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This week we are going back thirteen years to 2013, and to AV 114 at the route 14 terminus on Maryfield Drive.
Route 14 started running as a bus route between the city centre and Dartry in 1948. In 1953 it was extended on the northside to Annamoe Road and in 1955 it reached the Phoenix Park. In the same year it was extended to Churchtown. Around 1988 it was cut back on the northside to terminate once more in the city centre. In 1995 it reached Ballinteer and a decade later it was extended to Dundrum. In 2011, under Network Direct, it was merged with route 20B and was extended on the northside to terminate here on Maryfield Drive (although the buses and timetables use Ardlea Road as a destination).
AV 114 was new to Dublin Bus in the year 2000. It was withdrawn in 2015, and sold on to an operator in Scotland.
05/03/2013
This week we are going back thirty-six years to 1990 and to KD 28 parked on Eden Quay, dressed for route 7.
The current route 7 can be traced back to 1979 when it started operating between the city centre and Ballybrack. In 1988 it was extended to Loughlinstown Park. Certain departures started serving Cherrywood in 2004, but in 2016 these services retained the route 7 number, while the Loughlinstown Park services became route 7A.
KD 28 was new to CIE in 1981. By 1996 it had been withdrawn by Dublin Bus. In 1993 it was involved in an accident that saw it lose its roof. It was repaired using the upper deck of KD 84.
The bus is in an all-over ad for CAN / Commuter Advertising Network. This is the CIE agency responsible for advertising on buses (and elsewhere). It is still around today, although they currently partner with Global Media who place the actual ads on the buses and other places.
07/05/1990
QGRY 6908, RLHH 3404, RLHH 3049, and QGRY 2301 working to assemble their train at Brantford on June 1st, 2018
This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2004 and to RA 320 parked on Hawkins Street, dressed for route 38.
Route 38 has a bit of a complicated history. From 1939 to 1973 it ran between the City Centre and Ashtown, and from 1958 to 1972 it also ran between the City Centre and Kinvara Park. Services continued to run between the City Centre and Ashtown until 1977, but these were part of the 38A and 39 timetable. In the 1990s the 38 returned, this time between the City Centre and Lady's Well. From around 1994 to around 1998 it ran to Tyrrelstown before reverting back to Lady's Well. In 2002 it was extended to Damastown and the western terminus has remained there since. Also from 2002 until 2010 the city centre terminus was on Hawkins Street, as seen here. It then moved to the Burlington Road area. The route was never part of the CitySwift network.
RA 320 was new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
12/06/2004
Back in late 2016, when I first began to learn how to get the most out of a camera, I discovered the magic of Neutral Density filters and Long Exposure Photography. At that time for me I swear I never captured an image where the exposure was less than 5 seconds. Streaky, cloud dragged skies and water that was either surreally smooth or ghost like mist, I was obsessed.
Since then, as my tastes have changed in what I like to shoot, I’ve begun to use filters less and less. To the point where now, it’s unusual for me to use anything other than a Circular Polariser when I shoot water.
But from time to time conditions present themselves where I default back to my original instincts and reach for the filters. Consider this my “throwback”…
Actually, I have no idea what I photographed here some years ago somewhere in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It reminds me a bit of foam on a water surface in an artistic pattern reflecting the blue sky, but I'm really not sure about it.
Straight from the camera almost in this way.
Explore#143 Dec 27, 2023
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to another demonstrator bus in Dublin. SC 1 / 405 UZO is seen crossing O'Connell Bridge on its way to Tallaght. This bus had a Marshall body bus on a Scania chassis and spent a number of months on test with CIE around 1982. By this time CIE had received around 100 of the KD Bombardier double deckers, which would eventually end with KD 366. The demonstrator is also painted in a similar two-tone green livery that the KDs were delivered in. Following its time with CIE, this Scania demonstrator joined the fleet of AA Motor Services in Scotland. It was withdrawn in the mid-1990s.
