Mid-Morning Art Thread

Locomotive Watering
Reginald Marsh

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (DSLf3)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

3 The EPA is outraged.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

4 I thought they took in water upfront?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (DSLf3)

5 Lotta breath comin' out of that locomotive.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (gtcuf)

6 The locomotive was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

7 Industrial. Needs an appropriate factory wall.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (L035F)

8 In the shuffling madness...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (skR0U)

9 I love trains!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

10 often hydrated, never lubricated.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

11 Is it a cloudy day? Or is there just that much smoke and steam in the air?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (21V+K)

12 Hey, there was a sale on black paint. I overbought!

Posted by: Reginald Marsh at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Now I want a cigarette.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (i+SAx)

14 Oh, very nice. Love train art. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

15 9 I love trains!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

Me too!

Posted by: Graham Platzkreig at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (gtcuf)

16 Steam. It just works.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (Fbc0I)

17 . . . all de live-long day . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

18 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.

Posted by: Oh, no... at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

19 "Down at the station
Early in the morning
See the big 'ole pufferbelly
Standing in the road

See the engine driver
Pull his shiny throttle
"Choo Choo, Woo Woo"
There he goes!!"

I have continued to sing that song to all the babies I hold. They love it - just as I did.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (Kyh8Y)

20 A choo-choo!

Posted by: Joey Biden at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (T6PKz)

21 Trains = prime hobo-hunting grounds.

Posted by: fly gal at May 04, 2026 09:35 AM (IByKi)

22 Thomas the Blackpilled Tank Engine

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:35 AM (vjCCj)

23 Iron child out of a vulcan's forge
Metal scream and thrash
Red steel in the driving wheel
Hear the pistons clash
Black dragon breathing big black smoke
Howling up the tracks

Shit Lemmy said.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (snZF9)

24 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.
+++
Once we get up a head of steam.

Posted by: Groan at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

25 I have a wealthy left leaning train enthusiast in my circle of people I know.

He's constantly arguing the US should spend more on commuter rail but then again he vacations in Europe, south America and the Caribbean so not like he will be taking those train rides...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

26 Good Grief! Serendipity --

Sister just sent me links to 'Big Boy' steam engine tour in the midwest. Last time one of the big steam engines came by, major highways were backed up for miles. We were going to use the opportunity for a family party because last time, we were not prepared for the interest.

Painting itself is a little too dark for me, but the fond associations are priceless.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (2OYwF)

27 Too much black in that painting.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

28 18 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.
Posted by: Oh, no... at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

Now I'm feeling pressured to join in.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (i+SAx)

29 Bein' six years old I had seen some trains before
So it's hard to understand what we're at the depot for
Trains are big and black and smokin'- hotter'n July 4
But everybody's actin' like this might be something more...

...Look out here she comes she's coming
Look out there she goes she's gone

/The late Guy Clark

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (I0N4X)

30 This painting makes me want to cough.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

31 The Paolo, how you say, is very familiar with the 'Big Boy'.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 04, 2026 09:38 AM (Kyh8Y)

32 It's kinda nice, but it would have to be hung in a hobby room or something.

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 09:38 AM (T6PKz)

33 OK Art.

She took the last train out my heart ooo-ooh
She took the last train now I think I'll make a brand-new start
She took the last tra-INE... out my heart...

(starts crying)

GREAT SONG

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (DgMqy)

34 The coal and oil trains roll thru here daily. I can't imagine why.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (Fbc0I)

35 Looks like the scene in Bill Kristols wife's room every Friday night.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (vjCCj)

36 And I ain't seen sunshine since I don't know when.

Posted by: The man in black at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Such a steamy piece of art on a Monday morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (0nHVk)

38 Oil fired steam locomotive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (4NO2D)

39 That was indelicate.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (vjCCj)

40 Train punz? Let's get 'em back on track.

Posted by: Arrrgh at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Midnight Train to Georgia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)

42 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.

Sunday, July 19th St. Louis Union Station
On display 0900 - 1500 hrs

Find public viewing locations here:

https://tinyurl.com/yz9tjt94

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (DSLf3)

43 I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (Fbc0I)

44 The Hooterville Cannonball has to wait for the Bradley girls to finish bathing.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (YFgeq)

45 Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

46 Pufferbelly Station restaurant at the train depot in G Jitty City serves a cinnamon roll as big as your face.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (I0N4X)

47 Midnight Train to Georgia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)

*synchronized dance moves*

Posted by: The Pips at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

48 Midnight Train to Georgia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

"Woo! Woo!"

As a young man, it was my greatest desire to be a Pip.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (Kyh8Y)

49 Immediately thought of Jethro Tull.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (gu0hJ)

50 You’d have to be crazy to want to make train puns. You’d have to have loco motives.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

51 Still beats working in a mine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (JkO4W)

52 Kind of ... childish? Not sure that is the right word.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (bss/y)

53 I need to water the locomotive, iykwimaityd.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (8mulE)

54 Castles by the sea you made from sand
Hovercrafts and drones you built by hand
Forever fearless asking why and how
Locomotive just look at you now
No one else on earth has ever been so far

- Styx ("Locomotive" from THE MISSION)

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:44 AM (gtcuf)

55 She used to be an iron horse, twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me, through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her, steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder lighting up the sky

She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky

Speeding, sparks like lightning ,engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate, shining in the night
Iron striking metal, the sound of racing steel
It's all I ever want to hear, it's music to my ears

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:44 AM (snZF9)

56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

57 "Immediately thought of Jethro Tull."

*ahem*

Posted by: The Doobie Brothers at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

58 That's a pretty big locomotive for only six driving wheels.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

59 That hobo in the foreground ain't long for this world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (gnNyN)

60 He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls

Posted by: God took the handle and the train it won't stop going at May 04, 2026 09:47 AM (TbWk/)

61 When I was a kid in my hometown, the city had a park called "Mother Goose Land". A bunch of wonderful attractions for us kidlings: A sliding board that was built to resemble a wedge of swiss cheese, an Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe thing that you could crawl around in, Monstro the Whale from Pinocchio again, that you could walk into and many others.

