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I am so sad for coal mine explosion in my country.
The Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine Complex in Essen (More images in my series Zollverein) is one of the most impressive surviving examples of industrial culture from the modern era.
Some maintenance workers travel the 100-hectare area of the industrial complex by bike and use this pedestrian bridge.
A little different from my normal genre. This is for the group, Flickr Friday, the subject this week of wheels.
Technicians work on a speaker hanging from the trellis of Chicago’s Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion as Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” reflects its environment in the background.
I just love walking around the back streets and alleyways of small towns. I enjoy old worn and weathered surfaces and things that are a little dilapidated or shabby. Towns like this often times don’t have the resources of larger more progressive towns to keep everything looking new. Some towns are absolutely anal about appearances and are far too boring because of that for photographers looking for photogenic subjects. Even big cities can display this contrast between new and old surfaces. The so called rust belt cities like Detroit and Cleveland are an absolute treasure trove for our hobby. I have often wondered why the city officials fail to see what an asset they really have on their hands and cash in on it with photo tourism. They could promote five day getaways with tours of the old abandoned mills and factories specifically oriented towards photography. Make it safe and provide amenities suitable for the comfort of the tourists and you would put other venues out of business. Preserve it as it is as a permanent historic theme park of our nation’s heritage. Oh my. I must be crazy.
Sous une belle lumière de début de soirée, la G1206 500 1732 revêtant la livrée du loueur chinois MRCE, et louée à VFLI, assure le train 452778 Hausbergen - Creutzwald, servant à acheminer des wagons pour les ateliers de maintenance situés là-bas.
MA100 452778 Hausbergen - Creutzwald | 11.06.2021
There is an army of workers employed to keep the temple sites at Ayutthaya maintained. If left to their own devices the tropical climate would soon be covered in vegetation
25th November 2002, 52322 and 5643 are having some maintenance at sunset at baron street works on the East lancashire Railway
I really admire window cleaners.
This is a rather high building in Cape Town's city centre and watching him work made me dizzy.
Have a great Wednesday everyone!
HWW!
Rio Grande 50 ft. double door box car No. 63790 was assigned to Maintenance of Way service when pictured in Springville, Utah on July 25, 1997. The steel, 4982 cubic ft. XM/L car, was built by American Car and Foundry for the D&RGW in May 1963. It worked in general and assigned service including auto parts, copper bullion, and glass. Atlas built an N scale model of this very car and number.
The old B&O Railroad maintenance shed, or section house, as they used to be called, is in need of some work itself. At least the roof looks great! Seen in Confluence, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
I had noted these guys working high up a little earlier in the day, but the light was very different and I didn't see the shot. Just a short while later the light had changed for the better and the added bonus was the people who had congregated in the bottom right hand part of the image. It was time to get the camera out.......
One year ago today, as I upload this. The fireman of 'JS' 2-8-2 No.8081 of the Sandaoling Mining Railway was attempting to plug a steam leak in the cylinder gland of his ailing locomotive at Xuanmeichang Washery on 20th January 2016. It really did seem like a 'make do and mend' operation, with no back-up heavy maintenance facilities to call upon, rather akin to the final days of steam on BR. The long journey back home after this day's photographic session had a great bearing on my calling it a day on photographing steam in China, even though sights such as this I imagine are still just possible as I write this.The thought of making a long return journey to north west China, only to find the steam railway operation no longer in operation is just too much of a risk to contemplate!
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The freighers plying the Great Lakes are usually not too interesting to the eye until you consider the service provided to local and global industries. These vessels have hauled Iron Ore, Steel, Talconite, and many bulk minerals used in various manufacturing businesses.
The Edwin H Gott was named after a former chief executive of US Steel. The ship was build in 1978 and put into service in 1979. It underwent maintenance in 1995 when its boom was replaced. Also in 2011 its 16 cylinder diesel engines were replaced with two 8 cylinder diesels. They are far more efficient than the originals. The ship is over 1000 ft (304m) long.
The Edwin H Gott is passing under the Blue Water bridge connecting Port Huron to Sarnia on her way out of the St. Clair River into Lake Huron.
Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 Superveloce
A quick shot of this car, taken in May 2011, when she got fixed up before she entered the 2011 Gumball 3000 Rally.
We picked up the car and took her for a spin, she was returned first thing on monday so the mechanics could get back at her.
Nearly every flying insect will do some preflight maintenance -clean their eyes, wings, and antenna before take off. This Sweat Bee was so comfortable with me that he did his preflight maintenance while sitting on my finger. They are still sleeping in my Geranium flowers, but now two leaves have formed a clam shell and they are snoozing in the middle of it.
Possibly Halictus sexcinctus.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.
Amtrak GP38-3 720 rests at Wilmington, still wearing Amtrak's grey livery. Originally a Clinchfield GP38, this engine is a world away from the Appalachian coal fields for which it was built. (Taken on railroad property during a guided tour.)
Due to 7470 being down for maintenance this year's annual Mass Bay RRE's 'Steam In The Snow' charter on the Conway Scenic Railroad was instead billed as 'Covered Wagons In The Snow' and it did not disappoint. Having traveled as far as the Notchland Inn where four photo runbys were performed the two original Boston and Maine F7s (4266 and 4268) owned by the 470 Railroad Club are on their way back east with the train.
This route opened in 1875 as the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway and would remain an important through freight route for succesor Maine Central until 1983, known for most of its life as the Mountain Subdivision. Shuttered for a dozen years it was purchased by the State of New Hampshire from MEC Guilford Transportation in 1994 and revived by 1996 to become a wildly popular 25 mile extension of the little Conway Scenic.
This was the only true 'must have' shot I wanted for the day, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. They are seen at Sawyers River, MP 74.8, where fom 1877 to 1928 the 8 mile long Sawyers River Railroad (a logging operation) connected, although the MEC agency at this spot was closed in 1921. Two historic structures survive to this day, the section men's car house at right and the foreman's dwelling at left, both now privately owned. To the left of the train obscured by the snow is a 21 car passing siding that once again sees use in the summer season as a run around track. One interesting fact is that the house used to also be located on the right (north) side of the mainline but was moved across in the 1950s when Route 302 was relocated. Not wanting a private grade crossing here the railroad chose to move the home instead!
I now have good shots in three of the four seasons here, and a true spring one isn't really possible as the railroad doesn't run their first regularly scheduled Mountaineer train until May 27th.
To see a green summery view here if you missed it before check out this shot:
And for a favorite fall scene this shot:
And for a 'Steam In The Rain' shot this same weekend three years ago check out this:
As for the two classic EMDs, 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century in early 2022. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1757 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Addendum: thanks to Carl Byron for supplying the fascinating historical information below that I'd never read about before.
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a "slightly used demo" price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
Harts Location, New Hampshire
Saturday January 7, 2023
A "snake bird" or anhinga stretches out its wings to dry on the shores of the Venice Rookery, in Venice, Florida.
(21 March, 2020)