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Better known as the "909" from the Collins Foundation which crashed short of the runway while trying to land at Hartford, CT a few years back. I have not heard the details of why and what for?
Apparently some sort of engine, or fuel problem and seemed to have two engines failing on the same side? I think that they just got too slow in the turn lining up - the plane would have been able to fly with only two engines operating!
It was here in Temecula back in 2016 and giving folks rides
Morning -- Only 84f today after 102f yesterday - quite a drop?
I recently heard a Baltimore city official on the radio bragging "we are under 14,000 vacant homes for the first time in many years" I don't think that is something to brag about.
Several years ago, Baltimore city was tearing down thousands of subsidized housings. The federal government intervened to stop them until they replaced them. They should have been demolishing vacant homes!
From the Baltimore Sun
NORTHWEST BALTIMORE
Firefighter killed in rowhouse blaze
Four buildings consumed by roaring fire that sent four firefighters to the hospital; two released Friday 31-year-old city native who died had been in active service with department since August
Investigators were on the scene a day after firefighter Rodney Pitts III, 31, was killed and four others were injured battling a fire in rowhouses on Linden Heights Avenue. Pitts was found in the second rowhouse from the left. Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun
By Lilly Price, Lee O. Sanderlin and Dillon Mullan
City officials identified the Baltimore firefighter who lost his life Thursday while battling a fire that ripped through a group of rowhouses in Northwest Baltimore, the latest blow to a department still reeling from the death of three others last year.
Fire officials said Friday that Rodney Pitts III, 31, of Baltimore, died from his injuries after he and other firefighters entered a burning rowhouse around 3:45 p.m. in the 5200 block of Linden Heights Avenue. Four firefighters were hospitalized with burn wounds Thursday, and two have since been released, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said at a Friday news conference.
Pitts had been in active service as a firefighter and EMT since August after joining the department last year. He was stationed in Park Heights on Engine 29.
“I pinned his badge on him in August,” Wallace said.
A Baltimore native, Pitts was eager to serve his hometown, something his family reflected on during a Thursday evening visit with Mayor Brandon Scott.
“That’s what I think we should be talking about. Someone who loved this place so much that they would be willing to risk their life, and, in his case, tragically give his life for this city,” Scott said.
A person who answered the door at a house listed for Pitts declined to comment Friday.
Lt. Dillon Rinaldo, a six-year veteran of the department, remained in critical but stable condition Friday. Firefighter Seth Robbins, a 17-year veteran, also remained hospitalized. Keith Brooks II, a 14-year veteran, and firefighter Tavon Marshall, a 3-year veteran, were treated and released. Turn to Fire, Page 4
“Beautiful people,” an emotional Wallace said. “Deeply hurt. Much like our members are. We’re wrapping our arms around them to support them.”
The investigation into the cause of the fire is being led by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Baltimore Police’s arson and homicide units also are investigating.
One person was taken into custody after the fire but was released after being interviewed. No city leader would say whether arson is suspected.
Pitts’ death comes less than two years after three firefighters were killed and a fourth was seriously injured in a vacant rowhouse fire on South Stricker Street in New Southwest/Mount Clare, a neighborhood in Central Southwest Baltimore. That fire was one of the deadliest for fire responders in the city’s history.
On Thursday afternoon, the roaring fire consumed four rowhouses on Linden Heights Avenue, a block of brick two-story homes with small grass yards. One house is a rental, two are vacant properties, and one was occupied by an owner, according to city housing data.
Wallace said Friday that he didn’t know how the fire started or in which house.
“This particular fire evolved so quickly,” Wallace said. “Our members, whether they’re firefighters or paramedics or EMTs, they make extraordinarily significant decisions on a split-second basis. They do it every day.”
Pitts was inside an occupied house sandwiched between two vacant properties when firefighters were overwhelmed by the blaze’s intensity. Three of the four injured firefighters were helping with rescue efforts.
The homeowner, who escaped her house after smoke poured into her kitchen, declined to comment Friday. Her brother, Randolph Parker, said the family had worried for years that a fire would break out at one of the vacant rowhouses on the block, where some homeless people take shelter.
“Our worst fear has come to fruition,” Parker said.
His sister had just had a ramp installed so her husband could visit from his nursing home. The house, which Parker’s sister has owned for more than 40 years, was still smoldering when Parker left the scene around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, he said.
