namely increasing car use and congestion. We had the Buchanan Report which advocated full car ownership and residual public transport. A plan to build urban motorways and underground railways to replace the trams in Zürich was defeated by referendum, the legal process ...
As 2018 draws to a close, I still have three more Irish Class 201 diesel-electrics to feature as part of my on-going 20 year Irish Railways Retrospective! Next up in the queue is Irish Rail 232. In Spring 2017, this was the latest locomotive running around in fresh paint, and I’d ...
Irish Rail 215 at Kent Station, Cork. Lumix LX7 digital photo. Irish Rail 215 at Kent Station, Cork. Lumix LX7 digital photo. Contrast and saturation adjusted in post processing. Tracking the Light Posts Daily! Share this: Like this:LikeLoading... March 1, 20172 Comments Below are two vie...
The day was extraordinarily productive. Mike and I photographed trains on CSX, New England Central, Berkshire Scenic and Pan Am Railways, making it Millers Falls, the Hoosac Tunnel, and Washington Summit among other notable locations. My Fuji camera was acting strange. New England Central local f...
He even weighed in on letters to the editor, writing Sulzberger in the summer of 1951 to complain about a letter the Times had run on “Guatemala Labor Democracy” written by the artist Rockwell Kent, who Bernays said “has been a fellow traveler [Communist sympathizer] over a period of ...
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Smeaton also constructed theForth and Clyde Canalin Scotland, which opened a waterway between the Atlantic and the North Sea; built bridges atPerth, Banff, and Coldstream, Scot.; and completed the harbour atRamsgate, Kent. Smeaton took a leading part in the transition from wind-and-water to...