Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

forgot to post these earlier. Local tourist train came through on Christmas Day, running on coal it appears.
I think the whole trip is 9 miles, train has been here longer than most of us. New Hope to Ivyland PA.
Now they run diesel during the summer to prevent brush fires from sparks.
I haven't been on this train in 30 years.

Thanks for sharing those photos, Drew. When I opened the first photo and saw only the engine, coal car, and caboose, I chuckled to myself thinking "that's a pretty short train!" Then I opened the other photo and saw the other end of the train. How many passenger cars were there?

And welcome to the Makita electric chain saw club. Something of a second Christmas after finding it intact, if only a little damp.:thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

Thanks for sharing those photos, Drew. When I opened the first photo and saw only the engine, coal car, and caboose, I chuckled to myself thinking "that's a pretty short train!" Then I opened the other photo and saw the other end of the train. How many passenger cars were there?

either two or three. That's why I included the second picture, thought it looked funny too
that train has set a lot of the local fields on fire during the summer and is not loved by all.
Plus because it's a tourist train they blow their horn all the time. My brother's son lives on a farm near the tracks
outside of Lahaska and he gets affected by the horn blowing. Thankfully the train doesn't go out very much.
But when it does, it's like they are making very sure you knew it went by.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthdays, Margaret and Linda.

 

[txdon]

We are assessing new cell phone services, to see if there are better deals.

Let me know what you find.
I also need two new phones, I have the old apple SE and my wife's is even an older apple. I like the size and price of the new SE.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

...Plus because it's a tourist train they blow their horn all the time. My brother's son lives on a farm near the tracks
outside of Lahaska and he gets affected by the horn blowing. Thankfully the train doesn't go out very much.
But when it does, it's like they are making very sure you knew it went by.

Trains run up and down the Feather River Canyon, and it traverses a trestle/tunnel combo not far from here. Wasn't much of an issue until the Camp Fire took out most of the trees between me and it, and now I can hear the rumbling of the engines and sometimes even the squeals and clicks from the rails and wheels. Sometimes they'll blow their horns as they emerge from the tunnel onto the trestle or vice versa, as folks have been known to "play" on them. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often at night, as the train runs through there all hours. I've never seen passenger cars on it, but it would be quite a trip as it crosses many famous trestles and clings to the side of the canyon above the river. And apparently there have been charters in the past. Gonna have to look into that once this CoVid thing passes.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Let me know what you find.
I also need two new phones, I have the old apple SE and my wife's is even an older apple. I like the size and price of the new SE.

Me three. I also like the size of the new Mini, but the price, not so much! But it's the least expensive iPhone with 5G radios, and the new SE just doesn't make any sense from that standpoint. A battery kit arrived yesterday for my old SE, which I'm hoping will buy me enough time to let the prices on the new iPhones come down a bit.

 

[pennwalk]

Disappointing to hear from our Governor that 60% of nursing home staffs have elected not to take the COVID vaccine.

That just seems crazy to me. There have been some truly heart breaking stories about the virus getting into nursing homes. You would think that the staffs would want to do everything they can to avoid that stuff.

Chris

 

[pennwalk]

Drew, We share a driveway with another house. From time to time my packages would end up over there. I printed up a couple of signs with the house number using the largest font I could fit on the page and taped them to the inside of the storm door. One on the front door and one on the garage door. It seems to have helped. No missing packages this year.

Chris

 

[pennwalk]

I heard an interview with Dr. Fauchi yesterday. He thinks we will may be able to return to normal by fall. It seems like these timelines keep slipping later and later all the time. Remember when this junk was supposed to be over by the end of July?

Chris

 

[toppop52]

David Lindley’s falsetto in the “Stay” portion blows me away every time I hear it.

Almost sounds like Lou Christie.