Sunday, September 17, 2023

RUBICON POINT LIGHT


The Rubicon Point Light is a small lighthouse on Lake Tahoe in California. It has not been operational since the 1920s or 1930s.

The lighthouse at Rubicon Point has the highest elevation of any American lighthouse. It stands 6,300 feet above sea level at a point where it could be seen from most places around the lake.



RUBICON POINT LIGHT
By Vards Uzvards from San Francisco, CA - Lake Tahoe (p8312148), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10408202

THE JAMNAGAR OIL REFINERY

 

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world. 

The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (11.7 sq mi) of land. If all the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.


THE JAMNAGAR REFINERY AT NIGHT


Monday, September 11, 2023

ARLINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA AND TURNBERRY TOWER

 

Arlington County is a county in the state of Virginia. The county is in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C. 

In 2020, the county's population was estimated at 238,643, making Arlington County the sixth-largest county in Virginia by population and the largest unincorporated community in the United States. 

The Turnberry Tower, located in the Rosslyn neighborhood, is a 26-story high-rise, and is the tallest condominium building in the Washington D.C. Metro.


TURNBERRY TOWER


MARION STEAM SHOVEL AKA THE LE ROY STEAM SHOVEL

 

The Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic Model 91 steam shovel manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Marion, Ohio. It is located on Gulf Road in the Town of Le Roy, New York. 

it is believed to be the largest intact steam shovel remaining in the world, and may have been used in the excavation of the Panama Canal. 

A model 91 steam shovel set what was then a world record in 1912 when it dug 5,554 cubic yards (4,246 m3) of earth from a pit at the site of Gatun Dam. 

The Model 91 required eight workers to operate. Four worked in the main section. The operator sat in the front booth and used levers to move the hoist and lift and lower the bucket. When it was time to move the shovel, he took care of that as well. A cranes man, who sat on the left-hand side of the boom, controlled the crowd engine, which allowed him to set the depth of the cut and release the bucket's contents when it was full by tugging on a wire rope attached to it. In the rear was an engineer who tended the boiler and a fireman who shoveled the coal. 

Outside the shovel a crew of four took up and laid the track along which its flanged wheels moved. They also set up the jackscrews necessary to stabilize the shovel in front of the rock face it was digging and dismantled them when it was time to move.


MARION MODEL 91 STEAM SHOVEL