Anybody seen that popcorn machine around here???

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… and does anyone have a dust rag?

Hi gang. It’s been a while since I been in here. Did I miss anything good? [swg]

I have some time on my hands these days so I’ll be around for a minuet. I might even thow down with some new ‘western where is its’, (although they might not be exclusivly western anymore since I’ve been all over the country the last 7-8 years)

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Hey Chad! It’s been pretty quiet here on the forums, and as usual I lurk more than I post.

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Still here, Chad! Welcome back!

I thought you took care of the popcorn.

Sadly, we’ve lost two of our best forum people, with both Mookie and Ed Blysard passing away.

The arguments don’t get as heated as they used to…the trolls are usually quickly outed and ignored.

I find much less of interest than I used to…perhaps there really is nothing new under the sun.

Stick around for a while!

And if your travels ever bring you to Chicago, we’ll paint the town whatever paint scheme you’re most interested in!

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Hi Brian

Hi Carl

glad to see you both still around. [8D][tup]

So sorry to hear Jen & Ed are gone. That’s a bummer. I’ll miss them around here, they both were heavy (& valuable) contributers to this place for well over a decade.[:(]

It does seem a bit quiet around here, mabee we need a troll or two for entertainment value. [swg]

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Hello, Chad! [tup][tup] [#welcome] BACK!

Hope you’ve dusted off that popcorn machine…

Any number of times it has been needed around here.[:-^]

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Thanks Sam, seems like the trolling has subsided at the moment. It’s quiet…almost too quiet [}:)]

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Now you did it! You said the “Q” word…

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Hi Larry, good to see your still around here too [tup]

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Hey, I try.

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Quiet as heck in your old stomping grounds down here, except that they finally built the two new bridges over the San Diego River and now have them both open north of Old Town. Next to the newer bridge they are still building the new bridge (2 tracks) for the trolley route out to UCSD, with some interesting whoop-de-do building in the UTC area for the new line also going on. You can see some of the progress from a couple of years ago on Google Earth.

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Is it Ground hog’s Day again? [:-,] How are ya? What part of the country are you living in now?

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Hi Chuck, Good to see you’re still around[tup] It’s hart to believe I have not even been down there in almost ten years. Heck I havn’t even been to southern Cal in 3 or 4 years [:O]. These days I’m just another guy jellous of you and your sunny San Diego [:-^]

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Hi MS, Good to see you’re still around too.

I’ve been all over the grid the last few years. I think the last time we talked I wasn’t too far from you down in Norfolk, Ne. I spent that spring/summer working in a bunch of towns in the northeastern cornhusker area [C):-)] (too bad I missed the Cowboy line by a couple of decades[sigh]).

Then it was down to a project in Biloxi, Ms. for almost a year living in a condo on the gulf coast beach [ip] That was nice [ip]

Then off to the Right Coast for 9 months in the Baltimore / Washington DC area with a couple short stints in Dover,De and Manassas, Va. That was certainly an adventure for this left coaster![swg] Railfanning back there is a different world. But seeing the northeast corridor in action was worth it [tup]

Then a couple months in Memphis, Tn… After that I came back out to California to work on a project for my old boss in the town of Coalinga.

Unfortunatly I had some ser

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Hi, Chad. Glad you finally got to see the NE Corridor. It’s impressive even nowadays. Wish I could have seen it in the days of PRR, with heavy passenger and freight traffic flying by. When we lived in MD 1992-1997 occasionally I was trackside when a single E60 thundered by dragging a train that seemed to take an hour to pass a given point. Glad you’re back.

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Hey SALfan , the NEC was intence. The trains passed by faster then I could grab the camera.[:^)]. It was a good eye opener for a left coaster though[bow]