As a strong scent of ash lingered in the air Friday morning, neighbors in the Woodmere neighborhood walked by to inspect the damage. Several neighbors described seeing a huge plume of dark smoke. The chaotic scene shut down part of West Belvedere Avenue, a busy road that runs past Pimlico Racetrack.
Fire and ATF investigators wore helmets and used a drone to collect footage of the wreckage.
Outside the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Thursday night, members of the Baltimore Fire Department lined up and saluted as an ambulance carrying the body of their colleague crawled down Lombard Street. Other members flanked the ambulance and walked in a long, quiet procession.
The department has emphasized training members in rescue operations since the South Stricker Street fire, and recently budgeted to add four more safety officers to its ranks.
“What I can tell you is we attacked this fire like we attack many fires,” Wallace said at a Thursday news conference. “We had a rapid intervention team in place. We had crews in the front. We had crews in the rear. I’m told some of the initial indicators were that this fire just started to grow very rapidly. They don’t know why.”
The January 2022 deaths of Kelsey Sadler, Kenny Lacayo and Paul Butrim devastated the city and spurred changes to Baltimore’s fire operations, including when firefighters should enter abandoned buildings that are at risk of collapsing.
It also refocused attention on Baltimore’s chronic problem with vacant or abandoned properties that pockmark the city, and in some cases sprawl entire blocks. Since the 2022 fatal fire, Baltimore brought its vacant housing stock to the lowest level it has seen in years.
Thursday’s tragedy came two weeks after the City Council approved Wallace to lead the grieving agency. Former Chief Niles Ford resigned in December after a line-of-duty death report by officials from Baltimore and other jurisdictions publicized organizational and procedural missteps taken by the department before and during the South Stricker Street fire. That month, family members of the fallen firefighters filed a notice with the city of their intent to sue, saying the deaths were preventable.
A Baltimore Sun investigation found that the city’s vacant properties burn at twice the national rate, but gaps in record-keeping limited what firefighters knew before going inside.
James Bethea, a fire lieutenant, died in 2014 when he fell through the floor of an abandoned rowhouse. A fire recruit, Racheal Wilson, died in 2007 during a training exercise when she tried to extinguish a blaze set by instructors in a vacant rowhouse.
“Firefighters are our living superheroes. We don’t expect to lose them,” City Council President Nick Mosby said Thursday. “When they leave their home and say goodbye to their families, they know that they might be met with something that might not bring them back.”
Across the state, more people died in fires from January to March than in the same period each year for the past two decades.
Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer asked for a moment of silence during the City Council’s Thursday evening meeting “for the individual who lost their life, for the other injured firefighters as well as anybody else who is affected by the fire.”
Baltimore Sun reporter Cassidy Jensen contributed to this article.
Here is one of my all-time favorites by him.
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ctclibby
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Good Morning All!
49F @ 73% and clear. Another day up to 71F later.
Got the RV skirted finally. My back has been acting up so I can only do 3 or 4 hours at a time. Lucky I have a young helper that can get down on his knees along with bending and twisting which has helped immensely. Worth every penny of $15 hour. Have to do the two doors and steps today and caulk the top of the metal and the existing screw holes in the skirting then it is a done deal. Had to pull teeth with Maria on the sheeting color. She wanted to paint it another color. Geesh, no time for that so we put up the green stuff. In the end, she decided that it did not look too bad. A few years back we found stacks of green roofing on the cheap. Was about 50 sheets of 8 ft stuff with about 10 sheets of 20ft stuff - $300; was a no brainer. Used all the 20ft stuff a couple years ago and there are about 20 sheets of the 8ft stuff; with some smaller left. Had a blade for the Skil that was wearing so I used that backwards in the saw to cut the metal. No more curf on the saw now as the carbide tips were worn off. Actually I am kinda surprised that it lasted for all the metal.
Got down to the local watering hole for a bit day before yesterday:
Finger Food!
tis the season!
Later
49F @ 73% and clear. Another day up to 71F later.
Got the RV skirted finally. My back has been acting up so I can only do 3 or 4 hours at a time. Lucky I have a young helper that can get down on his knees along with bending and twisting which has helped immensely. Worth every penny of $15 hour. Have to do the two doors and steps today and caulk the top of the metal and the existing screw holes in the skirting then it is a done deal. Had to pull teeth with Maria on the sheeting color. She wanted to paint it another color. Geesh, no time for that so we put up the green stuff. In the end, she decided that it did not look too bad. A few years back we found stacks of green roofing on the cheap. Was about 50 sheets of 8 ft stuff with about 10 sheets of 20ft stuff - $300; was a no brainer. Used all the 20ft stuff a couple years ago and there are about 20 sheets of the 8ft stuff; with some smaller left. Had a blade for the Skil that was wearing so I used that backwards in the saw to cut the metal. No more curf on the saw now as the carbide tips were worn off. Actually I am kinda surprised that it lasted for all the metal.
