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Cape Town Image: Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station artwork

23 January 2019 By Alan Leave a Comment

A Cape Town Rhodes Memorial tagged image from photographer – Tim Evanson as published on Flickr.

Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station artwork
Rhodes Memorial
Image by Tim Evanson

Neon artwork titled "The Glory of the Chinese Descendants" by Foon Sham, an artist from Virginia. Located at the 7th and H Street entrance of the at Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station in Washington, D.C., the artwork is is made out of sealed wood, frosted plexiglass, and neon. Funded by Metro and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the artwork is a memorial to the people of Asian descent who settled D.C.’s current Chinatown.

The Gallery Place station opened on December 15, 1976. The Red Line from Farragut North to Rhode Island Avenue was the first segment of Metro to open, and did so on March 27, 1976. Gallery Place opened nine months late due to a lawsuit over the lack of handicap access. The Yellow Line platform opened on April 30, 1983. Green Line service began on May 11, 1991 (although at that time the Green Line consisted of a three-station run from Gallery Place to U Street/Cardozo).

"Chinatown" was added to the station name in 1986.

On November 3, 2011, Metro’s Board of Directors voted to strip the station of the "Chinatown" name, and return the name to just "Gallery Place."


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Cape Town Image: Station by the Sea

15 November 2018 By Alan Leave a Comment

A Cape Town Muizenberg tagged image from photographer – mikecogh as published on Flickr.

Station by the Sea
Muizenberg
Image by mikecogh


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Cape Town Image: Locomotive no 3655 at Fish Hoek Station – built 1948

3 November 2018 By Alan Leave a Comment

A Cape Town Fish Hoek tagged image from photographer – DanieVDM as published on Flickr.

Locomotive no 3655 at Fish Hoek Station – built 1948
Fish Hoek
Image by DanieVDM

Info from www.atlanticrail.co.za/class24.php
The locomotive in use at Atlantic Rail is No. 3655 (Builder’s Number: NBL 26367) and was originally used in the then South West Africa (now Namibia). After being withdrawn from service there, she was used at the Paarden Eiland / Belville. Later, 3655 was moved to Touws River in the Karoo for use on the Ladismith branch line until that was shut down. 3655 was then left idle and unused in Touws River until she was donated to Cape Western Vintage Railways who restored her. 3655 has now been leased by Atlantic Rail from Cape Western Vintage Railways and Atlantic Rail has taken over responsibility for maintaining her.

The tender is of the ‘Vanderbilt’ type, carried on two six wheel ‘Buckeye’ bogies.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Tractive Effort (75%) :123 kN (27600 lb)
Weight in Working Order :73 t (Loco) 56 t (Tender)
Cylinders :(2) 483 X 660 mm (19" X 26")
Tender Capacity :Coal 9 t Water 20500 l (4500 gal)
Coupled Wheels :1290 mm (4’3")
Boiler Pressure :1379 kPa (200 psi)


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