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Getting set to take the line token on the Dean Forest Railway. Austerity WD152 'Rennes' is the engine of the day.
"For the first five years after the bombing, a simple chain link fence surrounded the Murrah Building site, and from the earliest hours of the rescue and recovery operations, visitors posted messages and personal items on the fence. It became such a tradition to “visit the fence” in Oklahoma City that sections of the original fence were incorporated in the permanent Memorial, and guests still leave their convention nametags or hastily scrawled notes of hope there."
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A train driver gets a new token from the station master at Ohiya, Sri Lanka as the train arrives at the station February 2, 2012. Photo by Tim Chong
As far as I know none of these are used anymore. I was trying to remember the last time I was on the NYC subway, it was when we went to visit the Twin Towers in the mid 70's. I have been in Long Island Sound and on the East River in my sister and brother-in-laws boat a few times since but not in actual downtown. They are a nice place to visit but don't want to live there. I generally keep my distance from downtown big city America, I like the peaceful quiet of the woodlands and forests. I have collected these over the years myself, from friends, and I found a few in an ashtray of a used car I bought.
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An old(ish) Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (formerly Massachusetts Transit Authority) subway token, macro-ified. I used my 50mm 1.8 reverse-mounted onto 3 ebay extension tubes for a "poor man's macro."
This medallion issued for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee is about the size of a US/Canada quarter.