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NS 12Z passes the CPLs at Stuarts Draft on a hot and muggy summer morning. Unfortunately, progress has been made in the slow signal replacement program along the Shenandoah Line, and replacements are standing here now a year later.
Train: NS 12Z with NS 8096 (ES44AC).
Stuarts Draft, VA
NS Roanoke District
This horse has all the markings of a draft horse, a farm work animal usually used to pull carriages or equipment. It has large hooves and is built strong. The coloring looks like The American Cream, the only draft breed indiginous to the United States. It is considered rare because of a genetic condition that has reduced its numbers. Minimal texture added to reduce sunlight glare. If any flickr members recognize the horse breed, let me know because I'm not sure. Chosen as cover photo on front page of Horses, Ponies, and Foals, Sept. 2019.
I am a rough draft because the most interesting stories are found in the margins, the edits, and the parts that haven't been smoothed over yet.
I am a rough draft because I am a collection of experiments - some that worked, some that failed, but all of which belong on the page.
I am a rough draft because my "final version" is a moving target, and I’d rather be a work in progress than a finished thought with nowhere left to go.
Sponsored:
Prop/Puzzle Box: Cryptex by Static available now at Engine Room, and afterwards at the Static Mainstore.
Clock: Steampunk Wall Clock by Eclectica, available at this round of Engine Room, and afterwards at the Eclectica Mainstore.
Drafting Table: The Auclair Drafting Table by Dirty Rat & Heloise, available at this round of Engine Room, and afterwards at the Dirty Rat MP Store.
Stool x Decor: Auclair's Drafting Stool by Dirty Rat & Heloise, available at this round of Engine Room, and afterwards at the Dirty Rat MP Store.
Other Deets:
Lamp: Eclectica Mainstore - Steampunk Lighting Plasma Set
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Just a few minutes after dawn, NS 202 slices through the still-darkened landscape past the CPL bracket mast at Stuarts Draft. A matched set of SD70ACes leads this lengthy train north toward Shenandoah, and eventually Harrisburg. 202 and counterpart 201 are the only intermodal trains to use the lower part of the H-Line, which otherwise is limited to manifests and the occasional unit train. They're hot on the heels of northbound manifest 12Z, and are passing a 15T that's waiting in the siding right behind me.
Leftovers from my working life still find use in my retirement, though a whole lot more fun these days!
"Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, about 2 miles South of Petersburg and about 20 miles Northwest of Springfield, is a reconstruction of the village where Abraham Lincoln spent his early adulthood. The six years Lincoln spent in New Salem formed a turning point in his career. Although he never owned a home here, Lincoln was engaged in a variety of activities while he was at New Salem. He clerked in a store, split rails, enlisted in the Black Hawk War, served as postmaster and deputy surveyor, failed in business, and was elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 1834 and 1836 after an unsuccessful try in 1832."
linolnsnewsalem.com
Part of my lengthy chase of an early morning 16T between Buena Vista and Compton, Va brought me to the small borough of Stuarts Draft. Here, the train hustles north at track speed, passing one of the many ex-N&W signals that still guard the sidings on the Shenandoah Line.
If you've driven up Snowball Road north of Pagosa Springs, CO, you've noticed the big blue barns and draft horses. There were five mares in this pasture, and all had colts. Ths black mare has twins. Even as young colts, their draft horse heritage is noticeable.
by Johannes van den Broek, Jaap Bakema
Aula Technical University Delft.
The Aula of the Technical University in Delft located on the north side of the campus was built from 1959 to 1966 by the Dutch practice Van den Broek & Bakema. The building houses an auditorium with 1300 seats, four trapezoid lecture halls with 250 to 350 seats, the senate hall and the university cafeteria. The auditorium is connected via a walkway to the Physics Department. In an earlier draft, the project from 1958 the project included an administrative tower which was not realised.
The auditorium looms above the main entrance. The hall is shaped like a saucer (hence the building's nickname "the UFO") and is supported by triangular concrete columns. The lecture halls at the rear are supported by a similar construction. To support the 15 metre overhang prestressed concrete had to be used. The ends of the prestressing cables are left exposed. The building has a collapsed roof. Steel frames were used for the exterior walls.
Besides the auditorium Van den Broek and Bakema also designed the campus' boiler house and thee Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture. The cafeteria on the ground floor was refurbished in 1998/99 according to a design by Mecanoo.
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NS 3611 heads north through the N&W CPLs at Stuarts Draft as the train heads north toward Shenandoah Yard.
I think this is what these four sand hill cranes are doing. Note the perfect spacing, wing position and diagonal line. (except for the last bird that is on a level plain)
There is always one that doesn't get the word. ;-']