Today was a travel day-drove from Tucson, Arizona to Riverside, California. The trip wasn't bad-about nine hours counting stops and weather was good. I left Tucson around 9:00 AM and arrived at the hotel just after 5:00 PM. Checked into the hotel without difficulty and went out for dinner with some of the others ( Read more... )

Well, I've been putting off certain housekeeping tasks and now it is time for me to get them done. These specific tasks aren't that bad but will take time. Specifically, I need to document my valuable possessions for insurance purposes and I am doing that with my digital video camera. I should have started on this long ago but never got to it. Why ( Read more... )

As a railroader, I have always taken an interest in railroad grade crossing safety. I have been directly involved in two collisions myself and know the toll that those collisions take on railroad men and women. Naturally, I'm interested in anything that might improve railroad crossing safety. Everyone has seen railroad crossing signals, but none ( Read more... )

I've finally gotten one Saturday off to deal with things that needed doing around the house. Normally I would be working on the streetcar, except that the line had to be taken out of service due to damage to a switch and parts of the overhead power transmission wire that occurred this past week. The line should be open for business next weekend ( Read more... )