chad thomas wrote: vsmith wrote: gabe wrote: vsmith wrote: chad thomas wrote: gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe Now that's funny!!!! Methinks this RR might also fit in a spare bedroom or basement. My legal department is attempting to use the government's power of eminent domain to acquire the more spacious and dry attic. However, my wife's legal department has since reminded me who truly has the right of way . . . . I think I would much rather deal with the STB any day. Gabe I've been having the same "legal access" troubles myself for awhile now ... Hey, At least you guys have the real estate to get access to.......(apartment liveing sucks)
vsmith wrote: gabe wrote: vsmith wrote: chad thomas wrote: gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe Now that's funny!!!! Methinks this RR might also fit in a spare bedroom or basement. My legal department is attempting to use the government's power of eminent domain to acquire the more spacious and dry attic. However, my wife's legal department has since reminded me who truly has the right of way . . . . I think I would much rather deal with the STB any day. Gabe I've been having the same "legal access" troubles myself for awhile now ...
gabe wrote: vsmith wrote: chad thomas wrote: gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe Now that's funny!!!! Methinks this RR might also fit in a spare bedroom or basement. My legal department is attempting to use the government's power of eminent domain to acquire the more spacious and dry attic. However, my wife's legal department has since reminded me who truly has the right of way . . . . I think I would much rather deal with the STB any day. Gabe
vsmith wrote: chad thomas wrote: gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe Now that's funny!!!! Methinks this RR might also fit in a spare bedroom or basement.
chad thomas wrote: gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe Now that's funny!!!!
gabe wrote: Actually, My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof. It has one heck of a legal department though . . . Gabe
Actually,
My railroad resume is pretty pathetic. I own a railroad, and it routinely loses money. I insist on buying orange and while Illinois Central units even though there is need for considerable track work and siding built for my customers, and the cost of roling stock keeps going through the roof.
It has one heck of a legal department though . . .
Gabe
Now that's funny!!!!
My legal department is attempting to use the government's power of eminent domain to acquire the more spacious and dry attic. However, my wife's legal department has since reminded me who truly has the right of way . . . . I think I would much rather deal with the STB any day.
Hey, At least you guys have the real estate to get access to.......(apartment liveing sucks)
Have fun with your trains
Limitedclear wrote: Two words guys: Steel Building Mine works great. Away from the family, I can put two of my locomotives in it and my office has my law library, a cot and bathroom with a shower if I have "legal" issues at home... LC
Two words guys:
Steel Building
Mine works great. Away from the family, I can put two of my locomotives in it and my office has my law library, a cot and bathroom with a shower if I have "legal" issues at home...
LC
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Real or older men?Sorry, couldn't resist. My Dad tells me much the same thing. However, my first train memories were the orange and while Paducha rebuilds and the axing of the IC line through Mt. Olive, Illinois forever cemented those orange and white units for me. Wabash/N&W/NS just were not the same for me.
greyhounds wrote: Real men buy black with green diamonds.
Real men buy black with green diamonds.
Not sure how that will look on my finger, but hey - anything with diamonds is appreciated!
TheAntiGates wrote: Poppa_Zit wrote: I just like to see a level playing field, that's all. I agree, the White Sox ARE playing like a bunch of girls
Poppa_Zit wrote: I just like to see a level playing field, that's all.
I just like to see a level playing field, that's all.
Although one of the Thought Police here is sure to be quick to point out that the phrase "playing like girls" is not PC.
I never was much of a Sox fan. My Dad was/is a huge Cubs fan and passed on the disease to his sprouts, but the Cubbies have disappointed me so many times over the years I've finally given up. So I just "root" -- meaning if they do well, fine, but if they don't I refuse to let it ruin my day.
Gabe -
Welcome to the short line business. I expect to see you at all the meetings. I need somebody good to spell me on the many legal committees too. We should talk about the many creative ways to run your business...
Having a great legal department counts for more than you think...
I wonder how that goes in Russian?
Just occurred to me…if Mike knows who makes how many posting in what threads, on what subjects…then he would be keeping score, and tracking who post where…sounds like the real thread stalker has come out of the closet after all…
TheAntiGates wrote: edblysard wrote: Better yet, if the priest presents himself as a expert on astrophysics, then his background and education would matter, yes?…or do you routinely hand over a running reactor to someone who only tells you they know what to do in a loss of coolant accident? Not to mention the terror that would accompany turning over a reactor to an operator who's "solution" for problem solving begins with a recital of the lords prayer
edblysard wrote: Better yet, if the priest presents himself as a expert on astrophysics, then his background and education would matter, yes?…or do you routinely hand over a running reactor to someone who only tells you they know what to do in a loss of coolant accident?
