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Post by espeelover on May 25, 2008 18:00:58 GMT -5
Hi there, I was thinking that things were still a little slow around here, even after a full year has come and gone. What I would like to see is a few of you lurkers out there throw something into our stew pot. Just like in real Hobo Stew, the more input the better we all are for it. I don't care if its about SP, SSW, TNO or any road covered by the ESPEE's blanket. I don't care if its about modeling or the real thing. I don't even care if its a photo or just an amusing or historical story or observation. I'd just like to see folks step forward and start posting a bit more now, as opposed to "later on". None of us is getting younger! The boomer's all have a lot of snow (or glare) up on the summit, not to mention we are dropping like flies. So, share what you got before it winds up in the dumpster when your kids run out of ideas on what to do with it. Lets create something for the public good; it never hurts to have additional sources and locations for our favorite subjects. Who knows, maybe we will discover something together.
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Post by SSW9389 on May 27, 2008 5:14:18 GMT -5
If you want a new idea, read an old book. That is the old saying that is very true. If you can't find an old book about what you want to read about, write your own. That is what I am working on. Cotton Belt Fireman C. W. "Red" Standefer stands beside the B-2 American type he is firing in 1918. Standefer worked for Cotton Belt in engine service from 1917 to 1967 and retired as a #1 engineer on the Southern (Texas) Division of the Cotton Belt. You might say Red was determined, does he look determined in this photo? Ed Cooper CBRHS #111
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Post by thespcaboose on Aug 23, 2008 1:13:00 GMT -5
I have a question. How many members live or visited the Tennessee Pass and what were your thoughts about being there?
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Post by espeelover on Aug 23, 2008 2:29:55 GMT -5
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Post by SSW9389 on Jan 9, 2009 10:30:01 GMT -5
Bump!
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Post by thespcaboose on Mar 8, 2009 0:57:03 GMT -5
Things sure have gotten slow lately. I agree with espeelover that it would be nice to see things pick up around here.
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Post by espeefoamer on Mar 8, 2009 15:36:02 GMT -5
Things were getting so slow around here I was about to call 9-1-1 for emergency resuscatation.
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Post by espeelover on Mar 9, 2009 5:38:58 GMT -5
Things were getting so slow around here I was about to call 9-1-1 for emergency resuscitation. I'm not sure why traffic is tapering off so drastically, maybe the economy has too many folks occupied elsewhere. How about a project? How about reading a railroad story as a board project? The book I have in mind is a RR story, but it also has a lot to deal with why we are in the world crisis we are involved in. The book is called Atlas Shrugged; and it is about the death of the American Industrial Infrastructure...which deals with steel mills and railroads mostly...but it also deals with the will to make things work properly. I just started reading the book again, and did not know if anybody here might like to give it a shot as well. Just curious, maybe we can liven things up with some discussion of this, or another topic.
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Post by espeefoamer on Mar 10, 2009 20:27:34 GMT -5
I just might check it out after I finish the book I'm reading now.
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Post by thespcaboose on Mar 14, 2009 3:03:54 GMT -5
Another good book is SOUTHERN PACIFIC COUNTRY by Donald Sims. It's about the Southern Pacific system complete with a couple of maps and many photos. I reccomend it.
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Post by SSW9389 on Mar 14, 2009 9:28:57 GMT -5
History is made up of bits and pieces. When these bits and pieces are packaged together in book form they are much easier to view and interpret the meaning. So yes read a book, read an old book. And if you can't do that do something else.
Yes more of you could contribute your bits and pieces to this forum. It does not take much doing before you have influenced or changed someones thinking. Maybe your contribution will make their day. Otherwise keep your old bits and pieces, who needs them anyway! The old saying nothing ventured nothing gained seems to apply to this process.
My thanks go to Dr. Otha Spencer for helping me to understand the bits and pieces that truly make up our collective history. Spencer wrote a column in the Commerce Journal called of all things "Bits and Pieces". In it he would write about what was going on around him in the world of Commerce, Texas. He also wrote three books filled with these columns called Bits and Pieces volumes 1, 2 and 3.
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Post by espeelover on Mar 14, 2009 19:29:20 GMT -5
Every time you share something ESPEE with the forum, no matter how trivial it might seem to you, what happens is a slight expansion of the collective knowledge. One never knows when something they saw might be important to others you have never met. If it was not for folks willing to share their time and knowledge, you'd have no SP forums, no SP photo web sites, in fact, no SPH&TS...nobody got paid for that when we started it.
Manufacturers would never have access to accurate plans for making proper models of anything historic, were it not for rail fans and historians who allow the use of such materials.
We are all in this together people...
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Post by thespcaboose on Mar 18, 2009 0:20:55 GMT -5
I'm not a photographer, John, but I've seen some great photos out here.
I'm also happy I could share some of my knowledge with the forum.
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Post by espeelover on Mar 18, 2009 12:21:27 GMT -5
I'm not a photographer, John, but I've seen some great photos out here. I'm also happy I could share some of my knowledge with the forum. In a body, there are only so many eyes, ears, hands...whatever, every part has a function, as does every bit of information; all are different, yet all are important in their own way.
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Post by SSW9389 on May 7, 2009 7:50:05 GMT -5
The man who lived in this house was a Cotton Belt Engineer. His name was C. W. "Red" Standefer. He and his wife had this house built in 1950. When it was built it was said to be the first "all electric" house in Commerce, Texas. I think Red liked doing things first. He worked for Cotton Belt in engine service for 50 years. This was the second house that Red and his wife had lived in on this site. They had lived at this address during the later part of the Great Depression. Red's next door neighbor was also a Cotton Belt Engineer. In fact the man living next door to Red was driving the first train Red ever saw when he was a young boy. Every picture tells a story, don't it? Ed
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