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 Good Morning everyone!Well, Chloe, I need a good and healthy breakfast this morning. No, not that French stuff I had in recent days, but a good old American breakfast with coffee, bacon and eggs, toast and butter, sausages and mushrooms, not to forget the OJ!I went to my house to clear the side walk again. It is covered with a 4 inch layer of ice, which resisted any of my attempts to clear it. A neighbor helped out with a few buckets of sand, so it is not slippery anymore. It still hurts to see the house. I need to find a way to cope with that...It was interesting to read about this ancestry thing. My side is just plain old German, which is boring. My father´s origin is way east in Eastern Prussia. The family tree goes back into the 13th century, when this area was settled in the wake of the Order of the German Knights´ sweep towards the east. The family castle got burned by the Red Army in 1945, so there is nothing left of those 600 years of family tradition. My mother´s origin is in Silesia, now Poland. Silesia was Austrian and became Prussian, when Frederic II. beat up his Austrian cousin Mary Therese of Austria in the so-called 7-year war. In Germany, it is quite difficult to follow your ancestry, as a lot of documents went up in flames during WW II. Only with the help from a guy in Australia, we were able to find the missing link on my father´s side. Putting it all together, I am the offspring of rowdy medieval knights, who spent their time drinking, singing (Carmina Burana - Tom [:D]) and beating up the peasant population of slavic origin. My wife´s origin must be Italian, as her last name indicates. De Gene - from Genova. Her family migrated from Italy to Germany via France and Belgium. They arrived shortly before the industrialization started in the middle of the 19th century. All of her relations have worked with Krupp, since. When I met her, I was with Thyssen, with whom Krupp enjoyed a century old, fierce competition... [:)]Rob - I was quite happy with my BLI SD40-2. I don´t know whether they have one in CSX paint scheme, but I liked the sound. Converting them to DCC was just a matter of dropping in a decoder - took me less than 5 minutes. Factory Direct trains sells them for less than $ 120, plus the cost of a decoder. Athearn Genesis has a SD45-2 or a SD60I in CSX colors, which are just about in the same price range, but without sound. Atlas has a Dash8-40C. There may be more around.Garry - my condolences on your DIL´s father´s passing.  I hope everyone is having a good day!
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