This Space for Rent

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Red Beans & Mite

—orc Fri Feb 25 23:27:32 2022

Rainy day interurban

A southbound train crosses Washington St in downtown Milwaukie

—orc Thu Feb 24 21:30:09 2022

Friday Dust Mite Blogging

No blood pressure for me today!

—orc Fri Feb 18 23:56:44 2022

rsc-2 photo of the day

594 (not 988, no matter how much people try to pretend that the orange+black paint scheme is not the best scheme and that 594 is not the proper road number for this, the sole surviving Milwaukee Road rsc-2) sits by the roundhouse in North La Cross, maybe a year or so before I started riding up there at every opportunity and managed to imprint myself with the rsc-2ms)

—orc Fri Feb 18 23:51:00 2022

A very shiny rsc-2

It’s a sunny spring morning 49 years ago and 596 sits by the (now vanished) bridge that took the original CB&Q mainline through downtown La Crosse. I suspect it’s switching, but it’s possible that it just came in from Eau Claire via the BN from Winona Junction. Look how clean it is! You’d never think that in 3 years it would be retired and on it’s way to the breakers yard :-(

—orc Tue Feb 15 20:06:17 2022

Giant floof

Ozy overflows the newel post.

—orc Mon Feb 14 14:05:52 2022

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

After a week cooling their many heels, Dust Mite wants to take a few pictures.

—orc Fri Feb 11 23:40:26 2022

Zoom!

A late-running Cascades makes up time as it whips through Milwaukie Oregon.

—orc Sat Feb 5 00:02:10 2022

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

The Colossus!

—orc Fri Feb 4 23:55:35 2022

class Ω – a work in progress

Based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover, via The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table

I’m photoshopping™ (with G(l)IMP(se)) the MTRR’s last steam engine (a Beyer Garratt, built under Alco’s licence for the design) and let me tell you it’s a whole bunch more work to do a steam engine mainly from scratch than it is to do a boxcab or steeplecab! It’s starting to come together and look like a steam locomotive, but oh g-d there’s so much more I have to do before I can even go back to this rudimentary paint scheme and make it look less like the q&d kludge it is right now.

—orc Thu Feb 3 00:40:12 2022