November 2014 Sampler

1 November 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2014 Sampler essay, naturally following from the “October 2014 Sampler” essay.  For me, November 2014 was a time of transition, as, during it and the early part of the following month, I was saying goodbye to a fond academic and New Orleans way of life and was starting a […]

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Friendship, Classic Locomotives, Pre-Election Thoughts on Rich Mountain – 30 October 2004

30 October 2024

I guess that I should make this story with only one picture short and sweet.  To be sure, I took a great many pictures on this date, but, since I do not yet own a film scanner prior to the composition of this essay, this image, which was one of an assortment of slides that […]

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October 2014 Sampler

1 October 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the October 2014 Sampler essay, showing one sample image for each date on which I made a presentable SLR-camera photograph in the month of October 2014.  There are fewer images in this essay than there are in the previous sampler essay, from the previous month that included one of the most […]

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September 2014 Sampler

1 September 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the September 2014 Sampler essay.  All of the better images in this set were published not long after they were taken in 2014. Wednesday, The 3rd We will start at New Orleans Public Belt Railroad’s France Yard, with NOPB 3003 at the southern end of the yard. On that day, I […]

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August 2014 Sampler

1 August 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the August 2014 Sampler essay.  This one will be brief, because I took SLR-camera pictures on only three days in the month of August 2014, both because of the August heat and because I had my second back surgery of the year that month. Another relevant factor here about this essay […]

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July 2014 Sampler

1 July 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the July 2014 Sampler essay.  The content of this essay is similar to and follows from the one that preceded it, the “June 2014 Sampler” essay, in that all images in each were made in southeastern Louisiana and that both include several scenes from the New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway, […]

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June 2014 Sampler

1 June 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the June 2014 Sampler essay, which will showcase examples of a return to being active in taking pictures after the lull from the previous month as exhibited in the “May 2014 Sampler” essay.  All of the 12 images in this essay were made in southeastern Louisiana, and all but two of […]

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May 2014 Sampler

1 May 2024

A Quiet Interlude Greetings, and welcome to the May 2014 Sampler essay.  After the fair-sized “April 2014 Sampler” essay, which itself followed an even larger “March 2014 Sampler” essay, this one will be brief, with only four images, each for the number of days that I took a DSLR-camera picture. The reason for the brevity […]

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April 2014 Sampler

1 April 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2014 Sampler essay.  The Same – And Different While this sampler essay is structured in the same way in which other sampler essays are structured, and while it naturally follows the previous sampler essay, the “March 2014 Sampler” essay, in that it is of similar subject matter and in […]

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April 2004 Images

1 April 2024

A Decennial Retrospective Of A Decennial Retrospective Okay, this one will be brief, except that maybe it won’t be.  Nearly all of my already-scanned images from April 2004 (I was still shooting with this thing called “film” back then) area already online; the purpose of this post is twofold: to give a place for the […]

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Two Westbound Trains, One With A Conrail Leader, At Thibodaux Junction – 7 March 2004

7 March 2024

One of my favorite regular places to watch and photograph trains on the Lafayette Subdivision was known as Thibodaux Junction on Acadia Road in northern Lafourche Parish one mile east of Schriever (which is in Terrebonne Parish.)  I say “was” because the location is no longer publicly accessible, since the parish turned the right-of-way over […]

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March 2014 Sampler

1 March 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the March 2014 Sampler essay.  All of the images shown here were made in southeastern Louisiana, either in the metropolitan New Orleans area or in the Houma-Thibodaux area. For a monthly sampler essay, this one will be big, at 18 images, meaning that there were at least 18 days in the […]

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March 2004 Images

1 March 2024

In March of 2014, I published here on Jimbaux’s Journal images of scanned 35-milimeter film slides that I had taken as photographs 10 years to the day after I had taken the pictures.  A few of my presentable already-then-scanned images from March of 2004 didn’t make it into blog posts at that time, and I […]

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February 2014 Sampler

1 February 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the February 2014 Sampler essay, like the month of January 2014 prior to it, a time of transition – partly because it was a time of serious injury. About a week into this month, I had emergency back surgery.  The neurologist said that, had we waited, I could have been permanently […]

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February 2004 Images

1 February 2024

This one will be brief.  Presented here are three scanned slides from February of 2004, two of them of pictures taken at the same location and the other having been taken fewer than eight miles away, following up on my January 2004 pictures. Please remember that these presentations of scanned slides are not of representative […]

