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Your golden-era model railroads!
I was playing around with the cell yesterday afternoon (my trains weren't running for much of the weekend due to a bad breaker in the panel that ran just the plugs in this and two other bedrooms, but it got fixed) and got this once I was able to power everything up again.- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
August, 1943: The old men are hanging around at the Grindstaff store at Sadie, TN, talking about the raging war "across the water," some comparing it to their time in France in 1917. A farmer digs out his ration card for his aging pickup truck, thankful that the tires are still in good shape...- p51
- Post #43
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I took a few more photos with my cell the other night… GI waiting to go on leave at the Buladeen depot: The old men are hanging around at the Grindstaff store at Sadie again, pondering the war “across the water” and some are remembering when they went in 1917: The Unaka factory at...- p51
- Post #42
- Forum: The Display Case
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The Ernest Hemingway Thread
I was recently in Paris and noticed "Hemmingway stayed here" signs on more than a few buildings...- p51
- Post #310
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?
I started reading this thread from the start and after a few pages, my eyes started glazing over. I have a Space Camp jacket (yes, I've been there 4 times, in the adult programs) and while I haven't been accused of making people think I'm an astronaut, I have twice been asked to sign autographs... -
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New Guy Here - My Painted A2, 35 Missions Beautiful Art
WOW! I've seen (and owned) several original A2's over the years, but this has some of the best art I've ever seen, especially the front. I've also never seen the 8th AF "combat crew" blue backing for the wings painted like that. -
Forward Time Travel
Interesting concept about location. The only sci-fi I ever read that mentioned changing locations being a hazard in time travel had the time machine on a boat, engaging at high tide with the understanding that everything had to be secured for a almost-certain instant fall to whatever level the...- p51
- Post #55
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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FULL GEAR
You probably could have gotten responses before now if you'd posted something other than a title. I had to look it up and even then it took a few minutes to find a reference to the book itself: https://hlj.com/product/OTHBK079 I have most of the WW2 fight gear books including some Japanese ones... -
WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
This past weekend, my living-history group put on a large WW2 display at the Olympia (WA) air show. The second day, I brought out my war correspondent stuff, which the public really liked (the first day, I had my Ordnance display) My Jeep is the second to the right in this lineup (out of the... -
The End of the Collector Mindset
Ever notice all the things people would buy because they felt they had to, but never intended to use ever? Sets of china really stand out. Who really eats on those, especially the old type that might have lead in the pattern? People who have to deal with someone leaving them a set, and after a...- p51
- Post #183
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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New Catch-22 mini series - George Clooney to Direct
I know a few of the people who try to make a living off of working on films like this (there are more than you might think) and I can't figure out who's working the 'nuts and bolts' portions of this series, and apparently nobody else in the biz seems to know either. The only thing I've heard is...- p51
- Post #2
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Forward Time Travel
I'd think that many religious people would consider your very existence, post-death (without any recollections of 'Heaven') to be an affront to their beliefs. I'm not talking smack about religious people, but I am saying it's a given that enough of them would go nuts upon hearing of this, that...- p51
- Post #38
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Things I wanna know before I kick the bucket!
We live in a world where everyone's talking but hardly anyone is listening. Kids today, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, will often answer, "Famous." Not famous sports player, actor, politician; just famous. They don't care what they're famous for. Just like those two oxygen...- p51
- Post #218
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Forward Time Travel
Imagine this from a purely philosophical standpoint: Someone dies, gets frozen, then somehow they get 'fixed' and woken up. Just think of how religion would handle that, especially if there was no memory of bright lights and being in heaven or hell. How about the legal aspect? All their worth...- p51
- Post #35
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Forward Time Travel
I think this says it all: As for me, after reading "The Forever War," the idea of going forward in time got to sound nightmarish, as it did in HG Wells', "The Time Machine". Who'd want to go forward and find out a meteor strikes the earth a month after you left your time and the Earth now looks...- p51
- Post #32
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your golden-era model railroads!
What is essentially a staging area with scenery passes on front of a window. When the sub is just right, and I can get some decent shots if I open the blinds. Everything looked just right last night:- p51
- Post #41
- Forum: The Display Case
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WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)
I always thought that was silly because the Germans announced it over the radio hours before he called the AP London office. Kennedy later said that was why he did so, as he thought if it was over the air, the embargo must have been lifted. His primary error was to not double check that. AP... -
Your golden-era model railroads!
More random cell shots, taken last night:- p51
- Post #40
- Forum: The Display Case
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WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)
Nothing new there, the press has always been a cutthroat field... There was also a correspondent who broke the embargo of the D-Day landing story and was sent home in disgrace, but his name escapes me at the moment. -
WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)
MikeKardec, interesting take on the Axis 'big picture' and for the most part, I agree with it based on what I know. It never made any sense to me how any of the Axis nations could believe they'd be able to keep their empires like that, especially in Japan's case. The early horrific war in China...
