nonregdaduck75 said:

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c'mon ppl. I need something to lighten the mood and shorten the distance r til 1st pitch. I now know how to call the bank to get time and temp. Where was that growing up in Conroe?

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Life is good on this post.

nonregdaduck75 said:

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c'mon ppl. I need something to lighten the mood and shorten the distance r til 1st pitch. I now know how to call the bank to get time and temp. Where was that growing up in Conroe?

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nonregdaduck75 said:

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c'mon ppl. I need something to lighten the mood and shorten the distance r til 1st pitch. I now know how to call the bank to get time and temp. Where was that growing up in Conroe?

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I love the content and mood of this thread.

Each day, I get to see a new locomotive post as well as posts about the good ol' days.

Gig 'em!!!

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ensign_beedrill said:

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Not sure if already posted but here's two trains for the price of one:


BEFORE:





DURING:



and

AFTER:



The "Crash at Crush" in 1896 between West and Waco .Crash at Crush

CCAD AG: Howdy, WOW! NEVER heard of that, TOO STRANGE to almost believe!!! So many questions.

Are you at the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD)?

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I was at CCAD for my first "real job" after retiring from the Army in 2001. I have been on TexAgs since well before the Bonfire collapse, including when everyone had to create a new account. I was originally "Stuck in Egypt, Missing the Game", then changed to CCAD Ag when I was in Corpus. That only held true for 6 months before moving to Waco. Haven't changed my handle since then, even though I'm now on the Mississippi Coast for what my wife and I swear will be our LAST move.

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I love the Metra system in Chicago and its surrounding areas. It is an efficient and effective way for Chicago commuters and tourists to get into, around, and out of the city and its surrounding suburbs. I also like that the Metra locomotives are named after the cities, towns, and villages they serve in Chicagoland, such as this #175 locomotive representing the Village of Worth.

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If you played with the world's first Aurocad...Etch-a-Sketch or Skedoodle, than you have lived well. Here's to a damn good childhood!

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If you grew up using one of these...
You once again grew up in better days!

Love me some offseason baseball news.

Items that give your age away…
How many varieties did your family try?
Introduced in the early 1970's due to a beef crisis:

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Back in the days when TV dinners were king! The Salisbury steak was always a winner!

We were the kids cuisine generation. The nuggets, mac and cheese and brownie were the bomb for the nine-year old me

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Hamburger Helper was a life saver, Marie student with small children, both working and I carried 16-20 hours a semester. only meal many a night

ensign_beedrill said:

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This is what I envision as a classic American locomotive. I love this design, and so, apparently, did Walt Disney...

Wikipedia: "Central Pacific 173"
Central Pacific 173 was a 4-4-0 (a steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels) "American" type steam locomotive, built by Norris-Lancaster for the Western Pacific Railroad in 1864. ... It subsequently became the prototype for the railroad's engines when the CP began constructing locomotives. The engine was successful, and more engines were built to #173's design.

In the 1950s, its blueprints became the basis for a miniature railroad built by Hollywood movie studio owner and railroad enthusiast Walt Disney, who had a 1:8 replica built by the studio's machine shop. The Lilly Belle which resulted was widely copied by other "live steam" hobbyists and became the basis for the future Disneyland theme park's miniature railroad's engine, the C. K. Holliday. The engine itself also served as the basis for Engine No. 2 in the Disney animated short films The Brave Engineer, Out of Scale, and A Cowboy Needs a Horse.
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Sears Christmas catalogs

ensign_beedrill said:

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Thank you for sharing another Chicago Metra locomotive,
this one named for the Village of Berkeley, Illinois.
I love the theme of locomotives this year.

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Things that take you back to the good old days...

Who remembers the National Athem and..."This concludes our broadcasting day..."
Fuzz and horizontal stripes! I still think we were smarter with fewer channels.

In honor of 172, a commercial introduced in 1972:

aggiewilliford said:

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Days Left: 172
Things that take you back to the good old days...

Who remembers the National Anthem and..."This concludes our broadcasting day..."
Fuzz and horizontal stripes! I still think we were smarter with fewer channels.

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I do.
Because that's when the real fun began...

Those clowns scared the crap out of me as a kid

All of those movies were a hard no for me. My dreams were way too easily haunted by scary movies.

"It's 10 O'clock at night. Do you know where your kids are at?"

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Thank you for your insights on them!

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You grew up in the best years ..."the good ol' days" if you know what this is...


Side Note---thank the Lord for indoor theaters because if we had stayed the course of family movie nights at the drive-in I would never had heard the lines in the movie. The reason for my lack of movie sound recognition was do to a family condition known as "2 older sisters." This condition caused me to be shoved into the backseat and told to watch the picture and imagine the words while my 2 older sisters hogged the speaker. I didn't know what Star Wars was truly about until Empire came out and I got to see it indoors. Ahhhhh sibling love! Lol