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Just want to wish all the Dads in the cofffee shop a wonderful Happy Father's Day. I had a great day- started out with a big breakfast, followed by a nap, got up watched the U.S. Grand Prix from Indy, then another short nap, until dinner was done, and it was exceptional. Spent an hour on the phone w/ my 19 yr old son and had a good talk - the kind every Dad hopes they can finally have w/ their teenager. The wife presented me w/ a huge 1/8 scale 1932 Ford Revell model car kit (350+ parts, and it builds out to approx 30" in length). I'll need a dedicated shelf just for it. (As if I don't have enough distractions w/ model trains, model cars also compete for my time.) Am looking forward to spending a week w/ my daughter and her family in San Jose this Sept. It's been quite awhile since I've been back to the left coast. I just hate to fly anymore. When I was in the semiconductor business I was on a plane about every third day, and sometimes in two or three cities a day, skipping across the USA, for all of North America was my responsibility. It got so my love of airplanes evolved into a total dislike of flying, and that was way before the increased hastle and trepidation of flying in a post 911 world. One day I just 'called in sick' and never returned to work. I had had enough. Now I'm my own boss, although my wife would disagree. Sure do miss the financial ability to walk out of every hobby shop I visited with yet another toy ! Guess that's how I ended up with an engine roster for whatever railroad's paint sheme appealed to me at themoment of purchase. Most of those acquisitions are going to the next swap meet, so I can get serious about modeling a prototype. Finally. Has anyone ever attempted to design a model railroad around a particular engine paint treatment, or worse yet, several railroads that didn't interchange, or necessarily exist or operate in the locale you're modeling? Yeah, I've even tried to rewrite history, or create crazy leased pool power arrangements, or fabricated fictitious mergers, or lay new trackage sometimes thru mountain passes that don't exist in an atlas! Like trying to rationalize incorporating the Rock Island early "Route of the Rockets" paint schemes for freight and the Seaboard's 'citrus' colors for passenger E units. . . Or justify Baldwin Sharks and Heislers in north Georgia. Or worse, how to incorporate a port scene in the north Georgia mountains ! You know, I'm apparantly not used to all the sleep I've had on and off today, for I'm just aimlessly rambling, so I'm going to put some coffee on - it's only 12:30 am or so, and get back to sorting out the 'puter, and drive that targetword/information search thingamajig doohickie straight to hell. If I can, that is. . . Hope you folks had a great day ! BILL
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