The bus is displaying route 2 but more likely it was on route 65A. The bus regularly worked a service on route 2 into Dublin city centre from Sandymount and then did the 09:00 departure on the 65A to Embankment in Tallaght. The 65A was removed from the network in 1994.
On a final note, the truck beside the bus is also a CIE vehicle, this one from the freight division.
19/02/1982
In the later 90's I felt like I was managing to become a little more refined in my presentation after some rather clumsy attempts in the earlier years. Unfortunately had yet to have that epiphany, the one about how a pretty smile will make vanity photos much more appealing.
Fallow deer stags have almost completed their antlers by mid August, although they are still velvet covered.
Circa late 2008. Jungle cat Rahi that live solitary lives hunting in the Punt Nui forests.
That color distribution leaves a lot to be desired, but overall I think this stands up decently well for Rahi I made back in the day.
A throwback to 2014 when color was everywhere on the Eastern railroads, especially Norfolk Southern. Train 197 is seen racing south at Sale Creek, TN on the CNO&TP. Consist included the CN C40-8W, CN ES44DC, NS SD40-2, ex-HLCX SD40-2, and GP50 #7073.
Yeah, I don't usually go for that whole throwback Thursday thing, but I found these in some older files and figured I'd share em, just for a taste of old-school Allo. Pretty sure these are from late 2012 or early 2013.
Top tier: Hush, Bane, Ra's Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter.
Bottom tier: Catwoman, Man-bat, Penguin, Killer Croc, Mister Freeze.
Actually, seeing these makes me wonder where that torso on Ra's went to lately . . .
Anyways, better things to come, until then, cheers!
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to 1988, and to D 756 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 11 to Clonskea.
Route 11 started running between the Ballymun Road and Clonskea in 1939. In 1967 the northern terminus moved to Griffith Avenue, before it reached Wadelai Park (St. Pappin's Road) in 1983. In the late-1990s it was extended to Kilmacud from Clonskea, and in 2011 its southern terminus became Sandyford Business District. In 2025, under Bus Connects, it was replaced on the northside by new route 19, and its city terminus became Phoenix Park.
D 756 was new to CIE in 1975. It then went on to have colourful career, literally. In 1986 it gained this all-over ad livery for Philips Philishave. In 1987 it spent some time on loan to Bus Eireann in Cork for the ad to be shown there. At the end of 1988 it received a new all-over scheme when it became the Santa bus for the Christmas period. Then in 1989, it received an all-over ad for the Blood Donors. The bus was withdrawn in 1993 by Dublin Bus, and spent its final years in the Dublin Bus two-tone green livery.
29/01/1988
Retrato de antes de que llegase la revolución a mi vida. Es una declaración de intenciones: quiero volver a una de mis redes sociales favoritas y dedicarme otra vez a mi mayor afición (la fotografía).
I've always liked NS's SD60's and while I have shot alot of them it seems like lately each might be the last. The Macon, GA area has been a last redoubt for the this vanishing class but it seems alot have been heading north towards potential rebuilding or storage in Altoona. Hopefully these two will return back south but atleast they got to make one more over the road run if not. NS 322 cresting the grade at Braswell, GA in Run 8, video link here: youtu.be/ZgeuCSFa-hg
Yesterday's post shows this rail fan extra with Erie Lackawanna E8's 816 and 823 crossing RT17K in Montgomery, NY. Today we are a couple of hundred yards to the south at Clinton St. where the station was. It appears the extra has paused for a bit. Maybe for a fan photo line. It also appears a few chasers were on hand.
I could be wrong, but in front of the station, it appears to have some sort of tilt order board signal.
I myself had several of my early chases as a passenger in a 1963 2 door Plymouth Fury like the one in the photo. It had 318 "big block" and push a button transmission. It was fast and rode as smooth as glass.
Montgomery, NY
Date and photographer unknown.