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Some kind of sparrow but I don't know what kind. Maybe one of you do? I don't have my bird book right here
The remains of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s last two blast furnaces dating back to 1965 and 1970 respectively, are being preserved at Belval with additional adjacent facilities. This structure represents Belval’s industrial heritage. Blast furnaces A and B of the former Esch-Belval plant depict the passing of an age, documenting the liquid phase of steel production and represent the most significant landmarks at the Belval site.
Blast furnace B was the last operational blast furnace of Luxembourg, which was shut down in July 1997 following the switch to electric furnaces as of 1993. A proposal from the Sites and Monuments Board led to the inclusion of the two Belval blast furnaces on the Additional list of National Sites and Monuments as of 18 July 2000.
The conservation project for the Belval blast furnaces is being developed within the new urban area framework. The blast furnace area will be integrated as a public place and will not remain an island in the middle of the “Cité des Sciences” (City of Science). The two blast furnaces will become the hub of the Cité des Sciences, not only at urban level but also at a conceptual, cultural and semantic level.
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A mallard duck in a splashy take-off from Bushy Park pond, Dublin, last autumn.
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Taken during a beautiful sunrise in Sudelfeld, Bavaria ... at a time when it was still allowed to visit the mountains ...
Aufgenommen während eines wunderschönen Sonnenaufgangs im Sudelfeld, Bayern...zu einer Zeit, als es noch erlaubt war, die Berge zu besuchen...
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From the Nature Coast to the Space Coast, we are back from our Florida road trip. The Space Shuttle consisted of 3 parts, the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and the two Solid Rocket Boosters. The only part that was not re-used was the External Tank.
Kennedy Space Center Complex at Cape Canaveral
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My introduction to Mount St. Helens along the entrance road to the National Volcanic Monument park. This volcano is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The Mount St. Helens major eruption of May 18, 1980 remains the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Fifty-seven people were killed; 200 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. A massive debris avalanche, triggered by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, caused a lateral eruption that reduced the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft (2,950 m) to 8,363 ft (2,549 m), leaving a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater.
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Copper Basin OT-1 rounds the long curve at Kearny with a train of loaded copper ore for the smelter in Hayden, just a few miles east. The afternoon clouds are finally giving way to sun, leaving the foreground in sun with dramatic cloud cover still looming over the mountains in the distance.
Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 pulls the Chessie Safety Express over Big Gunpowder Falls at Gunpowder, Maryland
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Observing and photographing my first long-tailed weasel in its white coat was a big highlight from this past winter.
Blasting off into the setting sun, the Bozeman Local with consecutively number GP35's heads back to it's namesake with a healthy train.
I could hear this Union Pacific train for about 15 minutes before it finally blasted out of the fog. I guess sound carries on these cold foggy mornings. I finally saw the headlights just a few seconds before it reached me and got me with a cloud of blowing snow.
Boom. Went down to SD today, to do some shooting, had some delicious italian food got free oreo cheesecake. pretty good. hope everyone had a safe new years. rock on wayne.
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The slightly overpowered MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight - officially train L594) has a 2 to 1 power to car ratio with IC 6260, DMIR 400, CN 6017, and CN 2011 leading one loaded centerbean and one random loaded ore car as they fly north at MP 59.9 on modern day CN's North Division Iron Range Subdivision mainline. The local freight is making a turn from Two Harbors to Keenan Yard and return via the former Duluth and Iron Range Railroad which was the other component half of the DMIR created in 1938 when the two roads long owned by US Steel were officially merged. Today Biwabik is home to a 6118 ft passing siding and a small little used yard, but in the old raw ore days it was bustling as a marshaling point for the mine branches seemingly radiating in all directions as well as the main continuing into Virginia.
This is a region that should need no introduction to even the most casual fan as the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway is in a word legendary. I won't bore you with pages of history as I couldn't do the road or region justice anyway. It simply needs to be experienced for oneself. But I will direct you to two resources. Absolutely check out the fabulous historical information here: www.missabe.com/
And for a fabulously well written overview of modern CN operations find yourself a copy of the April 2023 edition of Railfan and Railroad right now! shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr-202304
Biwabik, Minnesota
Friday May 12, 2023
Doug Harrop Photography • May 1986
A trio of SD40-2s and a single C30-7 lift a coal train through Weber Canyon at Strawberry Creek near Gateway, Utah.
Built for the TFM in 1998, now KCSM 4543 is a long way from home. Sitting tied on the point of A70 in the siding at Fisher, 4543 takes a well earned rest under the Canadian night sky as a Deltaport to Chicago CPR stack train takes the clear block in route to points East.
CSX Q016 gets underway after pausing for my lunch break at Hancock. I miss the B&O CPL signal bridge and HO Tower once at this location.
The PoPo Power was blasting off after pausing to allow its counterpart to get off the single track Lurgan Line
The Seaham Iron Works in the 19th century had blast furnaces built in 1862. The slag from the furnaces often ended up on the nearby beaches and it was these furnaces that apparently gave their name to Blast Beach just to the south of Nose's Point Seaham.
County Durham.
An area of the beach was used to film the opening scenes of the third movie in the Alien series . The former coal-dumping site looked of another planet.
An F-35B Lightning II from VMFA-122 "Flying Leathernecks" is seen performing an incredible take off at the 2019 MCAS Yuma air show to start off its demonstration.
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Merseyrail train trail and a bit of light painting with the colour changing torch!
I've not been to this spot for a while. great spot for getting train trails at night. I remember coming here 7yrs ago and taking this photo: flic.kr/p/dvG9DQ but every time i go back i never get a clear sky! Great for a bit of light painting though!