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There’s the option of turning an engine on a triangle (“wye”) when one is available.

Don’t be afraid of doing it yourself. I’ve repaired one toilet, then replaced that one several years later, plus replaced two others. The most difficult bit is being able to lift the bowl high enough to clear the wax ring and not deform it. You can get wax rings of different thicknesses, or actually stack wax rings to take account of some unevenness in the floor. (And I’ve never heard of foam gaskets before!)

Yesterday I took the winter tires off the car and replaced them with the all-season tires it runs with for the warmer months. Today, I drove the car some distance with the all-seasons. I had forgotten how much quieter the car is with those tires on, compared with the winters.

There’s a story (possibly apocryphal) of a similar incident in a Canadian town on the Prairies. A man noticed activity in his garage at the far end of his yard. Suspecting a burglary in progress, he phoned the local RCMP detachment to be told that they currently had no officers available to respond. He hung up, waited a couple of minutes and phoned back to say that the RCMP did not need to respond, as he had taken his shotgun and sorted things out himself. Cue the arrival of several cruisers at high speed with full lights and sirens, in time to apprehend the very alive burglars. After things had been sorted out, the officer in charge said to the householder “We thought you said you had shot them?” To which the reply was “I thought you said you had no officers spare to respond?”

This will also allow Mrs iD to know exactly what you have. Have you thought this through?

Perhaps, but the granting of a licence should be a formality. After all, the US constitution guarantees the right to arm bears.

North Berwick (August 1961). The branch from Drem Junction was built as double track, but was singled soon after construction.

Yesterday, to end a discussion item about the current unrest on US university campuses, CBC played Neil Young’s “Ohio”: https://youtu.be/YdVMGKOFIwY?si=GUvsNF_V8Y1cN5qe

History of school shootings in the US from 1840 (!) on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

There was a major one at the University of Texas in 1966; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting which was the deadliest school shooting in the US for more than 40 years after that.

In three and a half years living in the area, I can’t have found a pub where Shipstones was being kept well, then. (I tried hard enough!) Of the local breweries, I preferred Hardy Hanson’s. And (IMO) we were lucky that the village we lived in had a Marston’s pub.

Canadian airlines seem to specialize in long-distance gliding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 (claimed as a world record for unpowered flight by a passenger aircraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

UP’s Cane Creek branch, again: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/855773/

Val Doonican was post-1922 😛.

Try Irish records before 1922 - though things are apparently getting better.

There are two different services being discussed here: - the London-Thurso via Rosyth passenger service for naval personnel - the South Wales to Rosyth, Invergordon and Thurso (for Scapa) coal trains I think the OP was asking about the coal trains. Welsh coal naval specials went elsewhere in Scotland too. Some, at least, went to Greenock via the G&SWR.

Not required so much nowadays: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14789036

Does that require an EA?

We are very tolerant people here in (British) Columbia. Colombia, now - that’s quite a different place!

Shades of Major Major Major Major 🤨!

Five cars carrying scrap ties on fire in CPKC train passing through London, Ontario: https://x.com/jmccall54/status/1782261594501554619

Mine were cheaper from the local antique/junk store of fond memory. It was great for those “I’ll only need it for this one job so no way am I buying a new one” tools.

Sorry - I can’t think of any way of doing that. It’s a pity that “rrpicturearchives” doesn’t trace the movement of rolling stock the way it traces locomotives, though I know that would need a massive effort. And how many people would need that ability (present company excepted? 😐).

Despite the fact that the conductor was legally responsible for the correct destination being displayed, it was always our drivers that ‘changed the board’.