Uncle_BobI'd offer my take on taxes, but that would necessarily get us into politics, and we know what happens next.
LIONs do not pay taxes. Of course, nobody ever gives the LION any money. At least they feed him.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
We had a couple snakes that used to live in the shed out back of my parents' house. They did a decent job of keeping the mouse population down. After the snakes died, the vermin population in the surrounding houses went way up.
MOH hates the spiders we get in the house. I'd rather deal with them than bats. We've had 4 or 5 bats in our house, though none recently *knock wood*.
I'd offer my take on taxes, but that would necessarily get us into politics, and we know what happens next.
Off to get ready for the arrival of my wife's new recliner in her reading room. Later.
Good Morning —
I recall seeing photos of the Troy Union Station area and the overhead signal tower straddling the tracks which I thought was a neat detail and something that would make for a neat scene on a model railroad:
Troy_PC by Edmund, on Flickr
I have seen something similar on George Selios' layout. That plus the buildong backsides and alleyways abutting the tracks really makes an interesting scene. The train shown here must be the NYC/D&H Laurentian.
Across the Hudson from Troy is the huge Watervliet Arsenal. Been there since 1813 and turning out armament and the "Big Guns" for naval and shore defense.
Wvlt_gun16 by Edmund, on Flickr
In my former occupation, a Millwright at GE, I worked on a pair of these 16"/45 Mk 5 guns that were removed from the battleship Colorado (BB-45) and modified for use as high-pressure sintering vessels.
GE in July 057 by Edmund, on Flickr
This photo, grainy as it is, shows one of the big 16s loaded on a pair of PRR F22 flat cars for transport. The gun barrels were made at Bethlehem Steel and sent here for finishing.
PRR_F22_W-vleit-NY by Edmund, on Flickr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watervliet_Arsenal
Cheers, Ed
Heartland Division CB&Q. . .I had a boa constricter in college. His name was Edgar Allan Boa. . .
That's awesome!
Richard
Good Morning All,
Just a regular to go please, I already took the CFO to real brekkie. No pet snakes though there is an amusing family story of my dads bus ride home from the Bridgeport post office with a rattler in a box. The snake subsequently escaped in the house much to the consternation of my grandmother.
I meant the UConn Huskies of course though we had a couple of huskie mixes among the mutts we've adopted. Debs and Molly were the best dogs ever along with Rupert and the CFO and I still miss them. Absolutely loyal and fearless if they thought the kids were being threatened.
Bear, I have been to that part of NZed but didn't realize the history of the area. Rotorura is where the side load container trailer company was based that we visited trying to see if we could get a US DOT spec setup. At $250,000.00 it was too dear to consider and the whole idea got shelved. If we were to start over, it is the ideal way to go either with 40 or 53 ft containers instead of the huge expense of a semi trailer for each big car. The first trip we spent a day driving through the forest parks southeast of Taupo. 145k of windy gravel and dirt - what's not to like? Took three trips through the car wash to turn the rental Holden back to original blue from stone grey. We also visited Mt. Egmont which was still active. Quite the treat. I think you win the prize for the best workshop ever.
Well still redoing brake shoes and a trailer roof today so into the shop it is.
Chow, J.R.
SeeYou190 Uncle_Bob Busting your chops, but you know Athens > Gainesville. . You must be talking about Gainesville, Georgia. Just down the road from Athens. I would have to agree with you. . -Kevin .
Uncle_Bob Busting your chops, but you know Athens > Gainesville.
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You must be talking about Gainesville, Georgia. Just down the road from Athens. I would have to agree with you.
-Kevin
Uncle_BobBusting your chops, but you know Athens > Gainesville.
Living the dream.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Oh you had names for your snakes. Now I'm starting to get this.
This is a hard act to follow but I get it somehow. If you see him slither enough you will miss that snake when he doesn't slither anymore.
Kind of like the botfly from South America that laid eggs on the back of my neck.
When they took over my head I really missed them when I got rid of them popping out of my head.... just kidding... that is a true story though just glad it didn't happen to me. I still don't get the snake thing though.
TF.
Favorite snakes, Favorite dogs, well Hmmm which do I like best?
I may just have to discuss everything tomorrow with everyone just to see what everyone thinks about this. I just really don't know.
Are you kidding me Kids
Well Hmmm
Track Fiddler
Good evening.
Henry ... Beleive it or not I had a boa constricter in college. His name was Edgar Allan Boa. I had similar experiences as you. Thinking back, it was a dumb idea to own one.
