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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:55 AM

LION on the TOP! LION on the TOP!

 

Rare Ribeye Steaks Tonight!

 

Come n get'em

 

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:37 AM

My wife’s brother just passed away.  He lived in Texas. 

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:50 AM

BroadwayLion

LION on the TOP! LION on the TOP!

 

I don't see any Lion.

Anyway, is that the train that goes to/past Jerome Avenue in the Bronx?  Used to ride that train with my Mom when we visited my aunt.  She used to live on Shakespeare Avenue.  I don't think I'd care to visit that area now.

 

Funny that I can remember riding that line into the city, but I can't remember where we were going.

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Posted by Harrison on Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:23 AM

Last weekend was Maple Weekend in upstate NY, where folks drive into the middle of nowhere to see how maple syrup is made, sample all the maple products, and take sleigh rides. 

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Let's jog down the river a bit from Troy to Rensslear, NY, where the Albany Amtrak station is and where Amtrak services there 18 P32AC-DMs, the only locomotives used by Amtrak below Albany, as seen below:

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#717's sister #716 in Utica:

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Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00 PM

The number 4 does indeed run on Jerome Avenue...

But the landscape is intended to be the Franklin Shuttle.

 

LION can not help what numbers Life-Like put on its train sets.

 

Here is route of LION.

 

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:43 PM

Nice scene, Lion.  I have been watching subway train sets, and it is unbelievable how much they cost.

There are a pair just plain shells, on Ebay, nothing to go with them, plain bare shells, for $60.  ?  

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:07 PM

Did someone say ribeye?  Ribeye tonight?  Rare ribeye?  Where ribeye?Dinner

Nice above-ground Subway scenes LionYes   I had to do a double-take zoom.  At first I thought they were prototypical pictures.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:09 PM

 


My condolences to you, your wife and her family, Garry.


 

Regards, Ed

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Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:44 PM

Garry, my prayers and condolances.

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One of my favorite history podcasts introduced me to the concept of the Fermi Paradox. 

Fermi was a nuclear scientist and part of the Manhattan project.  The universe is 13 billion years old, countless gallaxies, suns up the wazoo.  Statistically, there ought to be lots of inhabitable planets, some with older and more advanced cvilizations than us.  There ought to be other life forms, more advanced and mobile. 

IF that presumption is correct, UFO's and aliens ought to be as common as the telephone calls you get everyday for free back braces, and zero interest rate credit cards.  Yes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door.  They are not.  That is the paradox.

Where are they? que Twlight Zone Theme

 

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Posted by NWP SWP on Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:59 PM

Garry, my condolences to you and your family.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:48 PM

Evenin',

 Garry, deepest sympathies to your wifes family and all of you.  Will keep everyone in my thoughts and prayers.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:15 PM

Garry   I am so sorry to hear about your wife's brother.  Our thoughts are with you.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:16 PM

Good afternoon (for another 17 minutes) it was another warm sunny day on the coast.

Garry my condolences to you and your wife for your loss. Will you be going to Texas?

Big Daddy here is something for your listening pleasure.Hmm

I went to replace a couple of rotten boards on the playhouse today and upon further inspection, the house was past its "best before" date and would need a complete rebuild, so I have started to dismantle it and will haul it off to the transfer station. We will not be here if we are still alive to see grandchildren and the Playhouse has served its purpose. The dogs use to all go up and sun themselves on the deck. Seems like just 25 years ago I built the thing.Laugh

  

Got sent an estate sale listing that was local for a large collection of trains, the people are asking close to retail for everything, good luck.Laugh I was in home depot and the clerk said he had a lot of old MRR stuff, all DC and nothing worth mentioning, I suggested he donate it to a club I know of and they can sell it at a train show to raise funds for the club, he thought that was a good idea and took the name of the club off me.

Dropped the kids' hockey bag off with the coach and gave him $50.00 to buy a round for the boys. BUT ONLY IF THEY WIN! I said. I did that last year and they appreciated it. Most of them are in school in one form or another and probably don't have the money to spend on beer. They are a really good group of kids that I have always been happy to be associated with when we would go to the U.S. or other parts of Canada to tournaments. I remember it would be Tim Hortons after the games on Saturday and now they have grown up it's beer. Most of the kids are the same today as they were back then. For this tournament, they take the best players from many different teams around the greater Vancouver area and generally clean up most years.

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I also built something for the wife today for her dog puppy pen. We are expecting a litter of puppies tomorrow so soon there will be the pitter patter of little feet around the house again.

All the best to all.

Brent

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:26 PM

BigDaddy
Yes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door. They are not.

Are you certain?  Did they tell you they came from France?

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Posted by RideOnRoad on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:33 PM

Garry, condolences your way.

The oral surgeon told me day three would be worse and he was right. The day of the surgery I was thinking, "Well, that wasn't so bad. I am not feeling much discomfort at all." Today, "Dang, that hurts a bit." Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little better.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:43 PM

If I was an Alien and saw this on my approach to Earth, I think I would just keep going.

Last year when the kid was taking global affairs, on an exam, he had to name every country on earth and the leaders of those countries.

