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Old Hurricane Deck Bridge Demolition
December 6, 2013
CONTRACTOR FACTS:
•The prime contractor on the $32 million Hurricane Deck Bridge replacement project is American Bridge Company, Inc.
•The blasting subcontractor is Duane Houkom, Inc.
BRIDGE BLAST FACTS:
•The old Hurricane Deck Bridge, spanning the Lake of the Ozarks near Sunrise Beach, Mo., is eight spans long. Three spans are concrete girders and five spans are steel truss girders. Only the steel truss spans will be removed by blasting.
•The steel truss spans will be removed in three blasts on three separate dates. The first blast will take place on Dec. 6. The second blast will be scheduled two weeks after the first blast, and the third blast will take place approximately two weeks after the second blast, weather permitting.
•The first blast will remove the north steel truss span. The second blast will remove the south steel truss span. The third blast will remove the center steel truss span.
•The total length of the truss spans to be blasted is 2,180 feet.
oFirst blast = about 740 feet
oSecond blast = about 740 feet
oThird blast = about 700 feet
•The blasting subcontractor is using a total of 111.72 pounds of explosives for all three blasts.
oFirst blast = 31.16 pounds of explosives
oSecond blast = 33.44 pounds of explosives
oThird blast = 47.12 pounds of explosives.
•Explosives used in the blasts are linear shaped charges specifically designed to cut steel.
•For the first blast, the detonating velocity is about 27,000 feet per second. The whole shot, from the push of the plunger to the detonation of the last charge, will take place in thirty-two thousandths of a second.
•The decibel level for each of the three blasts will be anywhere from 130-140 decibels. This is roughly equal to the sound of a 200-piece marching band or a military-grade aircraft takeoff.
•Approximately 3.26 million pounds of steel will be dropped into the lake during the three blasts. About 1 million pounds of steel will drop into the lake from blasts one and two. Approximately 1.28 million pounds of steel will drop into the lake from the third blast.
•The three blasts will slice the bridge into 38 pieces. The pieces, which will be 23 feet wide, will range in length from 28 feet long to 59 feet long.
•The steel will be taken from the water by crane and lifted onto a barge. It will take about one to two weeks to fish the steel out of the lake for each span blasted. The steel will be salvaged and recycled.
Totals from all three blasts are:
•Total length of truss spans dropped = 2180 feet
•Total pounds of steel = 3.26 million
•Total pounds of explosives used = 111.72 pounds
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A prostrate to semi-erect shrub found in eastern Australia. It occurs from as far south as Pigeon House Mountain north to Kendall, New South Wales on the mid north coast. A common plant in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Found as far west as Blackheath. It is often noticed by bushwalkers for the attractive flowers and arching foliage. The specific epithet secundum means "arranged on one side only".
The habitat is moist rocky areas and wet cliff faces, usually on sandstone. Sites are nutrient poor with permanent moisture. The range of altitude is from sea level to 1100 metres above sea level, with an average annual rainfall between 900 mm and 1600 mm.
The shrub is around 60 cm tall with narrow crowded leaves with pointed tips. Leaves are 12 cm long by 1 cm wide, smooth edged or slightly toothed.
Flowering occurs mainly from July to October. Flowers are pink and white. Bell shaped flowers are 6 to 8 mm long, appearing on a long raceme. The fruit is a capsule, around 5 mm in diameter. Seeds are dispersed by wind, water and gravity.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in the year 1810, authored by Robert Brown.
Source: Wikipedia
DB Schenker Class 60 no. 60040 "The Territorial Army Centenary" on 6E54 10.40 Kingsbury - Humber discharged tanks.
Good morning driver.
31st August 2012
Backlit.
Towneley Level Crossing signal box located alongside the Down East Lancs line by Moseley Road level crossing in Burnley. Tuesday 6th September 2011
Towneley West signal box was a Saxby & Farmer type 9 design fitted with a 26 lever Saxby & Farmer frame built in 1878 for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company by signalling contractors Saxby & Farmer. The lever frame was replaced at some time by a 24 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame, and the signal box was renamed Towneley Station on 3rd December 1951 when the 624 yard distant Towneley Colliery Sidings signal box was closed. The signal box was renamed Towneley Level Crossing Frame and reduced to a non block post on 7th October 1973 controlling the adjacent level crossing and a crossover when signalling passed to Preston signal box. The lever frame was replaced by a British Railways London Midland Region individual function switch console commissioned on 23rd September 1979, and the signal box was fitted with new window and cladding circa 1990. The signal box was renamed Towneley Level Crossing by the time a replacement Unipart Rail individual function switch console was commissioned on 29th January 2007
Note - although the name change on 3rd December 1951 was amended in the September 1956 sectional appendix supplement and shown in subsequent sectional appendices, the Preston signal box - East Lancashire Re-signalling notice (SN.1330G) shows the box as still being named Towneley West
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Van pulled out in front of tractor trailer. Driver of van fled the scene on foot.
