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So after a long nap I woke up to Cleveland winning the NBA Championship, Cubs win World Series and Donald Trump is President and a Steam Train.

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So after a long nap I woke up to Cleveland winning the NBA Championship, Cubs win World Series and Donald Trump is President and a Steam Train.
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:18 PM

 a steam train running through my back yard on tracks that have not seen a steam train in 60 years in Buffalo NY. Where am I and what dimension is this?

 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Thursday, November 10, 2016 1:29 PM

OK, I'll bite.

Who is running the steam train?

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, November 10, 2016 2:52 PM

kgbw49

OK, I'll bite.

Who is running the steam train?

 

Donald Trump I gather from the sentence structure. Or maybe he is the steam train.  It's not 100% clear.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:36 PM

You can always tell a COFP thread - the title is longer than the original post...

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Posted by kgbw49 on Thursday, November 10, 2016 4:52 PM

That is a darn nice 0-4-0. Good for them!

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Saturday, November 12, 2016 2:00 PM

steam train

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, November 12, 2016 7:48 PM

Well, there IS a "Supermoon" this weekend, maybe that's got a lot to do with what's going on lately.

And yeah, that's one nice little 0-4-0!  and that's one full-blooded whistle for such a little steamer!

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, November 12, 2016 8:32 PM

tree68

You can always tell a COFP thread - the title is longer than the original post...

 

And the icon is a C&O glass half full.  Substance?  Probably not H2O.

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:42 AM

reminds me of the HO Varney Dockside Switcher, the least expensive scale model locomotive kit that one could by in the immediate post-WWII years.  Modeled after the 0-4-0Ts that worked the Baltimore docks.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, November 13, 2016 11:40 AM

schlimm

 

 
tree68

You can always tell a COFP thread - the title is longer than the original post...

 

 

 

And the icon is a C&O glass half full.  Substance?  Probably not H2O.

 

Schlimm said, above: "...And the icon is a C&O glass half full.

       Substance?  Probably not H2O..."

 Seems to point out, That some[COFP,possibly(?)] have a different view of reality, and possibly no appreciation of History. Had he been paying attention; he would have realized that 'Homer Simpson' had predicted the victory of Donald J. Trump some 16 years, ago ! 

See @ http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/entertainment/simpsons-trump-presidency-thr-feat/index.html

FTL:"...(The Hollywood Reporter)It was somewhat of a throwaway line at the time, but make no mistake, it was included very much on purpose.

The now infamous "Bart to the Future" episode of "The Simpsons," which aired almost exactly 16 years ago, on March 19, 2000, predicted a Donald Trump presidency..." Whistling

 

 


 

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:41 PM

samfp1943
 
schlimm

 

 
tree68

You can always tell a COFP thread - the title is longer than the original post...

 

 

 

And the icon is a C&O glass half full.  Substance?  Probably not H2O.

 

 

 

Schlimm said, above: "...And the icon is a C&O glass half full.

       Substance?  Probably not H2O..."

 Seems to point out, That some[COFP,possibly(?)] have a different view of reality, and possibly no appreciation of History. Had he been paying attention; he would have realized that 'Homer Simpson' had predicted the victory of Donald J. Trump some 16 years, ago ! 

See @ http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/entertainment/simpsons-trump-presidency-thr-feat/index.html

FTL:"...(The Hollywood Reporter)It was somewhat of a throwaway line at the time, but make no mistake, it was included very much on purpose.

The now infamous "Bart to the Future" episode of "The Simpsons," which aired almost exactly 16 years ago, on March 19, 2000, predicted a Donald Trump presidency..." Whistling

 

Hey Sam, who's Homer predicting for 2032?  I may have to put some money on that call!

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Posted by zugmann on Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:50 PM

16 years ago was probably close to the last time The Simpsons was actually funny or creative. 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Sunday, November 13, 2016 5:34 PM

Funny, I'm having the same nightmare (except for the train.)  Maybe I should take Mythbuster Adam Savage's advice:

       "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

Oops!  I woke up, but the nightmare didn't go away.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Monday, November 14, 2016 1:38 PM

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