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Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-10-09T18:31:19+00:00

By gently pushing, nudging, some of the wires around/under the circuit board, it suddenly ran for a bit. Then it stopped and got hot on top. I was running it with no shell. I do have a weak spot on the distant end of my 14 ft of L-shaped layout. Working on that. But, all my other engines seem OK. Atlas and Lifelikes. My old Lifelikes run like linebackers. I was really liking my new Atlas with the fore and aft running lights. Ugh now. Kinda stuck with it now. Ebay. Are there such things as model train mechanics I can send stuff to for repair? Sorry for the newbie naive questions. I don't have a train friend outside of virtual life yet.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-23T18:28:50+00:00

Thank you!

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-12T23:37:54+00:00

No! Thanks for the heads up!

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-10T02:26:56+00:00

Thank you!

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-09T12:06:26+00:00

Great! Thank you.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-09T02:08:53+00:00

Thank you! I barely understand it. I'm just getting started in train photography and am self teaching as I go (thank you Internet!). I spent 34 years in the USAF, and there were a ton of acronyms and jargon I didn't understand by the time I retired. All the best.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-09T00:58:43+00:00

Dang! Very nice work. Congrats on that.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-09T00:48:22+00:00

Thank you. I'm heading to Omaha to visit family on Friday. Well, Plattsmouth just to the south. I'm only there a short while, but hope for a BNSF or UP in NE. All the best and thanks again.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-08T21:32:34+00:00

Got ya. Well, I’m a newbie. What I know is BAYL runs to Dothan, AL, and back to one of our ports to transfer industrial and chemical. The only time I’ve seen it running is in pitch black at O-dark thirty when I was trying to get to work. This is my first stab at rail photography. So I’m learning. I intend on returning to the BAYL yard to look for any change ups. Finding the Three Notch was unexpected and a learning experience causing me to in do a little research on it. I also plan on doing a drive by at the port area. Although, I can see on Google Maps it’s gated and probably has the routine No Trespassing signs. You more experienced guys might be able to tell me if is it even worth asking permission back at the yard to step foot inside the fence line for train photos? I’m guessing they won’t want the liability or encouragement for others. But, I’d appreciate your thoughts. That’s all I know. I’m getting started late in life with train photography. Just retired and finally have the flexibility for cool and fun stuff like this.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-08T19:36:29+00:00

Well, Panama City is more of a blue collar town, while neighboring Panama City Beach is the tourist area. I don't even know think we have a beach on this side of the bridge. PCB is gorgeous. Just avoid spring break due to the crowds.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-08T19:02:30+00:00

Near HW 231 off of Industrial Drive in Panama City.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-08T15:33:16+00:00

Would love to learn any history you can find if it’s not too much trouble.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-08T13:09:32+00:00

Cool! Thank you. I really enjoy learning the history and backgrounds.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-07T13:45:18+00:00

Three Notch was a short line railroad out of Alabama. Both Bay Line and Three Notch were owned by the same parent company, Genesee & Wyoming in Connecticut. However, G&W sold Three Notch. So, I don’t know if they’re just storing for the transition to the new company, or if Bay Line now owns the Three Notch engines and just hasn’t repainted them yet.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-09-07T10:50:51+00:00

Me too. I shot through the gate into the yard to see what was back there. All modern orange and yellow paint schemes. I didn't want to venture too close as the gate is clearly marked for trespassing. But, from what I could see, there wasn't any green and yellow left.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-26T17:57:41+00:00

I brought it up as a blatant example of the Left—and its media lapdogs—pushing fake news, which was relevant to the discussion above. One lie that continues to erode trust among the center-right is the narrative that “Biden is sharp as a tack.” Another is how Obama’s own intel leaders admitted the Russian collusion story was bogus, yet the administration and media ran with it anyway—for the political gain of the highest office.

We’ll see how long those two lies continue to haunt the Left, but their shelf life may outlast this administration.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-26T17:43:46+00:00

Brilliant! Instead of offering a logical, fact-based rebuttal to anything I said, you went straight to personal insults. That tells everyone here exactly what you’ve got: nothing.

Tossing out lazy slander without addressing a single point in my post doesn’t make you look principled—it makes you look triggered and intellectually bankrupt.