The star attraction though was an old Nickle Plate RR loco with no fencing around. They did weld shut the boiler entrance but everything else was available to you. All the valves and pedals, etc. It was glorious.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (Kyh8Y)

62 With enough water and sunshine eventually it will grow into a great BIG train.

Posted by: That's science! at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (TbWk/)

63 The name's Jones. KC Jones.

Posted by: KC Jones at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

64 Is this the train that goes to Morrow?

https://youtu.be/zdEkm__55ik

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

65 4 I thought they took in water upfront?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (DSLf3)

That would be in the butt, Bob.

Posted by: Roy at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (qwype)

66 If you look closely you can see Nell Fenwick tied to the tracks.

But, never fear, Dudley Do-Right is on his way!

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (gtcuf)

67 Casey Jones was a sonofabitch.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

68 Casey Jones was a brave engineer
Told his brakeman, told him not to fear
All I want is my water and coal,
Look out the window see my drive wheels roll

Mississippi John Hurt

https://is.gd/C4hAsm

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

69 I can jump that Stillhouse Trestle.

Posted by: Steve Broady, Old 97 at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

70 >Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)
---

huh
I learned a different version

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:50 AM (ZxPkt)

71 The name's Jones. KC Jones.
Posted by: KC Jones

And this is my band. The Sunshine Band.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:50 AM (DSLf3)

72 I've gone to buy a ticket now, as far as I can
Ain't a-never coming back
Ride me a southbound, all the way to Georgia now
'Til the train, it run out of track

Posted by: Can't you see? at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (TbWk/)

73 A. It didn't cost $124 billion

B. It will still get you from Bakersfield to Merced faster than Newsom's bullet train

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (CybdD)

74 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (Hq3hB)

75 Shake shake shake, shake your caboose. Shake your caboose.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (gtcuf)

76 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Southbound. All the way to Georgia.
'Till the train run out of track.

Posted by: Marshall Tucker at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

77 America. We built it.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg)

78 Thanks for the painting, CBD. Reminds me of the time Charlie and I rocketed the Cannonball Express to 11 MPH rounding Deadman's Curve. The squeal of the wheels upset the Ziffel's pigs and Newt Kiley's cow didn't give milk for a week!

Posted by: Floyd Smoot, Conductor at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

79 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Yeah, man...

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (DSLf3)

80 The economy is so bad, Gladys Knight is down to one Pip.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (gtcuf)

81 Oooh! Choo choo trains! Joey likey!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (9CBNQ)

82 Well, train, train, take me on out of this town
Train, train, Lord, take me on out of this town
Well, that woman I'm in love with, Lord, she's Memphis bound

Posted by: Get yourself a money man at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (TbWk/)

83 I'll take the midnight train goin' anywhere.

Posted by: A small-town girl livin' in a lonely world at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

84 We're all ridin' that train.
High on cocaine.

Posted by: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (oftw2)

85
Choo-choo, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (HdYcL)

86 He was going down the grade making 90 miles an hour
His whistle broke into a scream
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
Scalded to death by the steam

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (iERP6)

87 Three conductors, twenty-five stacks of mail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (CybdD)

88 Juggernaut coming down the line, hear the banshee cry
Engineer likes to lose his mind, glory in his eye
Too fast to live this way, too young to die

I'm riding on the thunder chief
Spit in the Devil's eye
No force on earth can stop me now
I like to see them try
Hey, hey, ridin' with the driver

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (snZF9)

89 The bullet train to San Francisco has never looked better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (Fbc0I)

90 Guy Clark - Texas 1947

https://is.gd/VoK3nn

Things got real quiet, then momma jerked me back
But not before I got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

91 Drivin' that train high on cocaine.

Better watch that speed.

Posted by: Casey Jones at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (9CBNQ)

92 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (LHPAg)

93 Gonna take that midnight train to Georgia....

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (lJ0H4)

94 I tell my boss that I'm afraid of flying and I get this action twice a year. It's a cathouse on wheels! Hey, listen, come on. It's something about the movement of the train that does it. All that motion makes a girl horny.

Posted by: Bob Sweet at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

95 I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car

They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars

Posted by: Some Guy Stuck in Folsom Prison at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (CybdD)

96 I've been trying to shut down that wretched Cannonball Express for decades. Unprofitable, inefficient, aged.

Posted by: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (oftw2)

97 But not before I got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

When I was a wee lad, my dad would take me along to pick up visitors at the train station, and he would usually put a penny on the tracks as a treat for me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (iERP6)

98 Posted by: Casey Jones at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (9CBNQ)

Beat me to it by >< that much

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

99 44 The Hooterville Cannonball has to wait for the Bradley girls to finish bathing.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (YFgeq)
________
You don't want to miss seeing how the town got it's name, do you?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (AlhUl)

100 A train song I like. Al Stewart's Night Train to Munich. It's about spies and shit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pB9zuS4Ay8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (ndZc7)

101 Is this a thing? Because this looks like it could be a thing. On X:

BREAKING:

OBAMA'S HOUSEKEEPER FOUND DEAD INSIDE WASHINGTON DC RESIDENCE: POLICE - The DC Metropolitan Police reportedly responded to the home of former President Barack Obama in the early hours of Sunday morning regarding a DECEASED INDIVIDUAL who was later identified as the Obama family's housekeeper. The individual is said to be a male in his mid-30s but no name or other identifying information has been publicly released at this point. Reports indicate that Barack and Michelle Obama WERE HOME at the time of this incident, the man was pronounced dead at the scene with no cause of death yet publicly released and a FULL INVESTIGATION is underway. Stay tuned for more updates on this BOMBSHELL STORY. Why do young men who work for the Obamas keep ending up dead? Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

https://tinyurl.com/m8zv9w7y

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

102 Locomotive watering?

Metaphor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (2GVsD)

103 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

104 She came down from Birmingham
One cold December day
As she rolled into the station
You could hear all the people say
There's a girl from Tennessee
She's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham
On the Wabash Cannonball

Posted by: John Cash at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

105 I'm leavin' baby
On a southbound train
Don't know when
I'll be passin' this way again

Posted by: T-Bone Montgomery at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

