Picture in my town
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@george-k said in Picture in my town:
With all that being said, no one knows for sure why Hofmann built the tower. Some people believe it was a tribute to his wife who passed in 1902. Others say he was inspired by the bridge towers of Germany, his family’s homeland. A common assumption is that he simply constructed the tower as a tourist attraction.
I'm not sure whether you use the term in the US but in England, we call this kind of construction a 'folly'.
@doctor-phibes said in Picture in my town:
I'm not sure whether you use the term in the US but in England, we call this kind of construction a 'folly'.
Kinda like building a coast guard station in West Virginia.
We Americans call that "pork".
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@Mik said in Picture in my town:
Morning walk? Lovely.
Nah. Just some pics someone posted on FB. These are different days, of course. The second picture shows the bridge from which the first picture was taken.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in Picture in my town:
Morning walk? Lovely.
Nah. Just some pics someone posted on FB. These are different days, of course. The second picture shows the bridge from which the first picture was taken.
@George-K Beautiful pictures!
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
It was really foggy here last night.
Nice one! Very nice indeed!
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
Holy shit that's a great one.
Did you trainspot to get that one?
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
Holy shit that's a great one.
Did you trainspot to get that one?
@Aqua-Letifer not my picture!
Some guy in my town's FB group posted that.
I live on the BNSF "raceway." There are literally dozens and dozens of trains that pass through here every day. For example, the Metra (which you see in this photo) runs from Aurora to Chicago. There are 44 trains that make that trip, and the same number back west. That's 88 trains.
Add to that a dozen Amtrak trains (California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, Carl Sandburg ) for another 6.
We're up to 94 trains a day, and I haven't counted freights headed in and out of the Cicero yards.
I would guess there's about 150 trains a day coming through town.
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