BLAST OFF! to Yesterday's Future
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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 classic Dodge and the old house, were both apparently abandoned, but they really seemed as if they would come to life in the blink of an eye. Inkster, North Dakota.
The Madeley Wood Company blast furnaces and buildings are original. Pig iron was produced in these blast furnaces between 1832 and 1911. The David and Sampson blowing engine housed in a nearby building is not from this site. This huge beam engine was used to generate the blast in the blast furnace and it’s so impressive to see how the technology had moved on from Abraham Darby I’s water wheel driven bellows in the Coalbrookdale Iron Works.
Information by Wikipedia.
Texture & Effect's by William Walton & topaz.
it was dark, we were hanging out watching tv ,
when the sun came in suddenly...blast of light!
HSS and Merry Christmas everyone!
♥
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.
Strokkur geysir (Iceland) going off. I hope everyone will be having a blast this forthcoming weekend! :)
A long exposure blast at Ratcliffe on Soar power station.
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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
Happy Wing Wednesday!
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...
I wish you a great weekend, my friends
I was photographing the roseate spoonbill when something frightened the birds and there was a big blast off. Fortunately I was able to capture this explosion of birds when they blasted into flight.
Wishing you a wonderful and blessed day !!!!
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.
Source and more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens
The cold-blast furnace of the Maramec Iron Works was built in 1848. It's sandstone base and brick chimney are together 60 feet tall. The Iron Works is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Up in the clouds ♥
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Eyeshadow
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Eyes
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Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 pulls the Chessie Safety Express over Big Gunpowder Falls at Gunpowder, Maryland
Led by BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9031, a northbound coal empty blasts up Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 21, 2019.
skagitrenee is hosting Kreative People’s Treat This event this week. Her posies inspired me. See the source image in the first comment box below.
Entered in The Award Tree Music Works contest.
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.
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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/
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Biwabik, Minnesota
Friday May 12, 2023
This eastbound Guilford train is really sailing along on the fine ribbon rail on Delaware & Hudson tracks at this iconic location at Bainbridge, NY
Barn Swallow. (view large on black) After a brief stop on the water the Barn Swallow (note fhe forked tail), takes off in a flurry of water droplets making it difficult to get a sharp image. A familiar inhabitant of barns and other outbuildings, the Barn Swallow is easily recognized by its long forked tail. It was originally a cave breeder, but now the swallow nests almost exclusively on man-made structures. IMG_5660