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A track panel job is underway at W 8th St renewing the guarded curve on Track B2 connecting from the Brighton Line to the Culver Line. The two Bay Cranes are here to move old and new track panels onto and off of the elevated structure. The process required a lot of manpower due to the aggressive schedule and short amount of time available to work (Saturday and Sunday only, and working after dark is not allowed on elevated structures), and half of the curve was completed over the weekend.
Of note next to the track is a Transit substation, bearing the TA logo used from 1962-1968. Looking closely, one can see three generations of Transit Authority logos in this photo, with the 1968-1994 logo on the crane cars and 1994-present logo on the R156 diesel locomotive (MPI, 2012-2013).
W8th St-New York Aquarium Station
Culver Line - IND
Part of the Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project, a $2.2 billion construction project that will increase the capacity of Michigan's only refinery to 115,000 barrels per day.
Monochromatic Visions Group - Admins Fave Award - Week of April 12, 2010
Featured in Flickr Explore - April 14, 2010 - Best Position #389
Me: Setting up camera and tripod on public sidewalk.
Homeland Security: pulls up in security vehicle... "Hey what are you doing? Taking pictures?"
Me: "Yep."
Homeland Security: Staring at me in silence
Me: "I don't know what that is but it sure looks really interesting."
Homeland Security: "That there is CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE!"
Me: Not really sure what to say... "OK then, just going to be taking some pictures."
Homeland Security: Watches from vehicle as I make my exposures then follows me back to my vehicle where he appears to be writing down my license plate number.
I shot this several times and was approached by security every time. I was told that photographing this was prohibited but that they couldn't do anything about it because I was on a public sidewalk. I am probably now on some terrorist watch list, hope it was worth it.
The Tsūtenkaku Tower, located in the Shinsekai district of Naniwa-ku, Osaka.
You can see more photos of this trip in my blog:
Playing chicken with the Train....So far....Train 3, Me 0 (This train was moving at around 50 mph. I had approximately 3.5 seconds to get off the bridge to safety after clicking this shot) What a rush! :) The engineer was not happy and sounded the horn the entire time including another quarter mile down the tracks.
*This photo won Best of Division (Advanced Amateur) at the Davis County Fair 2012
Still in use (barely) for freight, the upper level of the Clinton, Mass. train station. I think these tracks run from Fitchburg southeast to Framingham.
Canon AE1-P
FD 135mm f/2.8
Velvia 100
Daytime panorama of the Nanpu Bridge complex connecting the Luwan part of Shanghai with the Pudong area on the far side of the Huangpu River.
I was glad to have found this particular angle that, while partially obstructed, let's you see just how massive the onramp and the connecting elevated highways are. Such highway road projects are often associated with Los Angeles and it's car-centric cityscape but surprisingly enough it's urban China where you can find even bigger roadworks.
I encourage you to zoom into this image: below the circling onramp is a complete bus station and a park. The connecting elevated highways run above city streets with up to ten lanes, which are impressively capable in their own right. The bridge itself is tall enough to allow large container vessels as well as cruise ships to pass through.
Visit China and you will see such grand as well as small construction projects everywhere. Especially housing is being built at frantic paces as the population increasingly moves into the large cities.
New York City (USA)
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension).
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Net voor we weer wilden gaan, sprong het sein op groen en ging de zon voorzichtig meedoen. De vreugde was groot toen Rurtalbahn de hoek om kwam, dat werd iets getemperd toen de belading achter de loc eenmaal "zichtbaar" werd. Maar de loc alleen is al een plaatje waard.
We zien loc V156 van RTB door Dordrecht komen met de vooraan nagenoeg lege Blerick-shuttle als trein 51401 naar de Maasvlakte.