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Today was a day to make some time going east. I was not going to make it a complete travel day, and since 2006 was the last time I had really checked out the Iowa Interstate, I thought a day following train CBBI,(Council Bluffs-Blue Island), would fit perfect for the day. Departing at night from CB it would be early in Des Moise, so, if I get my lazy ass out of bed early enough from a local motel, I could get a few pics in before hitting the road. II did not disappoint. Lucky for me the heritage Rock Island unit would be in the lead. Now as most of you know, I am not one to go out of my way to shoot "big uglies", (modern EMD/GE's), but I always thought the II's paint scheme looked rather sharp on the "uglies". So, I cut them some slack. I really didn't expect the RI unit, so it made it all the better. Although most time when rail fanning, you can't have it all,(the weather still was not cooperating), you have to take what you can get. I must say, this was a nice "get" for the last train of the trip. I chased from Altoona, Iowa to Amana, then highballed for Cleavland!
II CBBI east through Kellogg, IA
As usual, I tried a few different subjects for the Macro Mondays group theme, Anachronism, and this was my Plan B. It's a brass box for holding shirt studs, which I don't think many people use these days, and dates from around the 1920s. I found this one at the Lewes Antiques Flea Market recently.
Sunday I had hoped to spend a leisurely day chasing Pan Am Railways' water train. My plan fell apart by late morning when I heard them getting ready to tie the train down east of Rigby. I was heading for home when I heard DJPO (Danville Junction to Portland) call a stop signal at Royal Junction in Yarmouth. As a part of ongoing infrastructure improvements associated with the Amtrak Downeaster service contractors are in the process of grading roughly 4 miles of second track to be reinstalled from Royal west into Falmouth. The construction has helped open up some shots that haven't been possible for many years. With a pair of buffer cars and a load of anhydrous ammonia from the Saint Lawrence & Atlantic interchange the local is approaching Cumberland Center. Many years ago this location was known as Cumberland Junction, the original junction of the Maine Central Railroad "Back Road" and the "Lower Road". A 6 mile plus realignment of the Back Road resulted in Royal Junction, where the lines currently connect. This was one of a couple realignments in the immediate area, the other one being in New Gloucester.
Cumberland, Maine
January 7, 2018
I bought a porcelain figurine on eBay from France. To my pleasant surprise, the parcel arrived quite quickly and very well-packed. The figurine survived the trans-Atlantic journey all intact.
It's not the first time that I've received a parcel from France or Italy fully covered in stamps. I think I'd keep the box just for the stamps. Too bad that someone decided to cancel the stamps with a marker instead of proper postal cancellations.
I have a lot of ideas bouncing around in my head all at once. In fact, I’m actually diagnosed with ADHD, and this constant scatterbrainedness can make it difficult for me to complete long-term projects and assignments in an organized manner. Therefore, I’d like to ask you guys’ input on what kind of figures you’d like to see next! The school year is winding down, and once I’m done with finals, it’ll be 50 hr work weeks with 3-4 hours of MCAT study in the evenings. So I’ll need to be very careful with my time if I want to continue building over the summer.
Here are some of my ‘bouncing’ ideas, and if you have any of your own that you don’t see on this list, let me know in the comments!
(In no particular order):
1. Redoing my Forever Evil set with more accurate characters (and added ones)
2. Classic JSA
3. Continuing to keep up with current Rebirth storylines for new characters and "Page to Pictures"
4. X-Men (as teased, heh heh)
5. Super-Family
6. Bat-Family, and/or generally a greater focus on Batman
7. Priest’s current Deathstroke run
8. "Generations” (spoiler, it’s all the incarnations of the Teen Titans/Titans, this one would take a while)
9. Justice League International
10. Suicide Squad (this one’s for you, Adam)
11. Summer landscape/cityscape photography
12. Nudes
Fig formulas:
Updated Indigo-1: Star Sapphire head/torso/arms/hips, White Tiger plume, Balloon Escape Joker coattails, TLGM Velma Staplebot CMF legs
Mystique: Friends Ariel hair, GotG Vol. 1 Nebula head, reversed Pepper Potts torso, LBM Catman CMF utility belt, Lightning Lad legs
Monarch Containment Suit (retired): changed the hips and added the yellow utility belt for accuracy
We really dodged a bullet with our recent winter storm. They had predicted an ice storm with up to a half an inch of ice. But we ended up getting mostly sleet and a couple of inches of snow. The last time we had ice at a half inch, our power was out for almost four days....and we spent the first three in our bitterly cold house, desperately wishing we had a backup option. Every space heater in the area had been snapped up by the time we could get to the store, but on day four we managed to find this kerosene heater. And wouldn't you know, about four hours after we set it up and finally got warm....the power came back on.
