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Direct Rail Services loco 37714 was stored at Barrow Hill Roundhouse when pictured on 15/11/2015. The loco has since entered preservation and is currently based at the Great Central Railway.
I took this a week too early for the utata weekend project "lines", but it would have fit the bill, being a poster for a regular air line.
I had to take it at an angle to avoid the reflections of lamps in the glass - it's on display at the history museum, Musée d'Histoire de Lausanne.
The two main roads leading down from the airport to the city centre are still there (Plaines du Loup and Avenue du Grey). All the greenery in between is now covered in apartment blocks apart from the football fields which are now being built on, too. But what I love is that my street is there, with some old houses on it - possibly the one that was demolished for my building.
The red airport buildings on the right have mostly been replaced by modern ones; those on the left have gone; that whole area is being developed as a huge sports centre.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/6 37604 diesel-electric locomotive powers away from Braystones station and approaches Nethertown request stop station on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 2C41 the 14:37 Barrow in Furness to Carlisle service. Class mate 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' is on the rear of this train.
Direct Rail Services Class 37s 37606 and 37609 arrive at Crewe with the 17:54 (10 late) 1Z12 Stockport to Eastleigh "Cheshire cat". Class 57 57309 "pride of Crewe" will be coupled to the rear of the train once the train has come to a halt at the platform.
An Alaska State Trooper directs traffic away from the fire zone in North Pole Alaska. This particular Trooper is a very good friend of mine. When I worked at 40-Mile Air in Fairbanks, this young man was still in High School and he worked for me part-time. He always wanted to be in law enforcement, and he is now living his dream. He is a very fine young man. Keep up the good work Trooper Dooley.
Disgraced Direct Rail Services 37606 running 235 minutes late, due to loss of power, seen crossing the River Esk at Mossband in charge of the 6Z41 10:30 Kilmarnock to Carlisle Yard on Thursday 29th August 2013.
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Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpillar UK Light Class 68s 68003 'Astute' and 68007 'Valiant' diesel-electric locomotives at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6C98 the 08:47 Carlisle Kingmoor to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train.
Minolta 7000AF
Minolta 50mm 1.7
Kodak Vision 3 250D
Developed In Bellini C 41
Epson V 850 Scanned
New York City
Finished Working The 3S12 06.50 Sheffield To Sheffield According To Realtime Trains The Route And Timings Were
Sheffield [SHF] 06.50 . 06.50 RT
Nunnery Main Line Jn 06.52 No Report
Mill Race Jn 06.54 1/2 No Report
Brightside Jn 06.56 . 06.54 1E
Wincobank Jn 06.58 . 06.55 1/4 2E
Meadowhall 06.58 1/2 . 06.55 1/2 2E
Ecclesfield West S.B. 07.02 . 06.59 3/4 2E
Chapeltown 07.04 . 07.02 3/4 1E
Elsecar 07.08 . 07.08 RT
Wombwell 07.10 . 07.07 3/4 2E
Barnsley 07.15 . 07.14 1/2 RT
Darton 07.20 1/2 No Report
Woolley Coal Sdgs S.B. 07.21 1/2 No Report
Horbury Jn 07.29 . 07.26 1/4 2E
Wakefield West Jn 07.34 1/2 . 07.30 1/4 3E
Wakefield Kirkgate 07.35 . 07.31 3E
Calder Bridge Jn 07.37 . 07.32 4E
Oakenshaw Jn 07.38 1/2 . 07.33 3/4 4E
Crofton West Jn 07.40 . 07.35 4E
Hare Park Junction 07.45 . 07.46 1L
Fitzwilliam 07.49 1/2 . 07.51 1L
Hemsworth Loop 07.51 . 07.51 3/4 RT
South Kirkby Jn 07.54 1/2 . 07.54 1/2 RT
Moorthorpe 07.56 . 07.55 1/2 RT
Moorthorpe Goods Loop 07.56 1/2 No Report
Thurnscoe 08.01 . 07.59 1/2 1E
Goldthorpe 08.02 . 08.00 1/4 1E
Bolton-on-Dearne 08.03 1/2 . 08.01 1/4 2E
Swinton (South Yorkshire) 08.07 . 08.05 1/2 1E
Aldwarke Jn 08.10 . 08.09 1/2 RT
Rotherham Parkgate Jn 08.15 No Report
Rotherham Central 08.18 . 08.16 1/4 1E
Tinsley East Jn 08.23 1/2 . 08.19 1/4 3E
Tinsley North Jn 08.24 No Report
Tinsley South Jn 08.24 1/2 No Report
Broughton Lane Jn 08.26 . 08.22 1/2 3E
Woodburn Jn 08.29 . 08.25 3/4 3E
Nunnery Main Line Jn 08.35 . 08.34 RT
Sheffield [SHF] 08.37 . 08.36 1E
Direct Rail Services 68029 'Courageous' is pictured whilst standing by in York Parcel Sidings, between Transpennine Express training runs.
'Courageous' is one of the 14 DRS Class 68s which are in the livery of Transpennine Express, on long term lease for operation of the transpennine services from Scarborough to Liverpool, and hopefully soon to become Liverpool to Redcar Central.
