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There’s a pub in a small town in the interior of BC where the doors are labelled “fir” and “mna”. Clue - it’s an “Irish” pub.

90% of white males are born in the USA?

Ah, the ‘other’ Hunterian Museum! It is based on the collections of John Hunter. William Hunter’s collections were bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, where he had studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunterian_Museum_and_Art_Gallery

Agreed. My last 4 pairs of soccer boots have been bought in charity stores or in clearance sales. None of them cost more than $20. I haven’t noticed any great decrease in my abilities (though that may be because there wasn’t much room for any further decrease.)

A bit OT, but that beats the thrice-withdrawn 8Fs (48773-5).

In the 1968 Glasgow hurricane, a house near my (now) wife’s family lost their one-car garage - scattered over the neighbourhood. They didn’t use it - it had been put up by a previous owner. My brother-in-law, then a teenager, made a deal with the neighbour - he could keep any bits he could find. By diligent searching, over quite a few blocks, he found 90% plus of the garage and re-assembled it in their yard.

I don’t know LKHs, but I do know, as a conductor, I would always prefer a front-door Lodekka over a rear-door one despite the extra passenger capacity. The driver could keep an eye on the door (though in the end it was your responsibility) and it wasn’t as draughty as an open platform, rear door bus. In 1979-1982, I played football on a Cambridge area team with an Eastern Counties mechanic. He was still bemoaning the loss of the FLFs (he called them ‘Fluffs’) to the Scottish Bus Group in the 1973 swap for VRTs.

And you know this how? 🤨

I would be interested in the replies - I’m looking for the same thing - except I’m an ocean and a continent further west, so they aren’t likely to be particularly relevant!

But wouldn’t there be reports of earth tremors in jungle areas?

Good to see Sam’s are still using horses. I remember them delivering to the local pub when we lived in the area in the 1970s. We had milk delivered by horse and cart from a local farm up to about 1960. The farm was at the top of a hill, at the back of the town. The route would be done top to bottom, so that the horse had only empties to pull back up the hill. There was a company who had several bonded warehouses in the central area of Glasgow and who used horses and carts to move things between the various locations, at least up until the late 1960s. Their reasoning was the same - overall, given the short distances, it was cheaper than using lorries. And good riddance to them! I seem to remember Shipstones was a favourite with locals, but not with anyone from elsewhere. I preferred Hardy Hanson’s of the local brews. My gran’s street in Glasgow still had gas street lamps when I was a kid. And I remember the lamplighters (‘leeries’) coming round with lit torches each evening to light the lamps. I worked as a junior porter on Paisley St James station for a while in 1965. One of my duties was to replace mantles and (if necessary) broken globes on the station’s gas lamps.

I was ‘spotting’ on Axminster station on a day in 1963 when the air was saturated as you describe. Bulleids were heading trains westbound through the station at 80mph plus. Behind the last coach on these trains trailed a long cone shape of water droplets. The reduced air pressure in that area was causing the water in the air to drop out. (Edit - my camera at that time was nowhere near up to photographing that phenomenon, so no pictures!)

I’m not disagreeing with anything that’s been written in the two posts immediately above. I’m just not sure what the arrangement was between the railways involved in the Forth Bridge Railway Company. Here are the sites from which I got the information I used in my previous post: https://www.railscot.co.uk/Forth_Bridge_Railway/index.php https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/iconic-infrastructure/the-history-of-the-forth-bridge-fife/

We’re getting into semantics here, but I think a better description would be “set aside for possible future preservation”. I never saw HR no. 2. I did see 54398 in a couple of Glasgow area sheds, though.

Yes, in sections: - Locomotives preserved by the railway companies before 1948 - Locomotives preserved by the British Transport Commission - Locomotives donated since 1953 - Locomotives scheduled for preservation 1960 (From the Summer 1962 Combine) There are inaccuracies. For example, in “Locomotives preserved by the British Transport Commission” (note the past tense) ‘Ben Alder’ is listed. (That is the Highland Railway ‘Small Ben’ class No. 2, not the esteemed member of this parish.)

Except for the alcoholic drink, which isn’t Scottish.

The G&SWR was not involved in the Forth Bridge Railway Company. In addition to the NBR, the NER, GNR and MR were partners in the company.

There are areas here in BC that used to grow a lot of fruit. Not nearly so much now - a lot of the farmers have gone over to grapes for wine. In the depression in the 1930s, the prices being offered to them for apples and pears were so low, there was a movement with the slogan “Two cents a pound (!!) or on the ground.”

It’s quite disturbing to realize that I actually experienced quite a few of the things that people are saying they wished they had been around to see or do. I must be getting old!

Today, the city has been running a plow regularly up and down the short street just west of us, keeping the street to the local high school clear. The problem with that is that the school has not been in session, a ‘snow day’ having been declared. Meanwhile, our street, off the street to the high school, hasn’t seen a plow all day. With the snow continuing to fall, we now have about 25cm on the street.

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That would be nice! Here’s the view off the deck this morning: and a humming bird regretting bitterly (😁) it didn’t migrate:

In Winnipeg, it’s 9 months of winter and 3 months of mosquitoes.

A forecast 10 to 20 cm of white stuff is in the process of falling. Drive-shovelling awaits.

IMO, this is one of Mike Danneman’s best for some time. (Look at the name of the beer.) https://www.railpictures.net/photo/849255/