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Something a little different this evening. Here we see remains of the Bluestone Branch that Norfolk Southern stopped using back in the mid 1980's. The line begins in Bluestone, Wv and ends around Giatto, Wv. The line that was originally N&W, now sits silent and overgrown, and in some places actually runs through people's back yards.
An early bluestone farm building in the grounds of the Werribee Park Mansion. The wall near the open door and right window has been restored.
Werribee Park Mansion.
Werribee.
Victoria.
Meat House and Cool Store, or Rations Store.
Built in c.1852, this store is the earliest substantially intact building surviving at Werribee Park.
Its high-pitched shingle roof is still visable under the later tin, and its cobbled floor is similar to many 19th centuary british farm buildings.
There is no fireplace, so it was unlikely to have been used as a residence.
By the 1920's it was used as a meat house and cool store.
It was possibly from here that the weekly rations of food were made to the men on the property."
- Werribee Park, published by Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Parks.
Got very lucky here as the intention was to get a shot of the yellow flowers and the bridge in the background. As I got down low I heard the train departing the station and only had to wait about 30 seconds before it could be included in the shot.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.
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Stonehedge, Salisbury, England.
The intriguing and prehistoric monument of Stonehenge, that earlier awoke my interest eight years ago as one of the most ancient and conclusive architectural remainings in the history of art, revealed us an even more misterious and yet partially unkwown fact. The structure of the circle, is made up of two different stones: Sarsen and Bluestones. Whilst the first is native of the place where the monument is built, the second has only been found a hundred miles from it, in the South of Wales. Why did they bring these heavy stones from a long distance, unless they strongly believed that it has an irreplaceable effect?
Cool color for this moment in time ... this was just after the sun set and blue hour was taking hold in West Virginia.
This is Bluestone Lake in Summers County, (southern) West Virginia (about twenty miles from my house). Bluestone State Park is located here as well. And, Pipestem Resort State Park is just a few miles away. Pipestem has an aerial tramway to one of their lodges located at the bottom of Bluestone Gorge.
Jack's Magazine (also known as the Saltwater River Gunpowder Magazine) is a located on the Maribyrnong River at Footscray, Victoria. It was constructed in 1871, to provide safe storage for bonded gunpowder and explosives imported into the colony of Victoria. The twin bluestone vaulted buildings are concealed behind high earth mound blast walls, and a tall brick fence, with a canal connecting it to the river. It was designed by government architect, designed by William Wardell, Inspector General, Public Works Department and built by contractor George Cornwell.
.It is registered by the National Trust, and listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and Register of the National Estate. The associated Footscray Ammunition Factory was mostly demolished and redeveloped for the Delfin Lend Lease Corporation's Edgewater estate. Jack's Magazine was proposed to be redeveloped for a commercial use, but following several calls for expressions of interests it was decided that public ownership was the only practical management for the historic site. (extract from Wikipedia)
It's a mild autumn morning at Navigators as K183 erupts from underneath the bluestone road bridge. K183 and A2 986 were sequestered to Ballarat for the annual heritage weekend, providing shuttle trains from Ballarat to Yendon and return.
This cooler toned blue hour capture there at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone really seems to pop. This could be interesting as a high contrast B&W maybe. Might have to try it out.
I thought this would like nice up against that orange sky from the Badlands that was also taken on this trip ... so these two images can compliment each other there in the photostream;))
From Wikipedia:
Design
Princes Bridge is 30 metres (99 ft) wide and 120 metres (400 ft) long, with Harcourt granite squat half columns resting on the bluestone piers that support the three iron girder arch spans. The coat of arms on the bridge belong to the municipal councils who contributed towards the cost of construction. Other design features include an elaborate balustrade along the top of the bridge, and lamp standards crowning each pier.
The bridge design bears a close resemblance to the earlier Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames in London, a resemblance which was noted at its opening. Princes Bridge is wider, 30 metres compared with 26 metres, but with 3 spans of 33 metres and an overall length of 131 metres, it is much shorter than Blackfriars Bridge's 5 spans with a central span of 61 metres. Both are excellent surviving examples of Arch Bridge design in the late 19th century.
The bridge underwent a restoration before the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
History
Princes Bridge, originally Prince's Bridge, is a bridge in central Melbourne, Australia that spans the Yarra River. It is built on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in the city, and forms a gateway into the central city from the south. The bridge connects Swanston Street on the north bank of the Yarra River to St Kilda Road on the south bank, and carries road, tram and pedestrian traffic. The present bridge was built in 1888 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Because of its position, Princes Bridge is often a focal point for celebratory events in Melbourne such as the Moomba Festival, New Year's Eve and many celebrations taking place on the Yarra River where it flows through the city.
In the late 1870s it was decided to replace the 1850 bridge, and a competition was held in 1879. This was won by architect and engineer John Grainger, only recently arrived in Adelaide, in partnership with local architect Mr Jenkins, with a design largely as eventually built. Jenkins was likely included simply as a local representative, with the design mainly by John Grainger (1855–1917), who already had experience with bridges, and who was working alone by the time the bridge was completed. (Grainger was the father of the Australian composer Percy Grainger.) Construction was delayed over funding and other issues, and it was not until 1884 that the old bridge was disassembled and replaced by a temporary structure. The stones were lettered and numbered and neatly stacked, to allow future re-erection at another location. In the event this did not occur, as the materials were instead reused in the replacement bridge.
David Munro & Co. supplied the winning bid for the construction of £136,998 9s.9d., incorporating reused materials from the old bridge and ironwork fabricated by Langlands foundry in Melbourne. (Munro was also responsible for the construction of Queens Bridge and the nearby Sandridge Bridge.)
The foundation stone of the new bridge was laid on 7 September 1886, and a memorial stone with a suitable inscription was built in over its position in the west end of the south abutment. The new bridge was opened on 4 October 1888,[1] in time for the second International Exhibition to be held in Melbourne. As with many historic Melburnian buildings and bridges, the bridge is built on solid bluestone and concrete bulwarks with plenty of cast iron. The abutments, piers and wing walls are built of solid bluestone.
In 1924, the bridge was reinforced to take the weight of the electric trams which were soon to replace the previous cable trams along St Kilda Road and the side-streets. The name of the bridge is now rendered as Princes Bridge, in line with the policy that possessive apostrophes are not used in place names.
Princes Bridge was also the name of a railway station located on the northern side of the river, to the east of the bridge, on the current site of Federation Square. It was linked to Flinders Street station by the railway tracks that run underneath the northern approach to the bridge.
Until about June 2013 there were two vehicle lanes and a tram lane across the bridge in each direction; the wide footpaths on each side were divided for pedestrians and bicycles. At that time the bicycle lanes were moved to the road surface and the number of vehicle lanes was reduced to a single lane in each direction - starting with the Western (in-bound) side.
Bluestone Bay | Freycinet National Park | Tasmania
What an amazing sunrise we witnessed at Bluestone Bay. It's a spectacular location in its own right, however the sky we got was just phenomenal. Not the easiest location to get to, it requires a 4WD to access, but certainly worth the effort.
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