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but 261 IS NOT DEAD. SHE WILL CONTINUE OPERATING!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28632996/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28632996/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:21:40 PST
Parked, behind Building 3, in an overgrown siding, is an Atlantic Coast Line Boxcar, filled with unknown goodies. The last time anyone was inside the car, it was on the old site. Its floor is rotten and its walls are rusted threw...but inside may lay a grand treasure of railroad artifacts. No one is sure what's inside, due to the car's condemned condition.

its a mystery! (No, I'm not sure if I really want to risk injury by boarding the car. But I will say, Its worth the try!)

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28577747/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28577747/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:18:14 PST
The Development of the American School Of Design


The Essential difference in geography of Europe and North America by 1830 was that while in Briton, civilization had existed for centuries, and had established a complex structure of land ownerships, properties, roads, and towns, through which the railway system had the thread itself, in America there was a new virgin landscape. Roads and canals had started to be built, and especially in the thirteen colonies, towns have started to be developed, but it was not to the extent one would find Great Briton. So Railroads could pretty much go wherever they pleased without much consideration to whomever owned the land because, well, no one owned it!

The tendency was to lay tracks as quickly as they could to attain land grants, so lines where laid out in relativity to the land, which varied in topography. So American Railroads developed into rough windy lines that sometimes questioned the adage of Permanente Way. Once the tracks where laid and the land granted to the Railroads, they would come back and rebuild the line.

There where still a few horse tramways in the Eastern Sates, built often as not as feeders to canals; and it was on one such line, The Delaware & Hudson, that the first steam locomotive ran in North America in 1829. American Steam railroading got a jump start on The Baltimore and Ohio when in 1830 the railroad arranged for a locomotive contest similar to the “Rainhill Trails” through with even stricter guidelines and more powerful arrangement of locomotives. The most grueling of all for the experimental craft being a month’s practical use on the railroad. Five Competitors entered, all American, and the winner was a watch maker named Phineas Davis, who entered a vertical boiler four wheeler. Although the idea of a vertical boiler proved an evolutionary dead end, it was a practical design, and in fact 18 of his locomotives where immediately built for the B&O, and were so well made and engineered they stayed in work until 1902! To this day, Davis is considered one of the great Railroad Pioneers.

Technically speaking, the important difference between British and American Locomotives at this time resulted from the Latter’s need for sturdier equipment to operate in its rough environment, and greater need to save capital outright. British-type four wheeled engines and cars and ridged plate frames just wouldn’t stand up to the track work, tough grades, and long distances. This for example, meant that passenger coaches had to built much longer, needing four wheeled trucks rather then two axels for weight, and the abandonment of compartments altogether in favor of open salons was simple a matter of cost saving. On the other hand, this proved a great opportunity as the scarcity of tunnels and roads to go under, as well as ground level platforms, meant that there was plenty of room to build high and wide.

The Steeper grades and longer distances put an early emphasis on the need for more powerful locomotives. American locomotive builders, after finding the British shops such as Stevenson’s, lacking to fulfill their needs, soon developed them greatly. First the use of pilot or guiding wheels to lead their locomotives threw the long curves, and then longer and more powerful boilers on lighter frames. This soon developed by 1840 the 4-4-0 class, a simple, robust, and powerful machine that remand the most common form of power until the turn of the Century.

As early as 1840, the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway of England, faced with the problem or working up the 1 in 37th Lickey Incline and hearing good reports on them from across the pond, ordered 14 typical 4-4-0s from Norris of Philadelphia. They found the locomotives to be extremely satisfactory and used them as models in their own developments. But for the rest of the 19th century, the development of railroads in the world outside Europe and North America was, as a rule almost, in the hands of either British or American engineer’s Schools of Design. British Engineers where given a head start by their country’s political influence around the world, by many colonel administrations from the more basic and powerful methods of the Americans better suited to local conditions.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28431762/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28431762/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:28:03 PST
The Only issue with the layout is…the shelf is already occupied by the “Sara Jane” Railroad yard for my extensive HO Layout known as “Southeastern Railroad.”

No, I guess the question is, Do I want to sacrifice one Railroad, for another….hmmmmm.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28338122/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28338122/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:43:48 PST
Nevada Northern has just dropped out of the Railcamp program!!!! They will no longer hold Railcamp out in Ely.

Steamtown says it will stay in the program.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28333422/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28333422/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:51:08 PST

In a strange line of events, we no longer have a working locomotive. All three of SRM's locomotive fleet suffered some malfunction today. Not even our Handcar would work properly.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28109341/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28109341/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:42:34 PST
anyway, on Thursday we did the "Derail Shuffle" The deal about that is, we had to place 5 cars on track 14...but the throat to track 14 could only accommodate one car without the locomotive. Otherwise your over the derail and well...screwed. So to do this we needed two locomotives to "dance" around the car. I was the conductor for 104, who did all the dancing among the sidings, while 1026, our GP9 ran among the mainline picking up the cars and brining them to the throat. In, out, in, out, all the siding we ran about. XD being the conductor I had to think ahead three steps in each of my movements, and I was cunningly on the ground, our riding equipment.

We worked late into the night. Night time got especially dangerous when switches couldn't be seen, and I still had to move among the darkened equipment and tracks. I was issued an electric lantern, do to the fact that the oil ones where locked up inside. (shut up steamby, in a situation like that one you took what was given and didn't complain) and worked until 10:30 when the last car was in place.

anyway, I'm starting to work on getting my hours on 1026. which is good. ^^ Its not hat hard to operate once you get the hang of it.

Also special thanks to CNW4648 for giving my an N-scale 4-8-4. Its a beauty and goes a long way to enhancing my miniscule collection of N-scale equipment.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28018173/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28018173/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:45:31 PDT
lets just say allot of strange confusing stuff happened in the last few hours. But I've decided I am not going to "leave" DA...just I'm going to take a brake from the youth chatrooms and such. I will continue to post. Without going into too many details, the issue has been resolved, and I'm just going...take a back seat for a while.


NO I will not be leavening DA.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28016101/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28016101/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:54:57 PDT
I'm so sick of this website and what its become. Seems every time I turn around, these more sucking up, more click creating, more attacking, bulling, and just general stupidity. I'm sick of all the compotation and relations. I feel more like the art itself is no longer appreciated, and that We are all working to appease one another rather then further our style. When I found myself doing that, When I get attacked on a chatroom because I didn't know that the Milwaukee road 261 was having some issues (really, I didn't know, I just assumed everything was honky dory with her) I know its time to call it quits. Allot of my good friends are either no longer hear, or also so disgusted by the way the community has become that they have left.

so, I feel that this is the end of the line for me here on DA, I'm so sick of all the rivalry and competition. I mean, I can't put up a drawing of a simple 4-4-0 without some personal criticism.

so......farewell for now. I might keep posting some stuff, but I do not foresee allot more coming out of me in the future.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27948096/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27948096/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:48:05 PDT
Ok, I saw "Bolt" for the first Time this week. and I saw a made for TV train move called "Train Master" which I'm assuming was made to cash in on "unstoppable"

Bolt

being a furry fan I naturally couldn't get away from it. Allot of my friends saw it and told me that it was right up my ally. I had been reluctant to go out of my way for it so when the right moment came to see it, I jumped.

