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Modern VW beetle with a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible and and early 1970's Ford F150 truck ~ city of: Kingston, NY
Von allen Linien der S-Bahn Rhein-Main fährt nur die S2 tatsächlich in den Taunus rein. Die S1 fährt zwar über die "Taunusbahn", diese fährt allerdings nur parallel zum Mittelgebirge. Die S3, S4 und S5 dagegen enden direkt an dessen Fuß und fahren nicht weiter hinein.
Love the light this time of the day. The parallels lines of the stretch of sandy beach, the two banks of the lake where water meets land and the trees all caught my attention as I looked for a shot for the theme this week.
VH45239 (BF67GMU) seen at Euston Bus station on the other side of where it used to terminate. It’s switched stands with 68
Not really a « pimp my speeder »‘s entry, more a « in an parallel universe »‘s entry. For those wandering what I mean, please see the first scene of the second trailer from Star Wars 7 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs
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The airport in Palma de Mallorca isn't really big but if you take time to hang around, there are a couple places worth a look at to take a few shots. This is one of them
My life as parallel universes.
Everywhere I choose to go, there is something
happening in a parallel route.
Something that I miss.
And I am not there….
What have I missed? What is there in the
unchosen route?
And with that in mind, instead of enjoying
my chosen route, I'm busy trying to guess
what I'm missing.
So – I will re choose.
I will choose this time to focus on my route.
To be aware of what I gained by taking it.
This is my way of life now.
My choice – to cherish what I have.
The rest is nothing but illusion.
Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad Line reached Palm Beach in 1894. The Seaboard Airline Railroad Line laid tracks to Palm Beach as late as 1921-1924. It was after 1921 that the Seaboard Airline tracks reached West Palm Beach. Reference to the Seaboard Airline Railroad Station appears in a book printed in 1926.
S. Davis Warfield was president of Seaboard Air Line and in 1924 Warfield built a cross-state line that serviced West Palm Beach and Miami and Homestead in 1926, making a direct rail connection from one coast to the other, across the state. In 1938 the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Airline Railroad Line formed a network over Florida. Trains were air-conditioned and streamlined, and power was generated by Diesel-electric locomotives.
Stockholders in the railroad were important Palm Beach residents, and this station combined their taste in architecture, and their desire for service and convenience, for the community related to their vacation and retirement residences.
L. Phillips Clarke, who designed all of the Seaboard Railroad stations, built his first station at Auburndale. The West Palm Beach station appeared in 1924-1925.
The north-south dimension, paralleling the tracks, is approximately 178 feet. It is 43 feet deep, not including (at the sides) a 13-foot platform on the west. The building is mainly one story high, with a single office on a two-story level near the center and a three-stage tower on the south corner of the east or entrance facade on Tamarind Avenue.
The plan is rectangular, divided essentially in half, with express room and baggage room to the left or south, and behind the loggia the two waiting rooms, now one, separated on the east by restrooms and on the west by the ticket office. The loggia surrounds most of the front and ends, and the shed—roofed passenger platform on the rear or trackside.
The City of West Palm Beach, following a purchase of the building in 1988, tapped local architecture firm Oliver Glidden & Partners to head a $4.3 million restoration of the structure. The project was completed and the station rededicated in a ceremony attended by the Florida Governor in April 1991. Architect Robert D. Brown directed the restoration of ornamental cast stone elements, exterior masonry, doors, windows, and iron and tile work. The red clay tile roof was replaced, as were the electrical, lighting, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Abatement of lead and asbestos was further required to bring the historic structure up to modern building code standards. The restoration effort earned the Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.
In summer 2012, the city finished an improvement project that included the installation of new sidewalks and more than five dozen trees around the building. The improvements were funded with a $750,000 Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, to which the city provided a $150,000 local match.
The station has two side platforms, with access to the station on both sides. West of the southbound platform is a long loop of bus bays serving Palm Tran routes. East of the northbound platform is the station house, a small parking lot, and bus stops for Greyhound Lines buses and Tri-Rail shuttles.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach_Seaboard_Coastline_...
historic-structures.com/fl/west_palm_beach/seaboard_railr....
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Here in Fairmont, Minnesota wedged between George Lake and Sisseton Lake, two railroads built their respective lines in the narrows and crossed Center Creek. A Union Pacific manifest freight passes between the lakes on the Northwestern Railroad grade that eventually was acquired by the UP in 1996. In the foreground is the Milwaukee Road, still used by Harsco Rail as a test track for rail equipment. The two railroads used to parallel each other from Fairmont to Welcome, but that is no longer the case. Canadian Pacific, the company operating the Milwaukee Road line (formerly DME/ICE), crosses the UP here in Fairmont then uses trackage rights from a switch downtown and west to Welcome before continuing towards Jackson, the namesake of the Jackson Subdivision.