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Post by frenchmystiquetour on Dec 6, 2010 19:34:41 GMT
Sorry about the lousy quality. The plains of Oklahoma during tornado season.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2010 20:48:01 GMT
Been there. Been frightened by that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2010 3:19:36 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 7, 2010 15:27:57 GMT
That is a FANTASTIC photo!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2010 22:47:44 GMT
Thanks Bixa, That was taken at 4:00 a.m. Saturday morning past as we were getting out of Dodge. It's the toll booth to the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge in NYC.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2011 11:43:14 GMT
Mobile,Alabama
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Post by tod2 on Feb 21, 2011 12:20:33 GMT
Great shot Casimira! I feel as though I'm also in the tunnel ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2011 17:59:27 GMT
I am always fascinated by tunnels like that. We have quite a few of them in Paris.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2011 22:37:09 GMT
I don't know what it is,but,it was on the road in front of me today...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 4, 2011 22:59:02 GMT
I'm guessing some kind of marine engine.
Great pic, with the complicated gray mass in the center framed by the power poles and backed by that interesting green zig-zag & the lighted arrow. The dashes of orange throughout the photo are great, too.
Did anyone notice that the white contrail exactly mimics the sag of the power line?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 5, 2011 8:34:05 GMT
I want that engine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 18:01:12 GMT
My father would have wanted it, too -- to take apart, oil and put back together better.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 6, 2011 18:59:10 GMT
Not an advocate of "If it aint broke, don't fix it" then?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 19:24:57 GMT
He would have found something wrong with it. "I don't like that noise."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 15:01:13 GMT
Do y'all know what kind of engine it is?? I am guessing as Bixa did,perhaps a marine engine.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 7, 2011 15:33:59 GMT
It's probably a marine diesel though it could be a mule engine for a generator or other industrial process. The color it's painted is typical of marine installations. Definitely a vee configuration, looks maybe like a Yanmar or Detroit Diesel.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 7, 2011 18:18:07 GMT
I'd say it was a Cummins. But I don't really know.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 18:45:53 GMT
My father spent 20 years in the engine room of naval vessels. Too bad I can't raise him from the dead for an opinion.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 7, 2011 18:49:37 GMT
You could get in touch with Goldie aka Go_2 aka Goldenoldie?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 11, 2011 20:39:34 GMT
Taken through the windshield at freeway speed yesterday, as the guards were not allowing anyone to stop for a closer look. These are the first 2 of hundreds of megaloads planning to cross Idaho and Montana from the Columbia River port of Lewistown, Idaho, to Billings MT (the first 4 loads only) and Alberta, Canada, (207 loads headed to the Kearl Tar Sands oil extraction rape project). They are over 200 feet long and tall enough that power lines and stoplights and highway signs have been removed to allow them to pass. They travel only 15 - 30 miles per day, moving only between the hours of midnight and 6 am, and are parked during the day. Though the route follows a couple of wild and scenic rivers (the Lochsa in Idaho and the Blackfoot in Montana), the 4 loads going to Billings are not so hotly contested because there are only 4 and it is a one-time thing that benefits Montana's economy. The 200-some loads for the oil sands desecration are raising a great deal of public protest, partly because the units are manufactured in South Korea and the company has chosen this route to avoid the expense of traversing the Panama Canal. And partly because oil sand/tar sand extraction process is one of the most environmentally destructive means of producing oil, and besides removing many square miles of boreal forest, just delays the eventual need to switch to non-carbon means of powering our vehicles. The Kearl megaloads have not yet been granted the permits they need to travel the 2-lane highways in the 2 states. It is feared that if the 200+ loads get their permits, these winding scenic highways will become permanent "high and wide" corridors. Ironically, the reason they must follow such pristine roads instead of using the 4 lane interstate highways is that the loads are simply too huge to fit under the freeway underpasses. BTW, we will get another look at these monsters on Saturday, as they are expected to be parked at a disused weigh station along our route to the lake cottage.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2011 20:41:14 GMT
The mega loads were not parked along the way to the cottage. They made better time once they got out of the mountains and through the big city (where they had to remove traffic signals and lift power lines to allow their passage). They are expected to arrive in Billing early in April.
Yesterday, crews were still reinstalling the traffic lights in their proper places.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 21:20:58 GMT
There is an ultra wide road 240 km long near Toulouse that is needed to move parts of the Airbus A380 from one place to another.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2011 21:32:55 GMT
BTW, these first loads are two halves of a coke drum for an oil refinery near Billings.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2011 22:06:15 GMT
Yes, size DOES matter in Montana. And those aren't boxing gloves hanging from his trailer hitch!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2011 1:56:47 GMT
Bixa suggested I post this photo here, though there's no road involved.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2011 17:54:42 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2011 18:21:14 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2011 8:40:18 GMT
The road to the lake cottage. That tiny speck at the end of the point is us.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2011 6:09:49 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 9, 2011 19:00:47 GMT
ooooh...Jurassic Park Moment... ;D Really interesting pics.. and mine.. a Roman road (Pompeii) a road in Cannes on a coach in Morocco an 'EEK' road on a clifftop in Madeira Algarve... sculpture (a wicker man) by the roadside in the west country Cornwall
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