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As the train from Austria left, the damage to the other train became visible. The derailed car was opened like a tin can. All in all, it ended smoothly and no one was injured. Switzerland, November 10, 2022. (11/11)
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At Oku switchyard. It's public open day.
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- handheld (with Simon's "PanoTool")
- 4 pan (Philopod pitch variation)
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The LRZ is back and the destroyed sidewall was removed. The train from Austria can go away and the route can be reopened. The check of the track system is not affected by this. The accident site is not in the area of the tracks for passenger trains. Switzerland, November 10, 2022. (10/11)
The cobbled ramp on the other side along the road seen from the south. In the background the heightened part in the middle. Switzerland, April 11, 2020. (2/3)
Grand Coulee Dam is a key feature of Reclamation`s Columbia Basin Project in central Washington. A multi-purpose project, it provides flood control, irrigation, hydropower production, recreation, stream flows, and fish and wildlife benefits. Facilities at the dam include three powerplants, a pump-generating plant, and three switchyards. Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake behind the dam is 151 miles long with over 5,000,000 acre feet of active storage. Water is pumped for irrigation in the Columbia Basin to irrigate approximately 670,000 acres with an ultimate potential of 1.1 million acres. on.doi.gov/WWScPo
The other end of the former loading ramp in the north. In the recessed part had ended a dead-end track. Switzerland, April 11, 2020. (3/3)
The view to the south on the two main tracks from the hump to the shunting field. The turnouts here switch faster than normal, as they have a different ratio in the drive. Switzerland, Oct 3, 2019. (12/26)
The view to the shunting hump with the yellow sensors to collect the data. The shack on the crest for the shunting yardmaster was built along with the signal box tower. It can be seen on aerial photos from 1959. Switzerland, Oct 3, 2019. (24/26)
The 87-ton transformer is part of ITER's steady state electrical network and will connect the AC electrical distribution system to the 400kV switchyard. Foundations work in progress.
Dans la lumière bleutée d'un soir d'hiver qui tombe, tout en haut, à droite, la tour penchée du stade olympique qui ne penche pas puisqu¹on la voit de face.
P-881-200-24 New Melones Unit, East Side Division, Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, California. New Melones Dam. Looking upstream at the New Melones Dam under construction by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Note the PG&E Melones Powerplant and switchyard in the foreground.
D.M. Westphal, Photo. October 22, 1976.
Scott D. Cotner (Middle), senior electrical engineer at the Hydroelectric Design Center in Portland, Ore., Kevin Florence (Right), HDC electrical engineer, and James Graham, senior electrical engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Engineering Design Group, inspect electrical equipment at the Cordell Hull Dam Switchyard in Carthage, Tenn., March 6, 2012. A combined team from the Nashville District and HDC, which is the Corps’ national center of excellence for hydroelectric and large pumping plant engineering services, is performing a district-wide assessment of the switchyards at nine hydropower project sites. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)
Nurek hydropower plant is Tajikistan's main source of power, producing over 70% of the nation's electricity.
Video: Upgrading and Stabilizing Power Supply in Tajikistan
Project Result: Tajikistan Hydropower - Strengthening the Power Supply
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At Oku switchyard. It's public open day.
Please enjoy the interactive viewer! (thanks to fieldOfView and Aldo)
- SLR camera and lens: Nikon D90 /w Sigma 8mm fisheye
- handheld (with Simon's "PanoTool")
- 4 pan (Philopod pitch variation)
- software: ptgui and Photoshop on MS-Windows XP
Region IV project engineers participate in training for our Resident Inspector Development Program. Henry Strittmatter, Dustin Bryen and Shawn Lichvar were at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Glen Rose, Texas. Accompanied by Resident Inspector Neil Day, they were #OntheJob touring the plant’s spent fuel pool, electrical switchyards, diesel generators, control room, turbine building and emergency response facility to hone their inspection skills. The training program teaches candidates about federal safety regulations and their role in independently verifying that our rigorous safety requirements are being met. The program usually takes 12 to 18 months to complete.
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Switchyards Downtown Club, 151 Ted Turner Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia. A members-only private co-work space. Open since 2016.
At Oku switchyard. It's public open day.
Please enjoy the interactive viewer! (thanks to fieldOfView and Aldo)
- SLR camera and lens: Nikon D90 /w Sigma 8mm fisheye
- handheld (with Simon's "PanoTool")
- 4 pan (Philopod pitch variation)
- software: ptgui and Photoshop on MS-Windows XP
Late afternoon view of Mopac switch yard at foot of MacArthur Birdge rail ramp near the St. Louis MO riverfront and A-B Brewery - January 1979 (Scan Upgrade 2011)
Switchyards Downtown Club, 151 Ted Turner Drive NW, Atlanta, Georgia. A members-only private co-work space. Open since 2016.
NRC Chairman Christopher Hanson, on a visit to the Sequoyah nuclear power plant in Tennessee, looks out onto the plant’s switchyard, the cooling towers and the containment building. Photo courtesy of TVA.