Got down to the local watering hole for a bit day before yesterday:
Finger Food!
tis the season!
Later
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good morning!
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 66° here. Reached 94° yesterday, and that is the forecast for today. But I won't be here. Leaving in about 30 minutes for the annual trip to Gulf Shores AL. I think that we have everything packed and partially loaded. No need for drinks or snacks, as we generally stop every two hours for the requisite potty breaks. Lunch in Lafayette LA, overnight in Gulfport MS. Tomorrow morning is a visit to the model railroad museum there before making the next leg of the trip to Gulf Shores. It would be preferable to stay in Baton Rouge overnight, but hotel availability and prices keep that from happening due to this weekend being a home game for LSU. New Orleans is not too safe so that is out. During the week next week, I'll be going to another model railroad museum in Foley AL, about 15 miles north of Gulf Shores. Also on the agenda sometime is a return visit to the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola FL.
Adios all. Have a great weekend. I'll check in when I get time. Sorry Sherrel, but probably no bikini pics this time of year.
Adios all. Have a great weekend. I'll check in when I get time. Sorry Sherrel, but probably no bikini pics this time of year.
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Wish it were still around, CURT!
Better known as the "909" from the Collins Foundation which crashed short of the runway while trying to land at Hartford, CT a few years back. I have not heard the details of why and what for?
Apparently some sort of engine, or fuel problem and seemed to have two engines failing on the same side? I think that they just got too slow in the turn lining up - the plane would have been able to fly with only two engines operating!
It was here in Temecula back in 2016 and giving folks rides
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Damn, WILLIE - I was counting on that!
Morning -- Only 84f today after 102f yesterday - quite a drop?
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Bruette
Well-Known Member
All good points Boris!
I recently heard a Baltimore city official on the radio bragging "we are under 14,000 vacant homes for the first time in many years" I don't think that is something to brag about.
Several years ago, Baltimore city was tearing down thousands of subsidized housings. The federal government intervened to stop them until they replaced them. They should have been demolishing vacant homes!
From the Baltimore Sun
NORTHWEST BALTIMORE
Firefighter killed in rowhouse blaze
Four buildings consumed by roaring fire that sent four firefighters to the hospital; two released Friday 31-year-old city native who died had been in active service with department since August
Investigators were on the scene a day after firefighter Rodney Pitts III, 31, was killed and four others were injured battling a fire in rowhouses on Linden Heights Avenue. Pitts was found in the second rowhouse from the left. Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun
By Lilly Price, Lee O. Sanderlin and Dillon Mullan
City officials identified the Baltimore firefighter who lost his life Thursday while battling a fire that ripped through a group of rowhouses in Northwest Baltimore, the latest blow to a department still reeling from the death of three others last year.
Fire officials said Friday that Rodney Pitts III, 31, of Baltimore, died from his injuries after he and other firefighters entered a burning rowhouse around 3:45 p.m. in the 5200 block of Linden Heights Avenue. Four firefighters were hospitalized with burn wounds Thursday, and two have since been released, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said at a Friday news conference.
Pitts had been in active service as a firefighter and EMT since August after joining the department last year. He was stationed in Park Heights on Engine 29.
“I pinned his badge on him in August,” Wallace said.
A Baltimore native, Pitts was eager to serve his hometown, something his family reflected on during a Thursday evening visit with Mayor Brandon Scott.
“That’s what I think we should be talking about. Someone who loved this place so much that they would be willing to risk their life, and, in his case, tragically give his life for this city,” Scott said.
A person who answered the door at a house listed for Pitts declined to comment Friday.
Lt. Dillon Rinaldo, a six-year veteran of the department, remained in critical but stable condition Friday. Firefighter Seth Robbins, a 17-year veteran, also remained hospitalized. Keith Brooks II, a 14-year veteran, and firefighter Tavon Marshall, a 3-year veteran, were treated and released. Turn to Fire, Page 4
“Beautiful people,” an emotional Wallace said. “Deeply hurt. Much like our members are. We’re wrapping our arms around them to support them.”
The investigation into the cause of the fire is being led by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Baltimore Police’s arson and homicide units also are investigating.
