Model Train Journal

The cacti here in AZ have the prettiest flowers I've seen.

We've been put here in Arizona for 3 years now and the heat here is much more bearable than the heat and humidity back in PA.

Back in the old days my parents had a 24 hour truckstop restaurant in Shrewsbury, Pa on old rte 111. Saw a lot of Autocars and one in particular was from Edgcomb Steel Co. It was made f stainless steel. here is a picture of an old Autocar in stainless. http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/TOFc5kVknm5oI...

Individual LED prices are all over the map. I paid $1.10 each for Radio Shack 276-017 white LEDs. Radio shack also sells 276-1622, 20 LEDs for 21 cents each. I did not find any white LEDs in the 20 pack. My first project is experimenting with them. I already blew up two of the Radio Shack LEDs. Tho...

Happy birthday Jon. The Pinal Airpark is right up the road from Marana Airport. It is a National Guard helicopter training site and also has rows and rows of large passenger jets parked there. Its operated by Evergreen and they convert 747's into forest fire tankers. It was also the home of Air Amer...

Joined: Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:33 pm Posts: 13435 Thanks, Mitch! It seems as though the U.S. Army wants to share my birthday as today I have to head to Marana, Arizona to another NCO school. :? If some of you might remember I spent my last birthday sitting in the Atlanta Airport waiting on a flight ba...

Get well soon Hev!

Dirt,

Beautiful, thanks for posting!

We just moved out here last August, so this is our first look at spring in the desert, everyday it looks a little different. Below is a picture of a one day flowering cactus taken in October last year. The wife bought it on day at Lowes, and the next day it had a beautiful flower that fell off the f...

This cactus flowered in just one day, and then it was gone https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_1v62sGFxyYo/TcNYDwRAfNI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/BJTyNtKN-sw/s720/DSCN1214.JPG LATER https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_1v62sGFxyYo/TcNYEVHfrCI/AAAAAAAAAjU/f28mDvFQIIM/s720/DSCN1233.JPG Finally https://lh4.googleusercon...

Our meets in Tucson have only one hall, but it is big enough for me.

Just moved to the Tucson area in Red Rock the first of August. Have reserved a table for the Nov. 6 meet. Hope to see you there.


My new neighbor is an engineer for the Union Pacific RR on the Tucson to El Paso route.

The Sonoran Desert is sure more beautiful than the Sahara, where I spent quite a few months way back when. Beutiful downtown Ben Guerir Air Force Base: http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp63243%3Enu%3D3266%3E578%3E782%3EWSNRCG%3D337275%3C63332%3Anu0mrj Our gang in front of our Home (AKA packi...

Here are a few pictures of a bobcat in a tree in my daughters backyard in Oro Valley, AZ just northwest of Tucson. They were taken 2 years ago. We just got back from there after spending Halloween with the granddaughters. Hope to move out there permanently real soon. Got bigger copies of pics: http:...

Wayne,
That's a great picture. Can't wait to get to Tucson, going there the 29th of this month for a week to be with the grandchildren.

Will be moving there as soon as our house here is sold.

At the Green Lane Park in Montgomery County, PA swimming has been banned for the last 10 or 15 years because of the goose population. http://www2.montcopa.org/parks/cwp/view,A,1516,Q,26377,parksNav,|.asp This used to be a very nice place for picnics & swimming until it got covered with goose sh*t.