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No. 85: 40 Minutes at Einsiedlerhof

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The following post doesn’t have anything to do with modeling. We threw a big birthday party for one of my daughters on Friday night, and it was a lot of work, so yesterday morning–after dropping the birthday girl off at volleyball team practice–my wife gave me a kitchen pass to “chase trains” for a while.  It was a beautiful, cool, clear, sunny day so I went out to a few places nearby to take some pictures. The first place I went was Otterbach, a nearby town that has a little museum set up in a retired interlocking tower.  Apparently there … Continue reading No. 85: 40 Minutes at Einsiedlerhof

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No. 81: Progress on Freight Cars – Mar, 2018

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My family and I spent the weekend in London at a high school swim meet.  The meet was held at the London 2012 Olympic pool, which was really neat, and we also spent a couple of days sightseeing in the city and elsewhere. My son photographed the sign above at a very deep subway (“Tube”) station in central London.  At one point we had to change trains and we had to take a winding staircase about 12 flights down to one of the deepest stations on the system.  Way down at the bottom there was this sign on the wall.  Pretty cool, eh?  Just wish I … Continue reading No. 81: Progress on Freight Cars – Mar, 2018