Good morning, y'all. We have weather at the Jersey Shore too. 50° and wet with sporadic rain squalls . How's that for being poetic?
Believe I'm caught up with the forums.
Louis: Guess Athearn has run out of standard color schemes to do, so they are coming out with oddballs. Oddly enough, the cab appears to be done in Conrail Blue. Different if nothing else.
Willie: While I no longer have any real interest in football, I was attracted to the whining sound coming from Cleveland, concerning Art Modell's moving
"HIS" team from Cleveland to Baltimore where they became the Ravens. They need to get over it. They still have a team called the
Browns.
Interesting factoid, the Cleveland Browns were the second Major league professional sports team named the "Browns" to relocate to Baltimore and be renamed for a bird. the first was the St. Louis
Browns who became the Baseball
Orioles. Also, when counting Championships, remember Baltimore also had a
Grey Cup winner, the
Stallions, which filled the need between the Colts and Ravens. No other American city can claim that.
On the financial front, while I need to rebalance my Portfolio, I have no intention of selling and locking in my losses. Short term investing is a gamble, and what we are seeing is short term speculation and short selling, in an effort to make a fast buck by panicking retail investors. Over the long term, buy and hold makes more money. We saw this panic in 2008, and we should have learned from that, as it was not so long ago. My cash position is too high, considering that money market yields are still too low.
M
ark: I fully agree with your comments about football, but I'm surprised that while you live in the
"State of Hockey", you are interested in
"Beisbol".
BTW, your local team the "Twins", was the original Washington Senators owned by Calvin Griffith. The second Washington Senators, became the Texas Rangers.
In addition to my interest in Railroads and Model Railroading, I am also somewhat of a "Fire Buff". I follow my old employer, the Chester, PA., Bureau of Fire, through the IAFF Local site, and a site that transmits real time fire dispatches from the county 9-1-1 center. Sometimes, my interests cross paths, like yesterday afternoon, when there was a small fire along the roofline of a 100+ year old riverfront industrial structure that houses a paper packaging company. The structure is located adjacent to the ROW of the Conrail Chester Industrial Track, which happens to be the line I am modeling. Someone took some photos of the fireground operation and was kind enough to upload them to the IAFF web page. The photos show a great deal of structure detail and industrial background, which can be very useful to a model railroader.
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Note the stone foundation, bricked up windows and doors and fencing across the old upper story freight doors of the structure as well as the roofline. Also note the tedious aftermath as the firefighters break down, and repack the water supply and attack hose lines in the aftermath of the fire.
Could this be the start of another challenging modeling project?
Boris
