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Recent comments
- TheChairman said Continuing the rail discussion a bit more… Union Pacific has been busy in Arizona; they are preparing to build a large classification yard in Pinal County, roughly midway between Tucson and Phoe...
- Parrott said Plate warmer is good. My parents have one. I remember when I was in high school my mother saving a plate of food when I was late with after school activities and worked in the evenings at the gas stat...
- Fred Stiening said I wish I was half the man of Cigar Dave.
- Parrott said Hey Fred: CP is the guys with the ‘Beaver’ as the logo. CN well was a crown corporation. I think they were always the parent of GTW. That Hunter Harrison guy that passed a few months...
- Parrott said Thats cool CC. My parent had a microwave that had that heat sensor on top of the oven area, that opened and would not let the Microwave start up. I replaced that for them, it was a $6 part, that I h...
- Fred Stiening said Maybe we should become a rail talk blog 😉 I’m a little fuzzy about the distinction between Canadian National and Canadian Pacific – I think they may have trackage rights on some of track....
- CC1s121LrBGT said I’ve really commenting on Fred’s comment but can not reply to it directly: >”The Canadians have greatly decomplicated Chicago and reduced the need for humping / classification y...
- Fred Stiening said Between the consolidation and container freight, the logistics have gotten much simpler. Efficiency is not so much about “shortest distance” but reducing the time things are not in motio...
- Fred Stiening said Is this where we bring up the body part dressed in military fatigues and the Arab looking guy seen with McVeigh? I miss Chuck Harder.
- Fred Stiening said The most important thing to know is that it is not for cooking. The temperature on high is only 200°, too low to boil water. In my experiment, I still cooked the waffles in the toaster, and put some...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Interesting. I love this “general purpose” blog! Great conversation about all kinds of things. I had never considered buying one of those, and in fact, just this week repaired my microwave...
- CC1s121LrBGT said An update 23 years later was actually published the day of our comments above. http://theantimedia.com/oklahoma-city-bombing-story/
- Parrott said Thats cool, Chairman you need to get May issue of Railroad and Railfan. Santa Fe warbonnet returns. Early Nineties feature with red and silver pre-BNSF. i don’t know, but did the ATSF really...
- Parrott said Nah not a car. Its a Golf ‘drive’ . But I laughed when I saw that video again of ‘Fool me twice’ Here the one for the golf drive : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm9788...
- Fred Stiening said My 25 year friend from Chicago and I just talked about these things. His (deceased) wife and grandmother both had these, which he wound up with and likes, although they were much more useful for a f...
- Fred Stiening said Although his time has come and gone, Newt Gingrich would be my choice for best Presidential candidate. For best actual President in my lifetime, I would choose Richard Nixon. Yeah, I know that puts m...
- Fred Stiening said I plead lack of sleep. I have said before that the best thing Barack Obama did was to prevent John McCain from becoming president. Kind of like Mary Jo Kopechne and Ted Kennedy. I don’t pin my...
- TheChairman said Fred, you’ve always kept me guessing as to whether you are an independent, moderate or social conservative… no matter, I was fairly certain you weren’t a supporter of Hillary or Oba...
- Parrott said yeah I agree, I voted for Palin, unfortunately McLame was on the ticket. McCain was establishment. He is still establishment likes big government. Love the pic of him in Syria meeting with Isis....
- CC1s121LrBGT said For the sake of the other cars on the road, I hope he was getting into a fully autonomous vehicle and just a “driver assist” vehicle. 😉 Cue Roger Daltry. 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
- CC1s121LrBGT said For the sake of the other cars on the road, I hope he was getting into a fully autonomous vehicle and just a “driver assist” vehicle. 😉 Cue Roger Daltry. 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
- TheChairman said The two party system is wholly reinforced by the media… whenever there is hint of a -real- 3rd party, the MSM dutifully goes on the attack by saying “you’re throwing away your vote.&...
- Fred Stiening said I cannot tell you how disappointed I was with “W” Bush, even though I voted for him twice. Countess and I recently watched a fictionalized movie about the 2008 collapse, told from the per...
- Parrott said Oh, to follow up on my previous post, just to clarify: I would be lighting the cigar because it is finally warming up, somewhat ‘Spring’ around here finally. NOT because of the former l...
- Parrott said You know what today is ? 20/APR/2018 well its smokee Mary Jane day, walk out of school to protest reality, and it is also that previous leader of Germany during WWII, birthday. wouldn’...
- Parrott said Hey, I saw on Brietbart that Beck is still losing cash. “Glenn Beck Selling His Private Jet as His Media Empire Crumbles” I tried last week or week before last and he was still a never T...
- Parrott said “Now stand back and watch this drive !” – George W. Bush
- CC1s121LrBGT said To be clear, although I like to kid around, I was not kidding in any way regarding the direct quote above from George W Bush. Here is is speaking them in his own voice on video: https://www.youtube.co...
- CC1s121LrBGT said That is a good article by the Independent in the UK. A very tragic situation with unnecessary loss of life including children in both Waco and at the revenge site of Oklahoma City. No winners in this...
- Fred Stiening said Here is a fairly balanced synopsis https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/waco-tv-series-siege-truth-what-really-happened-david-koresh-branch-davidians-cult-fbi-paramount-a8179936.html
- CC1s121LrBGT said I don’t believe Reno actually said that, but it is what she did. She used a fate anonymous tip that the children were being exposed to illegal drugs (Remember this was immediately after George...
