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Why can't they use the same tracks that Amtrak's Desert Wind used to use between Los Angeles and Las Vegas (Nevada)? I visited a friend in Las Vegas (Nevada) back in 2017, taking the Southwest Chief from Chicago to Kingman, Arizona and then a 15-passenger van from Kingman to Vegas. I was the only pa...

Are you modeling every 2-bay covered hopper in the AA prototype fleet? :wink: yet another Ann Arbor Railroad 2-bay covered hopper (I only have 45 of them now), The old Ann Arbor Railroad had around 200 2-bay covered hoppers. Maybe someday I'll have models of all of them! But besides the AA 2-bay co...

I only made it to the show at Saline Middle School on Sunday. Other members of Rails on Wheels who were selling stuff at that show said they sold a lot more stuff on Saturday, and other vendors had the same comments. I was happy, though, I managed to buy 3 HO scale school buses that will be used on ...

Yes, forests are a renewable resource. If a lumber company "clear cuts" a forest, they will replant seedlings so the company can harvest a future crop of trees. I also always like to mention to folks that think we shouldn't cut down trees that they shouldn't live in a house or an apartment that was ...

I saw a link to this story at Dave Barry's blog. It seems a raccoon got a certain part of its anatomy stuck to a railroad track during cold weather, and some humans freed it using warm water and a shovel. Read about it at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11648477/amp/Raccoon-stuck-railway-te...

I quit giving any of my money to Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum way back in 2005. There used to be a monthly contra dance (it's sort of like square dancing) at Lovett Hall. But then in 2005, some idiot in management at the museum canceled the contra dances, thinking they could make more money ...

Also, when a driver would be killed at an auto race, they continue the race after any fatal accident. But then again, folks are probably more used to deadly crashes while auto racing than while playing football. On the contrary, most auto races involving a critical injury or fatality are then termi...

As I recall, when Chuck Hughes of the Detroit Lions collapsed on the field back in 1971, the two teams finished playing the game after Hughes was taken off the field. And it seems weird that players get upset when a player gets injured or has a medical condition when playing football, especially bec...

There is a bizarre story about how one man assaulted another at https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/police-mans-ear-and-face-chewed-off-in-oregon-train-attack . "Police in Oregon said a gruesome attack on a train left a man with his ear and part of his face chewed off." Another link to this story is at...

Unfortunately, our Rails on Wheels model train show was smaller this year, but that seems to reflect that model railroading seems to be slowly fading away. At least I had fun running my model trains at the show, plus I did get a teen-aged relative of my girlfriend to attend, and he also had fun runn...

My "dream" vehicle would be a minivan body that would allow me to load a 4x8 sheet of plywood inside and be able to close the rear lift-gate. It would also have a 7-passenger capacity for when I wasn't hauling wood products or other cargo. The engine would have 1970s engine technology, i.e., NO engi...

I'm guessing that goat and cart are in front of the old White Cloud, Michigan, Pere Marquette Depot. It is on the west side of Michigan's lower peninsula, north of Grand Rapids.

Garry K

I saw a link to this on Dave Barry's site, where some brass horn players echo the horn from a locomotive. Amusing.

https://laughingsquid.com/brass-quintet ... ith-train/

Garry K

Hey there, fellow foamers! After a one year hiatus, the Rails on Wheels train show is back for 2021. It will be (as usual) at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds at 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road, about 4.5 miles south of I-94 (exit 175). The show is on Sunday, November 28, 2021. The show runs from 10:00...

There is a bizarre story at https://news.yahoo.com/woman-tied-dog-dragged-death-203918105.html about a woman who was killed by a BART train in San Francisco. She had tied her dog's leash to her waist, but when she left the train, the dog stayed on the train, and so apparently when the door closed th...

Dang it! You should have issued a "First Class Beverage Alert" so people won't be eating or drinking anything while watching that video! By the way, that video was great! When Beavis and Butthead were first on TV, I thought it was just a stupid cartoon. I tried to watch them a few times, but I would...

There is an article (dated April 15, 2021) about the CSX bridge over Ann Arbor Road in Plymouth Township at https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news ... 187240002/.

That bridge was built in 1938.

Garry K

Interesting story at https://breaking911.com/2-leftist-women-arrested-on-charges-of-terrorist-attack-on-a-railroad/ about a couple of left-wing radical women who were tampering with BNSF tracks. But you have to love the author/editor of that piece who use "breaking" when they should have used "braki...

Dang it! Peter Green has died. Green was a blues guitarist and one of the founding members of the Fleetwood Mac band (when they originally played blues). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559849/Fleetwood-Mac-founder-Peter-Green-dies-aged-73-family-concern.html Back in the late 1970s, my (th...

OK, so I just switched my preferences to prosilver, and it is not much better than the default. Now (with prosilver), there is gray text on a light blue/gray background. Still not enough contrast for my old eyes to read easily. PLEASE add an option so I can see BLACK text on a WHITE background. Than...