I have enough trouble remembering my real aliases, I don't need to add any new ones to the mix.
chad thomas edblysard Oh man, I hate that...12/31/58...and you get the "doubled up" gift thing from the cheap realitives..."Merry Christmas, oh, and happy birthday too!" (gee, thanks a lot, Mom) Mine should be plain and easy to figure out, my real name with no space between...and it is pronounced Blizzard, like the snow storm. Murphy Siding trainfan1221 Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever. Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas. I got you a combination gift. -Signed 12-19-60 Thanks for clearing that up Ed, I've wondered about that before.
edblysard Oh man, I hate that...12/31/58...and you get the "doubled up" gift thing from the cheap realitives..."Merry Christmas, oh, and happy birthday too!" (gee, thanks a lot, Mom) Mine should be plain and easy to figure out, my real name with no space between...and it is pronounced Blizzard, like the snow storm. Murphy Siding trainfan1221 Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever. Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas. I got you a combination gift. -Signed 12-19-60
Oh man, I hate that...12/31/58...and you get the "doubled up" gift thing from the cheap realitives..."Merry Christmas, oh, and happy birthday too!" (gee, thanks a lot, Mom)
Mine should be plain and easy to figure out, my real name with no space between...and it is pronounced Blizzard, like the snow storm.
Murphy Siding trainfan1221 Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever. Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas. I got you a combination gift. -Signed 12-19-60
trainfan1221 Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever.
Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever.
-Signed 12-19-60
Thanks for clearing that up Ed, I've wondered about that before.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
edblysardOh man, I hate that...12/31/58...and you get the "doubled up" gift thing from the cheap realitives..."Merry Christmas, oh, and happy birthday too!" (gee, thanks a lot, Mom) Mine should be plain and easy to figure out, my real name with no space between...and it is pronounced Blizzard, like the snow storm. Murphy Siding trainfan1221 Mine is my Birthday and the reason I'm here. And a tendency to not be able to come up with anything more clever. Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas. I got you a combination gift. -Signed 12-19-60
I get the same thing.My birthday is 12-8.
selector I posted a response (or seem to recall doing so) several days back, but it doesn't appear. Oh, well.... I was in HR, and specifically in Personnel Selection, in the Canadian Armed Forces. When I signed onto the forum a few years back and began to learn terminology in the modelling world, I saw that there was such a thing as a selector. So...........c'mon..........you can do it! -Crandell
I posted a response (or seem to recall doing so) several days back, but it doesn't appear. Oh, well....
I was in HR, and specifically in Personnel Selection, in the Canadian Armed Forces. When I signed onto the forum a few years back and began to learn terminology in the modelling world, I saw that there was such a thing as a selector. So...........c'mon..........you can do it!
-Crandell
( Sorry. The made me do it!)
Murphy Siding Mookie Mookie - a back door foundling cat that was very special to us. Garfield has Pookie; we had Mookie.(Actually her real name was Abigail (Abby), but she wouldn't even look at us when we called her that. She would actually come to "Mookie".) No doubt! Abigail is a little formal for a cat, don't you think? In my best English butler accent: " I dare say, Abigail, may I interest you in some Kibbles-N-Bits, and perhaps a spot of tea before your first afternoon nap?"
Mookie Mookie - a back door foundling cat that was very special to us. Garfield has Pookie; we had Mookie.(Actually her real name was Abigail (Abby), but she wouldn't even look at us when we called her that. She would actually come to "Mookie".)
Mookie - a back door foundling cat that was very special to us. Garfield has Pookie; we had Mookie.(Actually her real name was Abigail (Abby), but she wouldn't even look at us when we called her that. She would actually come to "Mookie".)
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
I'm sorry - I must have been out watching butterflies or looking for 4-leaf clovers....I missed this post altogether!
Blysard - Ed, I still think you should go with the French sound - Mr. Bly-zard is out in the yard, checking his giz-zard......
Also a December b'day 12/7 - also relatives and friends that thought combo gifts were cool. And my day is a lot farther away from Xmas!
Avatar - from Brother Carl. I loved it the minute I saw it.
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al-in-chgo Doublestack Ahh - Murphy's got you there. See pg 1 - about the 7th posting down - about two posts above some feller named Al from Chicago. You'll find the Murphy bio there. Guys - thanks much for sharing. Very interesting crew here. Good company to be amongst. I'm still waiting for Chris CopCarSS and Mookie to confess regarding their handle...... Thanks, dbl. Sorry, Murph. - a.s.
Doublestack Ahh - Murphy's got you there. See pg 1 - about the 7th posting down - about two posts above some feller named Al from Chicago. You'll find the Murphy bio there. Guys - thanks much for sharing. Very interesting crew here. Good company to be amongst. I'm still waiting for Chris CopCarSS and Mookie to confess regarding their handle......
Ahh - Murphy's got you there. See pg 1 - about the 7th posting down - about two posts above some feller named Al from Chicago. You'll find the Murphy bio there.
Guys - thanks much for sharing. Very interesting crew here. Good company to be amongst.
I'm still waiting for Chris CopCarSS and Mookie to confess regarding their handle......
Thanks, dbl. Sorry, Murph. - a.s.
Doublestack I'm still waiting for Chris CopCarSS and Mookie to confess regarding their handle......
Both have owned up before - Chris's is self explanatory if you've followed popular police cars over the years. Long-time Diner denizens will recognize "don't miff the cat!"
