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Schie is the name for four waterways in the area of Overschie, South Holland, the Netherlands. There are the Delftse Schie, the Delfshavense Schie, the Rotterdamse Schie and the Schiedamse Schie. The existence of these four streams is the result of medieval rivalry among the cities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Schiedam for toll rights.
In 1903, a dike broke near Kandelaar, nearly draining the entire Schie into the low-lying surrounding fields.
In 1933, the Coolhaven (Cool harbor) was completed that provided a new and better connection between the Delfshavense Schie and the Nieuwe Maas, reducing the shipping on the other Schie canals.
After the bombardment of Rotterdam at the beginning of World War II, the rubble of the ruined city was used to backfill the Rotterdamse Schie. Only a small section at Overschie remains of the Rotterdamse Schie.
In 1989, the Delftse Schie between Delft and Rotterdam was transferred from municipal to provincial jurisdiction.
The Delfshavense Schie is now the main shipping connection between the Delftse Schie and Nieuwe Maas. Furthermore, it is also used for water management. On the other hand, the Rotterdamse Schie is mostly infilled and the Schiedamse Schie is little used for boating.
Schie is the name for four waterways in the area of Overschie, South Holland, the Netherlands. There are the Delftse Schie, the Delfshavense Schie, the Rotterdamse Schie and the Schiedamse Schie. The existence of these four streams is the result of medieval rivalry among the cities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Schiedam for toll rights.
In 1903, a dike broke near Kandelaar, nearly draining the entire Schie into the low-lying surrounding fields.
In 1933, the Coolhaven (Cool harbor) was completed that provided a new and better connection between the Delfshavense Schie and the Nieuwe Maas, reducing the shipping on the other Schie canals.
After the bombardment of Rotterdam at the beginning of World War II, the rubble of the ruined city was used to backfill the Rotterdamse Schie. Only a small section at Overschie remains of the Rotterdamse Schie.
In 1989, the Delftse Schie between Delft and Rotterdam was transferred from municipal to provincial jurisdiction.
The Delfshavense Schie is now the main shipping connection between the Delftse Schie and Nieuwe Maas. Furthermore, it is also used for water management. On the other hand, the Rotterdamse Schie is mostly infilled and the Schiedamse Schie is little used for boating.
A low-cost way to hold back sand is with tires. They are very effective when properly secured and backfilled with gravel. Behind me is an Earthen Road used decades ago. The tires here have escaped from the sand and found their way into the water.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
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Schie is the name for four waterways in the area of Overschie, South Holland, the Netherlands. There are the Delftse Schie, the Delfshavense Schie, the Rotterdamse Schie and the Schiedamse Schie. The existence of these four streams is the result of medieval rivalry among the cities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Schiedam for toll rights.
In 1903, a dike broke near Kandelaar, nearly draining the entire Schie into the low-lying surrounding fields.
In 1933, the Coolhaven (Cool harbor) was completed that provided a new and better connection between the Delfshavense Schie and the Nieuwe Maas, reducing the shipping on the other Schie canals.
After the bombardment of Rotterdam at the beginning of World War II, the rubble of the ruined city was used to backfill the Rotterdamse Schie. Only a small section at Overschie remains of the Rotterdamse Schie.
In 1989, the Delftse Schie between Delft and Rotterdam was transferred from municipal to provincial jurisdiction.
The Delfshavense Schie is now the main shipping connection between the Delftse Schie and Nieuwe Maas. Furthermore, it is also used for water management. On the other hand, the Rotterdamse Schie is mostly infilled and the Schiedamse Schie is little used for boating.
Montana Rail Link’s night gas local is westbound along the Flathead River west of Perma, Montana, on June 26, 2020. Recent trackwork has the train kicking up some dust out of the fresh ballast, and a new retaining wall constructed here has yet to be backfilled.
Schie is the name for four waterways in the area of Overschie, South Holland, the Netherlands. There are the Delftse Schie, the Delfshavense Schie, the Rotterdamse Schie and the Schiedamse Schie. The existence of these four streams is the result of medieval rivalry among the cities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Schiedam for toll rights.
In 1903, a dike broke near Kandelaar, nearly draining the entire Schie into the low-lying surrounding fields.
In 1933, the Coolhaven (Cool harbor) was completed that provided a new and better connection between the Delfshavense Schie and the Nieuwe Maas, reducing the shipping on the other Schie canals.
