Field guide No. 627
Blue locomotive through a concrete keyhole
Unlocked, eventually.
In a rail yard at dusk, a blue diesel locomotive and its train squeeze through a keyhole in a freestanding concrete wall, narrowing to fit and coming out full size on the other side. Somebody had the key.
Field noteFull size on both sides and thin as a key in the middle. A train cannot pass that hole without being two widths at once.
- Specimen
- No. 627
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rail yard, after rain.
- Nearest existing relative
- A diesel locomotive.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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