One person was taken into custody after the fire but was released after being interviewed. No city leader would say whether arson is suspected.
Pitts’ death comes less than two years after three firefighters were killed and a fourth was seriously injured in a vacant rowhouse fire on South Stricker Street in New Southwest/Mount Clare, a neighborhood in Central Southwest Baltimore. That fire was one of the deadliest for fire responders in the city’s history.
On Thursday afternoon, the roaring fire consumed four rowhouses on Linden Heights Avenue, a block of brick two-story homes with small grass yards. One house is a rental, two are vacant properties, and one was occupied by an owner, according to city housing data.
Wallace said Friday that he didn’t know how the fire started or in which house.
“This particular fire evolved so quickly,” Wallace said. “Our members, whether they’re firefighters or paramedics or EMTs, they make extraordinarily significant decisions on a split-second basis. They do it every day.”
Pitts was inside an occupied house sandwiched between two vacant properties when firefighters were overwhelmed by the blaze’s intensity. Three of the four injured firefighters were helping with rescue efforts.
The homeowner, who escaped her house after smoke poured into her kitchen, declined to comment Friday. Her brother, Randolph Parker, said the family had worried for years that a fire would break out at one of the vacant rowhouses on the block, where some homeless people take shelter.
“Our worst fear has come to fruition,” Parker said.
His sister had just had a ramp installed so her husband could visit from his nursing home. The house, which Parker’s sister has owned for more than 40 years, was still smoldering when Parker left the scene around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, he said.
As a strong scent of ash lingered in the air Friday morning, neighbors in the Woodmere neighborhood walked by to inspect the damage. Several neighbors described seeing a huge plume of dark smoke. The chaotic scene shut down part of West Belvedere Avenue, a busy road that runs past Pimlico Racetrack.
Fire and ATF investigators wore helmets and used a drone to collect footage of the wreckage.
Outside the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Thursday night, members of the Baltimore Fire Department lined up and saluted as an ambulance carrying the body of their colleague crawled down Lombard Street. Other members flanked the ambulance and walked in a long, quiet procession.
The department has emphasized training members in rescue operations since the South Stricker Street fire, and recently budgeted to add four more safety officers to its ranks.
“What I can tell you is we attacked this fire like we attack many fires,” Wallace said at a Thursday news conference. “We had a rapid intervention team in place. We had crews in the front. We had crews in the rear. I’m told some of the initial indicators were that this fire just started to grow very rapidly. They don’t know why.”
The January 2022 deaths of Kelsey Sadler, Kenny Lacayo and Paul Butrim devastated the city and spurred changes to Baltimore’s fire operations, including when firefighters should enter abandoned buildings that are at risk of collapsing.
It also refocused attention on Baltimore’s chronic problem with vacant or abandoned properties that pockmark the city, and in some cases sprawl entire blocks. Since the 2022 fatal fire, Baltimore brought its vacant housing stock to the lowest level it has seen in years.
Thursday’s tragedy came two weeks after the City Council approved Wallace to lead the grieving agency. Former Chief Niles Ford resigned in December after a line-of-duty death report by officials from Baltimore and other jurisdictions publicized organizational and procedural missteps taken by the department before and during the South Stricker Street fire. That month, family members of the fallen firefighters filed a notice with the city of their intent to sue, saying the deaths were preventable.
A Baltimore Sun investigation found that the city’s vacant properties burn at twice the national rate, but gaps in record-keeping limited what firefighters knew before going inside.
James Bethea, a fire lieutenant, died in 2014 when he fell through the floor of an abandoned rowhouse. A fire recruit, Racheal Wilson, died in 2007 during a training exercise when she tried to extinguish a blaze set by instructors in a vacant rowhouse.
“Firefighters are our living superheroes. We don’t expect to lose them,” City Council President Nick Mosby said Thursday. “When they leave their home and say goodbye to their families, they know that they might be met with something that might not bring them back.”
Across the state, more people died in fires from January to March than in the same period each year for the past two decades.
Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer asked for a moment of silence during the City Council’s Thursday evening meeting “for the individual who lost their life, for the other injured firefighters as well as anybody else who is affected by the fire.”
Baltimore Sun reporter Cassidy Jensen contributed to this article.
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Bruette
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Now for some good news.
