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The Institution of Mining Engineers "North West Railtour" from Crewe visiting ICI Winnington, Briggs Sidings at Hindlow, Buxton, Kelbits Branch, Bickershaw Colliery, Parkside Colliery and Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, this was the last visited and getting quite dark. This coal - biomass Power Station closed on 31 March 2020. This made me dig out this old north west railtour snap. Traction for the day was 37706 "Conidae" and 47479 "Track 29"
Demolition of four of the eight cooling towers is scheduled for tomorrow Sunday December 3, sometime between 8am and 12pm.
Aproximately 35 Army Reserve Soldiers from the 412th and 416th Theater Engineer Commands conducted a land navigation course through the hilly woods of Fort McCoy, Wis., April 27 as part of the 2015 Combined Theater Engineer Commands' (TEC) Best Warrior Competition, which lasted from April 25 to 29. The competition was organized and hosted by the 412th and 416th TECs, where winners will move up and compete at the U.S. Army Reserve Command level. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michel Sauret)
Photograph from an album compiled by James Gordon Steese, an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, who toured Europe in 1919 to assess the damage caused during World War I.
Collection name: James Gordon Steese Papers
Original held by: Archives and Special Collections
Institution: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Contact us at: archives@dickinson.edu
Cockrell School students celebrate National Engineers Week with their annual E-Week. E-Week at the Cockrell School is a week of friendly competition between student engineering organizations.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division (NAD) held its inaugural Regional Castle Ball Jan. 20 at the Fort Hamilton Community Club in Brooklyn, New York, hosted by Brig. Gen. John Lloyd, NAD Commander and Division Engineer, and his wife, Mrs. Stacy Lloyd.
During evening festivities, Paula Schasberger, NAD Division Counsel, and Col. Robert McTighe, NAD Deputy Commander, hosted a Grog Ceremony, and the evening's keynote speaker was Mr. Tony Richardson, Philanthropist and NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame player.
Additionally, during the evening festivities, NAD presented awards to recipients of the Bronze de Fleury Medal, including Betzaida Andujar, Karyn Coe, Maj. Stephen Marthy, and Shamirra Shelton-Thornton.
The posting and retiring of the colors were provided by the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) Honor Guard, along with the singing of the national anthem, Engineer Song and Army Song performed by Sgt. Maj. MaryKay Messenger, USMA West Point Band. Festivities concluded with attendees dancing after the completion of the formal portion of the ball. (U.S. Army photo by Mark Getman)
U.S. Army Reserve combat engineer Soldiers particpate in a 10.85-mile ruck march event during the inaugural 2014 Sapper Stakes competition at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. (U.S. Army photo by Army Staff Sgt. Scott Griffin //Released//)
I don't remember his conductor's face being that red. Though he was fresh back from vacation, and likely spent a lot of time on the golf course.
Employees with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, enjoy various recreational activities during Corps Day 2025 festivities, June 18, 2025, at Eagle’s Landing, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Nearly 500 employees and family members attended the annual event which inspires esprit de corps and morale among all who attend. This year’s event included a cake-cutting in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with a sand volleyball tournament, inflatable obstacle course, sumo wrestling, bingo, food trucks, tug-of-war, yard games, a dunk tank with leadership and more. (U.S. Army photo by Lisa Crawford)
This is a rare species in the urban jungle, the BT engineer. Only through days of cajouling and negotiation were we able to get this close to this scarce creature. Watch as he builds his nest atop the pole, busily stashing wires to place his box of telephone gnomes into.
M&H engineer Andy Ottinger is at the controls number 1 as they pull a cut of tank cars up to the interchange.
November 14, 2020
Nikon D810
Middletown, PA
MIDH Private Charter
MIDH GE 60 Tonner : 1
MIDH GE 65 Tonner : 2
Photograph from an album compiled by James Gordon Steese, an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, who toured Europe in 1919 to assess the damage caused during World War I.
