This Space for Rent

From the Holgate bridge

I've been walking home from work occasionally to make up for not riding my bicycle as much as I should (it's about 3 miles to work, but when I ride my bicycle I can either (a) ride on city streets and the Ross Island Bridge or (b) ride south to the Tacoma St intersection with the Portland Traction [aka Springwater] trail, then ride north to Hawthorne, then on city streets uphill to work, which makes closer to 5 miles) and today I decided I'd try walking down 17th so I could walk by the railroad yard. When I was almost to Holgate, I heard the tootling of a whistle blowing for the mess of crossings just west of 11th/12th & Clinton, so I couldn't help but scuttle for the bridge in case it was something interesting.

Okay, so it was only a pair of Yellow Menace SD70m pulling a freight train south. Not much to write home about (a few days ago I was riding the #70 northbound and I saw a Yellow Menace inspection/executive train zip over the Powell St. overpass when the bus was still down by the Tri-Met offices, and there's always wondering what might be pulling or pushing an Amtrak train.) But the sun was nice and bright and the ORHF has a bunch of their GN and SP-painted equipment sitting out in front of the Brooklyn Roundhouse.

The gaggle of gear by the roundhouse are so shiny that they sort of glow unnaturally in the afternoon sun.

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You have improved my day. Thank you. I inadvertently reached your blog and was pleasantly distracted by the photograpy and subject matter.

Gregory Wed Aug 29 21:10:47 2007

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