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TGV

Sat, 2017-10-14 14:31 — Douglas Meyer

I recently took the EuroStar from London to Paris. Then the TGV from Paris to Avignon, the the TGV from Avignon to Tour and Finaly the TGV from Tours back to Paris. And in general I was not impressed.

Railroad stories

Sat, 2017-10-14 05:55 — sunacres

Part of what modeling does is create a sense of what a certain place and time feels like. Sometimes we're recreating personal experiences, other times we're imagining things we've heard or read about. I've been trying to squeeze in time for reading and found that there are many self-published memoirs by railroad workers available (along with a smaller number of professionally edited works). These all provide mental color and texture to my modeling endeavors and are also satisfying in themselves.

Big Boy documentary

Thu, 2017-10-12 01:56 — Warflight

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I found this to be really cool. It's an oldie... but new to me...

replicating an excursion

Wed, 2017-10-11 17:12 — Bremner

February 22, 1953 was the only time that the Pacific Electric ran a PCC on the Santa Monica Airline. Fortunately for the Pacific Electric fan, there are at least two pictures of this, one at the West Hollywood freight station and one at the Santa Monica freight station.