106 I can see global warming from here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Locomotion's the way he moves
He drags me 'round just like an old caboose
I'm tellin' you, girls, that man's insane
My baby thinks he's a train

Posted by: Roseanne Cash at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (wVcYX)

108 ...the monkey's got the locomotive under control...

https://is.gd/RsIUlq

Dave Rawlins version

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

109 There's no way their faces wouldn't be black as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style

My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back

Posted by: Doing you a favor as I take all your money at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (TbWk/)

111 That housekeeper and the chef complained that my balls smell bad. Sho'nuff.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (9CBNQ)

112 Elvis train song

https://youtu.be/njw2oB8oRTs

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 10:00 AM (ZxPkt)

113 Wait. What?

Work Begins on Quentin Tarantino’s Django/Zorro Crossover Movie

-
Instead of making a Z, Tarantino's Zorro will make an M for m*th*rf*ck*r.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)

114 I lived in Riverdale, Bronx on Palisade Avenue right above the Hudson, Metro North tracks below. My son and I would go down to the river and put nickels and pennies on the tracks. Found most of them.

Posted by: Spuyten Duyvil Station. at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (oftw2)

115
I'm sorry I never took up railfanning when younger.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (HdYcL)

116 A reason to watch Euphoria?

Season 4 Sidney Sweeny is dressing up with dog ears and a leash.

OnlyFan bimbos upset at the accurate portrayal of their 'profession.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (2GVsD)

117 Why do young men who work for the Obamas keep ending up dead? Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

https://tinyurl.com/m8zv9w7y
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.

Posted by: Captain Terrill at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (wVcYX)

118 Come on baby, do the loco-motion...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (jehhT)

119 It's the last train to Clarksville.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

120 OBAMA'S HOUSEKEEPER FOUND DEAD INSIDE WASHINGTON DC RESIDENCE: POLICE

-----------

Han Solo warned us. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (CybdD)

121 Sydney Sweeney is dressing up with dog ears and a leash

Ew.

Posted by: Tyler Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (E6ouU)

122 A tender moment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (utfVc)

123 Lived in the shadow of a lovely mountain. Til Mr. Peabody's Coal Train done hauled it away.

Posted by: John Prine Paradise at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (oftw2)

124 No paddle boards were reportedly involved in this incident.

Posted by: Local media at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

125 There's no way their faces wouldn't be black as well.
Posted by: Sponge

That's 'faces of color'!! if you please Sir!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (Kyh8Y)

126 What's the deal with corpses showing up in the family compound?

Posted by: the Kennedys at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (E6ouU)

127 Martini Farmer, you asked for it

https://youtu.be/POWsFzSFLCE

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (2GVsD)

128 Somebody robbed the Danville train!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

129 US military has escorted 2 ships through the Strait this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (z2aPa)

130 129 US military has escorted 2 ships through the Strait this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (z2aPa)

=====

"Saar, impossible, saar. Iranian mines everywhere. I can't go, saar. The mines will kill me, saar."
-Indian tanker captain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (Y2NSe)

131 56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Are you just a city boy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y)

132 is that willow charcoal?

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

133
131 56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Are you just a city boy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y)

======

Yeah, but from North Detroit, not South Detroit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (Y2NSe)

134 Back to the AM thread for a sec. .

Wonder if the "OMG Gas prices" is the first real manifestation of the left/right national bifurcation? Purely speculation on my part, but 15 years of the left shutting down oil/gas production and transportation might be a factor...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

135 "Saar, impossible, saar. Iranian mines everywhere. I can't go, saar. The mines will kill me, saar."
-Indian tanker captain
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (Y2NSe)

Is the Indian Captain Gunga Din?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (bss/y)

136 Yeah, but from North Detroit, not South Detroit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (Y2NSe)

It's a lonely world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (bss/y)

137 Speaking of Gaylord

People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (2GVsD)

138 Somebody wake up the fast boat captains quick !

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (z2aPa)

139 Choo choo kachoo

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (GHUOd)

140 File under No Shit.

Identity Politics Linked to Lower Mental Well-Being Among Progressives: Study

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

141 i did not buy an o. winston link cell a few weeks before he passed. they were pretty reasonable at the exhibit.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (R11M+)

142 LOVE THIS PAINTING!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (dmDsy)

143 Aetius

If they worked for Gaylord, it would be Gurgle Din.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2GVsD)

144 Hmmm, it would be interesting if you had a time machine and you could go back to say London or Chicago at around 1900 or so. I am betting 'smoky' would be a mild descriptor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (bss/y)

145 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

146 This is art!

Posted by: Jerry Jeff Walker at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (BYG0B)

147 Good night, America, how are ya?
Don't you know me, I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans . . .
=====

I was thinking about attempting a trip to Memphis to visit sister living over the border in Georgia. Grandma and I took City of New Orleans to Memphis when I was almost 3 and I still remember the sleeper. Aside: my grandma was really brave and the passengers very patient.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2OYwF)

148 TRAINS!! Can't go wrong with trains!

Posted by: Persnickety at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (NXsA/)

149 Aetius

London fog back then was known for being multi-colored. Long before Pride Month.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (2GVsD)

150 If they worked for Gaylord, it would be Gurgle Din.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2GVsD)

I have not seen the movie in... 30 years? Am I having a stroke or was Cary Grant in that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (bss/y)

151 Chicks dig trains!

Posted by: Gomez Addams at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (wVcYX)

152 It's a goose/gander thing.

Trump Turns Tables on Hakeem Jeffries, Floats Impeachment for the Top House Democrat

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (ndZc7)

153 If you make it larger you can really see the movement... Well done...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (dFjQQ)

154 @134

>>but 15 years of the left shutting down oil/gas production and transportation might be a factor...

The US is the largest producer of Gas and Petrolium products in the world, the issue is petroleum is sold in a market, and the market is currently destabilized with the current ME quagmire.

Any time gas gets above 2.50 a gallon, negative economic consequences ensue.

Average price is now 4.45.

So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

155 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Yeah, man...
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM

But is that Track 29?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Hq3hB)

156 A train song I like. Al Stewart's Night Train to Munich. It's about spies and shit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

**********

That's fun!

