The real Mookie is a tortise-shell - a hybrid of their own. But she has pretty markings. She is med-hair - with a black mask and dark brown, black and medium brown markings with blonde underhair, white stomach and black toes. Have read that most torti’s are female - didn’t say whether they all came with the crabby disposition. She gets mad/scared and can sound like a bad Dash 9! The vet has learned to wear armour and steeled fingered gloves with her! But when happy, she purrs like an EMD! (see this is trains related!)
When driving on the freeway at 70 MPH and passing under one of those overhead directional signs, you feel like the engineer of the California Zephyr passing under a signal bridge in Naperville IL.
When you hear train horns outside your church on Sundays, and feel like heading for the door, even when the sermon isn’t half bad.
When mowing the lawn, you feel like a tired switch engine moving through a train “yard”.
When washing your car in the driveway, you see it as a locomotive being serviced.
When you name the book you just wrote and published, Two Track Main.
My daughter’s Dalmatian will chase a laser pointer (or any spot of light) ad nauseum, then keeps looking for it for hours after it’s been retired. My fault. I started him on it…[:o)]
ok here’s one for you.A friend of ours has a poster that shows two railroad workman on a friday.the section of track lines up like this
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and the caption says thank god its friday? does anyone know if they still make this poster?
stay safe
Joe
You yell “KICK 'EM” when shoving a dead automobile with another car.
My wife and I did that one day. She “KICKED 'EM” while I rode in the dead car and applied the braking. We went over two “humps”, and “spotted” the dead car in an empty “siding”(parking stall), and set the brakes.
Yes, we obeyed the yard (complex) speed limit too.
Kev, Congadulation on your third star!!!
If this was a well run and well organized WEB sight, that cares about its visitors, after three stars, It would give you a free subsciption to TRAINS magazine for a year!! But thats only if its well run and organized.
TIM A
Being in a railroading family the terms are nothing new to me. We will be at the dinner table and my dad will ask us to kick that food item over to him. If it is broken it is bad ordered, and he has even put tags on cars before while he was working on them. Thats hard to top!!!
cabforward my apologies[;)]
I tried to make the forum page look like the poster it did not work.the outer rails on the set of tracks do not meet properly just the inner rail.thus the two trackmen smiling and saying thank god its friday.
kev congrats on 3 stars[:p]
stay safe
joe
If you’re a GE train nut, you get tightened every few days. If you’re an EMD train nut, you go in service for 15 years before a maintenance man sees you.