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January 2014 Sampler

1 January 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the January 2014 Sampler essay here on Jimbaux’s Journal, which, of course, chronologically follows from the “December 2013 Sampler” essay.  These “Sampler” essays show one image from each date in the given month in which I made a presentation-worthy photograph; they function as a substitute for full-day blog posts of all […]

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January 2004 Images

1 January 2024

Hello, there.  Did you see the large number of images from December 2003?  Weren’t those last 10 days of the month grand? Anyway, with me back at work early in January 2004, here is a much smaller offering of images, from that month.  Why are there much, much fewer pictures from January 2004 compared to […]

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December 2003 Images

31 December 2023

This is a compilation post compiling links to all of the single-day posts of pictures made in December 2003.  If you are here only for the links and URLs to those day posts, you can just scroll down to them, even though reading the background information here can help you better understand all of that […]

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False Hopes And Real Gratitude, Raceland And Schriever – 31 December 2003

31 December 2023

Here it is, folks.  Here is the end of this marathon run of pictures for the last two weeks of 2003.  Please remember what I said in the December 19 post about the reasons for my habit of taking so many railroad pictures in the two-week period around Christmas and New Year’s Day. On this […]

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Southern Pacific Locomotive Leading The LLS51 – 30 December 2003

30 December 2023

This set of images was made in the afternoon of Tuesday 30 December 2003, but, first, I must tell you about the train-chasing from the day before that didn’t involve picture-taking.  Please read my December 19 piece previewing these late-December-2003 posts that explains the large quantity of pictures that I historically took late in Decembers […]

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An SD40-2 Kind Of Day – 27 December 2003

27 December 2023

What a memorable day Saturday 27 December 2003 was!  The two trains of the day had solid SD40-2 power, and only one of the nine locomotives in either train wore a paint scheme that was only as new as the 1990s mergers! On this day, I saw two of the coolest power sets I have […]

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‘Twas The Day After Christmas – 26 December 2003

26 December 2023

This set of images was made on Friday 26 December 2003, after a Christmas that was preceded by a memorable chase of the Lockport Branch train that took place a day after a day of railroad photography done in the expectation that the Lockport Branch would be served on that day. All images made in […]

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Winter Solstice Consolation Prizes – 22 December 2003

22 December 2023

Why? My goal – and my deep hope – for Monday 22 December 2003, the day of the winter solstice, was to chase the Lockport Branch train, the train serving my favorite remaining railroad branchline in the world, a branch on which I had not photographed action since July.  Why, if this was my favorite […]

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First Shot At Thoroughbred Park And A Couple Of Westbound Trains – 21 December 2003

21 December 2023

These images were made on Sunday 21 December 2003.  Remember, as described in the post for the Friday 19 December 2003 picture, this was the beginning of a two-week flurry of railroad photography for the combination of reasons described in that post. On this day, I did a new shot, at a place called Thoroughbred […]

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Four Westbound Trains, One Underpowered, On The Lafayette Sub – 20 December 2003

20 December 2023

In my post of my one scanned 35mm slide from Friday 19 December 2003, I described my personal pattern – and, specifically, the reasons for my personal pattern – of making a gigantic amount of railroad pictures in the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day compared to the rest of the year.  Well, […]

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SP Leader On The LLS51 At Kraemer Road – 19 December 2003

19 December 2023

Greetings, and welcome to what is a one-picture beginning to a grand finale for 2003 pictures.  The last two weeks of 2003 is when my habit of making large amounts of railroad pictures, mostly local to my southern Louisiana home, in the two-week period around Christmas and New Year’s Day began.  The pattern started the […]

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A Delayed QLUCB At Kraemer Road – 8 December 2003

8 December 2023

I did not realize it at the time, but these were the good old days.  The reason that I didn’t realize it was that there was so much more good that I could have done then, or maybe there wasn’t.  In any case, there were cool trains back then that would cease to exist in […]

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Three Westbound Trains At Schriever, A High Nose, And A Derailment – 7 December 2003

7 December 2023

Sunday 7 December 2003 was a very noteworthy day in an action-packed weekend.  Two days before, on Friday 5 December 2003, I photographed the ML 14 arriving late in Raceland due to it being the replacement locomotive that day.  The next day, Saturday 6 December 2003, I took some pictures in some locations west of […]

