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Brickyard Point is the rock shelf just north of Austinmer. The headland in the background is Bells Point. A rising tide and a 1.5m swell gave these consistent waterfalls into the channel. Lots of time to work on different comps which is unusual.
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Out with the Focus crew down to Little Austi (just north of Austinmer) on a rock shelf called Brickyard Point. The headland in the background is Bells Point. A rising tide and a 1.5m swell gave these consistent waterfalls into the channel. Lots of time to work on different comps which is unusual.
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Olympus Trip 35 / D.Zuiko 40mm/2.8 / Ilford FP4+ 125 / Ilford LC29 1+29/20°/12min / Ilford RF 1+4/4min
Taken along The Famous Yard of Bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, commonly referred to as The Brickyard.
NS 11V rounds the curve at brickyard as the sun makes a brief appearance through the snow squall, with an all EMD lash-up leading.
NS 9603 leads westbound intermodal train 257 over the Brickyard grade crossing as it drags its train up the grade to the World Famous Horseshoe Curve.
Street running is always neat, and even better with an almost-perfect Bay Line unit on the point! Other than a corporate renumbering, the 2015 still looks real good even 13 years after Bay Line green & gold disappeared into the Genesee & Wyoming. Of course, this isn't Dothan or Panama City; as the Columbus & Chattahoochee's Brickyard Job heads down the middle of 9th Street in Columbus, Georgia.
Peoria Brick and Tile Company began operations in 1899 and manufactured fired clay products here until 1982. Though the kilns, ovens, and other equipment used for making these products are no longer used, the company still sells construction and landscaping materials from the extensive yard.
Bennett Levin's restored PRR E8A duo 5711-5809 notch out on their ascent up to Horseshoe Curve, passing the Brickyard in Coburn after leaving Altoona with an 8 July 2007 excursion. The event is the annual Altoona Railfest which featured multiple rides around the curve and through the Gallitzin tunnels.
CNL-1 backs into the Belden Brick Plant to serves the numerous buildings the make up the complex. The stacks of bricks on the left are completed bundles and are ready to be shipped out.
Sugarcreek, Ohio
You think your job is hard? Try keeping up with these guys!
In Mazatlan we took a tour that got us out of the city and out into the countryside to see the non-toursity side of things.
Our first stop was a brickyard where they were making traditional adobe bricks for new contstruction. Adobe consists of clay, water, and an organic material, usually straw or in this case dung. The three are mixed together, placed into molds then left to dry for a month or so. On average each worker makes 1000 bricks a day which is pretty crazy since the whole operation is done by hand!
I want to note that this was not a show or staged setting for tourists, this is the every day job of the guys! I sure feel for them when they get older, hopefully they've got some sort of retirement plan.