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On a cold and cloudy morning, UP 6367 rolls through southeast Houston on its way to the Texas coast with the LHB89 turn.
This is normally an overnight job, though it's not uncommon for this train to run late enough to see daylight.
LHB89 19 (Local- Houston to Texas City, TX and return)
UP C44ACM #6367
Houston, TX
February 20th, 2025
Yesterday Nebraska Central ran a relief crew on a Platte Valley Turn that didn't make it back to Grand Island on Monday night. Current operations typically have this job heading back west after dark so it was great to catch them in the daylight just getting underway. NCRC 2197, 2207, and 6326 smoke out Polk, Nebraska getting up to track speed.
The main customer for the Platte Valley Turn is the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Central City. It was originally named Platte Valley Ethanol hence the station name PVE and job name. It's traded ownership a few times, but has been under the Green Plains banner for over a decade now. NCRC 2197 and company pauses before cutting off and picking up about 30 cars from the ethanol plant.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025: Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) 188W the Usibelli Coal Turn heads railroad South as they approach the City of Nenana. Todays train had two SD70MAC’s, numbers 4001 and 4328 along with 27 empties all headed to be loaded at the mine. The ladder of MAC’s is equipped with Head End Power for the railroads passenger trains, along with being wrapped in a throw back scheme to celebrate the railroads Centennial. After they load their train at the mine they will head back North just over 100 miles to Fairbanks yard where they will call it a day.
Alaska Railroad Corporation, 188W
Nenana, Alaska
3482, 3438 &3467 pass Piedmont while hauling the "Belle Turn' to Rapid City, 12 Oct 2024
A multi-turn control knob on a Tektronix 465B oscilloscope. The knob, one inch (25.4mm) in diameter, operates a potentiometer (variable resistor) that requires ten full revolutions of irs shaft to cover its entire resistance range, allowing finer adjustment than a standard potentiometer with a ¾- to ⅞-turn range.
My most recent guitar purchase is a Fender Squier 12 string Paranormal guitar. It is a lovely metallic green.
Happy Macro Mondays
SD SOLENT SPIRIT 88 is a Pilot boat built in 2008 by DAMEN SHIPYARD GORINCHEM - GORINCHEM, NETHERLANDS.
She is operated by SERCO Marine Services in support of the Kings Harbour Master (KHM) in Portsmouth Naval Base.
Pictured here soon after retreiving the Admiralty Pilot from a departing warship (HMS Hurworth).
A fork in the road winds through a forest landscape in Munshausen.
A winding road cuts through a forested hillside near Berlé, Luxembourg.
As I clicked thru a few hundred shots in the archives this morning I came across this shot of a shark fin taken from the beach at Ft. Pickens, Florida. If it was just a fin, it probably would have stayed in the cold darkness that is my external hard drive and never seen the light of the world wide web. It is the water swooshing from the high-speed turn that caught my eye and made me laugh this morning and decide to share it. The sharks’ rapid movements were produced due to it and another shark seemingly dancing in some type of wooing ritual.
Years ago, the Mrs. and I ran into some friends that we had not seen in a few years…a chance encounter that made both of us realize just how much they were missed. As we stood and talked, as often happens, the ladies paired off and went on about our kids who grew up together. For some reason, the other male and I decided that aging was the topic for us. At one point he rubbed his balding head and said aloud “This is what happens when you make too many high-speed turns under the sheets!” I just about died laughing as I had never heard that saying before.
Since that day, any chance I get to use that saying concerning my thinning noggin, I insist on using it because it makes me laugh and instantaneously snaps the Mrs. face in my direction, giving me her “STOP IT” mom eyes!
Taken on 03 April, 2021
A NEMA L5-20R cord receptacle and L5-20P chassis-mount plug, happy to make the connection when the occasion presents itself.
The sticker says "Free Palestine" on it.
A Brown Line L train snakes its way through Chicago's River North neighborhood over Hubbard Street between Wells and Franklin.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 56mm, 1/500s
Saw Tooth kills Franchine Childes.
The path here takes a sharp right shortly with a descent towards Newbridge.
March 25, 2025, 31.32-mile mile Boulder Cycling Club ride from the Twisted Pine to the Morgul Bismark and back on South Cherryvale Road.
