Good morning. Started off at
-15 at 0430 but now the sun is up and we are at a toasty +4. Got around an inch build up from overnight flurries.
Louis - Another nice bunch of photos. Here are some more sharks.
Terry - As I mentioned before, car registration up here is also based on the value of the vehicle using the NADA book. No appeals on the tags. After a vehicle is over 11 years old, like my Buick, we can get permanent tags by paying for 2 years of registration. A little sticker over the date saying "PERM". I no longer have to register it. For my classic car, I get the "Vintage" license plates. One time and permanent.
No penalties for not registering a vehicle immediately. Some states do require immediate registering. I won't register a car until it is ready to get on the road. For instance, the date of sale on the title on my '59 Impala was almost three years old before I got tags for it.
Dave - Nice photos. I can appreciate all of the work you've done to get everything period correct. When it come to snow removal in Bozeman, the closest town to us, it is pitiful. They figure that if God put it there, let him take it away. They may plow the main street snow all to the middle of the street. There have been a couple of occasions when the berm got too wide and thy will come out with a front loaded and put the snow on dump trucks. The side streets rarely if ever see a plow. My son lives in town and he had to get 4 wheel drive vehicles to get of of their house.
Karl - Those trucks are really nice. I am drooling. I have a couple of the Mack trucks from Athearn and the detail is excellent. The problem is that they sell out so quickly.
Garry - Another fantastic photo.
Greg - Nice photo of the mine.
I did run trains for quite a while yesterday with the cold weather and I'll probably be back in the train room shortly.
Here's a rail picture for today.
Later