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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 85 older comments, and then…
  • Nathan Gilmer said:
    These pictures are great. I am really happy that the Library of Congress is doing this.
  • shira said:
    Wonderful photo! Ditto, I am happy LC is doing this. I was 1 month old when this was taken, in Illinois to boot, and this scene brings back fond memories. The more railroad pictures you post, the better! Bravo and thank you.
  • Niels Koopmans said:
    What a fantastic serie of beautiful photos. Fantastic that the Library of Congress is doing this. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)
  • Thomas Hobbs said:
    This is a real treasure of the public domain. I think it is fantastic to make these available through Flickr, the best photo sharing site around. It is a shame they have not uploaded the full resolution images. The LOC's own site will often have 20MB scans of these photos. I've made some beautiful prints of New York's Penn Station from there.
  • John Sayers said:
    Thomas, the link to the persistent URL in the description area will take you to a high-resolution version of the image. Good luck!

What would happen if Clones was cloned???

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 15 older comments, and then…
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    A wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh The birds sang in the wet trees And I listened to them it was a hundred years from now And I was dead and someone else was listening to them. But I was glad I had recorded for him The melancholy.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    31 August 1959 was a Monday . . .
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The 1925 concrete roundhouse has survived. In 2008 via tarboat And earlier, in 1954 via Ernies Railway Archive
  • beachcomber australia said:
    GoogleGlimpse - goo.gl/maps/1PQ91Gr7UTjJ8PBT7
  • John Spooner said:
    In 1852 it was foreseen that the junction at Clones would enable not great things in stimulating trade and industry not only in the areas crossed by the lines and the regions linked by the lines but also bring great prosperity to Belfast (and everyone would live happily ever after). At any rate, that was the opinion of Belfast News-Letter onWednesday 15 December 1852
    That these designs will be realised we have not the slightest doubt when we consider what sort of link "The Belfast and West of Ireland Junction Railway" will really form in the great iron net-work of the North. At Clones, it will catch the traffic brought down by the Derry and Enniskillen line in one direction, and by the Sligo and Enniskillen extension in another. At the same point it will receive nutrition from another great " feeder," which will undoubtedly be in operation before long - we allude to the branch of the Great Midland from Mullingar to Cavan, and thence extended to Clones ; whilst along its entire length it will collect the traffic now in a state of rapid development throughout that considerable and fertile district which trends South-west from Armagh. To this hitherto unopened, or very imperfectly opened, region, it will impart a stimulus to manufacture and agriculture which will speedily enable it to rival the most favoured portions of the North-east; and whilst the line will have this beneficial effect on the country it traverses, it will throw the whole industrial result into Belfast, and thus materially add to the opulence, influence, and greatness of the Northern capital.

Beetles, points and Foynes.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    5 November 1968 was a Tuesday . . . Can we blame Guy Fawkes?!
  • derangedlemur said:
    Might be some bit of marshalling kit, what with the looped chain in the middle and the row of wheel ratchets on the rail.
  • derangedlemur said:
    It doesn't line up with the map very well. Maybe if it was flipped, though it's still not great even then. There may be some map between the Cassini and the modern that we need.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Railbrakes at Moyne plant, Foynes, Co. Limerick catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307570
  • Suck Diesel said:
    An Irish version of the "hump"?