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)

157 London fog back then was known for being multi-colored. Long before Pride Month.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (2GVsD)

Yeah 'Pea soupers'. I also remember a textbook from from school where it showed local moths had adapted a much darker coloration to blend in to the sootier trees and walls of the city environs.

But yeah, now is global warming/climate change/commies good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y)

158 Obama maid found dead. I guess that threesome didn't go well.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (z2aPa)

159 144 i remember seeing how the moths darkened their appearance during the coal years and then lightened after the shift towards cleaner fuels. and how the dense cover caused rickets.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (R11M+)

160 1939 Gunga Din, yes Cary Grant.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (2GVsD)

161 People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation"

That was the first major wave of petro shutdowns, combined with loads of taxpayer cash to mask effects...

Hey, Solyndra is gonna be lit!

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

162
But is that Track 29?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Hq3hB)

How's Greece?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Owebama's chef, now his maid.

Anyone gonna investigate?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

164 So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

It's always weird. 4.19 seems to be the rule in Lexington. I went to get groceries... Saturday night and as son as I hit the county line going into Georgetown Casey's had 3.99.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (bss/y)

165 Average price is now 4.45."

Hey, we're helping!

/kaliforny

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (XuXeR)

166 137 Speaking of Gaylord

People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (2GVsD)

=====

It was higher 4 years ago at the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.

And the disruption to worldwide oil supply there was smaller, the US government was less receptive to producing oil to fill the market, and it didn't lead to the region in question fast tracking a series of pipelines to bypass the impass.

The oil market is...weird. The gas market even weirder.

But one thing's for sure: outside of some kind of calamity that destroys oil production in several oil producing regions at once, oil recovers quickly because too many people rely on it and too many people (even hostile actors) rely on its sale.

This ain't the 70s anymore where the clear majority of oil production is in the Middle East.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (Y2NSe)

167 160 1939 Gunga Din, yes Cary Grant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (2GVsD)

Don't tell me they remade it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (bss/y)

168 147 the direct to new orleans trip is nice. bunks, three good squares, bring sammies, hooch, oil pen, some limes, laptop and a good book. it was 18hrs from chitown.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

169 At least this one has an excuse for being all browns and blacks; and they're nicely done. I like that the only dabs of color in this sooty scene are the three faces.

Posted by: mindful webworker - loco motivated at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (k0Y0k)

170 This ain't the 70s anymore where the clear majority of oil production is in the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (Y2NSe)

Unless you are California.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (bss/y)

171 132 is that willow charcoal?
Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM

You can only get that at the very end of the line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Hq3hB)

172 145 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

=====

Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)

173 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

Odd he keeps seeming to be so prescient.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (bss/y)

174 But what about our anti-lock brakes?

NY Times Accuses Supreme Court of Banishing “Seatbelt of Our Democracy”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

175 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (LHPAg)

Not sure why, but I giggled. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (snZF9)

176
Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)

Can anyone joke about him becoming the next Howard Beale?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Do you hear that whistle down the line?
I figure that it's engine number forty-nine
She's the only one that'll sound that way
On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe

Posted by: Johnny Mercer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

178 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.

Thank you for that. It's coming into my area! 12 million pounds. We must take better care of our tracks than we do our roads.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (ScG/9)

179 174 But what about our anti-lock brakes?

NY Times Accuses Supreme Court of Banishing “Seatbelt of Our Democracy”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

Am I the only one who kind of does not like anti-lock brakes? Scares the crap out of you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (bss/y)

180 How's Greece?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM

Beautiful. Snow still on the mountains. Saw incredible monasteries, saw the house where my grandfather was born, met cousins. And it's only Monday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)

181 Pardon me, boy, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

182 stammering moron had help selling off much of our "strategic oil reserves."

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (R11M+)

183 Beautiful. Snow still on the mountains. Saw incredible monasteries, saw the house where my grandfather was born, met cousins. And it's only Monday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)

That's packin' it full.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

184 154 The US is the largest producer of Gas and Petrolium products in the world, the issue is petroleum is sold in a market, and the market is currently destabilized with the current ME quagmire.

Any time gas gets above 2.50 a gallon, negative economic consequences ensue.

Average price is now 4.45.

So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

======

Demand destruction has started in Africa. Reportedly 5-6 million barrels of oil daily no longer needed.

All while exports ramp up here, and exports find a way in the ME. The disruption to physical oil transportation is honestly overstated. The only major impact is that Iran can't export its 2 million a day, half of which we've already made up for in exports. Otherwise, it's Indian tanker captains afraid of sea mines that don't exist.

The medium term effects are going to be that Iran will have destroyed its ability to threaten the oil lifeline nearby as UAE and Saudi Arabia build more pipelines to bypass the strait and get oil from the Persian Gulf region to places like the Oman Gulf and the Mediterranean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Y2NSe)

185 181 Pardon me, boy, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

There's gonna be
A certain party at the station
Satin and lace
I used to call "funny face"
She's gonna cry
Until I tell her that I'll never roam

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:20 AM (bss/y)

186 Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)

Can anyone joke about him becoming the next Howard Beale?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

I don't want him as next Speaker of the House...{{{shudder}}}

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (dFjQQ)

187 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.

Oh, boo hoo. Wait, is that a P-47 Jug?

Posted by: Engineer on a 1945 German locomotive at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (Riz8t)

188 Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

Think that's fake as Obamao himself

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (U6Usv)

189 163 Owebama's chef, now his maid.

