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choo choo access

..yep, a train station converted to a hotel..

Terminal Station in Chattanooga, Tennessee is a former railroad station, once owned and operated by the Southern Railway, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The station was opened in 1909 and was the latest and largest station in Chattanooga’s history. The original Chattanooga Union Station, built in 1858, (demolished in 1973) was outgrown by the rapid expansion in the railroad network serving Chattanooga. A second station, built in 1882, was outgrown in only six years. In 1888, an old freight depot was converted to a passenger facility, while three other depots handled commercial and industrial traffic.

As the railroad industry declined in the 1950s and 1960s, passenger traffic dwindled, and the last passenger train, The Birmingham Special, left Terminal Station in 1970. In 1972, local businessmen bought the building, renamed it the Chattanooga Choo Choo after the song, and began rehabilitating the building. Today, the 24-acre (97,000 m2) complex is a convention center, hotel and resort with restaurants and shops. Hotel guests can stay in half of a restored passenger railway car. Dining at the complex includes the Gardens restaurant in the Terminal Station itself (enclosed passenger loading platform), The Station House (which is housed in a former baggage storage, but on original building plans is designated as “Mail Sorting Facility”) and the “Dinner in the Diner” which is the complex’s fine dining venue, housed in a restored 1938 Class A dining car. Some parts of the complex are connected by a heritage streetcar line, operated by a 1924-built ex-New Orleans Perley Thomas trolley car.(wiki)

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union station

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delta bow

..view from the front part of the ship..

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calliope

..the ship’s calliope..

A calliope  is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or more recently compressed air, through large whistles, originally locomotive whistles. (wiki)

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detour

..rounding up (what i think are) my best posts for last year..

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525

..525 West Monroe,  spotted while walking towards the bus stop..

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the eye

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balls

..christmas ornaments in union station..

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red line

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i believe..

..i ran out of titles already..

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moleman series: wisdom & knowledge

..moleman’s take on this post..

*oh, that blur on the right? that’s me.. i had the camera flat on it’s back to get this.. 🙂

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group of four trees

Group of Four Trees, 1969-72
Artist
Jean Dubuffet
Location
The Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, off Pine Street, between Nassau and William Streets.
Description
Group of Four Trees is a black and white sculpture standing just in front of the black and white Chase Manhattan Bank building. The similarities between the sculpture and building, however, stop there. The building’s straight lines and evenly-spaced rows of windows stand in contrast to the irregular surfaces of Group of Four Trees. The forms of the trees are made up of a series of varying planes, all white, and connected together by thick black outlines. The trees’ canopies lean in different directions, and the heights of the four trees are all different, making the viewer’s eye move all around the sculpture, following the many lines that are present.(source)
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one chase plaza

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keyhole

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42nd & 2dor

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magic kingdom

..something cheery after yesterday‘s post..

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10001

..long time no moleman.. here’s one..

The James A. Farley Building is the main post office building in New York City. Its ZIP code designation is 10001. Built in 1912, the building is famous for bearing the inscription: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. In 1982, the post office was officially designated ‘”The James A. Farley Building'”, as a monument and testament to the political career of the nation’s 53rd Postmaster General. The Farley Post Office is home to “Operation Santa,” made famous in the classic 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street. (wiki)

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jobs

..steve jobs..

(well, that’s what i initially thought of when i saw this guy)

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5ptz

..last i heard, the artists were having problems staying here, but from their web site it looks like they’re staying, and will be open in spring..

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whitewashed

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hearst

..today’s cold, cloudy, dull and lifeless.. totally affecting my mood.. so here’s today’s post.. a building that reminds me of toblerone (i say that in a good way).. but seriously, it’s a beautiful piece of architecture.. so shiny and all..

Hearst Tower in New York City, New York is located at 300 West 57th Street, 959 8th Avenue, near Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan. It is the world headquarters of the Hearst Corporation, bringing together for the first time their numerous publications and communications companies under one roof, including among others Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle. (wiki)

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tudor security cam

..the Tudor Hotel was running short on surveillance cams, I sorta offered my services.. 😉

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swirly rock

..30 rock in holiday mode, more at flickr..