My old Beagle Tucker is doing well! He was diagnosed earlier this year with Congestive Heart Failure on July 14th. He was sent home taking a steroid to help his heart function and Lasik to reduce the fluid around his heart and in his lungs. He started taking 150mg of Lasik twice a day. We have been steadily able to reduce the Lasik. For the last month he has been taking 50mg of Lasik twice a day. We count his respiration rate as he sleeps. If it remains below 35 consistently, we do not have to increase the Lasik. His respiration ranges in the mid-twenties
This is Tucker when he was young. He looks the same, other than he is turning grey.
To look at him you would not know he had a heart problem. He repeatedly howls at me and bites my nose when I come home as he always has. When he exerts himself, he quickly becomes short of breath, and he has an occasional cough. I'm trying to convince him he is an old dog with a heart problem. but he still acts like a puppy. All in all, Tucker is doing amazingly well.
We miss our Sophie, but we keep in mind she had a long full life and passed away peacefully in bed, asleep. We should all be so lucky. H
Losing Sophie was heart breaking but having her in our life for eleven years was a true blessing.
This is Sophie, sitting next to my wife who she adored.
Now for more good news!
I got a great text from my friend Willy yesterday. He has been in a nursing home after nearly losing his life and a foot. He fluctuates between rehab and to be blunt, being lazy. That is why they moved him from a rehab facility to the nursing home. You give up, they give up on you. Yesterday he told me he is determined to get back to rehab, to use his words "get his fake foot and walk out of this place! I'm not going down without a fight" My reply "Best text ever!"
I'm taking the day off! Amazon is paying too little to get me behind the wheel. I need a break, yesterday was not a great day for me, I feel better today. Besides I need to replace the spark plugs in my Equinox. Need it or not 103,000 miles is enough from one set of spark plugs.
Anybody know the gap for the spark plugs in a 2020 Equinox with a 1.5L turbo? Or do I have to look in the manual?
Our Willie mentioned something about me looking something up. Why would I do that when I can ask you guys? You guys are the best and the brightest!
Have a great day Everybody!
My old Beagle Tucker is doing well! He was diagnosed earlier this year with Congestive Heart Failure on July 14th. He was sent home taking a steroid to help his heart function and Lasik to reduce the fluid around his heart and in his lungs. He started taking 150mg of Lasik twice a day. We have been steadily able to reduce the Lasik. For the last month he has been taking 50mg of Lasik twice a day. We count his respiration rate as he sleeps. If it remains below 35 consistently, we do not have to increase the Lasik. His respiration ranges in the mid-twenties
This is Tucker when he was young. He looks the same, other than he is turning grey.
To look at him you would not know he had a heart problem. He repeatedly howls at me and bites my nose when I come home as he always has. When he exerts himself, he quickly becomes short of breath, and he has an occasional cough. I'm trying to convince him he is an old dog with a heart problem. but he still acts like a puppy. All in all, Tucker is doing amazingly well.
We miss our Sophie, but we keep in mind she had a long full life and passed away peacefully in bed, asleep. We should all be so lucky. H
Losing Sophie was heart breaking but having her in our life for eleven years was a true blessing.
This is Sophie, sitting next to my wife who she adored.
Now for more good news!
I got a great text from my friend Willy yesterday. He has been in a nursing home after nearly losing his life and a foot. He fluctuates between rehab and to be blunt, being lazy. That is why they moved him from a rehab facility to the nursing home. You give up, they give up on you. Yesterday he told me he is determined to get back to rehab, to use his words "get his fake foot and walk out of this place! I'm not going down without a fight" My reply "Best text ever!"
I'm taking the day off! Amazon is paying too little to get me behind the wheel. I need a break, yesterday was not a great day for me, I feel better today. Besides I need to replace the spark plugs in my Equinox. Need it or not 103,000 miles is enough from one set of spark plugs.
Anybody know the gap for the spark plugs in a 2020 Equinox with a 1.5L turbo? Or do I have to look in the manual?
Our Willie mentioned something about me looking something up. Why would I do that when I can ask you guys? You guys are the best and the brightest!
Have a great day Everybody!
Bruette
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Smudge617
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I know this song very well, but I've never heard this version of it.
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TLOC
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Good morning. Late wake up for me at 7:56 this morning. Went to bed at midnight, couldn’t sleep so something I rarely do I went and got my IPadPro. At 3 I was finally tired enough to turn out the lights. It looks gorgeous outside. Bright sun, cloudless sky and its 45f degrees. Mid-50’s is the prediction in.
