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  • USRJ S3 Ep33 Millennium Park

    USRJ S3 Ep33 Millennium Park
    Oct 2 2024
    Millennium Park and the Lurie Garden - US Rail Journeys Series 3 Episode 33 'Millennium Park and the Lurie Garden' takes me through the streets of Chicago to this wonderful garden in the centre of the city. Please click on a thumbnail to see the photographs that go with this podcast: Through the streets: I'm now in the heart of The Loop, the 'downtown' area in Chicago. In every direction I look are the skyscrapers which last night had their tops hidden in the clouds. I'm see the amazing Carbide and Carbon building, built in 1929. It really is an absolute stunner. According to popular legend, the architects chose this building's dark green and gold colours, based on a gold foiled champagne bottle. Whether true or not, the building is one of the most distinctive features on the Chicago skyline. I pass plenty of places to eat. Some are premium establishments and many are chains. There are many that I've never seen before, such as Stan's Donuts and Bubblelicious Milk and Fruit Tea. Yes, it really does exist! Millennium Park: As you enter Millennium Park from the north one of the first things you see is the Millennium Monument. The dedication is to Millennium Park's founders. There are individuals, including someone called Anonymous, through to big corporations. It's quite a warm day and there is a big water feature where people are paddling. Others are getting soaked by the water raining down from above. In each part of Millennium Park the roadways and paths bear the names of some of the sponsors. The Lurie Garden: The Lurie Garden is a two and a half acre garden at the southern end of the Millennium Park. It combines natural planting with ecologically sensitive maintenance practices. It is an urban oasis for both visitors and wildlife. The habitat supports a wide variety of plants, animals, and insects. In 1997 the Illinois Central Rail Yards it were made available for development into the Millennium Park and Lurie Gardens. Today it creates a rooftop garden on top of the Millennium Park parking garage, which is itself above railway tracks. The garden blends with Chicago's past, present and future. It reflects Chicago's transformation from a flat marshland to a city that invests in extensive green spaces. Or as they call it, 'Herbs in Horto'. Apparently the Latin for a 'City in a Garden'. Listen to the podcast to hear the rest of my morning in Chicago. This podcast is also available through Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podchaser, Spotify, Vurbl , You Tube and others.
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  • TH2023 Ep17 Deborah

    TH2023 Ep17 Deborah
    Sep 27 2024
    Season 2023 - Talk 17- Deborah In 'Deborah' Jim Hastie tells us the story about the First World War Tank D51, Deborah. Click a thumbnail below to view the image gallery that accompanies the talk. Jim tells us that Deborah is a very favourite lady of his. He says that this is her story in the Battle of Cambrai, the first major tank battle in November 1917. Deborah was a female tank. A part of D Battalion in the Royal Tank Corps. A Male and Female tanks: 150 tanks are built, 75 male and 75 female. Male tanks have sponsons mounting a 57mm 6 pounder gun whilst female tanks have two cumbersome sponsons designed to carry two Vickers, water cooled, heavy machine guns. Why Deborah? Tanks receive a name, often of wives or girlfriends, before their first battle. The names have the prefix HMLS - His Majesty's Landship. In 1917 there are two tanks with the name 'Deborah'. This is the story of the second, now preserved in France. Deborah II and Cambrai: Second Lieutenant Frank Heap commands a new Mark IV female tank. Manufacturer number 2620, crew number D51 and the name Deborah with a crew of 7. These tanks are not very reliable and Deborah is knocked out by shellfire. Today four of the crew are buried side by side at the British cemetery at Flesquieres Hill. Recovery and display: Cambridge schoolboy, Philippe Gorzinski, has a passion about World War I tanks and a desire to find relics in and around Cambrai. In 1977 he meets local shopkeeper, Michael Bacquet, known locally as Iron Man. Iron Man contacts British service organisations and French civic authorities and a 60th anniversary reunion takes place. There are more than 60 men with an average age of 82 there. In 1992, their investigation takes them Marthe Bouleux, a teenager in 1917, who tells them about a buried tank. Listen to Jim tell the full story and also talk about Talbot House, in Poporinge, a refuge for all service personnel irrespective of rank. About this podcast: This is an edited recording of a talk given to the Farnham u3a World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Group. This podcast is also available through Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podchaser, Spotify, Stitcher , Vurbl , You Tube and others. AKM Music licenses Media Magazine for use with this talk. © The MrT Podcast Studio and Farnham u3a World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Group 2018 - 2024
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    18 m
  • USRJ S3 Ep32 We arrive in Chicago

    USRJ S3 Ep32 We arrive in Chicago
    Sep 4 2024
    We arrive in Chicago - US Rail Journeys Series 3 Episode 32 'We arrive in Chicago' completes our journey on the Texas Eagle. In 62 hours we have passed through cities and countryside, deserts and lush pasture, an amazing, ever changing, panorama. Please click on a thumbnail to see the photographs that go with this podcast: Leaving Pontiac: Our stop in Pontiac is brief, a few seconds maybe and worthy of a Formula 1 pit stop. Pontiac station hosts both the Lincoln Service, running between Chicago Union Station and the Gateway Transportation Center in St. Louis, and the Texas Eagle. The station has a single, low-level side platform and a modern station building for passengers. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Originally a stop on the Chicago and Alton Railroad the old station depot, built in 1901, was replaced with the current one in 2017. The old station, one block north of the new station, becomes a pizzeria. Joliet: The railway reaches Joliet began in 1852, enabling the city to rapidly grow into a railway hub. In 1909 an improvement project removes level crossings and constructs a new Union Station. Joliet Union Station opens in 1912, serving at its peak over 100 trains a day. The decline in passenger numbers in the late 20th century coupled with the increase in freight traffic leads to issues because of congestion. The station is 37.2 miles from Chicago Union Station and in 2018 it is the 51st busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 996 passengers boarding on weekdays. In 2024, Joliet is served by eight Lincoln Service trains (four each way) and two Texas Eagle trains (one each way), every day and in 2023 hosts nearly 60,600 Amtrak passengers. We reach Chicago: Our journey into Chicago takes us through a varied landscape. We see old industry pouring pollution into the atmosphere, narrow streets and run down buildings. Conversely we also pass modern housing with pleasant gardens and then a yacht marina, home to leisure craft. In the distance there are the skyscrapers of the city, their top floors shrouded in the clouds. For me the high point is the Canal Street bridge, also called the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, which is a vertical-lift bridge across the south branch of the Chicago River. Opening in 1915 it becomes an official Chicago Landmark on December 12, 2007. To visit the Amtrak website please follow this link. This podcast is also available through Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podchaser, Spotify, Vurbl , You Tube and others.
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    18 m
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