Japanese control (1914-1922) before being returned to the Kuomintang (aka General Chiang Kai-Shek’s clan). The Japanese took control once again in 1938 (as they swept through northeast China and across half the country) before losing it for the last time in 1945 at the end of World War II. Since then, it’s been in Chinese hands. (Brief history courtesy of Lonely Planet.)
Contemporary Qingdao certainly makes its way as a tourist destination – and it’s a fine one at that. The population (per my LP from 2011) lists it at 1.73 million. The city has a few areas that are quite appealing to tourists: the Old Town (the heart of the city) off the beach and just east of the railway station downtown, Badaguan (which means “eight passes”) is a hilly area with a lot of nice residential architecture to the east of the Old Town. Other than that, there are a lot of parks, a beer street, churches, and a 40 km. scenic walk (which, obviously, most people do not cover from end to end) along the shore which goes by all of the beaches in the area.
All in all, Qingdao is the type of town that, if you get the chance to visit, I think you would find yourself thinking it would be great to return again and again.
The cargo vessel River Trader sails into the sunset after passing underneath the Humber Bridge crossing the Humber Estuary between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle, Hull, on the north one.
Taken from halfway along the Humber Bridge, either in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, England on September 19, 2009.
HMAS Vampire crossing the line ceremony in 1982. 3Cz is the cooks and stewards mess, I am third from bottom, right hand column.
Not the most elaborate of summonses. Made on the fly by one of the ship's writers I expect. I do hope the Navy has rectified this and issued each of the ships a suitable flowery artistic jobbie as a memorial to their crossing the line ceremony. Anyway, it is a record of the event that not a lot of civvies get to experience.
While geocaching with the guys, it became clear that a river was the only thing separating us from our goal