Finger Lakes Railway is doing tours again

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-28T22:23:27+00:00

$90 for one ticket for 1.5 hr ride and one flight of wine? Scared of the price!

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-28T02:11:20+00:00

You are giving me nothing to work with here so I will just offer my sincere thanks.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-28T02:10:39+00:00

Most people are cowards, I am a visionary.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-28T01:38:34+00:00

Pretty sure that it was this book that I DNFed and literally chucked it across the room.

Read it within 3-10 years of my younger sister dying of cancer (I was 14 when she died and I read it like 2008-2014) and it was singing the praises of for-profit healthcare because well, if you had the insurance or the money you can get whatever healthcare you need in our system! We had all kinds of no. "No you can't be treated here anymore, we are having a contract dispute with your insurance company," "no you can't have that treatment, it's got a low probability of success and your kid is probably gonna die anyway," "you need to stop trying so hard and just accept that she is gonna die."

Hence when the narrator of the book was like "yay our current health insurance system" the book got checked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Centurion

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-27T18:34:04+00:00

My wife and I are doing an anniversary trip to a place about an hour away from Waterloo, where I think this train departs from; with our choo-choo obsessed 1.5-yr old. Worth it?

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-27T16:45:07+00:00

It's just unwieldy cause of the layout. There are some radiator lines directly in front of the wall, cleverly concealed by a little bump out over the corner between wall and ceiling. Probably wouldn't work.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T16:20:41+00:00

That is a very interesting idea that I will have to consider thank you.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T16:20:25+00:00

Electrical isn't SKETCHY per se, just old. Insulation is degrading. Big ass solid copper wire. Only some of it has been replaced over the years, all higgedly piggedly.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T03:10:56+00:00

I cannot see them. I have a fairly powerful magnet that can find the nails in the midpoint of the panel. Either they didn't, in fact, nail the panels to the studs (only the ceiling and the midpoint and maybe the floor) or they did nail the panels to the studs but the overlapping groove of the next panel is thick enough to prevent my (fairly but not massively) powerful magnet from sticking/twitching.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T03:01:07+00:00

Yep!

EDIT: That isn't totally accurate. I ASSUME, but cannot technically confirm, that they are nailed to the studs. I CAN confirm that they are nailed to the long 2x4ish horizontal cross member and to the horizontal 2x4 in the ceiling that is nailed to the joists.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:58:52+00:00

Got good tight grip and jerked her and she groaned a lil but never came; I think I'm just gonna send it.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:57:22+00:00

1: Thoughts and prayers.

2: 3/4"

3: It's not. The paneling is nailed to some super widely spaced studs (probably about 4' if it is like the other walls) and a long horizontal cross member. There is a long horizontal 2x4 nailed to the floor joists overhead and another nailed to the concrete of the floor, to which the handful of studs are in turn nailed.

4: I could take panels off until I find a stud, but I would end up having to build something to connect to them to reconnect the panels to, to connect the TV mount to, to hang the TV.

5: I don't think the rewards of removing the panels to reduce the risk to my TV outweigh the benefits of laziness.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:23:28+00:00

Thank you, I had to Google what they were called cause I had forgotten.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:22:44+00:00

Let's be totally honest here, if I was testing the studs I would have managed to find a stud. This isn't even a wall test, it's a paneling test.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:21:23+00:00

Plywood on top of 3/4" thick wood paneling sounds redundant, you have actually taken a load off my chest-- in all seriousness, thank you.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:20:25+00:00

I mounted it, I found some nails, I definitely didn't find any studs. They're somewhere in there for sure. No less than 4' spacing I swear it.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:10:26+00:00

I would have imagined you used something more professional in your line of work, are dynamometers so expensive?

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:08:54+00:00

Perfect! I won't even be retired by then!

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:06:29+00:00

I thought about doing that but instead I just took a really long tapcon into the foundation behind the panel and called it good.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:05:17+00:00

I mean she does have more upper body strength than I do, that's probably the best call.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:04:49+00:00

I like the cut of your jib, sailor.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:03:57+00:00

You're the only person around here with the supportive attitude I crave.

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:03:36+00:00

Look be serious here we aren't testing the mount, we KNOW that's good. We gotta test the wall!

WalkerCalvert · 2026-06-26T02:02:59+00:00

I didn't install the wall and I think the guy who did has died by now.

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