Pine Level FD, Selma EMS, Pine Level PD, Princeton PD, Micro PD, Clayton PD (K9) and SHP (Primary).
A Level Results at The London Oratory School. (L-R) Aidan Swietochowski (18, 2 A*'s and 2A's) and Louis Cowling (3 A's) PIC BY STEWART TURKINGTON
This is the bubble level that fits in my camera's hot shoe. Back lit with a small LED flashlight and close focus achieved with extension tubes. I used Color Efex Pro's infrared filter to create this effect.
Day and night, work continues, building Doha from the ground up.
Trying out Flickr's new Android app. In use: the Berlin filter.
Mallow to Waterford Railway Line - MP Mallow 42.
Level Crossing at Coolnanav, Waterford 27th June 2012.
Explored today with Jake Wilson, extremely talented gift with photography. It's always an honor to shoot with him. Sometimes I feel like he came out of the womb with a camera.
Canon 5D Mark ii | 85mm | Natural Lighting
MBTA Train #1406 arrives Ayer with a typical MBTA assortment of single-level and bi-level coaches. A Pan Am grain extra sits in the siding ahead of us.
By 1848, four railroads joined together in Ayer (part of Groton until 1871), all of which became a part of the Boston and Maine by the start of the 20th Century. The station has been in operation since the arrival of the Fitchburg Railroad in 1845, and the tower to the right was built in 1929.
The original Antwerpen Centraal station building was constructed between 1895 and 1905 as a replacement for the original terminus of the Brussels-Mechelen-Antwerp Railway, a rather minor railway at that time, though linking the areas most import cities, and richest.. The stone clad terminus building, with it's vast dome above the waiting room hall was designed by Louis Delacenserie and the iron and glass train roof at 185 metres long and 44 metres high was designed Clement van Bogaert but manufactured in the UK.
By the 1980's it was clear that rail growth, especially in high speed services, was going to render the old terminus obsolete. In 1998 large-scale reconstruction work began to convert the station from just a terminus to a terminus AND through station. A new tunnel has been excavated between Berchem station in the south of the city and Antwerpen-Dam station in the north, passing under Central station. The result was two underground levels with 6 through tracks on the lowest level and four terminal tracks above. This arrangement allows Thalys (Paris-Amsterdam and Paris Koln), HSL 4 and HSL-Zuid high-speed trains to travel through Antwerp Central without the need to turn around thus saving the terminus only operation of Amsterdam-Brussels trains to call only at Berchem or reverse at Antwerpen Centraal.
The new station iOS most impressive and worth a visit. It has four levels and 14 (though numbering goes to 22 !) tracks as follows:
Level +1: The original station, 6 terminating tracks, arranged as two groups of three and separated by a central opening allowing views of the lower levels
Level 0: For ticketing facilities, food services and commercial shop space
Level −1: 7 m below street level, 4 terminating tracks, arranged in two pairs, also featuring the world-famous twin level escalators that start off at a gradient, then become level, then resume a gradient again, a unique solution to an engineering challenge.
Level −2: 18 m below street level, 4 through tracks, leading to the two tracks of the tunnel under the city which are used by high-speed trains and fast domestic InterCity services including the soon to be started Bruxelle- Den Haag service.
The major elements of the construction project were completed in 2007, and the first through trains ran on 25 March 2007.
This complete project has cost approximately €1.47 billion and €1.83 billion depending on whose view you take !
In Summary Antwerpen Centraal is an engineering work of art that Belgium should rightfully be proud of spread out across 120 years. It certainly stand in stark contrast to the bloody awful mess that is Bruxelle.
Brighton Level reopened last night. I bundled down hoping to get photos of the cool kids grinding and jumping - and didn't.
Heres a picture of people playing in water instead.
About 3 hours in now, we had heard rumors that this mine had multiple levels but untill now it was all on one. Through the curtains lay another level as promised!
We dicided decending further was best left for another trip, another day.
'Lord Phil' waits with a Peak Rail service at Darley Dale, taken from the level crossing..
Taken with 1955 'Hacoflex' medium format twin lens reflex camera, Tri-Lausar 3 element 80mm f3.5 lens, Tougodo (Japanese) Rolleicord copy. Illford XP2 400 mono film, yellow filter.
Walked outside this morning and noticed this mushroom growing in the front yard. Photo was taken at the apartment complex where my wife and I reside.