New Haven, CT: Enstructure Northeast receives SENNEGOEN 895

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I came across this video in my Facebook feed:

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This raised the question of what kind of equipment has crawler tracks that big? The answer is a dock-side material handler. Since this is the second one that is being delivered to this dock, I found a video of the construction of the first handler.

3:57 video via sennebogen @ 3:31, cropped
Sennebogen 895 E Hybrid - Assembly and Operation

The 895 E is the largest Material Handler in the world - The specific machine is the largest 895 E built to date, weighing in at just under 1 million lbs. 

Visit us at: www.TylerEquipment.com for more details.

Machine Info:

Groundbreaking dimensions - extreme power: The SENNEBOGEN 895 E Hybrid impresses with an operating weight of around 420 t and a reach of up to 40 m. It is the giant of the port handling machines with an impressive amount of handling power when it comes to moving scrap and coal. The double Green Hybrid system makes the largest material handler in the world more efficient during operation.

An earlier view showed that the barge crane is the WEEKS 533.  I've seen WEEKS cranes help build the Cuomo Bridge and salvage the Francis Scott Key wreckage.

@ 1:48

They built the upper body assembly that we see in the above view on the barge before they lifted it and attached it to the gantry base on the dock. The largest component of that assembly was the boom.

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The pan attachment is used to load material into a ship.

@ 3:07

Hancock, MI: 1846-1945 Quincy Copper Mine and Incline (Funicular)

Head House: (Satellite)

Incline: (Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2024

Craig C posted three photos with the comment: 

Super impressive mechanical machine from 1918. That's the largest steam powered hoist dru - for a 9000'+ incline. 1000000+ lbs put together in pieces after the building was up due to delivery delays because of steel rations in WWI.

Terrifying man skip too!

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This appears to be next to the drum in Photo 3 above.

Lisha Dong, Sep 2024

QuincyMine
"Quincy Mine is nestled in the quiet town of Hancock, Michigan. The Quincy Mining Company was one of the largest producers of copper within this area’s world renowned mining district. Operating underground from 1846 to 1945, the Quincy Mine produced nearly one billion pounds of copper that fueled the industrialization of our nation."

Quincy Mine posted
The Shaft House is lighted tonight and for the entire month of May for Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month, to bring awareness for a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. NF affects one in 2,000 people in all populations. There is no cure, yet. Visit the Children’s Tumor Foundation www.ctf.org or Neurofibromatosis Michigan www.nfmich.org for more information.

Quincy Mine posted
Looking for something to do on a rainy day? How about a trip back into history with a  tour at Quincy Mine! Our early tours are already booked, but we'd be glad to do a tour at 1:30 pm today (Friday) if enough folks are interested. And to make it even more enticing, this is an "Everyone's a Student!" weekend in celebration of MTU commencement. Show up with a student and everyone gets in for the student price! (half off for adults!). Book online at www.quincymine.com or call the Gift Shop at 906-482-3101 for more information.

Richard Wilde, Jan 2026

Lester Brubaker, Aug 2025

Lisha Dong, Sep 2024

West Olive, MI: 1960s+1980 1.5gw J.H. Campbell Power Plant

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Street View, Jun 2024

Street View, Jun 2024

I'm surprised Unit 3 was not supercritical since Unit 2 was. Maybe supercritical in 1967 was bleeding edge and they had enough problems that they were chicken to try it again.

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By Nov 2025, it had cost $113m to keep the plant running past its planned May 2025 retirement. 

Detroit News posted

Energy regulators as far away as South Dakota are resisting having to pay to keep a coal-burning power plant in Michigan operating. 

Full story: bit.ly/3PNyPvf [paywall, but I was able to get the name of the plant.]

