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This was taken in Peshastin to show that not only is the American Infrastructure outdated, but considering that there was a major wreck here in the last century, and now it's also hailing oil trains, I figured I'd better document it.
No mistaking the sight and sound of a Deltic, 55017 "The Durham Light Infantry" .
From the Napier Chronicles
Finsbury Park TMD.
1L43 14:03 King's Cross - York.
1A31 18:14 York - King's Cross.
Finsbury Park TMD.
Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, HCC, India.Hemant Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Infrastructure Finance, India.Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Indian Prime Minister's G20 Sherpa, Hemant Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Infrastructure Finance, India, Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, HCC, India, Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Editor and Deputy Resident Editor, Hindu, India and Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, USA. speaking during the Session "The Infrastructure Enigma" at the India Economic Summit 2019 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Pictured is a view of the Amtrak/Metra/BNSF Coach Yard from the Roosevelt Street bridge looking south in Chicago, IL. On the left are various Amtrak coaches and their associated service facility. The tracks on the right are Metra staging and coach storage and the large building on the far right is the BNSF maintenance facility which I believe is primarily used to service the coaches used on the line they operate for Metra.
Country: GREAT BRITAIN
Operator: BR Eastern Region
Item: DIESEL & SIGNAL & INFRASTRUCTURE
Class or Maker:
Wheel Arrangement or Type: Bo-Bo
Number: D82xx
Place details: NORWICH THORPE JUNCTION
Additional notes: std
Train is from London Liverpool Street to Norwich
Original source material: 35mm colour slide
Photographer: Alfred Harrison
Copyright: Photographer's estate
Library locator reference: AHAR_0153 Ref.D144
30937 Transport Photograph Database
1961XXXxxAHAR144cs
Light penetrating surface panels were installed in the cantilevered sidewalk south of Colman Dock. For more information, check out www.waterfrontseattle.org/seawall.
Tracks are now being built in the area south of the Kimball station.
The old tracks were demolished, ballast removed, ducts dug up, and now new underground electrical components and lower ballast are in.
Service to Kimball is set to resume early Monday morning after the 9-day closure to make this work possible.
Workers are beginning to near completion after around 1500 feet of track was renewed this weekend.
Large portions of track on the Ashland (former Englewood) Branch of the Green Line have seen improvements in advance of 24/7 Red Line service rerouted to Ashland/63rd via these tracks during the coming Red Line South Reconstruction Project.
The improvements will help ensure more reliable service during the reroutes.
Lakeside town of Aspern
Aspern Urban Lakeside (urban development project)
Logo of Aspern - Vienna's Urban Lakeside
Aspern Urban Lakeside (Vienna)
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Basic Information
Bundesland (Federal state) Wien (W)
Judicial district of Donau City
District of Vienna 22. District: Donau City (KG Aspern)
♁ coordinates 48 ° 13 '33 "N, 16 ° 30' 13" O coordinates: 48 ° 13 '33 "N, 16 ° 30' 13" E | |
Height of 157 m above sea level.
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View from the north to the urban development area Aspern Urban Lakeside, 2012
Source: STAT: Gazetteer; BEV: GEONAM; ViennaGIS
The Aspern Urban Lakeside (officially also Aspern Urban Lakeside, project name: Aspern - Vienna's Urban Lakeside) is a part of town under construction in the 22nd district of Vienna Danube city and one of the largest urban development projects in Europe of the 2010s. Over a period of around 20 years a new district should arise, in which over 20,000 people are supposed to work and to live. The first of three development stages focuses until around 2017 to the south of the part of the city.
Location
Aspern Urban Lakeside with lake, 2012
The planned seaside town is located about 7 kilometers east of the city center, on the other bank of the Danube, already on the verge of March field (gravel and stone plain in Lower Austria bordering Vienna).
The area is bounded as follows:
In the north of the Marchegger Eastern Railway, forming since 1870 the (currently operated hourly) connection between Vienna and Bratislava and long has been used by the legendary Orient Express. The here layed out traffic station Vienna Aspern Nord offers since October 2013 U-Bahn (U2) underground traffic to the center of Vienna and from 2017 S-Bahn ÖBB (line S80) suburban traffic to Vienna's main train station as well as regional trains.
To the east beyond the Josefine Hawelka pathway or the Cassinonestraße adjoin settlements of the since 1938 belonging to Vienna outskirts village of Essling.
