An LJ friend is in Asia right now, and posted a picture of train tracks running down the middle of a very narrow street in Maeklong, Thailand. Reminded me of this video I saw a few years ago. It passes through the market four times a day.

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After the wedding we were on our own to go and do as we pleased. I showed him many of my old haunts in West Seattle but when we walked the street where I lived out my first 17 years of life, I discovered my home had been tore down and a McMansion was in its place. What a shocker.

We spent many hours with trains, dead ones and live ones.


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Warning: Do Not Text Message and Smoke Dope while Running a Locomotive ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the Western Railway Museum with a Railroad historian, an absolute encyclopedia of RR knowledge. Because I was with him, I was allowed into cars that regular visitors never see. He's doing a restoration feasibility study for an recently discovered car somewhere out of state and requested to get inside a ( Read more... )

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