Better yet, if the priest presents himself as a expert on astrophysics, then his background and education would matter, yes?…or do you routinely hand over a running reactor to someone who only tells you they know what to do in a loss of coolant accident?
Not to mention the terror that would accompany turning over a reactor to an operator who's "solution" for problem solving begins with a recital of the lords prayer
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edblysard wrote:Better yet, if the priest presents himself as a expert on astrophysics, then his background and education would matter, yes?…or do you routinely hand over a running reactor to someone who only tells you they know what to do in a loss of coolant accident?
vsmith wrote: Just another flamefest, got any hot dogs, someone hide the popcorn machine, Oh Chad?
Figgured were gunna need a few buckets for this thread.
Pathfinder wrote: Randy Stahl wrote: Great ... another thread gone to waste , yet another waste of time about forum members and personalitys, not much useful info here for sure . I'm new here, does this happen a lot?
Randy Stahl wrote: Great ... another thread gone to waste , yet another waste of time about forum members and personalitys, not much useful info here for sure .
Great ... another thread gone to waste , yet another waste of time about forum members and personalitys, not much useful info here for sure .
Yes. However, its nice to see people so passionate about something they enjoy.
MichaelSol wrote:It's an internet phenomenon of the tyranny permitted by fake names brandishing fake credentials when they can't hold their own in a straightforward argument. It's the ad hominem attack allowed to a coward hiding behind a keyboard when he can't articulate an argument or express a reasonable thought. and can get away with anything in cyberspace, hiding behind his fake name. Not a thing fake about my name, location, or the railroad I work for. You met them on the playground. Now they have computers and some allege that they work for railroads although they could work anywhere ....As I have mentioned, in my experience, "real" railroaders are of a different quality than the people who speak loudly to their own credentials here. I've never seen such a smug bunch of self-congratulatory people as this bunch. I am fortunate to have known and worked with the ones that I have -- maybe the quality is declining, who knows? I sure hope these guys aren't the standard. Cant judge, you refuse to tell us what position you held, with what railroad. In any case, judge them by their ideas, their arguments, and their ability to get through a post with their integrity intact. Doesn't happen often with these guys. I am sure knowledgeable people, railroader and non-railroader alike, will post less and less if the penalty is always a barrage of derogatory remarks from a small group of self-appointed "railroaders" who believe it is their god-given right to troll from thread to thread, just to insult people: witness Blysard's comments above, and several other threads I neither posted to nor cared to read. They disagree with some things people say. Most honest people are content to say they disagree. Not that bunch. I think I am probably the only person here who actually stated I didn't know enough about Open Access to have much of an opinion either way on it. Check back if you're curious on Blysard's torrent of abuse to that thought, and his self-righteous and bizarre accusation that the State of Montana wasn't officially doing enough to help Hurricane Katrina victims, and how that was relevant to my "credibility" at the time. I mean, serious screw-loose stuff. Where do you get this nonsense from? You routinly twist what people write to fit your needs, sad.Blysard's obsessed, but I never seem to see him actually argue a proposition, or present a cogent position on any of the few things I ever post about -- primarily Milwaukee, which I know something about, and BNSF, which I follow as an investor. Indeed, none of the gentlemen ever seem to know much at all about my relatively limited range of interests in railroading. But, not knowing something doesn't seem to limit their seemingly endless diatribes -- this thread now standing for their proposition that unverifiable credentials offered under a fake name should be a substitute for knowing something about the topic at hand. Again, where you get this stuff from? Never said that at all, you twist what was said to present yourself as a aggreived party...instead of answering the question asked...LC is right, your table is pretty beat up looking.Many wasted threads from this bunch. Tharmeni, you are absolutely correct, this has become an "ambush" internet forum for these guys. If there were a moratorium on negative postings, they wouldn't have anything to say.
Not a thing fake about my name, location, or the railroad I work for.
You met them on the playground. Now they have computers and some allege that they work for railroads although they could work anywhere ....As I have mentioned, in my experience, "real" railroaders are of a different quality than the people who speak loudly to their own credentials here. I've never seen such a smug bunch of self-congratulatory people as this bunch. I am fortunate to have known and worked with the ones that I have -- maybe the quality is declining, who knows? I sure hope these guys aren't the standard.
Cant judge, you refuse to tell us what position you held, with what railroad.
