Unique Tow Trucks, Maintenance and Roadside Assistance Vehicles
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Illinois River barge handling facility, Lacon Illinois. This is some of my cheesy eye candy type stuff. Even Lee Friedlander did a little of this Kodak type stuff. Hey, the calendar people need images. :-)
This old rusted tow truck looks like it grabbed a car and got stuck in the field and time!
Used some filters for added interest!
Happy Truck Thursday!
Three towers intimately intermingle in the Lakeshore East area of Chicago's Loop. From left to right ... Swissotel Chicago, Aqua Tower and 303 East Wacker Drive.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 400, f/9.0, 35mm, 1/125s
As I searched around my house for things that might be ugli-eautiful, I found some nice old die cast metal cars. At that moment I found my Wabi-sabi thing.
Happy Macro Mondays
If you get stuck in the sand, mud or salt, this wonderful woman and her husband will come drag you out. Just make sure you have a credit card ready.
This tow was 8 miles from a paved road. Far outside AAA and other Roadside assistance programs coverage area.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
No need to comment – Just enjoy :-)
Found this beautiful golden colored tow truck -looks like it could be still in use but parked where it is probably more ornamental.
Happy Truck Thursday!
Whooping cranes on the Little Salt Marsh at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County, KS.
Whether you are involved in an accident through no fault of your own, or whether you carelessly run out of gas, or run aground, Sea Tow is there to bail you out. Hope the distressed person saved the phone number : )
BNSF westbound empty ethanol train U-MIIMXN7-28A (Mitchell, Illinois to Mina, South Dakota) passes the m/v Roberta Tabor at Trempealeau, Wisconsin. The southbound Tabor is holding at the usual waiting spot while another tow locks through Lock 6 northbound. Train details: Two units on the head end and a DPU on the rear, two loads (the buffer cars at each end), 108 empties, 5,068 tons, 6,585 feet.
Cetonia aurata (Goldglänzende Rosenkäfer, green rose chafer) Klosterneuburg, Niederösterreich, Austria.
Airline : TAP Air Portugal
Aircraft : Airbus A330-343
Registration : CS-TOW
Location : Miami International Airport
Date: January 26, 2018
Notes: "João Vaz Corte-Real - Portugal Stopover"
Architekt: Eugen Schmohl
1925–1927
Das Ullsteinhaus wurde zwischen 1925 und 1927 von der Huta Hoch- und Tiefbau AG errichtet. Architekt Schmohl hatte zuvor schon den Borsigturm in Tegel geplant. Vor der Fertigstellung des Gebäudes für den Ullstein Verlag verstarb er jedoch. Das Gebäude hieß ursprünglich Ullstein-Druckhaus, um es von den später im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörten Gebäuden des Ullstein-Verlages im seinerzeitigen Zeitungsviertel an der Kochstraße (seit 2008: Rudi-Dutschke-Straße) zu unterscheiden. Das Gebäude war Verlagssitz und Ort für die verlagseigene Druckerei. Hier wurden die Zeitschriften und Bücher hergestellt, die Zeitungen verblieben in der Kochstraße.
Das NS-Regime presste der jüdischen Verlegerfamilie den seinerzeit größten deutschen Verlag 1934 zu einem Spottpreis ab und versuchte, den Namen Ullstein aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein zu tilgen: Am 3. Mai 1935 wurde die am Ullsteinhaus anliegende Ullsteinstraße in Zastrowstraße[3] umbenannt, dieser Name blieb bis 21. Februar 1949 bestehen. 1937 wurde aus Ullstein der „Deutsche Verlag“ und das Ullsteinhaus hieß bis 1945 „Deutsches Haus“.[4]
Die 1934 enteignete Familie Ullstein erhielt ihren Besitz 1952 zurück. In den Jahren 1956/1957 wurde der ursprünglich nur bis zum zweiten Obergeschoss reichende Gebäudeteil an der Ullsteinstraße etwas erhöht und damit den übrigen Bauteilen angepasst. Die Ullstein-Erben verkauften bis 1960 größere Aktienpakete des Hauses an den Verleger Axel Springer. Dieser verkaufte bald danach das gesamte Gebäude, ließ jedoch noch bis 1985 Zeitungen und Zeitschriften hier drucken. Zwischen 1986 und einem von 1991 bis 1993 durch Gernot und Johanne Nalbach errichteten neungeschossigen Anbau zogen in das Geschäftshaus kleinere Gewerbe und Modefirmen ein. Die Nutzfläche des Erweiterungsbaus beträgt etwa 80.000 m²
Swedish Air Force Gulfstream S102B Korpen 102002/022 being towed South Side at Farnborough
Heavily modified from the Gulfstream GIV airframe, she's one of two on strength with 73 SIGINT Squadron acquired to replace their earlier TP85 Caravelles
In for attention at the Gulfstream facility she'd suffered some engine issues which were in the process of being ironed out
With grateful thanks to Farnboro' Radar :)
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Abandoned tow truck in Saline County, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/60-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle; the buildings are accessible by four bridges over the moat, which represent the ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain.
Many tiled alcoves were built around the plaza, each representing a different province of Spain. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are frequent backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, now used by visitors in the manner of a; Little Free Library. Each bookshelf often contains works with information about their province. Visitors have also donated favorite novels and other books for others to read.
Today the buildings of the Plaza de España have been renovated and adapted for use as offices for government agencies. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. Toward the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The most distant museum contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator. The 2023 Netflix series, Kaos, also featured scenes filmed at the Plaza.