Contributions of the group Transportation

Classic Car

nobody@ipernity.com (Joe, Son of the Rock) — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:33:43 +0000

Hillman Imp, Riverside Museum, Glasgow

Mao was here

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:19:08 +0000

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Feng Shang Princess is a hand‑crafted floating pagoda restaurant moored on Regent’s Canal at Cumberland Basin, close to Regent’s Park and London Zoo, and was built in the 1980s as one of London’s earliest Chinese boat eateries. Its striking red, three‑tiered silhouette, strung with lanterns, has turned it into a small local landmark, much photographed from the towpath and favoured by canal strollers. As a bit of trivia, guests reach the restaurant via a narrow gangplank from Prince Albert Road, and some report that, on quiet evenings, sounds from the nearby zoo carry across the water into the dining room.

Locomotive Repair Facility, Bailey Yard, North Platte

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:21:20 +0000

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Taken at the Bailey Yard, the largest railway freight-handling yard in the world. Located in North Platte, Nebraska.

Taken from their viewing tower ($$), in hopes that you can try to get a feel for the huge place.

According to their visitor information:

"The fueling and service center processes more than 9,000 locomotives each month"

Image processed with GIMP.

Many Tracks, Bailey Yard, North Platte

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:50:13 +0000

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Taken at the Bailey Yard, the largest railway freight-handling yard in the world. Located in North Platte, Nebraska.

Taken from their viewing tower ($$), in hopes that you can try to get a feel for the huge place.

Many tracks in the foreground, but there are many more beyond them in the distance.

PiP includes a link to a map of the yards. (Photo taken from tower located bottom center of the map)

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Our Orange Coupé in Cuba

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:50:04 +0000

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This is my mum, my brother and me in front of the entrance to the Sierra Maestra residential complex in Havana, where we lived in the early 1980s. Our pride was the car in the foreground: a beautifully designed orange Škoda 110 R coupé, built in Czechoslovakia between 1970 and 1980. In Cuba, where the streets were dominated by gigantic, aging American cars from the 1940s and 1950s, this low, sporty silhouette looked wonderfully exotic and always attracted attention. For many people it was probably the closest thing to a Porsche they had ever seen driving past their front door. For us it was just the family car, quietly threading our everyday life into the larger history of that time and place. We eventually sold it in Havana – and I still sometimes wonder if it might somehow be surviving on the Cuban roads today.

Where Shipyards Became Skyline

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:07:59 +0000

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Göteborg’s riverfront looks calm, but it is one of those places where Swedish urban history hides in plain sight: the red Eriksberg crane is not decoration but a survivor of the shipyard era that once defined the city’s global identity. The bridge and open water suggest space, yet this is really a corridor of movement—ships, workers, trade, ferries, and daily crossings compressed into one quiet view. What seems like empty foreground is actually the Göta älv, the artery that made Göteborg matter. The photo catches the city between functions: no longer purely industrial, not merely picturesque, but still shaped by labour, logistics, and memory.

Along the canal

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:37:16 +0000

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Walking along the Regent’s Canal from Camden, the zoo lies on the left as the towpath reaches a striking mesh structure above the trees: the former Snowdon Aviary, now London Zoo’s “Monkey Valley”. Here the canal forms part of the zoo’s edge, with fences and enclosures dropping to the water so walkers and boat passengers can glimpse animals, while narrowboats between Camden and Little Venice often point out this landmark.

Designed in the early 1960s by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon, it opened in 1965 as Britain’s first walk‑through aviary and became a key work of London modernism. Now Grade II* listed, it used tensioned cables and light mesh to create an unusually open space where visitors moved on raised walkways while birds flew freely around them, a strikingly immersive idea for its time.

Riverside Museum

nobody@ipernity.com (Joe, Son of the Rock) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:25:53 +0000

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Glasgow

Union Pacific Big Boy #4023 (H.A.N.W.E.)

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:58:51 +0000

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Well, we finally saw all of the Big Boy's that are displayed in static. (Of course, we have shared photos of the operating locomotive 4014).

This unit is located on a hill in Omaha, Nebraska, overlooking the river and interstate. Quite a climb to get up to the viewing area.

The day we visited is was raining on and off, but there was just a sliver of blue sky to be seen.

