My Get Pushed challenge for this week was "entropy, inertia, and sloth." Yesterday's picture was my first (lighthearted) attempt.
When I stopped to think about the challenge I recalled this as a highly likely shot. This caboose sits behind the South Side Railroad Depot in Petersburg, which I shot about month ago (https://365project.org/timerskine/365/2020-09-23). Back then I viewed the caboose with an eye towards a photo, but it just wasn't a pleasing subject. But, when viewed with the subject of entropy, inertia and sloth, it's perfect.
I don't know how long the caboose has been sitting there, but when I first saw it 2 years ago it hadn't been tagged. The brick walls are actually the foundation of the west freight wing of the depot, which was destroyed in 1993 by an F4 tornado (the September picture shows part of the intact east freight wing, and the gap on the west where I grabbed this shot).
@jon_lip The Fujita scale for measuring the destructiveness of tornadoes runs from F0 to F5. F4 tornadoes have winds that are 207-260 mph (333-418 km/h). The text describing F4 is, "Devastating damage. Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated."
How the passenger depot remained intact is a sort of a mystery, but tornadoes tend to be narrow and are very linear in their destruction.
October 28th, 2020
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How the passenger depot remained intact is a sort of a mystery, but tornadoes tend to be narrow and are very linear in their destruction.