It....was....awesome.

The plot fallows a white shepred who thinks he has superpowers as he travel across America to find his girl who he thinks has been kidnapped.

I see why so many people like this film. First off the intro is freaking epic! Then the character himself is just....lovable. He's so damn series and all. The animation was flawless, Disney doesn't have the look up to pixar anymore, they can make their own epicenes. Things like smoke, skies, trees, and general fluids seemed to look better then anything Pixar had done. The backgrounds as they ran cross America where spectacular, and it had its "Funny Moments" Mostly the interaction between Mittens and Bolt being somewhat of a comic relief.

and yes, there where some trains in it, but Disney had yet to understand the 'era" idea. The first train was a well animated and detailed CSX intermodal stack train. (Yes...CSX was even written onto the locos and it had TTX well cars and everything! Someone did their homework ont hat) But the second train was made up of old PFE refers and boxcars O.o with Journal boxes and roofwalks.

There where some spots that I had some trouble with, for one Bolt seemed really...inexperienced...I mean REALLY inexperienced, I would think hat even as a movie star he would know what feeling hungry is?

Never the less Bolt was awsome and I recemend it for any dog film lover. ^^




Train Master.


Oh boy, here we go again with another Hollywood Runaway Train....but this time threes a twist! The runaway has a cargo of rugrats on board! The story focuses around a group of 5 kids who accidentally set a solitary locomotive into motion and...don't know how to stop it o.O (how about pulling the brake handle?)This Movie, I'm kinda in a part on. I think it has one of the better plots in the Runaway train sagas...for one there no dangerous cargo that could go boom, for the other the way it runway is rather well...believable. On top of that the solutions being brought to stop the train, aka, turning handbrakes, opening angle cocks...well....the people who made "Atomic Train" could take a few lessons. Heck they even...stop the train without wrecking!?!.........wow, thata actually, rather original. On top of that there are so rather nice train scenes and an interesting race between an SW1500 and a highrailer. The kids where pretty ingénues on figuring ways to help themselves out, such as making a "SOS" sign and waving it out the window as the locomotive rolled across grade crossings. Plus theres a cameo by a live steam Erie Triplex and a nice Modal railroad.

But even with that this movie can not be saved. The acting is rather...cheesy, and I found the child actors annoying. The adult actors all had the "redneck railroader" act going on, and the ending was so cheesy that I wish the train had wrecked.
The other thing that bothered me was the way the runaway was handled, it seemed no one knew how to turn the brake handle...I mean these kids resorted to cutting random wires that appeared out of no where before they even look at the control panel. and the whole (nothing works) excuse was well....too convenient. The adults where just as bad, I mean it took them and hour and 40 minutes of screen time before they figured out the solution was pulling the angle cock. I was sitting there in my head coming up with way better plans to stop the train. Including:

a. Pull the train brake Handle
b. pull the independent brake handle
c. reach into the electrical box and push "stop" on the engine run start control.
d. Get Bolt from above to use his laser eyes and melt the brake on.

Also there are allot of "funny" moments...and by funny stuff that made me groan so loudly I almost reached for the remote. and there was a moment where in the middle of all this fun, one of the kids starts hitting on the only girl in the rugrat group.....WTF? Your in a life or death situation on a runaway Killer train, and you manage to start hitting on the only girl on board. Damn that's ballsy, and this is coming for the guy who ran a 44-tonner with his GF sitting on his lap.

Also the ending was well....anti-climactic. Although I was unbelievably surprised the where able to stop the train! I was expecting it to run headlong into the nuclear plant with the random cougar that was staining on the tracks. although the soppy moments after they stopped it mad... ]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27831144/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27831144/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:53:29 PDT
]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27796830/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27796830/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:23:18 PDT
How?...let me explain.

See the BRSRR (along with allot of small preservation lines)had a deal that around Christmas time we can run a "Polar Express" train based around the book. We had a license with the Van Allsburg family, and indeed at one point Chris Van Allsburg rode on of the train in the early years and read the book outloud!

But of course Warner Brothers has taken the license for the book when it created the movie. Now that means our license now fell under there control...no problem, right.

Wrong

Warner brother terminated the license without warning AND is sueing the Blue Ridge Scenic for use in the three years we had run "Polar Express"s without there permission even though we had the original license from the original family, and had no clue the Warner Brother had retained the license on train operations.

The whole BRSRR is Shocked. What is meant to be a kind Christmas theme has turned into something very major, all brought on by a large soulless company that just wants to make money. This hasn't just been the BRSRR, but other railroads as well, this year in particular they've come down hard and without warning on railroads who are struggling to make ends meat and in one case, keep a steam locomotive going.

so I say Boycott The Polar Express. I now refuse to have anything to do with the movie, for I am not giving those money sucking leaches any of my money and I urge those of you who want to keep US preservation lines there rights, to do so too!

( PS allthough I will agree its a good movie )

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27691073/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27691073/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:23:10 PDT
Today I spent a good bit of time in SRM's Library, doing research on The Telegraph and other civil war Railroads. As I flipped threw the ledgers regarding one railroad operating in 1863, the New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western, I found a list of locomotives being run under union army control. The locomotive being run as fallowed

Naitoches
Terrebonne
New Orleans
Sabine
Tiger

and finally, written unceremoniously into the ledger. "Leased W&A Texas"

The Texas! I found the Texas...in NEW ORLEANS!!!!!! Being run by THE UNION ARMY!!!!

This came as one huge surprise. As 1862 drew to a close, W&A leased the Texas, but what happened to the locomotive is unknown. All we do know is that in 1866, the locomotive was reported in Saltville Virginia. Apparently, somewhere in the frew The Texas went to New Orleans to work on the NOO&GW, and when that line was captured and run by the Union, Texas was run along with it.

Ironic, it turns out that after rescuing the General, the gallant ol' Texas was captured in the end.

This is so exciting, I finally have a starting point to fallow the Texas and find out exactly what happened in the "Missing years" Already I contacted the chapter historian and its created quite a frenzy.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27531042/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27531042/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:23:19 PDT

No, I'm not "outraged" Damn emot-con is busted

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27496390/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27496390/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:04:27 PDT

They say the pen is mightier then the sword…well what I about the Pen Down (or type down) has to be on of the biggest issues regarding the youth rail fan basis…. ever.



Supposedly, there has been a “schism” (or split for you non-literary folks) regarding those of us on both Youtube and DA. I must say this…there is NO SCHISIM!!!! WE HAVE NOT SPLIT! What has happened, is a bunch of us have suddenly decided to whine and complain and segregate themselves from the rest of us. What makes the issue worse is that this group by doing this has called upon themselves the wrath of the rest of us. While I have been staying out of it for the most part because I don’t want to get involved. Well now it has driven me to the point that I must protest.



No More whining, moaning, sucking up to, copying or stealing.

