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Not many people will know that the B&O had a 1/4 mile of street running in Canton Ohio. But it existed for almost 100 years. It was along the south side of Navarre Rd. I recently made a program covering the B&O CT&V (Cleveland Terminal & Valley) subdivision for the B&O Historical Society, It gave me a good excuse to revisit pictures of the line with my Dad and talk about the research he had done over the years. Quite a few of his pictures were included but I won't post them on my feed. Someday I'll make one of his own.
In my time of being around Canton there was one customer on the street that received loaded box cars of lumber. The warehouse was on the corner of Navarre Rd and Cleveland Ave and only big enough to hold one car at a time. The switch into the lumber yard was a street car style switch but one where a peg driven between the rails held the switch points tight against the rail. I was able to talk to one of the crewmen that worked the job at the meeting. He said they had a ball peen hammer to pound the peg out and back in after muscling the switch point over., Needless to say talking to the crew made the work preparing a presentation all the more worth it.
The Valley Road (Predecessor to the CT&V and B&O) arrived in Canton in 1880 following the west branch of Nimishillen Creek. Not long after arriving in town and getting permission to build across the Pittsburgh Ft Wayne, and Chicago (predecessor of NS, Conrail, Penn Central and Pennsylvania), they realized they wanted a presence in the commercial area about a mile to the east of McKinley tower where they crossed the Ft. Wayne line. There were numerous businesses in the area and that is where the Pennsy predecessor had built a freight house 30 years earlier. It's also where the narrow gauge Connotten Valley had a freight house. The CV was the Valley Road's competitor in the lucrative Cleveland to Canton market. The problem was that there was no available land for about the first 1/4 mile. The railroad's solution was to put their crew to work on a Sunday installing a track down the side of Navarre Rd thinking there would be no way to get an injunction to stop them. It worked and on Monday they resumed construction on available land to finish the spur. In the 1800's railroads were one of the most important businesses going and anything that happened on a railroad was reported in the newspaper. The Canton Repository has a regular weekly feature of "Through the Century" where they study the paper from 100 years before and write a paragraph summary. Railroad info was a frequent topic in the 1980's since both the Valley Rd and Conotten Valley arrived in Canton within one month of each other in March 1880. Dad would see the short paragraph and then go to the library and read the original articles.
Here we see the Canton turn curving off of the west end of the street running at McKinley Ave with one box car in Feb 1975.
It's Fun Fact Friday, folks! And today's edition of the National Parks Traveler features a contribution from the Caldera Chronicles, a weekly feature produced by collaboration by scientists and the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
Today's article is all about how the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone came into being. Granted, it's not like the Grand Canyon of Arizona, but it's a pretty cool (and colorful) place all on it's own, "Stretching from the Lower Falls to the Tower Falls area, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is about 28 km (17 miles) long, 250–350 meters (820–1150 feet) deep, and 450–1200 meters (1500–4000 feet) across. It appears to be a surprisingly young feature of the region, having mostly formed during and immediately following the last ice age, within the past 20,000 years or so. "
You can read more about this and view the video by clicking on the link below:
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/01/grand-story-yellows...
This shot was captured looking opposite from where my tripod and camera were aimed (which was toward the Lower Falls during sunrise). The photo was taken during my autumn 2019 visit to Yellowstone National Park. I'd wanted to see the Lower Falls area back during the summer of 2018, as I made my way from TX to WA, but the crowds were horrendous and there was absolutely no place to park - seriously, every single parking space was filled. On the other hand, this visit resulting in these images was great - definitely no crowds.
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Mayakovskaya (Russian: Маяковская), is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line, in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow.
The name as well as the design is a reference to Futurism and its prominent Russian exponent Vladimir Mayakovsky. Considered to be one of the most beautiful in the system, it is a fine example of pre-World War II Stalinist Architecture and one of the most famous Metro stations in the world. It is most well known for its 34 ceiling mosaics depicting "24 Hours in the Land of the Soviets." During World War II, it was used as a command post for Moscow's anti-aircraft regiment.
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St. Anne's Church (Polish: Kościół św. Anny) is a church in the historic center of Warsaw, Poland, adjacent to the Castle Square, at Krakowskie Przedmieście 68. It is one of Poland's most notable churches with a Neoclassical facade. The church ranks among Warsaw's oldest buildings. Over time, it has seen many reconstructions, resulting in its present-day appearance, unchanged since 1788. Currently it is the main church parish of the academic community in Warsaw.
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I want to thank Yahoo and Flickr for the great features this past weekend on (theweeklyflickr) and (yahooscreen). It has been incredible to see the results of this feature with over 1.5 million views on the video interview and the thousands of messages and mails asking about the wellbeing of the little Syrian refugee girl. I just wanted to say here that for all who are concerned, I found out that Reem has been reunited with members of her own family and that we cannot forget that there are so many other child and adult refugees in the world who are in need of our awareness and attention. It can all start with something as simple as how we think to make this world a better place. I am grateful for the warmth and kindness that this post and feature have promoted.
The Moscow International Performing Arts Centre was officially opened on September 28, 2003 with the debut of a new orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia under musical director Vladimir Spivakov. Also known as the Moscow International House of Music (Dom Muzyki), it is situated on the Kosmodamianskaya Embankment off the Garden Ring Road.
The architects were Yury Gnedovsky, Vladilen Krasilnikov, Dmitry Solopov, Margarita Gavrilova, and Sergey Gnedovsky of Krasniye Kholmy Russian Cultural-business Centre and Tovarishestvo Teatralniy Arkhitekturov. The project won the Khrustalny Dedal architectural award at the XI All-Russian Zodchestvo festival. The first stone was laid on September 7, 2000 by Spivakov and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. The Turkish firm Enka Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. constructed the centre. The centre cost US$200 million to construct, and was financed entirely by the City of Moscow. It was the first classical music hall constructed in the city in over a century. It is part of a business and hotel complex called Riverside Towers, intended by the City to be its equivalent of Lincoln Center.
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And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
- Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
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I love Vegas, but there are three things I miss most about Cincinnati, old friends, Madtree IPA, and the spring blooms at Cincinnati Zoo (and Cincinnati Zoo in general). In case anyone is interested, my latest blog is the weekly feature on Innovation Excellence,
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last night we had tornadoes and torential rain and flooding, but of course a mamma is kinda like the postal service: neither rain, nor snow, blah blah blah... so despite the crazy weather I was out playing chauffer, driving my daughter to a friend's house to spend the night. and as long as I'm out I might as well drive around with the camera a bit, right?
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