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On Thursday March 22, 2018, my Railfan Friend Jim and I visited Kirby Farm in Williston, Florida to witness the beginning of a Place for Critically ILL and Disadvantage Children. - Kirby Family Farms is Focused on Railroad and Agricultural History !
Kirby Family Farm will not open officially open for at least a full year, since there is much work to be done. They have assembled a great number of discarded Carnival Rides, Narrow Gauge Locomotives, 18 Ringling Brothers Circus (Passenger) Cars, a few Circus Wagons, a former USAF End Cab Switcher and various Surplus Trucks donated by US Government Agencies. Some of the former Steam Locomotives have been converted to Diesel-Mechanical and were formerly used by various Theme Parks such as OpryLand and Bush Gardens Williamsburg.
These five photographs show several Sunday School Buses, that Daryl Kirby acquired for his new enterprise.
Daryl was very cordial with us, allowing us to roam freely taking photographs. We spoke with him and his employees about the monumental amount of worked to achieve an grand opening in 2019. He has acquired many discarded carnival rides through donations and purchases and he needs Volunteers.
The Kirby Family Farm has hosted "6 Gun Territory Re-Enactments" during through the 1960's. aka: "Six Gun Territory" featuring Sam Huston. They also feature Christmas and Easter Celebrations and Fund Raisers. He is looking for Volunteers and additional acquisitions.
The Kirby family Farm is located at: 19650 Northeast 30th Street, Williston, Florida 32696. They can be reached at 352-812-7435.
The Kirby Family Farm Website is at: kirbyfarm.com
Air Terminal Sevices and Schoolbuses, Toronto and Montreal, designer Peter Ulmer. From Graphis Annual 69/70. Blogged at Aqua-Velvet.
On Thursday March 22, 2018, my Railfan Friend Jim and I visited Kirby Farm in Williston, Florida to witness the beginning of a Place for Critically ILL and Disadvantage Children. - Kirby Family Farms is Focused on Railroad and Agricultural History !
Kirby Family Farm will not open officially open for at least a full year, since there is much work to be done. They have assembled a great number of discarded Carnival Rides, Narrow Gauge Locomotives, 18 Ringling Brothers Circus (Passenger) Cars, a few Circus Wagons, a former USAF End Cab Switcher and various Surplus Trucks donated by US Government Agencies. Some of the former Steam Locomotives have been converted to Diesel-Mechanical and were formerly used by various Theme Parks such as OpryLand and Bush Gardens Williamsburg.
This photograph shows a Hearse, that Daryl Kirby acquired for his new enterprise.
Daryl was very cordial with us, allowing us to roam freely taking photographs. We spoke with him and his employees about the monumental amount of worked to achieve an grand opening in 2019. He has acquired many discarded carnival rides through donations and purchases and he needs Volunteers.
The Kirby Family Farm has hosted "6 Gun Territory Re-Enactments" during through the 1960's. aka: "Six Gun Territory" featuring Sam Huston. They also feature Christmas and Easter Celebrations and Fund Raisers. He is looking for Volunteers and additional acquisitions.
The Kirby family Farm is located at: 19650 Northeast 30th Street, Williston, Florida 32696. They can be reached at 352-812-7435.
The Kirby Family Farm Website is at: kirbyfarm.com
School buses parked at a school bus facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The new school year begins September 4th in La Crosse which means these buses will soon be stirred from their summer rest.
Fleet No 7043. The 208 is a route I've covered quite a bit since the end of October Half Term, it runs from East Cowes to Medina College. This has been my vehicle on most of the trips I've done and despite one or two age related things (the coach not me) it is a very nice vehicle to drive. Seen here waiting time before moving down to Waitrose to start the run.
This may be the only Gilligs that I like and find half way interesting. Gillig Phantom School buses. California has some of the best bus operations in the country.
Some photos taken during the early evening of 25th July 2015 of First Berkshire's depot at Bracknell. The vantage point is the rail station car park, which overlooks the depot (itself situated off Market Street).
A selection of standard First buses, Greenline deckers, yellow schoolbuses and withdrawn Scanias are visible.
