May 20, 2022
Thor found a temporarily-empty box of Bob’s rolled oats.
—orc Fri May 20 23:20:44 2022
Dust Mite helps me pick usable parts from my now-dead pink Mixino.
—orc Fri May 20 23:18:27 2022
May 15, 2022
I met EPT’s GMD-1 when I was on the Springwater Trail headed towards downtown.,
—orc Sun May 15 01:15:56 2022
May 13, 2022
The nice thing about the side pockets on the panniers is that they make it easier to carry tall delicate things.
—orc Fri May 13 23:34:45 2022
Dust Mite helps me inspect a frame that I just gave a new triangle.
—orc Fri May 13 23:31:36 2022
May 06, 2022
Dust Mite stops at a Milwaukie Starbucks for some tea, a cookie bar, and some low-key agitating in favor of a union.
—orc Fri May 6 23:39:48 2022
I’m not sure what happened, but I managed to keep forgetting to do last week’s Dust Mite blogging until today? Oh well, better late than never and be sure to stay sanitized.
—orc Fri May 6 23:37:17 2022
Apr 22, 2022
Dust Mite designs a locomotive for the PV&T.
—orc Fri Apr 22 23:56:01 2022
Apr 15, 2022
The peppermint dragon in its lair
—orc Fri Apr 15 23:53:45 2022
Apr 09, 2022
I’m back to using the emergency randonneuse as a tractor for the bob yak so I can get an additional pair of panniers worth of cargo capacity when I run over to Trader Joe’s.
—orc Sat Apr 9 22:38:54 2022
Apr 08, 2022
Dust Mite found a box
—orc Fri Apr 8 23:43:50 2022
Apr 05, 2022
Taking a scenic route back from the Seven Corners New Seasons.
—orc Tue Apr 5 23:30:58 2022
Apr 03, 2022
Taking the traditional randonneuse out for a ride ahead of the evening rainstorm.
—orc Sun Apr 3 23:27:13 2022
Based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover @ The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table
Toronto Suburban Railway #301 – a 1942 CC&F product – in ORRC livery in the late 1980s, just prior to the merger with the Ontario Southwestern Railway.
—orc Sun Apr 3 01:31:02 2022
Apr 01, 2022
Dust Mite has a little snack before bedtime.
—orc Fri Apr 1 21:47:25 2022
Mar 29, 2022
A (coming up on 40 years old and still humming along!) Bombardier/BN “Type 1” car leads a northbound train into Clinton & 12th station.
—orc Tue Mar 29 20:54:24 2022
Mar 26, 2022
Based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover @ The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table
Answering the question “what would have happened if CPR hadn’t dieselised the CPER in the early 1960s?”; eventually the CPR would get tired of all the duplicate lines and start abandoning the old interurbans, at which point a shortline operator jumped in and bought them (only to be absorbed into a new regional (Canada Southern’s line from Niagara Falls to Windsor)) which was later grabbed by the LT&L during the PV&T’s second round of acquisitions.
1980 (the last motor built – by the CPR shops – for the Grand River after CPR decided to keep the wire up on switching districts, and still in use because the energy crisis of the 1970s put the fear of G-d into the central office) was transferred from the GRR to the LE&N during the process of divesting/abandoning these lines, and was renumbered to 1980 to commemorate the year when the ORRC’s founders decided to try and buy the old radials before the CPR could tear down the wires and abandon them.
—orc Sat Mar 26 22:34:05 2022
Mar 25, 2022
A little evening snack
—orc Fri Mar 25 23:24:13 2022
Going out for a (slightly) longer ride this afternoon.
—orc Fri Mar 25 20:03:38 2022
Mar 24, 2022
PAT PCC #1730 – wearing the best trolley paint scheme ever – coming down the ramp at Overbrook Junction in the early 1970s.
—orc Thu Mar 24 14:20:35 2022
Mar 18, 2022
Dust Mite & Mavis are cozy
—orc Fri Mar 18 22:36:58 2022
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