Out on the line
The Yellow Menace was doing MOW work on the ex-SP mainline south of Brooklyn Yard this week, and it appears that they finished up today because this railtruck was running up and down the west main picking up a huge collection of old ties and brush. (I didn’t go very far today, and so I saw the truck working away both coming and going on my tiny little 35km loop out to Gresham .)
I also took the chance to experimentally verify that not getting enough sleep makes me pedal slower; I did the Linnemann Junction loop on Saturday and managed to average just shy of 26km/h, and today I re-did the loop on six hours of sleep and averaged just shy of 24km/h. So if I’m going to do any epic deathmarches, I’ve got to get myself well-rested before I plod off down the road, because it will only get slower and slower and slower as the clock ticks on.