2006-09-24

791. The Passing

railway crossing...
i count the cars and read
their serial numbers

[Notes]

5 comments:

floots said...

i like the factual aspect but also the underlying sense of passing time (it must be the time of year - it's getting to us all)
cheers

polona said...

an interesting way of entertaining while waiting at the gate... never occured to me to read serial numbers of cars...

Masago said...

Floots: Ah yes, the passing of time. A recurring theme it seems on a few blogs lately. Thanks.

Polona: Thanks. I had usually only counted the cars in the past myself. But the day I penned this haiku I noticed the serial numbers on the cars also had 3- or 4-letter codes in front of the 5-digit numbers. I did some research and found this about Canadian rail car serial numbers:

Canadian Rail Car Serial Numbers

I'm sure other countries have their own standards.

Pat Paulk said...

Sounds like the train is going too slow!! Guess I could stop cussing the railroad and read the serial numbers. Could be good therapy...

Masago said...

Pat: Yeah, it was going fairly slow alright. Thanks. :-)