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This past weekend the Niles Canyon Railway hosted Steamfest 2007. We are celebrating both the restoration and return to service of the Robert Dollar #3 and the 20 year aniversary of the Pacific Locomotive Association opperating in Niles Canyon. We invited Granite Rock Co. #10 to celebrate with us by triple-heading a mixed passenger and frieght train through the canyon. I went to Youtube to see if one of the hundreds of people with cameras posted any footage of the weekend only to find a video not from this weekend (there were many of those, too) but a video posted not long ago from a run made over a year ago. If you look carefully, you will see me having a conversation with the jFrog on the east end of the K.C. Bones.

Pinto

Some time ago someone brought be a trumpet and asked me if I could "remove the plastic from the valves." It turned out that the plastic was the valves. My boss, who has an amazing store of knowledge about these things, says the Pinto was an attempt to make a cheaper trumpet for the less fortunate student. It wouldn't bother me quite so much if they didn't color the plastic like the bean.

Thank you Michelle

Dimly lit table
Poetry on a napkin
Disposable words

Laughable

and just strange enough to potentially be a new squirrelish plot against us.

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