The Candy Corner
View allAll Photos Tagged dd1
Sunnyside Yard was (and still is) the coach yard serving Manhattan's Penn Station.
That day's quest was the legendary DD1 side-rod electric, which didn't seem to be there that day. But the little B1 boxcab switchers were fine consolation prizes.
Pennsylvania Railroad DD1 3936, built in 1911 and at one time was beautifully restored and preserved INSIDE the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, has been languishing outside for the last 20 years or so due to what I can only call gross incompetence from the museum staff.
Only one pair, Nos. 3936 and 3937, survives. This pair is at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on static display and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is beyond disgusting that the museum has allowed these unique motors to rot away. The museum is so incompetent that when they "restored" this thing they never noticed that the number boards still had the Penn Central renumbering of 4781 and just left them intact.
Words cannot properly express my utter contempt for the operators of the PA museum. Just about everything once donated to this place has been left to rot despite donations.
I have pissed away many dollars to this mismanaged place over the years and am absolutely disgusted at the waste of funds.
www.flickr.com/photos/mastadon4935/52100102162/in/photoli...
As this is upload 3000 (according to the stats) the subject of choice goes to a bus that I first set eyes upon whilst under construction in 1978 and then had to wait a further 14 years, not to mention a trip half way around the globe to obtain a shot of the complete vehicle.
China Motor Bus DD1, its solitary East Lancs-bodied Dennis Dominator, was the first rear-engined Dennis for a Hong Kong operator and the forerunner of around 1600 similarly configured Dominators, Dragons and Condors (the latter two essentially 3-axle versions of the former) supplied until 2000.
Configured for 102 seats to 3+2 layout, the body order was confirmed by CMB in June 1978 and the completed vehicle exhibited on the Hestair Dennis stand at the first NEC Motor Show in October 1978. It was officially delivered to Dennis a month later and shipped to Hong Kong, where it entered CMB service in January 1979.
Later joined by 6 standard wheelbase lowheight examples with Alexander ckd bodywork for the Peak service, in its later years DD1 was generally used as a spare bus by CMB and confined to specific workings, usually with the same driver.
By October 1992, when your photographer visited Hong Kong for the first time, it had gained this promotional livery for a Road Safety Campaign, also carried by a number of other vehicles at the time.
As for tracking it down, with limited knowledge of the area, a call earlier in the day to the CMB contact that had been provided prior to the trip, established that it was due to work a single round trip on an early evening 82 from Chai Wan to North Point Ferry, and right on cue, in fading light, the bus appeared, only to swallow up the waiting passengers and depart rather sharpish.
Fortunately, there were other photographic opportunities during this and subsequent trips, some made possible with the kind assistance of CMB staff, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
This image is copyright and must not be reproduced or downloaded without the permission of the photographer.
DD1_8443acopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
Pennsylvania station electric loco postcard, mailed 1912. This is the Pennsy's famed DD1 locomotive; a total of 66 were constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops in Altoona starting 1909. One set is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (see next image).
A single (very large) electric motor inside each unit drove the wheels through a jackshaft and driving rod arrangement.
Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.
Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.
1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY
1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago
1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York
1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.
1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle
1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle
Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site
On Board The Traverse City Socony in 1954
Lindsey Foss and Garth Foss are Enhanced Tractor Tugs, and were the largest in the world (when built in 1994), featuring Voith Schneider cycloidal propulsion systems. and are specifically designed for tanker escorts.
Pennsy's famed DD1 locomotive; a total of 66 were constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops in Altoona starting 1909. This set is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
A single (very large) electric motor inside each unit drove the wheels through a jackshaft and driving rod arrangement.
DD1_7835acopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_8527bcopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.
Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.
1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY
1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago
1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York
1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.
1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle
1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle
DD1_8087acopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
This bus was new to Centrewest in 2010.
Seen here in Dundee on Law road at Dundee Law.
This bus is seen on the first day in service on the new Dundee tour run by Xplore Dundee as DD1, Discover Dundee. It starts and finishes at the V&A museum with hop on hop off avaliable on the route with comentry along the way. It covers various parts of the city incliding stunning views up at Dundee Law, with a final trip over the Tay bridge and back to finish the tour.
DCI Floating Dry Dock DD1. Guemes Channel.
"Coho was designed by Philip F. Spaulding & Associates, of Seattle and is named after the coho salmon commonly found in the Pacific Northwest. Coho was the first large vessel built on the West Coast in 20 years solely with private financing. The vessel was built by Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock in Seattle, Washington and made her first sailing to Victoria B.C. on 29 December 1959. She was originally powered by two Cooper-Bessemer diesel engines rated at 2,080 bhp (1,550 kW) each. In 2004 she was refitted with two V-12 Electro-Motive Division (EMD)12-645F7B diesels rated at 2,550 hp (1,900 kW) each. Coho has twin 8-foot (2.44 m) stainless propellers with twin rudders. Her overall length is 341.5 feet (104.1 m) with a service speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)."
DD1_8196acopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_8302ccopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_8491bcopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_7701abyJB∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_8179acopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
Until the very early 1980s, W Gash of Newark were still regularly employing their elderly fleet of Daimler CVD6 motorbuses on the Newark - Nottingham services. Passing the Spring House pub, DD1 a Massey bodied Daimler CVD6 approaches the outskirts of Newark town centre on a Saturday afternoon in June 1980.
The scene today: www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.07149,-0.819019,3a,50y,270.6h,8...
DD1_7911bcopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission
DD1_8536ccopyright∙ ∙ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to view in black: click on photo
∙ All material in my gallery MAY NOT be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission