POLL: the final step before ninth_wave reveals all!

Miss S,Gotta wait till the weekend to try to invent those new pretzels. My sweetie went to Pittsburgh for the week.
Choo it is way past dawn here stateside. Surely the sparks should be flying by now?

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Awful lot of train traffic here today. Popular icon all of a sudden.

Jeff S just throwing up a smokescreen to confuse Poor Ole Choo

I use my own steam train...

Assuming you can be make it out. Awfully small.

"Jeff S just throwing up a smokescreen to confuse Poor Ole Choo"

You're right, now I am all confused big trains, small trains, big smoke screen of trains, JeffS is being devious too looks like I need to out switch him.

And there they are selling tickets, jump aboard folks and join in the train wreck at dawn

Hey Choo, I thought it was to get on board... help ya build steam. And to confuse Jeff.
Taz, what are you up to there!? Pickin' on Choo like that! Shame on you!! Bad Taz! Bad!! Bad!
And I thought you came over to the dark side!!

Where IS Miss M? Get over here girlie! We need to do some serious whackin'!! Whack some sense into Taz till his honey gets back. He's runnin' amuck!!

!oohC !oohC ,kcalc ytikcilc ,kcalc ytikcilc...

I think JeffS and I were at the same place 5 hours apart, where's my time machine, drat Pete took it to Germany.

Better get out my DeLorean instead

Pretty rare to see a thread go over 2000 posts. Posting just to say I was here.

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a smokescreen to confuse Poor Ole Choo

~And that's pretty easy to do (running away now before I get a whackin)

Choo, I forgot to tell you, I borrowed the DeLorean and you're not getting it back

Poor Jeff..see what we made him do Don't worry Jeff, I'll change mine back soon. It's gettin too hard to tell who wrote what.

Big HI to everybody else

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It's gettin too hard to tell who wrote what.

Isn't that the point?
I dibs th' DeLorean next!

Strange goin's on around this here thread!

What's gonna happen with th' engine avi's? Are you guys done? Surely there's more to it than this! Peeps have TICKETS for goodness' sake!
Did I sleep too long? What'd I miss?? What time zone is this?
I wondered which dawn sparks will fly.
It dawns on me...
This train jus' does Not fit my persona!

!oohC !oohC ,kcalc ytikcilc ,kcalc ytikcilc...

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This train jus' does Not fit my persona

Me neither Miss S...good to see ya BTW
Sure you can have the DeLorean next..gotta keep it away from Choo as long as possible, since he won't tell me his name

When does Pete get back? He sent this very handsome picture of himself.






(Thanks Thurston!)

And here he is being the life of the party...atleast he doesn't have a lampshade on his head (although it might be an improvement)

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Sure you can have the DeLorean next..gotta keep it away from Choo as long as possible, since he won't tell me his name

Right then Ms M I will upgrade your ticket to VIP* class and give you the front row seat on the train wreck of the year, that is on the cow-catcher

Then you can use your x-ray eyes to derail JeffS before impact as you will have a vested interest, as I said may the most devious driver win, he, he, where's Muttley got to ...

I hope catering will be supplying enough cookies, pretzels and rats for the viewers gastronomic delight.

*(Very Irritating Persons)

"Pretty rare to see a thread go over 2000 posts. Posting just to say I was here."

Hi Thurston, drop in again sometime, all are welcome to join in and stir things up.


Eek, just turned 1,000 posts no wonder my fingers are wearing away

That other train image was too small. This one's better. I remember when I took this shot ten years ago. That engine barreled by at 70mph and the earth shook as it went by. Awesome. I was about 10 feet to the side of the tracks, still camera on one tripod, video camera on another. If your browser supports right click->view image (Firefox does) you can get a better look at the larger original.

Jeff that is an awesome pic..I'm guessing you're a photographer??

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Very Irritating Persons)

Choo..don't think I didn't see that

Wow, JeffS why on earth did you use off-the-shelf avatar pic when you have your own great picture like that, have enlarged it up to take a closer look.

With such a shine to the paintwork suggests its a preserved engine working a mainline special, right ?

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Choo..don't think I didn't see that

Ah Ms M not ignoring me all the time then

Just popping in to say Hi all. Miss S

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Taz, what are you up to there!? Pickin' on Choo like that! Shame on you!! Bad Taz! Bad!! Bad! Red Face
And I thought you came over to the dark side!!

I was a covert OPS spy and really just came for the cookies but never got any cookies anyway. Ninth got all da cookies
Miss M when do I get the Delorean?
JeffS great photo! My area has a K-4 getting restored right now. It has been in Scranton for sometime and Altoona is getting upset that things are moving so slowly.
Welcome to the madness Thurston!

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I was a covert OPS spy and really just came for the cookies but never got any cookies anyway. Ninth got all da cookies

Serves u'right, treacherous dog, even though I haven't a clue what OPS stands for

Taz & Choo - Thanks for the welcome. I'll be here more often now that I know that the club isn't that exclusive.

member_8880 - Thanks for using the site. Hang in there - I have over 1000 little pics on my desktop being sorted for upload in the next week or so. It gets nothin' but better...

BTW - do you have to host the pictures here to use them on the board? I've tried the links at Emotipics put haven't yet been able to make them work.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke

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know that the club isn't that exclusive

So long as you can take as much stick as you give everything wiil be fine, some exchanges may seem a little exclusive, but that's when you kick down the door to join in, all part of the fun

If the pics are hosted on your own site Thurston it is OK to use them but if you are not hosting yourself this is called hot linking and is quasi-illegal and can be considered theft of bandwidth.for example I used one of your images last week on another thread on here "I am lazy" https://community.auctiva.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/455609321/m/3081050762/p/1 and I hosted it on Auctiva. So in short if the pics on emotipics are yours I see no reason you cannot post them here. I have never actually heard of an individual getting in trouble for it. But...
Edit: More than likely you already knew this but I am going to leave the post for others to see that may not be aware of this.
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I am testing straight from your site to see if your links work with this pic. Hope you do not mind?
Did not work for me I uploaded the image to Auctiva and it should now, kind of strange if you ask me!

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Wow, JeffS why on earth did you use off-the-shelf avatar pic when you have your own great picture like that, have enlarged it up to take a closer look.

With such a shine to the paintwork suggests its a preserved engine working a mainline special, right ?

Mainline, oh yes. Chesapeake & Ohio #614, that last passenger steam engine manufactured by the Lima works in 1948. A 4-8-4 Northern class (called the "Greenbrier" on C&O), it was freshly restored when these mainline runs were made between Hoboken NJ and Port Jervis NY on the old Erie mainline. The 90 mile trips were a sight to behold, with speeds up to 79mph on some sections. These trips were run in 1996 - 98 in the fall (8 trips each fall) and the summer of 97 (4 trips) when I was lucky enough to ride one. In Port Jervis NY they restored an aging turntable that was just barely large enough to turn the engine so that it could be on the head end for the return trip.

Google C&O 614 and you'll find lots of hits, and a number of sites with my pictures (including the full size original of my avatar). In all, I took hundreds of photos and hours of video.

Here's one to start you off:

http://piercehaviland.com/rail/co614.htm

You'll find many more online.

There's also several dozen videos on YouTube of the Erie Mainline specials that I just discovered! I'm sure some of them will show this engine at it's best. This link should get you there:

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=c%26o+614&search=Search

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Originally posted by TazFromPA:
JeffS great photo! My area has a K-4 getting restored right now. It has been in Scranton for sometime and Altoona is getting upset that things are moving so slowly.

That must be the K-4 I saw at Steamtown 10 years ago. I have a picture of it somwehere with the smokebox open and the boiler shield removed. You can see all the firetubes with the superheaters running through them.

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I am testing straight from your site to see if your links work with this pic. Hope you do not mind?

I certainly don't mind. I think I know why we can't link directly - something to do with this sites forum software. If you see the links page to that image you'll notice 2 different types of forum links. Some forums support them, some don't. I suspect this is one of the latter. PM me (here if you can or on ASM) if you'd like further details.

Alright now! There is NOT enough silliness goin' on here!

JeffS, your pic is awesome! Have to agree with Choo on the avi. I live two blocks from a track intersection so it can be loud when they go through - often. Especially when there's a North wind. Once used to the loudness, I enjoy listening to the different whistles.
When my grandkids were here during the summer, my grandson (six come Groundhog Day) would get all excited and run out back to stand up in a chair and watch, just mesmerized. Or best is when his sister or I would hold him up at the fence cause it's closer. He loves all things train! Holding him, I could feel it's soothing to him. I won't be surprised if they're somehow a big part of his adult life.
To me, in the distance, it's such a lonesome sound. Not here though.

So does this mean the showdown is over? I still say what'd I miss? Did I sleep too long? What time zone are we in?
Is it time to change our avis back? I'm suppose to be howlin' at the moon now. Think I'll go change it.

Taz, I should've known what you were up to! You don't make a good spy though. Yep, cookies are all spoken for!
As for the DeLorean, it's MINE next! Don't you go tryin' to get it first! I've got dibs!! Miss M said!

Keep after Choo, Miss M. Surely he'll tell us eventually!
Come'on Choo! Give us just a tiny little hint. Please!!

Hi Pete!

Thurston! Welcome to th' Asylum! No exclusive club here, just folks' reluctance to post. Still can't figure that one out. hmmmm
Anyway, glad to see you and JeffS hangin' around. And N too.

Does that mean we're not SO crazy after all (hah! not a chance!)? Or are ya'll just venturin' on over to the darkside? Cookies are all gone but Taz might have some pretzels left. Ya might ask Miss M 'bout some o' them rats too. I bet she'd be happy to share!

Off in search o' that sweet li'l fly. OMG! Now which wall to start with!

edit: Holy cow! That's forever long! Have I used up my allotment for th' week?

Hi Shadeaux, I thought all this steam buff stuff frightened you girls off, yes it was getting eerily sane around here.

Well even with all the new recruits appearing here the playing field is still relatively level boys to girls all though I am sure you and Ms M can be a lot sillier than us, none can beat the freezer rats yet, and 'witch' of you was it with the broom stick ?

I have already called Taz treachorous for confusing me, the train wrecking literally got derailed when JeffS blinded us with his pictures of his enormous engine !

Ms M won't accept a VIP ticket, do you want it instead seeing as you are both being greedy with the DeLorean, where are you Pete, time for another mutant Tele-tubbied attack

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yes it was getting eerily sane around here.

Yes, and we just can't have that.

I wonder if Miss M will still have those rats whenever it may be that I go see her.

That train derailing, those pics are just somethin'! Yes, I know, quite the understatement there.
I'm sending that link to my granddaughter so she can show it to her little brother. They'll both enjoy that. Thanks JeffS.

I just don't know what to do with Taz. His sweetie needs to get back and straighten 'im out. Or would that be pretzel shape 'im.

I'm not bein' greedy with the DeLorean. It's mine next, fair an' square. Taz is tryin' to take cuts, and I don't know what's keepin' Miss M so long with it. Maybe I will take that VIP ticket after all, thank you.

edit: I know it's gettin' late for ya Choo. I may not be here when ya go nighty night. So sweet dreams. I'll be waitin' on that ticket. 'Course I'm still waitin' on that check from Miss M too. (love ya missy.)

Aha, someone did not read the small print about the VIP ticket a page or to back, he, he, he, too late now

You'll need to cast a web of protection around you otherwise the fly's litle spider could end up a flat as a bug on the windshield

Oh Noooooooo!!!!!!!!
!zaT dna enoz emit 'ht no ti emalb I

Stop th' train!!!! Nooooooo!!!
Ohhh help me my li'l fly!!! Hellllllp meeeeee pleeeeeeease! I've trapped myself!

"flat as a bug on the windshield"... I'll never have th' guts to do that again!

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I'll never have th' guts to do that again!

True, they'll be spread far and wide, good night, sweet dreams

I'm a goner!

OH MY goodness, sorry Jeff, forgot about the Cap no no......I can't keep up here. I had a bunch of sales the last two days!!!!! yeah!!!!
newbie is happy......
I glanced over the "choo'ss" on here- omg all of them, (and I like Jeff's best) and read briefly...I barely know ya all and I gotta figure out which choo is whoo.
I'm getting ready to leave on a 15 night vacation in sunny Cabo San Lucas.....I cannot wait to see the sun!!!
Gotta close up my store for two weeks ...now I have to figure that out!
Yep it's bloody fun to see the sun in the winter.
Hola mi amigos, and adios for the next few hours.

OH yeah maybe I should say this choo has left the station for now, be back online, track, soon!

Hey everybody....Miss S we keep missing each other here..
""I wonder if Miss M will still have those rats whenever it may be that I go see her""
Well, the darn things are still in my freezer, so maybe (psycho lunatic)
OK the DeLorean is yours now, just be sure to give it to Taz when you're done with it
I want my eyes back, I'm lost without my x-ray power, but the train has gotta stay for now - maintenence - tomorrow morning for sure

EDI - Oh alright, I cheated for now to get my eyes back Boy that sounds kinda creepy doesn't it

Jeffs yes Steamtown around 10 years ago sounds right. K-4 #1361 in it's full glory

Miss S not trying to usurp the Delorean just asking to utilize it after your due course!
Even if I have to outfit it with the Trash Compactor!

OK all new topic! Dum-Dum of the day question! Anyone game?
Why do people post completely idiotic questions?

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Deleted Images are Not deleting from closed (old) ebay

Unless you are totally anally retentive why does this even matter?

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Unless you are totally anally retentive why does this even matter?

Can't be that retentive if they want to have a good clear out

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I'm a goner!

Where's the fly ... a spider needs an airlift .... and quick