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L&D Trains in Chacahoula, Boeuf, Patterson, And Morgan City – 6 December 2003

6 December 2023

Here is a set of images that I made on Saturday 6 December 2003, and it’s important to read the post from the outing the day before to understand what happened on this day. I ventured westward on this day to places heretofore unexplored and unphotographed by me. I started the day at Schriever, milepost […]

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Sugar Mountain Laurel Mill – 5 December 2003

5 December 2023

When reading these blog articles of 2003 pictures published in 2023, it’s important to remember that, as described in the post that previewed the publication of these 2003-2005 images, all of these are scanned slides that were scanned before early 2014.  I have other presentationworthy slides from that time, but they are not scanned. On […]

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December 2013 Sampler

1 December 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the December 2013 Sampler essay.  December 2013 was a period of transition in my life, as I finally permanently left the employer at which I had had my greatest professional – and even personal – success after sputtering for more than three years after burning out. I didn’t use my DSLR […]

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You’re Limited

27 November 2023

Jimbaux cries when angels deserve to die. I Got My Camera Back, Repaired! Hey, what’s going on?  I have only one picture today, one that I already posted on Facebook, but it’s also a story of the resolution of the camera-sensor problem that was evident in my last posting from six days ago. Today is […]

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Meeting Of Minds

21 November 2023

The New Reality Today was the big day!  Today was the day that I floated an idea to Patty that might save my life or at least lead to dramatic improvement. I also got some pictures in the process! I also, however, discovered a serious problem with my camera when I got to the house […]

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The Long-Awaited Renaissance Has Arrived

20 November 2023

Jimbaux does not know that he is a shooting star. Hi, there.  It’s been a week since I last got some shots, and I ended the brief dry spell today at the same sorry place where I photographed a railroad scene a week ago: the Southpark spur. Latey, I have been thinking about my imagined […]

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Cool November Rain

13 November 2023

Jimbaux was in a cold November rain today. Greetings.  I have three poor images from today, but, since it’s been two weeks since my last post, when I got some good action pictures on the Louisiana & Delta Railroad’s Breaux Bridge Branch, and since I have had plenty on my mind lately, I’m going to […]

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November 2013 Sampler

1 November 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2013 Sampler essay. You will recall from the “August-September-October 2013 Sampler” essay that I took almost no SLR-camera pictures in August, September, and October 2013, and most that I did take were of lettuce that I was growing! It was a very difficult time for me, as would be […]

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November 2003 Images

1 November 2023

Welcome to a cursory look back via 35-milimeter film to November 2003.  This is a sample of images from that time, and the sample is dictated by what of my 35-mm slides from that time had been scanned prior to the spring of 2014.  At the time of the publication of this post, I do […]

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What Remains

30 October 2023

Jimbaux never knew we were living in a worldWith a mind that could be so sureNever knew we were living in a worldWith a mind that could be so smallNever knew we were living in a worldAnd the world is an open courtMaybe we don’t wanna live in a worldWhere our innocence is so short. […]

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Hope And Joy In The Face Of Dread And Doom

25 October 2023

Jimbaux’s ship isn’t coming, and he just can’t pretend. Hey!  Today is Wednesday 25 October 2023, and I finally made it to Lake Charles and got my first Port Rail action of this fall season, today!  I got a few other shots in the process, too, and I handled some business in the city. This […]

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All Crap, All The Time, Every Place

15 October 2023

Jimbaux welcomes you to where time stands stillNo one leaves and no one willMoon is full, never seems to changeJust labelled mentally deranged. Hi, there.  Today, I decided to take a bunch of pictures in Lafayette.  Since this is the first blog article since the first day of the month, I’ll write about what has […]

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Pablo X-Ray Otra Vez

1 October 2023

I got a few shots of Amtrak’s eastbound Sunset Limited at its station stop in New Iberia this afternoon after a consultation session with a candidate. Food At first, I went to Whataburger on the corner of Kaliste Saloom Road and Pinhook Road in Lafayette for food. I wish that this would get old. Politics […]

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October 2003 Images

1 October 2023

Welcome to a cursory look back via 35-milimeter film to October 2003.  This is a sample of images from that time, and the sample is dictated by what of my 35-mm slides from that time had been scanned prior to the spring of 2014.  At the time of the publication of this post, I do […]

