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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo [#welcome] Jimmanley ! you asked how to post pictures, well you do it like this: [img]http://www.railpictures.net/images/u/UP6936A.jpg.71342[/img] well that's a mighty fine locomotive in a lovely color scheme! [oops] phil ! you used the wrong command, instead of the <img src= you should use another command: [ img] http://www.railpictures.net/images/u/UP6936A.jpg.71342 [ /img] and remove the spaces between [ and img], you can find explanation about this and other commands in the * Show Forum Code next to the quick reply box ! have fun ! Ron, congrats on the birth of your new family member ( son or daughter? ) [/quote] Hi Lupo, ThankZ very much for the help with getting the image to show up in my siggy. I hadn't realized what the Forum Code link had hiding behind it, and it didn't occur to me that they didn't use the INTERNATIONAL HTML STANDARD THAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD USES! As you can see, I've now figured out how to use the codes to control the text attributes, and keep trains.com from making my beloved Centennial Z scale-sized on the page. Don't worry, I'll only leave it this big until everyone has had a chance to see the fine detail of this model (note the Floquil UP Armor Yellow on the body and Shiny Silver on the trucks! [:D] Of note, this photo was taken in Alviso, within a mile or so of my office. From the second floor of our building, I get to see EMDs in UP, SP and DRG&W 3 - 4 loco consists pulling upwards of 160 cars, plus the Amtrak trains running between Oakland and LA, and the Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) running between San Jose and Stockton all day long on the very mainline in this image. I'm thinking of naming my layout the TiVo and AlviZo line of the Onion Specific RR. Whaddya think? Bill, if your family still hasn't gotten any satisfaction from the local Maui police, kick it up to Hawaii 5-0 (the State Police) Internal Affairs (IA) and tell them your next stop is with the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the Honolulu FBI office and the Justice Department. One of the things they do is investigate faulty investigations by local and state police. There is a lot of drug stuff going on in Hawaii, especially off Oahu, and it's not unusual for tourists who go off the beaten path to accidently wind up in the middle of someone's secret pot or poppy farm, and they're never heard from again (many are even mined or otherwise booby-trapped). You don't even need to be involved in drugs at all to get killed there. The Feds are much more attuned to investigating disappearances precisely because the locals and state don't want to scare off tourists. Congratulations on the new crew member, Ron! Is it a ticket salesperson, brakeman, conductor, repairman, stoker, or engineer? [;)] Phil, no need for magnifiers when working on Z - just get a teenager to do the hard stuff, like most people do with computers! I am blessed that I still have 20/20 vision at 49, but yeah, an Optivisor definitely helps when you're trying to change out Marklin couplers for MTL (can you spell "sproing"?). Hasta la pasta, Ed! Buenos dias, mi amigo nuevo! ¿No necessita para trabaja, usted? ¿Allí le retiran en México? What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start! What's the difference between a lawyer lying in the road and a snake lying in the road? There are braking skid marks before the snake! What do you call a blonde female lawyer's career? A double boob job! I got a million of 'em. Really! I'll put one in every message from now on! Will that get me five gold stars really fast? Oops! No discussion of stars or Onion Specifc lawsuits here, right? How about something less controversial, like religion and politics??? [:D] We may have something in common, Lupo. My mother's maiden name is Van Saun, and I have been told that we are direct descendants of the founders of the McCormick Spice Company. My parents grew up in Flushing, NY, where there were a lot of Dutch families going all the way back to the founding of New York City, when it was called New Amsterdam (I wonder how many United Stateseans know that?). It's also the site of the old 1965-66 World's Fair and now the Arthur Ashe Memorial Stadium, where the U.S. Open tennis championships are played. On my father's side, he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day 60 years ago, and again at Remagen, Bastogne, and the Bulge. When they liberated the Netherlands, he found a woman about to give birth in a bombed-out cellar, so he helped deliver the baby. When he and my Mom went back for the 25th anniversary of D-Day in 1969, a young woman in her mid-20s sought out my Dad, and hugged him like she would never let go when she found him. She was the baby girl he had helped deliver 25 years earlier, and her mother had told her to find him to thank him. They both cried their eyes out, and my parents were invited to be the honored guests of a party they held in honor of the returning vets. Of the 600 guys in his battalion, only 25 survived the war, and one of the reasons he survived is that he was taken POW by the *** at the Bulge, when Patton's tanks ran out of gas within a mile of reinforcing the 101st. He was shot through both thighs by a 13 mm machine gun round fired by a Panzer tank crew, but miraculously it didn't hit any bones, nerves or major arteries. When he and his squad were taken to the Nazi command post (which they had been reconnoitering to attack later that night - he was a demolitions expert), he and the other wounded men were separated from the unwounded, and sent over to the medical tent for treatment. Allied artillery rounds began coming in, and wound up hitting the middle of the command post, where the unwounded Americans were being processed to be sent to POW camp, killing all of them. So, he survived because he was wounded. He was in an escape attempt and was recaptured, and by the time they were repatriated a few months later, he had lost 60 pounds, because they boiled the potatoes for the ***, then boiled the peelings and gave them to the ***, and they got to drink the water the peelings had been boiled in, along with one of those little European loaves of bread, sliced each day by one of 30 guys who split it up. He said you wouldn't believe how accurate they got at slicing, since the slicer got the last piece, which was always the smallest. He recuperated in time to rejoin the 101st when they captured Berchtesgarten, Hitler's retreat in the Alps. He lived through almost everything described in the book and HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose, and has been back for the 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th (where he parachuted with about 70 other crazy old men!) and now the 60th anniversary, which may be his last, since he's now 82 years old. Anyway, he's over there, and has stayed for a month or so in the past, but has borderline diabetes, and the last couple of trips, he has had to return home a couple of weeks early. He goes to honor all of the guys who didn't make it, and he's now the only survivor in his battalion who made it through the war, who is still alive. Even when he is at home, every evening at sunset, he raises a small toast to his fallen comrades. We're very proud of him, needless to say. One of the reasons I am working on my pilot certifications is so I can fly to visit him as often as possible. OK, I'll step down from the soap box now, and hopefully it's still safe for the next speaker to stand on, now that my big ol' carcass is no longer making it sag so much! [soapbox] A fresh pot is brewin' for you LEast Coasters, courtesy of us Best Coasters, so it will be nice 'n hot, and brewed just right by the time you crawl out of the sack. Have a good drive home from work, Lupo, if you don't work from home. All Z BeZt, Jim
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