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Rutherford Railway Platform and Maintenance of Way equipment
This railroad platform lies in the Rutherford area of the Napa Valley, at the location of the Beaulieu Vineyard tasting room. We can see the Beaulieu stone buildings in the background. Although this structure is no longer in use, the rails are.
The railroad has a long history in Napa Valley, having been founded in 1864 by early California pioneer Samuel Brannan to shuttle visitors between the ferry boats that docked in Vallejo and the upvalley resort town of Calistoga. In 1885 the Southern Pacific Railroad Company purchased the line and operated it for the next 102 years. It was sold to the Napa Valley Wine Train, Inc. in 1987. The Napa Valley Wine Train runs from the City of Napa through the villages of Oakville and Rutherford on the same route that Sam Brannan’s original steam train ran on in the 1800s.
Above info from an article in the Napa Valley Register. Read the colorful and thoroughly entertaining tale here:
napavalleyregister.com/inv/lifestyles/sam-brannan-pioneer...
Beaulieu Vineyards, the story
“Quel Beaulieu” or “beautiful place” in French is what Fernande de Latour said when she saw the four-acre wheat farm her husband George bought for her in 1900. George decided to surprise his wife and the property in the heart of the Napa Valley in a small town called Rutherford, provided the perfect place. The Napa Valleys vineyards had been in the grips of the root louse phylloxera, but with Georges’ knowledge of phylloxera resistant rootstock, he helped rebuild not only his new operation, but the Napa Valley wine industry as well.
Thus was Beaulieu Vineyard established.
www.taylorandnorton.com/newsite/beaulieu_vineyards.htm
Further sources:
www.legendarynapavalley.com/index.cfm
nvmarketplace.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/history-article-oc...
The remains of the platform of Mickleover station on the 1878 Great Northern Railway line from Grantham to Stafford. The section of the line (from Egginton to Derby) was used by British Rail Research as a test track 1967 -1973 and retained between here and Derby until 1990.
Llandudno Station signal box's platform 1 and 2 starting signals with the signal box the behind. Wednesday 26th June 2019
The signals (left to right) 3 signal (Platform 1 To Down Main), 4 signal (Platform 1 To Down Sidings), 5 signal (Platform 2 To Down Main) and 6 signal (Platform 2 To Down Sidings) are carried on a Pratt truss gantry. The gantry formerly carried six dolls, two dolls at the right hand side applying to platform 3 were removed in 1978 and replaced by a two-doll balanced bracket signal in front of the signal box carrying 7 signal (Platform 3 To Down Main) and 8 signal (Platform 3 To Down Sidings) which was third hand in this location
Prior to the March 1978 resignalling the gantry carried (left to right) 14 signal (Platform 1 To ?), 3 signal (Platform 1 Starting), 5 signal (Platform 2 Starting), 6 signal (Platform 2 To Carriage Sidings), 15 signal (Platform 3 Starting) and 16 signal (Platform 3 To Carriage Sidings)
4 and 6 signals were taken out of use on 5th October 2005 when the down sidings were disconnected due to the condition of the track
Llandudno No2 signal box was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design that opened in 1891 fitted with an 86 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame replacing an earlier signal box. The signal box was renamed Llandudno Station on 13th September 1970 when Llandudno No1 signal box was closed. In early 1978 the signal box was temporarily closed to allow track remodelling and resignalling which included reducing the frame to 34 levers, the signal box reopening on 19th March 1978. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC cladding in February 2004
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Observation platform at the Jasper-Pulaski State Fish and Wildlife Preserve. Sandhill viewing conditions weren't good.
170 111 departs with the 14.02 stopper towards Birmingham with the remnants of Jamie's lunch providing a useful prop, we did bin the lot!
Platform tickets seem to have disappeared these days. They allowed people who were not travelling on a train to go onto the platform. Usually the ticket was purchased at the ticket booth, but originally they were available from machines such as these. The one on the left seems to have been updated when decimalisation of the UK currency was introduced in 1971.
photo ruined by broken panorama setting.
Rescue ONE’s Connector Boat is available with a host of standard features that make it the ideal on-water and near-shore law enforcement platform. Foremost among these is an integrated dive platform at the bow. Constructed of lightweight aluminum, the Connector Boat’s fully-retractable dive platform provides an easily-accessible shelf that extends eighteen inches into the water, allowing divers to easily enter and exit the water.
n Vexing the Viscount, Daisy Drake wears 6 inch high Venetian platform shoes as part of her courtesan disguise. These were actually quite conservative. Some women tottered along on 22 inch chopines until a maximum height of 11 inches was mandated by law. In a time when streets frequently doubled as sewers, platform shoes made imminent sense.