After moving to this home in KY, we had a pair of black snakes on our property which we called Charles and Camilla. They were about five feet long. They did not bother us, and we did not bother them. They did a good job of keeping unwanted small critters away from the house. Unfortunately, they were killed by workers building a house next door which bothered us a lot.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I will go along with that. I like an Eskimo, a Malamute, a Samoyed, and a Husky. My favorite dog was the malamute that had one brown eye and one blue eye. But that doesn't leave out my favorite Samoyed she was special, I loved that dog. I used to call her fluffy. Okay I'm done here.
TF
Just so long as said dawg is a Huskie
I am easily led Uncle Bob and like where I'm led to...... Go Dawgs wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf..... I'll see your Woof and raise you a Wolf. Only from Minnesota
GO DAWGS GO..... TF
SIC EM!!
Steven Otte All I gotta say is, it's great to be a Florida Gator.
All I gotta say is, it's great to be a Florida Gator.
IT'S GREAT
TO BE
A GATOR HATER!!
GOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!! SIC 'EM!!!
WOOF!WOOF!WOOF!WOOF!WOOF!!
Edit: Busting your chops, but you know Athens > Gainesville.
The speak of of taxes here sucks rocks.
Maybe it's something to be kept to ourselves for hard enough to deal with. The mention of that word always goes south in most of our books.
This is a nice place to be. A place of serenity. Maybe we should keep it that way.
I don't think anyone comes to this forum to gather more stress.
Good Evening All,
Sparky. I'll pass on the beer Ken but I'll toast your health with a glass of Cabernet. We are well beyond just going in to do our taxes with all the business entanglements. Be interested to see how it goes this year.
Finished W**k early and spent some time fitting and fixing the rest of the throat to the main yard. Not sure yet what the final configuration will be to the engine service area, I have two tracks to the turntable/roundhouse/backshop plus two around the structures and a back door to the back shop. There is room for another turntable lead but with only three round house bays I am at risk of making a spaghetti bowl so I am thinking I'll pass. The only thing I might like is a way to go from the main yard runaround to the service side without having to go all the way back to the entrance to the yards. It's difficult as the main yard is almost 1/4" above the service area. Not going to lose any sleep over it though.039
Think I'll just hang here for a while. Chow, J.R.
BigDaddy I bought a boa constrictor for around $14 circa 1970 and named her Eve. Fed it mice and at the time, I didn't feel bad for the mouse. You feed it once a week, it poops once a week, the perfect low maintanace pet. We didn't keep our house all that cold in the winter, but the snake would stop eating in the fall and the mouse would chew on the snake. Despite a 15w light bulb in the cage, the snake wouldn't eat until spring. My future ex-wife made me give it to my college roommate. He lived in Connecticut. The power went out one night and the snake froze. Had he thought of it, he would have brought the snake into bed. Snakes are happy to sleep with a warm person. She grew from 15" to about 4.5'. She only bit me once, when I forgot to feed her.
I bought a boa constrictor for around $14 circa 1970 and named her Eve. Fed it mice and at the time, I didn't feel bad for the mouse. You feed it once a week, it poops once a week, the perfect low maintanace pet.
We didn't keep our house all that cold in the winter, but the snake would stop eating in the fall and the mouse would chew on the snake. Despite a 15w light bulb in the cage, the snake wouldn't eat until spring.
My future ex-wife made me give it to my college roommate. He lived in Connecticut. The power went out one night and the snake froze. Had he thought of it, he would have brought the snake into bed. Snakes are happy to sleep with a warm person. She grew from 15" to about 4.5'. She only bit me once, when I forgot to feed her.
This is exactly what happened in New York City. And since we are all dining here, I might as well elaborate.
The New York sewers are like a jungle they say. Many people get sick of their pets, alligators, boa constrictors and whatever else you can think of. When they get sick of them they flush them down the toilet.
I would hate to be a guy like Norton from The Honeymooners and have a job to go down in that sewer jungle to fix things
Pick me...pick me TF
Sparky Rail Harmless Garter Snakes both times, but yuuuuck!
Harmless Garter Snakes both times, but yuuuuck!
Welcome to the forum Sparky.
I'm with you. I don't like any snake at all out-side of the house and certainly not in-side the house
BigDaddyShe only bit me once, when I forgot to feed her.
You're lucky she didn't put the squeeze on you.
Hi, Sparky!
Sparky RailOne day I was emtptying the basket from the central vac unit. It is bagless, so you can see everything in it, and I simply dump it in the woods.
