Category Archives: Miscellaneous

As one who earned his living crunching numbers the picture below warmed the cockles of my heart. The cost accountant of the railroad has brilliantly reduced all the direct costs for a whole year to one sheet of paper. Remember … Continue reading →

On December 22nd last I “graduated” from the Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Unit at Stanford University Hospital. A BMT is not a pleasant experience and the opinion of the staff at the hospital, my wife and daughter was that I … Continue reading →

In a blog a short while back I mentioned that my first encounter with the REALLY big trees was at Kings Canyon National Park high up in the Sierras. Regretfully I have not paid a visit recently but it is … Continue reading →

I have added one of these to my holiday season, wedding anniversary, valentine’s day, birthday, easter and rhubarb day present lists for the next 99 years. A new Guinness World Record was recently set in Belgium by Maltese master chocolatier … Continue reading →

Chemo, for some reason, enables me to recall incidents from long, long ago in extreme clarity.  Last Tuesday as I was sitting there “getting it” I remembered riding on Volks Railway. When I was about six we lived  in a … Continue reading →

When club member Steve Worthen and I visited Roots of Motive Power we visited a booth run by the Mendocino County Railway Society and its President, Richard Jergenson. The society was founded in 1983 by a group of enthusiastic railroad … Continue reading →

A great day for me. I knocked one off of my “list” thanks to our club VP Chuck Whitlock. Chuck is a diesel locomotive engineer on the Skunk and he invited me to ride in the cab with him today … Continue reading →

I have no idea how many books I have bought. I was definitely in the fraternity of T-shirt owners that had, “I buy books and if I have any money left over I buy food” on their front. My recent … Continue reading →