This has all started because someone who shall remain unnamed (even though we all know his name) decided to steal art, and then rip off other artists. This has long been taken care of, as it should have been. Now before people start screaming “Hypocrite” at me, let me put down the three things that I think should be discouraged

1. Stealing art. And I don’t mean “tributes” I mean down right taking work someone else did, and calling it your own. Now while I personably get a kick out of, and sometimes even get an ego boost out of this. Its bad, it makes you look bad, and it is against the rules here on Deveantart. Draw your own work. Tributes are nice, but it gets annoying when I see a wagon top similarly designed WOLF RR styled 4-4-0 numbered “97” doing relatively the exact same things as my own “97”
2. Bullying. I don’t mean letting someone know that their art peace sucks and then outlining why, I mean going to someone’s page and spamming it. We all are weird and strange in our own ways. I mean hell, I have a cocker spaniel running a steam locomotive!
3. Egos. Let me tell all of you. Put your hand in a water bucket….now take it out. Is there a hole where your hand was?….NO. I do not have time for over inflated egos. Now I’m not saying that any of you do, but really, we all are on the same plan of existence, stop looking down at newcomers who have no idea what they are doing. And Newcomers…stop trying to do stuff just for the attraction, Ok. You art is all I want to see.


So, with that said: To those of you in the “fun side”: Deventart is an art website. I came here because I like to draw, and I like people to see my work and enjoy it. I do not come here to become “Super popular” or one of “the crowd” we should all respect each other and stop complaining/bitching/sucking up/placing ourselves in a group. Aren’t we all in a group anyway?….Railfans. (except for me…I’m a RailROADER XD Jking) This crap where we are all attempting to gain fans has to stop. Also, just because you like it, doesn’t mean we all have too. Case and Point…I think the Beatles suck. Now does that make me bad…No…dose that mean all you Beatles fanatics are stupid…No. It just means to my ears the Beatles are nothing more then utter rubbish (which they are!) end of story…my opinion, and I’m aloud to have it. And Please, enough with the sucking up. Ok, I’ve had enough of seeing un-original designs that are clearly rip-offs. Make your art. And don’t give me that “well…I don’t know how to” crap because guess what…your on an ART website. If you can’t or are unwilling to create your own art, then you don’t belong here.


As for the “Serious Side” and yes I am putting these down as “sides” because t... ]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27486652/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27486652/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:51:21 PDT
Norfolk Southern and BNSF introduced the new engine at a news conference Monday featuring a slew of shop workers and dignitaries, including U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Shuster, R-9th District, and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., initiated the project two years ago, bringing Norfolk Southern together with the U.S. Department of Energy and Penn State University, which supplied critical help with managing the batteries, said Mark Manion, Norfolk's executive vice president and chief operating officer.

No. 999 is a switcher, powered by 1,080 12-volt batteries, which fully charged can operate the engine for three shifts.

The locomotive emits no pollution, unless you count what's emitted by power plants generating the electricity to recharge the batteries - and that's much less than what's thrown off by standard diesel-electric locomotives.

They expects to build an over-the-road version with more batteries by 2011.

That locomotive would run coupled at first with regular diesels, which could help recharge its batteries - though eventually, battery engines could power a train by themselves. They require about the same manpower to build as a diesel, but are cheaper to maintain.

Norfolk Southern named the engine 999, echoing the NYC&HR 999, the first locomotive to go 100 mph.


The locomotive was considered a sucess. This is the final nail in the coffen for a steam comeback.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27365025/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27365025/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:04:17 PDT
Rules
A.Post these rules.
B.Each tagged person must post 8 things about themselves on their journal.
C.At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons
on the same journal.
D.No tag-backs

1. I hate this
2. I Love US steam
3. I think the Beatles suck
4. I hate these memes
5. I am very selfconfident
6. I play with full size trains
7. I love the sounds of steam whistles
8. I have friends in real life

I tag no one becuse this thing sucks

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27237564/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27237564/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:51:13 PDT
1) Ask, don't demand. Be prepared for a No. Because with me and the way I work, probably goanna be what you get.
2) Don't expect to be the star, nor act like one, I have allot of stuff on my plate and I don't drop everything for a request
3) Be patient, you're not paying, so you're not important. I do happen to have a thing called a life.
4) Politely accept what you get, even if it sucks, once again, you're not paying. It will be posted in my scraps most likely.
5) Ask appropriate, I go as far as bathing suits and that's it.

In the end, the short version, be polite, patient and undemanding, remember, if you're paying nothing, expect nothing.


anyway, I have a few on my plate right now

Gates Of Heaven. Statis:.....uhhhhh
An OC....I have a pincel sketch but that about it right now.
009 pic....re-reading the old novels so I can get myself in the mood. Man did we suck at writing back then.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27209718/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27209718/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:40:10 PDT
Today I am enacting a new change. I renamed my Model Railroad. The new company name is: Southeastern Rail and Navigation.

So Please welcome into the world of model railroads Southeastern Railroad. AAR Reporting Marks: SERR. Stock exchange: SERN

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27133622/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27133622/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:49 PDT

Yah, I have a Facebook now....its a sign of the apocalypse!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27022299/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27022299/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:28:23 PDT Texas

2: What is your favorite TENDER engine?
....Texas

3: what is your favorite Tank engine?
Ga. Power 97

4: what is your favorite Railroad/ Railway?
Western & Atlantic

5: What is your favorite Train? (express train, freight train, something that has a title. Example: 20th Century Limited.)
Brodway Limited

6: what is your least favorite Steam engine?
Thomas the too-too-twain

7: what is your favorite wheel arrangement? (Whyte notation, please!)
4-4-0 American Standerd

8: what is your favorite type of freight car?
Boxcar. My favorite non-revinue car is a caboose.

and a surprise question: What is your favorite Diesel/ Diesel Electric? Electric type?

44-tonners.


I tag no-one becuse these things just get on my nerves at times

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26922411/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26922411/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:35:35 PDT
I seem to find myself creating tougher and tougher backdrops and images, but I feel like my skills just aren't up to the point where I can truly create the images in my head. When I'm at the point where my work seems more sensitive then real, more like the lines are representing a line rather then being a line.

I dunno. I feel like my ideas are becoming more and more vivid...but my peaces aren't. I keep practicing, but I just don't seem to be getting better. I dunno...what do yall think?


I think I might take a Hiatus for a while.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26865230/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26865230/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:39:34 PDT
As some of you may, or may not know, I like to listen too, and collect, old radio shows! I mean old radio shows from the 1960s, 50s, and 40s. I don't why, but there are some great jewels out there.

Anyway, a while back I got into a conversation with about a radio show he liked. I downloaded a few episodes of the show, and too be honest...it was ok, but not my style.

But to return the favor, and hopefully pass one some really great old time radio. I would like to share a show with you all.

Gunsmoke was one of the premier radio shows, and in fact is considered the original "western" this show started the Western Drama and it sure is a dusey. With 900 Episodes, a TV series, and a movie that's due to come out in 2011. Even the Simpson's Bows down to Gunsmokes blazing trail. Being one of the first it isn't a "childish" show.

The show fallows Sheriff Matt Dillon as he cleans up the town of Dodger City. Some listeners, such as vintage radio authority Dunning, have argued that the radio version of Gunsmoke was far more realistic than the TV series. Episodes were aimed at adults and featured some of the most explicit content of their time, including violent crimes, scalping, massacres, and opium addicts. Many episodes ended on a somber note, and villains often got away with their crimes. Dunning writes that Dillon "played his hand and often lost. He arrived too late to prevent a lynching. He amputated a dying man's leg and lost the patient anyway. He saved a girl from brutal rapists then found himself unable to offer her what she needed to stop her from moving into... life as a prostitute." (Dunning, 304)

Nonetheless, thanks to the subtle scripts and outstanding ensemble cast, over the years the program evolved into a warm, often humorous celebration of human nature.

