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Good Morning All: The latest post on "Ivan" shows him going in on the Fla-Ala line at 2:00 AM thursday morning. With winds at 160 right now it's going to be really bad. Dave9999 is right in the path. The good or bad (?) thing is that with every projection the path moves farther west. It started out going up the west coast of fla and is now 100+ miles off the coast. The Cowboys lost [V] yesterday and that makes for a bad monday. Ed: I like your pictures If I take some of mine you and John are going to have to tell me how to post them. The jar lids were the right radius for the curves on the conrtol panel not the layout. Mrs. "T" pointed out that all of the other curves here just 15 degree angle lines so why put in the totally curved section. Good idea but train running got in the way and nothing got done. Trainsource was owned by Renny, Matry and Zoe. Zoe wanted out to open a bonzi store so Renny bought her out. They hired Ben to manage the shop and through some past decisions they couldn't make the shop a go. It ran for over seven years. Ben bought out Bobbie Hall's in Dallas and opened Papa Bens with the customer list and hired Renny, Marty, Tom, and I can't think of the part time guy who has since retired, to work in the shop. Renny has left but Marty, and Tom are still there. As a matter of fact Marty is working on a PFM Southern PS-4 ( see Tom, I like Southern also) that broke a drive line and I sheared a screw trying to take the boiler off. It's one of my locos that's sounded and I've got a passenger train of hwts for it. Wayne moved Bellaire roundhouse in there hopping to pick up some of their business, needless to say their is bad blood between the two shops. At Papa Bens i feel like a friend and at belaire I feel like an intruder. How many people go to the shop in a 45' motorcoach, but then I am totally ignored. As for the open house - I didn't want to show the layout without the top loop being done so I passed on this year but next year........ I'm going to put some scenery down this week as I've got several places where the trains have been running for a while and haven't given me any trouble. I had a chance to see Burl Ives before he died and enjoyed his concert immensly (SP). Where did you retire from that you got out so early? Tom: I trust that you enjoyed the today in Chattanooga, as many times as I've been there, I've never had time to go to NMRA. The ABBA's run fine, now you know that only two of them are powered. The other two are dummies. I have a room air conditioner in that room so I don'e have to cool the whole upstairs and when it's running all of the Genesis sound quite. When it's not on they have a little sound but nothing I can't live with. John: ameliorated What in the world is that? Is it a real word? As far as the pictures being the last place that you looked - why would you keep looking after you found them? Mrs. "T" says time for work so I've got to go. Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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