The train-engine tribute to the Internet activist and beleaguered rape suspect was sitting idle in the train yard north of the Denver Union Pacific Locomotive Facility adjacent to RTD's Osage Street light rail station on West 10th Avenue. I do not know how long the train engine has sat in the train yard. I don't know anything about Union Pacific train schedules, maintenance routines or route information.
For all I know the graffiti could have been painted on the engine while the train was stopped in London, England -- on the day of Assange's arrest last week -- to unload its daily delivery of coal from Wyoming. But looking at my globe and calendar, that seems unlikely, even though the graffiti does prove in some way that the world is getting smaller every day. I would like to think that the graffiti is the work of a South Lincoln Project tagger who feels a kinship in the universal struggle for free speech.
The Osage Street station is right outside the front door of the Buckhorn Exchange and serves the South Lincoln Park neighborhood. A ten year project to scrape and replace the neighborhood housing began in September, and the photo below shows work is full swing.
The photo above shows the first floor support beams of the South Lincoln Apartments at 1099 Osage Street. The 100-unit low-income senior housing project was selected as part of a pilot program to redevelop brownfield sites into sustainable transit-oriented developments.The goal of the project is to generate green jobs through the construction of green buildings where people will live green lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the freedom still in them. Thank you, Julian Assange.
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