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    Front End Friday

    Good afternoon from a beautiful day in So. Central Wisconsin. I have just returned from the Post Office where I shipped 48 of 52 HO scale containers this afternoon. Placed the sales ad at 12:30 on Facebook and gone by 3:00pm. The containers were from a continuous project that got 2/3’s...
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    Front End Friday

    A very dirty NS 8773 (a 9-40c) leads WRVT 9010 (a Sd40-2f) into PaperMill Yard (PMY) located in Central Wisconsin. They are running light from dropping their train off at the Mill about 2 miles south. The year is 2015 on the fictional Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal RR. Front End Friday...
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    Rotating bearing caps… nope

    If you ever need spares in the future I have them for the Athearn Genesis and Scaletrains Rivet Counters. Just send me a message via the forum email. If they are off the axle though and not in the packaging I would contact Athearn. They’ve been good in the past about replacing them for me. Even...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good afternoon at 5:50 Central time. Early dinner as the grandson plays hockey at 6:45 down the street. Stocks, I’ve given our kids suggestions but never a tip. The son is big on tech stuff and when he couldn’t get new video cards because of the data MINING SURGE few years ago he said buy some...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    I am going to try this
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    I got another one yesterday but from Montana. I haven’t been to Montana in maybe 15 years so delete and called it junk. That 2 in 2 days from different states DMV’s
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good morning to those Emma watchers and all who come to visit. It was 58f degrees this morning at 5:40 and instead of on the machine to no where I walked outside. Because of the coolness of the temperature and the 7mph breeze the 98% humidity was not that noticeable. It might hit 70 this...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Wow that looks great
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good morning healthy train people! It’s humid in So. Central Wisconsin. It’s 70f degrees, the humidity is 98% the dew point is 69 degrees and the severe storms are coming again. It looks like all the windows in the neighborhood Ai can see are moisture covered. Somewhere between 1:30 and 4pm per...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    I grew up on the southside. Near 68th and Hamlin, stayed through 5th grade and then moved southwest to Oak Forest. Class of 70 at Tinley Park HS. Always a White Sox fan but I did root for the Cubs especially Billy Williams who worked for my dad from November to the end of January for years. Dad...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    I enjoyed baseball up until I got married in 1976 and we moved to Northern Wisconsin. Out of touch out of mind type of thing. We didn’t get newspapers, no TV reception for NBC (Saturday games of the week)before satellites showed up and we were in the middle of Twins and Brewer territory with...
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