The surprise was the presence of Reading Transport Olympus 849, OmniCity 1107 and two green OmniDekkas.
These were here ready for the company's takeover of route 90 (Bracknell - Reading) from the next day.
First have sold the route to Reading, as part of the closure of Bracknell depot.
Bracknell railway station car park, Bracknell, Berkshire.
Color film strip depicting various photos of scenes and statistics from c.1949-1950’s Duplin County Schools, PhC.188. From Photograph Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.
Crown Coach Corporation was founded by Don M. Brockway in 1904 as the "Crown Carriage Company" in Los Angeles, California, Crown's Supercoach school buses were known for strength and durability, built of 90,000 psi steel, with an expected service life of 20 years. Crown also made fire vehicles.
Fleet No 1510.
What a stunning start to a school run, Alum Bay to Carisbrooke. I'd come out from Newport to start the run, shame I didn't have time to walk up the hill behind to the Needles Battery!!
I'm back from a few weeks away, and happy to be flickr-ing again. Thanks for the nice comments while I was away! It'll take me a while to scan the pics from Puerto Rico. In the meantime...
Kensington, Brooklyn
Voigtlander Bessa-L
Canon Serenar 28mm f/3.5
Fuji Superia Xtra 400
(ignored the meter for the long exposure)
Slightly retouched version of original. Fixed some minor coloring issues.
Note that this was taken in the rain on a mountain along the appalachian trail. I doubt any photograph of this subject matter exists anywhere else. There were two schoolbuses passing each other at about 2000 ft above sea level when the closest towns are 25-30 mins away.
Fleet No 1516.
My vehicle for the early starting Route 71 from Ryde to the Island Free School in Upper Ventnor. The first time I've done this route in a morning and potentially my last school day for the current school year as they close at the end of the week. Not a bad looking morning to drive around a mainly coastal route taking in a quarter of the Island.
Ulsterbus (Magherafelt) 1674
Chasis/Bodywork: Scania K94IB/Irizar Intercentury
Registration: TCZ 1674
Seating: B69F
Date New: November 2003
Where: Brooke Street, Coleraine Town Centre
Service: Service 116a to Garvagh
Additional Comments:
One of only two 116a services - 1674 is noted on the 1300 departure to Garvagh Direct. The standard 116 service links Coleraine to Maghera, with the timetable linked with the 176 to provide links to Magherafelt.
The use of these during the summer seems to be popular in these areas, as I noted three in use at Ballymena within five minutes of arriving, despite being designated schoolbuses. Ballymena detaxed around 17 B7R/Eclipse SchoolRuns this summer along with four Enviro300s.
Coleraine - 06.08.2015
Copyright © Mark Long 2015
Much more unusual purchaes for Suffolk County Council were a pair of Leyland Nationals from Grampian Transport - 10351/2R models with dual doors, so not the most suitable of schoolbuses. This one lasted here for 7 years and then saw further use in Stockport as a mobile clinic and lasted into the 21st century.
Eleven of these arrived with PMT in 2002 for use at a newly set up base at Wrexham. When delivered they differed slightly from how they entered service, principal difference being that the American-style 'School Bus' lettering above the windscreen was later covered by a bi-lingual sticker. Several were stored at Crewe depot for some time before movement to Wrexham, where they were intially based on a rented section of a lorry park in Llay. Issues with security here, with problems speculated to be caused by disgruntled operators who had lost work to First, led to the depot being moved to another location.
Initially drivers were 'loaned' from other depots to crew these buses before part-time staff were recruited. Drivers came from Adderley Green (1); Chester (1); Crewe (2); Newcastle (2) and Rock Ferry (3). The tenth bus was driven by a supervisor seconded from First Manchester and the eleventh a spare. Also attached to the operation was a seconded fitter, who quickly alienated himself from the drivers involved.
One of a pair of Vehixel bodied Iveco 150E24 schoolbuses with Mounts Bay Coaches. New as Staffordshire CC as DX53 LFZ, I never thought any of these things would last 20 years!