My central vac vents to the outside. Do you suppose there was any way the snake could have slithered in through the outside vent if the damper was stuck open or the screen missing? Just maybe?
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and leave a Stein outside for Ulrich.
Taxes, things did not go that well. Seems my wife job is to keep me confused and she does it Well! She said she had some needed paper work so I did not look for it. Guess what? Yep, next Friday back to get the taxes finished at 9:00 AM again!
Train Front Went to K-10 Model Trains today if I could donate some stuff to be given away to kids for free. Ken (the owner) showed me this little box and said "put them here" I looked at Ken and said "you are going to need a Bigger Box!" The donation will be mainly cheap LL rolling stock from when I first got started and not knowing any better.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
I found it.
By-Polar
Is the mink pen near Polar Wisconsin. I always get my drinks for free there the whole night. It's my brother-in-law's cousin that owns it. I guess that makes him my cousin-in-law.
The man is great. Every time we go there he tries to take us in the back room and get give us t-shirts, sweatshirts and hats. We already have those, .... we're good.
The funniest thing is when we drink for free all night we leave tips on the bar. Tuba takes the tips reaches in his wallet and adds a 20 and tries to give it back to us and pay us for drinking there. Are you kidding me, Who does that? Of course we always give it back to him.
Sometimes this man makes more money on the weekends then he does with his bar. He caters chicken every Saturday and Sunday and has someone else run his bar during the day. We have been down there and helped him make it and ate it. I don't know what he puts in it but I think one of the ingredients is white pepper and the other, buttermilk. Whatever it is it is good He once said the recipe is so simple, I like to keep things simple
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good evening gentlemen, first time posting here.
Snake in the house story 1- One afternoon my daughter calls me and says there is a snake in the house. I rush home from work and turn the house upside down looking for it, but can't find it. I had to go to bed knowing there's a snake in my house. Couldn't sleep a wink. Wife comes home from work late that night, and she goes out to the hot tub to unwind. Shortly after she comes in, I hear the cat going nuts at the rear sliding door. When my wife came in from the tub, the snake tried to get out, but only made it halfway thru the sliding door before she closed it, so the cat was having a field day with the back half of the snake!
Snake in the house story 2- One day I was emtptying the basket from the central vac unit. It is bagless, so you can see everything in it, and I simply dump it in the woods. Yup, someone vacuumed up a snake, although to this day my wife and 3 kids say they know nothing!
BroadwayLion Track fiddler It's those brown bears you have to worry about. Grizzlies and Kodiaks. You DON'T shoo those away with a broom. They would much love to eat you as just to look at you. Polar Bears are not bad, but you do have to watch out for the bi-polar bears. Photographed in NEW YORK! NYC Bronx Zoo! ROAR
Track fiddler It's those brown bears you have to worry about. Grizzlies and Kodiaks. You DON'T shoo those away with a broom. They would much love to eat you as just to look at you.
Polar Bears are not bad, but you do have to watch out for the bi-polar bears.
Photographed in NEW YORK! NYC Bronx Zoo!
That's funny stuff Lion.
I will give you that. I have seen there is such a thing, you are exactly right
Just wait, I got to go look for it.
Track fiddlerIt's those brown bears you have to worry about. Grizzlies and Kodiaks. You DON'T shoo those away with a broom. They would much love to eat you as just to look at you.
Ok then. When I was stationed at Homestead, we stood watch at the antennae array out in the swamps southeast of the base. Going for mid watch was always interesting as the gators would frequently crawl onto the blacktop and snooze to stay warm at night. We were on watch one night and it was raining and windy all night. When 7am rolled around we were not able to be relieved on watch because the array and central building were the only spot above water and every snake spider and other critter had crawled or slithered onto the high ground. We were surrounded so to speak. Took a couple of hours after the rains stopped for the water to subside and the critters to disperse. No overtime of course, we were on salary. J.R.
Steven OtteAll I gotta say is, it's great to be a Florida Gator.
I never attended UF, but I grew up in Gainesville, so I consider myself a Florida Gator too.
I was attending screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Reitz Union Hall when I was in middle school! Good times.
I used to ride my Huffy dirt bike all around Lake Alice, dodging alligators all the way!
This was the UF logo in the 1970s when I was hanging out on campus.
Nice Banner Steve.
Kind of ironic again. These are the two colors that I mixed together 50/50 and had picked out a month ago before I painted my grain elevator.
The color wasn't alligator but close enough