At any rate, we didn't take any chances this time, and had our heater set up and ready for action before the event. I'm pleased to say we didn't need it, but as there is another storm on the horizon for the end of the week....this thing is staying right where it is for now. 😊
Op 7 oktober 2023 werd de jaarlijkse Vriendenrit van de Vereniging Vrienden van het Spoorwegmuseum verreden.
Met Plan U 151 van Stichting 2454Crew maakten we een rondrit door het westen van Nederland waarbij onder andere het Westelijk haven gebied en de houtrakpolder in Amsterdam een prachtig onderdeel waren.
Geweldig dit te mogen organiseren. Dank aan alle kanjers van Stichting 2454Crew voor de medewerking.
Excerpt from a journal found in the outskirts of Osaka, Japan 3 months after the main event:
Chaos, chaos is the best word to describe this. The whole world's a mess. Water, sewage, weapons, explosives; it's a mess. I'm not even sure anyone knows what is happening anymore. The government has seemingly disappeared into the air. No one is claiming responsibility for what happened...the flood. But I know the truth. My family is gone, and I'm about to be found. This is it. Our escape plan is simple: fight our way out.
This is The Flood! The storyline that John and I are starting. Expect more soon. :)
Jesus in my place!
What I feel for you has no explanation, I just wonder how you collapsed in me every corner. From you I want more, I like everything you give me and without permission you have stolen my heart little by little.
I want to be 100 years with you, with you life is better.
You fill my full days with such good humor and you taught me to see the stones of the road like a stepladder.
That's why you are my favorite plan, with you I stay to infinity
Hey guys.
At the moment I am working on few things. So rejoice ever been to some cool photos.
Here in the picture you can see only a few things I plan to finish and make them even intend to.
So what do you think ?
20"x20" acrylic on canvas. Available at the "Strange Happenings" show I am in
with Rudy Fig and Juri Ueda at Rotofugi opening March 20th.
The A380 commemorating Singapore's 50th independence anniversary is pictured landing as SQ346 from Changi at Zurich airport...
The Plans & Diagrams series was started in March 2006. The ideas and images continue to toy with me; I expect the series will grow. Images are of insects, machines, plans, diagrams, graphs, mathematical notations, and buttons.
Each of my series has its own set of rules. Some of my rules for the Plans & Diagrams series: use a photo of a linen bed sheet as the foundation of the image, restrict the color scheme to beiges, yellows, grays, & blacks, include an insect, include buttons or other circular objects. I don’t always adhere to every rule in every image in the series, but I find the restrictions help me explore the imagery.
See the Plans & Diagrams series at
Full "instructions" now available on brickshelf for my X-wing. Hope you like it.
EDIT: parts list complete. google docs version OR email pmiaki@yahoo.com if you want it.
10-02-2021
Zoals eerder beloof zou ik nog een foto plaatsen van de Plan U tijdens het opstarten van het treinstel .
Vandaag ging de Plan u van Crew 2454 weer terug naar hun standplaats en men starten het treinstel op onder de kap van Centraal Station.
Dit was na jaren weer een bezienswaardigheid want de laatste keer dat dit was met de Stoomstrein van de SSN uit Rotterdam die toen een gezelschap rit deed .
Het begon aardig weer onder de rook te komen de kap en de meeste mensen stonden versteld dat dit mocht en kon.
Dat het Alarm niet afging was nog wat we misten die dag.