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Religion

26 September 2023

Today, Tuesday 26 September 2023, we went to Lake Charles.  However, since this is my first blog article here in 11 days, and since the most recent was of the second day of my overnight Texas trip, I want to recap some things since then. Recent Days That trip was great.  Because I didn’t arrive […]

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Harold 2

15 September 2023

Today, Friday 15 September 2023, was the day of the funeral that I came here to Texas yesterday to attend.  Yesterday was a great day, with me traveling to places where I had not been and getting a few pictures in both Louisiana and Texas in the process. The host noticed that I had lost […]

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Harold 1

14 September 2023

Jimbaux wishes that he could flyInto the skySo very highJust like a dragonfly. Death And New Adventures Today, I visited places that I have never before visited, took pictures in some of those places, and broke a bad streak.  I’m in Texas! I want to talk about the last few days, though, since several weeks […]

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PX

9 September 2023

I went to New Iberia today. I got down below 182 pounds yesterday.  My weight-loss efforts have stalled in the mid 180-lb range. Yesterday, I took my first afternoon walk in a long time.  Part of my problem is that, even though I have been really busy in the mornings, I have been quite sedentary […]

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Early-Mid 2003 Pictures – And A Preview Of Coming Attractions

1 September 2023

In this photo essay, published in September 2023, I will do two things. The first is that I will share some scanned film, scanned 35mm color slides, that I took in the first seven months of the year 2003, two decades ago this year, minus the June 2003 trip (because those pictures are already in […]

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Neurodivergent Meeting

24 August 2023

So, she and I met, finally. We had a neurodivergent meeting. We met at Café Bella in Oil City. It was great. It’s great to finally connect with people like you, especially when you’ve been knowing about each other for a long time. I then went to Target. Remember Harvey?  I miss it, strangely enough. […]

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Heat And Stupidity

22 August 2023

The 17th was the first day of the rest of my life, but so, too, had been other days before.  I said so on 21 December 2013, and I said so again around the end of May and beginning of June in 2019.  I’m probably too old now to ever say that again about a […]

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The Big Day

16 August 2023

Jimbaux knows what he needs, and he needs it fast. The Big Day Today is the big day!  Today is the day that I took the exam for which I have been preparing for four years! I started my walk before 05:25 today, and, actually, the weather was quite pleasant.  That seemed even then to […]

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August-September-October 2013 Sampler

1 August 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the August-September-October 2013 Sampler essay.  Major change was happening right at this time, though it was also major sameness, as indicated at the end of the “July 2013 Sampler” essay. There is so much more that I want to say here.  My pattern of not taking train pictures locally in the […]

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July In Leroy

8 July 2023

Today is Saturday.  We went to Leroy.  I got some cat pictures and some tree pictures. Lately, I have been working in Photoshop, reprocessing some old scanned slides.  I will be posting them here on the blog and on Facebook over the course of the next year and change. I have also been having an […]

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July 2013 Sampler

1 July 2023

The first and foremost question that confronted me in how to incorporate the few pictures that I took from July 2013 to October 2013 inclusive into my pattern of “sampler” essays is whether to include them in a July-October post or whether to split them into a July post and an August-September-October post, because there […]

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June 2013 Sampler

1 June 2023

Jimbaux is feeling miles away You think he’s got it made He doesn’t belong here. I Don’t Belong Here Greetings, and welcome to the June 2013 Sampler essay. As sampler essays on this publication go, this one is actually rather significant, though not because of either the quality of pictures or the quantity of pictures […]

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Not Like Old Times, But Still Like Old Times

18 May 2023

Jimbaux can’t control you; you’re not his destiny. A Bounty And The Trauma This really was a heck of a day.  I accomplished plenty.  This will be a large post. Today, three days after I visited Baton Rouge and Opelousas, I had to go to the homeland for the first time in six months, and […]

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Learning, Confirming, And Being Weirded Out

15 May 2023

Jimbaux is a hellraiser, or, maybe, he is not. So, I had to go to Baton Rouge today, for the same reason that I went there in early March, though most of the pictures from today are from around or in Lafayette. This is the first blog article in which my notes from the essay […]

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Wright Honey, Bees, Trees, And Clouds

10 May 2023

Jimbaux helped them get a box fully of honey. Are You Laughing At Me Now? The lyrics are very much appropriate, in so many ways. Today, as part of my life’s penitence, in my circumstance, while I, a fully-grown adult, was wearing the crowns of other persons, we went to Wright Honey. If you lived […]