The platform of Flåm station. Norwegian railways use the frankly strange (to me anyway) system of numbering the tracks, not the platforms. This train is on track 4.
The blue sign on the platform says "Entrance 3,4,5 for individual passengers". Most people – including myself initially – took that to mean that if you weren't in a tour group, use doors 3,4 and 5 (two doors per carriage incidentally). As it turned out, it meant if you were getting off at one of the intermediate stops – i.e. weren't doing the whole tourist shebang and maybe being a proper passenger – then use those entrances because the platforms are too short. That did explain why the back carriages of the train were extremely busy. We pushed forward to near the front and ended up in a very quiet carriage which was very useful because I could run to each side of the train and take photos without getting in the way of people, or others getting in my way!
Taken on day 8 of our fjord based holiday in Norway.
Platform built from "whitewood" 2x4's from Lowes. Used 3/8" eyebolts used to suspend front of platform. Unseen are two "nailplates" used to tie the front board to the 2 perpendicular supports.
The disused and now fenced off platform 3 at Waterford 'Plunkett' station, along with the disused track which lead down to the Bellview Freightliner Terminal and beyond to Rosslare Europort.
This last service trains to Rosslare Europort ran on the 18th September 2010.
7th April 2018
Skin -Atomic Bambi
Hair -Exile
Jacket -SG
Bodysuit -Maitreya
Skirt -Maitreya
Tights -Nestle my Bosom
Shoes -Lelutka
Hairband -Lagyo
Bangles -Pacadi
Necklace -So Many Styles
Just north of Kiama sits one of the most incredible looking coastal rock formations on mainland Australia. Two units of the Late Permian Gerringong volcanic facies are exposed on Bombo Headland. The Kiama Sandstone member forms a narrow wave-cut platform and adjacent vertical cliff face around the south-eastern extremity of the quarry. To the north the sandstone dips below sea level and is overlain by about 20m of porphyritic basalt, termed Bombo Latite member. The contact between the two units is well-exposed in the cliff section at the eastern end of the section of the two points comprising the headland. The red-brown colour (due to oxidisation of haematite) of the sandstone contrasts markedly with the grey-black latite, which displays spectacular columnar jointing elsewhere in the quarry. Isolated columns 5-5 meters in height stand adjacent to the coast between the north and south parts of the quarry; just to the north the sea wall exposes cross sections of the columns 1-2.5 metres in diameter, resulting in a 'Giants Causeway' appearance.
Petrographic descriptions of the latite emphasise its conspicuous porphyritic texture; large labradorite to andesine phenocrysts with minor clinopyroxene are set in a groundmass of feldspar microlites with interstital chlorite and iron oxide. The latite is commonly vesicular. Agglomerates or volcanic beccias are developed in some areas of the quarry. Eg in the south-western portion near the access road. This lithology is readily distinguished from the latite by its chaotic appearance and light-coloured matrix.
A capping of cream-coloured weathered latite, still retaining the characteristic porphyritic texture, may be studied at the top of the northern and western quarry faces. This sharpley-defined zone of surface weathering and soil formation overlies relatively fresh rock exhibiting columnar jointing.
The Bombo Latite Member was subsequently intruded by at least 5 basaltic (monchiquite) dykes of probable tertiary age which flowed around and between the columns of latite often taking 90 degree changes in direction. Early workers (Jaquet 1905 & Harper 1915) mapped and described these dykes but subsequent development of the quarry provided further exposures and obliterated others. Today dykes are mainly in the northern half of the quarry but at least one extends across the floor of the excavation in the vicinity of the isolated columnar stacks. They are of interest due to their inclusions of xenoliths and xenocrysts, which are believed to represent fragments of the earth's mantle incorporated in magmas originating from within that zone. Sussmilch (1905) described xenoliths of hypersthene gabbro, augite peridotite, enstatite peridotite and pyroxenite occurring as rounded fragments and boulders embedded in the monchiquite. From a deeper level of what was probably the same dyke, Wilshire & Binns (1961) recorded hornblendite and glimmerite as the dominant xenoliths. Present exposures of most of the other dykes appear to lack macroscopically visible xenoliths. (Percival)
History
In 1979 a nomination was received from the Geological Society of Australia (NSW Division) for the Bombo Quarry. The importance of the geological features was brought to the Heritage Council's attention by Dr Suzanne Wass of Macquarie University's School of Earth Sciences. The quarry was owned by the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board and it was proposed that a pollution control plant be constructed on the floor of the disused quarry.
Following site inspections and lengthy consultations between the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, NSW Heritage Council, NSW Planning Commission and other key agencies a Permanent Conservation Order was placed over the site in 1983. It was transferred onto the State Heritage Register in 1999.