The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
A road trip from Toronto, past Niagara Falls, through Detroit to Chicago.
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls Helicopter Tour
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| Canadian Falls
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| American Falls
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| Hydro power plant
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Niagara Whirlpool - Cable Car ride
An agitated water area downstream from the falls, sometimes forming strong whirlpools.
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| Cable car station
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Skylon Tower
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| Skylon Tower
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| Canadian Falls from Skylon Tower
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| American Falls from Skylon Tower
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Ground level views
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| Visitor Center
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| View to American falls
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| American Falls
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| Canadian Falls
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| View from the tunnels under the Canadian falls
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| Above the Falls
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"Under the Falls" tour
Around Niagara
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| Tesla statue
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| View from the Marriot on the Falls
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| Nighttime view
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| Nighttime view
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Hamilton
The old Hamilton Waterworks, near Toronto, was used for some recurring scenery in the Murdoch Mysteries TV series.
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Station House No. 4
It acquires three extra stories in the TV images!
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| The Morgue
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| Morgue rear view
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Detroit
Downtown Detroit
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| View across Detroit river to Canada
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| Misty Renaissance Center
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| Hart Plaza: "Pylon"
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| "Spirit of Detroit" at City Hall
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| Labor Movement monument "Transcending"
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| Joe Louis monument
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| Joe Louis monument
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| Detroit Historical Museum
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| Detroit Historical Museum
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Detroit: The Guardian Building
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| The 1929 Art Deco Guardian Building
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| Over-the-top Art Deco Lobby
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| Art Deco elevator lobby
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| Guardian: Banking Hall
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Detroit: The Fisher Building
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| 1928 Art Deco Fisher Building
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| Fisher ceiling
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| Fisher ceiling detail
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Detroit: Ford Piquette Plant Museum
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| 1903 Ford Model A Tonneau
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| 1904 Ford Model B Tonneau
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| Very early (1908) Model T
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| Scotsman in 1915 Model T
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| Urban blight: near Piquette Plant
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| Urban blight: near Piquette Plant
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Ford Rouge Factory tour
A fascinating tour of the Ford Rouge F150 assembly line, but alas "no photos" inside the factory. ☹
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| Factory tour entrance.
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| Henry Ford, with trade school student
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View over new eco-friendly F150 Asembly Building
With "green" roof
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| View to older Ford Rouge buildings
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The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
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| Roosevelt's 1939 Lincoln
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Kennedy's 1961 Lincoln
The very one he was riding in Dallas.
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| 1831 De Witt Clinton (replica)
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| De Witt Clinton: Stage coach style cars!
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| Enormous 1941 Allegheny Steam Locomotive
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| Giant railway snow plough
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| The actual Rosa Parks bus
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| Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House
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Deconstructed Model T
There's more use of wood than I had expected
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Grand Rapids
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| Rosa Parks statue
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Astronaut Roger Chaffee
Born in Grand Rapids, died in Apollo 1
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| Gerald Ford Presidential Museum
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| Mikado stage
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Mikado cast (1)
Crowned Mikado, Pooh-Bah in blue, Katisha in black, Ko-Ko in red.
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Mikado cast (2)
Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum in the center
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| On the road to Chicago: Kalamazoo County Building
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Chicago
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| "Cloud Gate" sculture, aka "The Bean"
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| Cloud Gate interior shot: Who is this guy?
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| Chicago Skyline from Field Museum
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| Chicago Skyline from Field Museum
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Chicago: The Field Museum
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Replica of Patagotitan mayorum
The largest dinosaur ever. 70 tons, 122 ft long.
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| Totem Poles, from Pacific NW
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| Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction
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| Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction
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| Giant skull of T-Rex "Sue"
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| Reconstruction of T-Rex "Sue"
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| Triceratops skull
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| Cambrian Aquarium: Hallucigenia
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| Cambrian Aquarium: Wiwaxia
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| Cambran Aquarium: Opabinia
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| Cambrian Aquarium
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Chicago: Oriental Institute Museum
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| Assyrian statue and reliefs
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| Lamasu of Sargon II
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| Lamasu of Sargon II
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| Lion from the Ishtar Gate
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| Statue of Tutankhamun
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| Persepolis: Fragment of bull-human capital
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| Persepolis
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Chicago: Willis Tower
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| Chicago from the Willis Tower
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Willis Tower: Glass-floored Skydeck Ledge
Sticking straight out from the 103rd floor
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| Official Tourist Shot
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| It is rather intimidating
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