Brian Danger Hicks

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One consequence of treating politics like favorite sports teams is that even when people do correctly identify political problems they will just naively assume that their team is on the correct side of the issue www.gocomics.com/pearlsbefore...

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Interurban Era

The Smithsonian plaque would imply that this is supposed to be CSM 105 and the backup Apollo-Soyuz docking module en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%...

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Interurban Era

That picture inspired me to do an image search and now I have to make you look at this

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Matt Novak

Which one?

And you call it a coat of arms despite the fact that it is clearly legs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of...

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Benito Cereno

Right when I almost got to the locomotive they kicked everyone off the platform so they could get ready to leave so no detail pictures I guess

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Interurban Era

Found a spot and got set up with about 20 minutes to spare.

Only in New Yawk, baby!

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Dr. Matt Lee (mattl) > SDCC

I thought we were doing it for the love of the game

Me and the regular group who like my posts

DARPA Moon railroad, eh? I have a proposal that I absolutely did not steal from Model Railroader's 1978 April Fools' article www.businessinsider.com/darpa-futuri...

"We have Hydrox at home." Hydrox at home:

Me:

I think the frontrunner spine cars were rather widespread but eventually railroads realized that multi-unit cars get similar economy with a much shorter rigid wheelbase

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Dinosaur Comics!

Perfect qwantz.com/index.php?co...

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Interurban Era

One of the items on my list of things I may or may not ever get around to is a calcium carbide car

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Interurban Era

Not the best look but as a Minnesota Commercial modeler I shouldn't judge

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Interurban Era

Here, have a PTC diagram I came across once which inexplicably uses an anonymized Soo Line GP30C (all three of which are now on the TCWR)

Happy Valentine's Day

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melissa~

Oh right, one of my favorites

Getting this in early

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Interurban Era

How about Milwaukee inspection car #5, or a Porter mine locomotive?

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Interurban Era

Would you like a Dash 8? Only $175 plus shipping.

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Interurban Era

To be fair, maybe the only locomotive they've ever seen was an EMD GA8

If you see this, post a batman

Date yourself with a shop that doesn't exist anymore (Not my photo, found at www.flickr.com/photos/paper... )

Date yourself with a shop that doesn't exist anymore I did make it to Gray's Drugs from Vic's photo a couple times, but I think the greatest vestigial pull for me would be to try and drive up to CompUSA in Roseville

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Interurban Era

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