After the bombardment of Rotterdam at the beginning of World War II, the rubble of the ruined city was used to backfill the Rotterdamse Schie. Only a small section at Overschie remains of the Rotterdamse Schie.
In 1989, the Delftse Schie between Delft and Rotterdam was transferred from municipal to provincial jurisdiction.
The Delfshavense Schie is now the main shipping connection between the Delftse Schie and Nieuwe Maas. Furthermore, it is also used for water management. On the other hand, the Rotterdamse Schie is mostly infilled and the Schiedamse Schie is little used for boating.
With internal support framing in place, basement ceiling nailed down, backfilling done, and a plastic protective cover: the basement is ready for winter. Thanks to the crews that did most of this: Matt, Dale, Thor, Sean, Fred, Steve, Dawn, Bonnie and Jason.
Just in time!
You expect to see pools like this in Yellowstone , but not in the picturesque Derbyshire Peak District. There is one blackened tree that stands up through the deluge of lime. The drying crystals of lime build up intricate walls that backfill with milky water to create a bizarre landscape.
The Belle, KCS Train B-KCSH-06 flies back south through Drexel behind the A-B-A set of F-Units bound for Shreveport on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. with a deadhead move after an inspection trip.
The run was made for incoming Executive Vice President-Operations John Orr, recently hired off the CN to backfill Jeffrey Songer's position after being moved to Executive Vice President-Strategic Merger Planning in conjunction with the prospective CP acquisition.
This was almost 13 years to the day after I graduated from high school in this town and time flies faster than those covered wagons screaming south. A well placed stack of ties offered us a more unique vantage point of the Drexel Elevator than previous trips.
Locomotives: KCS 1, KCS 3, KCS 2
5-6-21
Drexel, MO
Parque, Playa de las Américas, Tenerife
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The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a highly adaptable, medium-sized bird known for its rapid global expansion. Originally native to warmer regions of Asia, it has become a common sight in urban, suburban, and agricultural areas across Europe and North America.
Key Identification Features
Appearance:
They have a plump, sandy-gray or buff-colored body with a distinctive black half-collar on the nape of the neck.
Distinctive Tail:
Unlike the pointed tail of a Mourning Dove, the Eurasian collared dove has a broad, squared-off tail with large white patches at the corners.
Eyes and Bill:
Adults possess striking dark red eyes and a thin black bill.
Vocalizations:
Their primary call is a rhythmic, three-syllable coo (koo-KOO-kook) with the middle syllable emphasized. They also emit a harsh, nasal screeching sound just before landing.
Behavior and Diet
Diet:
These birds are primarily granivores, feeding on seeds, grains, and cereal crops, though they occasionally eat berries and small insects. They are frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they often forage on the ground.
Territoriality:
They can be aggressive competitors at feeding stations, often chasing away smaller birds or native species like the Mourning Dove.
Flight Display:
Males perform a ritualized mating flight, flying nearly vertically before gliding down in a spiral with fanned tails.
Breeding and Life Cycle
Rapid Reproduction:
A monogamous pair can raise up to six broods per year in warmer climates.
Nesting:
They build simple, often flimsy platform nests made of twigs in trees, on buildings, or even on man-made structures like satellite dishes.
Parental Care:
Both parents share incubation duties and feed their young "crop milk," a nutrient-rich fluid secreted from their esophagus.
Global Colonization
The species is famous in ornithology for its "leapfrog" colonization style—new populations often spring up hundreds of miles away and eventually "backfill" the space in between. After being introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, they reached Florida by the 1980s and have since spread across most of the continental United States and into Canada.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Фотография и терапия PHOTHERAP стрим с Фовеонычем
Kupchino
In the north, Kupchino borders on the Volkovo district along Fuchika Street [1]. In the east it is separated by Sofiyskaya street from the industrial zone of the Obukhovo district. In the west, the Kupchino region is bounded from the Moskovsky region by the Volkovka River and the track of the Oktyabrskaya railway. In the south, beyond Kupchin, an industrial zone begins on the territory of the former state farm Shushary.
The area is located in the Neva lowland, in the middle reaches of one of the southern tributaries of the Neva, the Volkovka River, formerly also called Setuy The soils are clayey, sometimes swampy. The natural vegetation was shrub, birch and mountain ash.
