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For the 100th anniversary a number of special activities took place honoring the Transcontinental Railroad's completion, such as Ross Rowland's "Golden Spike Centennial Limited." It is seen here led by Union Pacific #8444, arriving at Ogden, Utah on May 10, 1969. Drew Jacksich photo.

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Original Character Day !?

...I want to talk about 2 engines that are very important to me! They're both Union Pacific engines and coincidentally both are centennials! In a way I am very similar to a centennial engine but also a GTEL... im like.. a streamlined centennial but hell of a lot faster than they ever were!

I guess to everyone, people from alter's pasts can be considered 'original characters' but to me they're people I knew/know! There's so many other rolling stock that I could talk about but we would be here for days!!!

Golden Spike, Union Pacific Centennial #6900

Golden Spike was the first centennial manufactured and he was present at the 100th anniversary of the Yardmaster at the Union Pacific Bailey classification yard. He was always the most well-taken care of when it came to centennials. He worked pulling fast freight...for such big freight engines the centennials were pretty fast...

Every ten years, Union Pacific tried to make a partner for him but they kept making coaches for him the first 4 times, which he accepted to be part of his Limited special passenger train but not as a partner to be 'coupled' with. On the 5th try, the company made me.. He was my first partner in my life. I was manufactured with him in mind so in a way.. I'll always be his. He mentored me and made sure i was fit and ready to take over half of the yard with him.

He was so important and integral to me that...it's such a shame that he's only in my memories and no one else really knows fully about him. I guess it is a blessing.. I would hate to see people write him badly because he's incredibly dear to me..

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Rail Jack, Union Pacific Centennial #6936

@rail-jack In this life. He's my soother and is the only rolling stock in my system that shares any bit of my past life...he's a good person to ask questions if you want to know more about the version of the world.

In his past life he was built for the second batch of centennials. He worked hard like all other centennials but as the others failed or wore down, he would be repaired with their pieces and eventually became an..amalgation of his model-mates.

He worked as a diesel 'babysitter' for 844 and other steam engines. lighting their flames in the mornings. With 844, he would help on excursions with his dynamic brakes and they were boyfriends. On occasions he would pull a passenger train or even full freight trains with a few other diesels. When he wasn't pulling trains, he was a supervisor for a section of the freight due to his decades of experience. It is funny that he used to hate steam engines, the introduction of their model was the end of steam engines, even the big boys.. but he eventually fell in love specifically with big freight steam engines.

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Hey, Max. Did you know that the EMD DDA40x diesels were called “Centennials”?.

That’s because when these behemoths were introduced in 1969, they participated in pulling the Golden Spike Limited and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

And fun fact: Centennial #6936 is the only Centennial diesel that was never retired and is part of Union Pacific’s heritage fleet.

max: wow

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BMW M850i Coupe Review: The Unicorn You’ve Been Waiting For

(Bloomberg) — You could be forgiven for mistaking BMW’s latest coupe for a Ford Mustang.

Both are two-door sports cars with smoothly sloped fastback rooflines and punchy, softly rounded front ends. Their tilted headlights are angled up on the sides so they look ready for some rather aggressive antics.

Their short backsides end with the upward lilt of a tiny lip set just above the trunk. Compared side-by-side in a parking lot last week, the BMW looked like a slightly beefier version of the ‘Stang—if not a close cousin.

Read: Brand-new 2019 BMW 3 Series Sedan unveiled in Oman

But the equine spirit in the $112,895 BMW M850i is more exotic than your standard rodeo steed. As they say in Silicon Valley, it’s more like a unicorn.

BMW hasn’t made an 8 Series since the 1990s. Internally, it was known as the E31, and it lasted for a decade as the original BMW 8-Series before the brand discontinued it, rather than update the engine to meet new emissions regulations.

Read: The New BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo

Back then, it reigned supreme in the best ‘90s way: a low profile, menacing shark nose and pop-up headlights that made it impossible to miss.

Since then, we’ve looked to the BMW M3 and M4 Coupes to fill the need for a sports car that’s big enough—and comfortable enough—to tour in while strong enough to spike our adrenaline levels to the red-line limit.

Read: BMW celebrates world premiere of centennial edition BMW 7 Series

Read: BMW 730Li – Pioneering excellence in design and technology

Or, if you wanted to go really high-end, you could drop $214,600 on the Bentley Continental GT, the handsome, intimidating, and overall best grand touring coupe money can buy.

Now, with the M850i, you can better those M cars and save yourself $100,000. It doesn’t quite have quite the killer looks of the E31 original—its kidney grille has become engorged, and the corners have softened in this generation—but it splits the difference between the less-expensive BMW M family and the powerful Bentley. This is indeed an overabundance of car for the money.

