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After a day of continuous heavy rain, this morning started out with fog that eventually lifted to reveal a remarkable sky. I went searching in the morning to find the perfect fog photo, but eventually, it was that bright mix of blue sky and cloud that captured my attention after the fog had dissipated.
This spot, where heavy equipment and freshly compressed road gravels contrasted with the remarkable sky, proved to be the best vantage point to capture the feeling of the morning after the storm.
Photo taken with the Canon EOS R and RF 24-105mm f/4.0 L. The finished image was processed from raw in Adobe Lightroom.
After falling a little short on my last attempt to build a micro freight terminal, I decided to give it another try. This time, I used a smaller scale (1:305 instead of 1:200) and narrowed the scope a little so that I could include all of the details that were missing from the first one.
This diorama is a section of a small, manned freight terminal, designed to handle both containerized and RO-RO cargo. A Panamax class container ship is docked at the quay and is ready to be unloaded. In the staging areas of the terminal are the cargo from a recently unloaded RO-RO ship, including a fleet of new cars and some heavy equipment (including a few ultra-class, 400-ton mining trucks). Yard trucks and reach stackers are busy moving containers around the yard, and there are two fully loaded freight trains on the rail spurs ready to pull out.
The Niagara Falls transit garage & offices where demolished this summer to make way for an empty lot (not a parking lot just one that 's post 'no parking-no trespassing'.
The demolition took months and months, but has also been finished for months, so I guess I'm kind of late getting these out.
There MAY even be a video coming, at some point in the future.
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- Sci-Fi Conceptual Heavy Equipment, Backhoe and Grappler on Multiped.
Named by the God of War appears from Nordic Myth.
Worked from 20130825-20130927
First morning sunlight on heavy equipment. Cranes etc machinery in Vierpolders Brielle. Taken at first sunrise on a misty morning in the summer of 2020
As a kid I played in the dirt with toy trucks so how could I pass this going on? Man, they moved a lotta dirt!
August 6, Columbia, Missouri
Gunnlöð (gunled)
- Sci-Fi Conceptual Heavy Equipment, Backhoe and Grappler on Multiped.
Named by the God of War appears from Nordic Myth.
Worked from 20130825-20130927
Heavy equipment in the massive recycling yard on the decrepit Hinkley-side of Barstow.
Night, 2 minute exposure. Full moon (but with dense clouds) natural flashlight, and lots of surrounding sodium vapor light.
Model of the world's largest dump truck for 25 years in 1 to 28.5 scale.
Terex was the heavy equipment division of General Motors. In 1973 they released a real behemoth for the time being - a 350 ton mining truck. Since the available wheel sizes were not sufficient for such enormous payloads, it was decided to build a three-axle truck instead.
Initially, the truck was painted in Terex' standard lime green color and was put into service with Kaiser Steel iron mine in California. Later it was sent to Kaiser Steel at Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada. After Kaiser Steel was first acquired by B. C. Resources and in 1983 followed by Westar Mining, the Titan was repainted in the shown tan and blue livery.
For its time, the Titan was too big to be economic, since matching excavators and other equipment were missing. Therefore only one Terex 33-19 has ever been built. For 25 years, until 1998, when the Caterpillar 797 was introduced with a payload capacity of 360 tons, the Titan was the world's largest mining truck.
My model is fully functional and uses an SBrick to control the following four functions:
- Two Power Functions XL motors drive the tandem rear axle.
- Two Power Functions servo motors are used for steering. One for the front axle and another one that slightly steers the two drive axles so that the truck is able to take tighter turns.
- One Power Functions L motor drives two XL linear actuators that tip the dump body.
- A set of two times two Power Functions LEDs illuminate the headlights and rear lights.
The Tires used are non LEGO 120 mm tires that fit 1.9 inch rims.
Titan Clydebank is a 150-foot-high (46 m) cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was designed to be used in the lifting of heavy equipment, such as engines and boilers, during the fitting-out of battleships and ocean liners at the John Brown & Company shipyard. It was also the world's first electrically powered cantilever crane, and the largest crane of its type at the time of its completion.
Situated at the end of a U-shaped fitting out basin, the crane was used to construct some of the largest ships of the 20th century, including the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2. The Category A Listed historical structure was refurbished in 2007 as a tourist attraction and shipbuilding museum.
