Roger, out!

May I respectfully disagree? How does a thread on somebody else's website become "YOURS," exclusively? The whole idea of UHH is dialog, trading of information, about photography but other things as well, like trains. We're a community and the concept of exclusivity works against that. We're a voluntary community, we pay nothing to belong, the scut work being done on our behalf by others because they are willing to run this community. Been there, done that.

How does putting a link in MY reply, constitute "posting a video" in YOUR thread? The video is nowhere near UHH or you, it's on YouTube. I put the link there for other old-steamtrain folks, that's what I understand the internet to be for. Starting another thread would break the continuity and defeat the purpose of having a thread in the first place.

Finally, why do you think me rude? Why you were annoyed at something I think to be ordinary web discourse? I know how to be rude, I learned how to skirt the edge of discourtesy in SERE school, albeit half a century ago.

UHH on the Web is text-only communication and I am completely clueless about what you find wrong and why you are so proprietary about YOUR thread. I am eager to read your explanation, really.

Oh, man, that video is so loaded with meaning under the surface. I saw it years ago and have been looking for it ever since.

First, apropos of nothing, why do parents describe any train to their children as a "choo-choo?" Not only have they never seen a steam locomotive, they've never heard one, either. Where the hell do they get choo-choo train? TV? Their parents? Where? ... Just askin'.

On topic, the steam in modern times is a fad but the infrastructure is gone. The coaling towers and water towers that supported steam gradually disappeared after diesel took over in the 60s. The refurbished steam locomotives of today tow several tenders to carry the water they need, coal has been supplanted by oil.

This video shows that the skill is gone, as well. Several times, the drivers spin wildly as they break loose from the rails. Too much steam sent to the cylinder, applies too much pressure to the piston, which applies too much force to the wheel, causing it to break loose from the rail and spin. The guys who did this every day rarely, if ever, spun their wheels but those guys are gone! Nobody runs a steam locomotive every day for a living, anymore. Diesel is easy.

Here's a link to a Union Pacific puff-piece on the Big Boy locomotive with dual driver sets (very cool).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWNJ63C_0ts

Well, yes, but ....

The guy holding the camera is human and he is both watching the world come to an end and trying to photograph it. I am not surprised that a lot of this footage is shaky and cuts back and forth from the oncoming wave to the out of focus floor.

It's called civic responsibility. Some of us enjoy taking that responsibility, even if there are no tangible rewards. I was on the condo board for 10 years and was voted off as an act of mercy. I still fix the things I find broken, I can't help myself.

On the flip side, think about old Dan, the guy who sits in the back and takes uninspired pictures. Do you want HIM anywhere near the running of your camera club?

That would be the "Arizona Republican State Flower." The town of Bisbee banned the damned things a while ago and the Republican Legislature said, "NO! We rule, here. You people can't do that. Shut up and obey!"

<< Maybe I am just lazy but also cheap. Maybe I have some Jewish ancestry somewhere. (:">>cut from jerryc41

First, if Mossad has taught the World nothing else, nobody should mess with the Jews.

Second, what about the famously stingy Scots?

Third, we have no shortage of mean-spirited people here posting in Chit-Chat, particularly when it comes to women (i.e., wife "jokes").

I agree, if a comment is bad enough for the attic, it's good enough for the aether.

Maybe it was Andy Goldsworthy, he stacks rock for a living and makes the most amazing art.

I find this whole thread deeply disturbing. The intended humor is lost on me, but that is true for a lot of "jokes." Why is it necessary to be gratuitously nasty?

I don't gotta laugh, especially since I am married. My wife of 54 years and I crawl into bed at night, both marveling at our fantastic good fortune that we still have each other and can wear out together.

And for those of us who don't find this sort of thing funny, we must be bad people, Democrats.

I was happy to let my Veteran's Day revert to its original name and purpose - Armistice Day - on this 100th anniversary of the "War to End All Wars."

The fact that I AM a veteran a century later is testimony to how well that ending worked out.

I am the "Deep State," which means I know how to keep things working. I am the smallest "c" in "small-c conservatism." You hate my trumpin' guts! HATE!

After you have hurt me, smashed me, crushed me, humiliated me; how are you going to persuade me to turn the electricity back on for you so you can watch Fox (pronounced "fear," it's French)? Just askin'.

Wow! Haven't been on BuzzFeed for a while. The sheer volume of click-bait at the bottom is astounding!

The operative word for the Sunspot observatory is OLD! ... as in OLD technology. As we have full coverage of the sun from above the atmosphere, now, I am actually surprised that the place is/was still open. In fact, I'm skeptical.

A good friend of mine worked there 30 years ago and the telescope was old then.

I suspect that, rather than the FBI, it is BFI - Biddeford-Fibbergibbet Industries - who went up there to salvage anything that might be of value. Can't imagine anything was.

Speling was a phad. It started with Websterz dixxionarie and was oaver by the 70s.

So, why did Stonecherub write "Click-bait?"

As a decades-long reader of TheAtlantic Magazine, I am familiar with high-quality photo spreads. Such as:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/photos-of-the-week-silent-sam-turbine-down-mutton-bustin/568474/

the weekly round-up. Many photos, all new, ONE web page.

I followed yesterday's URL to the first photo which was accompanied by a command button labeled "NEXT." I do not click on NEXT, it was put there to get me to load a new page, and from that to another page. Those clicks get counted to make somebody money. Next-next-next, click-click-click, pay-pay-pay. I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you. It makes me feel used.