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Outside view of one of two generator bunkers built by the RAAF in 1943 to supply power to the no. 210 radar station at Toorbul
Probably not long for this world... as everything in this room seems to be getting scrapped. The copper coils of a similar-looking machine nearby had already been sawed off.
BR 47415 eases the Table 83 1E93 17:03 Holyhead to York into the Up platform loop at Abergele & Pensarn station back in September 1986.
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Before using halogen bicycle lights, and today an LED light, I used this generator light set. No batteries to replace or charge, but the lights are lit only when you were moving.
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part of the main floor containing the refrigeration generators at the abandoned armour meat packing plant in national city, illinois right outside of east st. louis.
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It looks like a caboose... and it used tobe a caboose but by the time I mae this photograph in Octber 2005, it had been convertf to a generator car to power the passenger trains on the Great Smoky Mountains Railway.
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is a tourist railroad based in the namesake mountains in western. North Carolina on former Southern Railway tracks once known as the Murphy Branch. While the GSMR once hauled freight as well, there is currently no freight customers on the railroad. A connection to the rest of the North American rail system is made with the Blue Ridge Southern Railway in Sylva.
Passenger trains on the railroad remain very popular with an estimated 200,000 customers annually. Trains currently run out of Bryson City. The main train runs to Nantahala, North Carolina just past the Nantahala Outdoor. While the tracks are in place all the way to Andrews, they are currently out of service. A second train runs from Bryson City to Diillsboro during the heavy traffic season. The famous train and bus crash scene from the 1993 Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones movie “The Fugitive” was filmed near Dillsboro and parts of the crash scene are on display by the tracks.
The railroad began in 198 with a lease agreement between the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Malcolm and Joan MacNeil. With help from investors, the agreement was made just days before Norfolk Southern Railway planned to send work trains up the line with the intention of removing the rail and abandoning the line.
1999 saw the sale of the railroad to the American Heritage Railways, who also own the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Colorado.
The railroad owns and operates five operational EMD diesel-electric locomotives including three GP7s, one GP30 and a GP38-2. Another GP7, #777, was retired in 2020 and is being used as a parts source for the other diesels. TheGSMR also owns two steam locomotives including the former Southern Railway #722, a Ks-1 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It spent part of it's career working on the Murphy Branch but to the dismay of many historians and railfans is currently being stored out of service and disassembled at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad shop.
A second steam engine, S160 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type #1702, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1942 for the U.S. Army during World War II, is currently operational and runs many trains annually, mostly on the Bryson City to Nantahala runs. It was in regular service on the line from 1991 to 2005 when mechanical issues with the firebox sidelined it. Restoration work began in 2014 and she returned to service in 2016.
A change of pace
A few years ago I talked myself into an invitation to get a special tour of an old hydro power plant that is only a few miles from my house. It happens to be one of the first hydroelectric power stations built in the world, and as you can see by the date of the wall was turned on in 1898.
This is the first of several images I took there, but its also probably one of the best I got. It turned out to be a very challenging shoot. First of all the entire facility is two hundred feet down an open elevator shaft that was dug into the solid rock by the waterfall where this was built. I had to have an engineer with me at all moments and could only go in very specific places. (If you look closely you can see that this is spinning and actually generating electricity at the time I took this) Generators like this actually cast out fields of energy and if me or my tripod were to get to close the electricity could leap out and kill me. So I had to be a good boy and not climb all over the equipment like I wanted to. It was very hard to get the lens into good positions with these limitations. I also was not allowed to bring any lights down, So had to work with the very dark ambient light that was there, mostly open bulbs hanging from the ceiling. And since I'm in a deep dark cave, no windows of course, not any fill at all really. It was also *very loud* so I could not communicate very well with my minder. Given all those restrictions, I am happy with this result.