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festive but empty

..early morning + sub zero temps = empty nyc..

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the walls are coming down..

..same place where i got this, just took a few steps forward.. it’s not a great place to stand if you’re claustrophobic.. 😉

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one beacon court

One Beacon Court (also called the Bloomberg Tower), is a skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. in the lower floors and luxury condominiums in the higher floors. It is located at 731 Lexington Avenue between East 58th and 59th streets. (wiki)

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post no bills

Madison Equities, headed by Robert Gladstone, emerged in the 1970’s as one of Manhattan’s more adventurous developers, and this is its flagship, a Post-Modem building of considerable originality.

It is also the one of the best New York buildings by Kohn Pedersen Fox, a New York-based architectural firm that since the beginning of the 1980’s has been The best high-rise architectural firm in the nation, although it is far from that firm’s best work, which reflects only the terrible restrictive and inane building and zoning regulations of New York. (more)

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queensboro

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tram

..well, what can i say, i’m still sleepy.. 🙂

..this looks like a crossbow, right? 🙂

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lower half

..well, the halloween parade series is now over, but i think i still have about a hundred more to dump in my flickr site..

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spire

..as close a shot as i can of the empire’s spire..

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shadows and flags

Louise Nevelson Plaza on Maiden Lane is the first public place to be named after an artist in New York. Nevelson was an eccentric, exotic soul whose work can be found all over the city. Most of her sculpture is “found” art: bits of wood and metal painted black and bound together. This park is all hers: Shadows and Flags, (1977) 40 feet high, is made up of 7 sculptures of Cor-ten steel painted black. (description from wallyg’s flickr)

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empire lobby

..had to take a snap as fast as i could to get this to avoid being jostled by the masses.. 🙂

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grand central subs

..an empty 7 train platform..

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crooked and curved

..why not take the stairs once in a while..

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trigun

..that’s a title i took from one of the anime/manga series that i really liked..

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shwing..

..after a short hiatus, it’s back to regular programming.. i’m hitting the sack though, i’m pretty much worn out now.. 🙂

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moleman series: conservatory water

..y’all know that i like going wide when shooting, so from this, to this, we now get this image up there..

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fifth and infinity

..what exactly are you looking at right here? it’s midtown, and that long road going upward from the bottom right frame is fifth avenue..

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crash into me

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moleman series: fulton

..well, sad to say, terry h, the dance series is over.. ;D so it’s back to the usual random post..

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moleman series: beaver street

..a change of pace from all these parade images..

..no beavers here..

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moleman series: flatiron

..several people looked up to see what i was shooting at, little did they know that i was shooting “it all”.. 🙂

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moleman series: chase plaza (sinkhole)

..captured at the same time and place where i got this.. trying to visualize some ideas that have been simmering in my head for quite some time.. there’ll be more to come from this place.. 🙂

..on a different note, the lakers lost game 3.. argh..

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void

..yesterday and today’s image got me thinking about a new theme that’s cold and metallic.. let’s see how long i can keep this up..

..this here’s taken while i was rummaging the trash for foodies, i’m a freegan.. didn’t you know that? hehe..

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moleman series: grand central terminal

..shifting gears from “earth week” (those nature-oriented photos i’ve been putting up lately) and going back to the thing i like most, concrete.. 😀 here’s another take of grand central terminal.. previous one is found here..

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moleman series: chase plaza

..i always seem to end my stroll sitting down in this place..

..same place where i shot this using a 15mm fisheye..

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moleman series: st. paul’s chapel (innards)

..from here, let’s go inside..

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moleman series: saint patrick’s cathedral (facade)

..what better way for a seasonal easter sunday post than this shot of the saint patrick’s cathedral a la moleman..
..amazing what a few steps and a different angle could do to change how an image looks.. the reason why i had this one tilted so high up is because of the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, it just doesn’t look right..so for this one, i tried covering it up with light trails which seemed to do the trick.. (i guess)

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moleman series: times square II

..on a whim, here’s another one from the moleman series.. i could’ve named this the sewer rat series.. i think that sounds better.. hmm..