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
baberuth in honor of my favorite baseball player, Joe Jackson. 73 is the year my daughter was born.
I want the record to reflect that Murphy Siding answered the post immediately above his, but did not explain his own online name for us.
Mine is pretty obvious.My favorite railroad is Southern Pacific,and I have been known to foam at times. (Especially around steam).
Well I am a Rock Island Fan, so why not Route Rock?Its the last scheme I saw.The picture is a favorite of mine.It is called in her front yard and was taken in the Burlington Iowa area.I traced the old line out a bit and wound up turing down the road to that house. So when I saw the pic I had to have it. Still looks the same but the little girl is probably in her 30's now lol.
Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train
The choice of my screen name seems just a natural off shoot of my interests. It's been an interest in automobiles since I was a youngster and that dates back many years....Actually, I seem to be one of the most elder members on here...
Seems strange even saying that as my thoughts and interests don't seem {to me}, to reflect such....But we'll accept it.
The railroad interest goes back to my childhood too and remains today or I probably wouldn't be on here.
An offshoot of the automobile interests now is die-cast model cars and somehow that became the screen name and even my {automotive}, Avatar. My truck was a previous photo and now our current auto.
We're from western Pennsylvania originally and have been here almost 50 years and was associated with a large {automotive}, company for 37 years for employment. My part of it was prototype work with automotive power train testing and development of products.
Quentin
As some of you know, I'm tall (6'5"). I ran track and cross country in high school. During the "break" between cross country in the fall and track in the spring, we did "winter track" - mostly workouts, no meets. If the weather was nice, we might hit the back roads for some distance training, but most of the time it was running in the hallways, which fortuitously included one complete loop that we could use for longer distances.
It was during one of those workouts that I was running with the shortest guy on the team. The gist of the conversation is lost to time, but during it, he was looking for a put-down and referred to me as "you - big - tree". I rather liked it and adopted it as a unique nickname. So much so that there are a few people who would readily recognize the nicname "Tree" but not my real name.
Since I was a member of the great Class of '68, I appended a 68 to Tree (although I was referred to only as "Tree.") and have used it ever since. I was going to let it drop after high school, but when another member of a theatre troupe I was involved with while in USAF shared my first name, I resurrected "Tree."
My use of "Tree68" as an Internet handle dates back to the early days - as a subscriber to "Delphi", an early dial-up service. I was active on a couple of "usenet" forums even then.
Handle or"Screen name??
What makes us pick?, So the input here is pretty interesting. The name? The Avatar? Reading posts here over time gives us some individual insight, and the ability to PM others provides a more broadening experience. Each brings a body of experiences that makes for interesting exchangeds.
As you might expect, Mine is relatively self-explanatory...samfp1943..Name and Birth year..I guess I'm too old to hide much.. Twenty years of "looking at the world through a windshield," with the CB radio,and the AM/FM sucking IQ points continuously,as well as health issues, has made me want to know who I am, lest I forget!
A railfan most of my life, growing up on the IC bypass in Memphis, and observations as I traveled from the Mid -South to the Northeast. Now finally getting settled here in SouthCentral Kansas, a quartermile off the BNSF's Transcon, more trains than one could hope for accompanied by horn music from the 5 crossings within earshot...It is amazing how so many similar locomotives can have so many different sounding horns; let alone individual techniques for blowing the required signals. The first night here about midnight two trains passed each other at the highway crossing...not being familiar with double track operations; I thought I was going to see the aftermath of a terrible crash- PHEWWWWWWEEE!
P.S. My Avatar is the GM&O's Ingall's Diesel....An Idea that only birthed one example and I got to see many times as it seemed to live between Jackson,Tn and Corinth, Ms.
al-in-chgoJohnny, that question sounds an awful lot like algebra, but putting what you said together you are a very early Baby Boomer
Baby Boomer? When I was in the first grade, my youngest brother (fifteen months older than I), the Methodist pastor's son (about my age), and I fought (at home, of course) in the first year of WWII, calling ourselves "The Three Commandos." Knowing that the Japanese were, generally, physically small, each of us considered himself equal to a Japanese soldier. We weren't so gung-ho after about six months.
Johnny
Deggesty al-in-chgoFWIW I'm a very old 53-year-old. Why, Al! what will you be when you reach my age? Remember, I left Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee before you heard of the place. Johnny
al-in-chgoFWIW I'm a very old 53-year-old.
Why, Al! what will you be when you reach my age? Remember, I left Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee before you heard of the place.
Johnny, that question sounds an awful lot like algebra, but putting what you said together you are a very early Baby Boomer. At my father's funeral in 1986, his ex-boss said to me, "You know, there are the young people like you who get away at the first opportunity and then there are those who you can't drive away with a stick!" I was on my best behavior so I answered "Yes."
al-in-chgodocumenting or writing an autobiography
Thank you for your suggestion. That is precisely why I bought my first computer for home use back in 1996. My sister had been suggesting it for a long time as well. But life is what happens while you are making other plans and it just never happened.
Now I am really concerned about what is being lost. I have started several posts on this forum only to realize I longer recall all the relevant information, or if I know where to look, it would take too long to find before the members here have moved on to other things. And my mother's health has begun to slip to a point where I can no longer reliably use her as a fact checker. if you take my meaning.
I do wish there were the same number of active participants on the CLASSIC TRAINS forum as there are here because these discussions are a great way for me to draw out facts and ideas I otherwise would have forgotten. I hope both forums keep operating for a long time.
AgentKid
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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