Gran Torino (2008)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by Nick Schenk from a story by Schenk and Dave Johannson
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Sue Lor, Christopher Carley and John Carroll Lynch
It’s 2008 and Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still fighting the Korean war. You can instantly tell Walt is pissed. Not about having to attend his wife’s wake, but the way in which his grandchildren present themselves. Surely football jerseys, belly shirts revealing naval piercings and constant texting is neither proper attire nor behavior for such a somber occasion. As much as he’d like to kill them, he can’t. They’re his kin. Instead, Walt’s rage must find a different outlet. That’s easy enough for him since his neighborhood has turned all Asian.
Walt makes no bones about it: he’s a proud, unrepentant, all-American racist. None of this closeted hatred nonsense, either. Walt will look you directly in the eye and find something derogatory to say about your race color and/or creed. Screenwriter Nick Schenk must have studied Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto and Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. There is not one racial pejorative against Asians that Walt doesn’ know and use repeatedly. All of Walt’s white neighbors have moved or died off and the block’s racial makeup now consist largely of Hmong immigrants. The Hmong are a little known culture from Laos and other parts of Asia that allied with the U.S. during the Vietnam experience, but Walt doesn’t care. All he knows is that they don’t keep their lawn as neatly manicured as his. They try their best to be civil and neighborly to him, but Walt will have none of it. At least until one night when their 16-year-old son Thao (Bee Vang) tries to steal Walt’s prize ‘72 Gran Torino.
Thao was put up to it after a cousin bullied him into car-jacking the prized auto as part of a gang initiation. When Walt breaks up a gang fight on his lawn, he is not aware that Thao was the same kid who tried lifting his Torino. After being dubbed a hero by the locals, Thao and his family come to apologize and make peace for his actions. It still takes Walt about three reels before he finally discovers the people next door are “good” Asians and sides with them. Once this happens, the film’s conclusion is foregone: You know there’s going to be a bloodbath, but whose blood?
Direct Rail Services Mk.2F DBSO (Driving Open Brake Second) 9709 (Ex 9515) is pictured on Platform 1 at Carlisle, at the head of the 14-35 to Barrow-in-Furness, on November 13th 2017.
The Performance Direct Girls .. feat miss Hayley G and Michaela Louise Richards (Mickey Lou). pose with a ford escort mk2
An eastbound MidTOWN Direct train to Penn Station from High Bridge makes its way passed Weequahic Park at Hillside, NJ. MidTOWN Direct service is relatively new on the Raritan Valley Line thanks to NJ Transit's ALP-45DP "Dual-Mode" locomotives.
NJT 5176 @ Weequahic Park, Hillside, NJ
NJTR ALP-45DP 4530
Day 4 of the Montreal - Denver Trip
4eme jour MTL - DEN
DETROIT - CHICAGO
Réveil au petit matin (7:30pm) sans passer par la douche merci.
Direction la Packard biensur! Vue magnifique sur le site depuis l'hotel.
On pars se faire le déjeuné des champions à 2 coin de rue dans un “resto” typique américain. Sandwich au oeuf saussice et café yummy en regardant les news pour apprendre que le coup de feu d'hier était un homicide.
Stationne la voiture à coté du resto et une petite marche digestive de 5min.
Nous y sommes enfin! Quelle grandeur, c'est immense!!! Des batiments à perte de vue de chaque bord de la route, l'entrée était la plus simple que j'ai jamais vu.
L'impression sur le site était chaotique, comme ci une bombe nucléaire avait explosé. Seul l'armature restait. On est resté environ 4h a l'intérieur. Vu quelques personnes qui vivaient là.
C'était très calme.
On prends quelques briques comme souvenir et retour à la voiture (qui etait encore la).
Et c'est partie direction Chicago, après quelques arrêts biensur.
Embarque sur la I94 pour s'arreter à Kalamazoo, oui avec un nom pareil on s'arrête certain! Belle petite ville avec encore là une superbe architecture. C'est le temps de manger une bonne pizza et de profiter du wifi pour mettre quelques photos en ligne.
On reprend la route pour se rendre à Gary, en s'arretant un peu à une plage du lac Michigan.
Gary… Ayayaye… 3 maisons abandoné pour 1 “habité”, on s'est vite lassé!
Autoroute à 6 voies, tramway au centre, pont ferrovière qui passe de bord en bord des 12 voies, avions dans le ciel, et… Oooh le magnifique skyline de Chicago à l'horizon! Meme en roulant à 120kmh il parait toujours aussi loin après 15min! C'est grandiose tout simplement… Des tours à n'en plus finir, des échangeurs qui font tourner la tête.
On se stationne au centre ville (13$/h doooh)
Métro aérien, rivière au centre ville, pont d'acier à toutes les rues, opéra magnifique face à l'eau, buildings plus grand les uns que les autres, enseignes lumineuses, propreté, reflection, photogénique, mal au cou, cher, plage, route longeant le lac, …
Des belles images encore pour aujourd'hui!
