These great 360º photos look like steampunk movie sets, don’t you think?
Valentin Arfire: ever since was placed there I was anxious to see its interior, the magic of its mechanisms… So one day I forgot all the advice my dear friend Ciprian told me on never get to someone elses private property and if you get there 🙂 don’t take pictures, and I got in it. Unfortunately the results of my first exposure being handheld and far from satisfactory, I got there for a second time with the tripod and panoramic head and 🙂 voila … It seems it was the shelter of a homeless person over the summer – I hope he doesn’t mind.
The Sulzer steam engine shown here belonged to the spinnery Blumer & Söhne which was shutdown in 1982. Today the building is part of the industrial ruin Jakobstal. A german abstract about the history and current development (or stagnation) of the ruin can be read here:http://www.zuonline.ch/storys/storys.cfm?db=zuonline&vID=13034
This is the famous Bavarian steam engine S36 watched from beneath during a maintenance.
This is a unique view beneath the main wheels of an ancient German steam engine the famous Bavarian S36 during maintenance. The engine is located in the traffic department of the Deutsches Museum which has it’s own buildings on the former Munich fairgrounds right above the grounds where the Oktoberfest takes place.
Full Power! 3 Diesel Piston Engines filled this room (& the entire sub) with a deafening roar. Examine the connections that propelled this mass of steel – USS Blueback. /to read more, click on the image and scroll down/
SS Rotterdam Engine Room
360º photos by Valentin Arfire, Bernhard Ehrminger, Jürgen Schrader www.bavaria360.de, Thomas Hayden and Henk van den Berg.
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