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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...

Folks, you should NOT post the ID or password to any online conferences, ESPECIALLY not for Zoom conferences! There are a lot of miscreants on the Internet who are searching for those conferences, and who will then log in and disrupt things by posting all sorts of objectionable material. It's called...

The NMRA has a "bare bones" web page about DCC at https://www.nmra.org/beginners-guide-command-control-and-dcc . The Wikipedia page has some basic info, even with diagrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Command_Control . Spruce Crafts has some info at https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/digital-...

Robin Seymour has died at age 94. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/17/iconic-radio-dj-tv-host-robin-seymour-dies-94/5158326002/ For those who are too young to remember Mr. Seymour, or who did not grow up in the Detroit area back in the 1960s, he was a DJ on local Detroit...

Stirling Moss, ex-Formula 1 driver, has died at age 90. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/formula1/stirling-moss-death-age-cause-f1-racer-dead-a9461296.html A video tribute to Moss at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVpg5ubvyM . (Why do they always have to put stupid music in the bac...

Mort Drucker died at age 91. He was most famous as a Mad Magazine artist. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/obitu ... 111529684/

Garry K

Nice video. Thanks for posting! Seeing the Bluewater Chapter cars in that video also brought back a lot of memories of steam trips sponsored by Bluewater.

Garry K

There is an interesting video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdGE3a31uJQ that is called "LMS Men of the Footplate." It shows some of the various jobs that are needed to keep steam locomotives running in Great Britain circa 1939.

Garry K

Al Kaline's obit at The Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2020/04/06/al-kaline-mr-tiger-and-baseball-hall-famer-dies-85/2956782001/ . My first baseball glove in the late 1950s was an "Al Kaline" model. It was one of the old, flat "pancake" gloves. As a kid, I used to ...

I used to ride the Bob-Lo boats when they used to go to Bob-Lo Island. When you would return to Detroit on a boat at night, sometimes you could see them dumping slag on/near Zug Island. It was cool at night. Naturally, back then (1960s/1970s) we had no way to film that at night, not effectively, any...

Whether or not they find that engineer "insane," it is clearly an attempted act of terrorism. They should fry that idiot.

Garry K

Heck, I'm so old I can remember when Kenny Rogers played psychedelic rock with The First Edition. In particular, he/they had a hit with "Just Dropped In (to See what Condition My Condition was in)." Video of that tune at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k . Of course, that video is entirely...