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Sunrise over Orient Heights. I spent today adventuring on the MBTA. Hopefully I'll find time to edit together a video in the next few days. Wayback Machine - January 19 2018 was an FP4 party - #1 and #2In 2014 I was struggling with Draft Posts2012's P366 post included a homemade GIF2010 was the original… Continue reading 22/365: Day 19
Cats & trains Sammie’s lap time has been sparse lately. Ginger often jumps on me when I sit down. Sammie really needs her Daddy time too. As you can see Ginger was otherwise occupied anyway. This one is only meaningful if you are a train nerd like me. Here’s an MBTA F40PH idling on the… Continue reading 22/365: Day 8
October 1, 2021: I spotted this baby on the street the other day: It’s the first one I’ve seen in a long time and the best preserved one I’ve ever encountered. I don’t know how many were made, but they were never common.. It reminded me of this gem from my past: My Dakota was… Continue reading Weekend Musings
It’s cold and wet today. I have 3 outside projects I would like to finish, but they can wait. The alternator project progresses though. My poor workbench was a neglected disaster. Cleaning and organizing were the first order of the day. While digging around I found this: Sebastian & Saffron My dearly departed Little Old… Continue reading Alternator II
https://youtu.be/R1tOkh0ZfBc The final step in removal of the old garden railway: the removal. I had hoped to reuse and repurpose much of the old materials, but it was not to be. The effort required to rework them was excessive. In the end it filled most of a 20 yard truck. Goodbye! https://youtu.be/yAT0fDjr20c
April 21 was requalification day at Seashore Trolley Museum. One weekend every spring, the volunteers descend on Kennebunkport to renew our trolley driver's licenses. Picnic Grove Visitors' Center DwarfNikon FM2, 20mm lens, expired Portra 160. If you want it to look like an old picture, shoot with old film.
2/27/12 -Playing with light, shadow, and the Fairlee2/28/12 - Big Adventure - Sebastian and Chai make their annual pilgrimage to the vet. They were not impressed. 2/29/12 - Winter has finally decided to pay us a visit in time for Leap Day. It's not much of a storm but it is pretty.
January 25 - I went out to photograph a front yard in Newbury full of abandoned sleds. They look pitiful sitting on the brown grass, but I just couldn't set up the shot. Instead I caught MBTA #66 on approach to the Hanover Street crossing. 66 is on lease from MARC to alleviate a power… Continue reading This is not the photo you’re looking for, 2012 edition.
January 9, 2012 - along the Clipper City Rail Trail in Newburyport.
January 7 - The Wickham Trolley model on a back shelf in the workshop.
Notes from Mosquito Hill 