U.S. Army Soldiers search for simulated victims during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson, Indiana was given the opportunity by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company to acquire a very unique piece of railroad history--Grasselli Tower in East Chicago. The IHB decommissioned the tower during the later part of 2007 and promptly offered the tower to the HVRM. Grasselli was one of the last remaining railroad towers in Northern Indiana.

Grasselli Tower once stood along Kennedy Avenue in East Chicago, Indiana guarding the junction between the IHB, EJ&E, and B&OCT. More information about Grasselli Tower can be found at www.grassellitower.com/.

Please make a donation to help restore the tower, if possible.

Also seen here is the Nickel Plate Road signal mast and a set of three searchlights.

Anya is a talented drawing artist and painter.

her creations can be admired and bought At Strawberry Fields in Central Park.

Her Instagram feed is www.instagram.com/povazari/

I got to CP Mallin just in time to almost miss this moment. FIVE UP engines--two SD70ACe's and this GEVO and I nearly missed the whole works. As it is the photos were hurried.

LOVE those red braces!

I updated my train blog! This little bit is due on there any time now. Honest. :)

U.S. Army Soldiers from the National Guard stand by to decontaminate victims during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

This is the siding at the top of Silver Zone Pass in far eastern Nevada. The stack train I saw in Deeth will be by here in a short while, heading east.

U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers provide medical aid to a simulated victim of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Choosing a picture in an ocean of people

Check the comments to see the previous version and let me know which one you prefer (and why, possibly!)

A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier stands by a simulated victim of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Michael Supon from the 107th Communications Flight, New York Air National Guard sets up communications for a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

U.S. Army Soldiers from the New York Army National Guard set up tents during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier assists a simulated victim of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

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A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier searches for simulated victims of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Running about 2 and a half hours late, the northbound Texas Eagle passes through CP 23rd St at the west end of the St Louis Amtrak Station.

In the distance is construction on the new Saint Louis University Hospital, opened 2020.

AMT22 10 (Northbound Texas Eagle)

AMTK P42DC #157

St Louis, MO

September 11th, 2018

A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier assists a simulated victim of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Two simulated crash victims hold hands during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

U.S. Army Soldiers from the New Jersey Army National Guard's 2-113th Infantry Regiment gear up for a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier assists a simulated victim of an accident during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Searchlights once protected the diamond at Tower 26 after it was rebuilt to its modern arrangement in the early 90's. By 2013, UP was triple-tracking the West Belt here and reconfiguring the CP's around the interlocker. The searchlights would be gone in a year.

Houston, TX

August 14th, 2013

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jim Tompkins, a medic with the 106th Rescue Wing, gears up for a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

Emma Lazarus, 1883

A civilian actor dressed in moulage to simulate an injury stands by to be placed at an accident site during a full scale exercise involving over 600 Army and Air National Guardsmen from New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 17, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Breanne Delgado is an elemental alchemist. You can find her by the Metropolitan Museum. Those who frequently pass by will easily notice her. Her eyes are very piercing, despite being hidden behind sunglasses. Her smile is contagious. Her charisma as intese as New York.

She kindly agreed to have a few pictures of her taken.

I hope I'll run into her again and take a few more.

You can follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bybreanne/

This guy offers his service as a barber. You can find him along the Lake, rin between W72nd and W74th Street, under the pergola, right by The Dakota Building.