Collection name: James Gordon Steese Papers
Original held by: Archives and Special Collections
Institution: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Contact us at: archives@dickinson.edu
Soldiers from the 386th Engineer Company, Las Vegas, carry 200 pounds of dead weight for a half mile on a Skedco stretcher during Sapper Stakes 2015 at Fort Chaffee, Ark., Sep. 1, 2015. Sapper Stakes is a nation wide competition allowing Army Resere and National Guard Sapper teams to compete to develop teamwork and enhance leadership. (U.S Army Photo by Sgt. Devin M. Wood)
FORT SHAFTER FLATS, Hawaii - The 411th Engineer Battalion hosted and official Change of Command ceremony welcoming incoming commander Lt. Col. Anthony Tolentino and thanking and bidding farewell to outgoing commander Lt. Col. Henry Tennant here March 10.
Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Petersburg-based Forward Support Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command prepare an evening meal for the regional-level Philip A. Connelly Awards for Excellence in Army Food Service in the Army National Guard Field Kitchen Category June 8, 2016, at Fort Pickett, Virginia. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Among the French 35mm camera produced by « Optique & Précision de Levallois S.A. » from 1945 to the middle of the 60’s, the FOCA Universel « RC » is likely the most captivating ever produced in France at that time.
The camera was the last development of the FOCA, sometime called the « French Leica » because the optical and mechanical precision matched and even surpassed the original thread-mount Leica. Far before the first Leica M (the M3 in 1954) O.P.L. developed a bayonet-mount FOCA in 1948 called the FOCA « Universel ». Seeing the incredible viewer and range finder of the Leica M that is likely the most sophisticated system even engineered, O.P.L. released lately a great improvement of the FOCA with a novel collimated, parallax auto-corrected, of a fully original and different design of the Leitz system.
The FOCA Universel RC It is a rare camera that only appears for time to time on the collector market, being only produced to a bit more than 2000 overall units in the years 1962 and 1963, just before O.P.L. decided to quit the camera production and returned to other instrumental optical production. O.P.L. soon merged with SOM Berthiot and today can be found still in the industrial filiation of SAFRAN group, the French leader company for designing and producing system for aerospace appliances. The plant where the FOCA's were produced still exists in an almost original form in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France.
I got my first FOCA URC unit two years ago (Sept. 2023, flic.kr/s/aHBqjAV6Dg) that is a standing and emotional piece of my small camera collection.
I got this one from an apparently ignored auction on the French eBay. We were only two biders in the last 5s and I won the auction not far away to the initial price. The camera was fully revised, with new shutter curtains, a new delayed shutter release mechanism. The serial number indicated a year-1962 production starting with 1.000.000, closed to my first FOCA URC. The camera works in every functions like on its Day-1! The camera came with a late version 1962 of the OPLAR 1:2.8 f=5cm standard collapsible lens of excellent quality, the FOCA UCR dedicated ever-ready leather bag with the original leather neck strap in good condition.
The original O.P.L. camera warranty and a registration postal card fortunately followed the life of the camera, indicating that this beautiful FOCA Universel RC was sold to its first owner on August 9, 1963 by the official FOCA dealer « ROYAL-PHOTO, Photo-Ciné-Magnétohone », 42, rue Vignon, Paris 9ème arrondissement, France, today a Weill fashion shop at the same address. The address of the owner also still exists with the original Parisian building in place, Boulevard Poniatwski, next to the Métro station « Porte de Charenton », Paris 12ème arrondissement.
The shown original FOCAL Universel RC user manual is the one that came with my other FOCA URC camera.
These information pushed me to question what were the news in France on this Friday, August 9, 1963… France was mainly on vacation, by an exceptional wet and fresh weather that wasted many French citizens holidays. The whole national radio information bulletin is still available online here :
www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/audio/phd94020557/inter-actua...
