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Gazing up the Tokyo bay bridge.
It's stereographic projected version of this.
Fall Colors and Snow at the Silver Plume railroad station.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railway located in Clear Creek County, Colorado in the United States. The Georgetown Loop Railroad was one of Colorado’s first visitor attractions. Completed in 1884, this spectacular stretch of narrow gauge railroad was considered an engineering marvel for its time. The thriving mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume lie two miles apart in steep, narrow Clear Creek west of Denver. To connect them, engineers designed a corkscrew route that traveled nearly twice that distance, slowly gaining more than 600 feet in elevation. It included horseshoe curves, grades of up to 4 percent, and four bridges across Clear Creek, including the massive Devil’s Gate High Bridge. The Colorado & Southern Railway operated the line for passengers and freight until 1938. Originally part of the larger line of Colorado Central Railroad constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, it was later dismantled, but was restored in the 1980s to operate during summer months as a tourist railroad, carrying passengers using historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives.
In 1959, the centennial year of the discovery of gold in Georgetown, the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park was formed by the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society’s chairman negotiated a donation of mining claims and mills, and nearly 100 acres of land. Rail line construction began in 1973 with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The four-mile segment opened on March 10, 1884 and is a restored segment at the upper end of the historic Colorado Central main line up Clear Creek Canyon west of Golden. It climbs approximately 640 feet between the two towns. The longer main line up the canyon was constructed in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush and was used extensively during the silver boom that followed in the 1880s to haul the lucrative silver ore traffic down from the mines at Silver Plume. The Loop portion of the line was the crowning segment of the line at the top of the gorge and features a 95-foot high trestle. The entire line, including the Loop, was dismantled in 1939, but interest in restoration of the Loop segment as a tourist attraction in the 1970s led to the construction of a new high bridge and the refurbishment of the segment, which reopened in 1984.
The train ride includes an optional walking tour of the Lebanon Silver Mine, located at the halfway point on the railroad. Visitor walk 500 feet into a mine tunnel bored in the 1870s while guides point out the rich veins of silver and the history of the mine.
Passengers board the train at depots located in either Silver Plume or Georgetown. (Wikipedia)
I'd posted this piece before but, felt that it needed to be photographed while worn, to show it in its best light. So, my friend Andie, modeled for me and I love how it looks on her.
This piece was the result of experimenting with one shape of a copper link. On each half of the necklace, there are graduated copper links - each one slightly smaller (or larger - depending on the direction) than the one before. The center pendant is a prong set rutilated quartz. Each link is forged at the ends, rolled, curved and then the curve was hammered. Links are connected by 14g copper jump rings.
The loop trail stays close to the geology of Turtle Rock, a popular climbing destination in summer. This is only an outcropping attached to the much larger formation of Turtle Rock.
Reprocessed in 2022
NGC 3576 is a giant star forming region of gas glowing strongly in Ha and is located about 9,000 light years away in Carina. Its characteristic loops are formed by stellar winds.
The image comprises a number of NGC objects - NGCs 3579, 3581, 3582, 3584 and 3586. 3576 encompasses the whole centre bright region.. There are also a number of prominent Bok Globules, dark dense stellar nurseries.
For an annotated version see: pbase.com/gailmarc/image/173097857
LHaRGB (60,120,60,60,60 minutes). Total of 6hrs unbinned. Subs 15,30,20 minutes (L,Ha,RGB respectively).
FOV: 40x48 arcmins. FL 1760mm (F11.7).
It was taken with a Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F11.7 (FL=1760mm) using an SBIG STL 11000M camera and AO-L.
This delightful loop near Santiam Pass provides good views of Big Lake, the tiny Patjens Lakes, and nearby mountains. In late June and early July, the loop features more blooming bear grass than any other trail in Central Oregon.
The results of forest fire and beetle kill can clearly be seen on this loop; however, the beauty is still here.
The Fallowfield loop line was opened in 1892 and ran round the south side of Manchester, linking Sheffield Victoria with Manchester Central.
The large building in the background was Reddish MPD which was opened in 1954, to maintain the EM1 and EM2 locomotives that would operate over the 1500v DC Woodhead Line and also the 506 emu's which operated the Manchester-Glossop services.
The depot closed on the 30th July 1983 and the last freight train on the Fallowfield Loop Line was behined 47443 on a Freightliner from Trafford Park in October 1988.