By the time of construction, Kupchino is conditionally divided into Northern (also Old) Kupchino, built up since 1964, and Southern (or New) Kupchino, where construction has been going on since the 1970s. The natural boundary was the bed of the Volkovka River (approximately in the area of the modern Alpiysky Lane): before its backfilling, mass construction was carried out to the north of the river, after its partial backfilling in 1972-1973. (the river was straightened and enclosed in the Volkov Canal, which flows along the Vitebsk line of the Oktyabrskaya railway), the development of the territory located to the south began
Kupcha's quarries are located in the eastern part of the district. On the hills formed by the dumps of the Brick Factory south of Yaroslav Gashek Street, in 1999a group of enthusiasts equipped the so-called temple of Perun, which lasted until 2007
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The Belle, KCS Train B-KCSH-06 flies back south through Grandview behind the A-B-A pair of F-Units bound for Shreveport on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. with a deadhead move back south after an inspection trip.
The run was made for incoming Executive Vice President-Operations John Orr, recently hired off the CN to backfill Jeffrey Songer's position after being moved to Executive Vice President-Strategic Merger Planning in conjunction with the prospective CP acquisition.
Locomotives: KCS 1, KCS 3, KCS 2
5-6-21
Grandview, MO
Earthen embankment separating the foreground-canal from the floodplain in the background. At one stage, this floodplain was part of an immense lagoon, called Songkhla Lake. Over the years, human-interference through land development, i.e. building and backfilling, caused sediment to build up and shrink the inland sea to its present area: 1,040 km2. To put that into perspective, Singapore is 733.1 km2. (Areas from Wikipedia).
Hollinger Park Clock Tower in the Hollinger Park in Tisdale Township in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
Hollinger Park is a municipal park in Timmins, Ontario, located at the southeast corner of Algonquin Blvd. and Brunette Road (formerly Park Road).
The park is located on the site of what was once Miller Lake. The Hollinger Mine backfilled the lake with mine tailings and it was eventually beautified into one of the City's finest parks.
The park is named after Benny Hollinger, a mining prospector whose major 1909 gold discovery further launched the Porcupine Camp's early gold rush and the city's mining viability.
The park, approximately one square kilometre in size, includes a regulation size baseball diamond, two soccer fields and a beach volleyball pitch. It has been home to the Timmins Men's Baseball League since 1985. Timmins native Shania Twain performed at Hollinger Park on July 1, 1999 during her Come on Over Tour. Other sporting and musical events have been held in the park. In 2000, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride held a show in the park.
In 1999, a large renovation of the park was started as a millennium project. A water park, a clock tower, new playground equipment and a bandstand were erected in the newly renovated park. New trees were also planted following a large windstorm in July 1999 which knocked down many of the large willow trees that had graced the park for many years.
In August 2007, the athletic grounds at Hollinger Park, the city's centrepiece recreational field, was named the "Fred Salvador Athletic Field" in honour of Fred Salvador, Sr., who served with the city's parks and recreation department for 37 years.
In 2019 work began on the Hollinger Park Beautification Project. “Key elements in the park include an upgraded splash pad, accessible playground, an elaborate central plaza space (slated for completion in the spring/summer of 2020) and a linked trail network traversing the park. Part of this trail system will be used for an outdoor skating path during the winter months. Skating opportunities will be provided for during the 2019/2020 winter season. Other important upgrades include a new paved driveway/parking area (slated for completion in the spring/summer of 2020) and the reconstruction of the historic Hollinger Grandstands facility.”
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The Belle, KCS Train B-LRKC-03 makes its way northward over 87th Street behind the A-B-A pair of F-Units for Knoche Yard Kansas City on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. with an inspection trip.
The run is being made for incoming Executive Vice President-Operations John Orr, recently hired off the CN to backfill Jeffrey Songer's position after being moved to Executive Vice President-Strategic Merger Planning in conjunction with the prospective CP acquisition.
Locomotives: KCS 1, KCS 3, KCS 2
5-6-21
Kansas City, MO
October 05, 2018. Jaworzno Ciężkowice. Poland. Sunrise over the sand mine Jaworzno Ciężkowice. The steam locomotive Ty42-24 loads sand into the wagons under the backfilling excavator. It was the second day of the closed photo session to say goodbye to the sand railways. Less than two years after this photo was taken, there is only a steam locomotive owned by our association "TOZKiOS Pyskowice". The sand field has been removed, the excavator has been cut for scrap.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Earth Day Explore 24/04/24, #275
A huge swathe of recently backfilled wetland must now be crossed before these water buffalo can find their floodplain pools to escape the heat of the day... but that's okay, as someone is making huge profits!