Anyone gonna investigate?
Posted by: Sponge
--------

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

190 I don't want him as next Speaker of the House...{{{shudder}}}
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (dFjQQ)/i]

I meant Kimmel. But, yes, you are correct to worry about that. Jeffries is a mental midget.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide

https://tinyurl.com/yekyw66b

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (4NO2D)

192 That's packin' it full.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM

We're actually taking it pretty easy. We're about 25 clicks from the Albanian border at the moment. Heading to Thessaloniki tomorrow.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (Hq3hB)

193 Big train.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (sl73Y)

194 Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

You asked for it...........

https://youtu.be/VEyOE2XwFY4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

195
Big train.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (sl73Y)

___________

What are we talking about, this painting or Walter Johnson?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (HdYcL)

196 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)

197 Art asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/Uuegke22rdA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Before I forget, for train enthusiasts with younger kids:

Train Whistle, wood, about 6" long 1 1/2" per side, great whoo-whoo sound. I am looking around my house for one because kids loved it. Not as piercing as regular whistles, so I could even tolerate it for a while.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (2OYwF)

199 But is he an austere religious scholar?

Los Angeles Times
@latimes
Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

200 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)

The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Maybe next Kimmel will joke about Hillary's crimes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (2GVsD)

202 If Obama was sexually involved with his maid, I'm guessing her name was Peg.

Posted by: Wally at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (BYG0B)

203 https://youtu.be/Uuegke22rdA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Holy fuck, I forgot they existed. LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

204 Tull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oS179o2lXw

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (FhXTo)

205 @latimes
Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

Accused? I think him running through security with a shotgun makes him an actual gunman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

206 And always light, aerial, underneath
Goes the elate metre of her wheels.
Steaming through metal landscape on her lines
She plunges new eras of wild happiness
Where speed throws up strange shapes, broad curves
And parallels clean like the steel of guns.
At last, further than Edinburgh or Rome,
Beyond the crest of the world, she reaches night
Where only a low streamline brightness
Of phosphorus on the tossing hills is white.
Ah, like a comet through flame, she moves entranced
Wrapt in her music no bird song, no, nor bough
Breaking with honey buds, shall ever equal.

--Stephen "Big" Spender

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (zdLoL)

207 The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Big Mike's pull out game is weak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (bss/y)

208 The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.

By whom?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (2GVsD)

209 200 big mike knocked her up.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)

210
I'm betting she was pregnant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

___________

With Big Mike's kid?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (HdYcL)

211 The real prescient among the celebrity-class seems to be Sting.

Posted by: Murder By Numbers, 1 2 3 at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (E6ouU)

212
Holy fuck, I forgot they existed. LOL.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

A shame. They had a lot of good stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

213 OT, if there is one, I was randomly clicking on Yahoo " news" feeds this morning, mostly sports and science/historical Articles, and the writing was pretty consistently terrible, bordering on illiterate or incomprehensible.
I'm kind of hoping it was AI, otherwise the decline in human capabilities is scary.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (sl73Y)

214 the housekeeper was male. not a "her" unless Barry forced him to be.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (E6ouU)

215 In other news

Dirt bikers took over in CA a bay bridge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

216 We're actually taking it pretty easy. We're about 25 clicks from the Albanian border at the moment. Heading to Thessaloniki tomorrow.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I've driven that area quite a bit. Beautiful scenery. Can get a little motion sick in the mountains, especially as a passenger. There's quite a bit to see in Thessaloniki. We did a day trip there at the White Tower on the coast....all sorts of historical monuments and such within walking distance, with nice information boards in English.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (uYvMy)

217 The maid might have identified as 'she.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

218 The Stars couldn't solve the riddle of the Minnesota goaltender.

Colorado hung 7 on him last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

219 the housekeeper was male. not a "her" unless Barry forced him to be.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (E6ouU)

Oh, then Owebama was definitely banging him and there must've been evidence, so he had to be dealt with.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

220 217 The maid might have identified as 'she.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

Reverse Thai Lady Boi shock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (bss/y)

221 Carbon Footprint == 2 Godzillas

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (JqXxE)

222 Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide
https://tinyurl.com/yekyw66b
Posted by: toby928(c)

That is good. Just one hypothetical act needed to create a realistic story.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (ScG/9)

223 215 cali banned them years ago, but we had a local remark yesterday that if you hadn't lost the cops on a two stroke, you weren't all that.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (R11M+)

224 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)

That's great!. I seem to recall /if I correct about this- that you're Eastern Orthodox-Have you seen any churches in addition to one at the monastery?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (79HwH)

225 Lobos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62zKFMoPPM

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (FhXTo)

226 @184

>>The only major impact is that Iran can't export its 2 million a day, half of which we've already made up for in exports. Otherwise, it's Indian tanker captains afraid of sea mines that don't exist.

Markets are largely driven by psychology and emotion rather than facts and empirical data.

The markets are going to continue to be roiled until some event causes a psychological change in the entities that control the market.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

227 Thank you for that. It's coming into my area! 12 million pounds. We must take better care of our tracks than we do our roads.
Posted by: t-bird

Tracks are, in most cases, owned by for profit businesses. Roads are maintained by government entities.

There is some causal relationship there but damned if we can figure it out.

-- The media

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (Kyh8Y)

228
Colorado hung 7 on him last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

___________

I don't see many Western Conference games because they run past the time for me to take care of the dogs and go to bed. More's the pity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)

229 I would really like to know why this particular pre-workout causes my scalp to tingle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)

230 This Train is Bound For Glory

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Kb2uciHpe4U&list=RDKb2uciHpe4U&start_radio=1

[remove space]

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (2OYwF)

231 Posted by: Military Moron at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM

Niice. The dad's side of the family is from up here. It's nice getting a chance to see it.

Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

232 I don't see many Western Conference games because they run past the time for me to take care of the dogs and go to bed. More's the pity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)

It should end up with Colorado / Carolina in the finals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

233 we had a saying at the barn while working 16s, "playoff run can be hard on a man."

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:34 AM (R11M+)

234 226
Markets are largely driven by psychology and emotion rather than facts and empirical data.

The markets are going to continue to be roiled until some event causes a psychological change in the entities that control the market.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

=======

It's obvious to me that Trump and the rest of the US leadership expected the world to come to its damn senses about the dangers of Iranian threats. All we've gotten is small arms fire here and there for weeks as well as footage of a small Iranian speedboat boarding a mostly empty cargo vessel.

This was also part and parcel with his effort to strong arm Europe into defending their own waterways that they rely on.

