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Lead and brass. Water and Light. In and Out. Up and Down. Circle and Line.
The temple lamp comes from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The water pipe from Hertfordshire. Both are old and have supplied light and water to people. Many of those are long dead. Have they gone up or down, far away, disappeared, or returned in some other form?
CN 500 is leaving the Port of Montreal light power a few minutes past noon with CN 4729 & ex-BNSF CN 4960.
Crossing Kansas Street, this ex-MoPac Geep heads west, long hood forward, for President's Island on the lead off the CN Memphis Sub in downtown Memphis.
This area was dependent on lead mining for centuries. The rough ground to the east, west and north has the hillocks and hollows of hundreds of abandoned mines; there are also remains of the miners' buildings on some of the sites. Most of the houses are at least 300 years old.
By the 1600s lead had become second in importance in the national economy only to wool. It was essential for the roofs of public buildings and the new houses being built in every part of the country by the nobility and gentry. All houses, including farmhouses and cottages by then, had glazed windows, with lead glazing bars. It was the only material for water storage and piping. Every army used it as ammunition.
So at the time they thought it was pretty useful stuff!!
9/2019 - Lead, SD
Home to an apparently now-closed gold mine, Lead, SD embraces its heritage with several pieces of Homestake Mining Company equipment on display.
For a break from the Smoky Mountain Images; here's an image from Matthiessen State Park from this last weekend. Abundant rainfall over the past week lead to the most water that I have ever seen at Matthiessen. The path that leads to the caves in the "wishing well" at the bottom of Cascade Falls usually requires a boot-deep splash across the dells. However the creek was bulging and required a waist deep creek crossing. It turned out to be a fun shoot, and it was great to get out for the first time since returning from the Smokies.
1973 stock lead by No.182 is seen at Chiswick Park with a westbound Piccadilly line service 13/6/26. (Taken using a pole)
Four units lead a Union Pacific empty coal train west through Byers Canyon near Hot Sulphur Springs, CO on a crisp winter day. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
UP 6457 AC4400CW
Hampden, Baltimore
February 2012
One shot left on this test roll and Toad here kindly agreed to pose for a street portrait (despite the fact that it was freezing cold with a rain/sleet mix going). I hadn't done this sort of street portrait thing since I was living in London, but he was game (he was a photographer while in the Army and shot with a Bronica.. until the government switched to digital). Crappy weather, nice guy.
I note stains on the negative which lead me to believe I that need to make sure I wash better after the fix cycle?
Hasselblad 500c/m
Zeiss 80mm 2.8
Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in TMAX (1:4)
I promise this does count as a train photo, and there really is one in here...in fact if you look close you can see the entire train from lead ACS64 to trailing Amfleet.
Amtrak Region train 173 for Washington is crossing the 1394 ft long double track bridge over the Thames River from Groton to New London at about MP 124.3 on the New Haven Line main. The four Parker thru truss approach spans date from the New Haven's 1919 construction of a new bridge across the river. They are cruising right across the middle of the new 105 ft wide vertical lift span built in 2008 to replace the 1919 era Strauss heel-trunnion Warren through-truss bascule draw span.
It's that lift span that has made this interesting image possible. Dominating the foreground with her gilt figurehead twinkling on her prow is the Barque Eagle, the 295 ft. long flagship of the United States Coast Guard which along with the USS Constitution, is one of only two commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today.
New London is the home of the US Coast Guard Academy and every cadet who attends the Academy as well candidates from the Officer Candidate School will spend a minimum of six weeks on board Eagle whose primary mission is training. Historically she berthed up River directly in front of the Academy but she now ties up here beside Fort Trumbull State Park while in home port. I suppose this is suitable as this 19th century fortification out of sight behind me served in later life as rhe original site of the US Coast Guard Academy from its founding in 1915 until moving to its current campus in 1932.
But, that history is not why she berths here, rather we have Amtrak to thank for that. Though the new lift bridge was specifically designed to clear the Eagle's masts, they came up short and for her to clear seamen have to climb the masts and remove some some components from the top as the young seaman I spoke with explained. For that reason she rarely travels up past the bridges anymore and now calls this dock home, though I understand she will be moving to city pier downtown directly behind the Amtrak station in the coming years.
As for that Eagle on her prow? Well you might not know but that is actually a Nazi eagle and the medallion in her talons now bearing the Coast Guard crest was originally adorned with a swastika! You see the Eagle is actually a spoil of war having been built at at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936 as as the flagship of the Kriegsmarine sail training fleet. Originally named Horst Wessell, Rudolf Hess gave the speech at her launch in the presence of Adolf Hitler! At the end of WWII the US acquired her when the allies were apportioning the war materials of the Reich and sailed her across the Atlantic with her German crew now under US command.
I HIGHLY recommend this fascinating read if you are interested in learning more and some great stories: www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33543706.amp
And the USCG's official site is great especially if you'd like to see her with her three masts at full sail as they publish her schedule here: www.uscga.edu/eagle-schedule/
And above the rail bridge is the massive Goldstar Memorial Bridge carrying 11 lanes of Interstate 95 134 ft over the river on twin 6000 ft spans (blt. 1943 and 1973) that make up the largest bridge in the state.
