So, I am getting close to being done in Stettler for the summer. Already. It has been too short to be anything other than a whirlwind really. Lots of train days, and a fair amount of rail activity in the last couple of weeks ( Read more... )

Well, I was hoping to get some writing done this weekend, and so far I have done zero.

Other than that, I have decided to start reading Moby Dick.  I am running about one chapter a day right now.  And that seems like an appropriate way to approach Melville ( Read more... )

Well, I have not been getting anything done other besides work.  And a small amount of decalling on two undecorated hopper cars ( Read more... )

I think Trump might finally be going down.

Thank God.

IOC’s ‘half-measure’ on Russian doping leaves great question unanswered

So the great question remains unanswered.

Just what would it take for the International Olympic Committee to throw an entire country out of the Games for systemic, state-sponsored doping - not just a piddly little no-one-would-miss-them-in-the-Opening-Ceremony country, but one ( Read more... )

Well, I have not made a public post in about three weeks.  I have been working on a couple of projects, but even the latest of those was last updated on the 10th ( Read more... )

So today was a full day of moving storage cars.  We have to move about 300 in order to switch out five.  It too all day to dig down to the cut where the five are.  And maybe on Monday there will be enough time to bang them out and then put most of the "backs" back.  Maybe ( Read more... )

Well, I am moved back into the Stettler Motel, home of my heart ( Read more... )

I missed the night race from Daytona again ( Read more... )

M.:  It's hard to say what is going to happen with the markets in the next while.  But if I hear that what we really need to sort things out is a nice, short European war, maybe lasting until Christmas, then I think it's time to be worried.