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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Amazing Feats of Engineering.... North Of The Border...

 

 A snowy morning and Covfefe surfing leads to a rabbit hole from one picture.

 This one of the 18 wheeler:

 According to the comments on f-book this is early 1980's. The truck is from a company named

Transport Chaine Inc. Heavy equipment movers.  The tram is the funicular located at 

Shawinigan-2 Generating station in Quebec.

The history of the facility is quite amazing when you start searching for information. <<<<

All built in the late 1800's and expanded over the beginning of the 1900's

 


Here is the google maps image search. From what I gather, the red arrow , I added,  points to the landing turntable for the funicular.

 

 


 

 As I was scrolling around google earth I noticed this area North of the hydoelectric station


It was once a large paper and pulp mill. Now it's just demolished concrete covered in graffiti.





BELGO SHAWINIGAN

This image. I found, is from 1946:

 You can see the church, just above center on the left of the photo. In the aerial photo above

it's left- center.   Here is the church recently <<


 




 

6 comments:

  1. I appreciate history as much as the next guy, but. New York State has many graffiti covered sites like this, I would rather these sites either be cleaned up or at least leveled.

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    1. Wow you beat me to saying the exact same thing.
      Klaus

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  2. Another incline.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAz7pUZVTmI
    (The original film is silent, so someone added music)


    More detail--

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_mJuS9WWc

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  3. Cool stuff. Being a documentary junky I have seen other unique water use features back east. Hardy, ingenieass and smart people they were

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  4. As always your curiosity and detective skills amaze me....

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    1. It's amazing how far you can travel on a snowy morning with covfefe in hand....

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