New London, Connecticut
Friday March 4, 2022
View from Sedling Vein lead mine workings in Weardale on a cold February afternoon. The Burnhope burn reservoir in the distance feeds in to the head of the river Wear.
Another fine walk from the Pathfinder Guides North East England Heritage Walks guide. Really enjoying ticking off these walks - though starting to realise why a pair of good photographer gloves should be added to my kit; wind chilled fingers operating a freezing camera body tempt me into rushing which defeats the purpose somewhat.
A lead-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) in Maryland.
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Day 349 [12-14-2016]
New places, new photos. I spent this afternoon after work looking for a new place to shoot. To my luck, I had found a marina that I have never been to before. I scouted it out and shot a couple photos before Scott asked me to meet up. I brought him to the location and we got some pretty amazing photos. I have had a bit of an obsession with docks recently and it is not dying anytime soon. I will find more. I will.
I can't wait to see what the next day brings!
'All Roads Lead To Rome'
Propaganda published by 'ENIT' = Italian National Tourist Board
a poster by Mario Pozzati. 1938
Silverton:
The first indication of silver–lead mineralisation in the Barrier Rangers came in late 1875 with the discovery of galena by Julius Charles Nickel and Dan McLean while they were well sinking on Thackaringa Station, near the South Australian - New South Wales border.
In 1879 John Stokie established a store at Umberumberka, 19 km north of Thackaringa. He continued prospecting and discovered silver–lead veins nearby, which he pegged with Edward Pegler in November 1881. A 100 ton parcel of ore was shipped to England for a 40% profit. The following October the Umberumberka Silver Lead Mining Company Ltd was floated with nominal capital of £20 000. Umberumberka was the second area of silver–lead mineralisation discovered in the Barrier Ranges and the new company was the first to be publicly floated. The town of Silverton soon developed close to the mine and became the main settlement of the growing silver field.
Silverton was surveyed in 1883, by which time Australia had a population of 2, 250, 194. By September that year, the population of Silverton was 250, and by December 1883 it had doubled. That year the Day Dream Mine opened and attracted an additional population of 400 - 500 people. In 1884 1,222 mineral leases, 937 business permits and 114 miners' rights were issued. That same year 6,000 tonnes of ore were extracted and the town acquired its own newspaper, the Silver Age.
By 1885 - 1886 the town's population had reached 3,000. Silverton was proclaimed a township in 1885 and a municipality the following year. In 1885 a short-lived smelter was established at Day Dream Mine, operating for only a year. In 1892 the Umberumberka Mine closed, followed by the Day Dream Mine. The Pioneer Mine at Thackaringa closed in 1897. By 1901, after miners had moved to the richer fields at Broken Hill, the town went into decline and only 286 people remained. Today the town has a population of around 50 people, most of whom work in tourism.
The Silverton Tramway Company:
The Silverton Tramway Company, a rare private railway of 50klms in length, was incorporated in New South Wales October 14, 1886 and the line was completed and opened for traffic on January 12, 1888. One of only two privately owned railways in the state, the tramway was originally founded to transport ore from local mines in the Broken Hill and Silverton region into South Australia. The company soon branched out, not only carrying ore from the mines but freighted other goods and offered a passenger service which accounted for a third of their business.
The company serviced travellers on long trips heading interstate to Semaphore (Adelaide) to the Largs Bay Holiday Camp and excursions for local community groups often conveying passengers to Silverton and McCulloch Park (at Stephens Creek) for the day and returning to Broken Hill in the afternoon. When traveling to South Australia the train would travel from Broken Hill, through Silverton and then to Burns which is on the New South Wales side of the border of Cockburn (a town divided by the NSW/SA border).
In 1927 the New South Wales government completed the railway from Sydney to Broken Hill, thus joining the Silverton Tramway and completing the link from Sydney to Adelaide. It played a strategic role in the trans-Australia network until 1970, when it was surpassed by the New South Wales Government Railways (Indian-Pacific). From 1888-1970 it was critical to the economic functioning of Broken Hill, by providing the key transport of ore to the Port Pirie smelters. It played a significant role in the politics and recreation of Broken Hill, and a crucial role at times of water shortage in Broken Hill.
Today, Silverton resides in the Unincorporated Area of New South Wales (NSW) and so does not feature a City Council. It is run by the Silverton Village Committee, who to this day hold their quarterly meetings in the Silverton Municipal Chambers.
Source: Silverton NSW (www.aussietowns.com.au/town/silverton-nsw), New South Wales Heritage Register & Discover Broken Hill (discoverbrokenhill.com.au/silverton-nsw/historic-building...), "The pathway to Broken Hill: Early discoveries in the Barrier Ranges, New South Wales, Australia" by Kenneth George McQueen, and 'Aplin, Graeme; S.G. Foster; Michael McKernan, eds. (1987). Australians: Events and Places. Broadway, New South Wales, Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. p. 97'