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Date: 02/05/23 09:58
A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: walstib

I call this the balloon shot, because this train — number 14 with the Pepsi locomotive — is the one I was waiting on yesterday when I heard on the radio that the Chinese balloon had been shot down.

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Date: 02/05/23 10:28
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: justalurker66

I eas hoping for a shot with the balloon and a train. Bonus points if one got the moon, the balloon and a train in one shot.

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Date: 02/05/23 10:33
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: PC1974

justalurker66 Wrote:
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> I was hoping for a shot with the balloon and a train. Bonus points if one got the moon, the balloon and a train in one shot.

AGREED!

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Date: 02/05/23 10:38
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: Lackawanna484

The balloon was directed over a number of main lines in the US and Canada.

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Date: 02/05/23 12:09
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: Tominde

Chinese were gathering intel on Chargers.

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Date: 02/05/23 21:00
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: KA7008

Tominde Wrote:
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> Chinese were gathering intel on Chargers.

Yes - they were trying to find all the broken Chargers and wifi-download a firmware update.

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Date: 02/05/23 21:55
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: jgilmore

KA7008 Wrote:
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> Tominde Wrote:
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> > Chinese were gathering intel on Chargers.
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> Yes - they were trying to find all the broken
> Chargers and wifi-download a firmware update.

Or, or, programming them to go bonkers and smash into oil trains in big cities...

JG

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Date: 02/06/23 04:10
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: march_hare

Bad strategy, that would require that the Chargers actually move under their own power. 

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Date: 02/06/23 04:29
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: DavidP

march_hare Wrote:
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> Bad strategy, that would require that the Chargers
> actually move under their own power. 

So all those "initial terminal delays' may just be a national security strategy...clever!

Dave

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Date: 02/06/23 06:28
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: jkh2cpu

I like the shot and I'm wondering where it was taken. Looks a bit like coastal California.

Screw the balloon and the jet stream that it rode by on.

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Date: 02/06/23 07:33
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: dbinterlock

This looks like the crossing of the Ventura River. The Pacific Ocean is to the photographers back, and the City of Ventura is out of frame to the Right.

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Date: 02/06/23 09:09
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: walstib

Yes, it's the Ventura River crossing.

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Date: 02/06/23 09:49
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: bmarti7

I heard it was programmed to cross most Amtrak lonf-distance routes to learn how to operate passenger trains in China.

PCBill

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Date: 02/06/23 11:49
Re: A Pepsi And A Balloon
Author: BoostedFridge

Awesome image!  Congratulations on the IOTD.

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