Inter actualités de 7:15 PM du 9 août 1963
Inter actualités de 7:15 PM - 09.08.1963 - 29:58 - audio
Ina.fr (English translated)
- Headlines - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: The Marseille and Bordeaux sailors' strike ended this morning, but nothing has been resolved in Le Havre. Many heads of state and government sent messages of condolence to President Kennedy for the death of his third child shortly after birth. Other headlines in the newspaper (2'20"). - André Brière: It does not appear for the moment that work will resume in Le Havre. Mr. Pisani would agree to the distillation of 2 million hectoliters of wine, which is clogging up the market, but a subsidy would be required. Discontent is growing among winegrowers in the south, whom the population accuses of various acts of sabotage in the Narbonne region. Complaints from winegrowers in the southwest. Farmers scattered 5 tons of potatoes yesterday in the streets of Douai (3'30"). - Jacques Behingue: Secretary of State Dean Rusk will return to Washington from Moscow on Monday. He will give a presentation to senators on the Moscow Treaty. This morning, Dean Rusk was received by Mr. Khrushchev on the shores of the Black Sea in Cagra. This evening, Mr. Dean Rusk will host a dinner in Moscow at the US Embassy. Tomorrow, he will be in Bonn, received by Mr. Adenauer. The Moscow Treaty was signed by 11 new countries, with Japan set to sign next Wednesday. North Vietnam has refused to sign. Mr. MAC MILLAN declared that underground tests, which are not prohibited, are not of great importance because nuclear weapons can only be modified following atmospheric tests (4'40"). - Gérard TAVERA: Two years after Bizerte, France and Tunisia signed an agreement this morning that includes two chapters: the first concerns the 30,000 Tunisian workers living in France, the second concerns economic cooperation. This agreement resolves the economic problems concerning Bizerte. After an African trip, Mr. BEN BELLA returns to Algiers. In Accra, Mr. BEN BELLA declared that the next session of the UN would be an African session. Yesterday, AIT AHMED violently criticized the FLN party and the constitutional project. All French newspapers reproducing Mr. AIT AHMED's Declaration were seized this morning upon their arrival in Algiers. Since July 16, in Morocco, leaders of the UNFP are detained in rather precarious conditions following the "plot" against the monarchy (2'25"). - André Brière: before the State Security Court, opening of the trial of the station commander, among those who are bringing a civil action is Mr. Jean OUDINOT, former director of RTF in Algiers (1'05"). - Victor VRAMANT: the body of Doctor WARD was cremated this morning, only members of Doctor WARD's family attended the funeral ceremony. The weather in France and Europe. It is raining everywhere in France except on the Côte d'Azur. Road accidents (2'). - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: Gaston GELIS, former director of "Paris-journal" died in a road accident in Seine et Marne (1'). - Victor VRAMANT: a major drug trafficker was arrested at Orly. In Italy, following the arrest of a repeat offender, a 22-year-old American woman was arrested for drug trafficking (1'30"). - Jacques CHABOT: Charles TRENET has not yet been released; he would be released tomorrow morning after payment of bail (25%).
WEATHER:
SOURCE: www.meteo-paris.com/chronique/annee/1963
June 14, 1963: a particularly cool day - it was no more than 12°C in Rouen, 13°C in Paris, St. Quentin, Lille, Le Havre, and Caen.
August 1963 was autumnal because it was very cool and very wet. On August 3, 1963, torrential rains caused catastrophic flooding and the death of eight people in the Lyon region. On August 4, 1963, 400 houses were also flooded between St. Jean de Luz and Le Boucau (Pyrénées Atlantiques). On August 17 and 18, 1963, it was no more than 10°C. and 15°C in the northern half - many summer visitors leave early - it's snowing in the mountains and the harvest is very difficult.
Historical landmarks of the year 1963
August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King leads the march on Washington. October 11, 1963: Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf die within hours of each other. November 22, 1963: President J.F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. The yé-yé movement is in vogue - the debut of Françoise Hardy and the politically engaged singer, Jean Ferrat.
Decorating objects used in the photo series :
-Commemorative Pin's of the Company Lumière* 1895-2025. Found a Institut Lumière, Lyon, France. The Lumière Company was lately the official distributor of FOCA camera's within a network of Lumière affiliated photo stores in France.
° The Lumière Company, Lyon, France, previously known as the Antoine Lumière and Sons Company, then the Antoine Lumière and Sons Photographic Plates and Papers Company, is a former major French industrial company in photography and cinematography founded in 1885 and managed successively by Antoine Lumière, his sons Auguste and Louis Lumière (the Lumière brothers), his grandson Henri Lumière, and subsequently, his heirs.
-Storage box from Sostrene Grene store, Lyon, France.
July 3, 2025
69004 Lyon
France