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The 10th and final Alton Classic Bus & Country Pub Running Day hosted by the Hants & Surrey Bristol RE Group took place on Saturday 20th July 2019.
For one last time, on the Saturday before the annual Alton Bus Rally (a separate event held on the Sunday), the Hampshire countryside reverberated with the sound of Bristol RE buses trundling between country pubs and Alton Railway Station.
There were 16 buses involved made up of 14 Bristol REs (including one used as the control bus), a Leyland Leopard and a Foden PVRF6 acting as a replacement for another RE.
Bristol RE / ECW bus: HDL25E, PPM210G (control bus), FWC439H, HFM196J, TDL563K, XLJ726K, JMW169P;
Bristol RE / ECW coach: 837SUO, AFM105B, OAX9F, TFM267K;
Bristol RE / Marshall: SJA352K;
Bristol RE / Alexander (Belfast): BXI2565, BXI2599;
Leyland Leopard / ECW: HNE641N;
Foden PVRF6 / Metalcraft: NTU125.
"Runaway train, never going back, wrong way on a one-way track, seems like I should be getting somewhere. Somehow I'm neither here nor there"
“Runaway Train” Soul Asylum, Grave Dancer’s Union
There are not many Soul Asylum songs that have touched my world, but those that do- do so in a profound way. The video for this focused on runaway teens, addressing the issue as a whole. I think a mother and daughter were even re-united because of the video if I remember right. But I think this song really touches on so much more than just runaways…
In my mind I often feel many of the words of this song- going the wrong way, lost even though I am traveling, sleeplessness, drowning in drops of water, etc. It’s something that maybe we all can relate to I’m sure… but sometimes I just want to get found, I want to know where I am going, and I want to swim- not drown.
In this song I think the focus really is the feeling of being lost. “I once was lost, but now I’m found…” Surly we all who are lost can be found.
*** Artist Notes ***
This is a live railroad track so I had to find a spot where I could see a train coming from far away. I always see trains coming from this direction, so I wanted to capture a literal “wrong way”.
Lyrics:
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
I promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep
It seems no one can help me now,
I'm in too deep; there's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just a-drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
And everything seems cut and dried,
Day and night, earth and sky,
Somehow I just don't believe it
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Runaway train, never coming back
Runaway train, tearing up the track
Runaway train, burning in my veins
I run away but it always seems the same
Bald Eagle at the Gauntelt Bird of Prey Centre in Cheshire. I woudn't like to be on the wrong side of that beak!
Another shot below
Folded by me from the crease-pattern using a 37cm square of MC treated tissue-paper. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/12569445@N02/1917832320/in/set-72157603774855285/)
A NS SD60E trails a boring UP GE on a westbound manifest passing the ongoing construction along the Chicago Line. If only the consist was reversed.
Zac was sitting keeping an eye on the WCML when two sheep came to investigate what he was doing !
Being a Border Collie he has no interest in rounding up sheep, so he decided to move further along the grass at Scout Green.......so the sheep followed !
Something different !
I thought Red was at the top.
This image was originally posted to 114 Pictures in 2014 #Signal but has now been replaced.
Yosemite NP
First time adventure to Yosemite NP and we were meaning to go to the "Valley" but mistakenly took the wrong way which leads to the other side of Yosemite i.e. Hetch Hetchy Camp. It takes approximately 7 miles of winding road to get back to the right way.
A few years back I bought a book called Everything is Wrong by Robert Anton Wilson
and amongst all the conspiracies and plots that are detailed therein is a section called The
23 Enigma. In biblical parlance the scales were lifted from my eyes and I started seeing
23’s everywhere. Is this occurrence of 23’s a sign of God as infinite jester? Don't know,
but I feel there are enough mathematical, literary and historical occurrences to make one
wonder.
