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The railroad trestle bridge in New York State’s Letchworth Park is known as the Portage Bridge.
The Erie Railroad Company built a wooden trestle bridge over the Genesee River just above the Upper Falls. Construction started on July 1, 1851 and opened August 16, 1852. At the time, it was the longest and tallest wooden bridge in the world.
In the early morning hours of Thursday, May 6, 1875, the great wooden railroad bridge was destroyed in a tremendous fire. The bridge was a total loss, leaving only the concrete bridge abutments.
Immediately after the Portage Bridge fire, officials of the Erie Railroad Company moved quickly to replace the wooden bridge with an iron and steel design. Construction began June 8, 1875 and opened for traffic July 31, 1875. The bridge is 820 feet (250 m) long and 240 feet (73 m) high It is still in use today. This bridge lost its title as the highest trestle railroad bridge in the world to the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge located in Alberta, Canada.
On a sad note this 139 year old trestle bridge is to be demolished after a new bridge is constructed south of this location and out of Letchworth Park.
Class 50 diesel electric 50048 Dauntless approaches Clapham Junction with the 13:10 Waterloo - Exeter St. David's on 11th February 1989.
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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
Sego Ghost Town.
Henry Ballard, one of the founders of Thompson Springs, discovered an exposed vein of anthracite coal in Sego canyon in 1908 while exploring the many canyons of the Book Cliffs. He quietly bought the land and began to hire local laborers to mine the coal. The coal camp was naturally called Ballard. In 1911 the town was renamed Nelsen after the company general manager. In 1918 the town was again renamed Sego after the Sego Lilly so common in Utah.
To see more of this interesting abandoned mining town check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157704203388472/
The Tsūtenkaku Tower, located in the Shinsekai district of Naniwa-ku, Osaka.
You can see more photos of this trip in my blog:
Aerial view of Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, showing Regent Centre Metro Station under construction, June 1978 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/4/CN11182HH). The area in the foreground has seen quite a few changes since then. The Northumberland County Ground, for example, has been replaced by a supermarket.
Tyne & Wear Archives presents a series of colour aerial photographs of Newcastle upon Tyne. These images were captured by the Newcastle-based photographic firm Turners Ltd during the mid to late 1970s.
At first glance, some of these images give the impression that the Newcastle landscape hasn't changed much in 40 years. Look more closely, though, and some of the differences between then and now will reveal themselves - see how many you can spot.
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I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO (Tony Bennett)
The loveliness of Paris
Seems somehow sadly gay
The glory that was Rome
Is of another day
I've been terribly alone
And forgotten in Manhattan
I'm going home to my city by the bay.
I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me.
To be where little cable cars
Climb halfway to the stars!
The morning fog may chill the air
I don't care!
My love waits there in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me!
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
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.
Collaboration with my brother (m+b).
2 x vivitar ultra wide and slims + Kodak Elitechrome 100 + xpro
Can be found on Marcus' stream in portrait orientation.