Terope

A blog of a 22-year-old chap from the northern parts of Finland, who enjoys watching films (especially the traditionally animated ones), building scale models, and many other things.

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get to know me meme: [2/10] movies - Stand by Me (1986): “I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people, but to me, it was the whole world.”

[randyhaycock]

Some attitudes on Nessie. I thought Nessie shared an uncanny resemblance to one of the directors, Stevie Wermers-Skelton.

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Easing into N.C. Cabin on a medium approach signal, eastbound CSX Y206 will soon cross over to the railroad’s former Lexington Sub. with loaded waste in tow. The train is currently passing Ashland’s large AK Steel coke plant and under the last mainline C&O signal bridge on the Kanawha Subdivision. The original four track signal bridge now protects only three mainline tracks on this section of busy mainline connecting Russell, KY with Huntington, W.Va. The train is destined for EnviroSolution’s Big Run landfill located south of Ashland, the only customer on the former Lexington Sub.

[gameraboy]

"A Sweat Deal", 1955 by Carl Barks

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[theillustratedarchives]

Here’s a pretty elaborate storyboard and layout from Dave and Max Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travel (1939).

When Disney announced in 1934 that he was making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Max Fleischer pushed the idea of producing a film to Paramount but was turned down. After the success of Disney’s Snow White Fleischer was given the go ahead to produce a feature length animated film, however, he was given half the time and budget it took Disney to make Snow White. Despite the time constraints and lack of budget the Fleischer’s still made a pretty decent film.

You can watch the movie in it’s entirety here.

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ATSF’s Train No. 2, eastbound San Francisco Chief is nearing Dalies, N.M., and instead of turning north to Albuquerque and the Raton Pass line as most passenger trains traversed, it will continue “straight” at Dalies on the freight mainline through Belen, Clovis and Amarillo and on to Chicago. This was Aug. 8, 1970 and the train had less than 10 months to live until the advent of Amtrak the following first of May.

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Eastbound at Fourth Iron. The Conway Scenic Railroad’s Canadian National Switcher #7470 rolls off the 109 year-old “4th Iron” bridge on the Sawyer River, hauling the 8th annual “Steam in the Snow” excursion for the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts (MBRRE). This event is typically conducted on the first Saturday in January, and offers railfans an opportunity to ride behind and photograph the steam engine on the old Maine Central Mountain Division from just below Crawford’s Notch, all the way to the railroad’s base of operations in North Conway. Although there have been years when there was no snow on the ground for this event, the past several years have featured more than enough of the white stuff. Fortunately, the temperatures for this years event, were a little more bearable than in 2014, when it was -15F as the excursion got underway. This year, it was a balmy 11F. Sadly, at the end of this particular service day, 7470’s Form 4 extension was due to expire, so this was likely the last “Steam in the Snow” we’ll see on the Conway Scenic, for at least a couple of years.

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Dalai Lama XIV (via quotes-shape-us)

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Flying through the San Luis Valley by Moffat Road on Flickr.

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The White Mantle, Willard Leroy Metcalf

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"12R MEETS 213"It’s a very chilly 10 degrees at Shepherdstown, WV as 213 sits in the siding to meet the incoming 12R.

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A trio of DL-535E begins the descent down the Sawtooth Mountains, which are part of the Alaska Coastal Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the slopes steep and my mother clings tightly to the inside seat. Good thing these trains don’t move fast. The conductor tells me they expect 5,000 people to ride the White Pass this day. I think the railroad has made far more money riding tourist around than it did with the Yukon Gold Rush.

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Falling snow makes red beams of light from the west wye switch at Yocum Connection.

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I need to know who shot this.

[gameraboy]

Eric Ogden - http://www.ericogden.com/in-between/