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The remains of an early plank road along the coast of Mendocino County. The plank road was built for logging wagons hauling from the forests of northern Mendocino to the mills at Fort Bragg. This kept the wagons off the early Highway 1. Mackerricher State Park. Fort Bragg, California USA
This was taken in Peshastin to show that not only is the American Infrastructure outdated, but considering that there was a major wreck here in the last century, and now it's also hailing oil trains, I figured I'd better document it.
At Villa San Giovanni, trains from mainland Italy to Sicily are shunted on to the train ferry for the short crossing to Messina. A chance to stretch the legs and get a breath of fresh air.
One of only two train ferries in Europe. The other is in Denmark.
"Well, they tell you how much land you get at water level. Above that, it's all about negotiation and creativity. Everybody builds outwards as they build upwards. I watched one corner building come down before they even finished it. Plenty of construction workers around here; not too many engineers."
Manuel Garcia, Building Owner
A few slices of life from the Cyber City display from Brickworld 2013. Look for it again at BrickFair Virginia in August.
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Bound for Atchison, KS, UP Train MKCAT 24 crosses the Kaw River at the aptly named Kaw Point, which is the confluence of this channel into the Missouri River. The train is on the UP KC Metro Sub. Omaha Main, and the rear end is still in Missouri.
Locomotives: UP 2414, UP 2222, UP 2316
1-24-15
Kansas City, KS
Leicester station is approaching soon. Below we pass some of Leicester City Council's massive improvements to cycling and walking infrastructure. I've been over this junction many times by bicycle, it's a treat to use.
Vila Nova de Gaia
Oporto's iconic bridge opened in 1886, when it held the record for the longest iron arch in the world. Today the metro crosses the upper level, while the lower level is used by cars and pedestrians to cross the river between the center of Oporto and the spectacular city views and port wine warehouses of the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia.
There are four other bridges in the city, best seen on a Douro River cruise. The most famous of all is the impressive Dona Maria Pia Bridge, also an iron railway bridge, completed in 1876. Designed by Gustave Eiffel before he built the famous Paris tower, and named after King Luis I's wife, it held the world record for the largest span for seven years. It remained in service until 1991 but today it stands as a national monument (it has also been designated an "International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark" by the American Society of Civi Engineers).
The other bridges are Ponte do Infante (whose central 280-meter reinforced concrete arch is the world's longest), the triple-arched Ponte de São João, and Arrabida Bridge -- the least attractive of the city's bridges, but representing a mean feat of engineering: spanning 270 meters, and supported by a single arch. It was the largest such reinforced concrete bridge when inaugurated in 1963.
Yard Jobs at Selkirk can provide some classic EMD oldies as this EMD SD50 pulls the freight train Q627 out of the Classification yard and shoves it into the West End Departure Yard on the right hand side
The images from the series “Infrastructure of Artifice” were shot on location in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2007, using a large format view camera. Being the largest port in Europe, (second only to Shanghai globally) the Port of Rotterdam is a construct of enormous proportions that necessitates the globalized economy in which we all reside. In an increasingly globalized world, society becomes ever more homogenized creating a level of disassociation and isolation within the human psyche. The photographic gaze is drawn to the literal infrastructure of the port, at the same time highlighting the artificial construct of a landscape entirely reclaimed from the sea. This extreme example of how humankind affects the ‘natural’ landscape acts as a metaphor for the implications of artifice within the modern world. The images herein, seek to meditate upon the Port of Rotterdam as a simulacrum of modern day society and how this reflects upon the human condition.
With a wave and tones from the driver 66561 heads west past Uffington hauling 6F02, the 11:36 Hinksey - Hallen Marsh Junction
Taken with the aid of a pole
AGENCY: Banjo Sydney
Agency Producer: Richard Frost
Creative Director: Georgia Arnott
Agency Creatives: Sean Larkin, Les Sharpe
Type & 3D : Luca Ionescu | Like Minded Studio
Photography from a flight over the North American prairies: the journey was from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan into the province of Alberta. A snow-covered landscape shows an interplay of light and shadows.