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Hopkins, MN
Quoted from DCP:The old warehouse that I use for a garage and storage is only 30 feet from a major freight railway owned by CSX. My black-and-white avatar shows how it looked in the 1950s. It's not much different today.
Here is how it looks from a window on the 3rd floor, where I'm working on motorcycles right now.
The locomotive is a General Electric ES44AC-H, which is a 73-foot-long beast with 4400 horsepower and 6 powered axles.
These large locomotives are necessary to get long, heavy freight trains up the 17 Mile Grade that begins here in Piedmont WV. There will often be 3 to 8 of those giant ES44ACs with another 2-3 of them somewhere in the middle of the train or at the end.
Quite impressive to hear and feel 20 or 30 thousand horsepower thundering by, pulling 8-10 thousand tons of freight or coal through town.
It's easy train-watching territory, especially since the speed limit is only 25 mph here. I enjoy the trains and all the maintenance equipment and hirails (cars and trucks with retractable railroad wheels) that are here every day.
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Ever watch some Hobo Shoestring YouTube videos? Or maybe Jaw Tooth? Both train related.
Quoted from LTG:I hope so.
Round 2, tomorrow.
LTG : )
I hope you are safe. I love thunderstorms. Always have. I had a EF3 go over me and my classmates back in 1976, I remember the sounds to this day. Very exciting when you are too young to know better. In Colorado, we usually see the storms developing over our head and then become much more interesting as they disappear into Kansas. Sucks.
Quoted from LTG:I hope so.
Round 2, tomorrow.
LTG : )
Good news is tonight isn’t supposed to be as bad as last night. I hardly got any wind and that huge hail cell went just south of me. No free roof but I bet the contractors will be going door to door soon enough.
Since it’s the random picture thread here’s the calm before the storm…
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Quoted from EJS:Good news is tonight isn’t supposed to be as bad as last night.
Depends where you are. Looking the same as last night, maybe worse in some areas.
LTG : )
Surrey, BC
I put this door in for a customer 3 years ago. She found two dogs wondering around a gas station in Texas (her home is in Indiana) a few months ago. We have remodeled the entire house over the last 10 years in stages. And we are back on a new project. They keep the door open all day but the wind will blow it shut sometimes and this is the result.
IMG_20220414_083859552 (resized).jpgQuoted from EJS:That’s enough waiting around my new friend and I are hitting the road.
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He doesn't look comfortable.
Quoted from yzfguy:He doesn't look comfortable.
He gets to pick the music so it’s a fair trade off
Woolgoolga
JP got all resentfull when i pulled him from his nice, warm electric rock and threw him in a cliplock box.
He was pretty happy though when i put him back in his tank with cleaned windows his side and mine, washed carpets and rocks and some new furniture.
Spent the first two hours on inspection, and it looks like his fresh house get's the tick of approval.
Big tank during the week, at least i can stand inside that one and clean the windows.
Reichenau Im Mühlkreis
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Oldest is currently in Italy...
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where is that? looks beautiful
Quoted from stefanmader:where is that? looks beautiful
That is Lake Como
Quoted from EJS:That’s enough waiting around my new friend and I are hitting the road.
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No offense but your friend looks like a stiff.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:That is Lake Como
Thank you very much
Quoted from EJS:Freshly printed! Much needed for my game at least 30% paint missing on original.
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who/where????
Quoted from yzfguy:Very cool, I'd never even heard of an oriole feeder.
When I bought it years ago it came with orange nectar. Never attracted them. We just use sugar water for the feeders. Hopefully the hummingbirds aren't far behind.
Quoted from Pugster:Quick getaway this week to the Oregon Coast. Beautiful country down here.
Spent my honeymoon in Cannon Beach. Still have Haystack rock as a screen saver.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Hung up a oriole feeder this morning and already have a couple who found it. Only seen a handful of them over the years and two in one day! The boy has been back a couple times today. Only saw her once.
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Same here in northern Indiana. I see them, not very often. I think the last one I saw was on the finch feeder.
I 3D printed a bird house a number of years ago and last year a wren nested in it. Boy, for a little guy, he sure had a loud voice. Quite a pretty song too. He actually was rather tame around me. If I got close while doing yard work, he'd only fly away a few feet.
One of the prettiest birds that hangs around here are the Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks. A bit of a bright red belly with white around it.
Cardinal nest in our front bushes. They will become fledglings in about 11 days from hatching (this is about 5-6 days I think). Total time in the nest from egg laying to end is about one month. Then Cardinals will then abandon this nest and make a new one for another round (up to three a year)
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