Unusual and/or Derelict Vehicles/Machinery

[Pathfinder]

Those two photos are spectacular, Pathfinder! HDR outside the camera?

Don

Gosh, thanks Don.

No HDR, inside or outside the camera for either image.

Both rendered in LR4.

The first image had a light kiss with Topaz Adjust to bring out the color in the wreck, blended back into the image from LR.

The second image is straight from LR4 - it was a bit overcast that day, and that helped keep the contrast lower, and the 5D handles contrast fairly well. A fair bit of Vibrance I suspect, I shot that image in October of 2009.


Here is another view of that meadow near Great Basin

 

[Rattler]

Here are a couple I have come across in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The place is loaded. The quality could be better. They were taken with my point & shoot.

 

[Abel Villesca]

On the Nokai Dome Road on the way to the Hole in the Rock Trail

 

[Elbee]

Somebody in another thread suggested this would be a good topic. I agree. So here goes...

I have no idea about the story behind this beast. I suspect it was used in the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. It sits along the Steese Highway in Fox, AK (about 8 miles north of Fairbanks). I can only imagine how it was back in its glory days and where the heck it has been in its day:

Its LeTourneau Sno-Freighter. One of of the many overland trains that RG LeTourneau built. Many had electric motors in the wheels to propel them. And now many of them are laying around abandoned, several in Alaska, slowly rusting away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno-Freighter

 

[DblD]

Love this kind of stuff.

These were taken off UT State Hwy. 12 between Bryce Canyon and Moab.





Some sort of snow removal equipment at a museum in West Yellowstone, MT. Just outside National Park.





dd

 

[toymaster]

Took these while helping to build a man-made island in the Arctic Ocean some years back. It is used for an emergency escape pod from the island. Two pods were permanently attached to make one vic.

 

[Rattler]

This is sitting right about in downtown Ishpeming and hasn't been used in years I would guess. The tower behind it can be seen in Anatomy Of A Murder for a bit. I love that movie!

 

[BillTex]

Took these while helping to build a man-made island in the Arctic Ocean some years back. It is used for an emergency escape pod from the island. Two pods were permanently attached to make one vic.

Can you tell us more?
Sounds like quite an adventure...

Tx, Bill

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Mexican boat launcher

 

[sourdough]

 

[duneyeti9]

Sitting in the desert at Meriscal Mine in Big Bend National Park.

 

[teotwaki]

From my Blewett Pass blog post

Liberty, Washington
Studebaker stakebed with a winch

Northwest Engineering pull-shovel

From the mines near the town site of Blewett

Eimco 12B air powered rocker shovel

 

[FJR Colorado]

 

[dirtyhippy6]

Here are a couple I have come across in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The place is loaded. The quality could be better. They were taken with my point & shoot.
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ive seen the bus. a few miles from big erics bridge near skanee.

 

[Rattler]

ive seen the bus. a few miles from big erics bridge near skanee.

Absolutely correct!