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swansongrp.com/P/p/rail_narrative/x4023_static

Wayback Machine

nobody@ipernity.com (honeyj) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:09:08 +0000

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Hey Burt, what's up?
You ready to go time traveling, Ernie?
In this beauty? Absolutely. I've been thinking about Lavene all day.
What about her?
The alimony. Here's the plan: I go back in time; maybe a certain conversation never happens. Presto! No more alimony!
I see. You're putting a lot of faith in the time machine, aren’t you, buddy?
The multiverses are out there, man. Theoretically speaking, of course.
You can always hope.
I do. Desperately.
No time to lose then.
Hit it.

On a boat

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:58:21 +0000

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This is a childhood photo of me, taken by my late father. It was captured not far from our home, on the banks of the Danube—more precisely, along an anabranch used by a canoeing club and for mooring smaller boats and old wrecks.

Don't Look Now

nobody@ipernity.com (honeyj) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:02:27 +0000

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How long do you think I can balance?
I'm not sure of the minimum; but I know the maximum.
Yeah? What's that?
When the next train gets here.
There's a train?
Don't bother to look. You'll feel it soon enough.

Helensburgh Train Emerging from a Tunnel and Approaching Platform 8, Queen Street Railway Station

nobody@ipernity.com (Joe, Son of the Rock) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:56:39 +0000

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Glasgow

The Digital Age

nobody@ipernity.com (honeyj) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:06:01 +0000

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What are we doing here, Lou?
We're waiting for the shipment.
Here?
It'll cruise right under that bridge.
And then what?
They'll send a signal.
How?
Over the radio.
What radio?
The one in your. . . where's the radio? I told you to grab it!
That thing was a radio? I thought you meant bring the lunch!
Lunch? The damn radio is still in the car? Are you shitting me?
Look! I made tuna and green onions. Just the way you like it! Cookies too. see?
Gimme that! Now go get the damn radio.
Just don't eat it all, ok?
Get going, doofus! We miss the shipment, you'll be worrying about more than a tuna sandwich.
Ok, but at least leave me a cookie.
Go!
Cookie?
Ok! Jesus!
Awesome.

Commuter

nobody@ipernity.com (honeyj) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:11:49 +0000

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Hi Edna. I'm in the car. Would you call the office for me, please?
Sure, Stanley. What's the matter?
Oh, the track, I mean freeway! It's backed up, and I'm running a little behind the pack. I mean I'm running late!
Ok, well don't try and speed to get there.
In this old bucket? No way. Easy does it.
Good. I love to hear you talk responsibly.
That's me, all right. Slow and steady. By the way, I gotta stop on the way home to fill up on jet fuel. I mean gas!
Ok.

Movement

nobody@ipernity.com (honeyj) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:48:44 +0000

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Whatcha doin', Carl?
Hey Vern. I'm keeping my eye on this thing.
How come?
Gotta make sure it don't move.
What? Carl, it's been here for like 140 years. It ain't gonna move.
You got it. Because I'll be right here makin' sure it don't.
Well, call me if anything changes.
Oh, you'll hear about it. Definitely.
Good to know.

A Scene on Brahmaputra

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:47:07 +0000

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This photograph was taken in Guwahati, the capital of Assam, India, on an older iPhone. We were staying with our friends Manna and Yuveka. It had been raining all day, and when the rain eased a little we went out to see the town. Down by the banks of the Brahmaputra – a huge, majestic and muddy river – I took a few shots of the boatmen. I don’t know their stories, unfortunately; I can only guess that these are small transport or fishing canoes. If anyone knows more about life on the river here, I would be very glad to hear their experiences.

Queen Street Railway Station

nobody@ipernity.com (Joe, Son of the Rock) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:00:35 +0000

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Glasgow

Life on the water

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:17:15 +0000

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How lovely how this feels like a memory from Vietnam itself: the nón lá silhouettes, the river and the soft haze are kept intact, while the gentle scars of expired film and age give the scene an almost dreamlike authenticity rather than a ‘perfect’ digital look.

Candy Bomber (on smartphone)

nobody@ipernity.com (m̌ ḫ) — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:18:01 +0000

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The airplane mounted on the roof of the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin is a Douglas C‑47, the military transport version of the Douglas DC‑3. It is dramatically fixed above the entrance on a steel structure, so it appears to be flying over the city. This placement turns the aircraft into a striking landmark and an immediate visual link to Berlin’s aviation past.

The C‑47 recalls the Berlin Airlift of 1948–1949, when such planes — nicknamed “Raisin Bombers” or “Candy Bombers” — flew supplies into blockaded West Berlin and sometimes dropped sweets for children. As an exhibit, it represents both technological progress and the political history of the Cold War, symbolizing international solidarity during the blockade and the vital role of air transport in sustaining the city.