Infrastructure
Yazoo River Swing Railroad Bridge
The Bates & Rogers Construction Co. in Chicago built the Yazoo river Swing railroad bridge for the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad in 1944. It replaced the original drawbridge from 1905. Today it is closed, the tracks are removed, and it…
Michigan Central Station
Detroit’s Pride and the worlds tallest railway station, when it was built in 1914, after the original depot caught fire in December 1913. At the beginning of the 20th century 4000 passengers arrived or left the station aboard no less…
Kinzua Bridge
The Kinzua Bridge was hailed as the “Eighth wonder of the world”, when it was built in 1882. Back then it was the tallest bridge in the world. A record it only held in two years. The original bridge was…
Grecian
90 metre long Steel bulk freighter, built in 1891 for the J. P. Morgan owned company “U. S. Steel Corporation” The ship struck a reef on it’s way a dock in Detroit, for repairs, and began to take on water.The…
SS Ayrfield
Built in 1911 as the Corral, at a dock in Grangemouth, Scotland.In 1912 it arrived in Sydney, Australia. Served in WWII as a supply vessel, and delivered supplies to the American troops in the pacific.When the Second World War ended,…
Monohansett
A 49m long wooden bulk freighter, built in 1872, as a double decked wooden bulk freighter, and christened Ira H. Owen.It was built by Linn and Craig in Gibraltar, Michigan.In 1882 it was rebuilt as a single decked lumber carrier,…
Fukushima
Fukushima is a Japanese prefecture, with a population of almost 2.000.000 inhabitants, but didn’t get much attention before the “2011 Tōhoku earthquake” and the following tsunami, that ultimately resulted in a partial nuclear meltdown at the “Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power…
Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant
The Swedish nuclear powerplant Barsebäck lies a short distance from Malmö, and is visible from the danish capital Copenhagen. The powerplant was built in the 1970’s, and in 1974, 1200 people were involved in the construction. The powerplant was shut…
Hephaestus
Bunkering tanker built in 1965 Beached during a storm on febuary 10th 2018 The anker appeared to have broken early in the morning, and thereafter it was beached at around 05:15 in the morning. The seven member crew all survived…
Russian Submarine
Just of the coast of Bornholm, lies a sunken whiskey class submarine. It was one of many soviet submarines, that were dismantled, and was on its way from Russia to Nakskov.When it passed the island of Bornholm, on the 14th…