In any case, judge them by their ideas, their arguments, and their ability to get through a post with their integrity intact. Doesn't happen often with these guys. I am sure knowledgeable people, railroader and non-railroader alike, will post less and less if the penalty is always a barrage of derogatory remarks from a small group of self-appointed "railroaders" who believe it is their god-given right to troll from thread to thread, just to insult people: witness Blysard's comments above, and several other threads I neither posted to nor cared to read. They disagree with some things people say. Most honest people are content to say they disagree. Not that bunch. I think I am probably the only person here who actually stated I didn't know enough about Open Access to have much of an opinion either way on it. Check back if you're curious on Blysard's torrent of abuse to that thought, and his self-righteous and bizarre accusation that the State of Montana wasn't officially doing enough to help Hurricane Katrina victims, and how that was relevant to my "credibility" at the time. I mean, serious screw-loose stuff.
Where do you get this nonsense from?
You routinly twist what people write to fit your needs, sad.Blysard's obsessed, but I never seem to see him actually argue a proposition, or present a cogent position on any of the few things I ever post about -- primarily Milwaukee, which I know something about, and BNSF, which I follow as an investor. Indeed, none of the gentlemen ever seem to know much at all about my relatively limited range of interests in railroading. But, not knowing something doesn't seem to limit their seemingly endless diatribes -- this thread now standing for their proposition that unverifiable credentials offered under a fake name should be a substitute for knowing something about the topic at hand.
Again, where you get this stuff from?
Never said that at all, you twist what was said to present yourself as a aggreived party...instead of answering the question asked...LC is right, your table is pretty beat up looking.Many wasted threads from this bunch. Tharmeni, you are absolutely correct, this has become an "ambush" internet forum for these guys. If there were a moratorium on negative postings, they wouldn't have anything to say.
nanaimo73 wrote: MichaelSol wrote: ...and BNSF, which I follow as an investor. Michael, do you own any BNSF stock currently ?
MichaelSol wrote: ...and BNSF, which I follow as an investor.
Michael, do you own any BNSF stock currently ?
Tharmeni wrote: I think the forum is endangered -- and I believe it's because there are more negative posters out there who seem to lay in wait to "ambush" the topic of a poster. If you doubt me, please read the thread "Another Very Late Amtrak Today" . It's a legitimate topic, but poster Mr Runyon's only contribution was to criticize it. When I called him on it, he took off after me. Which I found sad, frankly. If my son, a budding railfan, was to post "What's the difference between a GP-7 and a GP-9?", I suppose some would jump all over him for asking a stupid or basic question. But we need all postings. Even the basic ones. That's how we grow, folks. How about a moratorium on negative postings? That way, we would encourage others to join in without the danger of being cut apart.
I think the forum is endangered -- and I believe it's because there are more negative posters out there who seem to lay in wait to "ambush" the topic of a poster.
If you doubt me, please read the thread "Another Very Late Amtrak Today" . It's a legitimate topic, but poster Mr Runyon's only contribution was to criticize it.
When I called him on it, he took off after me. Which I found sad, frankly.
If my son, a budding railfan, was to post "What's the difference between a GP-7 and a GP-9?", I suppose some would jump all over him for asking a stupid or basic question. But we need all postings. Even the basic ones. That's how we grow, folks.
How about a moratorium on negative postings? That way, we would encourage others to join in without the danger of being cut apart.
Tharmani appears to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Case in point: Refer to how he jumped on a posted on 23 July at 4:31 AM:
"Re: RE: RE: Breaking, Breaking News about Amtrak Cuts on Monday July 3, 2006.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really sick of this post.
Conrailman, if you are so fact-based, how did you post, way ,way back that these cuts were "coming on July 3" and then base it on an article you adamantly say was published on July 17th? I'm really tired of this. Others have said it before, but get the facts before you open your mouth."
Hmmmm.... I don't know about you guys, but it appears that Tharmani was criticizing a fellow poster.
Just thought I'd point that out.
MP173 wrote:Question:What is the difference between a GP9 and GP7?Some would answer 2 (9-7=2). Others would say 250 horsepower. Others would say that neither is a valid locomotive because __________(fill in the blank). Others would say that neither filled it's potential as a locomotive because they were not used on Open Access lines. Still others would simply say..."it doesnt matter because I enjoyed watching the train too much to care."We are a nerdy group (self included). But, we love trains....some of us more than people it seems (not me).ed
Sadly, the difference nowadays is set by when Gillette got the steel. It is either a 3 or 4 blade device for scraping your face in the morning...
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