Just edited and 'activated' that link.
Victrola1 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ploesti.htm
.....Zug, is your Avatar your personal hand drawing art work.....?
Quentin
Modelcar .....Zug, is your Avatar your personal hand drawing art work.....?
Nope (I'm nowhere near that good). Just something I found off the web. (From the latest anime I'm working my way through),
I haven't been doing too much of the art stuff lately - last 2 weeks at work have been pretty brutal for various reasons.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
......Drawing has been an interest of mine for years....but just very much an amateur at it, and haven't done any for some time. I actually studied drafting decades ago, and really liked that. Architectural drawing / drafting.
People and animals, not in my talent. But "things"....I can do rather well with, if I actually take time to work on it.
This just in:
Dick Clark...America's perrenial "teenager" and host of American Bandstand Rockin' New Years Eve for many years has died at the age of 82.
.....Boy that "Bandstand" program was a popular show each Saturday afternoon. Made him famous....and he always said so too.
He had a long run of it. Too bad of his stroke several years ago put him down, and he tried to fight back. And did, with some success.
But not like he was prior...Too bad.
Think he was a good decent fellow. Seems there was happyness, and fun in the music that was popular during that programs run.
Eleanor Roosevelt approves of the new forum makeover.
"Just think of those shocks you've gotAnd those knocks you've gotAnd those blues you've gotFrom that news you've gotAnd those pains you've got(If any brains you've got)From those little radios.
So Missus R., with all her trimmin's,Can broadcast a bed from Simmons'Cause Franklin knowsAnything goes."
Eleanor embraced new technology, so claimed Cole Porter.
Why was this place so quiet?
Rgds IGN
Eleanor Roosevelt is waiting for you to make some posts here....
Missed it the first time, a personal tragedy.....no, misfortune.....OK, could'a been better.
Referring to the poetry.
Did anybody else here the suave hipster voice of Lord Buckley when reading it?
(if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I heard it once and haven't found it since.)
Robert Service provided guidance to the doggerel; very good stuff.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/259298/Why-the-1936-Literary-Digest-Poll-Failed
It is an election year. The lull of postings maybe due to Eleanor spending so much time on the campaign train. The polls look good for Alf Landon.
Wow... Talk about a drubbing.
'Ol Alf only took Maine and Vermont in the election of 1936.
efftenxrfe Did anybody else here the suave hipster voice of Lord Buckley when reading it? (if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I hea
(if you can hear his take on calling the departing trains from a great metropolitan station, do NOT miss it. I hea
Which reminds of my only Amtrak trip ever, from Fullerton, CA (Los Angeles) to San Diego, in November 1977. The conductor calling out the stations as he walked through the cars was EXACTLY like the soundtrack from a 1930's B/W movie. "Oceanside". "San Clemente". To this day, whenever I read the names of any of those stops, I can hear his voice. It still gives me chills.
That guy was quite a bit older than my Dad was then, so his seniority date was probably in the late '30's, when RR's started hiring again. He put the old in old school style.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
. . . __ . ______
By the way ...
.. what about Eleanore Rigby ?
Haven't heard much of anything about her ever since Paul McCartney sang of her . Wasn't she a BR 9 or DR 52 class 2-10-0 , anyway got saved - sorry preserved - eventually , if just by a sharp turn of a friendly card as the clock struck a whiter shade of pale in a night of white satin at the House of Usher ? Indeed , strange days have found us - looks like we've got to break through the other side to get an answer .. although , who knows , it might be blowin in the wind ! Where have all the flowers gone ?
(which would be who's songs again , on which LPs ?)
Regards
Juniatha
On that same tangent, here is an interesting version of "Hey Jude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8LpaQekmY
And then there's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8
Murray Eleanor Roosevelt approves of the new forum makeover.
I have not found how to have emails of a thread sent to me without having to post a response to a post; I do not like having to take more than one step to get to the last page of a thread--and when you have finished with a thread it takes two steps to get back to the forum. Did anyone else have his email requests nulled? These are my main beefs.
Johnny
Murray And then there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8
woof.
Or, in the other direction...
http://youtu.be/rAM1MKi7bNU
although no Eleanor's were involved...
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Hello = J =
Surprise....You are back and you kick it up a notch, and brighten up the place....
Q
oltmannd Murray And then there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2Hq4U3bc8 woof. Or, in the other direction... http://youtu.be/rAM1MKi7bNU although no Eleanor's were involved...
Paul Whiteman provided much better back up for Bing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveQ4Es9tJY
Eleanor Roosevelt writing an article about Labor Day.
Very good reading:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055674
Thanks for Eleanor Roosevelt's Labor Day, 1940 column, Murray. If there is anything that railroads are about it is labor. Even today we have track gangs to keep the trains moving. I was wondering if there was anything more directly about Eleanor Roosevelt and trains. There is. FDR's Funeral Train by Robert Klara is about the President's death in Warm Springs Georgia and his last train ride from Warm Springs to DC and then from DC to Hyde Park, NY where he is buried. Of course Eleanor arranged both rides. Klara writes all about it and a lot more including information about riding trains in 1944. I haven't read the book yet. This thread started my search. But I did come upon several reviews at Amazon. Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Funeral-Train-Betrayed-Presidency/product-reviews/0230619142/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Here is another Labor Day column authored by Mrs. Rosevelt from 1953:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1953&_f=md002640
Where are you today, Eleanor...
zugmann Where are you today, Eleanor...
Eleanor has been looking for you in the chat.......
June 22, 1996 Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago Sun-Times.
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/index.html
Maybe Eleanor is talking to others.
Victrola1 First lady acknowledged'imaginary' chats. June 22, 1996 Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of The Chicago Sun-Times. http://edition.cnn.com/US/9606/22/hillary.book/index.html Maybe Eleanor is talking to others.
Somehow I'm thinking Eleanor is not at all pleased with the direction her party has taken.
From Eleanor Roosevelt's 1953 Labor Day Column:
"When I look back to the early days of the labor movement I realize how little opportunity the average worker had in the early days to regain the energy he had expended. A 12-hour day or a 10-hour day with only Sunday off, and sometimes not even that, and no paid vacation was the rule. Gradually with the growth of union organizations, which in gaining advantages for its own workers has gained these advantages too for all workers, we have come pretty uniformly to working an eight-hour day five days a week."
This reminds me of Albro Martin writing in Railroads Triumphant that in the early part of the last century the standard railroad work day was 10 hours long with a half day work on Saturdays. Woodrow Wilson changed that by deciding the American work day would be 8 hours and there would be no reduction in pay for railroad employees. That caused some problems for railroad management culture but management had to live with it.
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