Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, August 1, 2014

Because It's Friday

Bittern:

And she's not dragging a diesel behind her.

10 comments:

Ole Phat Stu said...: Saw Mallard back in the fifties, getting wheelspin at 100mph fer gawd's sake!; 8/01/2014 10:37 AM
Old NFO said...: Looked like a few double takes on the platforms too! ;-); 8/01/2014 12:38 PM
Anonymous said...: It just occurred to me that in the event of an EMP strike or solar flare a steam train may be the only mass transit engine still running. Assuming that the controls haven't been 'upgraded' with electronics.

Al_in_Ottawa; 8/01/2014 3:02 PM
Chuck Pergiel said...: ECML? East Coast Main Line?; 8/01/2014 5:06 PM
Deadstick said...: "Assuming that the controls haven't been 'upgraded' with electronics. "
Okay, now somebody has to take a picture of a steam engine cab and photoshop a Garmin into it...;-); 8/01/2014 7:43 PM
Andrew S. said...: One of the things that has me hopeful for the coming collapse is that the principles behind steam engines are now well-known, except maybe to common core livestock. Combo a biomass/wood/coal burning steam engine with a DIY generator and you have s solid start at regaining civilization.; 8/02/2014 12:24 AM
CenterPuke88 said...: Charles, yes, "East Coast Mainline" or "East Coast Main Line"...people disagree. It refers to the high-speed rail corridor between London and Edinburgh in the UK. It has no level crossings, one of the key criteria of high speed rail, and one of the main blocks to high speed rail in the US.; 8/02/2014 10:44 AM
Anonymous said...: "Okay, now somebody has to take a picture of a steam engine cab and photoshop a Garmin into it...;-)"

Yup, a glass cockpit with MFDs (Multi Function Displays) in a steam locomotive. That would offend the purists and the modernists both.

By upgrade to electronics I was referring to the practice of exchanging the original direct reading pressure and temperature gauges with sensors and electronic indicators and in the case of oil fired boilers using an electronic controller and solenoid valves to control the flame.

Al_in_Ottawa; 8/02/2014 10:50 AM
Ole Phat Stu said...: An EMP would take out the signalling system, so you'd be all steamed up with nowhere to go :-(; 8/12/2014 12:55 AM
Comrade Misfit said...: It would also take out the switching control system. The old switch towers, with racks of levers which moved the switch points by pushrods, were decommissioned a very long time ago.; 8/12/2014 8:35 AM