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If you want to geek out a bit about hydro power, read on: As I write these words, this particular power plant is being retrofitted with modern generators, so this old beast is now gone. This in fact was the oldest generator in the plant and even though it was constructed around 1898 was still functioning and putting out power that people in our region use. (Apparently the magnetos were rewound sometime in the 70's and they had to hire experts who could come in and rebuild this in the old school ways. There were I think 6 generators in the cave, but only two I think in the beginning. The man who built the power station had the foresight to use AC power (Westinghouse) rather than Edison's DC power. Edison built a plant at Niagara falls that made DC power but moving the DC power to the customers was very expensive and difficult, and it did not last long. The world chose AC power of course and DC power went away like sony's betamax. After building this power plant, the other challenge was that the power had to be carried by one of the first transmission lines ever built back to Tacoma. (some 45 miles I think) a massive task in its own for the times as they had to clear there way through wild forest. (Some of the key technology in this AC generator was made possible by the inventions of Nikolai Tesla who claimed to get his inventions completely realized in dreams or simultaneous flashes of insight. )
At this power plant they've added more generators about 4 times so they can capture more of the hydroelectric potential. Each time they added new versions the efficiency and capacity just about doubled. So if the first one made x power from x flow of water, the next generation drew 2x (twice as much) water and was twice as efficient. so each generation of new equipment meant quadrupling of energy efficiancy. And that has held true until this day. The most recent generators, are very powerful and effiecient relative to this old equipment. But until this last retro fit that started in 2009, they never replaced any of the old ones. So for the last hundred years are so they have been getting less than half of what could have been gotten from this precious clean resource. Why you wonder? Cheap petrochemicals made it more efficient to just burn more gas or coal rather than spend money to replace the old equipment. That era is coming to an end obviously and hence they are doing this major improvement. One of the reasons this is all of interest to me is that its revealing of how human societies make decisions. Choosing dirty fuels and not facing the hidden costs to health and the environment that when added up probably cost us more than just refitting the hydro power plant earlier. (It should also be noted that hydro power alone could not have given us all our energy needs so we probably would have been burning dirty fuels all along. But not facing real costs never gives us a chance to think about it in the first place. Maybe we would have developed other alternatives.)
So.... just across the mountains from this waterfall, on the eastern side of the Cascade range, is Grand Coulee Damn which still is one of the largest hydro electric power plants in the world. It was built during the depression with federal development money, (so sometimes government does get it right) and even though its only about 40 years later than this place, Grand Coulee generates electricity on a massive scale. (compare the generator above to this: scienceservice.si.edu/pages/010041.htm ) So much electricity, that when the aircraft industry started needing lots of aluminum for all the airplanes they were building because of world war II, They eventually turned to The Pacific Northwest because the amounts of electricity you need to smelt aluminum are vast. And that is why, my friends, Boeing is in the Seattle region today. Cheap electricity. Also of interest, they have since put a whole series of damns on the Columbia river and make lots and lots of power. Guess what the The 'Aluminum Plant' hog of electricity is today? Server Farms. Google, Microsoft and yes Yahoo/flickr all need massive amounts of power to store data, these very words and photos actually. And that is why they are building their server farms up here in the Pacific North West. Lots of relatively cheap electricity for spinning drives and the air conditioning to keep them cool. Server Farms take up more power than the largest Steel foundries. That always blows my mind a bit. So you see, in a strange ways you could never have imagined, this image here in my stream has many hidden meanings. Who could have predicted way back in 1898, that this machine would one day create the energy to preserve the image of itself and help spread those pixels across the world
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Brega log : Comte Dokuu send me here to destroy the generator of a secret new clone base, who's under the floor and who isn't really secret. "This is a test mission ,said it. Your mission were really good, or really bad. If this mission is successful, you will stay with me". I'm going to show him that I'm a good bounty hunter.
So yeah, I'm on Kashyyk. Oh, there's a clone. (blaster shoot) First kill of the day. I find a hatch. I open it, and what I see ? The generator, with just 2 clones. I'm lucky today. (blaster shoots) And 2 clones for me. I put some explosives.... Done ! I had to go before the explosion. And another successful mission for me
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The basement view
Here's my apply. The story is inspired by the real life (C.J.Cutrone will understand : D)
Hope you like it
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This is my first attempt to build a Flickr "Toy".
Flickr Slideshow Generator allows you to easily get the HTML necessary to insert a custom Flickr Slideshow in your page.
MFZ - Wasteland Scrappers - Station - Power Generator
While Wasteland Scrapper frames run on steam power, the systems on board frequently utilize electronic components. In order to be able to run reliably, a power generator is used to provide the necessary electricity.
Mobile Frame Zero is "a tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!". It is a tabletop battle game, akin to Warhammer 40k or Malifaux. Players design and build their own companies of microfig-scale "Mobile Frames" and "Stations".
If you're interested, you can find its webpage here:
and a flickr group dedicated to MFZ builds here: