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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    From the pictures I saw, it was a 80 foot pine blown into the left lane of the easrbound interstate. Iy was not freshly planted.
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Central Alabama got thru the weather relatively unscathed. Only one tree on a home ib the Birmingham area with no injuries. Had a trucker hit a tree on I20 about 25 miles from the Alabama - Georgia line about 3:30 this morning Heading down to Mc Wane Science Center in a few minutes to work on...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Willie- Your condo probably did you a big favor canceling your reservations. The Birmingham weather guessers are showing hurricane landfall about on top of Gulf Shores around midnight Friday. Most businesses will be boarded up today for 112 mph winds and 7 to 12 inches of rain along the coast...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Labs at the doctors office went ok. I had to wait 30 minutes past my appointed time .And with the "Please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment", I spent a little over an hour exposed to the sickies in the waiting room. That sausage egg and cheese biscuit sure was tasty with a cup of...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Bill- you are making my mouth water! And I have to go for fasting labs this morning. I cannot even have a decent cup of coffee until afterwards. Nothing specific, just checking my A1C on the 6 month check next week. Maybe I will cheat on my diet and get a sausage egg and cheese biscuit.
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    The state of Alabama managed to go without any train wrecks on Friday. Although there is still wreckage to be cleaned up, both lines in Maplesville and Springville are back in service. There was only one injury in the Springville wreck, the truck driver, who is out of the hospital now. In...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Update on the Maplesville, Alabama train wreck this morning.. Norfolk Southern was carrying garbage in the derailed cars, some of which were open top, wood chip type cars. These cars were off their frames and had come apart. NS workers are using front end loaders to scoop up the stinking...
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    Running Bear's October 2026 Coffee Shop

    Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Mike. Today will be the 97th day of 100 that we have had 90 degree F in central Alabama. I just saw on tv where there was a train derailment in downtown Maplesville, Alabama. No injuries or hazardous material, but the boxcar frames and wheel sets must be gathered up...
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    Atlantic, Gulf & Western (AG&W)

    Please note that it took me seven attempts over five days to post pictures, comments and edit my errors because I cannot control what my fingers do on a keyboard. And the forum did not cooperate! The tunnel is starting to take shape. The layers of foam board are being shaped by a hoy wire...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Troy- I am glad you finally got that done. I have been waiting all week to hear about ihe cat box being cleaned.
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    Creating a ho track atlas 100 code

    You need to make some basic decisions about the era ( time) you want to model, model a real road area or make up a fictious railroad. What features do you want like industries, mountains, lakes, residential or farm areas or wilderness.? What is your budget for pre-assembled structures, rolling...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Forum still hesitated a few seconds when I signed in this morning, but it is much better than last night. Was preparing for a Sunday school lesson this morning where Joshua led the Israelites out of the desert. As they crossed the Jordan river,, the water stopped and they crossed on dry land. I...
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    Espeefan's Passenger Car Modeling

    Alan - Do you have any idea how many gallons of red and orange paint you have painted?
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    Atlantic, Gulf & Western (AG&W)

    The forom is turtle slow today, but I will try to post a couple pictures of the layout progress. Daughter and father are scratch building a highway overpass over the railway line for one end of the layout. We will only have part of the layout with scenery for the holiday show. We are trying to...
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    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    What are you fixing on that striped thing on your bench?
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