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Nurek hydropower plant is Tajikistan's main source of power, producing over 70% of the nation's electricity.
Video: Upgrading and Stabilizing Power Supply in Tajikistan
Project Result: Tajikistan Hydropower - Strengthening the Power Supply
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402 S. Conejos St.
National Register 1/14/2009, 5EP.643
"The Chadbourn Spanish Gospel Mission is the sole remaining building of a now demolished Hispanic immigrant neighborhood known as the Conejos District. In the early 20th century many Mexican laborers made the Conejos District their home due to its location near the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad switchyard. During this period, the Mission became an integral part of the neighborhood, not only as a religious institution, but also as a community hub, educational center, and refuge for those in need. The Mission is also significant for its architecture. The building began as a modest neighborhood grocery store, but was later renovated to resemble a traditional Spanish Mission. Through this renovation, the building became an excellent example of the Mission Revival style as applied to non-secular architecture in Colorado Springs. The building’s Mission Revival style is exemplified in its square bell tower, curvilinear parapets, overhanging eaves, exposed rafter tails, arches, and stucco finish."--Description from the History Colorado website.
Linemen build 300 foot tall transmission towers on a hillside adjacent to Grand Coulee Dam. The towers will support new high voltage transmission lines linking Grand Coulee’s Third Powerplant with a switchyard one mile away. The lines span 3600 feet across the Columbia River.
Nurek hydropower plant is Tajikistan's main source of power, producing over 70% of the nation's electricity.
Video: Upgrading and Stabilizing Power Supply in Tajikistan
Project Result: Tajikistan Hydropower - Strengthening the Power Supply
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CARTHAGE, Tenn. (March 6, 2012) – The process of collecting and transmitting electricity generated from hydropower charged a team of experts today to assess and determine the status of structures and components at the Cordell Hull Dam Switchyard.
The technical team consisted of civil, mechanical and electrical engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and Hydroelectric Design Center in Portland, Ore., which is the Corps’ national center of excellence for hydroelectric and large pumping plant engineering services. It is the first stop in a district-wide switchyard assessment intended to identify critical power train equipment needs in the Cumberland River Hydropower System. (Video by Lee Roberts)
PPL 230 KV lines spliting. The line on the left runs about a 1/2 mile to the T10 switchyard while the line on the right heads toward wilkes-barre. When the Susquehanna Roseland line is built, all these lines will head into the T10 switchyard and the new 500KV line will come down the hill and across to the left into the 500KV switchyard.
The 220 kV switchyard in Nurek hydropower plant. Nurek hydropower plant is Tajikistan's main source of power, producing over 70% of the nation's electricity.
Video: Upgrading and Stabilizing Power Supply in Tajikistan
Project Result: Tajikistan Hydropower - Strengthening the Power Supply
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Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
Berlin, Dezember 2013
Der 18 Hektar große Park erstreckt sich über die frühere Trasse der Anhalter und Dresdener Bahn, den westlichen Teil des ehemaligen Rangierbahnhofs Tempelhof (1889 angelegt und bis in die 1930 Jahre mehrfach erweitert) sowie das ehemalige Bahnbetriebswerk Tempelhof Rangierbahnhof (1931 aufgebaut).
Nach der endgültigen Schließung des Anhalter Bahnhofs im Mai 1952 wurden alle von dort ausgehenden Ferngleise abgebaut und die Westhälfte des Rangierbahnhofs Tempelhof stillgelegt. Lediglich die Osthälfte des Rangierbahnhofs wurde weiter genutzt und das Bahnbetriebswerk zum Sitz der Brückenmeisterei West der Deutschen Reichsbahn umfunktioniert.
Die Reichsbahn beendete 1993 endgültig ihre Nutzung des ehemaligen Bahnbetriebswerks. 1995 übereignete die Deutsche Bahn AG dem Senat das Gelände.
Der Ausbau zum Naturschutzgebiet und Park erfolgte in Regie der landeseigenen Grün Berlin Park und Garten GmbH. Im Frühjahr 1999 erlangte er Natur- und Landschaftsschutz. Er wurde symbolisch 1999 eröffnet und war im Jahr 2000 ein offizielles EXPO-Projekt.
Schoeneberger Suedgelaende Nature Park
Berlin, December 2013
Schoeneberger Suedgelaende ("Schoeneberg's Southern Area") is a public park (180,000 square meters) on the site of a former switchyard in the centre of Berlin.
After final closing of Anhalter Bahnhof in May 1952 all departing railway tracks were deconstructed and parts of the switchyard Tempelhof were put out of service. The remaining parts were used by the East German "Deutsche Reichsbahn".
Nature took over in the disused areas, and in 1995 the Deutsche Bahn handed the area over to the City of Berlin.
In 1999 the area opened as park and nature reserve and was a Worldwide Project of EXPO 2000.
Over the years a unique cultural landscape of untamed nature, the relics of old railway technology and modern art has evolved in the heart of Berlin.
Nickajack Dam is a TVA hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River just downtream from Chattanooga.
