A Santa Fe C30-7 leads a pair of SD40-2s and an SDF45 elephant style, pulling a westbound ~54 car manifest across the Colorado River at the AZ/CA border. Photo taken January 1983 by Roger Puta. www.flickr.com/photos/12967...

A Santa Fe C30-7 leads a pair of SD40-2s and an SDF45 elephant style, pulling a westbound ~54 car manifest across the Colorado River at the AZ/CA border. Photo taken January 1983 by Roger Puta. www.flickr.com/photos/12967...

The inflatable army has arrived in northern Minnesota!

Looking for a photo to post and discovered that the decrepit Escanaba & Lake Superior Baldwin RS-12s I photographed this summer were also captured by Roger Puta 37 years before. www.flickr.com/photos/12967...

Looking for a photo to post and discovered that the decrepit Escanaba & Lake Superior Baldwin RS-12s I photographed this summer were also captured by Roger Puta 37 years before. www.flickr.com/photos/12967...

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do. Settings Update & Security Windows Update Initiate Enrollment

and, related, getting real riled up about the stupid 1980s urban renewal project that created that parking lot and jewel

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

Going to try to get in the habit of sharing one classic photo per week. Starting off with the strangest double-header I've ever seen- Union Pacific 4-6-2 #2866 and 4-12-2 #9011 pull an 81 car freight near Archer WY on VJ day, September 2 1945. digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1...

Trainspotters in Minnesota are probably aware of the Cedar Rapids, the famous Milwaukee Road "Skytop Lounge", now owned and operated by the Friends of the 261. BUT! That's not the only one still around. Join me for a story of history and mystery, as not all are accounted for... 🧵

Why are multiple people trying to guilt trip us into feeling bad for someone who was rightfully banned? Zero tolerance for death threats is good policy.

Milwaukee 261 roared through Nicollet Island around noon today on the way to Hopkins from Minneapolis Junction. Some unwise persons standing on the tracks while fishing from the Mississippi East Channel Bridge got whistled at.

After 16 months Everard Junction is back and the layout is as wonderful as ever. youtu.be/meLM_N9jKFc

If we're doing World War II discourse then we should try to answer an important question- what's the third most important aircraft of the war? C-47 is obviously #1, PBY Catalina is obviously #2, what's #3?

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

When you find a guy who might be a cool follow on Bluesky (and is followed by a few mutuals), but the first post you see from him includes a slur. Instant block instead.

1. 30 Years ago today, we said goodbye to one of the most iconic names ever in the history of railroading; the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, better known simply as the "Santa Fe." On this day in 1995, the Santa Fe merged with Burlington Northern to form BNSF Railway.

Let me bring you along for today's Sunday obsession: trying to determine the original owner of this unusual house at 76th & East End in South Shore. It appears to predate its brick bungalow neighbors by about 50 years, it's substantial in size, and there's very little info about it online.

I went to gas station Flavortown.

I hadn't watched a Real Engineering video in a while, has his quality gone down or have my standards gone up? How do you make a 24 minute video about the P-38 Lightning and not mention the counter-rotating engines, one of the most important features and flaws of the P-38's design?

there we go

Is Facebook doing any moderation on Reels, at all?

What started out as a trip to ride the world's oldest jet in scheduled passenger service turned into one of the most amazing experiences I've ever filmed for the channel! youtu.be/qpE3EUblshQ

The Morgantown PRT is really such a fun little oddity

Remembering the year they had a Palm Pilot carved from butter in the technology building at the MN State Fair

👀 👀 👀 Labor Day aurora?

I can only find one other photo of this switcher, and it's listed as an unknown type. It looks pretty European to me, can anyone else ID it? www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture....

More on that

As always, we’ve evaluated the new fair foods according to our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system. (Accept no substitutes.)

Today I am going to attempt something that wasn't possible for 50 years. I intend to travel from Barker, NY, a village of 530 people on the shore of Lake Ontario to downtown Buffalo. Such service was provided in the past by the New York Central and Lockport Bus Lines

I respect Jeff’s work but we should be careful about what we forecast & how inevitable we make it seem. We are not close to a civil war, but I worry we are perilously close to a mass casualty event because of the undisciplined nature of irregular security forces & an extremely armed civil society

My chihuahua enjoys Lake Superior on a chihuahua-sized surfboard.

Ceremonial rolling of the twine ball at Twine Ball Day in Darwin, MN.

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued August 8 at 9:34PM CDT until August 9 at 4:00AM CDT by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN 🚨 Additional Details Here.

Meanwhile in Duluth....

USCGC 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘸 (WAGB-83) shines in the summer sunlight in Mackinaw City, Michigan, where it is preserved as a museum. The 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘸 was built during WWII to help extend the shipping season on the Great Lakes, and served as an icebreaker until it's retirement in 2006.

N: Fort Frances, ON E: Cape Cod, MA S: Galveston, TX W: Cannon Beach, OR I've been all over the US but never overseas

wrote about one of my favorite train stations in the country, the Jackson Michigan Amtrak, which as far as I can tell actually IS the oldest train station in use in the US today www.postcard-past.com/michigan-cen...

USCGC 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘸 (WAGB-83) shines in the summer sunlight in Mackinaw City, Michigan, where it is preserved as a museum. The 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘸 was built during WWII to help extend the shipping season on the Great Lakes, and served as an icebreaker until it's retirement in 2006.

The Sphere might be the worst theater in the world to watch a movie on, even before the horrific AI additions. Think about watching a movie on a classic Omnimax immersive screen, but way bigger. Plus the seats are far from the screen. And the security lines. They can't go bankrupt fast enough.

Now that something is finally happening with the Minneapolis Flour Exchange building, let's (re)explore this historic landmark. Time for an updated nerdy 🧵!

Bigger loser tonight Jacob Frey or the Minnesota Twins?

Looking up the difference between an Air Tractor and a Turbo Thrush (fka Ag Commander) made me urgently need to find and watch Subway Sandwich Airstrike Takes Out Grandpa www.youtube.com/shorts/fres6YuuhQk

Our team have been working hard changing transmitters on all ~90 #kakapo on Whenua Hou, including Vori. Catching kākāpō can be tricky - especially since they often roost up trees. #conservation #parrots Pic: Maddy WhittakerA

More trains arrived in the mail this month from friends, clients, & patrons! Let's see what arrived, shall we? #modelrailroad #train youtu.be/bzAH_mXQnd4

WHAT IN THE HELL JUST... a walkoff inside the park HR???

Trail cam videos incoming! Lots of fantastic wildlife in my backyard, especially this last week! 🧵

I was a PA on this video! It and the song are awesome! Check it out!