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Takes us to LaCrosse, WI August of 2008.
Because of old MILW road miles based contractual obligations, the road switch jobs out of LaCrosse paired St. Paul conductors with Portage engineers. Since one job went east to serve customers all the way to Tomah (about 40 miles), Portage conductors could 'recapture' the miles. With only having three years of seniority, I could hold this day job with weekends off. Occasionally my brakeman was a 40 year veteran.
Most days we would take cars over the Mississippi river to La Crescent, MN to interchange with the ICE railroad. Road switchers had little priority over road trains and today is no exception. Here we are waiting for train 891 to pass and we will follow him west.
Three MRL units were assigned to the 890/891 train set for about a month.
The shot was taken shortly after a rain shower. Looks like the weed sprayer needs to come through the yard.
So, why Albania? Well, I met this chap in Milan yesterday evening who also had a long wait in the freezing cold for his train. He was going south while I was going north. We both ended up with a three hour delay! Anyway, he was thiniking of starting a business in Albania, which is a short journey across the Adriatic from where he lives. And then, when looking at which photos I am carrying on this (my work) PC, I found a few Albania pics which ahd not been uploaded... a good enough reason?
I love Birthday Sasha and she doesn't get much face time on flickr unfortch. I gave her hair a boil wash and conditioning treatment and it improved the texture and look of the nylon and now she's perfect ^_^
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A couple enjoying a canoe ride the year before Covid. Since then, any water activity at the lake is prohibited.
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Takes us back to January of 2006. We are on CP T-291 with traffic ahead. Shortly we will eaze on down to the rips for a crew change. This BNSF stack train is one of several that we met between St. Croix and St. Paul.
CP T-291 St. Paul, MN 2016-01
a westbound UP stack passes under the new-ish-at-the-time signal bridge at yuba gap on the fabled donner pass line over the northern sierra nevada mountains of california
Peter, a retired Navy helicopter pilot takes Bill, a retired Navy F-14 Tomcat RIO up for a flight in the T-6 Texan. Bill is head down, perhaps looking for a nonexistent Tactical Information Display.
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Eventually, the sign crews did remove all of the exterior signage from the building, but that doesn’t mean they got all of the logos! As can be seen in this shot, on the receiving door at the back of the store remains this small BAM logo sticker, which I think is a cool find. To my knowledge, it’s still there today, and with any luck, if and when this building gets a new tenant, it will continue to remain even past then! I included the inset image to try and show you the sticker just a tiny bit closer, but in reality it probably doesn’t help that much… sorry :P
Books-a-Million (now closed) // 135 Towne Square Boulevard, Southaven, MS 38671
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Van Nelle factory, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Design: Brinkman & Van der Vlugt in cooperation with civil engineer J.G. Wiebenga (1925).
Restoration design (1999): Wessel de Jonge Architects (WDJA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nelle_Factory
Transparent photograph on one of the windows at the Van Nelle factory. Female workers packaging tea of coffee, and one male supervisor.
This was part of a Van Nelle exhibition, that unfortunately never opened.
A Union Pacific transfer freight switches out several different variants of freight rolling stock out of the east end of Bensenville Yard. The power of this train included UP GP40-2 1367 and UP SD40-2 rebuild 1755. The editing process for this photo took a while but I tried to make this photo somewhat look like a visionary flashback, similar to the flashback moments shown in some television shows.
Franklin Park IL.
9/27/2015
New Pinky:st figures arrive!
Well, new to me. They're actually nearly twenty years old.
This is my first new-to-me Pinky Street figure purchase in a long, long time.
I never had the Go! Go! box set, as it was always too expensive and hard to find back in the day. The seller indicated that the open box Tenjou Tenge figure was missing a part, but the part is actually in the box attached to the doll body. The seller also included a cute littleTokyo Swallows baseball-themed Omiyage Danboard minifig.
Additionally, I placed the eBay order Monday afternoon, and the parcel arrived from Japan via FedEx on Wednesday afternoon. That's kinda mind-blowing. FedEx doesn't even deliver domestic (in country) parcels that quickly.
It's pretty fun to have a Pinky Street figure parcel arrive in the mail once again!
30 October - A Doll A Day 2024
... to Anise's farm stay with her baby buddy in August. The farm owner recently sent me these photos. Cute, eh?
Red campions (Silene dioica) outside our house.
