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(N2EY) wrote in message
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Brian Kelly wrote:

Note that Sears, Hallicrafters and Loewy were all based in Chicago.

Also Frank Lloyd Wright, for at least some of his career.

Very early but his big days were in AZ.

Taliesin West.

Guy had quite a life, full of both triumph and tragedy. More of an artist than
an engineer, though, many of his best-known buildings are real headaches to
keep in shape.

But if he had a dollar for every corenr window in Wynnewood...

Whew. You hit some more buttons with this one. I like the T1 better
than the S1. But the K4 is the ultimate classic PRR power.

http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/prrt1.html

As K2ASP sez, the GG-1 is the top of that pyramid.

Yeah, for you sparkies maybe.

In many ways a G is actually closer to a steamer than to a modern diesel
electric. Particularly in the cab.

For streamlined steam engines, the special J-3 Hudsons used on the New
York Central's Twentieth Century Limited are the most impressive.

961 miles from Grand Central Terminal to Chicago Union Station in 960 minutes.
With steam engines most of the way, on jointed rail. With stops at most major
cities, speed restrictions on some curves and bridges, and engine changes at
Harmon and for the stop at Cleveland. (The steamer would cut off outside
Cleveland and an electric pulled the train into and out of the station. While
the station stop was being made, the steamer would run around the station, get
coal and water, and meet the electric on the other side). Oversized tender and
scooping water meant the only coal stops were at Wayneport (NY) and Cleveland.

Engineers are generally the guys who make things work. Designers are
those who make them nice to look at. We all know of the exceptions.

"Scientists dream of doing great things. Engineers do them"

A physicist and an engineer standing in bulap bags line up side by
side at one end of a basketball court.

Old joke but still on target.

The engineer hollers back "Watch me get close enough!"

HAWW!!!!

And a recent auction sold an *unbuilt* Heath SB-303 for about $1300.
Adjusted for inflation, that's about what they cost new. But the '303
isn't much of a receiver - not even up to the level of the earlier
SB-301, and defintitely not in the same class as the Drake R4 family
or any Collins, A or S.

And for anywhere from $250 to maybe $500. Goofy.

'zactly. The 301/401 were the peak of Heath, and that's not saying too much.
Their main advantage is that they *are* decent enough, easy to work on, and can
be kept going pretty much indefinitely if you collect junkers. Which cannot be
said for the various Yaecomwoods...

Road trip!

Prolly.

Now Len can't
accuse us of not discussing amateur radio policy, his favorite topic for
some obscure reason.

Len who?

Oh you remember him James, the radio genius who needed 40Kw to QSO
W7/W6 from JA.

I've done that much distance with 4 watts.

What's his callsign? What ham bands is he on?

73 de Jim, N2EY