Read: BMW 5 Series sets new benchmarks in premium business segment

It also comes in one blessedly simple engine variant for the United States, a twin-turbo 523-horsepower V8. That, paired with the lightning-quick, eight-speed automatic transmission, is good enough to get you to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds (equal to that of the heavier-but-626-horsepower Bentley) and a top speed of 155 mph. All this happens under all-wheel-drive, adaptive suspension, and active steering, which all come standard.

I drove the M850i up toward North Salem, N.Y., on two-lane backroads cutting through golden fields and low-set lakes. I loved how intimately the car anticipated directions from my hands and feet; there’s zero hesitation when you press the gas, total balance as you press the brakes on those 20-inch, V-spoke wheels, and vice-grip contact with the ground as you follow the road around tight turns. Driving the M850i closer to home through rush-hour traffic became like a video game, rousing at every hint of a duck and weave as I sorted my way to the front of the pack.

At more than 4,300 pounds, this is a big touring coupe, not a tiny sports car. If it were made by Porsche, it’d be not a 911, not yet a Panamera. So along with driving it upstate to Hayfields, I also took it to Ikea in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and filled it with lamps and rugs and all the various dishes and home supplies typically used by civilized people. I wanted to see just how usable this grand tourer was.

It turned out to be shockingly practical. It swallowed everything I threw into the ample trunk. The back seat, several inches longer and wider than those of the 911 or Aston Martin Vantage, is actually usable as more than just a ledge for bags—I daresay it would even fit human cargo. That said, tall drivers such as me will need to recline the front seat to avoid looking the windshield header straight in the eye. And there are some blind patches over your shoulder around 4 o’clock and 8 o’clock.

But when combined with the superb interior BMW has given us here—elegant details such as the glass knob on the shifter, multi-function seats in full merino leather, and a “live cockpit” system that integrates the 10.25-inch central information display with the 12.3-inch instrument cluster—the M850i becomes a wonder to inhabit and a thrill to drive. A high-resolution heads-up feature and the intuitive next-generation iDrive complete the delightful-to-inhabit cabin like the equivalent of a chef’s kiss. Voila!

About those horsey looks: Don’t get too worked up about them. Spend 10 minutes with the M850i in the street, and the attention you get from admirers of all types will prove it’s vastly more distinctive than anything more ubiquitous. Giddy up.

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The Cleveland Daily Herald opined a month later,

Mr Melville has a musical voice, and a very correct delivery, but a subdued tone and a general want of animation prevents his being a popular lecturer... We repeat our axiom – good writers do not make good lecturers.

[John Updike]

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BALTIMORE, AUGUST 8, 1945. My niece Virginia and her husband and baby were here all day... Virginia has no conversation... So far as I can make out, she reads nothing. Her husband is a little better, but not much. They are unhappily typical of the Republic in these late days. They are both college graduates, they are bringing up a boy for the next war, and they seem to have a wide circle of friends, but their range of interest is apparently limited by cards, shopping and idle gossip.

[H.L. Mencken]

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The globe artichoke is becoming increasingly popular in this country. it is funny how people’s attitude towards to as a food varies. Some will tell you that they cannot be bothered and that artichokes are too fiddling to eat and a lot of fuss about nothing. This is because they were never brought up to it, and, indeed, it is unnerving to watch a novice's attempts at eating one. He takes an unconscionable time to achieve nothing at all, tries to consume the wrong parts and gets his teeth choked with the tough, hairy bits that would later have been the artichoke’s flowers. Now, botanically speaking, the edible parts are the base of the bracts... and the large, fleshy, disc-shaped receptacle: the fond d’ artichaut. Artichoke addicts seldom bother about the leafy bits; they quickly peel these off, pull out the disc florets with one tug, and get to the heart of the matter, the receptacle. On these we gorge. [...] Well, then, artichokes are easily grown, but they take up a lot of space for the crop they produce... But they are the handsomest of vegetables to grow, and their foliage covers the ground so exclusively from spring till August that weeds are no problem... Never grow seedlings... Make sure that you are buying a true, vegetatively propagated clone... You buy what are termed offsets; material that may be better known to you as Irishman’s cuttings.

