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I can certainly put together a tutorial. A video could be fun, I've never done one, so will need to learn if there are any tricks to it. I only have an iPhone to work with...
The sirens went off for about an hour but we just had winds and heavy rain. Thanks for your concern. There is a lot of damage across the state.
Glad to hear it. As I was hearing about it I was immediately going through my list of "who do I know in Ohio that this might've gotten". Congrats on making the cut!
As trite as the comical business names can be, I've made a lifetime collection of real ones in my business travels. There was a time period where pun industry and inside joke names were very common in model railroading, not so much today. You have to be quick, because oddball small business names (or virtually clueless) ones don't always last all that long. There really is/was a restaurant in Cooperstown, NY, that was the "Foo King Chinese Restaurant", I have photos of it.I do like the "Curl up and Dye". My own real all-time favorite was in Webster Springs, WV, which was a hotbed of oddball names for a while.1) Professional Motor Sports Speedway, just south of town, with a big billboard "PMS SPEEDWAY". Yikes. Long gone now.2) "Sent from Above" religious book store, in a place that had been a war surplus store with a 250-lb bomb casing above the entrance. And they painted the store name on the bomb....3) "Burnt Presbyterian Church" on Burnt Road, just over the Virginia state line....4) "Not Nans Plans", which is a well, nobody knows, and still apparently in business...5) "English Muffin Seafood Restaurant", right at the West Virginia state line, very much abandoned, wonder why a seafood restaurant in rural West Virginia named the English Muffin wasn't a great idea......6) Even CSX got into it, because the junction at Hancock, WV (tower now gone) was "HO Tower".Another great one that ya just have to wonder was the "BM Campground" at Pennfield, PA, another one now long gone. Just south of Fredonia, NY, you'll still find "Camp Gross", amazingly enough, which has been there for years.The dumbest, most clueless local railroad name still goes to the now-defunct, "Knox, Kane & Kinzua", later shortened to the "Knox & Kane" when they finally realized that putting " K K K " on the tender was a really bad idea.I have a lifetime collection of these I made into a presentation format for speaking engagements when its necessary to lighten the mood.The very real one that's modeled on my layout, and I think they are still in business, is "Peace Surplus" in Flagstaff.My wife and I both enjoy fishing, and she's a terminal knitter, we've been to about as many knitting shops as hobby shops. She's already named the business she wants to start - "Bait and Stitch".
last week, my 13 year old daughter looked at my supply of cheap acrylic paint and followed a Bob Ross video and painted some not so happy little trees...her first attempt at painting...
Note that the window air conditioner is the DPDT slide switch that turns the power to the lighting on.
Ok, one more before this goes completely off the rails....a Siding on my 4ft Ntrak module is listed as Beecher Tool and Die Sorry, couldn't resist, it's my favorite.Greg O.
Nice! Is that a LL E7?
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