Assorted pics from work

[captpackrat]

Next door to the district support center was a rail car repair facility.  One of the cars they had in their yard was from the long defunct Ashley, Drew & Northern Railway.  This boxcar has clearly seen better days.

The facility also had the cutest little locomotive.  It's an EMC SW1 switcher, built in 1939 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.  I couldn't get a good photo of it because it was always behind a row of boxcars, but here's what it looks like.



Klaatu barada nikto



Push Button.  Receive Bacon.  Eat Bacon.



When I see "SDSU", I think San Diego State University, not South Dakota.



Someone had an inflatable bear named Snowflake.



Snowflake taking a break.



I finally found a use for a Mac Mini.



My laptop at work.

Comments

[cateagle.livejournal.com]

Nice pics, but shouldn't that be "EMD" rather than "EMC"? As I recall, it's the Electro-Motive Division of GM (though I don't know if it's still owned by them).

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

EMD was formed from the merger of the Electro-Motive Corporation and the Winton Engine Company in 1941.

Trains

[harpsirat.livejournal.com]

When I worked at ADM Grain I operated an SW 1200 there was a tag near the controls that said GM on it.