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chicoguy1303 uploaded a new video
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Across the street from the Hotel Telegrafo in Old Havana, Cuba is a majo...
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Across the street from the Hotel Telegrafo in Old Havana, Cuba is a major stop for local taxis offering rides anywhere in the city for less than $1 USD per person. The pre-1957 American cars are reminders of Cuba life before the 1957 revolution when the country was a favorite vacation playground for Americans and Detroit supplied the cars and trucks for the island paradise.
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chicoguy1303 uploaded a new video
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Havana streets are a living showcase for thousands of classic American c...
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Havana streets are a living showcase for thousands of classic American cars from the late 1940s to 1957 when the Cuban Revolution stopped all American imports to the island. The symbols on their rusting hoods proudly proclaim their U-S origins: Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Buick, Pontiac, Cadillac and DeSoto even tho a closer look reveals layers of Bondo and cheap sheet metal disguised with brushed on house paint which seems to hold the aging car bodies together despite a total lack of factory replacement parts for almost 60 years.
The antiques are used as local taxis to supplement the always crowded public buses. Up to six passengers at a time pay about $.50 USD each to squeeze into the old coupes, sedans, convertibles and station wagons to be delivered to their destinations around the sprawling city.
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chicoguy1303 uploaded a new video
(5 months ago)
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
This cemetery contains the remains of 6,982 war...
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Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
This cemetery contains the remains of 6,982 war prisoners who lost their lives during the captivity by the Japanese Army that forced them to build the Bridge over the River Kwai and the Death Railway.
The Japanese, following their invasion of Thailand during World War II, brought British, Dutch, Australian and American prisoners to Thailand by the Southern route.
Impressed laborers were also used to complete the rushed construction of the railroad, which is an alternative to the sea route to Rangoon via Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, the sea route then being closed by allied submarines and aircraft.
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chicoguy1303 uploaded a new video
(5 months ago)
Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this narrow gauge railroad ...
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Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this narrow gauge railroad is an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, a designation shared with the Panama Canal, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
The WP&YR railway was considered an impossible task but it was literally blasted through coastal mountains in only 26 months.
The $10 million project was the product of British financing, American engineering and Canadian contracting. Tens of thousands of men and 450 tons of explosives overcame harsh and challenging climate and geography to create "the railway built of gold."
The WP&YR climbs almost 3000 feet in just 20 miles and features steep grades of up to 3.9%, cliff-hanging turns of 16 degrees, two tunnels and numerous bridges and trestles. The steel cantilever bridge was the tallest of its kind in the world when it was constructed in 1901.
The 110 mile WP&YR Railroad was completed with the driving of the golden spike on July 29, 1900 in Carcross Yukon connecting the deep water port of Skagway Alaska to Whitehorse Yukon and beyond to northwest Canada and interior Alaska.
The WP&YR suspended operations in 1982 when Yukon's mining industry collapsed due to low mineral prices. The railway was reopened in 1988 as a seasonal tourism operation and served 37,000 passengers. Today, the WP&YR is Alaska's most popular shore excursion carrying over 360,000 passengers during the 2010 May to September tourism season operating on the first 67.5 miles (Skagway, Alaska to Carcross, Yukon) of the original 110 mile line.
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chicoguy1303 uploaded a new video
(5 months ago)
Patpong (Thai: พัฒน์พงษ์, "Phatphong") is an entertainment dis...
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Patpong (Thai: พัฒน์พงษ์, "Phatphong") is an entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, catering mainly, though not exclusively, to foreign tourists and expatriates. While Patpong is internationally known as a red light district at the heart of Bangkok's sex industry, it is in fact only one of numerous red-light districts some catering primarily to Thai men and some others, like Patpong, catering primarily to foreigners.
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