 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:46 PM

I sure hope your dental experience goes better than mine Richard.  Four and a half months ago I had two impacted molars extracted.  I signed the paper before hand for the release of liability of the possible complications.

I had them.  It got complicated.  Four and a half months later I have just finished another series of antibiotics from the infection that moved into my jaw.  It has not been fun.  

I even had my blood tested to make sure it wasn't something else as I was getting a little worried that this thing had been going on way too long.  The blood tests came back OK.  

I feel like it has started on its way out now.... I hope.  I don't like dentists but when you need them, you need them.

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:20 PM

Garry,

Please accept my condolences.

Dave

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:22 PM

 Eveing Diners

 Flo, the gang and I will have a Beer please and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.

 Gary sorry to read about Shelley brother passing. Hope he had a long and happy life.

 Brent So sad but so ture, people are idiots. Now I will admit I be hard place to point at the south american countrys, but Mexico should be easy. Why not one of the dummies did not pick the United States is beyond me? Whistling

 Well I have to work Friday. Sigh I was really looking forward to being off Friday but Jerry is sick.

 Later, Ken

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:23 PM

BigDaddy
IF that presumption is correct, UFO's and aliens ought to be as common as the telephone calls you get everyday for free back braces, and zero interest rate credit cards.  Yes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door.  They are not.  That is the paradox. Where are they?

They took one look and decided to never come back!

Dave

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:42 PM

hon30critter

 

Dave

 

LaughLaughLaugh    My kind of humor. 

Very rich but probably true.

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Posted by howmus on Friday, March 29, 2019 7:09 AM

Morning.....

A couple of my Favorites on the current subject....

"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life less so.  Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth" - Stephen Hawking

"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there is no sign of intelligent life" - Neil deGrass Tyson

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I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
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I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/alien

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Posted by moelarrycurly4 on Friday, March 29, 2019 7:31 AM

Garry, 

Condolences to you and your wife. 

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, March 29, 2019 11:08 AM

dito, LION

 

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Posted by maxman on Friday, March 29, 2019 11:39 AM

howmus
"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there is no sign of intelligent life"

I have read on the internet (so it must be true) that many people have encountered aliens and lived to tell about it.  But based on their reports, I would not credit aliens with much intelligence.

If they were so smart, why is it that after traveling a million light years they have to resort to that colonoscopy thing to get whatever information they're looking for?  Do they think we are all politicians?

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Posted by howmus on Friday, March 29, 2019 11:57 AM

maxman
If they were so smart, why is it that after traveling a million light years they have to resort to that colonoscopy thing to get whatever information they're looking for? Do they think we are all politicians?

ROFLMAO Whistling

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, March 29, 2019 12:06 PM

Good afternoon —

         from a cool and cloudy, slightly damp, at times, N.E. Ohio.

Yesterday I had a chance to prune the fruit trees and put up this Barred Owl nest box —

 Owl_Barred-E by Edmund, on Flickr

I hope we are not too late in the season. My nephew gave it to me as he is moving from a rented house in a wooded area to an apartment.

 Owl_Barred-1sm by Edmund, on Flickr

The same day I put the nest box up a swarm of honey bees moved into a vacant hive we had on a nearby hillside! That was great news. This has happened to us three times recently. Yes

Then, if all that wasn't enough, our stray cat, Spike, who has ALWAYS visited in the cover of darkness over the last eight years or so, came out for a visit in broad daylight.

We offered him some canned Friskies instead of the usual tuna. This was his reaction —

 Spike_grumpy-sm by Edmund, on Flickr

The blue birds have been visiting our feeders every day, too. I see a few moths and bugs out but not too many since it is still below freezing here in the nights. We feed them meal worms.

I hope everyone has an agreeable weekend...

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 29, 2019 12:28 PM

Good morning from the sunny West Coast. We have had a small fraction of precipitation of what we usually get in the last two months. You can see the difference in the vegetation already, nothing is doing as well as normal. Very foreboding. 

The kid just landed in Calgary for his connecting flight to Edmonton for his hockey tournament and he feels like crap. I looked up to see where there were showers at the airport and sent the link. I have racked up more brownie points as he has a two-hour layover and a shower made him feel way better. Beautiful showers in a Spa he said for only $10.00. I hope he feels better by game time. 

gmpullman
a swarm of honey bees moved into a vacant hive we had on a nearby hillside! That was great news.

I hope they are gonna renovate the dump, or is it a rental?Laugh

My wife has been taking a what seems to be a rather long intense beekeeper course. With the worlds Bees dying off at alarming rates we won't be far behind. She is going to do her part to help.

Image may contain: text and outdoorAll the best to all.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, March 29, 2019 1:13 PM

BATMAN
I hope they are gonna renovate the dump, or is it a rental?Laugh

It's a honey of a fixer-upper! A real sweet deal. The folks are all abuzz about it Whistling

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, March 29, 2019 1:55 PM

gmpullman
Spike_grumpy-sm by Edmund, on Flickr The blue birds have been visiting our feeders every day, too. I see a few moths and bugs out but not too many since it is still below freezing here in the nights. We feed them meal worms. I hope everyone has an agreeable weekend...

 

Crookshanks! What are you doing on the forum.

 

RAOR

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