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7 March 1968 was a Thursday ...

Easiest to see and follow the line of the disused railway using Google Satellite 3D - maps.app.goo.gl/JghBqiu9ZiX1iLGM9

The Silvermines line was a short branch of 1¼ miles, off the Ballybrophy – Killonan line, at Silvermines Jct, between Nenagh and Birdhill. It opened in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.

thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/ForgottenRailways/Silvermin...

youtu.be/L63o4poXAWQ?si=st_ed-tsPK0Kg4rm

via Fred Dean

Silvermines Junction (MP 35-1/4), the start of the short spur to the mines

Approx location of photo

maps.app.goo.gl/FkSpuNfJrGniiUUs6?g_st=ipc

Rail spur stars at Rossminane

“Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,
And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;
With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? —
Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars”

youtu.be/iOGymv6yiw4?si=nFadOAEbPXrzXeGq

There's another O Dea Silvermines photo that wasn't taken at Silvermines..Any ideas as to where it is?

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306822

Note odd looking fella wearing a dunces hat at the wall with his bicycle.

O Mac Here’s one taken same day

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000578005

Fenit branch

May 27, 1908 A garden party for the benefit of the New York Branch of the Army Relief Society will be held this afternoon on Governors Island. Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant will hold a reception

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The catalogue says Rathdowney, Co. Laois

"Thomas Prior (1680 – 21 October 1751) was an Irish author, known as the founder of the Royal Dublin Society."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prior

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000313113

Confirmed by the dib:
Prior, Thomas (1681–1751), founder of the Dublin Society and philanthropist, was born in Garrison House, Rathdowney, Queen's Co. (Laois)

www.dib.ie/biography/prior-thomas-a7508

There is a townland called Garrison near Erril, not a million miles west of Rathdowney, with just one house on the historic maps.

www.logainm.ie/en/28727

There is still a farm and farm buildings here, I can't tell if this house is still standing in some form: maps.app.goo.gl/rCErac7aHLivgaJEA

I am thinking about here, because of the prominent church spire in the background. Marked as a courthouse on the 25" map -
maps.app.goo.gl/TgRjJLjcybvMJsbg6

Or to be more precise, the long building with three asymmetrical chimneys seen in the satellite view - maps.app.goo.gl/mRphYQ3s5UNSccZv9

Is the spire the same? St Andrew's Church Rathdowney,
Via gudrunfromberlin

Still standing

www.facebook.com/laois.heritage.forum/photos/garrison-hou...

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Those prices seemed outrageous at the time.

Anyone recognize this engine as a Ford gasoline 534- or 477-cubic-inch V8? Definitely large and gasoline...

This appears to be taken about 1970 along First Avenue in San Diego. Addresses for:
Reiss Hotel 1432 1st Av.
Sands Cocktail Lounge 1434 1st Av.
Your corrections are welcomed.

Sorry about the following TMI.

This may be southbound San Diego Freeway/Montgomery Freeway. There used to be a pedestrian bridge from Balboa Park on the east side of the freeway to Balboa Stadium on the west side. This photo looks like it was shot from that bridge.

The guide sign above the onramp traffic appears to say, "Zoo, Balboa Park, USE US395 NORTH." The Wikipedia article on U.S.395 says it ended in San Diego until 1964. I think the date in the Wikipedia article may be off by 2-3 years. At bottom left of frame is a green 1967 Ford Mustang. This suggests the photo was taken in late 1966 or later. The green car at the right edge of frame appears to be a 1968 Pontiac Le Mans. Example:

Feel free to post corrections or data points.

Överlevde de i Ryssland och kom hem?

Apparent structural test failure. LE=left elevator?

Horizontal pantograph? Shoe picks up power to operate the Pearl Ridge car.

I don't know who identifies this as a Bell 47G, you or Rohr.
Whatever, it is wrong. The Chopper is a Hughes 269B!
Stig

Thank you to the historian who holds all of the Crown Firecoach historical records. I think this machine was built when they were still built in Los Angeles. This is serial number F-1579 and tags have been added to the photos to support searching. It's a 100-foot Maxim rear-mount steel ladder. It was Chula Vista Truck 1 and the 5271 on the rear may be a mutual aid number and radio callsign.

Based on the vehicles, my guess is this was shot in the early 1950s. The flat bed trucks and the pickup in the center row appear to be Chevrolet. There are two Chevrolet ~1948 cars in the center of the front row. I'm unsure about the tractors in the back row. They have an interesting assortment of material handling vehicles but I can't see any identifying information. The Chevrolet pickup could be a 49-51?

I see a wooden water tank at right of the crane and a flammable liquid tank at left of the large forklift.

Flickr users, please correct any of my mistakes.

Niall McAuley Would they pronounce that umlaut, do you think? So Poey, rhyming with Hoey, sort of?

The Double-Dot Diacresic Limerick

A gent called Sir Hutcheson Poë
Had trouble with vowels, so he
Sat in the garden,
Said, "I do beg your pardon,
When you've got to go, you've got to goë !"

Thanks swanq, I found some additional photos to confirm it shows Rev. Lea Luquer. We'll update the catalog record.