Beaverton & Beyond
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My final shot with the Nikon. Might be time for a replacement. We'll cross that bridge once we get there :)
Oh, wait, t's my foot! This egret's foot is so big for getting anywhere near its eye! At the Beaverton Creek wetlands.
This pair of coots was cute, as they both seemed to look at the same things at the same time. I have another shot of them both looking at me, but liked this one better because it so well shows those red eyes. At Beaverton Creek wetlands.
An unfamiliar movement in my familiar old stomping grounds. with PNWR's night "North Relief" crew at the controls, a loaded soda ash storage movement from UP passes the railroad control point Farmington. I'm not sure what the exact cause of this movement was; a weak market, economic problems, or just not being able to get a ship at T4, but UP needed to park a unit Soda Ash train somewhere, and a deal was made to store it at Banks on the PNWR. The PNWR crew took 2311 out to where UP had left the train at Johnson Creek near Brooklyn, adding their locomotive to the head end for cab signal compliance in the Trimet WES corridor. After traversing the Willsburg to Tigard and heading north, here it's pictured leaving the WES corridor for the Tillamook district in Beaverton. A long unit train like this, with big road power, in my hometown, was not something I expected to see during my stint back home from Eugene for spring break, especially as it's been several years since a movement like this on the north region of PNWR. Hearing 3 big GEs chug in unison to keep the heavy 140+ car mineral train moving through the Beaverton suburbs was very foreign for this place, but cool. [UP Symbol: OTAT4 22]
217 construction core. If you've ever traveled through the Beaverton area, you know why everyone hates this freeway. The Hillsboro switcher passes by in some nice lighting, hauling 2 boxcars pulled from Interantional Paper on the Beburg drill. After returning to Tigard, the crew would put together a train for Albina, with the UP power from the previous night's soda ash storage movement.
Mi estilo azul.
My buddy was complaining that most photos of bikes had the drive side in the back, so I hopped off and did this to help even the odds.
Then we had a little talk about why most people seem to mount/dismount their bikes on the left side - thus more often leaning their bikes with the right side/drive side in the back. We can't seem to link it to dominant hand, but maybe??