This Space for Rent

YAFYE picture of the day

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I went up to the Seven Corners big big store today, and when I reached the railroad crossing on Division St I noticed that the signals were (a) on and (b) green. So I tarried a while, and was soon rewarded by the sight of this Yellow Menace freight creeping southwards on the ex-SP mainline.

I don’t know if it was still creeping on by after I finished my shopping trip, because I went home via Clinton/41st/Woodstock (complete with a short but intermittently enthusiastic hillclimb – 50 meters isn’t very much compared to 800 meters, but I’m not going to carry 50 pounds of groceries on a R300 either) which conveniently avoids all grade crossings and possible ambulatory obstacles on the way.