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Tucked into a corner of the Tanzawa Mountains overlooking the Southwestern Tokyo suburbs and Sagami Bay is the Oyama Kanko Cable Car. This little cable car railway serves the tiny community of Oyama at its base near Isehara, to the namesake Oyama Afuri Shrine at the summit some 1252 meters in elevation (4107 feet in British).
Here the Oyama Shrine bound cable car approaches Oyama-dera Station at the half way point, where it will also meet its counterpart going down. Though not exactly a high profile area to visit for tourists coming to Japan, the views and shrine at the top are absolutely stunning and are worthwhile!
Oyama Cable Car Railway
Isehara, Kanagawa Pref., Japan
The CS Resolute is a specifically designed and constructed
vessel for cable maintenance and construction making her
one of the most versatile cable ships in the industry
At 140 m in length and with DP2 capability, she can
undertake sustained cable operations in harsh weather
conditions. The vessel is permanently fitted with both a
cable burial seaplow and cable maintenance ROV and
with VSAT communications broadband connectivity
available to all on board she provides an excellent platform
for trenching, mattressing and salvage operations.
Seen here entering Avonmouth docks from battery point
Taken with a Nikon D7000
Dragonflies seem to like the support cables on the boardwalk for some reason, see them there every year on occasion. Found this slaty skimmer one day, same one in previous photo, just different POV. This was extremely under exposed, tried to salvage. Shallow DOF.
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Shot with my Nikon Df with a 50mm ƒ1,8, processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack 04.
Clean BNSF power on the point of a manifest passes the tail end charlie on a UP stack train just uphill of the Cable Crossover.
15 April 2016, Tehachapi Pass, California
"San Francisco's four cable car lines are all powered from one central location with four 510 horsepower electric motors, one for each cable with its own separate gearbox. A set of six 14-foot diameter sheaves is driven by the motors, around which the cable runs in a figure-eight pattern to reduce slippage. Tension sheaves keep a constant tension on the cable and takes up slack produced by wear, car load and stoppage of cars on the line. The cables are over an inch in diameter, with six steel strands of 19 wires each wrapped around a core of sisal rope"
Do you ever take notice of the intricate world of shapes, gadgets, connections in the power lines overhead?
The cable car flies over the port ... I'm not very good with heights and missed the spectacular views that could be seen from such a vantage point ...
Only for the lazy and those without wind/waterproof clothing basically.
And for everyone during the winter season, of course...
860 vertical metres in 7 minutes
Åre Kabinbana’s valley station is just above Åre square at 421 meters above sea level.
In the station there are workshops, office spaces, a coffee shop, ticket sales with a small sports shop and a control room.
Each cable car holds a capacity of 75 people in perfect weather conditions.
Departures are every 20 minutes or continuously when the queues are long.
The journey up to 1274 meters above sea level takes about 7 minutes. Dogs are welcome in one of the cable cars, just make sure to keep it on a leash while on the mountain.
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Late afternoon near the town of Tehachapi finds a northbound UP manifest freight with a new GE ES45AH "Heavy" leader heading downgrade through Cable as it slowly makes the descent toward Bakersfield.