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The Atomium was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. It is composed of nine steel spheres linked together to form a unit cell of an iron crystal enlarged 165 billion times.
Azimuth 321.2°, 4.28 km away (2.66 mi), height 102 m (335 ft).
Address: Place de l'Atomium 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
The Grand Palais (or Palais 5) is a large Art-Deco exhibition hall (13 040 m²) erected for the the Brussels International Exposition of 1935. Its four pilasters are topped by 4.3 meters high bronze statues.
Azimuth 324.0°, 4.8 km away (2.98 mi), height 47.3 m (155 ft).
Address: Place de Belgique 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
Photo taken in 2012 from the top of the Brusilia Residence.
FR : L' Atomium et le Palais 5 du Heysel à Laeken (Bruxelles)
L' Atomium fut conçu par l'ingénieur André Waterkeyn pour l'exposition universelle de Bruxelles en 1958. Il est composé de neuf sphères en acier reliées entre elles pour former une cellule unitaire d'un cristal de fer agrandi 165 milliards de fois.
Azimut 321.2°, distance 4.28 km, hauteur 102 m.
Adresse : Place de l'Atomium 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
Le Palais 5 est un grand hall d'exposition Art-Déco (13 040 m²) érigé pour l'Exposition internationale de 1935 à Bruxelles. Ses quatre pilastres sont surmontés de statues en bronze de 4,3 mètres de haut.
Azimut 324.0°, distance 4.8 km, hauteur 47.3 m.
Adresse : Place de Belgique 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
Photo prise en 2012 du haut de la Résidence Brusilia.
NL: Heyzels Atomium en Paleis 5 in Laeken
Het Atomium werd ontworpen door ingenieur André Waterkeyn voor de Wereldtentoonstelling van Brussel in 1958. Het bestaat uit negen stalen bollen die met elkaar verbonden zijn tot een eenheidscel van een ijzerkristal dat 165 miljard keer vergroot is.
Azimut 321.2°, 4.28 km ver, 102 m hoog.
Adres: Place de l'Atomium 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
Het Paleis 5 is een grote Art-Deco tentoonstellingshal (13 040 m²), gebouwd voor de Internationale Tentoonstelling van 1935 in Brussel. De vier pilasters worden bekroond door 4,3 meter hoge bronzen beelden.
Azimut 324.0°, 4.8 km ver, 47.3 m hoog.
Adres: Place de Belgique 1, 1020 Laeken (Brussels)
Foto genomen in 2012 vanaf de top van de Brusilia Residentie.
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Reproduction prohibited without my written consent.
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Just a simple candid street style Snapograph captured at London UK of a guy going about his important business of helping to keep our streets clean.
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“The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times are about losing spirit,
and hope,
and what happens when dreams dry up.”
The moored houseboats and the marina rose with the high floodwaters at Green River Lake. The marina’s paths collected debris.
My first ride in the cab of a steam locomotive. The engineer was kinda young. Niles Canyon Railway near Sunol, California.
Doug Harrop Collection • March 1989
With Mr. Harrop at the throttle of a B39-8E locomotive, SP 8038 departs the Ogden, Utah area at West Weber on another journey through the Great Basin to the crew change in Carlin, Nevada.
Drs`s unbranded blue liveried 37422 "Victorious" passes Colton with 6Z20 the 10.39 York Thrall works to Doncaster up decoy RDT engineers train which is now routed via the ecml from Colton to Doncaster 04/04/2023.
Waiting for the pressure to build up before taking Old #3 on a shakedown after a several month refurbishment. Niles Canyon Railway maintenance facility, near Sunol, California.
Brittle stars, an alternate common name is the 'serpent stars', are a species-rich class of echinoderms with outstanding regenerative abilities. Living under rocks or in crevices with only the tips of the arms exposed, they are known to be seafloor ecosystem engineers. They reshape the seafloor sediment surface and influence the distribution of other seafloor species. They also provide nutrition to fish, sea stars and crab predators.
Their presence in a sediment sample is one indicator of a healthy benthic community. They embody nature's fragility and resilience.
Shot from the Three Pools shoreline during low tide.