📸 Brett Farmer, Special to the Detroit News

Mike Himmel: The real story DETnews and other mainstream media won't share with You is 1) Midwest is already at high risk of blackouts according the the experts MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator). 2) Data centers are going to put a massive spike on demand with just 1 of the 14 planned (Saline) by itself is going to increase DTE's demand by 25% or the equivelent of a million customers. 3) Whitmers appointed minions at the MPSC are approving the fast tracked applications quickly even as Nessel calls for more hearings and transparency 3) Michigan has had renewable mandates for the last 17 years and its still less than 10% of our total supply and like anything they take the lowest handing fruit first (meaning the projects with the best output for the assets deployed) 4) combine this with Michigans -0- carbon mandate and we are headed to a self created energy crisis. We are going to need not just that coal power plant but in reality another large nuke plant that will take a decade to build. We are literally putting the cart before the horse. The big question is why are the same people that pretended they cared about the climate now suddenly ignoring the will of the people, putting our energy and water supplies at risk? DETNEWS is derelect in their duties as a main news source for Michigan to not even ask the most basic question, but here DETNEWS prestends coal power cost more than renewables. Where is all the electricity going to come from? And don't accept lame answers like windmills and batteries. DETNEWS step up Your game!

mlive, first of 82 photos
This article about Trump forcing the plant to stay open is not behind a paywall.

Mining #Shorts posted

The fight over Michigan’s J.H. Campbell coal plant has turned into a bigger legal test over who controls America’s power grid.

Consumers Energy planned to shut the Ottawa County plant on May 31, 2025. Days before that retirement date, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered it to keep running for 90 days under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act.

Three extensions followed. Nearly a year later, the plant is still being kept alive, and the backlash is growing.

The Department of Energy argues the order was justified by a national energy emergency and the risk of electricity shortages. Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and environmental groups see something very different: an abuse of emergency powers.

Their case is straightforward. A planned coal retirement isn’t the same as an immediate grid crisis, and power reliability already has state, regional and federal planning channels.

Then there’s the cost.

Consumers previously said closing Campbell would save customers $600 million by 2040. Keeping it open reportedly costs $615,000 a day [wow. why?], with at least $135 million tied to operations after its scheduled retirement.

Consumers isn’t fighting the order directly. It wants assurance it can recover the cost from the wider MISO grid.

That’s why everyone is watching this case.

A ruling against the federal order could limit Washington’s ability to keep aging coal plants running. A ruling in favor could turn emergency authority into a powerful new tool for delaying coal retirements across the U.S.

Buffalo, NY: Kellogg Elevator

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Michael J. McCord posted
I was watching a Doc on the Battle Creek Kelloggs, and wanted to dig deeper. I grew up at the Michaels Estate in Derby where my Grandfather was the caretaker. The Kellogg's lived next door and I always believed they were the cereal family ! Well I just found out they are not related ! They were the Spencer Kellogg family, linseed oil and shipping. I found this pic and thought I'd share. 1905

Brian R. Wroblewski: That original elevator was replaced by a more modern one & part of it is still used by St. Mary's cement.

Michael J. McCord commented on Brian's comment
389 Ganson St

The silos on the left are what is now used by St. Mary's Cement. The silos to the left of the Michigan Avenue Bridge is the main part of the Kellogg Elevator. The building to the right fo the the bridge is part of General Mills Plant.

Street View, Jun 2025

Hickory Corners, MI: Gilmore Car Museum: Old Gas Station, Depot, Interlocking Tower and Much More

Gas Station: (Satellite)

Museum: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite)

"Gilmore Car Museum is considered the largest auto museum in North America." Donald S. Gilmore opened the museum on July 31, 1966, with 35 cars on display. [CountryLines]

Blue Fire Media, Mar 2018

That is three generations of pump design.

Blue Fire Media, Mar 2018

John Meconi posted
Gilmore Car Museum - Michigan

Greg Galeles commented on John's post
Rare gathering of Madura V-4s at the Gilmore Car Museum

The main building.

Street View, May 2025

The museum campus has several other buildings, some are for partner museums.

Satellite

I checked 1918 and 1947 maps to determine that a railroad did not go through here. Then I found the Flickr photo below that described the depot as a replica.

Blue Fire Media, Mar 2018

Steve Brown Flickr

Hickory Creek Depot - the Gilmore Car Museum

The Gilmore Car Museum at Hickory Corners, Michigan has this replica of a small-town railroad station. The station houses the museum's hood ornament collection. I got this shot on the afternoon of June 28, 2012, during the Pierce-Arrow Society's national meet.

Steve commented on his Flickr photo
The backside of the station is just as beautiful:

This is the Model A Ford Museum. It showed me that the special car collection buildings have the architecture of an old car dealer. I noted this "dealership" because it features a couple of glass-cylinder gas pumps.

