I never thought there’d be a series starting here . .. but she did take most of the photos below, so here goes . . . Quantum of the Seas (hereinafter just Q) heading from Bayonne for sea but NOT before doing a doughnut in front of . . . Lower Manhattan.
Seeing Q turn in its length without the assistance of any tugs is remarkable, especially when contrasted with some of the SS United States and SS Leviathan pics here.
Smaller tour boats scatter around the rotating Q.
Click here for bowsprite’s shortie audiovideo of Q‘s whistle . . . which to me sounds like a plucked bass chord. Click here for her drawing of SS Normandie.
As to the “more” referred to in the title . . . I took these the other day at the LIRR station near my snow cave . . . the day after Juno left NYC mostly alone. Rail movement creates so much more visual turbulence than water traffic.
Thanks to bowsprite for use of her photos.
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February 3, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Ken
I love pictures of trains in the snow….
February 3, 2015 at 5:02 pm
walt
LIRR to JFK; a high speed, or a rapid velocity. There’s no traffic, and it
leaves Penn Station every four minutes or so.
February 4, 2015 at 12:18 am
tugster
walt . . . what ARE you talking about?
February 4, 2015 at 11:44 am
mageb
Thanks you two. 🙂
February 5, 2015 at 5:31 am
Rembert
Q. made her most spectacular trip already, when leaving her birthplace. http://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/video/447/a-monumental-journey-to-the-open-seas-quantum-of-the-seas-navigates-the-river-ems/
These drives, although just a consequence of the dockyards unfavorable location, are carefully choreographed meanwhile, with orchestras, singers and a lightshow by that director, who is also is responsible for Rammstein´s success (in case, you don’t know them, ask a fan, such as bowsprite). It works, because the surroundings of river Ems, which is indeed more of a ditch, are as flat as the netherlands.
BTW, environmentalists always express their rather mixed feelings about the drives as well as about these floating gilded cages…
February 5, 2015 at 5:37 am
tugster
Rembert–Thanks for sending this along. I have a newfound respect for the folks involved in the creation of these “floating gilded cages” now that i see them moved to sea for the first time through the narrow ditch from the shipyard where they are built. again, thanks for sending the video.