Sign on the roof of Treg Trailers, a local engineering workshop and showroom for household domestic trailers and custom built trailers. The sign on the roof is accompanied by a life-sized red trailer.
The title refers to the only engineer's name that I automatically recall from a classic Dr Who episode. Unfortunately Engineer Eckersley was a bad 'un, in league other bad 'uns to steal the valuable mining deposits.
66078 heads south through the Lune Gorge towards Dillicar with 6K27, the 14.43 Carlisle - Crewe Engineers on Thurs 11th August 2022.
EWS Livery Class 66 66087 heads south at Woodacre near Garstang on 6k27 6K27 1443 Carlisle N.Y. - Crewe Basford Hall Yard on 18/03/2021
The Claymills Victorian pumping station is keen to encourage the next generation of engineers. This young man took us down to the the space above the boilers and explained the restoration project he was working on with his team .
Running tender-first toward the interchange at Leaman Place. Will we find some freight cars there for us?
We are rolling through the bucolic country of Amish farms along the Strasburg Railroad.
Nikon D850 & Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ/12.8 @ ƒ/110
This is an old one from the vault. He was a regular personality who rode his tricycle fitted with a mock-up steam engine around the ByWard Market. Haven't seen him around for over 5yrs.
Note: Rocky Mountain is at the old location of ByWard Market.
Rolleiflex Automat MX Zeiss Tessar 75mm f/3,5
Kodak TMAX 400 (EI 1600), XTOL (1:1) 20C, semi-stand development
1st minute continuous agitation
18 minutes stand-development with 1 agitation half-way.
CanoScan 9000F
Utah Railway engineer Stu Turner commands the controls of the RUT311 local as it rumbles into North Salt Lake, Utah, on May 15, 2012. Stu was one of the kindest railroaders I've ever met, offering a friendly wave or a trackside chat. He was tragically taken from us in July 2020 due to brain cancer.
I went for a bike ride this morning and passed the site of the old Totley Tunnel Box around the same time as an engineers train having run from the Huddersfield area. First time I've seen the new livery in action.
66537 on 6Y33 0905 Bradley Jn to Toton North Yard
7058312122 JNA, 7058310381 JNA
7058311686 JNA, 7058310399 JNA
7058312536 JNA, 7058310746 JNA
7058311330 JNA, 7058310209 JNA, 7058310274 JNA, 7058310902 JNA
NLU 29471 JNA, 503074 MLA
503576 MLA, NLU 29344 JNA
7059324381 MLA, 503589 MLA
7059324514 MLA, NLU 29532 JNA, 503565 MLA, NLU 29310 JNA
503577 MLA
Phenix First Due 1500CA fire helmet of an Engineer Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) from the mit 2000s
Large Logo 66789 "British Rail 1948-1997" passes through Mottisfont and Dunbridge station on 12/Sept/24 with 6O39 10.14 Westbury Down T C to Eastleigh East yard engineers via Chandlers Ford.
Front View
1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
From Engineer Pass (el. 12,800 ft) on the Alpine Loop in the San Juan Mountains, the view to the north east is dominated by (from left to right) Wetterhorn Peak (14, 021 ft), Matterhorn (13,590 ft) Peak and Uncompahgre Peak (14,321 ft).
Steam locomotive MINAZ No. 1716, 2-6-0, built by Henschel & Sohn in 1913, constr. no. 12428, still in operation at former sugar mill Australia (sugar mill no. 303 of Cuba).
On August 31st, 2023, well known railroader Mike Del Vecchio passed away after a battle with cancer. Although I didn't know Mike too well personally, I never heard a bad word spoken about him. Seen here is him posing as the engineer on #4109 during the United Railroad Historical Society's photo shoot in Boonton.
NJTR GP40PH-2 #4109
Winter presents all kinds of interesting challenges as a photographer. The cold, snow, and ice all provide risks and rewards. I decided to brave those elements recently and hiked through a foot of powder to the top of a ridge near Durango, Colorado. My reward was quite special. The last light of the day kissed the top of 12,968 ft. Engineer Mountain while the soft pink light at the end of the day illuminated the snow below in Animas Valley.