 Neckarviadukt + EnBW-Münster
|  Neckarviadukt + EnBW-Münster
Name of the shiny white concrete dream: Neckarviadukt. Did replace the König Wilhelm Viadukt in 1996. Centenary affair. The former was inaugurated in 1896. The new pillars slightly displaced with respect to the old ones to facilitate the switch over. - In a world dominated by Puma and Adidas there is obviously little need for a third player. The commuter traffic to the Salamander shoe factory in Kornwestheim did however once rate a special train service (Schusterbahn). The early morning Neckar view was probably free. - The bridge serves today as shortcut for cargo traffic from Munich to Frankfurt. The awkward location of the central railway station of Stuttgart, dead end terminal, dictates another routing for Intercity trains.
|  Neckarviadukt + EnBW-Münster
Cannstatt side
|  Neckarviadukt + EnBW-Münster
Picture shows the slight bend in the tracks. With the current life expectancy for heavy duty bridges it should be a straight track again in about a 100 years. Bridge precession.
|  Neckarviadukt + EnBW-Münster
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 König-Wilhelms-Viadukt
The reddish standstone pillars (looks like it) of the original bridge. Sometimes used for climbing exercises.
|  König-Wilhem-Viaduct
piton
|  Neckarviadukt, Hotel-Mezzanine
|  Neckarviadukt, Hotel-Mezzanine
|  Neckarviadukt, Hotel-Mezzanine
The heating system proved a disappointment. Stonecold to the touch. The disarticulation of the cover did not look forced.
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 Neckarviadukt Hotel-Mezzanine
Creature comforts. Possibly from a recycle bin. Beggars can't be choosers.
If I remember the original script the grating should open at this point. Intrudor search by a giant Polyphem hand. Could also be footage from a different epos. There were actually some matrasses under the grating. Maybe not a good idea to stay for too long. Not your living room after all.
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf
EnBW-Münster and adjacent coal-wharf
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf
The floodlight system probably reserved for dense fog. (Be your own KGB officer, switch to high beam in fog.)
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf
The shovel chins are still operated by a pulley system. Rarity in our hydraulic day and age. Mechanical advantage of 5 if the sister model from the gravel yard is any guide. Gravity released. Foresee some problems with loading operations in outer space.
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf
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 EnBW-Münster coal-wharf
|  EnBW-Münster coal wharf
Tracks going over the ridge of the dune: the cheaper kind of regolith. As an aside: Most of the Apollo pictures are fakes. The actually shots were done on Mars where labor costs are much lower.
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf (old pic, dockings not too frequent)
Winter impressions: The Marionette Player in the Rigging Floor
The coal carrier roughly aligned with the wharf. Not sure if you can call it mooring if you use bollards, in any case secured. The dredging shovel doing its work, rising and falling. The payload just clearing the retainment wall on its back swing. Consummate skill. Well, once you get the hang of it. (Hardly any danger that it will catapult you into the pay rank of a commercial airline pilot. Liability rates just too low. Always astonishing what difference a bushel full of dead souls can make.) The crane is perched on a railed trestle. Allows you to dump your coal across the whole width and length of a Cartesian soccer field (best use ever invented for the latter). Temporary cache. Main drawback, you probably have to scoop it up a second time for end consumption. They can hardly convert the whole storage area into a gravity feed in. Undoubtedly one of the inconveniences of pumping lumpy fuel.
Verdict ...
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf (old pic)
|  EnBW-Münster coal-wharf (old pic)
Old man winter and vine arches (two pronged hibernation stage). A miniscule Burgholzhof under the left arch.
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 EnBW-Voltasteg MS-Mannheim
The cargo shutters of the barge can be telescoped back towards the bridge. Will not rule out double telescoping to either end. Inherent question: What protective software is installed to forestall an 'accidental' opening by a miss directed tv remote control. And boys will be boys.
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ensemble
|  EnBW-Münster
ensemble
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the skyblue logo
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the three towers
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 EnBW-Münster
the three towers
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Green view. The crane seems to be a rather permanent feature. Foreground: Fence overgrown with Clematis.
|  EnBW-Münster
|  EnBW-Münster
East view
|  EnBW-Münster
chimney and Stephanus Kirche
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 EnBW-Münster
|  EnBW-Münster
"black tuba"
|  EnBW-Münster
"black tuba"
Summer impressions: aspen leaves cartwheeling in a breeze. Some possible kinship with coal fairies.
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"black tuba"
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 EnBW-Münster
|  EnBW-Münster
Voltasteg
|  EnBW-Münster
In situ. The dwarfed tower of the Stadtkirche Cannstatt can be just made out to the left.
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the smoke plume from far away
|  EnBW-Stuttgart-Ost Gaskessel
Signature structure, the storage tank of the gas works. Build in 1928. Possibly some original parts remaining. Picture shows just the outer skin. The internal 'chapeau claque' has to be imagined. Equally impressive at night. A black sail clearly silhouetted against the string of lights from the coastline. Abu Dhabi minus the net capital income. (The latter probably a matter of viewpoint.)
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