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A Union Pacific Track Inspector gives a rolls-bye to a south-bound manifest. The train is climbing the twisting grade at Cable, CA on Tehachapi Pass.
The Millau Viaduct is a multi-span cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn near Millau in Southern France. In an Anglo-French partnership, it was designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and English architect Norman Foster. As of November 2018, it is the tallest bridge in the world, having a structural height of 336.4 metres.
Another day I went out (this time with a CF Card) and it didn't worked out the way I wanted to. I waited an hour for the sun to go down and then the sky wasn't looking good any more... I'm gonna get the shot I'm looking for, so let's try it again tomorrow.
50mm - f1.8 - 1/80 - ISO 800
Strobist Info:
SB-80dx (24mm - 1/128) bare from the side, triggered via on-camera flash
Explored - Monday, September 20, 2010 - #476
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Het indrukwekkende uitzicht vanuit de kabelbaan van en naar de top van de Rots van Gibraltar, met het Brits overzees gebied op de voorgrond en de Spaanse stad Taifa Algeciras aan de overkant van de baai.
Gibraltar, Verenigd Koninkrijk
The impressive view from the cable car to and from the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, with the British Overseas Territory in the foreground and the Spanish city Taifa Algeciras across the bay.
Gibraltar, United Kingdom
The longest cable car in Israel. The ride to the top of Manara Cliff, the highest cliff in Israel, takes 10 minutes, and offers a breathtaking view of the Hula Valley, the Golan Heights and Mt. Hermon. The lower station is at 90 meters above sea level, while the upper station is 840 meters above sea level
Not everyone has cable, but, in our neighborhood, when we have problems, they don't just send anyone out for repairs. This guy works real cheap; like, for nuts! The only drawback, sometimes he creates more problems than solutions. He seems to like chewing on insulation.
Bakersfield, California 2015
Old or new, Japan has many fascinating bridges.
Taken from a moving car, on our way to Chiba to celebrate my mother-in-law's 73rd birthday.
Steel cables photographed against a blue sky. They are part of the cable-stayed bridge ‘El Puente de l'Assut de l'Or’ in Valencia/Spain, which was designed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava.
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Stahlseile vor blauem Himmel fotografiert. Sie gehören zu der Schrägseilbrücke „El Puente de l'Assut de l'Or“ in Valencia/Spanien, die von dem berühmten Architekten Santiago Calatrava entworfen wurde.
It took a while to turn this flat pic taken in soft dull light into this.
I used about 6 layers treating each differently and then blending them to produce the pic.
The Yu long Glacier is at the upper RH side at an elevation of around 15,000 feet or 4800 metres.
The cable car to the Glacier can be seen running diagonally.
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern or a series of parallel lines. This is in contrast to the modern suspension bridge, where the cables supporting the deck are suspended vertically from the main cable, anchored at both ends of the bridge and running between the towers. The cable-stayed bridge is optimal for spans longer than cantilever bridges and shorter than suspension bridges. This is the range within which cantilever bridges would rapidly grow heavier, and suspension bridge cabling would be more costly.
Cable-stayed bridges have been known since the 16th century and used widely since the 19th. Early examples often combined features from both the cable-stayed and suspension designs, including the Brooklyn Bridge. The design fell from favor through the 20th century as larger gaps were bridged using pure suspension designs, and shorter ones using various systems built of reinforced concrete. It once again rose to prominence in the later 20th century when the combination of new materials, larger construction machinery, and the need to replace older bridges all lowered the relative price of these designs.
Two strip malls on Las Vegas Boluevard, Cable Center Shops and Hawaiian Marketplace, have closed and will likely be demolished as the owner plans to build "a new flagship retail, entertainment and dining experience" on the site. This location is directly across the street from the CityCenter development, which includes the Aria Resort & Casino, Waldorf Astoria hotel, and luxury shopping center The Shops at Crystals; and immediately south of the rumored resort and casino financed by Tilman Fertitta.
The ride up to the Pic Du Midi Observatory is a hair raising two cable cars stretch across the valleys to climb 1100m to reach the observatory and viewing platform at the top
Cable Ducts inside a long mountain service tunnel in the ENEL Roncovalgrande hydroelectric power plant, Maccagno
Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20
HDR, 3 jpg shots, +/-2EV, Photomatix 4, Topaz Adjust, Photoshop CS3
Better in large, press L
Another pano view from our cable car trip!
Some info from Wikipedia:
The Emirates Air Line is a cable car link across the River Thames in London, England built by Doppelmayr with sponsorship from the airline Emirates. The service opened on 28 June 2012 and is operated by Transport for London. In addition to transport across the river, the service advertises "a unique view of London". The duration of a single crossing is ten minutes (reduced to five minutes in rush hour as the service speed is increased).
The service, announced in July 2010 and estimated to cost £60 million, comprises a 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) gondola line that crosses the Thames from the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Victoria Dock, to the west of ExCeL London.
There are 36 passenger gondolas, of which 34 are in use at any one time, with a maximum capacity of 10 passengers each. All passenger gondolas are ready for disabled persons using wheelchairs, including those ones with leg rest extensions. There are also two (open) engineers' gondolas for use by maintenance staff.
Sorry I'm not able to identify any buildings in this view, but see if you can spot the trains!
Charger plug and cables for a phone I bought in 2008, now just stuffed in a box. Why am I keeping them? I don't know.
Taken at 1:1 magnification. For #MacroMondays #Junk
In the music studio recording a new part. A full discography streams on all platforms via the profile link.
Cable beach as the sun was setting, I did not get the quintessential camel shot as I was unable to go down to the beach, on my way to the restaurant for dinner
Its hard to pass up an opportunity to visit Railfan Heaven while in the same continent.
A long stack train with three General Electrics up front and two pushing from behind snakes through Cable.
Good to see there are a few warbonnets still roaming around. The dash-8s and scungy 6xx series seem to have been parked, but what's left of the 7xx and 4700-19 batches seem in reasonable nick, despite coming up on two decades of service next year.
21 September 2016, Cable,
Tehachapi Pass, California
The cable car exhibit at Griffith Park's Travel Town Museum leaves a lot to be desired. But I guess it takes time and money to restore something like this, which has been in a state of decay for as long as I can remember.
Alpine view abandoned sanatorium .
The cable car was in a building away from the main sanatorium, I have never seen such a thing as an abandoned cable car anywhere so seeing it within an abandoned hospital was an extra treat for me, This would have been the only way up or down from this place in the winter as the small winding road was a challenge on a good day. It must have been a nerve testing experience to use this contraption swinging about near the trees, In the control room the old TV monitors were held up by the bottom half of a dentist chair!!.
And on another note :
Rip to Steve Jobs a great man who changed the way we all work and play with our much loved Apple computers and ipods and ipads and iphones the list go's on .
I took this from the inside of a cable car in San Francisco, looking out the back. The guy who collected the tickets was standing right in front of me, on the other side of the glass, yet in the picture it looks like you can see right through him! It's quite spooky - I think it's a strange optical illusion, because of the way the buildings on the other side of the street are almost perfectly reflected in the glass. I've studied the picture for ages and still can't fathom it!
Krossobanen is the first cable car to be built in (1928) Northern - Europe. Krossobanen whisks you up to the foot of Hardangervidda, Norway's largest national park. It is Scandinavia's oldest and most original two-way cable-car that is still in regular traffic. You can find it in Rjukan Telemark (Rjukan was the scene of of the heavy water sabotage during ww2).