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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Meep Meep!
You can never anticipate where a piece of American pop culture will show up next. Someone with OBB has a sense of humor. I have not been able to figure out what the Roadrunner vocalization means yet. In any case, I love these European cab ride videos, the price is right, and no jet lag! To listen to the actual sounds of Roadrunners, go here.
Whose Railroad is This? - Or WP Lives Part Four
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| UP in Check at Vancouver, Washington. Former WP GP40-2 906 works the hill, while 9244 N. waits to crossover. Date must be around 1996, neither the Mill Plain overpass, or the new hill track have been built. |
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Matty Groves - Fairport Convention - Sandy Denny
KMET in Los Angeles used to play this song often back in the early 70's and I immediately fell in love with Sandy Denny, may she rest in peace.
Minnesota Iron at the Infancy of Taconite Production
Lots of railroad scenes in this one, especially cool, are all of the spiffy Oliver Iron Baldwins.
More Minnesota content: http://trainwatchersjournal.blogspot.com/search/label/DMIR
More Minnesota content: http://trainwatchersjournal.blogspot.com/search/label/DMIR
Sunday, October 13, 2013
WP Lives Part Three - GP40-2 with an MP Touch
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| UP GP40-2 912 at Guilds Lake Yard, Portland, Oregon |
Subtitle; "If Locomotives Could Talk." UP 912 is of a group of ten WP GP40-2's that were by turns stored at Stockton, rebuilt as slug masters, leased to the MP for service in Texas, and some would then be concentrated in the Northwest in local and secondary service. One unit, 907 was lettered Missouri Pacific on yellow paint. I would love to know the story behind the Mop Jenks Shop lettering and numbering font variation. Roster info from.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Potential Hazards of Time Travel
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| Terminal C at Salt Lake City, Utah - October 2013 |
Right up there with being eaten by Morlocks, you wouldn't want your plane to go through a time warp upon final approach to SLC, putting you back 14,500 years and smack into Lake Bonneville. The old shoreline of the Pleistocene lake is clearly visible through the middle of the photo.
PlaneWatchersJournal
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| SkyWest Airlines Embraer EMB 120 at Salt Lake City, Utah - June 2013 |
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| SkyWest Airlines Embraer EMB 120 at Salt Lake City, Utah - June 2013
Hub and spoke airline routing makes a lot of sense in the West, and SkyWest makes ample use of the concept in Salt Lake. Concourse E looks to be a sort of poor relation in comparison to the rest of the airport's sleek terminals, but this terminal is kept very busy with the comings and goings of Westerners to destinations like Pasco, Billings, and Kalispell.
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Santa Fe at War
While not credited, I am pretty sure the narrator is Lowell Thomas.
Annotations and Questions:
00:50 East end of Abo Canyon
1:15 Wootton, Colorado Triple Header
1:34 Raton Summit
2:00 Darling, Arizona
5:59 Bridge Location?
6:19 Does not look like anywhere on the Santa Fe, looks more like Wenatchee or Pocatello.
6:45 Kansas City
6:52 Albuquerque
10:04 Gallinas, Colorado - Raton Pass
11:56 Location of Mine?
12:10 Silver City Branch
12:39 Where was the mountain of sulphur?
13:00 What is shortline or industrial operation?
14:26 Topeka Shops
14:49 San Bernardino
15:01 Stored steam at Albuquerque, Sandias visible in background.
22:16 Devore
Friday, October 4, 2013
TWJ Will be on Hiatus for a Week
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| I am headed up to space to see if I can rescue Sandra Bullock. Who needs that Clooney guy anyway? |
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
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