A southbound mixed freight passes the shell of the tower at Leipsic, Ohio in June 1988. As the second unit shows, it was CSX by then but the lead GP40 still wears Chessie System paint with C&O lettering. In the spring and early summer of 1988, I spent a lot of time in Lima, Ohio backfilling a spot on a modernization project at the refinery. When I could get out of the plant in daylight, I would typically cruise up and down Rt 65 looking for DT&I trains on the this trackage that they shared but usually found CSX southbounds. They usually had a fleet of southbounds in the afternoon. Leipsic was a crossing of the former B&O between Toledo and Cincinnati and the former NKP mainline.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Le canal avait pour origine une dérivation de la Vesdre et était destiné à alimenter les usines non situées directement sur la Vesdre. Par la suite, au fur et à mesure de la naissance et du développement de l’industrie, ses berges ont servi au lavage de la laine et du tissu. C’est pourquoi son tracé initial se modifie et est même, à certains endroits, doublé ou triplé. Afin de rappeler l’ancien canal remblayé en 1906, la Ville de Verviers a inauguré, en juin 2000, un nouveau monument : une reproduction de l’ancien canal. Il est long de 86 mètres et large de 2.50 mètres.
The canal originated from a diversion of the Vesdre and was intended to supply factories not located directly on the Vesdre. As the industry grew and grew, its banks were used for washing wool and fabric. This is why its initial route changes and is even, in some places, doubled or tripled. In order to recall the old canal backfilled in 1906, the City of Verviers inaugurated a new monument in June 2000: a reproduction of the old canal. It is 86 meters long and 2.50 meters wide.
A nice rainbow (and a hint of a double) appears over Algoma's newest fleet member the Strongfield as the vessel loads UTAC pellets at Dock 6 in West Duluth. It was still raining as the sun backfilled the storm and the rainbow appeared. Welcome to Duluth Strongfield!
Une contre-mine ou contremine est une galerie souterraine creusée à la base d'un mur d'escarpe afin de repérer et contrer les travaux de sape de l'assiégeant.
Longues qu’un kilomètre, les contre-mines de la citadelle de Doullens furent maçonnées à ciel ouvert avant d’être remblayées et forment un circuit fermé dans l’épaisseur du rempart.
A countermine is an underground gallery dug at the base of a scarp wall in order to identify and counter the besieger's undermining work.
Only a kilometer long, the countermines of the Doullens citadel were masoned in the open before being backfilled and form a closed circuit in the thickness of the rampart.
Seules quelques centaines de mètres de canal entre la Meuse et Belle-île sont encore en fonction: des bateaux y sont amarrés à l’année. Si la connexion à la Meuse est toujours effective, celle avec l’Ourthe, face à la confluence de la Vesdre, n’est plus possible. En amont, les tronçons de canal ont été pour la plupart remblayés. Entre Chanxhe et Poulseur, il a été réhabilité et, longé par le Ravel, il permet d’observer nombre de vestiges dans un milieu aujourd’hui dédié au développement de la biodiversité.
Only a few hundred meters of canal between the Meuse and Belle-Île are still in operation: boats are moored there year-round. If the connection to the Meuse is still effective, that with the Ourthe, facing the confluence of the Vesdre, is no longer possible. Upstream, the canal sections were mostly backfilled. Between Chanxhe and Poulseur, it was rehabilitated and, bordered by the Ravel, it allows to observe a number of vestiges in an environment today dedicated to the development of biodiversity.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Very hard to tell apart from the Red-banded sand wasp. The easy diagnostic is the third submarginal cell of the forewing is petiolate (branched/stalked)... and no bluish tinge on the tail. (See in comments below.)
This girl was just starting to backfill her burrow, but she was already too late, the damage was done, a Kleptoparasitic fly had managed to lay eggs in there… See next frame.
September 13, 2010. Sosnowiec. Poland. Sand mine "Maczki Bór". The diesel locomotive TEM2-021 works at loading wagons on the sand field. The photo also shows a backfill excavator. Today there are no railroads in this place.
