Day #201 (more or less) Whistles ... April Fool's Day + 22

Professional...

• national IT in Construction project
• conference call re
• solicited participation from Twin Cities companies
• created LinkedIn group
• registered Blogger name 

• reviewed Skillport certificiation options

• contacted LHH consultant...set date

•  professional writing
• multiple LinkedIn posts and commentary
• Inc. Magazine article commentary

Personal...

 
...more or less 4:00 AM...

About 4:00 this morning the nearby rumbling of diesel locomotives pulling long freight, the tanker cars from the North Dakota Bakken oil fields shortened my sleep. That was not all bad since I was in the midst of some sort of dream

where an intruder was in the house and I could not get free of my L.L Bean flannel sheets. Over the course of more than an hour the trains continued. In the daylight hours there are at least five trains per day, westbound, often 100+ tankers. Having grown up about 100 feet from the Rock Island tracks where the ever-passing freight trains and Rock Island Rocket passenger trains defined the boundaries of my childhood backyard playground and safety zone, I like the sounds, the rumbles, the track noise and the long and short of warning train whistles, and the awareness framed by an empty track, of something coming.

It's almost six. I'm going back to bed until the next series of whistles. Later today I'll undoubtedly be waiting on Victoria or Lexington, watching a passing freight, reading the manufacturer's and maintenance shop dates on the cars, interpreting the artwork and messages of far-away taggers, enjoying the sights and sounds, a delay for some, a show for me.

...more or less 3:33 PM...

Here's the Lexington Avenue prediction.

 

...4:55 PM...

This is on Snelling, 1/2 mile west of Lexington.  The car carriers were followed by tankers.

 

 

...and so it goes...my prediction of waiting on Lexington and Victoria was correct...Snelling was a bonus

 ...6:10 PM...this is a never-ending train day...