Mais ou dont trouver un motel qui ne coutera pas 3 fois le prix?! Après 10km au Nord Ouest enfiiiin c'est bon.
Bonne nuit!
États traversés: Michigan / Indiana / Illinois
Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, no. 147.
Ileana Leonidoff, a former Russian dancer, debuted in the famous futurist film Thais (1917), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. In fact, threequarter of the film is classic diva drama about a man devouring woman, played by Thais Galitzky, who causes a noble friend and rival in love (Leonidoff) to commit suicide by racing with her horse towards an abyss. Thais repents and kills herself by mortal vapours, in the only scene where we really see futurist settings, designed by Enrico Prampolini. Curiously enough, in the film Leonidoff's character was named Bianca Stagno-Bellincioni, the name of a known real actress. Maybe because the real Stagno-Belllincioni was the Italian interpreter of Massenet's Thais.
While Galitzky played once more in another Bragaglia film with futurist sets, Perfido incanto (1918), and then ended her career apparently, Leonidoff went on to a rather short but quite prolific career in the late 1910s. She had leads in several period pieces, directed by Aldo Molinari for the Vera Film company and almost always opposite Guido Guiducci. The first of these was Saffo (1918), where Leonidoff played the title role, followed by Maria di Magdala (1918), Venere (1919), Il mistero di Osiris (1919) and Giuditta e Oloferne (1920). She also performed in films by renowned directors such as Augusto Genina (Il siluramento dell'Oceania, 1917), Leopoldo Carlucci (La flotta degli emigranti, 1917), Febo Mari (Attila, 1918), Eleuterio Rodolfi (Il mistero della casa di fronte, 1919) and Ugo Falena (Giuliano l'Apostata, 1919; Il volo degli aironi, 1920). She had a minor part as Tamah in La sacra Bibbia (1920) by Pier Antonio Gariazzo, a film in which her co-partner Guiducci played Moses. Costumes for this film were by the well-known Caramba (Luigi Sapelli). The film was shown worldwide, in the US too (in 1922, under the title After Six Days). See also www.flickr.com/photos/italiangerry/2247923101/
After one more film by Molinari, Il principe di Kaytan (1922) Leonidoff withdrew from the cinema and little is known of her further career. She went back to dancing. Together with Dimitri Rostaff she was the first director of the newly founded Ballet School of the Opera of Roma in 1928. She remained active in Italy as choreographer in the 1930s. In 1951 she was the first director of the newly founded Ballet Oficial de Bolivia. In the mid-1950s she was also highly active in Guayaquil, Equador, at the Casa de la Cultura del Guayas. They still have a Sala Ileana Leonidoff there, opened in 1991.
The card above is surely for one of Leonidoff's costume films. Ed. Vettori, Bologna.
NB IMDB dates Thais and Perfido incanto as 1916, which is wrong. IMDB also states that Leonidoff was in Perfido incanto which is wrong as well. The films have been confused with each other very often, even by the filmmaker himself in hindsight. Perfido incanto is considered lost, while the Paris film archive owns (and restored) a print of Thais.
(Source: Vittorio Martinelli, Il cinema muto italiano, 1917/1918/1919/1920)
#DV23 - a Mack Titan 2AB tanker set-up followed by an un-identifyed Mack Titan. Stuart Highway (nth of Pine Creek) - August 2010.
Direct Rail Services did have some ballast work into engineering possessions operating out of Doncaster around a month or two ago but since the locomotives used have been sat in the carriage sidings at Doncaster shut down where Direct Rail Services out base's the locomotive used on the national delivery service (NDS) trains it operates out of Doncaster which are often 6M18 to Toton, 6E20 back to Doncaster Up Decoy and utilise a Class 66 diesel locomotive at current 66427 despite common wabble that its going to be a 37, two 57s etc from those who like to stand on the station and within the internet and believe they know it all, are good friends with the manager or control manager and just want to start a rumour going, yes I've heard it all since this train started running, even having someone standing on the platform saying the 20s here we're to locomotives for the trains...that I'd love to see. Anyway this pair are seen here moving out of Doncaster's C.H.S or Carriage sidings with a light engine move into Platform 2 where again the driver shut them down and walked away leaving them here in favour of a train back home the two Class 20 diesel locomotives now getting on for 50 years of old cross over from the C.H.S into Platform 2 here covering about 0 miles, 30 chains...if that before been shut down and left yet again the move links to a pair of West Coast Railway Company (WCRC) charter trains overnighting in the C.H.S that evening the move taking place around 16:00, give or take not really paying attention to the time of the day, the Class 20's, 20308 & 20309, sounding ever nice as the move. Direct Rail Services main use of this type is the Rail Head Treatment Trains (RHTT) which operate during the leaf fall season of autumn and into the winter to reduce wheel slip for trains which causes heavy delays and even cancellations and can seriously affect the safe running of the railway the season soon to be starting now the leaves starting to fall and cold nights closing in.
The Sunderland Direct service began on 31 March 2002 and on that day we see 4001 arriving at St Peter's on a train from South Hylton.