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there's plenty of stuff going on in AZ ... some of whatsup Silent Wrytes forum Arizona Writers (PG) arizona writers / freights (PG) They All Fear (PG)

hmm.... Deny Heist RA ... London Underground, 2004 ...?

tucson arizona... historic trolley... does this count?

stolen from the thread on peegee

I do computers for a living (yeah, I'm like thirty-something) and have switched several folks over to Linux. With most of them it's not too difficult. ("Oh, this is like the Start button? OK...") especially with OpenOffice around. It's stuff like ipods and all the protected music/movie formats that make life a bit tough... so yeah, realistically to know 'everything' might take a while... Unlike Windows though, if there's any part of the system you really want to know about, you can find ANYTHING out, because all the source code and support is freely available -- you can even talk directly to the developers! If you want to know how a part of Windows works, what can you do????? ;)

Somewhere in the south of England

In the US right now there are about 300,000 freight cars. Theoretically any of them can go anywhere, but because commerce and industry follow patterns, so do the freights... most boxcars and such wind up going between two or four different cities, around and around... of course the cities could be Los Angeles and St. Louis and Atlanta... Having recently been in London and Dortmund, i can say Yes, American train security is a bit of a laugh... last month i was in a US city where we basically walked right into the yard... not even a fence really... that just wouldn't happen in Europe. And in the US you're not gonna be painting a trackside wall when a train bears down on you doing 180 mph, that's three miles a minute if you're counting, and you have twenty seconds tops between when you see it and you're hamburger if you don't move, and NO you can't hear it before it's onto you... the rush of being in a sanfran tunnel when a muni zipped past doing 50, one foot away... and the rush of being three feet away from a German ICE train doing 180 three feet away... while you're ducked in by the electrical pylon... yeah stuff in Europe is crazier... America is cake by comparison... and yes i seen a few flix from here, stuff gets done, and almost nobody sees it but the writers and their friends. euro's come over here and with a connection or two they get their panels and their flix and take 'em home... the big mistake folks here make, is trying to get a scene going with pieces... you can't do it... in NYC 1970s it was tags tags tags everywhere and then you get stuff up faster than the buff can remove it...only THEN can you get pieces running... unless you wanna do the old routine where you do pieces on one train and smash the windows on everything else in the yard... a bit brutal but it can work...

Another "fallen flag" on the railroad -sigh-

well, there's an Amtrak that comes thru a couple days a week and stops in the middle of the night... beyond that, Yuma is all sand dunes and boarded-up motels. phoenix is OK, and to totally oversimplify things, westside is wanna-be gangstas and eastside is sleepy retired mormons. at least there's a 20-mile lightrail line being built now, that should offer some entertainment opportunities. http://www.silentwrytes.com has a forum you'll probably want to check out for a more local flavor.

phoenix valley metro light rail yard under construction... they've hardly started and it's already getting its dues...

Like downtown...

http://www.moonamtrak.org 26th Annual Mooning of Amtrak All Day Saturday, July 9, 2005, Laguna Niguel, (Orange County) California, U.S.A. THIS WEB SITE does not contain offensive or sexually suggestive material, and is not classified as "Adult". It is acknowledged however, that the "Mooning" of a public conveyance may be considered objectionable to some. The photos presented here are not "revealing" and are quite safe for all age groups to view. LOCATION: Along the chain link fence adjacent the train tracks, across the road from: Mugs Away Saloon, (949) 852-9716 27324 Camino Capistrano, #102; Laguna Niguel, (Orange County) California 92677 DRIVING DIRECTIONS: In Orange County, California, Interstate-5, Exit "AVERY PKWY". Turn West at the end of the off-ramp (Right if you were South-bound on I-5). Short block street ends at "T" intersection, Turn North (Right) on Camino Capistrano. The train tracks will be on your Left. 1.2 Miles to Mugs Away Saloon, crowds of people, cars, camper trucks, motor homes and motor cycles all over. This road ends another mile to the North. Park somewhere, but please don't park next to the chain link fence next to the train tracks. That's where the "mooning" happens. It is most crowded between 10am and 4pm PDT. Estimated Amtrak Train Passing Times, PDT, July-2005 * 7:35am North * 8:34am North * 8:41am South * *9:25am South * 9:47am South * 10:53am North * 11:01am South * 11:59am North * 12:26pm South * 1:27pm North * 1:39pm South * 2:18pm North * 3:14pm South * 4:17pm South * 4:27pm North * 5:25pm North * *5:28pm North * 5:30pm South * 6:26pm South * 6:43pm North * 7:43pm North * 7:52pm South * Nite Mooning * 9:49pm South * 10:43pm North * 11:24pm South The train times shown represent Northbound 4 minutes later than, and Southbound 1 minute earlier than the Amtrak scheduled train departure times at "San Juan Capistrano" depot. * = Special Metrolink "Beach Train" from & to Riverside on Summer week-ends. Stops at Irvine to the North and Laguna Niguel, 1 mile to the South. Round trip tickets are $8 for Orange County stations. Pre-sale tickets only for this train. See website: CLICK HERE! Other Details There is no admission charge

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