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May 2013 Sampler

1 May 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the May 2013 Sampler essay. There are plenty of images in this essay, meaning that I took my DSLR camera out and made at least one presentable image with it on several days in the month of May 2013. This was a strange month for me. I came off of medical […]

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Just Before The Heat Comes

24 April 2023

The primary purpose of my set of outings today was to take advantage of the cool weather, likely the last cool weather that we shall have for many months, but, in the process, I wanted to access some parks that I had never visited. However, the first thing that I had to do was go […]

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Storms In A

15 April 2023

Storms In Vermilionville? That Enya song “Storms In Africa” came to my mind when I took these pictures. As I started typing this blog essay, I am thinking of the Toto song about rain in Africa and wondering if it may have inspired the Enya song!  This is the first time that I make this […]

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Palmettos And The Past

14 April 2023

Okay, I don’t know what to say about this, but we went today to Palmetto Island State Park. It certainly was interesting, but I am not sure that it was fun. First, I need to so some food preparation. Onions are important. Okay, so, in the afternoon, we entered the park. We found a bathroom. […]

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April 2013 Sampler

1 April 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2013 Sampler essay. Many of the nine images shown here have a very “spring” feel to them. Thursday, The 4th I was on my way between Bayouland and Whoadieville when I made this grab shot in Paradís. I wish that I had shot it in RAW. Monday, The 8th […]

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A Port Rail, Kansas City Southern Railway, and Timber Rock Railroad Bonanza

31 March 2023

Jimbaux sees that there’s too many men, Too many people, Making too many problems, And there’s not much love to go ’round. It’s Political Wow, what a heck of a day this was! This is the largest and most varied set of images that I have gotten in a while.  While I still think that […]

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Learning

10 March 2023

Jimbaux hears records in his head everywhere that he goes He’s got records in my head spinnin’ out of control They go round and round and again Round and round and again. Old New Places I had to go to Baton Rouge today.  I got some pictures. My first pictures were in Lafayette, where I […]

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March 2013 Sampler

1 March 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the March 2013 Sampler essay. This one will be brief. I was, let’s say, “going through some things” at the time, with a worsening back situation while also stuck working on a job that I felt that I had, for lack of a better characterization, outgrown. This was the month in […]

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How Can Time Make Restitution?

6 February 2023

Jimbaux is painfully aware that time is a thief. I Was Like A Chinese Spy Balloon! I don’t know what that means, though. Today was my first train-picture outing of 2023.  What’s the deal with me not taking pictures of trains at all in January anymore?  It’s for some embarrassing reasons, really. At about 08:26, […]

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February 2013 Sampler

1 February 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the February 2013 Sampler essay. As described in the “January 2013 Sampler” essay, 2013 was a tumultuous year for me. February was largely uneventful except for worsening back problems and a weekend event that foreshadowed what would become my new reality in the coming years. Let’s get right to it. Sunday, […]

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January 2013 Sampler

1 January 2023

Greetings, and welcome to the January 2013 Sampler essay.  For me, this was the beginning of a strange year, though, for me, most years could be said to be strange.  Still, this was the first full year that I would know that I would eventually be losing my home for the most embarrassing of reasons […]

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Exploring – Opelousas Alternative, Acadiana Nonetheless

20 December 2022

Jimbaux hears records in his head everywhere that he goesHe’s got records in his head spinning out of controlThey go round and around and againRound and around and againRound and around and oh yeahRecords in his head. Something Different Well, today was a good day! I explored places that I had not before explored. The […]

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Surfacing For Degradation

5 December 2022

Jimbaux searched for form and landFor years and years he roamedHe gazed a gazeless stareThey walked a million hillsHe must have died aloneA long, long time ago. A Hot Mess Family fragments, and I fragment with it. This probably was inevitable. I probably never had a chance. I read the story in the newspaper that […]

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December 2012 Sampler

1 December 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the December 2012 Sampler essay.  After the difficult and lengthy “November 2012 Sampler” essay, this one will be mercifully brief. As I wrote near the end of that essay in the description of the November 25 images, I wouldn’t take out the DSLR camera again until midway through the month of […]

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Really, I Just . . .

