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Sporting its brand new Penn Central heritage scheme, Metro-North Railroad P32AC-DM no. 217 is seen shoving Hudson Line train 8824 through Irvington Station. Though not as well known as the "dip black" paint scheme, this blue and yellow livery was worn by the FL-9 locomotive fleet and helped to identify them as part of the fleet used for MTA service.
This was taken from the SE corner of the park. Penn Treaty Park is a really perfect oasis in the northeast and offers wonderful views of the Delaware River, the old Philadelphia Electric Company building, and the Ben Franklin Bridge. It's a really popular park.
Coupeville, Washington on Whidbey Island. Mt. Baker is barely visible in the distance, peeking out throught the fog and overcast skies. www.kwphotos.com
Sometimes I am faced with a scene that not only defeats a single frame, or even multiple frames but also a single point of view. Penn Station is a good example. It's columned facade stretches an entire block, row after row. It is something to walk by. I really wanted to make a photo of that experience but it presents a logistical, or creative, challenge. One way would be to get back far enough with a panoramic camera but in this case you can only go to the other side of the street and then you start to get other things in your frame, like cars. Maybe if I could hover in mid-air I could avoid this. Similarly going really, really wide angle also presents issues like the far edges of the station will recede into the distance. I didn't want this effect either. It is cases like this that I appreciate the flexibility that the Holgarama gives me. Not only can I expose and assemble the frames to make a composition that fits my subject but I can also change position between each frame so that I can assemble an image made from several perspectives and not limited to just the single one. In a weird way though, part of the wonder I felt of Penn Station were the collection of single perspectives. I could stand in one place and look up at these beautiful columns then move a couple of steps down the sidewalk and find a similar but equally nice perspective. A couple of steps later and there was yet another spot. So this image is less about combining multiple perspectives into one but rather collecting those multiples together to still be enjoyed individually.
Something like that anyhow.
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Taken outside the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA. We dined on the Mosulu which is the worlds largest floating four-masted sailing ship. It's the ship with the masts in lights in the background. In front of her is the USS Olympia.
The Penn Center located on St Helena Island, SC is the epicenter of the Gullah Gauche people and It's where Martin Luther King made his famous speech.
Car 15 brings up the rear of a westbound South Shore train at the Penn-Wabash gauntlet bridge in Gary IN. January 1981. This bridge was replaced by a double track deck bridge.
A Penn Central Alco C425 (no. 2458, ex-New Haven 2558) is included as part of the this pool coal train at E Deerfield.
This is where the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton mainline crosses the Penn Central at South Charleston, Ohio. The DT&I was running from Ironton to Detroit while the Penn Central (formerly the Pennsylvania RR) line connected Columbus and Cincinnati. There were two interlocked tracks, one linking a northbound DT&I toward Columbus and another, that was unused, linking a southbound DT&I to Cincinnati, plus a cross over on the double tracked PC line. This is a view north on the DT&I main specifically taken to capture the order boards. On this happenstance stop I was fortunate to catch both a PC and a DT&I movement.
According to Wikipedia, the William Penn was built from 1915 to 1916 at a cost of USD $6-million. When it opened on March 11, 1916, newspapers hailed as the Grandest Hotel in the nation. Notice the two over-hanging archways between the three towers.
The hotel follows an E plan and it faces the elegant Mellon Square park.
The contemporary, grey skyscraper behind the hotel is BNY Mellon Center, once the head office of Mellon Bank/ Mellon Financial. The Mellons in Pittsburgh were one of America's wealthiest and most well-known families.
Penn Central 6093 & Grand Trunk 5923 on a Westbound Conrail freight that is working at Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY in March 1977.