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  1. M3 Medium Tanks & 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Locomotives being built side by side at the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) factory in Schenectady, New York - 1941

    ALCO produced M3 & M3A1 Medium Tanks and several versions of the Sherman Tank during WW2, and helped with M47 and M48 production post war.

    The “Big Boy” Nickname came from when an unknown ALCO employee wrote it in chalk on the first one built (No. 4000). 
    ALCO manufactured 25 Big Boy Locomotives for Union Pacific; two groups of ten in 1941 and one group of five in 1944.
    Union Pacific Railroad exclusively operated the Big Boy Locomotives until 1962. 

    Today only eight of the 25 built survive, one of these, No. 4014, was acquired from a museum in 2013 and restored to running condition by Union Pacific in 2019.

    LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer WWP-PD

     

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  2. The Texas Quote of the Day:

    "It has been estimated that, between 1867 and 1890, approximately 10,000,000 cattle went up the various trails.  Each year there were from 150-200 herds of about 2500 head each.  A herd required 12 men, at least six saddle horses for each man, and a mess wagon and team.  The cattle traveled on an average of 15 or more miles per day, or 450-500 miles per month.  Each year the cattle movement up the trail required an army of 2400 cowboys and 14,000 saddle horses.  From first to last, between 45,000-50,000 cowboys using almost 300,000 saddle horses took part in the drives.  The cost of operating a trail unit was about $500 a month.  It cost the drover between fifty and sixty cents to transport a cow from Southern Texas to the Kansas railroad stations."   

    ------  William Curry Holden, "Alkali Trails,"  1930

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

    Hence the camo changes…

     

    I often wonder, is it coincidental that camo uniform color schemes change then within a couple of years we are sending men and women to fight and die in areas where that camo works? OR perhaps I am just suspicious of our gov’t and it’s corporate sponsors and any little change builds on my distrust of the scum in suits that play games with American lives for riches…

     

    Nah…I’m just paranoid. Carry on…

     

     

     

     

    I think it's more the mystics in Plans & Intentions trying to predict what will be happening a few years down the pike.  Wanting to break out of the  "fighting the last war" cycle. 

     

    That new course of fire looks like an attempt to be more realistic. 

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  4. Found  in, “The Cook's guide and housekeeper's & butler's assistant: a practical treatise on English and foreign cookery in all its branches, containing plain instructions for pickling, and preserving vegetables, fruits, game, &c.: the curing of ham and bacon, the art of confectionary and ice-making, and the arrangement of desserts: with valuable drections for the preparation of proper diet for invalids: also for a variety of wine-cups and Epicurean salads, American drinks, and summer beverages by Charles Elmé Francatell... with upwards of forty illustrations.”
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  5. 1 minute ago, Hashknife Cowboy said:

    This stuff really does take place.  Then one day some bureaucrat of a  administrator will get word of this and create a policy and reporting guidelines for a simple act of human kindness and if not documented, the officer gets disciplined.   I almost 3 decades of law enforcement I saw this exact scenario too many times.  So we continued to do what we had to do and told no one.  Whether well meaning, malicious or just ignorant police administrators create more problems when there is not a need to.  I will always support the men and women who are the unsung heroes and know and do the right thing when the situation presents itself.  God Bless them all and thank you for being there.

     

    That's why I titled this thread "Typical Cop!" I'm fair certain sure that things like this happen thousands of times every day across our republic.  LEOs doing everything from stopping to shoot hoops with kids, or play a few minutes of catch, buy a guy a burger, give a guy with rags on his feet his spare pair of shoes, buy a kid a bike, buy a family a load of groceries, change a tire in the rain so the woman doesn't have to get soaked.  Even arrange for Shaq to come play basketball with kids.  These are the things that should be shouted in the headlines, and be the lead in story on the evening news, not the statistically rare bad cop that gets trumpeted for weeks.  

    I'm not saying that all cops are angels, in any population of ~1,000,000 you will find a few bad apples.  And, being human, even the good ones will sometimes make a mistake because they are human.  With between 50 million and 65 million contacts per year with citizens there are bound to be a few mistakes.  Even 1/10 of 1% yields 50,000 to 65,000 mistakes.  Which then get exploited by the certain people to paint all cops as bad.

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  6. 6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    Peanuts are one of the most oily nuts.  I’ve made all of the nut butters. I think only walnuts were more oily.

     

    That's a given.  But peanuts in a can, roasted, shelled, and salted, are greasy.  Dry roasted and salted, roasted in the shell aren't.  

  7. 59 minutes ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

    What is about those Peanuts that are seemingly better?

     

    I think it's because they aren't oily, and don't have that nutritional yeast coating like dry roasted.  Plus the satisfaction of cracking them and tossing them out if the half shell into your mouth.   Although,  with the salted and roasted in the shell I'll sometimes eat shell and all.

     

    Not that I don't like dry roasted peanuts, nut a while ago Planters changed the mix and puts less of it on.  I used to like that TBS or more of the powder in the bottom of the jar.

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