In the south adjoins to the site an extensive factory premises of General Motors Austria, which lies at the Groß-Enzersdorfer Road (bus number 26A), connecting Aspern and Essling.
In the West adjoins beyond the Johann Kutschera alley the belonging to Aspern suburban settlement to the area.
Positions of neighboring districts:
Hirschstetten, Breitenlee, Lackenjöchl
Neuessling
Outskirts settlement, neighboring communities, Essling, Aspern
History
The area northeast of the historic village of Aspern in March field was named after a man-made lake in the center of the development area.
On the former airfield Aspern, Vienna's airport during the interwar period, by the year 2028 around 240 hectares should be developed. This corresponds to the area of 7th and 8th district of Vienna. Planned are around 10,500 homes for 20,000 people and business premises for 15,000 office jobs as well as 5,000 jobs in industry, science, research and education.
For the development and utilization responsible is the Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG, a real estate development company which in December 2004 as a subsidiary company of the Vienna Business Agency, a fund of the City of Vienna (73.6%) and the (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) Federal Property Association (26.4%) was established. The planning is done in consultation with the relevant municipal departments of the city administration and the Wiener Linien, the public transport company of the city of Vienna.
The former airfield Aspern in 2007; top left of the factory Opel Vienna
The first finished house in the seaside town, the aspern IQ, 2012
Construction phase of the first tranche of homes in the southwestern part of the seaside town's area (October 2013)
Construction of the first tranche (June 2014)
Urban Planning
The urban concept of the maritime city is focused on the mixing of functions - there should be no purely residential use or commercial use. In this way, a dormitory town should be avoided and during the day non-stop revival obtained. The master plan for the seaside town was created by Swedish architect John Tovatt and adopted unanimously by the Vienna City Council on 25 May 2007. Essential contents are the functional arrangement of uses and the spatial configuration of both small and large urban gestures to an urban master plan.
Public space
The geographic center of the seaside town will form a 5-acre lake, which already largely exists, in a total of 9 hectare park. The lake is fed from groundwater. The public space - thus streets, squares and parks - occupies 50 percent of the total area of urban development.
In order to make the public space for the people who will live and work in the seaside town attractive, the Danish open space planners Gehl Architects by the Wien 3420 AG and the Municipal Department 19 (architecture) with the creation of a planning manual for public space (a "score of the public space") were commissioned. The planning manual is based on the idea that public life is a precious commodity that needs to focus it. Therefore Gehl Architects particularly important axes have worked out in the seaside town. The Circular road as a major route that has received the name Sun alley, the Red chord (shopping street, culture), the Blue string (sea park and promenade) and the Green string (green spaces, recreational areas). By 2015, three parks are built, the central Marine park, the Yella-Hertzka park and Hannah Arendt park, along with 8 hectares (May 26 2014 ground-breaking ceremony).
Development phases
The construction of the seaside town of Aspern is to take place until 2028 in three stages:
Stage 1 (2009-2017): The development company Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG builds the green spaces and the technical infrastructure (roads, sewage, etc.) and thus provides the impetus for the development of the maritime city. In the first large-scale expansion in the southwestern part of the maritime city arises a mixed quarter with approximately 2,600 residential units, offices, business and service companies as well as research and development facilities. The large volume is to ensure local supply and the desired mix of uses from the start. In October 2013, the metro stations Aspern North at the northern edge of the area and Seaside town as terminus of line U2 in the south have been opened. In this stage also falls the establishment of a R & D Park (research and development). As first impulse project there emerges an Innovation Quarter (Technology Centre), for which a realization competition was launched. With the IQ aspern by 2012 a first settlement core was created.
Stage 2 (2017-2022): The Station Aspern North and the connection through a powerful city street to the A 23 motorway and the branch S 1 are completed. Other residential and mixed districts and the train station and office quarters arise.
Stage 3 (from 2022): To the train station, the shopping street and the subway route adjacent areas are further compressed, the mix of uses is further improved.
Cultural and Medial
Lighted cranes art action Kranensee, 2014
On February 15, 2014 was held on the construction site of the seaside town of Aspern the art action Kranensee - a ballet of cranes. Some of the then 42 tower swivel cranes and a concrete pump have been fitted with differently colored lights, which to specially composed orchestral music shone, 15 cranes were occupied by crane operators, who approriate for the music turned the booms.
