It was another fine day for rail watching, I don't know how many more we will see of these mild sunny days. I caught this and the passenger car chugging by, The Reading & Northern Railroad has several steam engines and their arrival is closely watched by many.
Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline) visits Adam Savage's studio to discuss the art of stop-motion animation and the making of Henry's new film Wendell & Wild!, a Netflicks exclusive.
"Time was different when the sun was always streight over head. Morning and Afternoon were indentical. Decisions seemed less than perminate. Reality seemed less than real. It was, Louis thought, like the instant of time spent traveling between tranfer booths."
Ringworld, Larry Niven
"There are other advantages for Ringworld. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of seven hundred seventy miles per second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to have a roof over it. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aim it at the sun, and very little air will leak over the edges."
RingWorld, Larry Niven
Hot Wheels Screen Time vehicles are inspired by movies, TV shows, and video games in our popular culture.
"The Armadillo is a type of transport spacecraft shown in the movie Lightyear. It is used to transport Buzz Lightyear and his exploration crew in the movie."
"Set off on an epic space adventure and fight Zurg in this Armadillo spaceship! With huge jet engines, wheels and a drop-down deck, help Buzz and friends escape perilous space battles and save the day."
"Specialty: Shaped like a soda bottle with a huge rear wing and a turbine engine, this hot rod was made to "pop" your top."
THe author over two short videos builds four company shacks for his lumber mill crew.
The author uses simple techniques for his build and uses easy to use polystyrene sheets and ready availalbe windows and doors.
The author completes the simple fabrication, paints, and places his new structures to his layout.
I am not sure whether I have made a post on this topic before, but the article features a few suggestions on how to use those leftover plastic sprues.
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"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring ninety million miles in radius-one Earth orbit-which would make it six hundred million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much studier than a Dyson Sphere..."
"Louis Wu: human and old, was out celebrating his 200 birthday and is bored, having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all to capable of handling it.
Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built in surrvival pattern of non-violence. Except this puppeteer is insane.
Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster. with no allegiances, experience, or abilities. However with all the luck in the world.
Speaker to Animals: Kzin, large, orenge-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known to the galaxy.
Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together?
And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?"
Ringworld, Larry Niven, 1970
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Here is a page of some gorgeous narrow gauge Japanese prototype model railway models. I remeber being introduced Japanese model railroading while reading Narlow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. If my memory serves me right it was a how to article for an On30 diesel engine.
The Hunslet requires a Kato 11-105 chassis, which I have on hand.
I have these items on-hand or have the materials to fabricate them. I am planning on adding the following:
New for 2022 "This highboy hot rod is one of a kind. Featuring a low, air cooled flat six engine, the vehicle's body is smooth and riding high. A single-seater speedster, it's truly a unique design."
This futuristic one seater is fitted with a manual fired machine gun will make a great addition to my Gas Lands collection.
"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools."
Ring World, Larry Niven
