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Concentration piece #10 (for now)
An old pipe.
I'm not sure where this pipe came from, nor whom it came from. Heck, I don't even know who the face is supposed to be. I do know, however, that it is one awesome looking pipe, so I felt the urge to get some shots of it! Something about it just seems magical in my eyes...
Shot with a Canon EOS 60D and a Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS lens.
Metra's first F40PH wears a temporary wrap commemorating its original colors and Metra's 40th Anniversary. It is about to lead BNSF train 1261 to the western suburbs.
This week we are going back forty-one years to 1985, and to KD 366 on Eden Quay with a service on route 7A to Sallynoggin.
KD 366 was the bus that was never meant to be. When CIE ordered the double-deckers from Bombardier, it was meant to be a fleet of 365 buses. However, KD 111 was written-off in an accident in 1982, and thus an extra bus was ordered to replace it. KD 366 was delivered new to CIE in 1983. In 1990 it became the first Wedding Bus in the fleet, with the new white livery being tested on it before being applied to some of the new Leyland Olympians being that year. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus around 1999.
Route 7A started operating between the city centre and Sallynoggin, via Blackrock, in 1950. In 1988 it was extended to Mackintosh Park, and the route ceased to operate in 2011. The route number returned in 2016 for services between the city centre and Loughlinstown.
22/01/1985
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to 1987 and to D 813 on O'Connell Street. The bus is one of many operating shuttles to Slane in County Meath.
In 1981 open-air concerts started taking place at Slane Castle, at Slane between Drogheda and Navan. Double-deckers from the Dublin city fleet were used each year to bring people from the city to Slane Castle, and back again after the concert. In certain years, around 200 buses could be used to undertake this service. The last year Dublin Bus operated a service was 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last decade or so, there has been an increase in the number of private operator buses used. For many years Dublin Bus ran the service from O'Connell Street as seen here. Then it became Parnell Square, and in 2019 it was Western Way.
D 813 was new to CIE in 1976. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994.
Flanagans and McDonald's are still operating at these locations on O'Connell Street.
11/07/1987
This isn’t a Corvette. It’s the Equus Throwback.
Okay, so it is a Corvette, sort of.
But this Corvette has been restyled, and given a little bit more grunt by Equus Automotive, creator of the Bass770.
The retro-inspired Throwback is a limited model, with only 25 planned by the Detroit-based company, which utilises the ‘Vette as a basis to create a “significantly upgraded” muscle car.
The Corvette’s supercharged V8 can be tuned to an output of 746kW and 1114Nm. Equus says it’s capable of a 2.5-second run to 97km/h (60mph), and has a top speed of 354km/h.
Equus Autmotive’s goal with the Throwback was to inspire a sense of nostalgia in muscle car fans while providing a car with modern-day usability.
“The Throwback model uses unique styling language in its outer skin to create a breathtaking vision of the ultimate Corvette. Equus takes the customer down memory lane to an era when Corvettes were synonymous with performance and class.
“The Throwback can be personalized for the design orientated drivers or for the fastest paced performance centric customer, always emphasizing the original love of an icon, desire for innovation and uncompromised quality.
“Just as companies like Brabus and Alpina focus on European brands, Equus Automotive is focused on providing American Sports car lovers the ultimate interpretation of todayʼs designs.
Throwback Thursday ist zurück!
Wir starten unseren Flickr #TBT mit einem Motto, das wohl jeder liebt: Haustiere (#Pets)! Teilt eure Fotos der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit von Haustieren in unserem Facebook-Post mit uns (einfach den Link zu eurem Foto im Kommentarfeld unterhalb des Posts hinterlassen). Die schönsten Fotos präsentieren wir dann nächste Woche hier im Blog!
Viel Spaß!
Kennt ihr schon Flickr Commons? Die Fotos in diesem Post stammen vom Commons-Account der The Library Company of Philadelphia – flic.kr/p/vxGH71
A Manhattan-bound Q train arrives at Beverley Rd station, sporting the diamond Q bullet used during the Manhattan Bridge reconstruction, when the Q was the only train running on the Brighton Line. Since it was both a local and express service operating at the same times it fit the criteria for a diamond bullet to differentiate the two. This is the current criteria for a diamond bullet, which is why the <6> and <7> are currently in use, but not the <5>.
R68 < Q > (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988)
Beverley Rd station
Brighton Line - BMT
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to KC 3, parked in Phibsborough Garage.
This bus was new to CIE in 1984. Whereas KC 1 was built by FFG in Hamburg, and KC 2 was built in Bombardier, KC 3 was the first KC built by GAC who also build the rest of the fleet, up to KC 202. KC 3 was initially allocated to Cork, before moving up to Dublin Although the bus did operate in passenger service, it did spend some time as a driver training bus. As a result it gained a second mirror behind the door for the instructor to use. The bus was withdrawn by Dublin Bus from service in the late-1990s.
Phibsboro Garage opened in 1971, built on part of the old railway yard at Broadstone Station. That station closed to passenger traffic in 1937, and closed completely in 1961. The station complex is currently home to the Bus Eireann main depot, and more recently a Dublin Bus depot.
20/06/1987
A U.S. Marine with Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, swabs the breach of an M777A2 Lightweight Howitzer Lightweight Howitzer after firing as part of Eager Mace 13, aboard Forward Operating Base Sword, Kuwait November 14, 2012. The purpose of the exercise is to expand levels of cooperation, maritime capabilities, as well as promote long-term regional stability and interoperability between U.S. forces and regional partners.
Photo by Cpl. Bobby J. Gonzalez
How I wish this was still everyday power for road trains. P76 heads to East Point with an old school consist, with only the Sadmiral cab 4th out as a spoiler.
"Watch over the Rhine," which was the first National Guard Heritage Painting to feature an Air National Guard mission, was unveiled in early 1967 by Maj. Gen. Winston Wilson, Chief, National Guard Bureau (second from left) and presented to the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown (third from left). The painting shows ANG missions flown over Germany in 1961 during the Berlin Crisis. Adjacent to the generals on the extreme left, Brig. Gen. Robert Akin, Adjutant General of the Tennessee National Guard, the state from which the "Starfighter" unit was based, and on the extreme right, Gen. John P. McConnell, the Air Force Chief of Staff. Published in the April 1967 edition of National Guardsman magazine.
DeGrazia once said, “I remember when I painted murals. I’d paint the whole wall–all the walls of a room. I’d paint all day for twenty-five dollars.” DeGrazia started painting murals after his two-year apprenticeship under Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco in 1942. Happy Throwback Thursday!
The old tower at LAX is still a great looking building. It just makes the airport feel so much a 50's feeling of the future.