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Johnson Street Bridge (the Blue Bridge), connects to Victoria's downtown from Vic West and other west side neighbourhoods and municipalities.
There are actually two bridges spanning the city's Inner Harbour - one serving road traffic and the other, on the left of the picture, serving rail.
Numbers of years ago the city assumed liability and the railway reluctantly allowed legal access for cyclists and pedestrians, albeit with an instruction (often ignored) that cyclists dismount while crossing the rail bridge on the 2.5 metre wide platform adjacent to the tracks. The space is inadequate for the thousands of cyclists and pedestrians who cross the bridge every day.
The bridge will be replaced in a project now underway, with design work and the decommissioning of the old bridges only a few months away. The rail bridge will go first and the road bridge will stay in place until the new structure is complete, scheduled for late 2015.
Until 2005, the rail bridge was still the responsibility of Canadian Pacific, the national railway company that built the railways across Canada at the time of confederation back in the 19th century. CP for many years was attempting to abandon the E&N rail service on Vancouver Island and did little to maintain their infrastructure.
Noticeable is the more advanced rust and corrosion on the rail side.
At the end of March, 2011, the city's consulting engineers declared the bridge unsafe for rail. Many of the structural members are near failure due to pack rust that forms in between the plate steel and rivets holding it all together. Maintenance and repair is a difficult, if not a fruitless endeavor that, at best, would squeeze out a few extra months of service for the railway, but for excessive expense. Sort of like painting your old car so it looks nice on the way to the scrapyard.
Without the stresses of heavy rail crossing the bridge, it may still serve cyclists and pedestrians until decommissioning in January, when some creative thinking will be required to help maintain some level of safety and comfort for cyclists crossing the road bridge (pedestrians already have an existing sidewalk).
A complaint from the local media that the city didn't do its job and could have maintained the rail bridge is misplaced. We inherited a structure already in an advanced state of deterioration and its failing condition report informed our decision to replace the bridge. Both the design and age of the bridge, as well as the harsh salt water environment eating away at both the foundation and superstructure have forced our hand. There is little that can be done to augment the bailing wire and duct tape solutions being applied to keep the bridge going for those few months of service left.
Putting more money into the old bridge makes little sense. Best to start making arrangements for the change to come. Rail will be moved to the west side of the bridge in any event and the service is already down for other maintenance work.
Life support for the old bridge is an expensive luxury. The money will be better spent ensuring a sensible transition to allow bridge users to adapt to the next phase of the project.
It may not look like much. A dirt road through the forest just under a quarter mile long. To me however, it represents 2 years of work and it's not quite done yet. If you want a whole new appreciation for the miles of streets, roads and highways you travel each day, try building a road yourself, with your own manual labor and a couple pieces of decrepit equipment. The end product should be an "all-weather" road drivable in 3 seasons. 6 culverts have been placed so far with more ditching and more building up and grading to be done. Of all the roads leading to the cabin this last piece will have the most meaning each trip, built of my own sweat equity.
September 18, 2022.
Great news for residents of District 7. The Vallecillo Road Project has received the funding necessary to start construction soon.
The City of Laredo Mayor, Pete Saenz, welcomed U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar at City Hall Council Chambers to announce a $3 million earmark. These funds will be allocated to Webb County and the City of Laredo Regional Mobility Authority for the Vallecillo Road Project.
The overall project cost is $45.7 million; a roadway extended for 2.75 miles east-west, just a mile and a half north of IH 69W, an area known for its continuous industrial growth and development. The Vallecillo Road will connect IH 35 and FM 1472, alleviating daily transportation traffic.
Described as a unique public-private partnership, the Vallecillo Project will come to fruition thanks to the collaboration of various entities, including Jed Brown, Chairman of Webb County and City of Laredo Regional Mobility Authority; Cliffe Killam, President & CEO at Killam Development; State Representative Richard P. Raymond; State Senator Judith Zaffirini; and many others that came together in support of this project.
August Bonus - Poles, Pillars, Posts and Pylons - at Compositionally Challenged
This looked to me like an electrical intersection with power lines going every which way, three types of pylons and poles and an electrical substation in the distance.
The Boris Dangleway
Opened to the public at midday on 27th June 2012, the London Emirates Air Line Cable Car now runs between two newly constructed terminals (Emirates Greenwich Peninsula by the O2 and Emirates Royal Docks beside the ExCeL conference centre) and will be capable of transporting up to 2,500 people in each direction per hour, in one of 34 cabins.
