After 3+ years of off-and-on writing, tweaking, drawing sideviews of various locomotive classes, and more writing I have finally updated the history of the Parsons Vale Lines up to approximately
the current day (as a half electrificed 15,000 km railroad network under the control of a strongly pro-union trust.) It,
of course, is not completely finished – I’m still making passes of image editing to improve the details of the stack of
locomotive drawings (using clippings – and in a few cases the entire drawings – from the 1:25 scale images on The Railroad Paintshop) and, of course, as I think of ways to flesh out the history of the railway system, making passes at the various webpages I’ve been maintaining for a quarter of a century or so.)
This, unlike my code, is not likely to kill your computer, and it shows how one railway developed in the reality where not all railroad executives are margin-chasing buffoons.
—orc Fri Mar 31 23:20:34 2023
Dust Mite troubleshoots an uncooperative Mehano pacific
—orc Fri Mar 31 22:53:55 2023
576,579, & 596 pull a freight past a Sinclair fuel depot somewhere in the upper midwest. Maybe in Westby?
—orc Wed Mar 22 04:04:13 2023
Setting up the old jig to see if it’s up to the work of fitting a new frame (tl/dr: no)
—orc Fri Mar 17 23:57:59 2023
We’re taking a bulldozer to the piles of debris on my workbench
—orc Fri Mar 10 23:58:36 2023
Repairing a fork, Dust Mite-style
—orc Fri Mar 3 23:50:01 2023
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