#cpls

[railwayhistorical]

Brownstown Memory

Here are some shots from today—juxtaposed with a couple from the late 1970s (as teased in the previous post).

We're along an old railroad: built (in broad gauge no less) as the Ohio & Mississippi prior to the Civil War. It became the Baltimore & Ohio later, and was still so, though becoming the Chessie System, when I photographed it as an adolescent. This siding is called Brownstown, though it's removed a bit from the burg itself.

I was looking west for the first two images (that is the same curve in both shots, though difficult to tell). I turned for the going-away shot and have a pretty good comparison capture made today.

Five images by Richard Koenig; two from October 22nd 1977, and three from November 13th 2024.

[hellenhighwater]

In a completely baffling turn of events, today I opened up my wallet and discovered, tucked into an internal pocket, a current, valid, Michigan Concealed Pistol License ID card belonging to a man I'd never met. (CPL cards are heavy plastic, like a driver's license.) It's a validly issued CPL. He's a real person who lives in Michigan--I found his voting records, home address, social media accounts, and other information with a bit of searching, and can confirm I have never met this dude. He does not live anywhere nearby. The wallet is one I just use for my ID's--bar card, courthouse keypass, drivers license, employee ID, etc. Not something I pull out on a daily basis; very definitely not something I hand off to other people. Even more confusingly, this man is twenty years older than me to the day. We have the same birthday. But I don't know him; I don't even know anyone who knows him.

Which leaves me with the utter mystery of how the hell some random guy's concealed pistol license wound up in my purse

[gameraboy2]

Michael Biehn in a press photo for the movie Aliens (1986)

[rajpujarajasthan]

[ex0toxin]

susie strikes a dramatic battle pose !

[pooja123456]

[samdiya83]

Jpr fwb cpl

[thebeesforeleg]

I know I wrote a whole fic about this already, but I just know McCoy would be so annoying about any mild symptom. I mean, he lives in a world with universal healthcare and with the replicators a seemingly unlimited supply.

Like the human doctor equivalent of vets going « my dog vomited one time, can someone please pull me a cPL snap test just in case »

Kirks got a cough? Might as well do a tracheal wash and culture, it’s not like it will cost anything other then the captains time, and he has got to keep the his capitan healthy.

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Lestat in Season 1 of Interview with the Vampire

[railwayhistorical]

Dead Soldiers, Part Two

Continuing a short, sad series of posts documenting the demise of color position signals along the Baltimore & Ohio line between Cincinnati and St. Louis. These images were made two days apart.

Currently the line is operated by CSX, but was built as the Ohio and Mississippi—the location is Ewing, near Brownstown, Indiana.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken November 13th and 15th

[safrcouple]

The weekend and well the 😉

[123sonujosi]

8 march Nashik next Pune Mumbai

[soniya1sstuf]

Today Ahmedabad next vadodra

[rajpujarajasthan]

[whateverdraws1008]

oh, there he go

dunn x ramirez tho...

[cyanoweasel]

i'm a day late but i wanted to doodle something for half life opposing force. here is my pet rabbit "Sheppy" with her namesake. ^^