Dust Mite goes shopping
—orc Fri Jun 30 22:30:04 2023
Still life with Dust Mite & computer junk
—orc Fri Jun 23 23:53:40 2023
Hail dancing on the porch roof during a storm.
—orc Sun Jun 18 17:41:40 2023
A Dust Mite and its hoard of brake calipers
—orc Fri Jun 16 22:18:37 2023
Tri-Met has been champing at the bit to get rid of these old warhorses for about 5 years now, and it looks like with the latest order of S70s they might actually get away with it. #116 is, at least according to the net of a billion lies, one of the last three cars in OG Tri-Met paint, and it might be one of the cars that didn’t go through the rebuild program a decade ago?
It’s possible that either (a) ridership will go up or (b) Tri-Met will get the money for the (hideously expensive, thanks to the American tradition of spending 10× what everybody else pays to put in a trolley line) Barbur line to Tigard, which might keep them in service, and failing that it’s very dimly possible that Tri-Met will start a heritage fleet and keep a few of these cars around for fantrips & specials. But I’m not holding my breath.
So until I either (a) win the lottery and can add buying a handful of Type 1s to my small list of planned frivolity or (b) the last of these cars are dragged off to the breakers I’ll just have to keep taking pictures of the trolleys that did it for Portland.
—orc Thu Jun 15 00:44:45 2023
Dust Mite does some bicycle maintenance
—orc Fri Jun 9 23:54:59 2023
Lord of the snacks
—orc Fri Jun 2 23:24:20 2023
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