Dmitry Loktev, Oct 2019

Is this THAT or GULF gasolene. Also, note the prominent location of the air hose. Tires were not as good in the 1920s as they are in the 21st Century.

Digitally Zoomed

Is THAT a regional dealer that carried Gulf gasoline?

Charlie Chapman, Nov 2021

Diners must have been an East Coast thing. I've never seen any in the Midwest.

Tycho Aussie, Jan 2020

" Dine in a different era at George & Sally’s Blue Moon Diner, an authentic and fully operational 1941 diner serving classic American fare."  [CountryLines]

Looks like the Pierce-Arrow Museum had a special gathering.

Photo, Jan 2022

GilmoreCarMuseum

The "dealership buildings" are partner museums. [partner-museums via about]

La Crosse, WI: 1967-87 345mw Genoa Power Station #3

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Street View, Aug 2012

That coal pile extended a long way to the left.

Street View, Aug 2012

James Way-Burch, Jan 2020

The nuclear power plant was also still standing in 2017.

Bojidar 93, Mar 2017

What is the brown ground all about?

Bojidar 98, Mar 2017

Mining #Shorts posted

Genoa Station #3 was one of Wisconsin’s most recognizable coal-fired power plants, sitting along the Mississippi River in Vernon County, just south of La Crosse.

Owned by Dairyland Power Cooperative, the 345-megawatt unit entered service on July 16, 1969, and became a long-running workhorse for cooperative power customers across the Upper Midwest.

Its location made the site unusual. Genoa had already hosted fuel-oil generation, then the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, Wisconsin’s first nuclear power facility, which operated from 1967 to 1987. The coal plant became the site’s longest-serving chapter.

For 52 years, Genoa Station #3 supplied electricity through cold winters, summer demand peaks and decades of changing power markets. But by 2020, Dairyland’s board voted to retire the plant, citing age, operating economics and a broader shift in its generation mix.

The unit stopped generating on April 11, 2021, and was officially retired on June 1, 2021.

Its final act came in March 2024, when crews demolished the 500-foot stack and main building. Contractor Veit removed 13,000 tons of steel from the boiler house and stack during the last phase, along with 42,380 tons of crushed concrete.

For Genoa, it marked the end of more than half a century of coal-fired generation on the Mississippi.

The plant is gone, but its history still reflects an era when big centralized coal units carried rural electric systems for decades.

St. Joe, IN: Junction Tower: NS/N&W/Wabash vs CSX/B&O

(Satellite, according to Matthew's description below, the tower was in the southwest quadrant.)

We can see a few signalling pipelines in the top photo along with a color position signal.

Matthew Ditton posted
A before and after of where the B&O and N&W crossed near St. Joe. In the before photo provided by Craig Berndt, Paul Willer took a photo in the Summer of 1966 looking east on the B&O when they were single tracking this portion of the line. The tower was still standing at this time and you can see the N&W crossing in the distance just beyond the tower. I took the current photo on 5/10/26. This is now the CSX Garrett Sub which was double tracked again in the late 90s and the other track is now the Norfolk Southern Huntington District. I think the connecting track on the left was put in around the same time of the double tracking but am not positive. The road crossing in the distance was county road 58 and that crossing was eliminated several years ago. The house on the right still stands today but the trees in the current photo obscure it. For me, it's one of the rare comparison shots I've done where there's more track in the current photo than the before one.

Michael Schwiebert: The transfer track was put in for the SDI mill between St. Joe & Butler, so they could (at the time) have 3 railroad access. Both this and the siding that was put in from St. Joe to Concord (on the south side of the main track) were put in back when I still lived in Fort Wayne. I lived there from 1993-96, and want to say it was 1995? I always thought it interesting that they did grading on the south side for the siding instead of using the existing grade on the north side. Did CSX have plans for restoring the double track even then? I don’t know.

Tim Shanahan shared

I was aware of a Wabash route that went from New Haven to Toledo, but NS doesn't own that route. So I learned that Wabash also had a route from New Haven to Detroit, and that is the one that NS still owns.

Kevin Piper posted via Dennis DeBruler

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