TEM2-261 returns from Bór Górny, the main base of operations of CTL, with a set of empty dumpcars to KWK Piast. Since 2022 this locomotive, produced in 1986 in Bryansk, belongs to and runs for Omniloko. The signal tower in the background is the old Sosnowiec J. C. JCB building, which used to controll all switches around the big square of track centered here. It was closed down in 2013.
Since a couple of years, all the remnants of the quickly disappearing, non-Silesian, eastern part of the Sand Railways network (earlier used to deliver backfill sand to old mineshafts) are used for transports of mining waste exclusively. Most of them terminate at Bór Górny with the main CTL base and the biggest spoil tip in the area.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, riverland, south australia
Deep below the streets of Jersey City, NJ Transit trains rumble back and forth through the Bergen Tunnels to and from Hoboken Terminal. The 4,200-foot long tunnels cut through Bergen Hill, the southernmost end of the Hudson Palisades. The northern tunnel was built from 1873-1877 by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, with the southern tunnel opening in 1910. Partway through the tunnels are two large open-cut ventilation shafts, which also feature emergency exit staircases and standpipes for firefighting. At left is an older ventilation shaft, one of five that date back to the construction of the tunnels. These were stabilized and backfilled during the 2001 renovation of the tunnels. In this view, GP40PH-2B no. 4208, the railroad's Conrail heritage unit - identifiable by its blue color, rather than the black roof of nearly every other NJT locomotive - is seen shoving non-revenue train X132 through the north tunnel on Track 1.
LE JARDIN ANGLAIS
a été entièrement gagné sur le lac par des remblayages consécutifs à la destruction des fortifications autour des années 1850, à une époque où le premier pont face au lac était encore celui des Bergues. Le Jardin est le témoin privilégié de l’évolution de la rade à la fin du XIXe siècle. La fontaine monumentale des Quatre Saisons trône déjà au milieu du parc lorsqu’apparaît le Pont du Mont-Blanc érigé en 1862. En 1869, c’est le Monument national qu’on inaugure. Le Jardin anglais est encore agrandi et modifié au fil des années. Premier parc de la Ville à être composé à l’anglaise avec des allées courbes et des arbres plantés libres d’alignement, le site appelé à l’origine « la Promenade du Lac » devient « le Jardin Anglais ». En 1955, le lieu est agrémenté de l’Horloge fleurie, qui devient vite le monument le plus photographié de Genève.
Le Jardin anglais abrite plusieurs arbres centenaires à l’image d’un ginkgo planté en 1863 et d’un hêtre pourpre planté en 1895 en vue de l'Exposition nationale. Un Thuya géant, un séquoia majestueux, un magnolia à grandes fleurs, des marronniers d’Inde, un tulipier de Virginie et d'autres essences complètent l’enchantement du site.
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LE JARDIN ANGLAIS
(The English Garden) was completely taken over on the lake by backfilling following the destruction of the fortifications around the 1850s, at a time when the first bridge facing the lake was still that of Bergues. The Garden is the privileged witness of the development of the harbor at the end of the 19th century. The monumental Four Seasons fountain already sits in the middle of the park when the Mont-Blanc Bridge, erected in 1862, appears. In 1869, the National Monument was inaugurated. The English Garden has been further enlarged and modified over the years. The first city park to be composed in the English style with curved alleys and free-standing planted trees, the site originally called "the Promenade du Lac" became "the English Garden". In 1955, the place was decorated with the Flower Clock, which quickly became the most photographed monument in Geneva.
The English Garden is home to several hundred-year-old trees like a ginkgo planted in 1863 and a purple beech planted in 1895 for the National Exhibition. A giant red cedar, a majestic redwood, a large-flowered magnolia, horse chestnut trees, a tulip tree and other species complete the enchantment of the site.
the 5th (and 14th!) tee at the morgan cadell golf course is inundated by the waters of the murray backfilling bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Seules quelques centaines de mètres de canal entre la Meuse et Belle-île sont encore en fonction: des bateaux y sont amarrés à l’année. Si la connexion à la Meuse est toujours effective, celle avec l’Ourthe, face à la confluence de la Vesdre, n’est plus possible. En amont, les tronçons de canal ont été pour la plupart remblayés. Entre Chanxhe et Poulseur, il a été réhabilité et, longé par le Ravel, il permet d’observer nombre de vestiges dans un milieu aujourd’hui dédié au développement de la biodiversité.
