Tom Trigg
Have fun with your trains
QUOTE: Originally posted by Curmudgeon 1957 XK-140MC, drophead or roadster....
QUOTE: Originally posted by TurboOne Evening all you car lovers. Lets throw in our favorite cars. Old or Classic version - - - - - - 69 Mach One....................ahhhhhhhhhhhh New Car - - - - - - -Jaguar XkR convertable....................a very sweet ride at 130mph But like vic if I hit the lottery (that I don't play) Fords GT40...true AMERICAN power....with the big rumble to go with the car...rode in one with the brother in law, he is a Ford Sales Manager, had one for two days............wish I got to drive it but riding was ok... Getting ready to drizzle here, glad I don't have the snow you nor' easterners and canadians are getting. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Take care all, Tim (land of sunshine and honey)
QUOTE: Originally posted by ttrigg Vic My wife went off the deep end when she saw your sig. pic. She brought out her copy of the Mt. Lowe Trolley. She was very disappointed to see that her copy was B&W where yours is "colorized". I can remember one time as a kid, we took the red P.E. Cars from where we lived in south central LA to the mountains and the observatory. Too bad it is only a memory and no longer there to be enjoyed again.
QUOTE: Originally posted by tangerine-jack ............................................... In the end, however, they are all junk.[xx(]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Torby Or that Hitler wasn't such a bad fellow, once you got to know him?
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
QUOTE: Originally posted by tangerine-jack QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Hi Jack DDSL sounds good, if your going to use the Confederate flag that one is better than the stars and bars, can have alot of negative baggage with that one if ya know what I mean. Only negative to those who insist upon speaking out of ignorance and distorted history. The "war of Northern agression" was fought because of the crushing economic and political terrorism of the North 9(see "Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea" for a clear example of who the aggressor was). Southern States, by constitutional right, could at any time leave the Union, and felt that the time had come to do so. As thier grandfathers threw off the British, they would throw off the North. Slavery was issue number 472,604, the war was the second American Revolution, nothing less. Virginia in fact seceded from the Union, but didn't join the Confederacy until some months later. It's all water under the bridge now and we have a solid sense of what the United in USA means (after a few hundred thousand dead) As far as the "stars and bars" being used by intentionaly stupid people to propigate lies and hatred, isn't the Christian cross and the US national flag also used by these groups? Yet these symbols aren't associated with misguided history or hatred. I'll never understand why the ignorant wi***o single out just one battle flag when there were literaly hundreds in use. The "stars and bars" was the battle flag of Robert E. Lee, the only officer ever to have graduated from West Point with NO demerits. He believed in the Union, and turned down command of a Union Army as he felt it wasn't right to be fighting against his homeland. Lee was clearly the best general to have fought in the war, but his cause was doomed from the start due to manufacturing and supply problems from the economic opression of the South for 80 years by the North. Next thing you know, we'll be hearing that Cleopatra was black, and we were wrong to fight the Japanese in WWII. I wonder how the people of Nanking feel about that? Ok, I'm not getting political, just relaying factual history. Do with it what you want.
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Hi Jack DDSL sounds good, if your going to use the Confederate flag that one is better than the stars and bars, can have alot of negative baggage with that one if ya know what I mean.
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