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A new sheriff in town - this former Burlington Northern SD40-2 has replaced the GP9 that had been paired with the other SD40-2 to switch the intermodal yard in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, October 26, 2025.
She was just in her late 20s, but had been sold eleven times at the very same brothel, after every time she left it in search of a better life. Insatiable greed of the pimps and their wide network, coupled with ‘bad luck’ and abject poverty, forced her to keep selling sex at the brothel in Tangail, from 2002 to 2014 to earn a living.
Like any ordinary village girl, Lucky Begum (not her real name) grew up with her parents in her home district of Mymensingh. She lost her mother at the age of 10, and ever since then, her father considered her a ‘burden’ in his poverty-stricken home.
Moreover, young Lucky regularly had to tolerate extreme mental and physical abuse from her stepmother. Due to the extremely traumatic experience and frustration with her life, Lucky finally fled home at a tender age of 12, back in 2002. She eventually moved to Dhaka.
With a simple ambition to make her own living, either by begging on the streets or working as a domestic help, Lucky firstly arranged an accommodation at the capital's notorious Karwan Bazar slum in a bid to discover freedom.
But her ill fate continued to follow her trail. Unfortunately, Lucky begum ended up at the hands of sex traffickers.
She was sold to a ''Sardarni'' (brothel owner, previously a prostitute herself) at the infamous red- light area of Kandapara in Tangail Sadar, the second largest brothel in Bangladesh.
In 2014, after the authorities knocked down the red-light district where she had been working for nearly 14 years since 2002, Lucky had no other choice but to continue selling her body for money. Fatefully, her streetwalking profession turned out to be even more difficult after the government led eviction.
Discreetly, she decided to continue as a floating sex worker in the capital city to make her a living. Sharing her depressing life's account with Dhaka Tribune, Lucky said: “When I was being sold at the brothel, I was merely 11 years of age, and had little idea about what was waiting for me. The Sardarni promised me a decent job as a house-help at her sister’s residence. I vividly remember that trade negotiation over a woman's body on that very day. I was sold at Tk500, the highest price, only for being a virgin ‘Chukri’ (child sex worker),” she said.
Her first client was a middle-aged man and the Sardarni pocketed all the money he had offered for Lucky's service, whose first month at the brothel was like 'living in a hell.' After a little while, she managed to escape the brothel and went into hiding in Dhaka. Undesirably, she could not evade the claws of sex traffickers who again spotted Lucky and sold her to yet another Sardarni at Kandapara.
This time around, Lucky, against her will, spent some time there and started to become accustomed to the atmosphere . Finally, she realized that this was no way to live. Driven by the sense of living like a human being, she yet again fled the brothel, and was later caught and sold there at the Kanda. And the same thing was repeated until the 2014 eviction.
Steroids pushed for a feisty look
Lucky said most of the underage sex workers at the brothel have been forced to take steroids
to look healthier and thus draw more customers; that too, at a higher pay. “Many experienced sex workers used to advise me to do so, citing that steroids reduce body pain,” she said, adding that the drug eventually affected her body.
“My body swelled up like a balloon and now I have hypertension. I didn’t know about the side effects of steroids,” she maintained, adding: “Despite being 29, I look like a 40-year-old woman.
“I thought the drug was meant for common usage, because it was available even at tea stalls in the brothel,” she said. “All they (brothel managers) wanted was for us to look more sassy, with a mature physique, before clients,” the woman added.
According to Bangladesh Sex Worker’s Network (SWN), a non-government organization, some 90% of brothel-based young sex workers are tricked into consuming steroids. In most cases, they are advised by their peers to take the drug to get rid of bodily aches and pains, but in reality it is not the case, the SWN says.
Miseries still there
When the nearly 200-year-old red-light district was demolished in 2014, Lucky, who was 24 at that time, made numerous attempts to switch to other means of generating income, but all her efforts were in vain. “Over the past five years, I had to change a number of jobs- from a garment worker to a housemaid- it was mainly due to my job history of being a sex worker,” she said.
Taking advantage of her past ‘weaknesses’, most of her male colleagues at almost every workplace harassed her, she recounted, adding: “I was once even raped at a garment factory after my previous profession was leaked there.”
