Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

In reply to 914Driver :

Entrance to the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia. 1930s.  https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/view-of-the-entrance-to-the-state-hermitage-museum-in-news-photo/179672669

Now, that is what the googles say.  I cannot find a modern photo of these columns. 

Maybe destroyed in WWII?

BB-55

Some of the spaces people were working in were TINY and let me tell you, that thing heats up like an oven.

In reply to CJ :

There are some.  Image 1 , Image 2

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Duke said:

 

Looks to be USS Texas (BB-35).  I assumed it was being prepared to be broken up, but apparently it still exists!:

Also, just recently, is being towed to undergo some restoration:

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/01/historic-uss-texas-to-begin-35m-restoration/

Sending some steel ashore on D-day:

Is Gwillam Forte involved in the refurb?

I love the story of the Texas engaging a German sniper at Normandy in a very, very short-lived sniper duel

GRM presence at Southern West Virginia rallycross today

In reply to NickD :

Where is that?

My racecar thinking about what she did to make loud noises from the engine area.