16 November 2022

Schriever Is Boring This was just a strange day, which means that this will be a strange post. If you’re seeking brilliant railroad photography, then close out the page and come back later when I have something else to post. This was an emotional day, not surprisingly, because I returned to my homeland to go […]

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November 2012 Sampler

1 November 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2012 Sampler essay, which continues to document a time of transition, as did the “September 2012 Sampler” essay and the “October 2012 Sampler” essay. As stated in the October 2012 essay, my grandmother died at the end of September, and we funeralized and buried her in early October as […]

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October 2012 Sampler

1 October 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the October 2012 Sampler essay, which documents a time of loss and transition in my life.  As told in the “September 2012 Sampler” essay, my paternal grandmother had just died, and the funeral would be in early October.  I was actively pursuing a plan to get myself back to the New […]

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The Journey Was The Point

29 September 2022

Jimbaux knows it’s everybody’s sinYou got to lose to know how to win. Laura Delta Ian A Sanity-Restoring Expedition These are far from my best photographs, but that doesn’t really matter, because getting good photographs was not the point of this outing. As often happens this time of year in my life after the years […]

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September 2012 Sampler

1 September 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the September 2012 Sampler essay.  As readers of the “August 2012 Sampler” essay would have seen, the defining story at the end of August 2012 was Tropical Storm or Hurricane Isaac, and it would be the story of the beginning of September 2012, too.  The end of the month, however, was […]

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August 2012 Sampler

1 August 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the August 2012 Sampler essay, which will largely follow the pattern of the “July 2012 Sampler” essay, which itself largely followed the pattern of the “June 2012 Sampler” essay. That pattern includes the Wednesday-and-Friday Chip routine.  I had a job near the western limits of the Chip Local, the Union Pacific […]

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July 2012 Sampler

1 July 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the July 2012 Sampler essay.  This one follows a pattern similar to that of the previous month, particularly in the fact that it covers the area from Saint Mary Parish to New Orleans inclusive, with pictures of the Chip Local and other trains on the Lafayette Subdivision and pictures of trains […]

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‘That’s All I Got’ – Peartree’s Last Day On The Railroad

15 June 2022

A Happily Anticlimactic Ending This is it. This was Peartree’s last day railroading. Today is Wednesday 15 June 2022. Forty-nine years ago today, Peartree went to work for and on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the railroad where his father was employed. Today, Peartree worked his last day railroading for the Louisiana & Delta Railroad, where […]

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Peartree’s Penultimate Day On The Railroad

14 June 2022

Now Jimbaux is here, and he’s all aloneStill he knows how it feelsHe’s alone again. Peartree’s Last Day Working The Ground Today, Tuesday 14 June 2022, was Peartree’s second-to-last day railroading and his last day working the ground. Yesterday, I got many pictures on his third-to-last day railroading. We start by the depot in New […]

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Peartree’s Last Monday On The Railroad

13 June 2022

Jimbaux knows that you just don’t get it, you keep it copaceticAnd you learn to accept it, you know you’re so patheticAnd you just don’t get it, you keep it copaceticAnd you learn to accept it, you know you’re so pathetic. Born To Be Down This, 13 June 2022, is Peartree’s last Monday as an […]

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Peartree’s Last Friday On The Railroad

10 June 2022

There is not much here. There was nothing new or interesting at the port. This was Peartree’s last Friday railroading. I got to the depot in New Iberia just as he and CV were arriving to tie up for the day. Peartree started railroading in 1973 for the Southern Pacific railroad. He was away from […]

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June 2012 Sampler

1 June 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the June 2012 Sampler essay, where you will see one example of the photographs that I took on each day of June 2012 on which I took pictures.  As explained in the “April 2012 Sampler” essay, in April 2012, I began the practice of traveling from Morgan City to New Orleans […]

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No Joy On Pipe Movement, Armour Yellow At The Interchange

26 May 2022

Jimbaux is crawling back to the start. Unceremony My experience this morning reinforced the perception that foaming is a thing of the past, even though I got a promising shot late in this morning. This post is also a follow-up from yesterday, in which I, among other things, scoped out the Port Of Iberia hoping […]

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Jacked By Julie

25 May 2022

Jimbaux knows that it’s hard to hold on when there’s no one to lean on. It’s Hard To Be Strong When There’s No One To Dream On This whole damn day was jacked, really. The hospital room was nice. It’s so damn tragic that such an accomplished woman has suffered as she has. So, I […]

