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The tunnel may have been abandoned in the early 70s but i think the car left inside is in worse shape.
Arriving right on time at 6:52pm, a Metra "Surfliner" rolls into the west-suburban Bartlett station on the Milwaukee-West District. An interesting quirk of this stop is that when they built the new station (visible in the back right), they retained the platform from the old station (that I'm standing on) on Main 1 for westbound trains. This allows westbounds to clear the main street through downtown, as opposed to blocking it every time they pull into town.
This is Metra's train 2239, an all-stops local from Union Station to Elgin's Big Timber Rd.
The leader, F59PHi no 81 came to Metra in 2019 from Amtrak California, where it had been serving on the Pacific Surfliners. It was built by EMD in 1998, and arguably, its retirement gig is more taxing than its "career."
Panorama 4 > 1
Aufgenommen von einem vielleicht 4 Meter hohen Haufen aus am Flussufer gelagerten Flußbau-Steinblöcken (Dammkrone = Augenhöhe)./
Shot from a perhaps 4 meters high heap of river training boulders camped on the waterfront (crest = eye level).
Flying south along the Suffolk coast, the huge scale of construction at Sizewell C is now clearly visible from the air.
This view looks south towards Sizewell, with the North Sea on the left and the existing Sizewell B nuclear power station easily recognised by its distinctive white reactor dome. Surrounding it, however, the landscape is undergoing an extraordinary transformation as work progresses on Sizewell C.
Sizewell C will comprise two EPR nuclear reactors, with a combined generating capacity of around 3.2 GW. Once operational, the station is expected to generate enough electricity for roughly six million homes and to operate for at least 60 years.
From the air, one of the most striking features is just how far the construction work extends inland. New access roads, enormous areas of earthworks, compounds and construction infrastructure spread across what was previously a predominantly rural landscape of fields, woodland and heath.
Along the shoreline can also be seen some of the marine works associated with the project. Construction of Sizewell C isn't confined to the reactor site itself: substantial infrastructure is required to bring materials onto the site and ultimately to provide the cooling-water systems needed by the power station.
Beyond Sizewell, the Suffolk coast stretches away towards Dunwich, Walberswick and Southwold, while the wetlands and lagoons of this exceptionally sensitive coastal landscape can be seen in the distance. The Sizewell development sits alongside internationally important habitats, including the nearby RSPB Minsmere reserve, making environmental mitigation and monitoring a major part of the project.
Sizewell C is closely related in design to Hinkley Point C in Somerset, using the same French-designed EPR reactor technology. The intention is that experience gained building Hinkley can be carried across to Sizewell, allowing the second British EPR station to be constructed more efficiently.
Whatever one's view of nuclear power, the project represents one of the largest engineering and construction programmes presently under way in Britain – and from several thousand feet above the Suffolk coast, its sheer physical scale is particularly apparent.
Our lockdown 3.0 is over, we are allowed out of our houses... and to travel locally. We went somewhere NEW, the intatke at Ardingly where I had a go with the Cokin 10stop ND that has been sitting in my bag for a while now.
I'm looking for tips on eliminating the internal reflections when I'm using the 10stop ND ... the sun was on my shoulder hence artifacts are unexpected...
This year my cameras are going to get some exercise having not had proper usage for 12 months.
My apologies for being out of practice...
Never a home, never private—this is the raw skeleton of heavy infrastructure. What stands exposed here appears to be a heavy-duty industrial bunker or cement silo system built directly onto a massive tunnel construction base.The framing lays bare the strange, utilitarian geometry of the site, showcasing how the surrounding scaffolding and support structures were built up and around the central cylindrical core. Captured in high-contrast monochrome to emphasize the grit of the raw concrete, the harshness of the steel bracing, and the moody, overcast sky.
© Photo By Oswaldo Ordóñez. All rights reserved. 2026
From the Atlantic Bridge, the Panama Canal stretches into the distance beneath a rainy sky. Even in the rain, ships continue their journey through one of the world's most remarkable engineering achievements, linking two oceans and connecting continents.
Desde el Puente Atlántico, el Canal de Panamá se extiende hacia el horizonte bajo un cielo lluvioso. Incluso con la lluvia, los barcos continúan su recorrido por una de las obras de ingeniería más extraordinarias del mundo, uniendo dos océanos y conectando continentes.