- Parrott said Thats just as bad as the real estate infomercials on the weekends here on the local cumu-lost station, that are pretending to be a news show. They are horrible. Just turn the station off if thats...
- Fred Stiening said “We had to kill the children in Waco to save them” – Janet Reno
- CC1s121LrBGT said “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system” – George W. Bush
- Fred Stiening said now they have 4 hands to play bridge We went to see Chappaquiddick on Monday afternoon and it occurred to me the similarity between the Bush and Kennedy families _ how the desire to freeze out competi...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I’m not really a train buff, but one of my brothers has been and has set up his childhood train set in a spare room. It used to be under our family Christmas tree in the late 60s and early 70s....
- Fred Stiening said As a child I remember going to the basement of the Buhl Planetarium on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Each Christmas Season they had a model railroad club in the basement with a huge Lionel layout. I...
- CC1s121LrBGT said The hungry Chupacabras are circling The Bushes. What will Saddam say?
- Fred Stiening said 65 year old Harry Anderson (Night Court) is now doing card tricks for Art
- TheChairman said My preference was for Santa Fe and Western Pacific. In fact Parrot, I never got very far with big layouts… my life (career) has been rather nomadic, and moving every ~5 years isn’t really...
- Parrott said Hey Chairman, thats cool. What roads did you mainly model ? I mainly stuck to Western Maryland, Chesapeake and Ohio, and some Southern. I have a lot of Norfolk & Western, it just seemed to show...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Parrott, Good news about those lots filling up. Don’t look back at NoVa in the read view, or God may turn you into a pillar of salt. 😉 If you can take I-81 all the way to Roanoke and then US220...
- Parrott said I heard that CC, last Monday. I was driving to Mordor ( NOVA) and you can start to pickup WMAL AM 630 around Woodstock VA. on I-81. His show was coming on and he started talking about Mike McKa...
- CC1s121LrBGT said “If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?!” With a spork, can we cut our meat? The Brits love thei
- CC1s121LrBGT said As an engineer grounded in science and with a degree in business, I was always 100% fact based until I first heard Art Bell in 1994 or 1995. He was my introduction to “social media” throug...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Nothing wrong with saying anti-Christian things, anti-Muslem things, anti-Jewish things or whatever your personal belief system is. I don’t think Savage ever encouraged beheadings, suicidal bom...
- Fred Stiening said This is a fuzzy memory, but Savage had been on some Salem stations and he was booted off. It may have been his vile personal attack on Anne Coulter for having the audacity to state that people of her...
- CC1s121LrBGT said We saw Larry’s Elder and Kudlow take the Salem route. Who would have expect that of the three, only Salem wouldn’t go up in smoke? Salem has been acquiring and is in most big cities now....
- Fred Stiening said Michael Savage works for Cumulus via Westwood One. Talent contracts can be terminated by the Cumulus bankruptcy proceeding, and Savage is sending out signals that this fact is becoming apparent to h...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What about sites that only have a twitter page? I have found a few. They mostly fall into one of two categories: broadcast stations in third world countries that have limited budgets; and streaming on...
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Monthly Archives: April 2018
A Life Changer
Back when I was a young man, I gave my sister one of these. At the time, she was recently married with her first of three children. With a husband who might have to work late, or when she had … Continue reading
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Milepost for the future of AM
One of the stations that Entercom acquired from CBS Radio is WJFK-AM in the Washington DC beltway. The class B signal solidly covers all of D.C. and can be heard as far North as Baltimore and South to Fredericksburg. So … Continue reading
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Yahoo updates its TOS
Yahoo is now owned by Verizon, of course. The lawyers have gotten around to screwing over their customers, probably partly because of the new European privacy rules. Yahoo has an abysmal record on security, which I can attest to personally. … Continue reading
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Mignon Clyburn heads for the exit
The daughter of Jim Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the US House has quit the FCC Commission. Her only other credential to being on the FCC commission was that she ran a weekly newspaper targeted at getting black South … Continue reading
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Art Bell finds out the truth about Chupacabras
The Nye (NV) Sheriff’s Department is reporting that 72 year old serial talk show host Art Bell was found dead at his home on Friday the 13th. An autopsy will be performed next week.
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The fate of the Imus Ranch
Don Imus frequently talked about and raised money for his ranch in New Mexico. It was organized as a non-profit in 1999 for the purpose of housing children with cancer during the summer. He built a 21,000 square foot home … Continue reading
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New York City retail is dead
https://nypost.com/2018/04/07/the-worlds-hottest-shopping-city-is-becoming-a-ghost-town/ The New York Post story blames Amazon, not the Socialist mayor and former mayor Bloomberg. The current socialist mayor has gone so far as to suggest landlords who leave storefronts empty be hit with an extra tax possibly because … Continue reading
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Siri has a new boyfriend
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17195076/google-ai-chief-john-giannandrea-joining-apple-machine-learning-siri Siri is probably my biggest disappointment on the Apple devices I own. What Siri does works based on Apple’s servers, not on the device itself. While that requires that the device has Internet access at all times, it means … Continue reading
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Will Trump destroy Amazon?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/04/trump-amazon-washington-post-jeff-bezos-217774 This article on Politico predicts that President Trump going after Jeff Bezos is going to backfire – that too many Americans like Amazon. We like watching movies on our TV for $4 making our own popcorn, and we like … Continue reading
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The new focus
Hello, fans of SRGuide… The past few weeks, I have been working on slimming down the directory to make the work required a little more compatible with marriage. I’ve removed the disclaimer about the directory not being maintained, but maintenance … Continue reading
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