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Sunday, 7 February 2016
Another Potrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Workers cast concrete arms and reflectors for lampposts at the construction site of the Gatun Locks between the Atlantic and the Pacific
President Theodore Roosevelt operating a steam shovel at Culebra Cut, Panama Canal - the U.S. were rewarded with the rights to the canal in 1903
The S.S. Kronland crossed through the Panama in 1915, pulled by the U.S. Gaton tug boat. The canal now passes around 15,000 ships a year
Huge queues watch as children ride in colourful cars round a track flanked with a giant rocket in 1955
Characters dance in the Disneyland Parade done as a preview for television, on the first day of operation in July 1955
123 years old one stretch of the Mount Lowe Railway is 5,606ft high- so passengers probably spent their time hoping that it didn't break down
The Mount Lowe Railway, which now stands in ruins in Los Angeles, California, was the third in a series of scenic mountain railways built in America to boost tourism in the area
Opening in 1893, the line became the first electric railroad ever built in the United States - but closed down for good 45 years later
The service stretched across seven miles, starting in Altadena, at a station named Mountain Junction, and travelling along Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain
Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street, Manhattan. 1935
Sunday, 24 January 2016
The service stretched across seven miles, starting in Altadena, at a station named Mountain Junction, and travelling along Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain
However, gradually as time passed by, less and less people visited the attraction which was slowly losing its appeal due to issues surrounding its routes. Pictured
In 1900, the kitchen of the Echo Mountain House hotel caught fire and gutted the property which was the first of the mountain's attractions and facilities to be crossed off of the route
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