Before the completion of Hales Bar Dam in 1913, the Tennessee River Gorge was one of the major impediments— along with Muscle Shoals and the Elk River shoals— to year-round navigation on the Tennessee River. Along with unpredictable water levels, the gorge was filled with numerous water hazards, some of which had been given nicknames such as "The Suck", "The Skillet", and "The Pan." In the early 1900s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers realized that a dam near the southwestern end of the gorge would flood the water hazards and eliminate the gorge's rapid downstream current. Chattanooga engineer Josephus Conn Guild offered to raise funds to build this dam in exchange for rights to the dam's electrical output. After receiving authorization from Congress in 1904, he organized the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company (later TEPCO) in 1905, and the company began building Hales Bar Dam in October of that year. Hales Bar's weak limestone foundation — which hadn't been considered in the selection of the dam site— presented numerous obstacles from the outset, but the dam was finally completed in 1913.
In 1939, after a contentious court battle, TEPCO was forced to sell its assets— including Hales Bar Dam— to the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam had been leaking since its construction, and TVA immediately initiated a series of foundation improvements that by 1943 had succeeded in halting the leaks. In 1960, however, the leaks had returned, spilling at an alarming 2,000 cubic feet per second. Around the same time, TVA began expanding locks on its dams to at least 600 feet to accommodate the increase in traffic the river had experienced since World War II, and it was determined that expanding the Hales Bar lock would be "prohibitively" expensive. Rather than spend the necessary expenses to upgrade Hales Bar, a decision was made in 1963 to build a new dam altogether on a more solid bedrock a few miles downstream.
The Nickajack Dam project was authorized January 9, 1964, and construction began April 1, 1964. Funding set aside for repair work on Hales Bar was transferred to the Nickajack project. The reservoir's construction— which basically involved extending the Hales Bar Reservoir 6 miles downstream to Nickajack— required the purchase of 8,300 acres, 500 acres of which had to be cleared. 82 families and 8 miles of roads had to be relocated. Two generators and several switchyard parts were moved from Hales Bar Dam to the new dam. Construction was completed on December 14, 1967, at a cost of $73 million. Operations at Hales Bar Dam were halted the following day, and by September 1968, Hales Bar Dam had been dismantled and its reservoir merged with Nickajack Lake.
Here's what's left of the roundhouse next to the railroad switchyard south of San Francisco. From the air you can make out the shape of the roundhouse, and guess what it was. From the ground it's not so easy.
Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
Berlin, Dezember 2013
Der 18 Hektar große Park erstreckt sich über die frühere Trasse der Anhalter und Dresdener Bahn, den westlichen Teil des ehemaligen Rangierbahnhofs Tempelhof (1889 angelegt und bis in die 1930 Jahre mehrfach erweitert) sowie das ehemalige Bahnbetriebswerk Tempelhof Rangierbahnhof (1931 aufgebaut).
Nach der endgültigen Schließung des Anhalter Bahnhofs im Mai 1952 wurden alle von dort ausgehenden Ferngleise abgebaut und die Westhälfte des Rangierbahnhofs Tempelhof stillgelegt. Lediglich die Osthälfte des Rangierbahnhofs wurde weiter genutzt und das Bahnbetriebswerk zum Sitz der Brückenmeisterei West der Deutschen Reichsbahn umfunktioniert.
Die Reichsbahn beendete 1993 endgültig ihre Nutzung des ehemaligen Bahnbetriebswerks. 1995 übereignete die Deutsche Bahn AG dem Senat das Gelände.
Der Ausbau zum Naturschutzgebiet und Park erfolgte in Regie der landeseigenen Grün Berlin Park und Garten GmbH. Im Frühjahr 1999 erlangte er Natur- und Landschaftsschutz. Er wurde symbolisch 1999 eröffnet und war im Jahr 2000 ein offizielles EXPO-Projekt.
Schoeneberger Suedgelaende Nature Park
Berlin, December 2013
Schoeneberger Suedgelaende ("Schoeneberg's Southern Area") is a public park (180,000 square meters) on the site of a former switchyard in the centre of Berlin.
After final closing of Anhalter Bahnhof in May 1952 all departing railway tracks were deconstructed and parts of the switchyard Tempelhof were put out of service. The remaining parts were used by the East German "Deutsche Reichsbahn".
Nature took over in the disused areas, and in 1995 the Deutsche Bahn handed the area over to the City of Berlin.
In 1999 the area opened as park and nature reserve and was a Worldwide Project of EXPO 2000.
Over the years a unique cultural landscape of untamed nature, the relics of old railway technology and modern art has evolved in the heart of Berlin.
This is a view of Cordell Hull Lock and Dam from high above where the switchyard is located above the Cumberland River in Carthage, Tenn., March 6, 2012. A combined team from the Nashville District and the Hydroelectric Design Center in Portland, Ore., which is the Corps’ national center of excellence for hydroelectric and large pumping plant engineering services, visited the Cordell Hull Dam Switchyard and is performing a district-wide assessment of the switchyards at nine hydropower project sites. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)