Here is one of my favorite episodes. "Bit Tom" The file was taken from the "Jack Benny Podcast" Mr. Benny has done a great favor by posting and preserving over 300 radio shows. The episode is available for download. Please take a listen and enjoy. Comments are welcomed.


[link]

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26716788/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26716788/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:44:39 PDT
So I really want to extend a hand of thanks to those watchers and my friends who have been with me thus far. without you all, I would be nothing! If there is one thing I love, its that my work makes other people happy. The enjoyment of my work makes this all worthwhile. You all rock! The comments, conversations, and fun peaces and chats with you all show what a wonderful and diverse group this is. Some of you I know in real life, others I don't. But here its great to meet and great all of you who drift by!

anyway, thats all for now. Take care all of you!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26624624/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26624624/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:35:06 PDT
In some ways it is so awesome! No more classes, no more schedules, I can sleep in, no more having to deal with the rut that is school.

But in allot its kind of sad. For one I have to find a job, for eh other, I really am starting to miss my school friends. At least I still see a few of them on a regular bases. But most of them I haven't heard hide nor hair sine the last week of school. I kind miss "my" anime club. (The age of King Totoro, as I've heard it been called) as well as my under classmates who didn't graduate and are still in school.

But that's life, I still has my few friends, my girlfriend, and my railroad friends. (Allot more of those since Railcamp!) and I'm pretty happy.

anyway, thats all for now

Oh yah, my mic/speakers blew up. special thanks to for hooking me with a new mic...but I still need some working speakers.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26522972/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26522972/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:01:55 PDT
But what you didn't see was my race to start 104 all by myself. I did the jobs of three guys in half the time we useuly did!

[link] link to the segment I was in.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26429084/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26429084/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:48:28 PDT
It feels very weird. I really don't want to be in food service. But my parents seem to think that this is something more "tangible" then my application with the Stone Mt. Railroad. Neavermind that I have more of a chance with STMRR then anything else due to my prior railroading experience.

Its all very annoying and I hate the idea of working in food service. But with the economy the way it is, and my dad un-employed. I'm willing to take anything.

Even if it means standing in a giant cowsuit. (just cause I'm a furry doesn't mean I like that stuff)

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26323625/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26323625/ Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:22:51 PDT
And yes, I know this as a fact.

Today was one heck of a day at Southeastern Railway Museum Based on preliminary numbers, we hit an all time high for attendance with over 730 people through the gate. The last time we had a number even close was 700 at our 30-year anniversary, July 15, 2000. We where running trains every five minutes at one point. Dispatching became a real job and I being the conductor juggled squeezing passengers, keeping my schedule, and trying to run the train admits all the chaos. In the end it was one fun and lucrative day.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26254067/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26254067/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:08:58 PDT


[] I am shorter than 5'4.
[x] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[] I have many scars
[] I tan easily.
[] I wish my hair was a different color.
[] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[] I have a tattoo.
[] I am self-conscious about my appearance.
[] I have/I've had braces.
[x] I wear glasses
[] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free (I like the way God made me)
[x] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[] I have more than 2 piercing.
[] I have piercing in places besides my ears.
[] I have freckles.

Family/Home Life
[x] I've sworn at my parents.
[] I've run away from home.
[] I've been kicked out of the house.
[x] My biological parents are together.
[] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[x] I want to have kids someday.
[] I've lost a child.

School/Work
[] I'm in school
[] I have a job
[] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[x] I almost always do my homework.
[x] I've missed a week or more of school.
[] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years
[x] I failed more than 1 class last year
[] I've stolen something from my job
[] I've been fired

Embarrassment
[x] I've slipped out an "lol" in a spoken conversation.
[x] Disney movies still make me cry.
[] I've peed from laughing.
[] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[x] I've glued my hand to something.
[] I've had my pants rip in public.

Health
[x] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[x] I've gotten stitches/staples.
[x] I've broken a bone
[] I've had my tonsils removed.
[x] I've sat in a doctor’s office/emergency room with a friend.
[] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[] I had a serious surgery.
[] I've had chicken pox.
[x] I've had measles

Traveling
[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[x] I've been to Canada. (By ascendant)
[] I've been to Mexico.
[] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[] I've been to Japan.
[x] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[] I've been to Europe.
[] I've been to Africa.

Experiences
[x] I've gotten lost in my city.
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[] I've wished on a shooting star.
[x] I've seen a meteor shower.
[] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[x] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[x] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[x] I've been to a casino.
[] I've been skydiving.
[] I've gone skinny dipping.
[x] I've played spin the bottle.
[x] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[x] I've crashed a car.
[] I've been skiing.
[x] I've been in a play.
[x] I've met someone in person from myspace. (DA/Youtube)
[x] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[] I've played chicken.
[x] I've played a prank on someone.
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[x] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[x] I've eaten sushi.
[] I've been snowboarding.

Relationships
[] I'm single.
[x] I'm in a relationship.
[] I'm engaged.
[] I'm married.
[x] I've gone on a blind date.
[x] I've been the dumped more than the dumper.
[x] I miss someone right now.
[] I have a fear of abandonment.
[] I've gotten divorced.
[x] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[x] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[] I've kept something from a past relationship.

Sexuality
[] I've had a crush on someone of the same sex.
[x] I've had a crush on a teacher.
[x] I am a cuddler.
[x] I've been kissed in the rain.
[x] I've hugged a stranger.
[x] I have kissed a stranger

Honesty/Crime
[x] I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
[x] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
[x] I've snuck out of my house.
[x] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[x] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[x] I've cheated while playing a game.
[x] I've cheated on a test.
[x] I've run a red light.
[x] I've been suspended from school.
[x] I've witnessed a crime.
[x] I've been in a fist fight.
[] I've been arrested.

Drugs/Alcohol
[x] I've consumed alcohol.
[] I regularly drink.
[] I've passed out from drinking.
[] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[] I've smoked weed
[] I've taken pai... ]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26130674/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26130674/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:34:15 PDT
Norfolk Southern’s “Southern” 4610 has taken up a surprise residence again. (Those of you who have been wanting to see her hurry up, she could disappear in the night before you know it!)

104 went up to her old tricks again and I found her at the bottom of the hill with water in the oil tank.

Oh yah…we set the front lawn on fire.

Seriously.

Seems that while I was at Railcamp, a community service worker sprayed weed killer all over the front lawn by accident…killing EVRYTHING! So we set all the dead grass on fire to burn it off. Ironically the man who set the blaze is a fire chief!


I’m going to be giving a presentation on Railcamp two Saturdays from now, and I’m in the process of writing an article for our chapter newsletter. “The Hotbox” check yah later!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26011942/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26011942/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:59:47 PDT
God I’m miserable.

They want me to go to the hospital if it doesn’t show any signs of clearing.

Well…at least it waited till after Railcamp to strike me

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25988580/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25988580/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:24:59 PDT
Now, not that these two guys aren’t awesome people, but why do people spend energy making videos and the related for popular people. For example, my own YT anniversary popped up and went by two weeks ago. I didn’t even notice it till I started looking up others. Did I get anything on my anniversaries or Birthdays? Of course not, I don’t have a large fan group of “Thomas kids” I cater to people who are smart, intelligent, and have good content.

