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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Welcome to Part 2 of Day 3 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Road Trip. After spending the morning foaming the old Santa Fe Transcon west of Kansas City and then paying a visit to the Midland Railway Historical Association, as seen in Part […]

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. Welcome to Day 2 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Eastern Great Plains Road Trip, which follows the initial northward journey through Louisiana to Oklahoma on Day 1. Due to the large size of the quantity of photographs made this day, Saturday 31 March […]