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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 cross northward. These photos were taken after the first Covid-19 lockdown and London was empty of tourists and locals. It was like a ghost town. If you have seen the Harry Potter Films you would have seen the bridge with wizards flying under and over it.
Cranes at the construction site of the new highway 44 bridge over the St. Johns River at DeLand, Florida. The new bridge repalcea the old draw bridge.
Tunkhannock Viaduct
Nicholson, Pennsylvania
Tunkhannock Viaduct is a concrete deck arch railroad bridge on the Nicholson Cutoff rail segment of the Norfolk Southern Railway Sunbury Line that spans Tunkhannock Creek. Measuring 2,375 feet long and towering 240 feet when measured from the creek bed (300 feet from bedrock), it was the largest concrete structure in the world when completed in 1915.
Originally constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the structure was designated as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1975. The bridge continues to be used daily for regular freight railway service.
This image was derived from an original Kodachrome slide that I shot on February 17, 1989.
The new bridge rising over the St. Johns River next to the lower old bridge. No more waiting for the bridge to go up (if you're a boat) or come down (if you're a car). Shot in digital infrared.
The longest Pleasure Pier in the World, Southend Pier. Waiting to watch the starling murmurations, they were at this point huddled on the pier.
The remains of the old (1932) railway bridge over the St Johns river in DeBary, Florida. Shot in digital infrared.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was constructed to give better access to the East End of London, which had expanded its commercial potential in the 19th century. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Wales in 1894.
Dignitaries assemble on Roker Pier to watch a block being laid during the visit of the Channel Fleet to Sunderland, 10 September 1895 (TWAM ref. 3768/8).
The Sunderland Daily Echo reported that on 10 September 1895 “Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, in the presence of his staff, members of the River Wear Commission and many influential gentleman laid a 45 ton block in the new Pier.
This set of images relates to Roker Pier, Sunderland and is taken from a scrapbook kept by Henry Hay Wake, chief engineer to the River Wear Commission.
Henry Wake designed Roker Pier and also oversaw its construction from beginning to end. The Pier' s foundation stone was laid in September 1885 and it was formally opened on 23 September 1903. The Pier is 2,800 feet long and was built of Aberdeen granite and concrete cement at a total cost of £290,000.
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Photograph of the Queensferry cantilever from end of approach viaduct. Here we have a view taken from a point somewhat to the right of centre line and a considerable height above sea level, as a result of which the perspective of the picture is exceptionally good. Considerable progress is evident, the upper ends of columns being already above rail level, and owing to the angle of the former the box girders are beginning to project beyond them. At the intersection of disagonal bracing, the first of the uprights carrying the internal viaduct is conspicuous. The solid appearance of the end of the lattice girder platforms is due to the fact that, with a view to utilise inside for rooms, offices, &c, they were boarded in. This picture forms one of a pair, and was the first of the series taken from a point about the centre line. Transcription from: Philip Phillips, 'The Forth Railway Bridge', Edinburgh, 1890.
My first visit to the remains of Glenfarg Railway, made a bit more special by the weather conditions.
Cut through solid rock by hand, the Falkirk Tunnel takes the Union Canal under the edge of Callendar Park. The 620m tunnel became a requirement when 18th century industrialist William Forbes, who had purchased Callendar House, objected to the proposed route of the canal as being too close to his property. Just goes to show that planning permision was a problem even back then!
One World Trade Center during a visit in 2014 shortly after construction was completed.
It's a spectacular building, but I am still fond of the original twin towers.
London, Chatham & Dover Railway insignia on remains from the former Blackfriars Railroad Bridge. Dated 1864 the insignia includes the shields of the Cities of London, Dover and Rochester, the County of Kent and "Invicta," the motto of the County of Kent.
This is, I suspect, an 'official' Southern Railway photograph as it has arrived as part of a bequest from an old colleague who was very much a 'Southern man'. It shows the south eastern 'wing-wall' or abutment of the bridges over Falcon Road - and this would be the Falcoln Road in Battersea, just to the east of the complex of tracks and platforms at Clapham Junction Station. Indeed, a check on Google Earth shows that the bull-nosed white glazed bricks still form the edge to the abutment at this point.
