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For those curious, this aircraft is being restored to flying condition in Salem Oregon. They took it down in 2014, but I did see it at this station and bought gas there from time to time until then.

b17alliance.com/history

Station gone. Hat and Boots repainted moved to nearby park

Building still there remodeled for a different business.

Great historical collection!

Helen Czech, per a newspaper article digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm...

d156156156 Thanks for the information! The article states that she flew from Whitehorse to Edmonton because women weren't allowed on the Alaska Highway (very strange, considering many women were involved with the construction of said highway) but doesn't state how she got from Edmonton to Winnipeg. There are other articles that mention support teams so perhaps she travelled in a support vehicle.

Some good information about the scouts and the crash here - www.greatwarforum.org/topic/213990-air-accident-dublin-19...

Here's the account of the presentation of the Silver Cross to the scouts which appeared in the Irish Times on 5th December 1919

A Lt. Goodnoh was placed 2nd in the 220yds at the Royal Air Force (Ireland) Sports held at Landsdowne road on Saturday 9th August 1919 (Dublin Daily Express - Monday 11 August 1919).

John Spooner beachcomber australia Thanks, both of you. Never mind a Silver Cross. They should have been given all the badges! And every Camp ever after must have been very dull affairs by comparison.

According to RAF records, Scott Tracey Goodnoh, born about 1894, service date 17th June 1917.

Further delving finds 6-year-old Scott T Goodnoh in the 1900 US census, in Hartford, Connecticut, and 17-year-old American Scott Goodnoh in Quebec in the Canadian 1911 census. Finally in Canadian death registers, Scott Goodnoh died aged 97 on 4/7/1991 in Montreal.

John Spooner Unusual names are yer only man. Goodnoh is a little easier than air mechanic Gray?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Indeed. Scott Tracey Goodnoh became a dentist. Here's his entry in the 1926 McGill University yearbook

John Spooner Excellent. Home cooking. And "Efficiency, man, efficiency".

You probably already knew there is a photo on the next page of the album of "Lieut: Goodnoh R.A.F., Air Craftsman Gray (Taken at Gormanston Aerodrime)." Goodnoh on the left.

See Image 20 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000535308

Could it be an MGWR train?

www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/ourservices/planning/conservation...

Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes) Certainly could. We're in Westmeath. And is that MGW on the sides of the nearest car?

The world has always been a very dangerous place, although teeming with UNRECOGNIZED UNACKNOWLEDGED beauty. B/o the hominids. Will this ever change before it's too late?

Athlone-Mullingar-Dublin was double track at this time.

Athlone-Clara-Tullamore was not MGW.

Mullingar-Longford was double track.

It could be the Clara branch from Streamstown junction, or the Cavan branch North of Inny Junction.

The vulnerability of the local railways was demonstrated in the early hours of 9 November 1922, when anti-Treaty IRA units burned down the signal cabins at Streamstown, Castletown Geoghegan, and Horseleap on the main line of the Midland Great Western Railway. On the same night, the anti-Treaty IRA used explosives to destroy rail lines at a place called Ballinabarna Bridge between Moate and Streamstown, before commandeering a train. They set the train moving towards Athlone before jumping from the engine. Fortunately, it did not meet any other traffic on the line and came to a stop about two kilometres from Athlone.

A more serious incident followed on Sunday 14 January 1923 when an anti-Treaty IRA unit removed a long section of the railway track on the Streamstown-to-Moate line, at a point in which the line ran over a high embankment and across a bridge. Afterwards, the armed men went to Streamstown station where they boarded a goods train, towing 25 waggons and a second engine from Mullingar to Athlone. At gunpoint, they forced the driver and crew to disembark and then sent the train towards Moate. When it reached the bridge, the point at which the tracks had been removed, the engine crashed into the embankment and most of the carriages were derailed.

Despite the damage, railway workers repaired the line within a day although the Westmeath Examiner reported that the repair crews were ‘approached by unknown persons’, presumably members of the anti-Treaty IRA, who warned them that their efforts were futile. Such threats were, seemingly, common at that time and newspapers reported that multiple drivers and firemen working for the Midland Great Western Railway had received notices warning them not to convey National Army troops. Threats turned to actions on Tuesday 16 January when armed men ripped up another section of the track before hijacking a train travelling between Clara and Mullingar, They subsequently derailed that train by running it over the section of damaged track.

Suggests the Clara to Streamstown stretch is likely

Tentatively changing date to Tuesday, 16 January 1923 then.

The engine is a MGWR Class D (Bogie)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGWR_Class_D-bogie

Was launched from Launch Complex 11. Because of a problem with the yaw gyro motor, which was not running, it broke up at the forward end of the LOX tank at T+43 seconds. To prevent a recurrence of this, Convair developed the Spin Motor Rotation Detection system, a collection of sensors designed to ensure proper gyroscope operation and which would prevent the launch if the motors were not running at the proper speed. It was not fully phased into Atlas vehicles until 1961 however

I guess this is Toulouse but cannot find a matching historic photo.

This is a pre-production bus. Not the canvas is painted on and it has manufacturer's plates.

Dates of this tour vary in the text description. Some photos say May 23, 1972 (Tuesday) and others say May 25, 1972 (Thursday). To be consistent, tour photos have been tagged May 25. Corrections are welcomed.

CF's Presdient, Mr. White, died about two years after these photos.

This should be rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise, if possible,

See comment on this image:

The desk calendar in this series of photos says, "January 15, 1972." Text description for this image says, "RX-2 - AM 05/25/1972." I think this photo is supposed to be a Manual Open Bulb series image. Your corrections are welcomed. The employee may be writing a manual.

Text says 1972 but sign in the pickup bed says 1974. Image was tagged 1974. Corrections welcomed.

We saw a dog cart before in Brussels, but it was a different one.

24 July 1901 was a Wednesday ...
Ed. Ooops! 24 June 1901 was a Monday ....

Previously in Brussels -

I tried "Google lens" on the building but it was not able to make a match

Nice Dog

Nowadays you only see them in the cars.

glessew
They have taken over

Suck Diesel so true !

I have not got anywhere using GoogleMaps3D, yet. Some clues for Belgian sleuths (Monsieur Poirot ?!) -

The south-facing terrace of town houses seem to have private front gardens, rare in Brussels. Ideal for growing brussels sprouts.

The thing on the right looks very like contemporary tram stop shelters, meaning there is a tram line nearby.

From the NLI catalogue on the same day (with the help of Google Lense), catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000522171 is a view towards the Church of Our Lady of the Chapel from the Palais de Justice - maps.app.goo.gl/3uMgaYiia3uPxL21A

And catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000522166 is the Place Royale, which is unfortunately fogged out on Google Maps -
maps.app.goo.gl/eqGapvxhaYj9mTpB9

Other clues? I bet derangedlemur and O Mac will know. And Sharon Corbet if you are watching ...

Traipsed all over Brussels with (less foggy) Bing 3D - no luck and me feet are killing me.

As an aside, why are we so sure this is Brussels in the first place?

"And we're off to Lisdoonvarna at the end of the year.
We're off for a bit of craic, the women and the beer.
I'm awful nifty for a man of fifty..
Catch me if you can, my name is Dan and I'm your man!"😄

Thank you for all the congratulatory messages!

And now it has a whole new career on the BBC programme "Traitors - Ireland" which was based there...

Thanks again Chuck!
Stig