I see it as one thing: People are sucking up to the “opular” crowd in an attempt to become more popular on an internet video sharing website.

Seurusly? Well why don’t they stop kissing @$$es and do it the good old way by creating good content in videos. That’s what makes you popular, good videos, not sucking up.

Get over it people, it’s the Internet, not some truck you can just dump stuff on it’s a series of TUBES! ><

BTW: I got diagnoses with PINK EYE today.


Oh joy. Lol

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25924298/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25924298/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:58:21 PDT
I was a camper at Railcamp 09 held in Scranton Pennsylvania at the Steam town national park. It was so much fun. I got the chance to learn for the top railroaders and see railroading as it was in a historical site. Nothing at Steamtown was done unless they did it back in “the day”

I also met so many great people. We had so much fun just hanging out with what little free time we had. We did everything from chat about trains to chucking stuff out a 4rth story window!

I also almost ran a live steamer into a utility pole. Don’t ask how as the pictures will explain it.

In many ways I’m sad its over. I really liked Railcamp and those I met. But I’m glad to be home. I can’t wait to see my GF, and go to SERM to put what I learned into practice.

Pics will be up soon!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25592654/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25592654/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:33:28 PDT
But both pale in a loss to the railway world.

Peter Jones, the owned and operator of the Compton Down Railway, has passed on. For those of you who don’t know, He was a well-loved and highly respected member of the garden railway scene, and will be sadly missed by all who knew him or had read his wonderful writings. His articles I lived for. His style and approach to model and real railroading was one in which I just loved. I never met him in real life, but I felt as if I did in his writing. His railway the CDRW [link] is one of the most beautiful railways I have ever seen. Steamby51 it would be your world in miniature. It was such a beautiful and magical railway, that even I, the anti-British Rail, all US steam lover, was trapped in its embrace. Perhaps it was because the CDRW wasn’t a British railroad, even though that was its location. It was a steam railway, running both 4-4-0s with balloon stacks, and buffer plated narrow gauge slate locos.

And Mr. Jones was a steam railroader.

Peter Jones, 1944-2009

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25522716/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25522716/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:10:39 PDT
I wish I could have taken some photos but I need some new memory cards.

Summers rather boring right now. My big look forward is this trip coming up.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25469070/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25469070/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:28:26 PDT
I also got a visit from a fellow rail fan and friend. Her brakes acted up the whole time he was onboard (which figures) but once he left I made two of the best runs I ever have! I think 104 does that on purpose. He also sold me two boxes of flexi track with assorted odds and ends, as well as a box of cork! ^^

Anyway, 104 behaved herself for the most part. I made my first couple up, I got involved in my first switching run, And I got my authorization! How many of you guys get to run a locomotive on a daily basis (and I’m not talking Train sim)….I DO!

Which brings me to my next big adventure. This Saturday we brought our 2-8-0 consolidation locomotive to the top of the hill. Freshly painted and rebuilt cosmetically, she was a sight to behold! Now here the tricky part. Its not as simple as pull it up the hill and place it on a track. As the locomotive is so big that you just can’t fit it at the top of the hill. So 104 and our GP7 1026 spent an hour dancing around this thing as we leapfrogged her from the bottom of the hill over a few tracks. This was a real test of my lack of skill. The steamer weighed a good bit, and we decided to do the movement without air as it would take so long to get pass threw pressure to raise. So I had to use my 44tonner as a 44 ton anchor! For the most part it worked. (Those of you who still live by train simulators…this weekend showed me how hopelessly out of touch they are!)

By the end of the day, 21 was sitting next to General II. And now that I have my authorization, this will be the last “Engineer’s Log” for a good while.


In other news, I’m preparing for my trip to Railcamp 09. The itinerary looks awesome but I won’t lie saying I’m a little nervous. Its just this is the first time Southeastern Railway Museum and the Atlanta Chapter have been represented. So I want to do my railroad proud.

Shut up Railrunner, I still don’t want to hear any stories for you just yet. I want to be surprised!

Also, Blue and the Gray Episode 4 is out! Go check it out…NOW.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25259745/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25259745/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52:52 PDT
We ended up shutting her down and firing up 1026 our GP9. man THAT was a sweet ride. I got to take her throttle and run her a couple of times. She can be rather intimidation because she builds up so much momentum. Plus her gearing (which is for passenger) makes it so that you have to open the throttle wide, up to notch 4, before she starts moving. Then you have to time it so you shut the throttle before she gets too much speed. But she has to coolest out-of-tune horn ever! People all the way out in downtown Duluth could probably here me laying on that thing! Unlike 104 with her strange air brake system, 1026 just walks away with our two-car train. She also gains this nice rocking motion, which is really relaxing and soothing.

Of course as if getting used to a new locomotive witch I am not accustomed to operation with isn’t hard enough, around 2:00 the dark clouds started to roll in. At 2:20 the thunder rolled and the lightning cracked and the rain started to roll in. and I mean IN! We had sheets of rain so bad I couldn’t see the track in front of me.

We also had some minor flooding. Which gave me the ultimate Rock pool experience! Once we got the train in I saw the General II up to her flanges in water. Once the rain stopped I went out and sat on her pilot. I so wished I had a camera because everything around her was under a good inch of water and was reflecting the sky so perfectly you couldn’t see the track or ground. I skipped a couple rocks in the water from her pilot beam!



Also I saw one of the most beautiful movies ever! “The Legend of 1900” Its about this piano prodigy who spent his whole life on a Victorian era steamship. Watch it…NOW! It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you want to go get some cheese and eat it!

That’s all for now!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25146099/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25146099/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:20:28 PDT
Which brings me to my next topic

As I’m going threw my training, I thought why no keep yawl up to date on the day-to-day antics of an operating tourist railroad!

Anyway, I was the engineer for the regular runs today. New York Ontario and Western #104 was our power. She acted pretty good today, unlike yesterday or in the past. See 104 is a very uh…special…engine. Her brakes, throttle, and gear are so old (60) that it sometimes has a mind of its own. Pulse she leaks water like a singe.

Anyway, watered her like normal, dropped halfway in the sight glass before the morning was over. Ended up watering her no less then five times. My fireman went between Burt Chu, and Mark Schafer. Both are qualified engineers and essentially are there in case I F**k up. Both are awesome guys. They never had to lift a finger under my command and pretty much spent the runs giving tips and staring out the window. Towards the end of the day they didn’t even bother riding in the cab.

104’s brakes acted normal…well…as normal for 104. See 104 has a very interesting feature. We’ve tried again, and again, to figure out why she does this. But for some reason whenever you put the train brakes in Lap…it slowly applies instead of just sitting there. Sometimes it’s very slow, sometimes its quick, and sometimes it doesn’t happen at all.
Anyway, I learned how to use this to my advantage, whenever I want a very gradual stop, I can place the brakes in lap. A good engineer can even work around the inconsistencies. But I’m not yet a good engineer, so every time I put the brake on it’s a new adventure! Needless to say every now and then I slightly banged the cars and rolled in and out slack as I corrected this. Hopefully I can master this strange art.

