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Along with awesome waves, Ponce Inlet is best known for being home to Florida's tallest lighthouse and a marine science center with interactive exhibits, a boardwalk, observation tower and nature trails.
Patras city coast near new port exit
(Navigation beacon red light)
Location :Patras/Achaia/West Peloponese/Greece.
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Good morning dear Flickr-friends of paydays,
this early evening I got a lot of gold while my paddling tour on my SUP in the bay of Bregenz/ Austria. There are these days, days of luck...!
You never thought about and than, you get it back "en masse"! You are enchanted from the first moment and you feel helpless like a little poodle on a SUP board, talking silly stuff to yourself like "Shit, I think I got it. Im a gold poodle".
It's like sitting in your car and your navigation system says: You've reached your destination Bro (Only you have the Bro-Version;) You are paralyzed and confused but you will find a way to manage all the luck...;)
What am I talking about. Thanks for the golden moment. Wow, I had so many lucky moments in the last years. I have to say thank you. And by the way, luck can come over night and also in Black & White. I got it!
This is a good transfer to my black and white side, you can visit if you want to...
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Now we will hear some music to frame all this nonsense:
Innerbloom by Rufus from the album Kontor Sunset Chill 2017
See you soon...
Yarin
"True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all."
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
Looking along the Stroudwater Navigation towards Stroud.The purple vessel is the "Wookey Hole",I believe.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Construction began in 1787 at the directive of George Washington, and was completed on January 10, 1791, using a fund of $1,500, established by him. Whale oil lamps were originally used for illumination. In 1855, following formation of the Lighthouse Board, a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed; that lens was replaced by a second-order Fresnel lens, which was replaced later by an aerobeacon in 1958. That lens was updated with a DCB-224 aerobeacon in 1991 (Wikipedia.)
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The Siege of Port Hudson occurred from May 21 to July 9, 1863, when Union Army troops assaulted and then surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War.
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensive against Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' army of 40,000 Union soldiers moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River where 7,500 Confederates troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, CSA, a New Yorker by birth, awaited their assualt. On May 27, 1863, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege that lasted for 48 days. Banks renewed his assaults on June 14 but the defenders successfully repelled them. On July 9, 1863, after hearing of the fall of Vicksburg, the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson surrendered, ending the longest siege in American history and opening the Mississippi River to Union navigation from its source to New Orleans.
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The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of the Kenosha North Pier Light. The station was established in 1872. It is west of the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and is near the outflow of the Milwaukee River—not far east of where that river converged with the Kinnickinnic River—into the Milwaukee Harbor and Lake Michigan. This light has a round steel tower with a round gallery and a ten-sided lantern. In 1926, the original 4th Order Fresnel lens was transferred to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and that lens is now displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Fifth Order Fresnel lens—installed in 1926—was removed in 2005. The tower is newly painted circa 2007. The 5th Order lens is said to be on display also at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. According to one source: "The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to [be] the one presently on the Breakwater Light." This is corroborated by the report that the Breakwater Light has a "round cast iron lantern room [that] features helical astragal" in the lantern. A Submarine cable runs from this light to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, upon which a lighted danger warning is displayed. The light was recently painted, circa 2007. From 1872 until 1926, the light had its own keepers. Thereafter, this light, like all of the lights in the harbor, was serviced by the resident Lighthouse keepers who were stationed at the neighboring North Point Light Station until it was automated. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Pierhead_Light
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
Océan Pacifique à l'heure du coucher de soleil- Ixtapa, Mexique.
Pacific Ocean at sunset time, Ixtapa, Mexico
In 1843 it was decided to build a series of diversion dams (barrages or weirs) across the Nile at the head of the delta about 12 miles downstream from Cairo, so as to raise the level of water upstream to supply the irrigation canals and to regulate navigation. This delta barrage scheme was not fully completed until 1861, after which it was extended and improved; it may be regarded as marking the beginning of modern irrigation in the Nile valley. The Zifta Barrage, nearly halfway along the Damietta branch of the deltaic Nile, was added to this system in 1901. In 1902 the Asyūṭ Barrage, more than 200 miles upstream from Cairo, was completed. This was followed in 1909 by the barrage at Isnā (Esna), about 160 miles above Asyūṭ, and in 1930 by the barrage at Najʿ Hammādī, 150 miles above Asyūṭ.
The 40 kilometers of passage to traverse Doubtful Sound reveals amazing sights and weather. Just unbelievable seeing this in the middle of the Antipodean summer. No man-made objects of any kind exist here - no houses, no power lines, no navigation signs....
Fujifilm X-E2, 50-250mm zoom.
Kayak en aval du Lac Saint-Pierre sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent. Parc écologique de l'Anse-du-Port, Nicolet, Qc
For this week's Steam Sunday here's another from the first outing of Reading and Northern 2102 this year. The stout 4-8-4 was built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:
The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.
The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own Shops right in Reading, PA.
They are leading a 15 car train up from North Reading to historic Jim Thorpe across the most spectacular location along the route, the famous Hometown High Bridge, a more than 1000 ft long steel trestle that stands 168 (or 161 or 157 depending on where you look!) feet above the Little Schuylkill River at its highest point. This is MP 107.3 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline, though historically this was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Nesquehoning Branch.
A little history of the line courtesy of Rush Township's home page:
The Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company, part of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, built a 17-mile rail spur from Mauch Chunk (modern-day Jim Thorpe) to Tamanend that was finished in 1870. It connected with rail lines that were leased and operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company near Tamanend. This major freight and passenger rail interchange was at the small village of Haucks, which no longer exists today but was near the current Air Products facility near Quakake. Throughout the late 1800s, there were railroad interchanges in Haucks, Tamanend, and Quakake. On March 23, 1871, the Nesquehoning-Tamanend line became part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), which leased many LC&N assets on that date.
Millions of tons of anthracite coal and freight would pass over that rail line in the early 1870s, and the demand for anthracite coal reached historic heights. In 1874, a financial panic led to a downturn in anthracite demand that would last several years. The CNJ, which had continued to rack up debts as it leased other anthracite assets across Eastern Pennsylvania, could not meet its financial obligations. The company continued to operate until the 1920s, at which point the United States Supreme Court ordered CNJ and other railroads that owned coal companies to divest (that is, to separate the coal companies from the railroad companies) because their joint operations violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Hepburn Act. By 1921, the Central Railroad of New Jersey was out of the coal business – and railroad traffic on Rush Township railbeds continued to decline.
The Nesquehoning-Tamanend line features the railroad “High Bridge,” which spans the Little Schuylkill River at a height of 157 feet. The bridge is cited in historical documents dating back to at least the early 1880s. The bridge, formally called the Hometown Trestle, is 981 feet long. The original bridge was a massive wooden structure, but it was rebuilt out of steel in 1931.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday July 1, 2023
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47776 'Respected' is captured at Hunt's Lock, along the Weaver navigation at Northwich working 5K44 Manchester Piccadilly - Crewe empty coaching stock which, instead of working direct to Crewe took a round about route via the Mid Cheshire line and reversal at Chester. I can only think to maintain driver route knowledge?
Tug 'Clifton', operated by KD Marine UK and was working on the river with hopper barges Halton & Sutton. One of which can just about be seen in the big lock behind.