Photography Now & Then #59
Today was another misty, rainy day. Our back yard, which is on a slope is squishy, soggy.
Now[1]: Woods behind our house in the rain and mist, west-central Arkansas, February 28, 2018 (Apple iPhone 6s)
It kept raining in spells of varying intensity to well after dark. We’re at 13 3/8 inches in the last two weeks and that includes two or three “dry” days. The south-eastern part of the state got rain-hammered the worst in this last spell.
No rain forecasted through the weekend. Yay!!
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A continuity mistake in the 1993 film, The Firm: “As Tom Cruise is leaving Mud Island on a monorail car he passes another car with a Firm henchman in it. They see each other and the man gets out and runs across the bridge to catch Tom as his car stops. This is impossible since there are really only two cars which end up on both sides at the same time.”[2]
The cars of the Memphis Suspension Railway, also known as the Mud Island Monorail, travel suspended below the bridge in the following photo.
Then[3]: Mud Island River Park – View of Memphis, Tennessee, Skyline, April 21, 2010 (Composite of two Pentax K10D photos, stitched by Autostitch)
Mud Island Monorail[4]
The Memphis Suspension Railway or Mud Island Monorail is a suspended monorail that connects the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island. Celebrating its grand opening on July 3, 1982, it is beneath a footbridge over the Wolf River Lagoon connecting to the southern tip of Mud Island.
The line has two suspended cars constructed in Switzerland, delivered in summer 1981. The 1,700-foot-long (520 m) bridge opened to pedestrians on June 29, 1981; the monorail was not operational until July 1982. The cars are driven by a 3,500-foot-long (1,100 m) external cable, instead of by internal motors. The two cars simultaneously shuttle back and forth on parallel tracks between the Front Street Terminal on the downtown side and the Mud Island Terminal. Each car has a maximum capacity of 180 passengers and travels at 7 mph (11.3 km/h).
At the time of its construction, the U.S. Coast Guard stated that the proposed bridge would have to have the same clearance as the Hernando de Soto Bridge, as it was spanning a commercially used public waterway. This resulted in the bridge being constructed at its current elevation.
- Now photo is a one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Firm – moviemistakes.com
- Then photo is a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Memphis Suspension Railway – Wikipedia
Notes:
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
