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Powder house on Bollihope Burn which served the nearby limestone quarries-building is in good condition and still retains many internal and external original features
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I just love the looks of these buildings which were used to protect blasting materials, and protect folks from explosions!
The gold mine folks have contributed tons of $$$'s and have cleaned up the mine sites and established hiking/walking trails all over Victor. The Vindicator Valley Trail is over 2 miles long and meanders through many sites just north of Victor. You can also look over the active open pit gold mine and they have restored another site at the top of the overlook. You can get a map locally "Trails of Gold". Really interesting and fun!
A view of C&NW dome car "Powder River" from the roof of the coach shop at the California Avenue Coach Yard. This was taken during the May 1989 C&NWHS meet in Chicago. The railroad let us up on the roof, to shoot the lineup of business cars, and we got to walk through them too!
A nice spring evening see the usual gathering of locals stopping by the Powder Puff to catch up on the gossip. The station offered 24 hour service and never had locks on the doors. The station has been gone for too many decades and in its prime included a service building, six small rental cabins and a miniature golf course. The mini Puff was built from the original blueprints supplied from an architectural firm in Green Bay, Wi and the help of Robert Leberak who's father was a coowner for many years.
WAAY highballing past Powder Mill Rd in Exeter. The high car detector here has been switched off, and replaced with one a few miles west at Sanborn Rd (MP-264.1). It's radio transmitter is unfortunately less powerful than its predecessor.
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Powder River Pass (elevation 9666 feet) is a mountain pass in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming traversed by U.S. Highway 16. This was taken in July, 2008.
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Grabbed this with my Nokia Lumia at the top of Express De Lindarets in Avoiraz before skiing some insane off piste! Bit of a debate going on about which route to take through the trees. Edited in the Lumia software and a slight noise reduction on Lightroom
I had the chance to go snowboarding last weekend and it was a perfect occasion to take the Ricoh as it's lightweith and small. I loved using it there, it isn't only a street camera!
Don't ask me why I want to name this pincushion "Powder" ... I don't know why !!
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(May 14th 2009)
The Powder Mills were built in 1844, a factory for making gunpowder which was built on the open moor, not far from Postbridge. Gunpowder was needed for the tin mines and granite quarries then in operation on the moor. The buildings were widely spaced from one another for safety and the mechanical power for grinding ("incorporating") the powder was derived from waterwheels driven by a leat.
Now known as "Powdermills" or "Powder Mills", there are extensive remains of this factory still visible. Two chimneys still stand and the walls of the two sturdily-built incorporating mills with central waterwheels survive well: they were built with substantial walls but flimsy roofs so that in the event of an explosion, the force of the blast would be directed safely upwards. The ruins of a number of ancillary buildings also survive. A proving mortar—a type of small cannon used to gauge the strength of the gunpowder—used by the factory still lies by the side of the road.
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Just back from a week's trip to the Maldives, 33 years since I was last there. While waiting for a Manta ray to come to the cleaning station I took this Powder-blue surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucosternon), also called a Powder-blue tang. Just infront of its tail fin on each side are horizonal fins that are as sharp as a surgeon's scalpel!. A very useful defensive mechanism!