Jun 30, 2020
A B&W photo of 577 (purchased from ebay as part of my slowly growing collection of rsc2m photos) set out on a siding at Rondout Junction because it developed a hotbox while on its way to the breaker’s yard.
—orc Tue Jun 30 00:55:30 2020
Jun 26, 2020
Dust Mite moves in on an unattended chocolate cake
—orc Fri Jun 26 21:13:58 2020
Thor is being impossibly cute as is traditional
—orc Fri Jun 26 13:57:05 2020
Mavis hangs out on the kitchen counter.
—orc Fri Jun 26 13:54:51 2020
Jun 21, 2020
Mavis takes advantage of the summery-but-not-too-summery weather.
—orc Sun Jun 21 22:18:51 2020
Jun 19, 2020
Inspecting the geometry on yet another rack
—orc Fri Jun 19 23:48:28 2020
The larger picture shows (on the left side of the photo, just past the long hood of the 576) the bar that used to sit across Copeland Ave from the shops. It’s long gone, of course; I suspect a large part of its customer base was Milwaukee Road workers, and when the Canadian Pacific blew away the shops and stopped stationing anything other than a switcher those customers weren’t there – combine that with the new bridge that put the bar at the end of a stub street and *poof* it disappeared in a puff of logic.
—orc Fri Jun 19 15:50:34 2020
Jun 18, 2020
I dragged a thing out of the basement because I needed a test machine to put some miles on a rack/fork/lowrider combo before sending them off to their owner. 700c wheels, because that’s what the fork is built for, and some horrible panaracer 35mm commuter tires. *Fortunately the fork is just flexy enough so that it takes a lot of the harshness out of those tires, and the only thing wrong with the build rn is that the handlebars are too damn high and my back starts hurting about 6 miles into a ride.
I had to adjust the rack (by brazing on new fork crown stays and splicing the legs to stretch them out to match) to get some clearance between the fender boss and the tires. So that’s why it looks cruddy. The rest of it is just an artifact of it being a rolling parts bin.
—orc Thu Jun 18 21:03:55 2020
Jun 12, 2020
Re-purposing a dice bag
—orc Fri Jun 12 23:05:31 2020
Jun 09, 2020
Part of a rainbow hides behind some trees at the northern edge of Milwaukie
—orc Tue Jun 9 23:59:22 2020
Jun 05, 2020
Still life with Mandolin & Dust Mite
—orc Fri Jun 5 17:56:48 2020
Jun 02, 2020
Mavis found a warm spot to nap on
—orc Tue Jun 2 22:00:28 2020
Jun 01, 2020
You can’t see the defects from this angle :-)
—orc Mon Jun 1 23:54:41 2020
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