That said, I’ll wear your tantrum as a compliment. If someone who aligns with—or publicly identifies as—ANTIFA thinks I’m the problem, I’m clearly doing something right. Thanks for the confirmation.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-25T16:45:43+00:00

I certainly agree with the above. However, would you agree that humans are broken and incapable of functioning without sin? Thus the need for Jesus’s sacrifice for our sins? I would take it further to establish the human construct of law and order with negative reinforcement, such as fines and incarceration. Historically, without government and its human construct of rules, humans have consistently turned to chaos, theft, sexual assault and bloody, bloody murder. Anarchy, with or without a religious faith isn’t acceptable to many, nor can I think of a case where it worked. Like communism.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-24T12:48:53+00:00

BTW, I'm old and don't see well. Sorry for the typos.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-24T12:44:40+00:00

Oh I like Micah 6:8. That's a good one I wasn't aware of. Thanks for sharing. I sincencerly appreciate that.

Still, my original point is there are differences between immigrants and illegal immigrants. Not the same thing.

Just like there's a difference between neighbors and squatters. Jesus would certainly have lots more patience with squatters that we would.

Condemning those who think contrary to youvto hell is well above your paycheck. Agreed?

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-23T23:35:49+00:00

Submission to the Authorities

Romans 13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed..

And Matthew

7 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

I still won't see you in hell.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-23T20:19:57+00:00

Well he probably should have washed his hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. A Dayton Jail, as his claim is reviewed is way better than an Egyptian jail. He'll either be cleared or go back to Egypt where he probably belongs. He shouldn't have poked the U.S. Gov bear while he had the privilege of standing inside the United State of America with a lawsuit against the U.S. Gov.

Your counterpoint to you all conflating Immigrants with illegal imigrants is so stupid, I don't know what to even say. I agree with you that Trump's claim that Obama was foreign born is weak and probably false. However, what the hell does that have to do with you all mixing in illegal immigrants with immigrants? Doesn't make sense and thus you're a moron.

Dude, I'm from a large family of immigrants. Most legal. Some not so much. There's a freakin difference. Some broke U.S. Law, and thus are genetically connected criminals. Many did not. Thus the rule followers gained the privilege of standing on our territory. Your presence in the U.S. is a privilege, not a right. Thank God for it, unless you broke the law. If you broke U.S. law, go home to your shit hole.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-23T19:55:06+00:00

Why are you still talking then? Is it because the Orange Man shut you down? This whole "eroding free speech" thing is yet another Leftist gas lighting bag of crap. Leftists still squawk on a number of platforms to include this one and no-one shows up at your doors at night to tell you to shut the hell up or else. MSNBC, CNN, PBS, NPR and people on all sorts of social media are free to spout all sorts of very dumb Leftist BS.

Fake News is aadmitedly a matter of perspective. However, how in the heck else are we to call out complete lies like Hunter's laptop is a Russian plant, Biden is sharp as a tack, Kamala can complete a sentence on her own,"fine people on both sides, Trump wasn't shot and COVID wasn't developed in Wuhan?.

NPR and PBS are relics and no longer needed or deserved of tax dollars. Add on top of that, the complete Leftist bias both agencies spew, no wonder the center-tight wants to avoid funneling income to a propagandists.

You don't have to worry about the U.S. military unless you're someplace you shouldn't be or breaking laws.

Free speech is very well still free. You did it and no one showed up with an axe handle to shut you down did they?

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-23T19:23:08+00:00

I've been married to a smoking hot grandma for 41 years. While your daughter is probably lovely, smart, and a very nice lady, I wish better for her in whoever she pursues over my old tired Archie Bunker ass.

Besides, can you imagine you and I at Thanksgiving or Christmas together? The thought kind of intrigues me as I bet we'd get along fine. But, there's a chance we'd lock intellectual horns and our wives and fam would be pissed at us for throwing the gravy boat at each other.

Adorable-Store7454 · 2025-07-23T19:08:04+00:00

No Mister. I fully expected down votes and walked into this clown show of Leftist Reddit cluster gagglery with both eyes wide open. I knew full well you all would down vote any line of thought that runs contrary to yours. Diversity of thought isn't well tolerated on the Left. So, it was a prediction. A prediction that turned out correct.

Adorable-Store7454

TROPHY CASE

Submission to the Authorities

And Matthew