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Nearly 40 years later, a "Rocket" returns to it's one-time launching pad. This is Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, the eastern terminus for the Rock Island Railroad, where the famous "Rocket" streamliners began their journeys west. But much has changed in this time. The Rock Island went out of business in the 1980s, the original LaSalle Street headhouse was torn down about the same time, and the "Rockets" are all but a distant memory.
Enter 2017: In partnership with Metra, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society put together four "Joliet Rocket" excursions an homage to the once "Mighty Fine Line." Featuring vintage equipment and their own famous Nickel Plate 4-8-4 #765 for power, passengers were treated to a recreation of a 1940's era train ride from Joliet to Chicago and back over the former Rock Island mainline. Passengers also got to experience a fine lunch or dinner at the station, as well as a photo runby (originally scheduled to take place at Tinley Park) of the giant steam beast. This would be the first time since the 1960s that a steam locomotive would again grace the platforms of LaSalle Street Station and sound of a steam whistle would echo off the Canyons of Chicago. This trip was so popular that it would return for a second year in 2018.
Seen here is the second run of the Joliet Rocket on Saturday, June 17th. Heat and humidity forced many passengers to return back to the air conditioning in the train after finishing their dinner & drinks. But those of us who rode in the Iowa Pacific full-dome car wanted to linger as long as we could outside, because the AC conked out on the car during the morning run, effectively turning it into a giant sauna.
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I know I have shot this many times before but it's just so cool, sorry! Used Pixlromatic and PicFx for this on iPhone.
Sculptor Donald Harcourt De Lue (1897-1988) heeded a six-month deadline to complete a full-size—43 feet (13 m) tall—plaster model of this "Rocket Thrower" sculpture in 1963 so that it could be cast in bronze for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It remains where it was installed for that fair: in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NYC, USA. I took this photo on November 10, 2024.
Three wishes I have to do before I leave this world: to skydive using a parachute, to scubadive, and to travel through space and visit other planets.
Only one wish, the first one, was fulfilled.
I am waiting for the second one. The third one may look impossibe, but .. you never know!
This flower reminds me of rockets, planets, and space.
the ones that look straight from Hansel and Gretel belong to Blisi (Fuji Baku Tbilisi). So is the ganja satellite with the pink pill on top. The technologically-challenged ones are by yours truly. Please notice the band-aid.
Wonder what happened to the poor babies after the storm on Sunday.
2009 Challenge, Day 282: ROCKET at: www.photochallenge.org
My ROCKET is the Chrysler bldg. that looks like a ROCKET!! Either this or copying somebody else's work. But when I asked few of my friends what they thought they all agreed that Chrysler bldg. looked like a ROCKET even the antenna on the top.
So short of better creativity here is my rocket!!! Hope you like and agree!!!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!
Rocket lift with screens and sound for a journey directly to Wonderland on the sixth floor of Myer Westfield Sydney.
Myer Store, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 22 Feb 2017)
“🚀 “Rocket”🚀”
One of my favorite nine photos posted in 2023 ...
Before I post my “top nine for 2023” photo this year, I wanted to post my favorite nine posts from 2023 and see the difference. I just couldn’t narrow it down to six this year. One bear pic was a video, and two photos were featured therefore shown twice. I hope you enjoy the photos!
Here they are……
Backstory:
One of the photographs I covet getting in Cades Cove, Tennessee, is a deer, especially a buck, jumping the fence.
Timing and position are crucial to getting the shot. Usually, the deer are predictable, and I can tell when they are getting ready to jump. Sometimes, they cheat and go under the barbed wire.
I never really thought about the mannerism of the jump. I’m just trying to photograph it.
This buck drops his right shoulder and puts his right leg tight to his body. He then stretches his body up, up, up. Right before he jumps, he uses his powerful back legs to rocket through the air allowing him to hurdle the wire.
I am tickled I got the shot.
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Rocket Ships
And before you know it
rocket ships will give way
to broken hearts.
Flying horses will become
missed appointments,
and
Crayolas become
colorful pills that ease
the divorce…
The tooth fairy
puts on a suit and
collects
Taxes.
Death replaces
the ice cream truck.
And yet
You will dream of
rocket ships.
-A. Valles
What is it about animals...or humans for that matter, that think the grass is greener on the other side? Rocket really wants to go into the neighbors yard...I think not! Little stinker is getting big and starting to feel good in his surroundings to where he wants to wander....I don't let him out without supervision even though my yard is fenced. I'm not comfortable with the little guy behaving!!! lol :) Have a nice evening everyone!
With shock waves pulsing in the afterburner flame, the Greek Air Force Zeus Team's General-Dynamics F-16C '529' makes a max power departure from Kleine-Brogel during the Belgian Air Force Days Airshow
Note that this version has the 'Conformal' fuel tanks mated to the upper fuselage shoulders giving the aircraft a more chunky look
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I love the little drips coming off the sides...
Pattern by Wild Olive.
ETA: Tutorial for crayon tinting found here.