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After ditching NKP 765 in Bellevue, the PRR and CR Heritage units head east at Elmwood, OH on train 194.
2009 Ocean City, NJ Airshow
United States Air Force (USAF) General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
1944 North American P-51D Mustang
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Bald Eagle
Heritage Flight NY Airshow 2017
WW2, Cold War, Future
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The Southampton & District Transport Heritage Trust provided today's entertainment in the form of a Farewell to Southampton's Red Buses running day. With the busy hub in Pound Tree Road, there were 3 routes to sample using 10 preserved former Southampton buses ranging from a 1951 Guy Arab III to a 1999 Dennis Dart. A great day out and a chance to catch up with a great many people!!
All of the talk about the new J heritage unit got me to digging up some of my "old" shots. As a result, I came across this one of the EJ&E 671 working the spur in Carol Stream, IL on June 1st, 2011. The two GTW boxcars in the train were a nice touch as well.
The results of a day trip exploring covered bridges in Macaza, scenic sections of Le-Petit-Train-Du-Nord, some lovely sunset grasses I spotted in Arundel, & the stunning views at the peak of Mont Tremblant. Would love if you explored the album as a whole!
This was my first trip since my mom passed away in May. Getting out of the house with my husband & driving around for hours exploring new & familiar areas was lovely & soothing. We tend to visit Tremblant later in the year, so it was a treat to see all the colors!
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There's a lot of heritage in this shot! Norfolk Southern train 747 is waiting for a signal on the Philadelphia Harrisburg Pittsburgh Bridge over the Susquehanna River. The Reading heritage unit is leading a train on the former Reading Lurgan Branch on a former Reading bridge. Also appropriate are two anthracite railroads (Central Railroad of New Jersey is trailing) shown pulling an empty coal train back for another load from Pennsylvania mines.
The Heritage Bridge pier at the Lower Seletar Reservoir Park in northern Singapore. It was pretty hazy and the sky very flat when I made my way out here but I think it has given the shot a nice quality.
40 second exposure.
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Norfolk Southern's "Monongahela" heritage unit rolls through the small, countryside town of Sinking Spring, PA. Pictured behind is Brown's Feeds, a customer of the railroad.
One year ago, CSX's then-new Clinchfield heritage unit led the 82nd annual Santa Train along the former Clinchfield between Shelbiana, KY and Kingsport, TN. Though the day was cloudy, chilly, wet, and dark, spirits were bright as the train twisted along the 110 mile route through the mountains of Appalachia.
Monreale Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Monreale, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. One of the greatest existent examples of Norman architecture, it was begun in 1174 by William II of Sicily. In 1182 the church, dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral as the seat of the diocese of Monreale, which was elevated to the Archdiocese of Monreale in 1183. Since 2015 it has been part of the Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale UNESCO World Heritage site.
The church is a national monument of Italy and one of the most important attractions of Sicily. Its size is 102 meters long and 40 meters wide.
According to a legend, William II of Sicily fell asleep under a carob tree while hunting in the woods near Monreale. The Holy Virgin appeared to him in dream, suggesting him to build a church here. After removing the tree, a treasure was found in its roots, whose golden coins were used to finance the construction. It is more likely that the church was part of a plan of large constructions in competition with the then bishop of Palermo, Walter Ophamil, who had ordered the large Cathedral of Palermo. The construction of Monreale, started in 1172, was approved by Pope Alexander III with a bull on 30 December 1174. Works, including an annexed abbey, were completed only in 1267 and the church consecrated at the presence of Pope Clement IV. In 1178 Pope Lucius III established the archdiocese of Monreale and the abbey church was elevated to the rank of cathedral. The archbishops obtained by the kings of Sicily a wide array of privileges and lands in the whole Italian peninsula.
In 1270 Louis IX, King of France, brother of King Charles I of Naples, was buried here.
In 1547-1569 a portico was added to the northern side, designed by Giovanni Domenico Gagini and Fazio Gagini, in Renaissance style, covered by a cross vault and featuring eleven round arches supported by Corinthian columns. In 1559 most of the internal pavement was added.