The shipyard at Clydebank was created in 1871 after the company James & George Thomson moved from the Graving Docks in Govan. John Brown & Company purchased the yard in 1899, and in 1905, a £24,600 order for the crane was placed with Dalmarnock based engineering company Sir William Arrol & Co. Titan was completed two years later in 1907 It was constructed by the Scottish engineer Adam Hunter (1869–1933), who was working as Chief Engineer for Arrol & Co., having served his apprenticeship on the construction of the Forth Bridge. Stothert & Pitt of Bath, England, fabricated and installed most of the machinery for the Titan, including electric motors built by Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co.
The dock was used for fitting out vessels, and the crane would lift engines and boilers into ships. The lifting capacity of the Titan, and the location of the yard at the confluence of the River Clyde and River Cart, contributed to the success of the yard as it could build extremely large ships.
When tested on 24 April 1907, Titan was the largest cantilever crane ever built with a capacity of 160 tonnes (160 long tons; 180 short tons) at a radius of 85 feet (26 m). The original lift capacity was uprated to 203 long tons (206 t) in 1938, when it became apparent that the original specification would be insufficient to install the new long range gun's turrets into ships such as the Duke of York. On the nights of the 13 and 14 of March 1941, the Clydebank Blitz virtually destroyed the town. 528 civilians were killed, over 617 people were seriously injured, and 48,000 civilians lost their homes. Only seven properties in Clydebank were undamaged, in one of the worst bombing raids in Britain. The raids, involving 260 Luftwaffe bombers on the first night and 200 on the second, targeted the industry of Clydeside, but the Titan crane was undamaged.
In 1968, the yard was amalgamated into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders along with four others, in an attempt to increase competitiveness. The general elections in 1970 saw a change of government, and funding for the yard was withheld, resulting in the closure of John Brown's. It was bought from the receivers by the Houston, Texas-based Marathon Manufacturing Company for oil rig construction In 1980 Marathon sold the yard to the French company Union Industrielle et d’Entreprise (UiE). UIE's owners, Bouygues Offshore closed the yard in 2001 and the site was earmarked for redevelopment.
Ships constructed by the crane include HMS Hood, the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth 2, and the Royal Yacht Britannia.
The crane fell into disuse in 1980s, and in the intervening period of neglect, the crane suffered vandalism to the wheelhouse and corrosion to the structure. In 1988 the crane was recognised as a Category A Listed historical structure.
The urban regeneration company Clydebank Re-Built started a £3.75m restoration project in 2005, and the crane opened to the public in August 2007. The structure was shot-blasted to remove old paint and rust, allowing repairs to be undertaken before repainting. A lift for visitors to ascend to the jib and an emergency evacuation stair were installed, along with a wire mesh around the viewing area and floodlights to illuminate the crane at night. [Wikipedia]
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- Sci-Fi Conceptual Heavy Equipment, Backhoe and Grappler on Multiped.
Named by the God of War appears from Nordic Myth.
Worked from 20130825-20130927
Fog of Ferguson Fire filling Yosemite valley. Yosemite National Park, CA, USA. Taken on day of evacuation of the valley.
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The Ferguson Fire started on Friday night, July 13 at 9:36 PM in the South Fork Merced River drainage on Sierra National Forest. In the steep, rugged terrain, with scarcely any road access and a heavy presence of beetle-killed trees, firefighters knew it would be more than a challenge to contain.
In the first 24 hours, it had grown to 828 acres, as management of the fire was taken over by the Southern Central Sierra Interagency Management Team Type 2 and an incident command post was set up at Ahawahnee Hills Regional Park near Oakhurst, California. Under unified command between the U.S. Forest Service, Cal Fire, and the Mariposa County Sheriff, the community of Jerseydale among others were evacuated. Also on the second day of the fire, heavy equipment operator Braden Varney from the Cal Fire Madera-Mariposa-Merced unit was tragically killed in a bulldozer rollover accident while constructing line in a steep canyon.
One week later, management of the fire transitioned on July 19 to a Type 1 team, California Interagency Incident Management Team 4. Yosemite National Park joined the Forest Service, Cal Fire, and the Sheriff under unified command. On July 20, the communities of Old El Portal, Rancheria Flat, Foresta, and Yosemite View Lodge were put under mandatory evacuation. The following day, Yosemite West and Anderson Valley area were evacuated.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Congressman Tom McClintock, CA-4 (R) paid a visit on July 21 to express their support.
