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I'm at my parents place this weekend, and its dipping down to 7 degrees at night. Gotta plug in the block heater to keep my car from going to the great scrap yard in the sky.

Hostling a 40-2. Bored with a camera phone. Switching. That should be enough for the next year.

If you realy wanted to get finnicky, you could limit trains with over 100 tons per operative break (TOB.) MY BNSF SSI has these limited to 45 MPH. Empty coal can operate at track speed, solid military trains at 55mph, trains handling empty cars limited to 55 mph (Except passenger cars, coal...

Wow, I haven't been here for awhile. My RR still sits as the Plywood Pacific since I've been busy with work and 1:1 scale. A few from a recent weekend working on SP 4404. 1. Charlie and myself taking a break. 2. Me working on a governor. 3. "Scene of the crime"

I've been trying to work on my layout, but the frigid (-10 degrees F) temperatures have been keeping me in the house trying to keep warm.

No train stuff for me. Got a turntable for my records, some books, the Office (US and UK versions = SWEET!) and some heavy duty work clothes I've been neeeding. Oh, and a pay cheque to go buy needless train stuff for my layout.

We have a snow storm moving in here thats supposed to last 2 or so days and leave 16". So I'll bundle up inside and spin some vinyl on my new turntable. That is, until I go to work tonight :( Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...

In transporting hazmats by rail: Cars have to be a certain distance from the engine to protect the crews. Also, at initial job training, crews receive hazmat training and the like. In solid hazmat trains, there is usually a non hazmat car (Generally an empty boxcar) seperating the loco from...

Evidently coal is a hazardous commodity :)

Its time to get the Led out. Led Zepplin :)

One word, WOW. I could see him flipping the switch for that, as the entire town's lights go dim.

The SD9 is owned by the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. www.wplives.org I don't know what the colors will be returned to. Me personally, would like to see scarlet and grey.Since it is an SD9E, it had the added paper filter box added during the GRIP which makes it visually...

Sleeping, eating, working :D I do some resotoration work on the 1:1 scale stuff. That is, when I have the time and finances in order. My pet project right now that has been going on for a while is working on a Southern Pacific SD9. See below...

Heres a picture I took on my way down the mountain from work at about 7:45 this morning. Looking from the top of the tram out over Lake Tahoe. My 'office' with a view. We just had a storm roll through. Forecast calls for 6" or so tonight. My 'office' with a view. I apoligize for the poor...

Saw that on the Weather Channel. They showed one picture of an side of a brick building ripped off. Is it common for tornados in the UK?

Goede morgen! Is it the 7th already? By George it is. 65 years. Its 12 degrees F here, guess I'd better bundle up today. Oh, and congrats Luc :)

Yes. My mother's family is Dutch. Last name Vos from up North in Friesland. I'm SLOWLY learning the language. So perhaps in 10 years I'll know how to ask: "Where is the Railway Station?" :D

I guess you could say I'm on Euro time sleep wise. I seem to get up in the afternoon here, and go to bed in the morning. The things I do to make a living :) Oh well... If I ever plan on traveling abroad, I won't have to worry about jet lag.

Goede morgen from the sunny (yet freezing) California Sierra Mtns.

I believe they are now owned by Athearn and run under the Genesis line of F units.