Arrived in Wilmington. Checked into hotel, will do a more complete diary later. z.z

Daily mileage: 389.1 per trip odometer ( Read more... )

For those of you who've got me on their friendslists, this is something I wrote a couple months back, in the wake of the latest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, regarding the safety of the series there and at Daytona International Speedway. If you're not interested, I'd recommend that you skip over this ( Read more... )

Just got back from Train Festival in Owosso. Probably too tired to go into heavy detail on it, but a quick recap of the day, in bullet-list format:

* 1225 cracked a flue/boiler tube while being moved after the night photo session on Thursday night, and the debris took a couple more with it. As a result, she was rendered inoperable for the ( Read more... )

Just got back from the old Ann Arbor Railway depot here in Howell, where I watched Nickel Plate 765 pass through town en route to Owosso. I *could* have watched her from my bedroom window, but I decided to go out and get a better view from trackside, and I'm glad I did ( Read more... )

I'm sweaty, filthy, greasy, sooty, sunburnt, half-deafened, exhausted, starving... and couldn't be happier!

Mission: Intercept 4449 was a *success!* Caught her on arrival in Lansing, utterly failed at trying to chase her to Durand, but caught up with her there before they wyed her, and got to watch them service her before finishing wyeing her ( Read more... )

Welp, first entry in my new (unpaid) writing gig: Race Journal Online's "Relief Drivers", a new feature there featuring guest writers ( Read more... )

I just got done watching warren-ellis's new animated movie, G.I. Joe: Resolute on Adult Swim, and my GOD, its everything that Larry Hama intended the G.I. Joe franchise to be when he created the new world for Hasbro back in the 80s, both in the "background information" he wrote for the then-new three-inch action figures, and the comic book he did for Marvel ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This entry is, among other things, an expansion on my reply to this comment on a friend's LJ ( Read more... )

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