I also learned that nothing is scarier then trying to stop your train before it runs up the train into an oncoming freight train, even when the freight train is aligned for NS’s mainline and not your spur. (although I do love exchanging horn blasts with the unit freights!)

BTW…MSTS and TRAINZ…. nothing, and I mean nothing…like real life. They aren’t even in the same ballpark! The real thing is much, much, more tense, depending on touch, feel, sound, noise, and vibrations. It really is a stressful job. But oh so rewarding to come up the 3 percent grade on the hill with both engines charging and leaning your head out the window, one band on the throttle, the other on the brake.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25098221/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25098221/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:14:28 PDT
1. What does your DeviantArt name mean and why did you join this site?
Railwolf short and more catcher then my other name: TheRailoadwolf. Which all comes from me being a railroader, and liking wolves.

1.5 Why I joined
I’m a budding artist and I wanted to continue my art at a place where it could be seen.

2.What fandom were you obsessed with when you joined and what are you into now?
Then-Lady and the Tramp/Balto
Now-Lady and the Tramp/Balto

3. How many watchers do you have now?
I don’t know, too many to count (love yall)

4.Name three of your favorite artists on DA
Steamby
Gunslinger
Attacus

Because these guys, especially gunslinger, gave me the incentive to open the WOLF to the public.


5. Do you comment, fav, or both?
Depending on interest

6.Do you participate in club's contests here in DA?
No, because no interest.

7.What's your most popular deviation?
It seems to change by the month

8. What is your favorite non-anime TV shows?
Mythbusters, Ice Road Truckers, MASH, Alias Smith and Jones

9.What are the things you wish you could draw better?
Furies, and the male form in general

10. Summer or winter?
Summer in the mountains

11. Rain or sun?
Rain at night, sun during the day

12. What is your favorite type of music?
It changes depending on my mood

13. PC or Mac?
PC

14. Anime or Manga?
Depends how good it is, I’ve seen some pretty crappy amines and some pretty crappy mangas

15. Coke or Pepsi?
COKE!!!!!

16. Read or TV?
Read, anything of interest that on TV I digitally record

17.How many hours a day do you spend on DA?
depends

18.Name a hidden talent
I’ve got a great since of balance. Guess it comes from running across railroad car roofs half my life

19.Flash or traditional cartoons?
Both.

20.What is you favorite fast-food restaurant?
Taco Bell

21.What are your top three favorite books?
The Sight, Titanic 2012, and anything by Clive Cussler and Stephen King

22. Wii or Playstation?
neither, X-box

23.Name three of your favorite bands
Coldplay, Greenplay, Fort Minor

24.Are you a fast, medium, or slow typer?
Medium, I can type fast, bt I stirt to misellpe

25.Do you like Denny's?
No

26.What is your favorite emoticon?



27.What is your favorite type of pie?
I’m not really a pie person

28.Have you ever stayed up for 24 hours? Yep, a lot lately

29.Do you go on Youtube a lot?
YES! I love watching funny videos and my friend’s video series. I’m a big “Full Bucketneer” fan as well as a “Bridge Line” fan (Fix the god-flipping PC Brain or I’ll drive 104 threw your bedroom!)

30.Are you a member on any other sites besides DA?
Yes, Youtube, Fur affinity, Balto Source, Fanfiction.net, and I’m a wikipedia editor

31.Do you cosplay?
not really

32.Fruit or sweets?
sweets, shuggery sweets

33.Name three artists you admire
I really like the works of Mark Holland Johnston (he makes Howard Fog look like a toddler with a crayon) his works are so vivid they just pull me into them. Not only is the train so beautifully rendered with all its light and color, but the backgrounds make me just want to jump it for the ride!

Of curse I like Ken Marchels’ Underwater Shipwreck works

And Gunslinger is an awesome artist and in some way a great teacher!

34.Buttered, plain, or salted popcorn?
Butter

35.Have you skipped school?
Nope, never needed too

36.Have you ever been on a plane?
I hate airplanes, but yes I’ve been shot threw the air on one of those un-civilized aluminum tubes.

37.Have you ever swam in an ocean?
yep, although I quickly found out…I can’t swim.

38.Have you been iceskating?
No.

39.Favorite vacation spot
Blue Ridge Georgia or Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

40.Ever been on TV?
Yes, I’ve been on news reports on Southeastern Railway Museum, where I work.

41.Favorite salad dressing?
Ranch

42.What do you do to relax?
go online, read, model railroad

43.What was the last film you saw in theaters?
Startrek

44.Favorite... ]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25005493/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25005493/ Thu, 28 May 2009 20:43:28 PDT [link] My Novel “North to Alaska” is now available offline under an alternate Title. “Balto: Iron Horse” being my fist fan fiction to go to Balto Source, which is this rather disputable but large Balto fan site, I changed a few things around and it has an alternate ending! (Sorry Gunslinger, but I had to remove AJ, the Balto fans have no clue who he is…but that will soon change!)

Anyway, check it out, re-read it. Look at it, and this leads to my next topic:

Well it seems we are all in well…slumps. So to pull us all out of slumps, I have a contest!

Those WOLF Texas/Aleu fans listen up! Balto Source gives the option of having Illustrations! The contest is this…draw/create/Photoshop/trainz screenshot an illustration, and if its good enough the reward is the illustration will be put in the online novel! For all the outside DA world to see. (100000 little Balto fans and those of us big-ones)

That is all for now, enjoy and have a ball!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24978776/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24978776/ Wed, 27 May 2009 12:36:35 PDT
I got a railroad lantern as a graduation gift! I lit it and its so awesome to have around. Its nice a bright.

Got bored out of my mind at a card party my parents dragged me too. Ugg.

Right now I’m just chilling out and staying at home. Will work shifts at Southeastern Railway Museum tomorrow and Saturday.

My life is so exciting huh. lol

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24896697/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24896697/ Fri, 22 May 2009 19:42:54 PDT
Feels really weird, never again will I have to go to a public government mandated school. A stage in my life is over and I’m on my way to well…whatever I chose!

My next big thing is to find a permanent job. I don’t plan of getting one until I went threw the Railcamp 09.

Oh yah, I got a scholarship to Railcamp 09! I’ll be going up mid July to Scranton Pennsylvania to attend the Steamtown Branch. I’ll be touring the Amtrak shops, attending classes on railroad restoration and operation, operating the equipment, and other awesome stuff! (Railrunner, don’t tell me about your experiences, I want to be surprised when I get there! )

Anyway, now I’m just chilling out, writing stories and drawing. I can spend lots of time on them now…which is good because I’m having a writer’s block on Brianton Cannonball. I can also spend a lot of time working at Southeastern railway museum. Yesterday I was the engineer on the day’s runs. (and if that wasn’t awesome, My girlfriend picked me up from the railyard for a date immediately after the last run of the day! So yesterday was awesome!)

Anyway, yah, graduate 09 here!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24799598/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24799598/ Sun, 17 May 2009 06:45:05 PDT You just have to be there
He doesn’t need to know you’re perfect
He needs to know you care
And when the race is over
You’ve done all you can do
Be a father,not a hero
That’s all he needs from you


son of a B**ch, I went all day yesterday humming this song and singing it in my head! I was playing the fun role of fireman on the GP9, and I just couldn’t help it! God I hate it when songs get stuck in my head. The residue of this epic one is still playing itself!