(Rød jonsokblom in Norwegian)
My album of Norwegian summer flowers here.
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Pink label Barbie 2007 designed by Robert Best.
I found this lovely lady boxed at a thrift store for $10. She is now on a Raquelle fashionista body (which isn't a 100% match).
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I add, a picture transmits a thousand feelings.
Today's photo was made in 2011, during Summer holidays. Though I kept it in my hard drive all these years I can't find nothing special in it. Even worse, the photograph opens my memory book in a page I closed tight and avoided to revisit until now. When I started processing it yesterday, I was able to put the good from the not so good experiences aside. I started a brand new page titled, "lessons I learned". And that's what took me to post it instead of deleting it.
A few minutes back, one phrase came back to me and is flashing inside my brain, "what is happening, it seemed they were kicking us out?".
One phrase that summed up the holidays' feeling. One phrase that sums the lesson I learned, "be happy and enjoy the moments with your friends, even when you think they are not the right ones in a given time and don't let,by any means, let them sense you are not enjoying their presence".
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Hoje, enquanto tomava o pequeno almoço ouvi a frase "uma imagem vale mil palavras". Vou acrescentar, uma imagem vale mil sentimentos.
A fotografia que agora partilho foi feita em 2011, durante as férias de verão. Não sendo uma imagem especial mantive-a, inexplicavelmente, no meu computador estes anos todos. Pior, é uma fotografia que abre o meu livro de memórias numa página que demorei meses a virar. Aliás, um conjunto de páginas que compilei e enviei para o livro do esquecimento. Respirei fundo e comecei a editar a imagem ontem, conseguindo separar as boas experiências das más e, a minha memória, iniciou a página "as liçoes do passado recente". Como o bom ultrapassa o mau, a fotografia acabou na internet em vez da reciclagem.
Há uns minutos, quando me sentei para escrever e publicar, uma frase despertou e ressalta ainda no meu cérebro, "que se passa, senti que nos queriam ver pelas costas?".
Uma frase que resume o sentimento das férias. Uma frase que resume a lição que aprendi, "estar feliz e aproveitar os momentos com os amigos, mesmo que pensemos que gostarÃamos de estar noutro local, que não estamos no local certo, e, de modo algum, deixar transparecer o sentimento que não estamos a aproveitar a companhia".
Todos os cabos são importantes para suster a ponte.
The weekend just flew past. Hope you had fun!
Psss, Beibei appeared in the 10 Dec 2009 editions of Daily Mirror and London Metro papers. Did you catch him? If not, here's a little link.
Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane.
It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the "separate system" be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gaol. Although in a diluted form, the design was based on ideas of prison planning and reform that were current in England in the nineteenth century.
The State Prison for Women, with 80 cells was designed by the Department of Public Works, during an era when it was producing a large number of high quality public buildings. The designer of the women's prison is not known, but likely J S Murdoch and T Pye supervised the design and construction respectively.
The complex remained a female prison until 1921, when Brisbane Prison reorganised and divided into three divisions. No 2 Division, the former women's prison, was used for the detention of long term prisoners transferred from St Helena. The female prison was relocated to a building on the southern end of the prison reserve. No 2 Division was extended to include an extensive workshop block on the eastern wall, and a tunnel was constructed, connecting this to the original men's prison, which became No 1 Division. The construction of the workshops enabled the former women's workshop to be converted to a cell block, in 1930.
In the mid 1970s No 2 Division became a maximum security prison, with No 1 Division mainly being used for lesser offenders, remand and holding cells. No 1 Division buildings were gradually demolished over a period of time, commencing in 1968. This included the demolition of all of the 1880s gaol and its replacement by a series of concrete wings which formed a large quadrangle. During the 1980s, No 2 Division became the centre of prisoner unrest, which included riots, hunger strikes and roof-top protests. In 1985-86 a Visitors Centre was built adjacent to the Gatehouse.
The final years of unrest precipitated the establishment of the Commission of Review into Corrective Services in Queensland. By this time the Brisbane Correctional Centre and in particular No 2 Division, with its poor conditions and lack of sanitation, were seen as symbols of all that was inadequate and deficient with the prisons system in Queensland. No 2 Division was decommissioned in January 1989 and No 1 Division closed in July 1992. Following the closure of No 1 Division all of the structures were demolished with the exception of some cells and an observation tower immediately adjacent to Division No 2.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register