Seen at Trucktoberfest 2015 at the Mack Truck Museum and Customer Center in Allentown, PA. www.dailydieseldose.com for more!

the 28 posing as DM&IR 332 down at the depot

Detroit & Mackinac engine 977 switches out cars for the Central Michigan 740 job. The location is Saginaw, MI. Genesee Yard during March 1989.

Another attempt at the style of Angie and Silas. By the way, if you have not yet watched their "A Knock at the Door", PLEASE do so. It's beautiful art with equally beautiful words!

Dr Martens. 939 black six hole boot.

This week's artist offers such a wide range of inspiration it's difficult to choose, but her mail art is one of my favorites.

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Park bench

Image taken 11.12.2015 by David Moth

Built in 1973 Construction Number 182-61489

Cancelled from the British Register as Sold to Guatemala

at the Hollywood Bowl 8/16/09

New CAF-built Northern DMU Class 195, 195 110 heads south through Acton Bridge on 5Z23 15:26 Liverpool South Parkway High Level to Crewe.

At sundown on October 29, 2008, DM&E train MHUCC rolls across the Cottonwood River bridge just east of New Ulm, MN. This was DM&E's final day of operational independence, and the following morning CP officials in Minneapolis would literally ring a bell to announce the official integration of all former DM&E and IC&E lines. It was a bittersweet moment for me, as the DM&E had given me a second chance at experiencing C&NW style railroading a decade after that railroad's flag fell into the mighty UP system.

DM&E ran a very similar traffic base as C&NW over miles and miles of light, jointed rail bedded down with pink lady ballast. C&NW station signs were common. Crews still ran in and out of Waseca, Winona, Tracy, Huron, Pierre, Philip, Rapid City, Crawford and Belle Fourche. Ghosts of the C&NW and predecessor railroads Winona & St Peter and Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley were everywhere. Some days, it wouldn't have seemed to be too much of a stretch to come across the Dakota 400 rolling into Sleepy Eye or New Ulm and screeching to a halt in front of the station.

But of course, this wasn't C&NW, this was the DM&E. A modern progressive regional railroad that was welcoming to fans and loads of fun to chase. I spent many hours and many miles along the railroad and enjoyed every last minute of it.

As they say, all good things must come to and end and for the DM&E and my time with it, this moment was truly the end...

Time to go home!

Another night shot from Atlantic Station

The 1930s builing is still there, although the trees behind the bus, like it, have gone.

A try at the surreal style of Steven Kenny. Body parts salvaged from googled renaissance art.