Hobo Jungle

[Tramp]

My Mitch was his own miracle. My best friend. Sorry for the confusion.

[MartyE]

Merry Christmas!\

https://youtu.be/3McsO6r6OhM

[E7]

Don't wanna rain on you guys' parade, but rumors of my death may have been greatly exaggerated. At least I think so. Just checkin' in to see the Christmas stuff. Retired from ChryslerJeepDodge&Ram dealership in early September. I'm 71 and waitin' 'til after the first of the year to go job huntin'.

Mitch, Happy to hear you are still amongst us! With a little bit of luck, collecting Social Security will be your next "job". Hope there are NO more of those BIG truck tires in your future!

Rich

[E7]

I don't know what happened to Pete. He just disappeared after Hev died.

Pete usually puts up a post on the anniversary of Hev's passing.

Pete, I hope you and yours are doing well.

Rich

[Tramp]

Did he this year? Where does he post it?

[E7]

Tramp, I did a search or two, and came up with the post below. Note that it is dated July 29th which is the date Hev passed. As you can see, the date was 2018 and the post was in the "Tractor Thread". I think the original "Tractor" thread got eliminated in one of the Board "purges", and Pete started making his posts in this new version. Your best bet might be to find one of his old posts and PM him shortly before July 29th, 2022 and see if he responds.

Good Luck and Happy New Year,
Rich

by The Dirt
Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:34 pm
Forum: The Club Car Lounge
Topic: Tractor Thread
Replies: 726
Views: 131206

Re: Tractor Thread
... to the other world again and again for a thing once set in motion has no ending in this world until the last witness has passed." James "Hev" Burkholder June 3, 1952 - July 29, 2013 (Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain )

[Steelers2056]

Hey everyone, I didn't realize this site was still here, and that my account still actually works. I used to be active on here like 10 years ago, but wandered away from train forums. I've actually been running trains the whole time, even got a new layout since those days, just never went on forums.

Also since I'm not on forums much anymore I'm not entirely up to date on what's been going on in the train world, I haven't bough a new locomotive in years (As in recently made, I did get some older NOS stuff though). I do know that MTH was closing though.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey everyone, I didn't realize this site was still here, and that my account still actually works.

Not all that long ago it was on the verge of not being anywhere, but it was 95% salvaged and recovered.

Also since I'm not on forums much anymore I'm not entirely up to date on what's been going on in the train world

Probably a blessing,

[webenda]

I used to be active on here like 10 years ago, but wandered away from train forums.

Approximately 8 years, 6 months, 11 days ago Dan Dawdy announced on this forum the first issue of O Scale Resources magazine.
https://oscaleresource.com/WP/

[Steelers2056]

From an OGR thread someone linked about atlas's DCS tiu thing, it seems command control has somehow gotten even more confusing than when I last paid attention to that stuff, wow. And the trend of a phone app? I can't think of anything I'd want to use less than a phone for train control, I have a hard enough time doing basic things on a phone without it opening crap at random or doing something I didn't want, I don't need to have a massive pileup because I tried to stop a train with an app and it decided to go to full power instead.

[webenda]

I danced with another woman tonight

My wife didn’t seem to mind.

We took to the floor like a pair of swans

That fate forever entwined.

Leaving our wake through the dancers who flowed

Like notes in search of a song

We tested our two step, tried out a waltz

and laughed when something went wrong!

I led and she followed, trusting each step,

Spurred by the beat of the band

Like birds taking wing the very first time,

It helps…to hold someone’s hand.

Although I had known this woman before

I’d thought of her as a child

But there on the dance floor, arm ‘round her waist,

I found my heart was beguiled.

For her a window had opened. I was there,

I’m eternally glad.

The rest of my life I’ll remember

The first night she danced with her dad. ❖


Baxter Black (January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022) A dad always remembers dancing with his daughter.

[healey36]

I recall hearing Baxter Black on NPR's All Things Considered years ago. He referred to himself, amongst many things, as a onetime "large animal veterinarian". Like most veterinarians I've known, he seemed a gentle soul. Hadn't heard about his passing, so thanks for that.

[E7]

Baxter had quite the way with words.

[webenda]

Does Lionel, LLC think that a Locomotive is a Train?

[webenda]

"English is a Living Language"

Meaning English does not transmit itself from the past without change. English is a vital spirit that evolves with those who speak it. If enough English-speaking people think a locomotive is a train, then a locomotive is a train.