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The assembly would have been crane handled into position onto the 5no Adjustable Support Brackets visible underneath the panels. The All Steel panels arrive onto site flat and are then 'formed' on curved shaping tables.The 5 Vertical Cantilever Soldiers that extend down below the Panels, and touch the existing concrete with adjustable feet, provide a 'plumbing' capability. The Cantilever Access Brackets at the top of the panels provide a Working Platform for the concreting gang.
On account of some flash floods out here in the Mojave Desert, I'm posting a photo from the archives.
Decades ago, I began a project to travel the entire length of US1 from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine. I estimate having driven over 80% of it during two trips. When you get into New England, you encounter a lot of small coastal towns. Mystic, Connecticut was a place along the way. I liked this bridge because the deck of the bridge weighs 660 tons. Somehow one of the guys from Otis elevator made the thing open and close with two 40 horsepower DC motors. Gears are part of the trick. It takes about 5 minutes to move from fully horizontal to fully open. The two concrete counterweights weigh 230 tons each. It's a clever design for 1922 engineering.
An approaching boat calls the Connecticut Department of Transportation bridge operator via VHF marine radio. Railroad crossing type gates close on each bridge approach. The bridge operator sounds a railroad locomotive class air horn when the bridge is imminently going to open. (I just about jumped out of my shoes when the horn went off.) The bridge operator was female and was friendly and courteous with tourists.
Many people recall the name of the town from an early Julia Roberts movie, Mystic Pizza. The location used for the pizza parlor in the film is not named Mystic Pizza and is actually a couple of miles north of Mystic. Meanwhile in Mystic proper, an entrepreneur has opened a business named Mystic Pizza which is popular with tourists. I'm not sure if they've survived the pandemic.
No mystical pizza for me. For dinner, I ate at a nautical-themed bar. After a long day on the road, it was a great way to wrap up the day.
Cut my pizza in six slices; I can't eat eight.
— Yogi Berra
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An evening walk round an almost deserted town due to the World Cup on TV with England v Tunisia, was very pleasant. Southend Civic Centre on a sunny evening.
Roadford Lake, also known as Roadford Reservoir is a man-made reservoir fed by the River Wolf. The dam which carries a public road was completed at the end of 1989. It is viewed from the dam a few months later as the lake continued to fill.
It is located to the north-east of Broadwoodwidger in West Devon, eight miles (13 km) east of Launceston and is the largest area of fresh water in the southwest of England.
Operated by South West Water, it directly supplies water for North Devon. It also supplies Plymouth and southwest Devon via releases into the River Tamar for abstraction at Gunnislake.
For more 35mm Archive photographs of the Torridge District of Devon please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Devon/Devon-Torrid...
Set in the remote moorland of the West Riding of Yorkshire is the Dent Head Railway Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Railway.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
The bridge house where the operator raises and lowers the draw spans to let boats through. It remains to be seen what will happen to the remains of the old bridge. Behinf the old bridge you can see the new bridge under construction.
Looking along the length of the Ribblehead Viaduct towards Ingleborough, the second highest peak in the Yorkshire Dales at 723 metres (2,372 ft).
3 Forth Bridges.
Lovely still night gave some good reflections.
Fife & the Lothians now linked by 3 bridges (well 2 really, but the 3rd is not too far away!) all roughly at the same point.
On still nights like this, a ferry would be much more romantic, although it would be too busy if there were no bridges.
Pylon and beams (concrete) of the new Hwy 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand, Florida. Shot in digital infrared.
This fountain, located under the north end of the Roosevelt Bridge, was photographed at night in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
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Set in the remote moorland of the West Riding of Yorkshire is the Dent Head Railway Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Railway.
Lights sparkle along the boardwalk under the Roosevelt Bridge in downtown Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
This nighttime view of the PGA Blvd. overpass at A1A was photographed in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the ling and thanks for visiting!
This view is from under the Stuart Causeway as it spans the Indian River in Stuart, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
The west end of the Jensen Beach Causeway is seen before sunrise in Jensen Beach, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a defunct elevated freeway in Seattle, Washington, United States, that carried a section of State Route 99 (SR 99). The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city's waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km), east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay, and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in Belltown.
The viaduct was built in three phases from 1949 through 1959, with the first section opening on April 4, 1953. It was the smaller of the two major north–south traffic corridors through Seattle (the other being Interstate 5), carrying up to 91,000 vehicles per day in 2016.[1] The viaduct ran above Alaskan Way, a surface street, from S. Nevada Street in the south to the entrance of Belltown's Battery Street Tunnel in the north, following previously existing railroad lines.
The viaduct had long been viewed as a barrier between downtown and the city's waterfront, with proposals to replace it as early as the 1960s. Questions of the structure's seismic vulnerability were raised after several earthquakes damaged similar freeways in other cities, including some with the same design as the viaduct. During the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the Alaskan Way Viaduct suffered minor damage but later inspections found it to be vulnerable to total collapse in the event of another major earthquake, necessitating its replacement.
The Roosevelt Bridges reflection appears smudged on the moving water of the Saint Lucie River in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image in my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
A rock bridge reflects its image on the waters of the Loxahatchee River at Riverbend Park in Jupiter, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!
Scene captured during a day trip to the Waterloopbos in the Netherlands: the sad remains of a hydraulic engineering experiment.
A fountain bubbles on a foggy night near the north end of the Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
The El Ferdan Railway Bridge: the longest swing bridge in the world (340m), crosses the Suez Canal connecting Sinai to the rest of Egypt - constructed 2001 to replace that destroyed in 1967 (Six-Day War)
A masonry bridge constructed in 1907. Found along the Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail on Hong Kong Island.
This AIA drawbridge over the Hillsboro Inlet was photographed on a cloudy day in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. See this, and more, on my werbsite at tom-claud.pixels.com.
Work/construction site below the roadbed of the new Hwy 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand. Shot in digital infrared.
The water was choppy on the Indian River in this early morning view of the Jensen Beach Causeway in Jensen Beach, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Click on the link and thanks for visiting!