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controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i'm going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i've "been meaning to do" that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could've decided to sit down and watch it, and i did not. how many more decades will slip by like this? conceivably, it could be all the decades i have left. watching the Emoji Movie would not be, after all, a crucial use of my time. much better things to do. i could easily postpone it over and over and over until my final breath where it may not even register to me that i never did watch the Emoji Movie. no great loss, certainly; and yet i find myself intrigued by Patrick Stewart's involvement

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Labradorite Wolf Skull

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Trainposting :3

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Trains in Auckland.

Camera: Ricoh GR III.

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DL 9233 running through Papatoetoe just after 9am one morning.

I can't remember what train it was on, but it was probably one of the MPs from Tauranga.

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The last (unrefurbished) "Ganz" EMU at Thorndon. (2021)

A very lucky spot from my last trip to Wellington. New to New Zealand Railways Corporation in 1982, the EM/ET EMUs were introduced to replace the aging English Electric DM/D Class multiple units on suburban services in Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Owing to the name of their builder, Ganz-MÁVAG, the EM/ET EMUs were often referred to as "Ganz units."

From 1996-2002, the entire fleet was refurbished by TranzRail, and in 2010, Te Pane Matua Taiao/GWRC refurbished EM 1373/ET 3373 again as part of a proposal to further modernise the Ganz units. This fell through and colloquially EM 1373/ET 3373 is known as the "Super Ganz"

In 2016, the FP/FT EMUs were introduced to replace the aging EM/ET EMUs, and most of the fleet was sold to a South African buyer for conversion to un-powered trailer cars. As of 2024, nothing has been done with them, and they are slowly rusting away in South Africa.

The "Super Ganz" was sold to the Cantebury Railway Society, who have been on/off working to restore it. EM 1505/ET 3505 was sold for $1 to the Wellington Multiple Unit Hertiage Trust (WMUHT). Unfortunately, 1505 was never taken to Maymorn, where the group has a DM/D unit, and it is now at Hutt Workshops with an uncertain future.