Hey, thanks Cliffie! I just subscribed.
Didn’t know this existed.
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Neil,
It’s the knowing nothing part that is the most difficult and incredibly exhausting/draining and Roosters brains ain’t that big to begin with.
However I’m using what I was taught by my elders!
" In case of an emergency you always evacuate the women and children first. This way the men can come up with a resolution in silence! "
It has worked so far and I’m sticking to it! I have always said old guys freaking rule but right now I don’t have time to stand in line for breakfast at a diner while jingling my pocket change talking about the price of gas in 1979. Jimmy Carter is dead man and God bless him!
I want my little simple world back right now that’s all. I did get my business shop books closed out for the year now I need to decide on…ahhhh it don’t matter cause this post is USELESS anyway… 
That make sense?
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Perfect sense - for a Rooster that is…
I lost my stepfather and fellow train nut last June. I can only observe that the wobbles get less with time.
Neil
We’re behind you Rooster. Always thinking of you. Hang in there, ya know that poster with the kitten hanging from a branch.
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Used to hate the end of the year books and prepping for taxman, add onto it losing someone so unexpectedly, that just compounds every little frustration. Maybe you need to take a vacation, go do some Trainspotting or get Hollywood to go with to look at some old iron! Prayers to you and the family
It’s in the plans but right now I need to stay at home stay focused and entertain myself on the side.
So the boy and I did this today…I got my foster dog for the weekend just for a little break…
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Finally I have something suitable as a useless post for the majority of LargeScale Centralians.
Get Amtrak's USA Rail Pass for Nearly Half Off in January Flash Sale | Frommer's.
The RailPass is a good way to bop around the US on the cheap, but it has a couple of restrictions, coach seats only, and have to start your trips in 120 days of purchase, then you have 30 days to finish your 10 segments, did it a over decade ago and it was quite fun
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Wow. That changed my life.
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Well back on topic:
If following along on my “useless posts” some may or may not understand whats going on in 's life currently. However I/we the boy and I executed a total unexpected plan for things that needed accomplished it in less time than expected while having to visit Newburgh Ny
However I used my evil and petty rooster brain and added in some short visits to see a couple things while there. Moodna Viaduct was 10 minutes from the hotel.
Stewart airport was right behind the hotel so the boy and I sat in the parking lot drinking beer on the tailgate of my truck watching the jets come in one by one freezing our butts off while relaxing after a days work in NY.
Then we headed home totally over loaded with two vehicles and a car we needed to bring back in heavy wind/snow squalls. I had to stop and visit a buddy of mine as he was only 20 minutes south off I-84.
Was thinking about a lot of you guys on here as I headed up and down I-81 north and south through Pennsyltucky coal county. BD …would have been foaming at the mouth.
It was nice seeing my buddy Shawn ( I’m a ʎssnd) Viggaino today. Ain’t seen him in person for like forever and ever and ever ( I think that is a Taylor Swift song he listens too as I saw the CD in his Jeep along with midget clown …ahh never mind …He’s even hiding a layout in the basement!
Ralphie the rail scale made his appearance with Grover and Boomers Rooster and he even signed my ass that is on the tender.
Just another useless post but the pictures tell no lies like stupid amtrak build logs.
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It was a very tramatic day for me seeing Rooster enter into Jersey, undercover. Good thing border patrol let him into Jersey. It took years for me to get un corrupted from the last time I saw him. I could sleep all night. I was glad he brought his walker with him and even got to see his son beat him up. I was going to run a live steam train for him but I didn’t think he was ready for that yet so I opted for a battery powered steamer.
I guess it was good to see him. He had a few more gray hairs. I’m glad he stopped by its been too long.
Thanks for the visit my friend great memories were shared !
Honestly since the boy is home I feel you didn’t scar his mind to badly when you ran through the snow squalls wearing nothing but your snow shoes and spiderman thong on backwards!
Hollywood still thinks Greg was a highschool quarter back.
BTW… We are not " Jersey Limp Wristed " in Pennsyltucky and know how to pump our own gas without an attendant!
On a side note “Orange County Choppers” old facility was just to the left in the parking lot at the hotel. It’s now a U-haul dealer.
Uh, if it’s in North America, why does it have buffers??
Just askin’, David Meashey
Now I’m wondering… What’s the actual difference between a buffer car and a baggage car?
Well Bill somehow you really did it this time. You unzipped my fly to Hollywood and you didn’t even know it!
Furthermore now I’m gonna have to dig my Horizon car plans/notes back out cause I always wanted a dinette in my fleet.
Short answer is:
A baggage car is scratch built but a buffer car is purchased from a manufacturer like Aristocraft.
Hope that helps
David,
The same reason it has pickup skates. And to think you battery powered guys have been tearing them off for years! ALL My models still have them and I knew they would come back into fashion someday!
Well today is the day !
Can I get an Amen!
OK Rooster;
AMEN! Problem is, that’s a prototype locomotive (& I can’t see any skates). Also, I only have one battery locomotive (to keep something moving while raising steam), so not sure who is implicated by the battery comment.
Regards, David Meashey
