George, Any person wanting to go to Chicago should get to El Paso they can be bussed to Chicago with the migrants ! OUCH !
But they ought to be going by train! George and "The Wife" have a nice passenger train, get a few more and let 'em roll!!
Somewhat off topic, your post reminded me of a joke in the late 1960s when passenger train ridership was in rapid decline. A passenger phones the B&O Agent and asks "What time does the Capital Limited depart for Chicago? The Agent replies, "What time do you think you can get here?"
and people said there's no way to dress up a Bachmann 4-8-4 They look great with those streetlamps imo!
When my wife was a teen, she rode a Greyhound bus through the southwest with her mother. She overheard two women talking seated behind her. One said to the other, "Ah, El Paso. That's the first town name I've been able to pronounce since "Al-Boo-Kew-Kew".
Kinda like the wall flower at a dance, waiting in the shadows at the back of the hall. They don't look so good under the lights, out on the dance floor... Besides, lots of those old park monuments have been covered in so many layers of black paint (interspersed between layers of rust), the details are all but gone anyway. But I will say, the massiveness of the driveline parts on those beasts amazes me! Before computers could perform accurate stress analysis on complex shapes, "adding more metal" was the safe answer. At a railroad museum in Ogden years ago, they had a big old steam engine, early model diesel electrics, and some later model ones, all side-by-side. It was readily apparent how much more efficiently steel was employed in designs as their era progressed towards today. And of course, judicious use of higher strength steels helped a lot too, no doubt.
I was fortunate to have been a kid growing up in the Ogden area when that Union Station Museum first opened. Our cub scout pack visited the place when they had a Big Boy there. That was the most impressive locomotive I have ever seen in person and the experience was a huge part of why I got into model railroading.
Having lived in "El Paso", long ago, I have a way of saying that name. But it is not polite, so i cannot repeat it here......
I remember using a primitive (by todays standards) navigation app on my phone in Scranton where I was travelling for business off and on for a couple of years. Anyway, there's a road named "Scranton Carbondale Highway", but at one intersection we frequented, the road sign is abbreviated "Scr C'dale Hwy" The app pronounced it as "scrickadale huh-wee", with emphasis on the last syllable. We all had a great laugh at that...
Now that would be cool indeed. Looked around on the 'net for small wristwatches and nothing I found even comes close to a proper size in N for that application, analog or digital.
A small ladies watch would be your best bet for a starting point, but even then it's gonna be bigger than that . I wonder if you could use a small backlit LCD display for one (likely in a square case with a round opening).
