Dec 31, 2021
Dust Mite & a strand of the Bob Hope tinsel that was passed down from my father to me.
—orc Fri Dec 31 23:39:54 2021
Dec 29, 2021
Based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover, via The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table
ILW RSX11-E618 (GP9 frame+generator, E9 trucks, 251B/12 prime mover) #1, which replaced the AVR’s two elderly GE 44-tonners in 1990 (financed by the PV&T, which is a large part of why it’s an ILW locomotive instead of a six-axle GMD1) during the PV&T’s (successful) attempt to win back the potato farmers who had been scared away by the 1969 Selkirk Yard disaster.
—orc Wed Dec 29 15:33:16 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Dust Mite poses with an eBay find; a blank Alco builder’s plate from the 1960s (either that or a reproduction blank.) If it’s a real plate, I suspect it was liberated after Worthington shut the works down and left them as a large attractive nuisance until GE leased them for some of their remanufacturing work.
—orc Fri Dec 24 22:45:34 2021
Dec 23, 2021
A band of rain creeps up towards the Portland area.
—orc Thu Dec 23 21:59:43 2021
Dec 17, 2021
Dust Mite is in a nice cozy bucket, at least until I fire up the torch next time.
—orc Fri Dec 17 23:57:34 2021
Dec 15, 2021
Very vaguely based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover, via The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table
MTRR #719 – one of the two locomotives made from parts from scrapped E60CP/DC #454 – is the ultimate DC-drivetrained locomotive on the PV&T. The power roadmap for the PV&T is only AC drivetrains (except for the overhead wire, of course; reenergising 2000 miles of 3000 vdc overhead to AC would cost an eyewateringly large amount of money) so the paint shop went out of their way to paint it in the old (post-ww2) GN-inspired orange+gold+green livery as a suitably classy bookend to the series of DC drive locomotives that started 85 years earlier with class A #201 (still in service.)
—orc Wed Dec 15 12:21:24 2021
Dec 13, 2021
“New” (from a LBS'es free pile) VO fenders on the traditional randonneuse, so I can ride it without getting covered in road filth during the ~5 months in the year where it’s always raining in Portland.
—orc Mon Dec 13 14:24:10 2021
Dec 11, 2021
Tch! Look at the time! Let’s just setenv TZ=HST and call it good.
—orc Sat Dec 11 00:19:32 2021
Dec 07, 2021
578 & 579 in North La Crosse – part of a batch of 7 rsc2m slides I just scanned in.
—orc Tue Dec 7 22:55:18 2021
Dec 05, 2021
Dec 04, 2021
The aftermath of a car losing control on 17th; it spun, went off the road, then rammed something that buckled the trunk and catapulted the offending vehicle up onto the roof of the Goodwill Donation Center?
—orc Sat Dec 4 12:47:51 2021
Dec 03, 2021
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