Here is the lowdown on a few 23 occurrences:
# 2/3 = .666 The number of the Beast?
# In the film Airport the mad bomber is sitting in Seat 23
# 230 people died on TWA Fight 800
# The 23rd letter of the alphabet is W three points up two down
# First Apollo landing was at 23.63 edges east, the second was at 23.42 degrees west
# 23 Tales by Leo Tolstoy
# April 19, written by Americans as 4/19 and Europeans as 19/4 either way 19+4=23,
April 19, 1775 Battle of Lexington
April 19, 1993 Waco Holocaust
April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
# Area 51 Mecca of UFO and Conspiracy theorist, 51 breaks down to 23+23+(2+3)=51
# August 23, 1305 William Wallace executed for treason
# August 23, 1970 Conspiracy poster boy River Phoenix born
# Star Trek was originally set in the 23 century as was Babylon 5
# Human biorhythm cycle is 23 days
# It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the body
# Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by assassins
# In the act of conception male and female each donate 23 chromosomes
# There are 23 chapters of the Cult Awareness Network
# Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born on
December 23, 1805
# The Federal Reserve Act passed Congress on December 23, 1913
# The world will end on December 23, 2012 according to Mayan prophecy
# In Ancient Sumeria and Egypt, July 23, When Sirius rises behind the sun, was the
beginning of the new year
# The Nissan Car company takes it's name from “ni” which is 2 in Japanese, and “San”
which means 3. Nissan=23
# The Articles of Impeachment for Richard Nixon were under Article 2, Section 3, of the
constitution
# The US set off 23 atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific
# The first number in which both digits are primes and add up to another prime is 23
# One Seinfeld episode Kramer hides an air conditioner in Level Purple 23 of a parking garage
# Shakespeare was 46(2X23) years old when the King James Bible was published. Psalm 46 has as it's 46th word from the beginning “Shakes” and the 46th from the end “spear”.
# In Star Wars Princess Leia was held in cell AA-23
# Address of the Freemasons lodge in Stafford, England, is 23 Jaol Road. In New York it is on 23rd Street
# The Unabomber killed or wounded 23 people
# There are exactly 23 characters (numbers and letters) on the face of all US coins
# Morgan Guarantee Trust (center of some Illuminati theory) is at 23 Wall Street
# Nixon's number playing college football, 23
Yesterday Jim wanted to go to the health club. I didn't feel up to exercising so took Little Burrito inside for a visit. Here he is showing off his style and grace on a treadmill. I am going to have to start taking video and then extracting a frame in order to get a decent pic of him. He is far too busy for still photos in an environment like the health club -- too many machines to explore and too many people to greet!
Wrong Way Corrigan was an American aviator who flew from New York to Ireland back in the late 1930s. He had filed his flight plan to show he was flying to California and claimed he had made a navigational error. Makes a nice story but apparently nobody much believed it because he was an experienced pilot, but he never wavered from his "that's my story and I'm sticking to it" stance:-))
So the most disappointing thing to me is being almost right, but also lots wrong
See when things like this happen we all make (at work) our predictions
I went with Domestic (US Citizen) with some past experience in either Iraq or Afghanistan
It "felt" like a domestic and the bomb was classic middle east
Well I was both right and wrong
the younger one is a US citizen - score
the older one was a green card holder - which counts as domestic the way we look at it
but there also seems to be some foreign nexus
and the pressure cooker bomb has traveled to Russia, just like the older suspect
So half right, half wrong
classic push
which means no beer
:(
Im mad at myself for not thinking outside the box but at the same time, Chechnya is WAY outside the box
Sure we have seen them in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe.....yeah not that far outside
Should have at least considered it
NJT #4636 leads #6928 into Morristown as the clouds duck away last second. This ALP46-A is specially painted in a Pennsylvania Railroad heritage scheme honoring Transit’s 40th anniversary.
For Our Daily Challenge: Time
It is supposed to be winter here, but the only snow day I've had was on Halloween! I saw this flower outside, thought it was really pretty, and took a picture! Enjoy!
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Dumbass cop driving on the wrong side of the road; the red parked car had to wait for the cop to pass before driving on, to avoid a head-on collision with the odd driving cop. Just down the road he stopped to jack-up some street kids. Our tax dollars at work, keeping Victoria un-safe.
Under Mayor F,F,F,Fortin's and Chief Jamie "the Discreditable" Graham's Command:
Victoria, BC is now ranked the second most dangerous city in Canada
The VicPD is the most costly police department in British Columbia
The VicPD's crime-solving rate is one of the worst in all of Canada
The VicPD's officer response times have consistently worsened
Jamie Graham has been found guilty of discreditable conduct, again