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  • Monster in the Mist

    We biked to Saugerties for the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival and spotted this monster looming in the morning mist during the ride home:

    Excavator on CSX gondola car - side
    Excavator on CSX gondola car – side

    The end view shows it’s not an optical illusion:

    Excavator on CSX gondola car - end
    Excavator on CSX gondola car – end

    Some Google Maps fiddling reveals the plant, with the excavator atop the first car on the siding, down in the lower-left corner of the image:

    Google Maps - Kings Highway at Tissal Rd
    Google Maps – Kings Highway at Tissal Rd

    A zoomed view, rotated a quarter-turn CCW so it’s not quite so vertiginous:

    Google Maps - Kings Highway at Tissal Rd - detail
    Google Maps – Kings Highway at Tissal Rd – detail

    My search-fu isn’t strong enough to uncover the plant’s name. They’ve obviously been doing something involving gravel and either asphalt or concrete for many years, so it’s not a prank…