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 Goood Morning,the night was a short one, got up at around 2 am and could not get back to sleep. Chloe, mind if I have one of your dark roast, eye-oping and heart shaking coffees, with a breakfast bagel to go with it? Thank you.Todd - I may be a big guy, but I am not strong enough to topple a SD ??? loco. Interesting picture, John - what made the loco turn over?Ray - if you don´t mind, the picture is somehow not right. That Y-shaped plume looks a little odd to me. In the steam days - and I was lucky to see quite a bit of steam powered trains in my youth - there was always a cloud of steam in the tunnels, which got shoved out by the following train. Railroad men called it "The Plug". It would cloud the loco´s  smokebox - kind of "flowing" around it. It was usually not dark, but whitish in color. Unless there was a grade in the tunnel, engineers would close the throttle and let the train drift through the tunnel, in order to avoid excessive smoke. Shortly before leaving the tunnel, they´d open up again, so the exhaust would go straight up.Here are some more pics for your inspiration:<img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/23385875.jpg" mce_src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/23385875.jpg" width="500" height="375"><img src="http://www.hsb-wr.de/hsb_barrierefrei/lib/img/fotos/impressionen/avi_tunnel.jpg" mce_src="http://www.hsb-wr.de/hsb_barrierefrei/lib/img/fotos/impressionen/avi_tunnel.jpg" width="240" height="180"><img src="http://www.farrail.net/bilder/romania/viseu-tunnelausfahrt.jpg" mce_src="http://www.farrail.net/bilder/romania/viseu-tunnelausfahrt.jpg" width="345" height="512">Hope, that helps.Last night, I was following up on the thread on David Letterman´s statement about model railroading. Sheesh, what a nonsense! Is it really important, what other people think about our hobby?  In that respect, I seem to live in heaven. We even have a weekly TV program called "On Small Rails". It is a 30 minute show, where layouts from people of all walks of life are shown and the latest developments and products are presented - a joy to watch! I don´t know how big MR´s circulation is, but the leading magazine "Der Modelleisenbahner" (the Model Railroader) sports a circulation of over 200.000 copies each month. You can buy it at any gas station. Germany was, and still is, a railroad minded nation and despite all troubles caused by the demographic development of our society and the recent financial crisis, model railroading is still a multi-million Euro business. Marklin´s 2009 sales amounted to about $ 150 M. If you add up all sales, including magazines and whatever, that figure goes well beyond $ 500 M. Not many other hobbies can sport these figures here in Germany Petra is calling me - we need to go shopping. Christian is joining us tonight, so Mom has to feed her little son!CUL
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