Good morning. Looks like our weather is going to turn again. We were in the low 70 the past couple of days but there is a winter weather advisory out for the southern part of the county near Yellowstone Park. Rian is in the forecast for here tomorrow so a trip over the pass to the club is out of the question. Rain in the valley means snow on the pass this time of year.
Louis - As usual you posted some winning photos. Like the WM steamer a lot.
Karl - Looking forward to see the photos you post when you get home. Have a safe trip.
Clint - That was an interesting video. I have seen a lot of videos on high speed trains and Chad probably had the chance to ride on some during his recent trip to Japan. I never had a chance to ride on one as they were not in service when I visited Europe and Japan. It could be quite difficult to have such a service here as there could be numerous grade crossings if expensive road work is done. We do have the Acela running the the NE corridor and this is over a well established route with very few crossings. Also, Americans are car people and I doubt that high speed service can pry them out of their vehicles.
Garry - Nice shot of the dome car.
Greg - I certainly hope you improve quickly so you can get down to your train room. Done want to see and withdrawal problems. Thanks for posting the video. It is quite old as it was done around four years ago. Glad to see you did notice the change in elevations. I think it add interest to operating.
Bready - I sure enjoy the old railroad ads you posted the other day.
Those station wagon photos were also interesting. I only had one, a Mazda RX-4 with the rotary engine. That thing could move. Years ago most people didn't wanted to be seen in a station wagon, but now the
SUV, a small station wagon seems to be the crazy. ME, I personally wouldn't own an SUV.
Mikey - Like the pipe loads. I may hit up the bar tender at the bowling alley tonight for a bunch of his drink straws to make a pipe load or two.
Ray - That club photo you posted reminds me of the climb out of the east subdivision on my club layout. Those police cars are interesting. Most of our patrol cars had the 360 small blocks, but mine was an unmarked car that was originally ordered as a pursuit car for andther state and has the factory blueprinted and balanced 383 pursuit engine. I was in a power whine when they decided to trade it off for newer cars.
IBKen - Really sorry to hear that your wife had to be admitted to the hospital. Prayers for her. Hopefully they can get a confirmed diagnosis soon.
Willie - Really enjoyed your photos. I like the Woodland Scenics billboards and would like to find one that would work for my time period.
Johnny - Looks like you're breaking future engineers in early. Nice photo.
Mostly slummed around with some friends yesterday, but did get down into the train room for a few minutes. I had donated a number of freight cars to my club and they gave me a Walthers track cleaning car to run on my home layout as all I usually run is Dust Monkeys. The Walthers cars do a nice job at the club, but the car was decorated for AmTrak. There was no AmTrak around in 1957 so I tried to find a shell that would be more appropriate for my time era and came up with this Milwaukee Road shell.
It's better and AmTrak, but I am going to still try different shells to see if anything else will fit.
Later
