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another nice post my friend thanx

Looks like the bridge in Quebec City. Probably coming home for my future stove? Good photos.
nortcan

Blow up the picture. What are the flares on the buildings to
the left of the bridge ?

blowup. Looks like smoke, maybe with sun on it.

The two at the very top of the building look like a flame with black smoke rolling off.
Hmmmm. Very interesting

franco b wrote:blowup. Looks like smoke, maybe with sun on it.

That is probably exhaust steam from a power house or stationary engine of some sort.

This should clear it up.

I know the city of Pittsburgh did & still does have a large central steam heating system that heats quite a few downtown buildings thru a system of tunnels, it could be something along that line.

You guys should work at the NSA.

samhill wrote:I know the city of Pittsburgh did & still does have a large central steam heating system that heats quite a few downtown buildings thru a system of tunnels, it could be something along that line.

The picture is of Pittsburgh.

A neighbor of mine used to work at a factory that had a 200' brick chimney.

He would wait till it got dark and use pull chains to release steam that would blow the fly ash right out of the chimney.

You don't see a sight like that anymore. Damn environmentalists!

That's a good photo.
Up here along the Merrimac river you'll still find chimneys like that at the old textile mills
They dropped one last summer with explosives. Now that's a cool job!

I wonder what fuel that tugboat runs on, and how it can carry enough to move all those barges....