This was the view from Station Road looking towards Hyde Road Junc a few months after the line had closed, the Fallowfield Loop line is now a cycle path.
9th February 1989
Another Toronto Film Festival began last night.
Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Piper Perabo at the opening of Looper at Roy Thompson Hall.
The Ormond Beach Loop is a scenic drive in Volusia County, running through and north of the town of Ormond Beach. The scenic drive crosses and runs amongst numerous waterways and salt marshes, including the Tomoka River, Halifax River, and Bulow Creek. These shots were taken from the roadway which runs between Bulow Creek State Park and Tomoka Island State Park, crossing the Tomoka River in the process.
SW & NW corner of Michigan and Jackson (Railway Exchange Building / Santa Fe Building, right, built in 1904) (Frederick P. Dinkelberg, architect, of D. H. Burnham & Company)
This 1972 Chrysler Newport Royal is one of a total of 130,305 Newports produced for the model-year.
Of this total, 85,244 were the Newport Royal subseries (the base model), and of that figure, 47,437 were four-door sedans like this one, the most popular individual model of all Newports produced that year.
Base price for the Newport Royal sedan: $4,051.
For the sake of comparison, a 1972 Buick LeSabre Custom four-door pillared (non-hardtop) sedan went for $4,047.
This particular example was seen while leaving my neighborhood while en route to the Chicago Auto Show with some friends.
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday, February 14, 2010.
The Guggenheim Museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1959. It is on the National Register #05000443, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
Piper Perabo as "Suzie" in TriStar Pictures, Film District, and End Game Entertainment's action thriller LOOPER.
As booked 66610 runs through Westhouses along the loop to Blackwell South Junction with the Tunstead West Thurrock cement
I added little hanging loops as my leaf stems. These coasters could hang up in the kitchen or hang easily to dry once wet.
Fall-inspired leaf coasters.
The railways resident Green liveried class 20 locomotive D8110 (20110) was also out and about, captured here with the crew getting ready for the tablet change as they pass through Stoneacre loop, working the 10.45 Embsay-Bolton Abbey (11.05) service during the excellent Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway's Diesel & Beer Gala.
26th August 2023
A fine mess: In 2017, an agreement was announced that the General Services Administration would sell these buildings to the City of Chicago, which in turn would flip them to a developer for redevelopment. The 16-story Century Building (202), designed by Holabird & Roche and completed in 1916, would be rehabilitated and expanded as 159 furnished studio and one-bedroom apartments. The 22-story Consumers Building (220), designed by Jenny, Mundie & Jensen and completed in 1913, would house approximately 270 micro apartments. The 212 property would be demolished and replaced with a 15-story structure connected 202 S. State St. The historic features of 214 would be retained in a new two-story building. However, in December 2019 the city backed out of the deal, citing fears from Federal officials that the buildings could be used to fire shots into the Dirksen Federal Building to the west. NOTE: In July 2022, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks announced it will review whether the buildings should be granted landmark status. Despite being in the Loop Retail Historic District, the lack of designation makes the properties subject to demolition. NOTE 2: A demolition permit is to be issued for the 212 building in April 2023.
The original loop was featured on digg.com/offbeat_news/The_Procrastination_Flow_Chart a while back, but I could not find any version decent for printing, so I remade it in OmniGraffle. The 'Meh, do it' task should be going back to 'Start' too, imo. After all, you are better off dividing big tasks into smaller chunks, allowing you to enter the loop repeatedly.
With only five months untill closure my dad stands on the freight only Lenwade branch at the Themelthorpe Loop, this former 1877 built East Norfolk Railway closed to passengers in 1952 and to freight on the 15th June 1983, with track lifting taking place in 1984.
The 9 miles between Wroxham with Aylsham reopened on the 10th July 1990 as the Bure Valley Railway a 15 inch gauge line, this section of the line now forms part of the 26 mile 'Marriotts Way' footpath.
29th August 1981
When we first arrived to Loop Head we were pretty disappointed at the fog. But I think it ended up providing a really cool atmosphere to shoot in.
Though there are quite a few similar designs out there regarding this concept, this one was made from scratch in Illustrator and rendered in Photoshop. It was really nice to see how a rough idea on paper can transform into a final product with some minor changes along the way.
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