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Posted on 20 Aug 2016 1 Sep 2016
I, being the British engineer Thomas Stewart. Today the rare weekly photo challenge has inspired me to take you on a journey of magnification.
Photo 1 features a piece of metal manufactured in 1898 by Andrew Barclay sons & co based in Kilmarnock Scotland.
The metal turns into a small steam locomotive with the words The corporation of the city of Cape Town, embossed on it
and is housed in the Waterworks museum together with a lot of rare and historic tools,
and built right at the end of the Hely-Hutchinson reservoir completed in 1904,
which water feeds into the even older Woodhead reservoir in front of Hely, completed in 1897. See the plaque by the American and South African engineering bodies.
What makes it even more amazing is that it is built on top of this mountain (see last photo), being Table Mountain and the water is still fed into the modern aquatic network. The locomotive was used for the construction of the second bigger reservoir (Hely-Hutchinson) to speed up it’s completion.
The last photo was taken from the tourist area on the upper table of Table mountain. We hiked there (see Look up to my lens Table Mountain) and enjoyed a cup of coffee before hiking on further to the dams. Table mountain is on the bucket list of any visitor to South Africa but if you are at all able, please hike up Table mountain and try to visit the lower table (the 12 apostles) as well, as this is the interesting part with among others, the dams (5 in total) and Tranquility Cracks. If need be contact me via my blog – I will certainly take you there. I have hiked Table Mountain from all directions and then some.
Categories Wordpress weekly photo challengeTags 12 apostles, Andrew Barclay sons & co, Hely-Hutchinson reservoir dam, steam locomotive on table mountain, Table mountain, twelfth apostles, Waterworks museum, Woodhead reservoir dam22 Kommentaar
22 thoughts on “Dam(n), I engineered a rarity!”
20 Aug 2016 om 9:07 nm
Interesant man. Is dit in Kaapstad? Ek gaan een van die dae Kaap toe en dit lyk ba n plek om te besoek.
20 Aug 2016 om 9:17 nm
Inderdaad, sien ook die post oor Tranquility cracks, wat omtrent uur se stap vanaf hierdie damme is gaan nog een plaas met meer fotos: https://abriejoubert.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/tranquility-cracks-prayer-cape-town/
20 Aug 2016 om 11:05 nm
Gepraat van mooi foto’s,hierdie is pragtig,veral die uitsig vanaf die berg en die damwal!Hoe kry jy reg om jou foto’s so mooi ewe groot te pos?Ek sukkel bietjie daarmee op my werf en die foto’s lyk so “erratic”.
21 Aug 2016 om 10:46 vm
Daie dankie Dina. Jy is seker die enigste wat dink jou fotos lyk erratic. Ek sal later vandag vir jou antwoord op jou vraag
21 Aug 2016 om 10:47 vm
Baie dankie Abrie!
21 Aug 2016 om 10:31 nm
Abrie die link werk ongelukkig nie
21 Aug 2016 om 10:33 nm
Agtergekom probeer iets daaraan doen
21 Aug 2016 om 10:40 nm
Hierdie een behoort te werk
21 Aug 2016 om 10:57 nm
Baie dankie Abrie.Ek moes nou eers dropbox app installeer.Dis hoekom dit nou ‘n rukkie geneem het.Ek sal beslis eksperimenteer daarmee.Lyk lekker!
21 Aug 2016 om 6:19 vm
Daar leer ek nou weer iets nuuts omtrent Kaapstad. Ek het agt jaar daar gewoon en het uitgemis op 80% van die geskiedenis en attraksies. Dit is pragtige fotos en baie interessante leesstof.
21 Aug 2016 om 10:44 vm
Baie dankie Hester ja mense kyk jou vreemd aan as jy praat van die stoomlokomotief bo-op Tafelberg, maar nou ja ek het nie probleem om vreemd aangekyk te word nie
21 Aug 2016 om 8:38 vm
Raar maar waar. Pragtig man. Jy het n wye versameling van ondervindings om oor te gesels.
21 Aug 2016 om 10:48 vm
Baie dankie Ineke en hierdie ondervindings is oorspronklik inspireer deur boeke wat ek gelees en my nuuskierig gemaak het.
21 Aug 2016 om 8:21 nm
21 Aug 2016 om 9:11 nm
Baie dankie toe ek dit begin het ek oorweeg om dit eerder as ‘n Afrikaanse post te doen want dan kan ek meer beskrywend wees en meer fotos plaas maar dan sou ek weer gesukkel het met die rare tema
22 Aug 2016 om 3:37 nm
Ja maar mens verloor dan jou Engelse ondersteuners
22 Aug 2016 om 7:30 vm
Baie interessant kollega. Jy mag maar!
22 Aug 2016 om 7:56 vm
Baie welkom kollega en baie dankie
22 Aug 2016 om 7:59 vm
Baie dankie en baie welkom Laurette 🙂 Die blogosphere hou asem op vir jou bydraes!!
25 Aug 2016 om 4:28 vm
That was a might feat!
25 Aug 2016 om 6:31 vm
Indeed especially considering that they built a, cable way up the mountain in the late 1800s (in Africa). The steam locomotive was taken apart and reconstructed on top of the mountain.
25 Aug 2016 om 6:32 vm
Just like building a pyramid in an inca trail. Awesome.
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