Good morning.
58 degrees with clear skies to start off the day. The forecast high is supposed to be in the low 80's.
Car talk, love it. Right up my alley. In 1987, the Buick Grand National was the fastest production car in the US. They could eat Corvettes for lunch. The 3800 engine is one heck of an engine, basically a Chevy small block with 2 cylinders lopped off. Throw a super charger on them and they could scream. My Buick is no race car by any means, but is a great highway cruiser. Decent performance and excellent fuel mileage. GM with all of their knowledge discontinued it and replaced it with a 3500 engine which couldn't hold a candle to the 3800.
ACL-CSX - Always liked the Nova. The one in your photo could use a little love. I did a restoration on a '75 Nova in the mid 90's, upgrading the suspension, brakes and engine and put one heck of a nice custom paint job on it for a friend here in town. I think he would give a kid away before he would part with it.
Toot - The Holdens were some cars. It's a shame that they ceased production. I believe that they pretty well ruled the Super Car series in Australia. They were brought over here as the Pontiac G-8 and when Pontiac ceased production, it was rebadged as the Chevrolet SS.
NASCAR ran the body style until last year. With the Holden no longer in production, NASCAR is now using the Camaro body design. I got to drive a Chevy SS a few years ago and it was scarey fast. A Corvette in a sedan body. What a sleeper.
It was very busy at the club last night with all of the tourists in Livingston. A lot of rail action. Passed an eastbound tank train on the way over to the club and a westbound coal train was leaving westbound when I got to the club. When I was leaving, another coal train was leaving westbound and on the wast side on the pass, the eastbound tank train was in a passing siding and on the west side of the pass, a grain train was also sitting in a passing siding. Ken
D&J, if you want to see some rail action, you should check things out here.
I was running my Atlas RS-1 as usual last night. Here it is in the Gardiner loop. Pulled in here to pick up a couple of box cars and drop one off.
For a rail photo today, here is one of the many mini scenes on the club layout. Some prisoners are pulling up some old track.
Later