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Bullet 203 has just passed ex-CTA 489/488 and is approaching Ardmore Junction. August 20, 1987. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich
Metropolitan Transit Authority Type 5 trolleys 5720 and 5785 at Arborway, Boston MA around 1948. 5720 went into service in 1924 and was scrapped in 1953. 5785 lasted a couple of years longer going into service in 1923 and being scrapped in 1954. The 5720 is signed for route 34, Dedham Line-Arborway. From the election poster it looks like the state was still setting prices three years after the end of WWII. - from a negative in my collection, photographer unknown
The station building on the left acts as a fare control for both Métro Line A and inbound T3 trams. 17 Nov 16. © 2016 Peter Ehrlich
I need to go back on a sunny day and get some good photos from this stretch. Orcmid, any idea when we might do that? :-)
14/12/21. Tong Hang, Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong light rail collection: www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/collections/72157629742444...
The Pekeliling Flat, revisited during HDR/DRi course with Vedd Edd. Tonemapped in Photomatix and finalised in PS with post-processing technique learned during the class; and the result is much more natural and eye-pleasing, to my eyes at least! (which begs me a question, should i re-processed my old RAWs? hmm)
of course, still doesnt match up with the Sifoo's :)
HDR | 9 exposures
17/12/24. Taichung. A Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Taiwan Rolling Stock Company unit.
Taiwanese light rail collection: www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/collections/72157648058777...
Metropolitan Transit Authority Type 5 trolley 5728 on Hyde Park Avenue headed back to Arborway around 1948. The car is operating on route 32 between Cleary Square and Arborway via Hyde Park Avenue. I believe that this is by Dell Rock at Harvard Avenue. 5728 went into service in 1924 and was scrapped in 1952. - from a negative in my collection, photographer unknown
So I'm working an outbound Boeing run on the J-Line and get to 22nd Street on the J PRW and there are fire trucks blocking the intersection. It seems that a giant sinkhole opened up on the steep part of 22nd between Church and Dolores. So I radioed Central Control and apprised them of the situation, and stated that it would be potentially unsafe to continue outbound (not that I could, because I was blocked). So Central ordered all other J cars to switch back at 16th Street from outbound to inbound, and cars heading inbound to switch back at the 23rd Street Crossover. I suggested that I be used as a shuttle between 22nd and 16th. After ascertaining that there were no other trains in the area, they assented. So I shuttled on the outbound track for the rest of the evening.
Why are my doors open on the wrong side? For boarding passengers who had to walk from 23rd Street, and monitored their movements to make sure they didn't stumble on the raised asphalt bubbles by the rear door. At that time, there was still a platform on the nearside, so they could get off the car safely. After that was done, I changed ends and the steps on both sides did their thing.
The situation endured for about two weeks while the sinkhole was filled. In the meantime, N-Judah trains that used the new J-Extension to get from/to Metro Yard had to revert to the old way of getting to the N-Line, via the now-seldom-used bumpily-bump crossover, or going all the way to Embarcadero.
January 26, 1993. © 2015 Peter Ehrlich