New HO Scale 1940's Era Switcher (without handrails and couplers installed)

Reproduction of a Baldwin Locomotive DS-4-4-1000 yard switcher manufactured by Stewart Hobbies. All of my railroad engines and freight cars are new HO scale running versions of actual equipment that rode the rails during the first half of the twentieth century.

Favorite Sci-Fi Excerpt

It Came From Outer Space (1953)

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"Yes ... look at it's power! (reference to a whirling cone shaped engine) Power to drive a ship through space ... power to tear your earth apart! You know how long we worked on this? A thousand years of reaching for the stars. At last we conquered space. Ah ... the dreams we had of knowing other worlds".

Favorite Heath Ledger Movie Quote

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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"I wish I knew how to quit you"

Infamous/Favorite Faye Dunaway (a.k.a. Joan Crawford) Movie Quotes

Mommie Dearest (1981)

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"NO WIRE HANGERS"

"You live in the most beautiful house in Brentwood, and you put a three hundred dollar dress on a WIRE HANGER"

"Helga ... when you polish the floor you have to move the tree"

"If you can't do something right, don't do it at all"

"You have to get mad at the dirt"

"It's not raw, it's rare ... meat loses its' vitamins when it is over-cooked"

Favorite Bette Davis Movie Quote

"All About Eve" (1949)

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"Did I tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke"?

Favorite Elizabeth Taylor Movie Quote

"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (1958)

(regarding her brother-in-law's children)

"One of those no-neck monsters hit me with some ice cream. Their fat little heads sit on their fat little bodies without a bit of connection ... you can't wring their necks if they got no necks to wring".

Asteroid Misses Earth

A ten story sized asteroid, similar to the object that exploded over Siberia destroying 80 million trees in June 1908, came hurling near the earth at an altitude of 72,000 kilometers this past Saturday. With an explosive capacity of 1000 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs, an earth impact or air burst would have been disastrous. It is NOT reassuring that we only had three days notice prior to the fly-by. You can read the full story here.