"Fucking fine. We'll do it. Now, shut up." seems to be the order of the day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:34 AM (Y2NSe)

235 I would really like to know why this particular pre-workout causes my scalp to tingle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)

Last time I took a pre-workout, my heart started skipping beats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

236
Tracks are, in most cases, owned by for profit businesses. Roads are maintained by government entities.

_____________

We have more track mileage than any other country except, maybe, Russia. It is used, quite properly, for freight.

I love those graphics about how much high-speed rail China has added since 2000. Anyone riding on it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (HdYcL)

237 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)

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Barry has an alibi -- he was playing Spades again with Reggie.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (JqXxE)

238 Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack

Hard to judge. In one of the takes he had a long gun. In an earlier (?) take, he didn't. I'm waiting for the outtake where he tried to run thru the portal with the gun cross-ways, like when dogs carry a stick that is too long for a gate.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (ScG/9)

239 Obama maid found dead? How do we know it wasn't the Mooch trying to eliminate another (male) "bimbo eruption" a la Hillary?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (AdHga)

240 Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

Yeah, it is one thing that people never seem to get a handle on. No, I am not going to race you. Yes, I have 435 hp, but a Mustang draws cops attention like a turd does flies. They find you fascinating.

But if you are doing 20 over even (or especially) at night, cops will pull you over even if you are in a Honda Odyssey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

241 Speaking of steam, the UP Big Boy 4014 is making its way cross country and will be traveling along Horseshoe Curve is a couple of weeks. It'll be a zoo there, but my son and I will be attempting to get some HD videos and still shots of the largest steam engine ever built when she makes the run on Reading and Northern trackage from Jim Thorpe to Reading Outer station in June. A beautiful 4-8-8-4 articulated oil fired locomotive built in 1941 and restored by Union Pacific from 2013 to 2019.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (5xuJ/)

242 The brewery owner who was offering free beer if Trump was killed got a visit by the USSS and FBI.

And forced state Democrats to run away from him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:37 AM (2GVsD)

243
Speaking of steam, the UP Big Boy 4014 is making its way cross country and will be traveling along Horseshoe Curve is a couple of weeks.

___________

Man, what i wouldn't give to be there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:37 AM (HdYcL)

244 RMBS, how is the trip going? Good food ?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (z2aPa)

245 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Neat art. Big chop chop. Cool!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

246 240 Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

Yeah, it is one thing that people never seem to get a handle on. No, I am not going to race you. Yes, I have 435 hp, but a Mustang draws cops attention like a turd does flies. They find you fascinating.

But if you are doing 20 over even (or especially) at night, cops will pull you over even if you are in a Honda Odyssey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

Especially in a cash-strapped jurisdiction.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (gHfAU)

247 @234

>>This was also part and parcel with his effort to strong arm Europe into defending their own waterways that they rely on.

I understand what Trump is trying to achieve and I agree with the over-arching plan, but there are realities that cannot be ignored.

Gas is too damn high.

We had just normalized from the Crazy Biden Years and... BAM....

Gas is too damn high again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

248 Last time I took a pre-workout, my heart started skipping beats.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

This is Jocko's brand. It is strange. Ingredient list is almost exactly the same as other energy drink mixes. Except for 'Dynamine'. Not sure, must be the cause.

It has a bit more caffeine than the regular energy drink (200mg caffeine instead of 140.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (bss/y)

249 I think it’s a little late to water that locomotive.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (gHfAU)

250 BMW, speeding, you got money, lights go on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

251 JJ Walker, "Dynamine!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

252 That's great!. I seem to recall /if I correct about this- that you're Eastern Orthodox-Have you seen any churches in addition to one at the monastery?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM

Correct. We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (Hq3hB)

253 247 I understand what Trump is trying to achieve and I agree with the over-arching plan, but there are realities that cannot be ignored.

Gas is too damn high.

We had just normalized from the Crazy Biden Years and... BAM....

Gas is too damn high again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

======

The point of pointing out the grand strategy is to say that the gas price spike won't last into summer.

People will hurt a bit in the spring, everything will be forgotten by fall, and everyone will have moved onto the next thing as to why Republicans will lose the midterms.

People whinging in Spring means shit for Fall.

Remember how months is forever in politics?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (Y2NSe)

254 Gas is too damn high again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Summer blends and the whole Iran thing doesn’t help. With any luck we can drill more here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (gHfAU)

255 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (Hq3hB)

That's neat. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful, interesting and safe time!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RKlIw)

256 Dirt bikers took over in CA a bay bridge.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)
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Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

257 I put non-ethanol in the tractor while taking it out to the property.

Somehow, Ethanol Free gas was 10 cents MORE than DIESEL.

We're being robbed blind and no one in power seems to care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

258 helios creed, "mountain mystery"

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (R11M+)

259 254 Gas is too damn high again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Summer blends and the whole Iran thing doesn’t help. With any luck we can drill more here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (gHfAU)

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The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

Outside of that, it's Indian tankers afraid of phantom sea mines and believing every threat from some asshole with a radio on the Iranian shore.

Meanwhile, the UAE started building a new pipeline about 4 weeks ago to completely bypass the strait, all while roughly 10.5 million barrels of the 20 million that normally went through the strait is getting out through existing pipelines (Saudi Arabia's went from about 500,000 a day to 7 million a day).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (Y2NSe)

260 RMBS, how is the trip going? Good food ?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM

Great, so far. The food has been excellent. I have pictures. 😄

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (Hq3hB)

261 Correct. We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

One of the greatest experiences of my life was visiting Hagia Sofia. Magnificent building.

Too bad it's gone back to being a heathen temple.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

262 Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

263 I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

As teletype machines whirr in the background.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

264 That's neat. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful, interesting and safe time!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM

I'm traveling with the RMBS Mom, but thanks!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Hq3hB)

265 As teletype machines whirr in the background.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Reading glasses were adjusted. Flags moved on the map table.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y)

266 Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Trump is attempting to make us the unquestioned power of the world by choking the supply of energy through us. If it works prices will not merely come down, the Uniparty will lose the leverage over us they usually enforce by palling around with our enemies.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (U6Usv)

267 Reading glasses were adjusted. Flags moved on the map table.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y)

"What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Trump is attempting to make us the unquestioned power of the world by choking the supply of energy through us. If it works prices will not merely come down, the Uniparty will lose the leverage over us they usually enforce by palling around with our enemies.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (U6Usv)

Also reduces the amount of money the asshats have to throw around.