Deeply depressed, Lucky confided that after being in prostitution, the concerned persons experience the deepest darkest depths of our society: an immeasurable and unimaginable amount of violence, humiliation, lies and inhumanity.
The repeated exploitation prompted her to start selling sex again, but as a streetwalker. Lucky now lives at Mirpur-1, where she is among scores of women, mostly aged between 11 and 30. Their work area stretches all the way to Manik Mia Avenue.
Dance my Esmeralda, sing my Esmeralda.
Please come sleep here in my arms.
You know I'd die for love of you.
Dance my Esmeralda, sing my Esmeralda.
Beyond, and beyond beyond.
It is not death to die for you.
- Dance My Esmeralda, Notre Dame De Paris
A CN train working the yard in Effingham, Illinois, has backed up as far north as the Amtrak station and await a signal at the diamonds with the CSX St. Louis Line to go back into the yard.
This spur off of the former Spreckles Branch in Salinas, CA serves International Paper, an important supplier for packaging fresh produce from the Salinas Valley. The spur is lined with Monterey Pines as UP GP40-2 1342, patched SSW-GP-60 1068, and out-of-site GP40-2 1447 pull two tanks from the loading docks of the paper company.
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Strobist/Lampista: one light setup. National through a reflective umbrella pointed behind the hand (full power)
Flash triggered with Cactus Wireless Flash Trigger Set V4
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The First Jefferson Local crunches cars in the yard at Salem, Oregon. By summer 1994, the time remaining for Southern Pacific's SD9 fleet was getting very short.
At work at the minute everyone's energy is focussed on the global WWF earth hour ... an hour during which the world will make a statement about climate change. Please check out the website and sign up!
If you are in Scotland we are calling out for your help - we need photos and films of as many places as possible as they switch their lights off on this night... we are running a competition over in the Scotland group...
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (350D) uses this switch to tell it that an external flash unit is mounted. If the switch is depressed, the camera will not pop up the onboard flash and will not fire the onboard flash even if it is popped up.
提起本木家，應該很少日本人不曉得這個演、歌双棲的明星家族吧。簇擁圍繞著当家本木雅弘的是藝人老婆内田也哉子、音樂家岳丈内田裕也、名演員岳母樹木希林、童星長女内田伽羅、長男内田雅楽。不同於秦淳司拍攝，簡約隆重的「BRUTUS」表紙，由上田義彦掌鏡的「SWITCH」更多了一份華麗貴氣又不失率性灑脫的氣息。
yes, it's the real situation here in Jakarta every morning and afternoon on weekdays. an economic class commuter train becomes favorite mass-transportation for the reason of its cheap price, and you can beat Jakarta's awful traffic jam by this train. recently, a fatal train crash happened in Bogor, West Java, one crew member dead and at least 38 passengers injured. let us hope for better Jakarta's mass transportation!
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i didn't do white balance switch while taking this photo, the last time WB used was tungsten and the result is heartbreakingly blueish. thanks to PS, LR, neatimage, and photoscape (yes I have used them all. dork!) for the edited photo i uploaded above. oh, and thanks for khanif for his kind assistance on PS.
CNR 992 switches the barge at Ellice Pt yard. Does anyone know if the sawmill on the right was a rail served customer and who their name was? 27 June 1974. Photograph taken by Glenn Migneault.
Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, Alco S-2 switcher #6, Newgulf, Texas, September 19, 1972–––photo by Joe McMillan.
Tim Smith at the throttle of the Hawarden switcher emerges from the Chatsworth curve with cars for industries at Hawarden and Hudson, SD.
With the normally northbound track close because of a grade crossing project at Deerfield, Amtrak's Empire Builder crosses back from the southbound main at Rondout. In a moment, it will cross CN's former Elgin Joliet Eastern. The switch in the foreground is to Metra's Fox Lake Branch.
This photo is taken from the North Shore Bike Path Bridge. The path occupies the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee's Mundelein Branch.
The rust on the rails indicates that the former passenger main of the Erie Railroad in Niles, Ohio, is little used.
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The guitarist for the band Switch Foot posing for a photographer on stage during their performance at the Bro-Am in Encinitas, San Diego, California