Roger Puta was a prolific railroad photographer and railfan. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. He worked for railroads and lived in DC and San Francisco. He photographed trains and streetcars all across America, Canada, and Mexico. He and his partner ran a bus touring company. His photos are very distinct, with a more muted color pallete and pictures that sometimes almost appear painted. He took more than 5,000 photos of trains during his lifetime. He often goes unsung as a gay railroad photographer, and is not as recognized as he should be. He died in 1990 at age 46. Discussing his death at a young age was off limits. Puta died of AIDS, a disease that was purposely ignored by the Reagan administration. Puta deserved to live, and was taken too soon.
Please go view his works. I will be posting many more pictures to c/urbanism but I'm including some links here to his work.
More on Roger:
His longtime friend Marty Bernard (who uploaded the pictures) discussing Roger
The Twitter thread that inspired this post
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putaafter reading the megathread text I realize this is in bad taste, rest in power Roger Puta :07:
I like that you tagged not only Grownbravy twice, but also BrownGravy, just for good measure.
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This hog is made for posting, and that's just what they'll do
One of these days this hog will post pig balls covered in poo
my dad talked to some dude who thinks that planned obsolescence is a government plot. why the fuck are americans so dumb
He means that it is real but it's the government causing things to break easily. Not that it's the companies intentionally making shitty products that will break in x number of years.
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Driving from houston to Dallas and back again should train pill more people tbh
The majority of the trip is up/down 45, probably at its widest in north houston, most of the trip is 2 lanes on each side. Where Im at rn It’s about 10 with 4 lanes of frontage
Traffic is still shit and I’ve been held up multiple times coming to a complete stop
But Americans never think "This is a shitty solution from moving from point A to point B." Instead they think "What if we had twice has many lanes? Or even three times as many?"
bro just one more lane, i swear bro we can fix this just one more lane, come on just give me one more lane bro please you gotta trust me, it's just one more lane one more lane and we're done bro it'll work it's just one more lane
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In wake of the latest shootings, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler announced that he will not stand for the national anthem until the country does something about it. Look forward to seeing absolutely zero backlash for being anti-american and disrespecting the troops. Fuck this racist fucking shithole country
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Are "ravens" played out?
We also have two toucans, four parrots, and a whole lot of corvids.
Sounds like a perfect megathread topic, maybe for this coming Monday?
There's a lot of people in the southern region of Brazil with the surname "Fuck" or "Fucks", probably from German immigrants named "Fuchs". In fact, there's even a small town in Santa Catarina called Residência Fuck. It looks like a quaint little village.
Exasperation, I need to get shit done but I'm too sleepy :ooooooooooooooh:
Is it something you can get done by midnight? By midday? What's the sleep cycle of an owl like anyway?
Not gonna sleep quite yet, but I will blob out :comfy-cool:
Mostly everyone in my family can cook or go to the store to get stuff but nope, everyone just sitting hungry waiting for me to make something :pain: like fam I'm depressed I can barely cook for myself rn :kitty-cri-texas: still rice and beans are almost done.
