D. W. Bassett
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D. W. Bassett
@danawroe.bsky.social
An old locomotive engineer drinking deeply from the boulevardier of broken dreams, if not drinking really good coffee.

Travel, write, walk barefoot on grass in sunlight, read, paint, dream, even if you’re old. Remember the miracle of being alive.
As a former career locomotive engineer, this translates to: brace for a lot more derailments.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
In other words , brace for more derailments.
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Goddess. Always adored Ms. Wong.
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
You’re quite generous in using the term “man”.
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Thanks.
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
”Bathurst Bullet“. 🙂. one of my last jobs, and by far my favorite, was the good old Cache Valley Cannonball, I.e. 10 mph from one end of the line to the other.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
He’s gonna do to us just like he did with his casinos. Russian mob money laundering was the only thing that kept him afloat before he got that fucking tv show. He’s never been a businessman…he just played one on TV.
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Is that a GNR or NER engine?
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Philanthropist l: n. “An old man who has taught himself to smile while his conscience picks his pocket.”

-Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Have you abandoned hyperbole since abroad, Pat? The above seems almost to be British understatement!😂
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Saw these guys get absolutely wasted on overripe choke cherries one time. Hanging upside down, twittering drunkenly, some passed out…it was funny to watch. In the AM, they were gone on their merry, tipsy way.
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
11. The upside down bird. Got one in my backyard Often it is I hear his: “Map, map map!”🙂
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When steam pulled the passenger and mail, the sound of a steam whistle was a musical chord in the night. You’d listen, there in your bed in your parents, then drift off to sleep, dreaming about far away places. When I was 5, this picture was my family.
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM