Photos tagged as museums

Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, 1800's Model House

The Museum has two model rooms set up to demonstrate how glass was used in daily life. This one represents an 1800's era household.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Recipie

Sand is the major ingrediant in glass, but other compounds are used as well, including lime, soda and saltpeter.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Glass Molds

Sometimes molds had to be quite complex, with multiple ways to close & compress the glass (or open without breaking a complex shape).

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, General Store

Unlike most 'period' general stores we've seen, this one actually is a store - you can buy the usual assortment of items, especially glass related.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Gallery Stores

These stores sell some of the higher end glass pieces, as well as other types of pottery or craft work. They are not cheap however, one "Millville Rose" paperweight was marked at $250.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Entrance

It was cold, but there was no wind, so both Mom and I were able to enjoy the crisp fall day very well.

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Day 68 - Wheaton Ctr, Steps in Glass Cutting

This example shows the four different stages in cutting glass: 1. Mark the pattern in red, 2. Make deep, rough cuts, 3. Make fine, rough cuts, 4. Polish

• Date: 8 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Millville, USA: gallery
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Museum of urban planning, Shanghai

• Date: 5 November 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Shanghai, China: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Yard Sign

This gives you some idea how large this Railway Museum is

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Photo of WWI Troop Train

During WWI, trains were the most common form of transportation to get troops to and from home. Communities would turn out to see their men off or welcome them home.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, SRS Detector Car

Sperry Rail Service Detector Car (1928). This was initially built as a self propelled baggage/passenger car. In 1945, Sperry modified it to use to find faults in RR tracks. It remained in service until 2003, finding over 20,000 defects in tracks.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Track Display

Cross sections from many different sizes of track are on display. The one on the right is the most common size in use today, 140#. Track size is listed based on how much a three foot section weights, or 140 pounds in this case.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Tender

Coal was loaded in the bed of the tender. Water was stored in tanks in the walls of the tender. Enought water and coal was carried for about one day's travel.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Info

Some of the museum train's have very informative signs, such as this one explaining how a steam engine works.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Controls

The sign in the center shows the location & names of the controls for this steam engine. Two men worked here, the engineer and fireman - who kept the engine supplied with coal.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine

This is Engine 1455 for the Boston & Maine Railroad. It was built in 1907 and ran on Steam, created by burning coal below a boiler. It remained in service until 1955.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Dsl Engine

This was built in 1947 by GM. It had two, 12 cylinder diesel engines that ran electric generators to power electric motors on the wheels. Together, the two engines produced 2,600 hp.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mom in Depot

Mom saw the stove in the train depot and thought it would be a good place to keep warm (she was kidding of course, the stove isn't used anymore).

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Model of Roundhouse

The museum has several very well done model railroad sets. This is a picture of just the roundhouse from their 1950's Danbury RR yard model. This was an N scale model.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Model of Mail Drop

This is just a model, but demonstrates how a town would hang their mail pouch for the Post Office car to catch on their hook.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Car Interior

Post Office Employee's worked on the train and actually sorted mail between stops.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Car Interior long

This is a view of the interior of the Post Office car after restoration. It was quite a job as they had to fabricate parts that were beyond salvage, like many of the light fixtures.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Pickup Hook

The train didn't actually stop at many of the smaller towns, so would slow to about 25 mph. A postal employee would kick off any mail bags to be delivered to that town. Also, someone would open this door, pull down the wood handle, which would raise the hook to grab the mail bag to pick up from mail from the town.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Photo Mail Car before Restoration

This is a photo of the Post Office car the Museum was given. A great deal of work has gone into it's restoration.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Freight Care Before Work

The museum was given two very similar cars in similar condition at the same time. One has been restored, this one had not, obviously.

• Date: 2 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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