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    Running Bear's February 2026 Coffee Shop

    It's a sad commentary on the state of current US education that so many people don't understand that Puerto Rico is part of the US. And they would rather be offended by someone singing in Spanish (I guess you don't like opera) than by someone in power trafficking young girls. But, that's where...
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    Running Bear's April 2025 Coffee Shop

    “ I do not think though anybody expected the pushback from the other countries.” If that’s true, that’s the single biggest confirmation of stupidity I have seen this week.
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    Running Bear's March 2025 Coffee Shop

    Speaking of coffee, we decided to join the evil k cup cult a few years ago, for the convenience factor. Bought a kuerig supreme from Costco. After 6 months, it died. Being Costco, I took it back, bought another one. It lasted a year. Then dead. We are currently on number 5, the last one...
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    Running Bear's February 2025 Coffee Shop

    Ah, the CBNS. I used to run the roads all over NB and NS, based out of Saint John, I would usually take my camera and shoot what I could of the trains. Somewhere I have some shots of a dimensional load going to Pt Tupperware as it crossed the causeway. I liked the GP50s, I thought they looked good.
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    What ballast/products do I need to create a river scene like this?

    For the gravel, I would consider looking at sanded grout in a big box hardware store. (Flooring tile section). You night find a good shade there.
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    Running Bear's February 2025 Coffee Shop

    What’s interesting is that there is a listing on eBay in the uk for a lot of four cars that includes a different DV car.
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    Anyone Familiar with the Vermont Rail System?

    Thanks for clearing that up about the bottom valves. That makes sense. When the unloading rack was built for the local refinery, about 10 or 15 years ago, it was built for top unloading, and I understood that the tank cars could not be unloaded from the bottom, but that may have been the...
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    Running Bear's February 2025 Coffee Shop

    Based on my wife’s experience, implants have a finite lifespan, so in my opinion, if you think you can handle dentures, do it now, because if you go with implants, in another 10 years or so, you’ll need dentures or new implants anyway. The docs doing the implants won’t tell you this, for some...
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    Problem drilling through foam for feeder wires

    I use drinking straws. Drill the hole, stick in a straw, trim it to length, stick it in place with a bit of caulk, and the hole is easy to access forever.
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    Anyone Familiar with the Vermont Rail System?

    I don’t see any overhead way to unload those ethanol tank cars, am I just missing something? As far as I know, all tank cars are loaded and unloaded from the top now. I’m just curious. In one picture, it looks like there’s some piping on the ground, but not the overhead racks I would expect.
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    Running Bear's January 2025 Coffee Shop

    Even worse, imagine 2/3 of Canadians agreeing on anything. And then convincing the King to go along with it.
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    Running Bear's January 2025 Coffee Shop

    Speaking of cash only, our gov't run liquor stores and cannabis stores detected a hit on their computer systems, so they shut the system down, and now they are cash only, and the liquor stores were closed for two days this week. Hopefully they get the system running again, but it sure hurts a...
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    Running Bear's January 2025 Coffee Shop

    That kinda reminds me of when I stupidly used a wheeled office chair to stand on, and fell. It was a Friday, and I drove 3 hours to meet my wife and daughter at a hockey camp. My knee hurt. A lot. The next week I went to the hospital, and saw an orthopedist. Had the x ray done. When the...
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    Building My First Layout

    I agree, the NMRA gauge is extremely useful, you can check the gauge while the wheels are still on the car.
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    Running Bear's January 2025 Coffee Shop

    And don’t forget, Jan 1 is the feast of the circumcision.
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    Running Bear's December 2024 Coffee Shop

    Merry Christmas! Snow yesterday, lasted until early this am. I managed to get a yardstick out this morning. Being coastal New Brunswick, we don't often get big snows, usually snow/rain/freezing rain.
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    Can anyone tell me what this is??

    Looks like it’s worth about $25. https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/PENNSYLVANIA-RAILROAD-COMPENDIUM-Volume-Number-Freight/31942500390/bd
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    Help with identification

    Sorry about that. Just go to https://www.thegilbertgallery.org Search for 282 There are some good pictures there.
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    Help with identification

    This page will probably help. Probably S scale, but the easy way to tell is the one measurement not shown, the wheel gauge (distance between the outside of the flanges) https://www.thegilbertgallery.org/Engine%20Gallery/engines
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    Locomotives from the past.

    Don’t call it zero, it’s naught. As the old prof used to say.




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