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I been watchin' at the rail yard, all the live long day

JonesCarpeDiem
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      I don't know why but it fascinates me and is a GREAT distraction

I've put up the Flagstaff live link numerous times.

100-120 trains pass through Flagstaff EVERY DAY.

Flagstaff, Arizona - Virtual Railfan LIVE - YouTube 

      

      Yesterday I found a rail yard where they add cars and build freight trains.

They use a smaller engine called a "switcher" to do it. There's also a guy on a small ATV who runs ahead and behind the switcher physically switching the tracks for the switcher so it can add or remove cars. Quite a process.

Check it out if you're interested. Here's the link.

Belen, New Mexico USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE - YouTube 

Songs - I've Been Working on the Railroad - YouTube 

      The camera sits atop the Harvey House Museum. It pans North and South but the sun rises directly across the tracks so left is North and Right is South.

Sunrise.....

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Into the evening....

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.