Only a few hundred meters of canal between the Meuse and Belle-Île are still in operation: boats are moored there year-round. If the connection to the Meuse is still effective, that with the Ourthe, facing the confluence of the Vesdre, is no longer possible. Upstream, the canal sections were mostly backfilled. Between Chanxhe and Poulseur, it was rehabilitated and, bordered by the Ravel, it allows to observe a number of vestiges in an environment today dedicated to the development of biodiversity.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
(my 114th photo to make explore)
The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border. Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France.
The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The Wendel 1 pit was closed in 1989, Wendel 2 in 1992 and Wendel 3 in 2001. The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit. These pits are in France but surrounded on three sides by the national border with Germany. Several pits were dug between 1862 and 1889: Wendel 1, Wendel 2, Vuillemin 1 and Vuillemin 2. Emile Vuillemin was the consulting engineer for Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot's company- Compagnie Anonyme des Mines de Stiring. The coal produced was primarily used to fire the Wendel steelworks. The company became - Les Petits-fils de François de Wendel et Cie in 1889.
After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years. In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine. The Wendel 3 pit was dug in 1952, and in 1958 was equipped with the new wash house 3. The Wendel 1 and 2 pits were modernised and equipped with new headframes. After 1960, the coal recession hit: the company modernised wash house 1-2 in 1962 by creating a new module on top of the former wash house, adapted to the existing equipment. Operations and investment continued up until 1986 when central activities ceased. Some infrastructure continued to be used up until 1989 serving other pits in the Wendel franchise.
The museum is presented in several section. The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions. There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004. There is an AM 100 heading machine, G210 electro-hydraulic loader, Electra 2000 shearer and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc.
Forth and Clyde Canal.
Situated between Falkirk and Grangemouth the canal was opened in 1790 and crossing central Scotland the Forth and Clyde Canal provided a route for seagoing vessels at what is the narrowest point of the Scottish Lowlands for the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde.
Running from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling the 35 mile (56 km) canal had a basin of considerable importance at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
With the advent of the increased size of seagoing vessels the canal proved inadequate as these vessels could not pass through and coupled with the arrival of the railway age these factors all contributed to the demise of the usefulness of the canal.
Due to increasing maintenance costs of the bridges that spanned the canal which by this time exceeded the revenue that was raised by the usage of the canal it was closed in the early 1960’s.
Political failure and financial considerations were not forthcoming and this added to the decline of the canal and the route that ran through Grangemouth was in 1967 drained and backfilled to allow for the creation of a carriageway to cater for the needs of port traffic.
Fortunately though in more recent years common sense prevailed which has seen the utility of the canal regenerated and today is available for leisure.
It is not uncommon to see houseboats and other vessels on the canal.
Falkirk, Scotland.
Untergrund Station Berlin Rathaus Schöneberg
Der Bahnhof wurde in einer Talsenke gebaut, in der zur selben Zeit auch der Stadtpark Schöneberg angelegt wurde. Der damalige Stand der Bautechnik ließ eine Unterfahrung des feuchten Untergrundes nicht zu. Daher nutzte man den beim Bau der Schöneberger U-Bahn anfallenden Aushub zur Aufschüttung, und der Bahnhof selbst wurde als brückenartiges oberirdisches Bauwerk konzipiert, das auf drei 70 Meter langen, bis zum tragfähigen Grund reichenden Betonpfeilern gründet.
Underground station Berlin Rathaus Schöneberg
The station was built in a valley where the Schöneberg city park was created at the same time. The state of the art of construction at that time did not allow undercutting the damp subsoil. Therefore, the excavated material from the construction of the Schöneberg subway was used for backfilling, and the station itself was designed as a bridge-like structure above ground, based on three 70-meter-long concrete pillars that reached down to the load-bearing ground.
Presumably to help backfill for 3 of Ardrossan's own fleet which are away working at the Golf, a couple of Arran Streetlites are seeing their first use in service on the mainland.
Both 39004/7 out in use on the 18 today.
Week #42 "In a Row"
Well it's been a while since I posted an image, this was due to having an accident on my mountain bike, and breaking my color bone. Which meant I was unable and not in the form to pick up my camera. I plan to backfill the shots I missed, but I know technically I have failed my 52 this year.
All week I knew it was time to go back at it, I had known that I would some day shoot his pier. So I watched the weather and hoped for the best.
I'm happy with the result, and CC is always welcome.
