"Why you see Mr. Howard, I have the files for Century of Steam. I only need you to bring me cold fusion so we can restart the Steam store page for it. Everyone works for me eventually Mr. Howard."
- Mr. Newell
Me in the wasteland for 200 years trying to find the last operating developer computer with the unreleased game files on it:
"Oh boy, today is going to be my day."
Global geopolitics: "Nah."
October Sky, Link has a cameo as a locomotive engineer passing by while the Rocket Boys are stealing rail to scrap on a parallel track to fund their model rocketry.
Richard Steinheimer and his wife Shirley Burman (he's the ultimate cult classic rail photographer).
This is how I imagine setting your photo kit then (got to have those Link flash bulbs) π:
Who else is studying the classics?
Imagine the Pentrex narrator voicing over the most inappropriate videos in THAT voice. Footage of tragic disasters, sex tapes, court proceedings, funerals, etc. All in the Pentrex voice.
I feel like my cheesy Valentines day card idea is "we could be lovers secluded in a compartment coach in the late Victorian era behind a steam train in Britain π©ββ€οΈβπβπ¨" (thanks Rapido UK for that brain worm π€£)
*divining? Not diving. You know. Divination stuff. Not SCUBA. π€£
Archeologist in the year 3026: "The Superb Owl was a diving ritual used by the railroad industry to determine their ritualistic colors for the following year."
I made this a long time ago and I think people here will appreciate it.
Another stab at a 1970's Minerva Mink. Surely she's the biggest groupie of the Laurel Canyon troubadours. A fiend of the disco halls. She can groove like no other, and is the life of the party.
Just don't ask what she's planning to do with all those plaster casting supplies. π«£ #furryart
Got to get that "Disney villain henchman" look like any good dog's underbite.
You know what both remind me of Hollywood and Werewolves? "Moon Over Minerva" and "Werewolves of London"! (This made a lot more sense in my head, would probably come out better if my mink was more on-model). #furryart
I'm less of a "date 1 kisser" guy and prefer my romantic stories to be about socially awkward guys pining after a woman for a decade in such a slow burn... that the film cuts the plot entirely (will duel for her after the 1st date though). π€£
But you do you I guess.
"My model railroad ideas are unique."
My desire to do a 1970's layout like everyone else because Walthers does this kit based on Randy's...
Street running? Oh be still my heart. π₯³
Let me just direct you to @rapidotrains.co.uk and cry for your wallet.
You can give a mouse a locomotive, but then he'll ask for a matching fleet of Evolution coaches... π€ͺ
Jokes on you its not GE... its Wabtec.
* The first train set
* The first weathered car
* The narrow gauge experimentation
* Unfinished modular
* Taste of N scale
* The OO scale importing
* Surrender to the wide cab diesel
What's next? The embrace of three-rail? π€£
When you finally pass the right of passage of a model railroader and break down and buy a ScaleTrains model of a GE/Wabtec wide cab diesel:
You know this is a morose enough piece, I had to dig through my old pictures and find something more cheery. From 2024:
I'd like to go to Amherst someday, but I gotta live vicariously through others. I wonder if any announcements will be exciting this year?
Yep, it's January.
π΅ "Going the distaaance. Going for speeeed. She's all alone (all alone) in her time of need." π΅
We can hope. π€£
(Dear lord in the next life make me into Richard Conrad the Raccoon living in Cincinnati, Ohio browsing the computer through Usenet being set up with this skunk from Columbus in the 1990's, I have seen what you have done for others you can do it for me π€£)