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Like Old Times

18 May 2022

Jimbaux believes that his soul is on fire. Hey! Hoo, boy, do I have a heck of a show for you today! Today has been a memorable day with some great scenes that I was able to record. I had to go back home for my twice-yearly visit to the dentist, and I made the […]

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May 2012 Sampler

1 May 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the May 2012 Sampler essay.  The “April 2012 Sampler” essay was unusual in that it was published on the eight of the month of April 2022 so as, explained at the beginning of it, to avoid interfering with the flow of publication of the decennial retrospective blog posts of my spring […]

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Photographs Are Money

28 April 2022

Maybe It’s More That Photographs Can Be Currency This is the story of debt and of settling a debt, though maybe also establishing further credit, using photographs. I really cannot share the details now, but I hope to do so at some point, because it’s supposed to be about a pleasant surprise for someone. After […]

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April 2012 Sampler

8 April 2022

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2012 Sampler essay.  The circumstances surrounding this post make it different from any other of these “sampler” essays that I have published before. Let me tell you why.  All of these sampler essays are published on the first day of the month in which they are published, but this […]

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Day 10 – Easter – Heavener, Rich Mountain, Ashdown, Haynesville, and Jackson – 8 April 2012

8 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Day 10 of 10 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Road Trip.  These pictures were taken on Sunday 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday.  It’s great that this is finally about to be over.  It’s the beginning of the end, and […]

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Day 9 – Animals, A Street Sketch, The Rainbow Bridge, and Nocturnal Trains – 7 April 2012

7 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. On the previous day, I started in Omaha, Nebraska, went through the southwestern corner of Iowa, spent time exploring flood damage and the BNSF Railway’s Saint Joe Line in northwestern Missouri, and then crossed the Missouri River into Kansas before landing at a […]

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Day 8 – Omaha, Pacific Junction, A Natural Disaster, and The St Joe Line – 6 April 2012

6 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Day 8 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Road Trip, Friday 6 April 2012, Good Friday. This day was both anticlimactic and emotional.  Done were the big train-hunting days with huge catches, like Day 6, two days before, and done, […]

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Day 7 – Omaha Environs And Logan To Fremont – 5 April 2012

5 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Day 7 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip, Thursday 5 April 2012.  On the previous day, Day 6, Wednesday 4 April 2012, we had a very intense and memorable day with plenty of pictures, hence my decision to […]

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Day 6 – Chasing Trains On The DM&E Line – 4 April 2012

4 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Day 6, Wednesday 4 April 2012, of my Spring Break 2020 Road Trip. Day 6 of the trip takes place in southwestern Minnesota and eastern South Dakota, a day after a friend and I traveled there northward from Omaha […]

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Day 6, Part 4 Of 4 – The DM&E Railroad and The Corn Palace – 4 April 2012

4 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Part 4, the final part, of Day 6 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Road Trip, the last of many, many pictures made on Wednesday 4 April 2012.  Part 1 started with us in Brookings, South Dakota, and heading our […]

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Day 6, Part 3 Of 4 – The DM&E Survives In Minnesota And South Dakota – 4 April 2012

4 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Part 3 of Day 6 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip.  Part 2 ended with Canadian Pacific Railway train 277 moving south of Lake Benton, Minnesota, on its way to Huron, South Dakota, and we start right here […]

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Day 6, Part 2 Of 4 – Chasing A Neat-Looking Train From Cavour To Lake Benton – 4 April 2012

4 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Part 2 of Day 6 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip, 4 April 2012.  In Part 1, we started at Brookings, South Dakota, and headed west, almost to Huron, until we intercepted an eastbound Canadian Pacific Railway train […]

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Day 6, Part 1 Of 4 – Brookings To Cavour, Intercepting A Train On Jointed Rail – 4 April 2012

4 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Part 1 of 4 of Day 6 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Eastern Great Plains Road Trip. This day was essentially the climax of the trip, for many reasons.  It is appropriately at the midpoint, or the day before […]

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Day 5 – Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota – 3 April 2012

3 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Welcome to Day 5 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip.  On this day and all of the following day, none of the drive was in an automobile in my name (even rented), I didn’t do any driving, I entered a US state […]

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Day 4 – Southeastern Nebraska – 2 April 2012

2 April 2022

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Greetings, and welcome to Day 4 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip, which – Day 4, not the trip – starts in Lincoln, Nebraska. On the previous evening, I arrived in Lincoln after spending the morning in Kansas, a few dozen miles […]

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