Another of my over one hundred photos of St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Footbridge over the river Thames in London.
The bridge links Bankside to the area know as The City of London and has a beautiful view of St Paul's Cathedral as you cross northward. This photo was taken with my Samsung Phone Camera. If you have seen the Harry Potter Films you would have seen the bridge with wizards flying under and over it. I have included a link below to St Paul's wiki page for those interested in history.
Continuing Hwy 44 bridge construction on the east bank of the St. Johns River. Shot in digital infrared.
so this was my another road trip from Miami to New York. i knew it will be 3000 miles plus trip but what i didn't know was how lucky i will get with the ducks. these ducks are weather, winds, sunsets, sunrises and photo cops. for good photos all these ducks must be in a row. after looking at these photos i am pretty happy the way they turned out. hope you enjoy them the way i enjoyed my trip and photos :)
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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.
© Photo By Oswaldo Ordóñez. All rights reserved. 2026
Desde el Puente Atlántico, el Canal de Panamá se extiende hacia el horizonte bajo un cielo lluvioso. Incluso con la lluvia, los barcos continúan su recorrido por una de las obras de ingeniería más extraordinarias del mundo, uniendo dos océanos y conectando continentes.
From the Atlantic Bridge, the Panama Canal stretches into the distance beneath a rainy sky. Even in the rain, ships continue their journey through one of the world's most remarkable engineering achievements, linking two oceans and connecting continents.
The architectural evolution of Montreal's infrastructure is captured here, showing the intricate green steel truss work of the original Champlain Bridge alongside the sleek, towering white pylons of the new Samuel De Champlain Bridge. The scene is set against a bright blue sky with scattered clouds over the calm waters of the Saint Lawrence River, with freight trucks visible on the new span.
Shot from the water looking westward, this frame captures the Bay Bridge's eastern span in a way that reveals something most commuters never appreciate: the sheer sequential drama of its tower geometry. What reads from shore as a single continuous structure is actually two distinct bridge types stitched together at Yerba Buena Island — a suspension span on the west side connecting to San Francisco, and a cantilever truss on the east. This photo catches the western suspension segment mid-frame, with the characteristic X-braced towers — a detail that differentiates the Bay Bridge from the cleaner, more iconic A-frame pylons of the Golden Gate. Charles Purcell's 1936 engineering achievement was, at the time of completion, the longest steel high-level bridge in the world. The low waterline vantage flattens the deck against the sky, making the cable catenary curves sing against those wispy cirrus formations. The Oakland Hills rolling behind the anchorage and the faint East Bay industrial waterfront bleeding into haze on the right give the image genuine geographic specificity — this isn't just any bridge shot, it's unmistakably the working crossing of the Bay.
GF Job are still on the go - based in Nairn. From 2007 onwards they were doing harbour works and coastal protection projects for the Highland and Moray Councils. I guess that's what is going on here. Las Plant are still on the go, based in Inverness.
An artsy look at the London Eye.
The London Eye gives great views of central London and I thought it well worth the cost when I went on it. The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3 million visitors annually. I took this photo with my Canon DSLR camera on a mixed sunshine & clouds but very warm day in London. More info below at the Wiki link
I haven't been in Hopeman since this occassion. From 2007 onwards they were doing harbour works and coastal protection projects for the Highland and Moray Councils. I guess that's what is going on here.
This view of the Roosevelt Bridge was seen from the boardwalk in downtown Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Thanks for visiting!
Power to the people.
The pylons march like metal giants across the countryside to bring power to the city.
I can't believe how lazy i have been in the past to go to New York to take some photos. boy that place is full of photo opportunities. i should start looking to buy a private jet which can fly me over there from Miami for sunsets and sunrises . but for now i will keep my eyes closed and keep on dreaming :-)
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.(wiki)
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View of the Metro Bridge across the River Tyne nearing completion, June 1978 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/4/CN11163A).
Tyne & Wear Archives presents a series of images taken by the Newcastle-based photographers Turners Ltd.
The firm had an excellent reputation and was regularly commissioned by local businesses to take photographs of their products and their premises. Turners also sometimes took aerial and street views on their own account and many of those images have survived, giving us a fascinating glimpse of life in the North East of England in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
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i Just love the way this sunset photo turned out. that evening i spent in Brooklyn bridge park was one of most cooperative evenings i could have asked for :)
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