Ireland
County Clare
Town of Corofin
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Poulnabrone is probably one of the most photographed ancient monuments in Ireland. It rises prominently above the limestone pavement of clints (blocks) and grykes (crevices) resulting from eons of water erosion through the limestone.
It is located in County Clare just outside of the town Corofin - Population 689 in 2011 .
The burial chamber was 25 cm deep. The dolmen, which is also called a portal tomb, is made up of a large single capstone that rests on two portal stones, two more orthostats, and an end stone. The portal stones are each 1.8 m tall. The entrance of the dolmen faces to the North. A sill stone crosses the front of the entrance, and might have extended all the way up to the cap stone, thus sealing the tomb. The capstone is 12 ft by 7 ft and angles from the portals down to the rear. The chamber was 8 ft by 4 ft in size. The dolmen was always a prominent feature above the limestone bedrock. A portico was formed in front of the tomb by three upright limestone stones. The portico was then backfilled with loose dirt and gravel. The tomb lies in the center of the cairn. The cairn is in the shape of an oval. The cairn is made up of large limestone slabs extending about 3m from the tomb and laid against the side of the chamber. The cairn has been stripped down from its original depth, but it has been theorized that it was only 55 cm deep at the time Poulnabrone was built. The cairn, even though it was not very tall, helped prop up the side stones.
The remains of at least 30 people have been found in the tomb.
Another image of the tomb can be seen in the first comment section.
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, viewed from the clifftop lookout, near morgan, riverland, south australia
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, riverland, south australia
More lost film work from the olden times, shot off Interstate 8 in southern Arizona in October 2002. 6ish minutes on that extra vivid Kodak Ektachrome VS. Some kind of green backfill light in the shadows too.
"There is evidence of a coal mine in operation in the Deister as early as 1639. In the middle of the 19th century, new mines were built near Barsinghausen on the higher slopes of the Deister to extract the Wealden coal, which can be found in seams up to 100 cm thick. On September 1, 1856, the driving of the monastery tunnel began in the district behind the long Kamp. His name refers to the monastery chamber of Hanover as the owner of the parcel. It was lower on the Deister slope than the tunnels that were already conveying and, in addition to finding deeper seams, was also intended to serve as a water solution. Since 1867 the administration was under the Prussian state.
A coal seam 70 cm thick was reached on October 7, 1869 with a tunnel length of 1,474 meters and production started on November 10. Pit horses were used for the first time in 1876. In 1888, the first of three shafts on the colliery site began to be sunk east of the tunnel mouth hole.
The 750 m² colliery hall, which is still used for events, was built in 1898. Coal production in the monastery tunnel was stopped in 1921. The tunnel was used for weather control until the colliery was closed. After the coal production of the Barsinghausen hard coal mine was stopped in February 1957 for reasons of profitability, the cloister tunnel was filled with backfill material to about 75 m and the mouth hole was bricked up." (Wikipedia)
Unfortunately the museum wasn't open due to, well, you know why.
But there were a lot of things to see along with old photographs. Definitely a place I will re-visit when it's possible to do so without restrictions.
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In Barsinghausen wurde tatsächlich auch Steinkohle abgebaut. Bis 1957. Das Gelände wurde erst stillgelegt und dann kam in den 1980er Jahren die Idee eines Besucherbergwerks auf.
Leider konnte man das gerade nicht besichtigen, aber das Freigelände ist zugänglich und auch schon sehr interessant.
Auf Wikipedia steht da einiges zu hier
und natürlich hier Klosterstollen
It’s a photograph, Jim, but not as we know it...
This started out as one of a series of images I took in April for a Macro Monday theme Motion Blur. I put the camera on a rotating record deck and took images of decorative cocktail sticks which were like little witches brooms of colour tinsel. What immense fun that was!
If you want to find out more about the method I link to one of the previously published images which has the detail in the commentary. I’ll also link to the original image that is the starting point of this creation, and I’ll probably publish an interim stage view as well because it’s rather pretty :). See the first comment below.
Thank you for taking time to look! I really hope you enjoy the image even if manipulated works aren’t your preference :) Happy Sliders Sunday!
[See the interim shot commentary (linked below) for detail about most of the creative work. This was created from it in PS using the twirl distortion filter, by first increasing the canvas size by 60%. I then backfilled the transparent areas created after the twirl with black. Finally cropped to 4:6 aspect ratio.]