The archiepiscopal palace and monastic buildings on the south side were of great size and magnificence, and were surrounded by a massive precinct wall, crowned at intervals by twelve towers. This has been mostly rebuilt, and but little now remains except ruins of some of the towers, a great part of the monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200.
The latter is well preserved, and is one of the finest Italian cloisters now extant both for size and beauty of detail. It is about 2,200 m2, with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft. The marble capitals are each carved with foliage, biblical scenes and allegories, no two being alike. At one angle, a square pillared projection contains the marble fountain or monks' lavatorium, evidently the work of Muslim sculptors.
The church's plan is a mixture of Eastern Rite and Roman Catholic arrangement. The nave is like an Italian basilica, while the large triple-apsed choir is similar to one of the early three-apsed churches, of which so many examples still exist in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. It is like two quite different churches put together endwise.
The basilican nave is wide, with narrow aisles. On each side, monolithic columns of grey oriental granite (except one, which is of cipolin marble) support eight pointed arches much stilted. The capitals of these (mainly Corinthian) are also of the classical period. There is no triforium, but a high clerestory with wide two-light windows, with simple tracery like those in the nave-aisles and throughout the church, which give sufficient light.
The other half, eastern in two senses, is both wider and higher than the nave. It also is divided into a central space with two aisles, each of the divisions ending at the east with an apse. The roofs throughout are of open woodwork very low in pitch, constructionally plain, but richly decorated with colour, now mostly restored. At the west end of the nave are two projecting towers, with a narthex (entrance) between them. A large open atrium, which once existed at the west, is now completely destroyed, having been replaced by a Renaissance portico by Giovanni Domenico and Fazio Gagini (1547–1569).
The main internal features are the vast (6,500 m2) glass mosaics, executed in Byzantine style between the late 12th and the mid-13th centuries by both local and Venetians masters. The tomb of William I of Sicily (the founder's father), a porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs and most of the choir roof. The tombs were rebuilt, and the whole of the injured part of the church restored a few years after the fire. The present organ, revised in 1967 by Ruffatti, has six manuals and 102 stops.
On the north of the choir are the tombs of Margaret of Navarre, wife of William I, and her two sons Roger and Henry, together with an urn containing the viscera of Saint Louis of France, who died in 1270. The pavement of the triple choir, though much restored, is a specimen of marble and porphyry mosaic in opus alexandrinum, with signs of Arab influence in its main lines. The mosaic pavement of the nave was completed in the 16th century, and has disks of porphyry and granite with marble bands intermingled with irregular lines.
Two Baroque chapels were added in the 17th and 18th centuries, which are shut off from the rest of the church. The bronze doors of the mosaic-decorated portal on the left side was executed by Barisano da Trani in 1179.
Adventurous boat trips in the Disko Bay area: Icefjord (World Heritage Site) at midnight
Abenteuerliche Bootsausflüge in der Disko-Bucht: Icefjord (Welterbe) bei Mitternacht
Gletschereis für den Gin
Glacier ice for gin
Another view of SMS Line's 1952 built Baldwin AS616 at work at the Pureland Industrial Park, Bridgeport, NJ
Very friendly people here.
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This pristine heritage caboose is seen parked in BNSF's Yardley yard in Spokane. It was pose perfectly for a grab shot leaving town.
Heritage, a tapestry woven from our past's threads, whispers stories of the bygone, painting vivid portraits of history's embrace. Each brushstroke, each verse, a relic, an ode to yesteryears, echoing the footprints of our ancestry in the corridors of time. Preserving this artistic heirloom is not mere nostalgia, but a treasure trove of wisdom, a beacon guiding us through the labyrinth of our existence. It's a legacy bestowed, an inheritance to safeguard, nurturing roots that intertwine the past with the present, sowing seeds for the orchards of the future. In cherishing our artistic heritage, we gift the coming horizons a compass, enabling the next generations to unfurl their own narrative, as they glean from the masterpieces of yore, perpetuating an unbroken chain of creativity and enlightenment.