Happy Bench Monday!

I went to the basement to look for a particular matchbox which I had in mind but then I came across these tiny matchsticks which I didn't even know existed. They are less than 3cm long and the little pot is maybe 1.8 cm high. I have no box for them so the pot will have to do. I combined the matches with other items that are just as tiny (a candelabra, a good book :) and a cup of something hot and comforting). Not that the weather calls for a hot drink at the moment, but it went with my theme :) I used Xmas wrapping as wallpaper. I found lots of good tiny things today, I need to get them out and use them. MM is perfect for it. I sacrificed one matchstick to see if it would burn and yes it definitely does. A surprisingly bright flame and the "stick" burned slow enough not to burn my fingers. I did not try to burn the candles :)

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The inscription over the entrance to one of the Etruscan tombs at the Necropolis del Crocifisso del Tufo (my husband was pointing as he was reading it to me - yeah, he can read Etruscan).

The necropolis is situated below the town of Orvieto (which sadly we did not have time to visit), made by tufa rocks and in use mainly from the middle of the 6th century B.C. and then some hundred years (though the area actually was in use in total from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C). There are some 70 family tombs, built almost like small houses, with an entrance and straight walls and a door-opening (and inscriptions over the doors, telling who is buried where).

Koidula street

Kadriorg

A westbound Herzog "candy cane" train blasts out of Montgomery tunnel with the Reading heritage unit in the lead.

3-9-2022

Sometimes all you need is a new perspective :)

The weekly Conrail power move from Reading to Enola approaches its destination as it crosses the Rockville Bridge. This assemblage of local power from Reading, usually predominated by former Reading SW900’s, SW1500’s, and MP15’s, could also include GP10’s, GP15-1’s and GP38’s. These locos were mostly assigned to five-day a-week jobs, and were serviced at Enola on the weekends. This day’s lineup included eight SW900’s, an MP15, a GP38-2, a GP15-1, and an outlier SD50.

A quote by Shailene Woodley in the June 2014 issue.

Made for Macro Mondays theme: “My Daily Routine”

Another project

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Paris

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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Cubelles, Spain, 2017, nanane15

The Atlantic magazine through my glasses

Altadena, California

Boston, OLYMPUS OMD10, 21mm Zeiss ZM

Reading class T1 2102 leaves downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. the morning of May 22, 1977 double heading a trip over Conrail to Altoona and back with GTW 4070.

The Gas Works Street Bridge and derelict Gas Works Social club in Reading.

The Reading heritage unit soldiers on, looking like it's been through a battle, through the farm land of Perry County PA along NS's Pittsburgh Line.

July 27, 2020.

In 1970, the US Treasury’s longest-running promotions for Savings Bonds was initiated. Posters and billboards seemed to be everywhere, and even some railroads got into the act. The Reading Company had several freight cars augmented with the placards, including this covered hopper seen at Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1986

At least two words I didn't expect to use in nthe same sentence

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A former Reading GP39-2, now CSX 4307 leads L120 into Elk Mills, MD to service Appalachian Railcar Services.

This weeks Saturday Night Special is a pair of Reading Geeps. GP35 3628 and GP39-2 3420 are at Bethlehem, PA on March 27, 1976. Photograph by Charles Houser. In 4 more days the 3628 would become a Conrail locomotive and the 3420 would become the D&H 7420.

Berlin 2017