This is a London after five years of war and so yes, all is looking distinctly shabby and down at heel. Cart 112 stands at the side of the road and a London Transport trolleybus overhead pole, with two white band painted around it, stands guard and you can just make out the overhead wires for the 626 service that squeezed under this 16ft bridge here.
The posters make the scene with one of the classic wartime propoganda posters on show ; the famous "Walk short distances" with the pony holding the shoelace tells that familiar refrain of "go by Shanks' pony". It was designed by Polish emigres Lewitt-Him. I suspect that would be a useful one today given the incessant car frenzy we live amongst! Many of the other brands are still with us today. Cadbury, Oxo and Guinness, the latter represented by one of the iconic Gilroy Guinness 'Zoo' posters. Brooke Bond are best recalled for tea, not so much for beef cubes who are often associated with Bovril or indeed with Oxo as seen below! Senior's fish and meat pastes were, I think, a London based company now defunct.
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.
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Capacité de la décapeuse : 28,28 m³
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
A Remarkable piece of Engineering ...Seen at the "Torres" Riverside Park in the Derbyshire Peak District ..
Manhattan Bridge, New York City â high confidence.
The image shows one of the Manhattan Bridge's blue-painted steel suspension towers, with its dense vertical suspender cables, heavy upper crossbeam, lattice bracing, and roadway/rail structure at the right. The Manhattan Bridge connects Chinatown / Lower Manhattan with Downtown Brooklyn, and carries road traffic, subway lines, a pedestrian walkway, and a separate bikeway.
Description
This is a close, upward-looking architectural view of the bridge structure. The frame is dominated by:
Blue steel towerwork with riveted plates and diagonal lattice bracing.
Vertical suspension cables falling in dense parallel lines.
Large pale main cables sweeping diagonally across the sky.
Bridge deck / side structure rising from the lower right.
Clear blue sky, which isolates the structure and emphasizes the bridge's geometry.
The image is mostly about structure, rhythm, and repetition rather than the bridge as a skyline landmark.
Discussion
The Manhattan Bridge is especially recognizable because it is a steel-tower suspension bridge rather than a stone-tower bridge like the Brooklyn Bridge. ASCE describes it as an early modern suspension bridge and notes its slender two dimensional
steel towers with shallow stiffening trusses. It was completed in 1909.
Visually, the photo compresses several structural systems into one frame: the tower, main cables, vertical suspenders, deck edge, and bracing. The strongest element is the repeated vertical cable pattern, which creates a curtain-like effect over the heavier blue steel. The diagonal deck line at right adds tension and movement, preventing the image from becoming a static architectural record.
The color is also important. The saturated bridge blue against the pale sky gives the image a graphic, almost poster-like quality. Rust and wear along the deck edge add a useful counterpoint: the bridge reads as both iconic civic infrastructure and aging working machinery.
The old RR bridge over the St Johns River at DeBary in Volusia County, Florida being slowly engulfed by the trees. Shot in digital infrared.
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The Roman aqueduct and bridge known as the Pont du Gard is an incredible masterpeice of engineering to bring 35000 litres of water per hour from the River Eure to the expanding Roman city of Nimes along a 60km long aqueduct. The site is one of the "Grand Sites de France" as well as a UNESCO World Heritage site and features a superb underground museum showing how the aqueduct was built using Roman technology, tools and machines. Allow at least 4 hours for a visit!
Dystopie - Utopie/
Dystopia - Utopia
HFF
;-)
Hinter der Trommel her
Trotten die Kälber
Das Fell für die Trommel
Liefern sie selber.
(...)/
Following the drum
The calves trot
The skin for the drum
They deliver themselves.
(...)
(Bertold Brecht - Kälbermarsch/March Of The Calves)
Privatum commodum publico cedit/
Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz/
Private convenience yields to public welfare.
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so, before the official open to vehicle to start less than 30-45 minutes away, police had to clear out all the lowriders parked on the bridge for the grand-opening celebration. as soon as the historical first car crossing (actually two cars drove side-by-side to cross the bridge), lapd stopped one of the lowrider and issued a ticket. the po po surrounded the owner of the car next to the man in white hat in the back.
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Direct Rail Services 66424 "Driver Paul Scrivens" and Freightliner 66559 pass through Settle Junction with a couple of empty JNA Bogie Ballast Wagons on a Network Rail CE working out of Carlisle.