Or, create our own, domestic assholes who can throw around money to force the whores to do what WE want...

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)

269 I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)
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That's pretty much how she works. News must be delivered immediately. She shouted at me from upstairs as I opened the front door, "Your grandma died!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

270 One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

ebikes?! That paints an entirely different picture. Where's an illegal truck driver when you need one?

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (ScG/9)

271 I suspect the gas prices are being manipulated. This happened at the end of Dubya's term just before everything imploded in mid September.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (E6ouU)

272 Also reduces the amount of money the asshats have to throw around.

Or, create our own, domestic assholes who can throw around money to force the whores to do what WE want...

Huh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)

I've said it for years. You want to combat terrorism?

Stop buying middle eastern oil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

273 "What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM

There's a sale at Penny's!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Hq3hB)

274 @259

>>The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

275 "What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

How about some coffee, Johnny?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (bss/y)

276 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.

https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (5xuJ/)

277 That's pretty much how she works. News must be delivered immediately. She shouted at me from upstairs as I opened the front door, "Your grandma died!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

ROFLMAO.

Or not. Condolences.

*trying to stifle snickers*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (bss/y)

278 Strelnikov!

Posted by: Pasha at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (AP4bj)

279 "Rapunzel! Rapunzel! To the tower!"

Johnny needs to stop taking meth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (2GVsD)

280 274 @259

>>The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

Just pout and whine. It’s much easier than doing something about it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (gHfAU)

281 I like art that is representational of something, preferably kinetic.

Still lifes bore me.

Abstracts are sometimes OK if they consist of a design or pattern. Random Pollock-esque is sh!t.

So this painting should be in the bullseye except I also like variances in color and light. So no.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (GD2xa)

282 274 It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

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Remember the red ripple of 2022?

Gas prices have shockingly little effect on elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (Y2NSe)

283 People people people!

Long term gain can't compete with short term benefit.

It's like I don't know those of you who refuse the black pill.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (zBgIx)

284 >>We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.

Very cool, RMBS!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (5xoct)

285 Art.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (NPa2x)

286 283 People people people!

Long term gain can't compete with short term benefit.

It's like I don't know those of you who refuse the black pill.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (zBgIx)

======

All I know is that Democrats were so afraid of losing the midterms that they didn't go maximalist in their policies like opening the borders in order to affect long-term change.

Why can't Republicans govern like Democrats?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (Y2NSe)

287 I've said it for years. You want to combat terrorism?

Stop buying middle eastern oil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Asia: (stops to think about it)

“Oh, OK”.

Sure.

In the meantime, we can make it less valuable by tapping the resources of a country which can out export them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (gHfAU)

288 There's quite a bit to see in Thessaloniki. We did a day trip there at the White Tower on the coast....all sorts of historical monuments and such within walking distance, with nice information boards in English.
Posted by: Military Moron

Kemal Ataturk was born in Thessalonica (sorry, going with the normal English spelling). I wonder if the birthplace is still there, and, if so, if it's marked.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

289 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo

I figure it will be heading back from Philly on the route 30 tracks. All sorts of stretches to see it. I hope it doesn't break any bridges

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (ScG/9)

290 >>One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

>>ebikes?! That paints an entirely different picture. Where's an illegal truck driver when you need one?

Reminder: a lot of major cities give SNAP beneficiaries *free* eschooter rentals and greatly reduced ebike rental fares. Local taxpars may well have underwritten this event unknowingly.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 10:52 AM (5xoct)

291 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.
=====

Lotsa fun and good luck. Pro tip from the midwest, find a junction town.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (2OYwF)

292 @280

>>Just pout and whine. It’s much easier than doing something about it.

I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

293 Great

Figure kit I bought last night, is now on sale for $20 less at same site.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (2GVsD)

294 my one pally, born in sparta, tells me famiies have a grave plot and a cave. freshies go into the plot, the exhumed go into the cave with all the ancestors.
kinda cool.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (R11M+)

295 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.

https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

Would love to see it, but the closest location is like three states away.

Not for a couple of minutes of viewing. I'll have to settle for online video.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (DSLf3)

296 292
I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

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They will probably take the House because political gravity.

They won't take the Senate. They'd have to win senate races in several Trump+15 states in addition to pulling Collins out against the literal Nazi and holding onto MI (about to nominate a terrorist sympathizing Muslim) and GA (Ossoff is darkhorse upset territory with the feds focusing on Fulton).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (Y2NSe)

297 293 Great

Figure kit I bought last night, is now on sale for $20 less at same site.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (2GVsD)

Steam was having a paradox sale this weekend. So I figured, wth, and bought some dlc for stellaris. And then realize they completely changed how everything works in the game and I will have to relearn from the ground up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

298 @282

>>Gas prices have shockingly little effect on elections.

The biggest factor that determines elections is how much cheat can the donks do.

And which party can convert/hold seats stemming from redistricting.

This upcoming mid-term is going to be very telling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (XV/Pl)

299 A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash by organizing a Muslim-only day to celebrate Eid.

Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a 'modest dress code' and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat.

Posters for the event say it will be 'for Muslims only' to create a 'family-friendly environment', with tickets starting at $55 each.

The waterpark's website notes that men and women will not be separated during the event, but attendees are told to 'uphold Islamic etiquette' by 'lowering the gaze' throughout the day.

'Please follow the event’s modest dress code, and practice ḥayāʾ (modesty) through respectful behavior,' the event says.

All attendees are 'expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values', and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)

300 They will probably take the House because political gravity.

They won't take the Senate. They'd have to win senate races in several Trump+15 states in addition to pulling Collins out against the literal Nazi and holding onto MI (about to nominate a terrorist sympathizing Muslim) and GA (Ossoff is darkhorse upset territory with the feds focusing on Fulton).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (Y2NSe)

Even with the redistricting in the South?

