2010

This was also in Sidliste Haje, on the same path where I've taken a lot of other photos.

This is a detail shot of one of the trees on the path.

This is a Hindustan Ambassador taxi, probably built sometime between the 1950's and the 1980's, as the car was based on a Morris Oxford Series III upon its introduction in 1957, being built by Hindustan Motors in Uttarpara, India. The company had actually started in 1942, building other Morris copies, but upon the introduction of the Ambassador, no major design changes were attempted until the 1990's, when safety concerns forced a redesign. To this day, the cars remain in production in this newer, redesigned form, in spite of competition from Tata and, of course, the whole range of foreign cars which offer a higher level of performance and comfort. This Ambassador was on display in Praha Ruzyne airport, advertising flights to India.

This is a considerable edit and crop of a larger shot out the window of a car. I'm considering a re-edit, as well, since this shot appears to have too much contrast to be realistic. As far as I know, this is Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

This concrete viaduct is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and carries a railroad line over the Susquehanna River. Incidentally, this isn't the famous Rockville Bridge where an accident occurred (containers blown off a freight train in a blizzard) the day after I took this. That bridge is considerably north of this one, and stone, in addition to having three fewer arches. It probably isn't visible in this photo. Therefore, this would be the Philadelphia & Reading bridge, built in 1924 named for the railroad that built it, which became the Reading Company later that year, being merged into Conrail in 1976, passing to Norfolk Southern in the Conrail breakup of 1997, meaning that Norfolk Southern are the current operators. Visible behind this bridge in the water are the ruins of some piers from the South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, started, but never completed, in 1884.

This is an abandoned Ames store, which if I'm not mistaken is in Binghamton, NY. It really is a sign of the times when a semi-big-box store like Ames goes out of business. Ames was successful throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. from the 1950's through the 1990's, but eventually went out of business in 2002, in spite of having absorbed competitors like Zayre... www.flickr.com/photos/jarchie/3468192709/ In my area, most of the Ames stores of the 1990's had been Zayre stores in the 1980's. The fate of the company's old properties remains undetermined for the moment, although when I call this store "abandoned," I mean by the owner. I'm sure that there's someone somewhere who owns it and still wants to rent it out.

This is my latest, and maybe last, photo of a locomotive still in Conrail colors pulling a regular freight train. This is in PRR (in the sense of Norfolk Southern, I don't know historically speaking) territory near (or in) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Because I took this from a car it's slightly blurred and so I can't get the number, but I think that this locomotive is a GP38, as it has two radiator fans, and Conrail had few GP38-2's, and no SD38's (which would have longer frames anyway).