Old Yosemite Road was evacuated on July 22. Some specific areas within the communities surrounding the fire started to be allowed to return to their homes, and others continued to be evacuated. From July 24 to 31, many communities and subdivisions including Mariposa Pines, Jerseydale, Ponderosa Basin, Lushmeadows, and others were advised of mandatory evacuations and repopulations.
A memorial service for Braden Varney was held on July 23 in Modesto, California.
By July 28, the fire grew to 42,017 acres, and the following day another horrible tragedy happened: Captain Brian Hughes of the Arrowhead Hotshots from Sequoia & Kings National Parks was struck by a snag tree and killed. A memorial service was held for Brian Hughes on August 4, 2018 in Fresno, California.
Firefighters completed firing operations from Henness Ridge to the Merced River on the Sierra National Forest on July 27, and steadily made progress on containment lines. The fire weather transitioned from moderate to extreme pushing the flame front across Glacier Point Road and closed all access to Badger Pass. Wawona was evacuated on August 1, while El Portal was repopulated on August 2. On August 3 the residents of Yosemite Valley were evacuated and the Park Service closed it to the public due to multiple hazards from firefighters working in the area. The Highway 140 corridor was also closed that day.
Fire crews at the Badger Pass camp sheltered in place on August 4, as extreme fire behavior continued.
On August 5, the National Park Service closed Yosemite National Park indefinitely. Firefighters conducted strategic firing operations off the Foresta and Big Oak Flat roads, keeping the fire from spreading into the community of Foresta and access to and from Badger was restored.
As the new week began on August 6, the weather moderated which gave firefighters the opportunity to reinforce containment lines, mop-up hot spots, and complete firing operations along Wawona Road. Along the southern portions of Wawona Road, firing operations continued south of Chinquapin to prevent it from entering further into Yosemite National Park. Air inversions lessened, which allowed large interior islands to burn off quickly. Wawona residents were now safe to return to their homes, however several road closures continued due to road hazards.
The residents of Yosemite West were allowed to return on August 7. By now, most of the residents were allowed to return to their homes, and those living in Yosemite Valley were the last to return. Throughout this fire, firefighters worked diligently night and day to achieve containment objectives without compromising safety and getting residents back into their homes as quickly as possible.
The closure of Yosemite National Park had a local and global impact on those who had planned to visit during the active life of the fire. Economically, businesses were impacted in the gateway communities who depend on the summer tourist season to sustain them throughout the year. The impacts of smoke in the Yosemite Valley, Merced Grove, and other areas will continue to impact those who live and visit the Sierra National Forest, Stanlislaus National Forest, and Yosemite National Park.
Several community meetings were held for the residents of Mariposa, El Portal, Wawona, Groveland, Yosemite Valley, and Oakhurst during the most active times of the fire. Ferguson fire public information staff provided information at farmers markets, CASA street fair in Mariposa, and presented at a well-known climber's seminar in Groveland.
There is a lot of work ahead before the fire is out, including post-fire rehabilitation to curtail erosion and other devastating effects to natural resources from fire suppression efforts. Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams have started surveying burned areas to determine methods of erosion control measures.
Full containment was expected on Wednesday, August 22, however on Saturday evening, August 18, the fire was 100% contained. Interior parts of the forest will continue to smolder and burn for some time, causing lingering smoke.
Civilian construction workers are pictured with some of the heavy equipment used in 1943 to log the pathway for the Alaska (Alcan) Highway. The U.S. Army sent many bulldozers of various sizes to British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska to be used on the project.
Of particular note are the fellow on the left holding a cant hook, and the one in front of the dozer on the left who is holding a palm from a set of moose antlers. The cant hook is a tool used to roll logs.
Bill appears in this group photo seated on the center dozer with his back to the smokestack. He did not note the location of this photo.
Some of the troops ready for deployment. Berg and Henn Co, was stationed in Marshalltown, IA in the late 60's and most of the 70's as a railroad contractor much like Hultcher is today. Later they worked out of Green Bay, WI. Most of the work was done for the CNW, CRIP, SOO, CGW, BN, MILW in the midwest. But they could be called to clean up anything!
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Gunnlöð (gunled)
- Sci-Fi Conceptual Heavy Equipment, Backhoe and Grappler on Multiped.
Named by the God of War appears from Nordic Myth.
Worked from 20130825-20130927
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