Hobo Jungle

[AG]

Here is my penny.

Thank you for the info Tramp!.
AG.

[healey36]

Went for a drive today...couldn't handle being cooped up in the house the whole weekend. I drove where the car took me...ended up in Patapsco, Maryland, scene of the worst passenger train wreck in the history of the Western Maryland Railway. On Saturday, June 17, 1905, the north-bound Blue Mountain Express slammed into a south-bound freight at Ransom, Maryland. Twenty-six people were killed in the wreck, all being Western Maryland employees (the locomotive crews were all killed as were a number of employees riding in the baggage car returning home to Frederick County).



The scene today:



"The legal authorities in Carroll County, where the wreck happened, decided not to hold an inquest about the accident for which they received a lot of criticism, according to the American Sentinel. The State’s Attorney decided that the inquest was not needed, because, not only was the cause of the accident known, but those responsible for the accident had been killed in the collision. Just a week earlier, the Carroll County Commissioners had passed an order that the county wouldn’t pay for inquests that weren’t required. “Under the provisions of these articles inquests are only necessary in the cases of persons who die in jail or when the cause of death is unknown and there is a reason to suspect a felony. Neither of these contingencies are applicable to the wreck case and Mr. Steele considers that it would be an unnecessary expenditure of the people’s money to hold an inquest in the case,” the American Sentinel reported."

My how things have changed...

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And now turning to equally exciting matters, I just Googled "screaming goats" (don't ask why), and can barely see the keyboard to type this in - it's Sooooooo funny. And I have no idea why. Oh well. WTH. Life is short. May your laughter be long.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And now turning to equally exciting matters, I just Googled "screaming goats" (don't ask why), and can barely see the keyboard to type this in - it's Sooooooo funny. And I have no idea why. Oh well. WTH. Life is short. May your laughter be long.
Murph

Probably for the same reason I did.......and some things are indeed funny w/o any obvious reason.

[2railjon]

So I'm at drill this weekend and my sister in Rockport, MA is crying about being buried in another 24 inches of snow. So like the loving young brother I am, I text her a few photo's of my flight to sunny Gulf Shores today!!!!

[AG]

Not too many chicks there but free food.
The gulf is most the time pleasant indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQJFWhn1R_w

[RBH29]

Tramp said: "RBH29, did you meet Alan? Good luck with the Xingu. I haven't tried it since the 80s, but my memory of the taste was medicinal and overly sweet with a burnt finish, or simply said—awful."

If I did meet him I didn't realize who it was. We'll see about the Xingu but I still think it's the coolest beer bottle label. Have you ever tried the Golden Xingu?

I've been to your home town, Belfast. My brother and I spent a great week kayak camping on the islands in Penobscot Bay. We started and ended at Belfast. Upon approaching the takeout there was a brass marching band to meet us. Or so we thought. It was actually the 4th of July parade.

[Tramp]

Here is my monthly column as per Roger's request. It goes with the photo I posted the other day and is actually about MODEL TRAINS!


http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/eric ... ests/48069



RBH29, if you had met Alan, you would've known and remembered. By the way, for all I know, Xingu could be delicious now, so don't let my poor review influence your enjoyment. I think freshness is so important in beer taste, so if it's not too old, it might be okay. Isn't this area wonderful? Where did you stay? Where did you eat?

[AG]

I see blurry now.
thanks for the column.
I have respect to the past, is double edge, i prefer leave it alone.
AG.

[rogruth]

Tramp,

Thank you. That story is very familiar to me and I understand.

[AG]

Most of the people in this video are dead, and those part, that they made by hand, still working.
is not amazing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT6txm4RpA
Andre.

[J. S. Bach]

That would make a neat structure for a layout; not as a pilot's "rest haven" but something useful around the railroad.

[webenda]

Look up hobos.
Hubble Sees A Smiling Lens
02/10/2015 11:00 AM EST

In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 — and it seems to be smiling. You can make out its two orange eyes and white button nose. In the case of this “happy face”, the two eyes are very bright galaxies and the misleading smile lines are actually arcs caused by an effect known as strong gravitational lensing. Galaxy clusters are the most massive structures in the Universe and exert such a powerful gravitational pull that they warp the spacetime around them and act as cosmic lenses which can magnify, distort and bend the light behind them

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Neat. Gravity lens.

[2railjon]

One of the only two remaining Stuka's left in the world gets some TLC........
http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/ge ... an/513624/