[The Well-Tempered Garden]

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lilac | Syringa Cuttings in spring (softwood only); root cuttings in fall; layering in spring... direct-sow ripened seeds...

mistletoe | Viscum Oft is found growing in apple orchards... to propagate, procure some ripened fruits, squash them and insert them directly into a wound on the branch on which the mistletoe is to take hold... seed germination and subsequent growth is slow... it is suggested that, once the seeds are inserted, the area should be covered with a piece of burlap and secured by jute – the better to protect the seeds from birds and from drying out... some of ol’ Toe’s fave trees are ash, cedar, hawthorn, larch, linden, oak, poplar, and, of course, apple...

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Transvaal daisy | Gerbera In your area consider it a half-hardy annual... start seed 12 weeks; plant out in peat pots... sow on surface... direct sowing outdoors is not recommended... fresh seed only; provide light and a temperature of between 70 and 75 degrees... cuttings in summer...

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July 26 [1853]. Saw one of the common wild roses (R. lucida?). The swamp blackberry ripe in open ground. The Rhus copallina is not yet quite out, though the glabra is in fruit. The smaller purple fringed orchis has not quite filled out its spike. What a surprise to detect under the dark, damp, cavernous copse, where some wild beast might fitly prowl, this splendid flower, silently standing with all its eyes on you! It has a rich fragrance withal. Rain in the evening.

[Thoreau, Journal]

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KUDZU: (Pueraria thunbergiana) Kudzu has been drought insurance for wise farmers in the southeastern ‘disaster area’ in past summers. While other crops, notably corn, withers and dies under the blistering sun, kudzu is almost startling in its greenness and rank growth.

Although kudzu has been a special blessing to the eroded southlands, it also grows well in Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Nova Scotia, according to reports from those areas. Its uses in agriculture are many, including erosion control, as permanent pasture, for hay making and as a soil improver in rotations. [...] Kudzu is a legume... [and] a deep-rooted perennial. Its roots go beyond the farmed-out top inches of soil to eight feet and more to utilize minerals previously of no value to the farmer. Once planted and cared for properly it lasts a lifetime... Kudzu is well liked by all forms of livestock, including cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, goats, rabbits, and poultry. Kudzu is a high protein feed... [...] Kudzu made its debut in the United States in 1876, when it was used as a porch vine by the Japanese for their exhibit booth at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

The Soil Conservation Service began championing kudzu in 1934, going from farm to farm, showing men just what it would do.

[Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening]

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❚Harry Shearer Louisiana has 429 prisoners serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes; 91 percent of them are black.

David Frum I remember when you had to subscribe to the Navasky-era Nation to read this rationalization for Russian espionage David Frum added, Sean Hannity Question; WW2, which enemy country did we have an alliance with to defeat the Nazis?

FUN FACT: It's Lewis Lapham's (of @LaphamsQuart) birthday today, and he's the same age (within hours) Elvis would be if he were alive.

Kristen Wiig And Steve Carell Funny Skit The Golden Globes 2017

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Union Pacific 4-8-4 #8444 (#844) has Ross Rowland's "Golden Spike Centennial Limited" awaiting departure from Salt Lake City, bound for Ogden, on May 10, 1969.  In the background can be seen DDA40X "Centennial" #6900. Drew Jacksich photo.

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The Golden Spike Centennial Limited Glen Carbon, IL May 15, 1969

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The Golden Spike Centennial Limited Moberly, MO May 14, 1969

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NKP 759 westbound on the NKP with the Golden Spike Centennial Limited. Conneaut, OH May 4, 1969

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Penn Central's GG-1 electric locomotive No. 4902, appropriately lettered and painted American Railroads, couples on to the Golden Spike Centennial Limited at Baltimore, Maryland for the last lap to Pennsylvania Station, New York. May 18, 1969. Photo by Don Wood.

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Golden Spike Centennial Limited Cumberland, MD May 17, 1969

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Golden Spike Centennial Limited Cumberland, MD May 17, 1969

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A service stop in Charleston, Ill., left time to photograph the Golden Spike Centennial Limited’s former Pennsylvania Railroad observation lounge on the rear. May 15, 1969. J. David Ingles photo

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Nickel Plate Road 759, a Berkshire steam locomotive, built in Lima, with the Golden Spike Centennial Limited passing through Bluffton, OH with railfans aboard. It was the first steam locomotive to pass through Bluffton since steam on the NKP ended in 1958. Leland Gerber photo. May 16, 1969

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NKP 759 5-15-69 by Leon Kay Via Flickr: NKP Class S-2 2-8-4 759 (Lima 8667 8/1944) @Charleston IL on GOLDEN SPIKE CENTENNIAL LIMITED 5-15-69

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The Golden Spike Centennial Limited at Madison, IL. The special is eastbound after laying over in St. Louis, MO for the night. May 15, 1969

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