I posted pictures of some of yesterday’s still in process weathering work in the Continuous Threads…
We have a Hockey game on campus today at 2 and probably an early, early dinner out. Last night’s game saw a win but I fear we lost one of our 4 Olympians, All-American and best player (IMO) to a knee injury. The WIsconsin Badgers when they finally acknowledge the injury will just say lower body. But I think we’ve seen enough NFL injuries on replay after replay to know when a knee is blown. It was right in front of me. Personally it Was a dirty play on a great Sophomore and kid. She along with other members of the team and coach’s wife have ridden the horses here the past few Summers.
In hobby news
LOMBARDHOBBY.COM
at 12:01am Sunday is holding a huge inventory blow out sale. IMO one of the best brick and mortar shops in the country and excellent online with good everyday pricing. They have shut the website down until 12:01 Sunday morning. I had thought about driving down until Terry said it conflicts with the hockey this afternoon. When I said I could go down after the game, I got that look!
Enjoy the day
I posted pictures of some of yesterday’s still in process weathering work in the Continuous Threads…
We have a Hockey game on campus today at 2 and probably an early, early dinner out. Last night’s game saw a win but I fear we lost one of our 4 Olympians, All-American and best player (IMO) to a knee injury. The WIsconsin Badgers when they finally acknowledge the injury will just say lower body. But I think we’ve seen enough NFL injuries on replay after replay to know when a knee is blown. It was right in front of me. Personally it Was a dirty play on a great Sophomore and kid. She along with other members of the team and coach’s wife have ridden the horses here the past few Summers.
In hobby news
LOMBARDHOBBY.COM
at 12:01am Sunday is holding a huge inventory blow out sale. IMO one of the best brick and mortar shops in the country and excellent online with good everyday pricing. They have shut the website down until 12:01 Sunday morning. I had thought about driving down until Terry said it conflicts with the hockey this afternoon. When I said I could go down after the game, I got that look!
Enjoy the day
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Boris
Beach Bum
Yo! Happy Saturday! Still raining, 0.75" Yesterday, 0.60 " so far today. 62°
Louis: The background story about the fire is sad, and frustrating...How do you justify demolishing an owner occupied structure, because of the actions of irresponsible owners in the same row? Some of those 100+ year old structures were built in a way that makes it difficult to surgically remove the vacants, without weakening the retained structures. Another urban dilemma, not thought of a century ago.
Last night, I mentioned work on the layout.
from the work bench. part of the "Penn Steel" Complex. I'm using a Walthers Vulcan Mfg. Cornerstone structure. It resembles the Roebling Works in South Trenton, NJ. Photos of the Penn Steel Complex are non existent. The complex was demolished after a major fire in the '70s.
Meanwhile, further progress on the Tilghman Street Improvements:
The module build goes back to the bench, for now. It was placed to measure clearances.
To be continued.
Louis: The background story about the fire is sad, and frustrating...How do you justify demolishing an owner occupied structure, because of the actions of irresponsible owners in the same row? Some of those 100+ year old structures were built in a way that makes it difficult to surgically remove the vacants, without weakening the retained structures. Another urban dilemma, not thought of a century ago.
Last night, I mentioned work on the layout.
from the work bench. part of the "Penn Steel" Complex. I'm using a Walthers Vulcan Mfg. Cornerstone structure. It resembles the Roebling Works in South Trenton, NJ. Photos of the Penn Steel Complex are non existent. The complex was demolished after a major fire in the '70s.
Meanwhile, further progress on the Tilghman Street Improvements:
The module build goes back to the bench, for now. It was placed to measure clearances.
To be continued.
NorthBrit
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Sometimes you know a train is there even though you cannot see it. It is in the distance at the signal waiting for clearance.
IMG_4224 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_4224 by David Harrison, on Flickr
migalyto
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Love Roy Clark!I know this song very well, but I've never heard this version of it.
2.9M views · 96K reactions | Roy Clark - Folsom Prison Blues | When The Cowboy Sings And Country Music One
Roy Clark - Folsom Prison Blues
Here is one of my all-time favorites by him.
migalyto
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Awesome looking layout looks to be well thought out!
Bruette
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Another complicated problem facing our mostly simple-minded politicians.
KriegslokBR52
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Good noon. Mixed day today, sunny and cloudy, i guess normal for October. Beautiful fall foliage to look at though. Little photo session with what little sun i just had and progress on the L&NE mikado:
Fully painted now, just have to apply numbers to the cab and sand dome. After that weathering and flat clear for protection. Last head light lens and marker lights jewels.
Fully painted now, just have to apply numbers to the cab and sand dome. After that weathering and flat clear for protection. Last head light lens and marker lights jewels.
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