With the bulk of the construction work completed within a year, the new structure has a cable span of 1.1km (0.7ml) and is supported by three helix towers. At its highest point, passengers will be 90 metres (275ft) above the Thames.
Journeys take approximately five minutes during peak times, and approximately 10 minutes at other times, when transit will be purposefully slowed to accommodate tourists and leisure users experiencing the service.
Speaking at the launch, Mayor of London Boris Johnson lauded the service as: “A stunning addition to London’s transport network, providing a much-needed new connection across the Thames… [which supports] my ambitious plans to revive the neighbouring areas, which have been neglected for decades, creating jobs for Londoners and stimulating growth.”
Asked whether the route would fall out of favour once Olympics visitors had left the capital, the mayor responded that the cable car is vital in ensuring the long-term development and prosperity of the locality: “This area will undergo a tremendous transformation in the next 10-15 years; great economic growth has always been preceded by infrastructural development… [The journey] provides a panorama of some of the most opportunity-rich areas in the capital.”
Passengers wishing to try the service will be charged a cash fare of £4.30 one-way, or £3.20 if paying with an Oyster card. Children being charged £2.20 or £1.60 respectively and it will also be possible to buy a ‘frequent flyer’ boarding pass enabling regular commuters to make 10 single journeys for £16.
My 'internet in a box'. The Mac Mini have VM Ware on it, and I've got a library of web tools on the hard drives. There's a router sitting on top of the Mini, and the services are available to the people using my network even if we don't have a solid internet connection. My favourite service to run is DimDim, which does web based video conferencing and chat.
I'm using JumpBox systems, and having a great time with them.
www.jumpbox.com/go/virtualization
The whole system fits inside the yellow Pelican Case
The Yass Town railway truss is highly significant because it was the major component of infrastructure on the historic (infamous) Yass Tramway. It is a highly visible and imposing structure and it set the course for the adoption of American bridge technology in lieu of the previous dominance of British bridges so favoured by John Whitton. Despite being abandoned, it still retains its original fabric. It is a landmark structure in the history of railway bridges in New South Wales.
Historical Notes: When the extension of the Main South Railway from Goulburn to Cootamundra was being planned in 1870 it was intended to take the line into Yass Town. However, following a site visit by Engineer-in-Chief John Whitton who recognised the route would involve more than one crossing of the Yass River by expensive iron bridges, the line was shifted 5 kms (3 miles) north which required no crossings of the river but bypassed the town. Despite the vehement protests of the townsfolk, the Departmental route was adopted and the line was completed to Bowning (north west of Yass) in July 1876 with a station about 3 km (2 miles) north of Yass Town.
So, although the Yass residents could not have the main line through their town, they persistently petitioned successive governments to have a branch line and were eventually successful. In 1889 the Minister for Public Works authorised construction of a lightweight railway or tramway from the renamed main line station, Yass Junction to the town. It could have stopped at the Yass River with passengers and goods transhipped the short distance into town via the existing iron lattice road bridge. But no, the tramway had to go into the town, so a large (200 feet) span steel truss was built over the river.
The bridge represented a gross over capitalisation of a line that would prove to be operationally expensive and never showed a profit. Contractors Kerr & Cronin completed the line in July 1891 for £13,156 and McMasters’ bridge cost £5,412 in an all up cost of £27,318. So the bridge represented 20% of the final cost, just to satisfy town ego and have a grand opening ceremony in the town by the Governor, Earl of Jersey, on 20th April 1892.
Despite the Railway’s displeasure with the line, the bridge was in fact a technical milestone. Prior to this, the dominant main line metal bridge was the heavy wrought iron lattice truss, fully imported from England. But on the eve of John Whitton’s retirement, the winds of change were blowing. The technical and economic merits of American bridges was widely recognised and independent groups of engineers in the Railway Construction Branch under Henry Deane, the Existing Lines Branch under George Cowdery and those in the Tramway Branch were designing and planning to construct large American steel trusses and Yass got the first.
Physical Description: A single span, lightweight steel Pratt truss of 61m (200ft) span on brick piers with timber beam approaches.
Source: NSW Office of Environment & Heritage, Heritage Branch Website online database at www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=5012296.
Photos: Yass Rail Bridge – views by John Immig 2005