In other news, I finally got the right lettering to put “WOLF” on the side of my ten wheeler. I kind of tore some of the striping off my mistake but I fixed it so it wasn’t that bad.

I also fixed the Texas model up with a proper strap iron pilot. Its not the right number, but the straps are so small and hard to put in place I honestly don’t care, will post images later if wanted.

And that’s the further chapter in the adventure that is my life.

Oh yah, almost forgot…I graduate in two days…then I’ll end up like Gunslinger87! Scratching and working hard to make a living out this strange and stupid world we call home! (I mean that in a good way gunslinger!) lol

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24674692/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24674692/ Sat, 09 May 2009 19:35:09 PDT
Then my Girlfriend visits me, which on its own is freaking epic! We watched flash anime videos in this 1900s Pullman. XD There is nothing stranger and yet so wicked awesome then anime mixing with trains!

Then we had a near catastrophe when one of our volunteers twisted his ankle when he fell from a moving locomotive. He’s all right, got checked out at the hospital and despite the strange way it turned they said all he needed was to put some ice on it.

Then once the Museum was closed and my girlfriend had gone home, I went down to the Museum’s library.
The best way to describe SERM’s library is a literal Trainload of info. Really! Its two baggage cars full of anything and everything you could possibly want! Books, papers, documents, designs, artifacts, PC files! It’s flipping awesome.

Anyway, I checked my E-mails and accounts from the PC back there and spent the rest of the day till around 8:45 reading, searching and coming up with new story and art ideas.

Then my mother surprised me and dropped me off at the “New London Theater” and I saw the play “Fools” I love the NLT! It’s a real live play theater! Not a school function, and yet not one of those large giant theaters like Broadway, but a nice simple theater.

All in all it was an epic, yet strange, day.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24657772/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24657772/ Fri, 08 May 2009 19:32:36 PDT
The news crew spent a good percentage of their film time filming the railroad layout. It just so happened that when they filmed the equipment for the video series was sitting in the sidings and the Telegraph model was still attached to the head of the train running for the News crew! That’s right, Telegraph, Texas and Stanford where on Channel 2 Action news. The camera even got a nice run by view of Telegraph and his train.

Beat that Ronthecyborg!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24590573/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24590573/ Mon, 04 May 2009 18:57:15 PDT
First up, episode three of “The Blue and The Gray” is up online. Titled “The Great Locomotive Chase” It fallows the further adventures of a group of steam locomotives living in the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War.

Second, I started a small, but interesting project. I’m building a Hartman, Tyburg, and Brianton 1970’s Refrigerated car in HO scale. Yes Brain, I will post a shot of it once completed. Now If only I could get a good shot of your Railroad’s herald!

And finally, last but not least, I’m hoping to continue work on another novel. So keep posted.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24562055/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24562055/ Sun, 03 May 2009 08:44:35 PDT
We all knew it was going to happen. We knew it three years ago when they diagnosed her with cancer. But still it is a mighty blow.

I think it was made worse for me because, as selfish as it sounds, I really wanted to be up there. My father was up there, bedside, when she passed. Her funereal is n Monday and I’m not even going to be there for that.

But of one thing I am glad. She suffered miserably for four months. Finally, she can rest in eternal peace.




May engines of power and rails of joy carry you speedily on your timely schedule to the final stop in eternity

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24416896/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24416896/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:38:21 PDT
First and foremost, we got a call from Pittsburgh. My Aunt Laurel, who has been fighting cancer for over three years now, went into the hospital last evening. They don’t give her much more then a week or two. My father is making a trip north to visit her this weekend, but we can’t afford to send mom, or me so his going alone.

For those of you who don’t know, she has gone threw kemo, in and out of hospitals including the Mayo Clinic, and has been fluctuation over the past year.

I’m holding out that she will defeat the odds, (as she already has…when she was first diagnosed three years ago, they said she wouldn’t have more then a year) but this time its looking really, really, bad.

I just feel angry, irritable and upset over the whole deal. I really want to see her before she well…goes, as selfish as that sounds. But I understand that my father, who is her brother, ought to go instead. But still, I feel bad that there is nothing I can do.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24324757/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24324757/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:50:15 PDT
Rules

1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!
4. Then tag three people.



1. Who are you?
Aleu: read the first word in this sentence
Lady: Lady Cass Dear
Tramp: Tramp Dear


2. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Aleu: Two brothers and a sister.
Lady: I had a sister.
Tramp: Not that I know of, but I never knew my parents so…


3. what railroad do you work for?
Aleu: The Western Outbound Louisiana and Florida.
Lady: I proudly work with the WOLF Railroad.
Tramp: The WRR


4. Do you run with a regular locomotive, if so who?
Aleu: a Civil War era 4-4-0 with the name of Texas. I love that locomotive
Lady: #97, a 4-4-0.
Tramp: #97

5. What’s your favorite line to run on?
Aleu: I don’t know, I like the endurance of Alaska run, but the Brakeheart Pass is a great place to meet people.
Lady: The Blue Ridge Route, its just so beautiful at all times of the year
Tramp: Same as Lady, I love the freedom that area has.

6. What time period is it?
Aleu: well, its 1903 last time I checked
Lady: It’s the early 20th century
Tramp: turn of the century

7. What exactly is your job?
Aleu: well, I do have a mechanical engineer’s license, but I like being a strait locomotive engineer better.
Lady: locomotive Engineer
Tramp: Locomotive fireman.

8. Do you love anyone?
Aleu: not really.
Lady: *Snuggles Tramp*
Tramp: *Snuggles Lady.*

9. Are you a virgin?
Aleu: that’s not your business
Lady: I’m a mother
Tramp: nope.

10. When your not railroading, What do you do to relax?
Aleu: I like to be around nature, hike, swim, eat, explore.
Lady: I like to swim.
Tramp: I like to watch Lady swim

11. British Steam?
Aleu: Briton doesn’t have steam engines, they have teapots.
Lady: not really
Tramp: no

12. US Steam?
Aleu: is there any other?
Lady: I love my 4-4-0 American.
Tramp: hell yah

13. Other steam?
Aleu: I wouldn’t mind going to Japan.
Lady: Canada sound nice
Tramp: I like the island sugar cane railroads I’ve heard off.

14. What do you think of Diesels
Aleu: a what?
Lady: what is a Diesel?
Tramp: never heard of that…what is it?

15. Do you like your maker?
Aleu: what…I’m NOT REAL!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Lady: I have a maker?
Tramp: that makes less since then the diseaseal thing!

I tag...whoever has a Railroad Character!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24245283/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24245283/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:54:56 PDT
Anyway part of senior week is we have these locker strip things we decorate and put on our lockers. (mine is the one full of train pictures) well, we hung them on Sunday…and Monday morning they where all on the ground! It was so funny, I even saw one peel off and fall before my very eyes! god it was just so funny!

Anyway at the end of the week we’re supposed to have some kind of picnic…see how that goes.

Anything I’m missing…oh yah, the RMS Titanic sinks tonight. We all know that story so aside from saying it was a tragedy and one we shall never forget, I won’t spend too much time on that.

