New Toys!
Just a couple of days ago a few new toys arrived for my HO pike. This is another one of those times where I preordered a long time ago and then totally forgot about having done so. Model train companies tend to announce the intent to manufacture and release a new model with great fanfare, […]
More places to discover around the metropolitan Washington DC area
It’s raining buckets here in DC. The yard looks like I should be thinking about investing in a boat. Though it seems that my banana plant (Musa Basjoo) is quite liking all this water. Since it is so miserable outside I thought I’d bore everyone with a follow up to my last blog. A couple […]
Nothing could be finer, than eating in the diner…well, maybe not!
Fred Harvey, George Pullman and Georges Nagelmackers must be spinning in their respective graves like so many dreidels. In this day and age one would call them entrepreneurs. Their common grievance: the atrocious service being provided by the railroads of their days. Fred Harvey founded the Fred Harvey Company in 1876, spurred on by the […]