I'll admit I have nfc how things are going to work out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

301 Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

EE-lectric dirt bikes? How gay is that?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (utfVc)

302 Hard to see very well on my phone but looks good

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 10:57 AM (/c5rf)

303 The original " Murder on the Orient Express" is the greatest movie of all time

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 10:57 AM (LOZbR)

304 300 Even with the redistricting in the South?

I'll admit I have nfc how things are going to work out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

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Redistricting war is largely a wash.

There may be a switch of 4-5 more seats from places like TN and SC total.

The redistricting in response to Callais will be felt more fully in 2028.

I'd still lean towards a narrow Democrat majority in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:58 AM (Y2NSe)

305 an entire water park wall to wall with eyes looking through rectangle slots. will they disrobe for the rides?

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (R11M+)

306
All attendees are 'expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values', and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)

Texas is failing. It's incredibly sad what's happening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

307 @303

>>The original " Murder on the Orient Express" is the greatest movie of all time

And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

308 A water park in Texas in June

Oh the heat strokes ... lawsuit city.

Call Morgan&Morgan now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (2GVsD)

309 I figure it will be heading back from Philly on the route 30 tracks. All sorts of stretches to see it. I hope it doesn't break any bridges
Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (ScG/9)

UP, over the past year, has been out here along the route doing surveys on trackage, bridges, curves, etc. They pretty much have all their ducks in a row. I have the O Gauge model running on my basement layout. Even with that, I've had to swap out many curves to a larger radius because of the wide swing. The model has all the sounds of the real Big Boy, including whistle, bell, chuffs and, of course, smoke. It's a monster! Weighs about 10 pounds.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (5xuJ/)

310 "I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

You have zero power to affect anything?

Hopeless much?

You can't drive less? You can't take a bus? You can't walk more places? You can't ride a bike? You can't consolidate your errands, so you do them all at once instead of one today, then one tomorrow, then one every day after?

You can't carpool with anyone?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (zBgIx)

311 And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

312 301 most offroad complaints stem from noise...
ebikes let you sneak onto more property with stealth.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (R11M+)

313 Meanwhile, here, Norfolk Southern is still struggling to recover from Helene. Norfolk Southern suffered 21,000 feet of washed-out track, 50,000 feet of track damaged by scour and over 15,000 feet of fill failure.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (XeU6L)

314 As revealed Saturday on the hobby thread I'm a car nut, I have a nice photo of my 1963 Thunderbird Sport Roadster in front of the UP 3985 locomotive. That monster is only a 4-6-6-4, I got to crawl all around and over it when it came to Houston when G. Bush was on his way to parachute at the dedication of his library at A&M.

The reason they made those monsters was to have an engine powerful enough to cross the Rockies. Now they just stack a few diesel electrics and have at it. Trying to sync steam engines is not practical.

Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (8uzBS)

315 .
NOOD! Rant!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

316 A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash
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Why on earth is there a taxpayer funded waterpark?

I mean, I just had a colonoscopy and may still be high on propofol, but WTF?

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 04, 2026 11:01 AM (0SdQT)

317 And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

That honor is reserved for Where Eagles Dare.

Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

318 @311

>>Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?

Per QT, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.

I have my problems with QT, but I have to agree with him here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (XV/Pl)

319 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.
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I have an awesome picture of Jesse next to Big Boy 4004, which is on display at a city park in Cheyenne. Even parked, it's an impressive sight. Would love to see one in action.

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (0SdQT)

320 As revealed Saturday on the hobby thread I'm a car nut, I have a nice photo of my 1963 Thunderbird Sport Roadster in front of the UP 3985 locomotive. That monster is only a 4-6-6-4, I got to crawl all around and over it when it came to Houston when G. Bush was on his way to parachute at the dedication of his library at A&M.

The reason they made those monsters was to have an engine powerful enough to cross the Rockies. Now they just stack a few diesel electrics and have at it. Trying to sync steam engines is not practical.
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (8uzBS)

Many of those monsters had helper engines in the middle and the tail end of the consist back then. Many DVD's out there of old movies of them. 5 miles of train. Incredible.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM (5xuJ/)

321 jaws is not the GOAT movie

I don't know what is, but it isn't Jaws

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:05 AM (ZxPkt)

322 Are Democrats promising to do anything about gas prices? Are they even associated with good energy prices?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (U6Usv)

323 Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?
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Zulu

[mic drop]

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 11:12 AM (2OYwF)

324 I hate to go out on a limb but it's The Godfather. A perfect film.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (U6Usv)

325 let's face it

the greatest movie of all time is your personal favorite movie, whoever you are

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

326 325 let's face it

the greatest movie of all time is your personal favorite movie, whoever you are

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

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"best movie ever" is a conversation killer.

It's for people who don't want to talk but only dictate.

It's uninteresting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:14 AM (Y2NSe)

327 I hate to go out on a limb but it's The Godfather. A perfect film.
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Pfft.

Posted by: Dr. Zhivago at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

328 I don't know what the GOAT movie is, but I bet Charlton Heston is in it

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (ZxPkt)

329 I will admit that for one night in 1974 Jaws was, in fact, the greatest movie of all time. You see, my small town had to wait 6 months to get "Jaws" so it became a town social event, you had to be somebody to get a ticket to the first run premier showing at 7:30. I had 2 tickets and the fiery vixen that was Rhonda Fleenor sat next to me. She made it clear beforehand that I was being used for my connections and I was not allowed to touch her in anyway

Oh yeah. I was 12 in 74.

Anyway, glory be unto the heavenly host and all 7 devils that head came out of the bottom of the boat

She shot straight up into the air 4 feet and landed square in my lap

Grabbed me for all she was worth replacing my face with her chest

After the show was over she told me that she detested my presence and never wanted to see me again dead or alive

I didn't care.

Rhonda, if you read this I touched your titties.

The end

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 11:18 AM (LOZbR)

330 @328

>>I don't know what the GOAT movie is, but I bet Charlton Heston is in it

Touch of Evil is pretty damn good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (XV/Pl)

331 Wishmaster II

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (9CBNQ)

332 If by CH being in the goat you mean "The Mountain Men" I would agree.

If you mean "Airport 74" I would fart in your direction

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (LOZbR)

333 I like it.

Posted by: TrainmanTim at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (lycPY)

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