And my father’s Birthday will be tomorrow the 15th…he’s goanna be 50! I can call him an old man now!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24137977/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24137977/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:34:18 PDT
I’m not going to do the first half because well. I’d rather not blast that info all over the web, sorry.

But the second part I have no issue with!






1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4:
"Stangness of the Idea, but because a wolf fears nothing"-The Sight By David Clement-Davies



2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you reach?
The Model railroad roundhouse

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The Mythbusters's newist episode!

4. Without looking, guess what time it is: 1:00


5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time? 12:29


6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
really nothing else, evryone in my house is asleep


7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
half an hour ago, looking at the moon.


8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
NCStL's Railroad serires


9. What are you wearing?
a shirt, jeans, socks


10. Did you dream last night?
yah, it was about a haunted church


11. When did you last laugh?
about five minutes ago when I got tagged

12. What are on the walls of the room you are in?
paint, posters, and shelves of model trains


14. What do you think of this quiz?
is' coo'


15. What is the last film you saw?
Balto III


16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A steam locomotive!


17. Tell me something about you that I don't know about.
I whare glasses


18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
No racisem


19. Do you like to dance?
Only when the house is empty and I'm alone!


20. George Bush: Don't really care


21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Rosie, or Lura


22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Samuel Balto....not after the dog! After the Norwegian explorer


23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Canada possibley


25.Tag 7 people who must also do this in THEIR journal: yah know....do it if yah fell like it!

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]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24043611/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24043611/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:06:01 PDT
I Might continue the trend and set down and watch all the two sequels now that I finished the original, and spring brake is here. Be nice to see “Balto II” and Aleu’s quadratic prototype. (She sounds like Meg from family Guy! Lol) and maybe even see "Balto III” with its flaws and Kodi the wimp. (Damn, Balto…should eaten that one at birth.)

Or not…I really don’t like #III, like the A1 to The K4s it pales in comparison to the original.

Even with my Anthromorphic Railroad world, its nice to see the spark that began it all.

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But I don’t know how well it will be, as Our Events Committee is really suckish as of lately. We’ll see. It would be a good day for a visit by a specheal someone. (gives Shade of Ai the puppy dog eyes)


anyway...Caboose dayz is alost another mark...ITS SPRING!!! (yes, its not spring untill we do our caboose dayz event)

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23903011/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23903011/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:01:16 PDT

Ok, Today’s journal is about Fantasy railroads…and what separates them from the crap that some people have been setting up. It seems that all of the sudden several Deventart and You tube accounts are popping up that are specifically designed to gain more views and become popular. Without mentioning names I would like to draw the line between the two.

Deventart is an ART website. Which means drawings, stories, and photographs. NOT maps with MS-Paint lines drawn on them. Please people; this is about art and mixing railroading and your other interests into it. To me Railroads are art, and its my tool for showing the world my own Railroad. The lives and tales of the trains and their crews is what makes the WRR real. Not copies of the same “make your own wolf/dragon/furry and a map. Now there are some very up and starting railroads out there. But please, draw them, write about them, show us what they are.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23833403/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23833403/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:24:36 PDT
First on Saturday I wore my new wolf tail to work at Southeastern Railway Museum. Early in the morning I got the chance to get throttle time on one of our 44-tonners, the 104. There was the awesome moment where I had my tail dangling out the cab window (the seat is right at the edge) and was piloting the locomotive, tail flapping like a flag in the wind!

Now THAT’S a railroad furry!

Then there were all the awesome comments about it. Most of the Railroad crews thought it funny and interesting, and the passengers all commented on how whimsical it was.

Then on Sunday was had the 50th anniversary celebration. I met [link] face to face. He and a few other guys came down from the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. He was really awesome and we had a nice time chatting and eating, using the pilot beam of the 4-6-2 #750 as a table! Talking and laughing about everything from our Railroad’s, TRAINZ, railroading in general, and virtual railroads. (I hope I didn’t bore him with all my WRR junk)

Anyway, it was an awesome weekend. The Celebration was awesome, I got to drink champagne and toast my Railroad, whare a tail on Railroad property, and meet a fellow Railroader who was like me.

Can’t wait for SERM’s 100th bash!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23764208/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23764208/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:48:26 PDT
They formed a group called “the 290 group” (Oh so original!) and arranged to have the locomotive donated and displayed. But as their numbers grew that formed plans far reaching indeed. More equipment was being gathered far and wide, locomotives, cars, and historic artifacts began to fall into the group. They wanted to preserve the railroads of Atlanta in this time where things where changing rapidly. They re-formed to become the Atlanta Chapter of the National railway Historical Society and started to organize a museum to publicly display their rapidly growing collection.

In their early plans, they envisioned a 30 acre site with a roundhouse, turntable, loop of track, and coal/water tower. They even dreamed of re-building the grand Atlanta station Sherman burned down during the civil war! These were far reaching dreams, and when the chapter received their chapter, they went ahead and tried to build it. There have been slowdowns and setbacks, but we have constantly moved forward.

Today Southeastern Railway Museum has grown in every way imaginable. With two display buildings, a two track shop with overhead crane and sand blasting shed, several steam locomotives, two undergoing restoration, a train ride on resurrected yard track, exhibit hall, railroad station, and massive collection of railcars, we have become something with our early pioneers dreamed. And you know…we’re digging the pit for that turntable we always wanted!

This weekend Southeastern Railway Museum turns 50. and here is too another 50 years of railroad preservation!

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23728288/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23728288/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:13:07 PDT
As you may, or my not know, the Blue Ridge Scenic, inspiration and prototype for Lady and Tramp’s Railroad, is operated under a freight short line called the Georgia Northeastern. The GNRR runs cement trains mainly to a plant in Mckaysville called “ Pilgrim’s Pride.” The GNRR runs the trains, takes care of the tracks and maintains the equipment that the Blue Ridge scenic operates. The two company’s run hand and hand.

Pilgrim’s Pride went bankrupt this year. There is a nice chance that if things don’t get better, it will close.

If its closes the GNRR will have to cut back on its revenue lines…including the Blue Ridge Scenic. This might be the last operating season for the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway. And if the economy doesn’t turn around, the line along the Taccoa River into Blue Ridge will be abandoned.

I’m hoping things get better soon; I would hate to see this beautiful mountain railroad lost. It is the inspiration and prototype for the fictional Blue Ridge division of the WRR. It would be quite a loss to the surrounding area, as well as the railroad community.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23697861/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23697861/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:38:50 PDT
It was so awesome! I had so much freaking fun! I don’t even know where to begin. I got a wolf’s tail to where! (yes that right Gunslinger, I finally got that wolf’s tail!) I’m goanna where it to Southeastern Railway Museum’s 50th anniversary. Its so soft and fluffy.

I saw cosplayers, lots of anime stuff, my GF bought stuff with my money, and we we’re stalked by “Danger Women, the singing crime fighter.” Don’t ask.

Anyway, had a lot of fun! Lots of girls and guys in cosplay outfits. And I GOT WOLF TAIL!

I’m such a furry.

]]> ~Railwolf http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23617139/ http://Railwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23617139/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:04:29 PDT
[link] Ep 1 "Call to Duty"

[link] Ep 2 "More Then You Can Chew"

My style is more dependent on quality rather then quantity, so episodes will be posted at my and my co-worker’s convenience.

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