"Point Break"
Looks like I might see snowfall tonight, if I stay awake til about midnight.
Crazy weather.

That sounds interesting, Paul. Is it a documentary, series, or movie?

I’ve travelled across this country by train a few times a long time ago. Freight trains have almost prevented that. But, aside from having ridden the British rails in the 60s, my fondest memories were moving from the Maritimes and traveling as a small child from Maine to Washington and then north to Vancouver, BC. The Canadian trains ran across the country. We discovered American trains, for a great part, ran north and south. This caused a lot of changes amongst railroads and sometimes a few times in a day or night. A lot of lost sleep, but the experience of comparing the different trains and companies were a blast in those early days when the railways were uber competitive with great service and a variety of designs. We looked forward to rounding a curve in the tracks so we could watch the locomotive. Of course, watching the heavy duty mountain trains was pretty cool too. What little boys wouldn’t like that?
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Watching CBC National News and a story about the ins and outs of Bitcoin valued today at $19,300 (USD).

FSB

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It's sort of like a documentary series with these train enthusiasts that film and discuss various trains as they drive along various places, most of them out west or mid west. Some Canadian footage, too. It goes from different decades, even back to some 1930's and WW2 War Department footage. You know, soldiers or sailors being shipped out of one state or another. They also show this map route with the explanations of the various stops along the way, or they'll have cameras mounted so it looks like you're inside looking out the train when it's going, and inside the engine with the driver, loading coal into the steam engines, if they feature those. It's on the RFD Network. It's just something to chill out to when you're in bed for the night. I tape it, along with a few other shows for that purpose, since it's not on when I am in bed, and we like to watch it. In fact, other than "The Walking Dead," I rarely watch TV, unless I'm in bed, or I have to work out in the house.

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I'm looking forward to watching "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years" documentary that PBS is airing later. I've always listened to the soundtrack associated with that many times.

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M*A*S*H

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"Electric Lady"

Looks pretty good. Sitting on my PVR waiting for me to kick back.
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Thanks, for filling me in on the trains program. I’ll keep an eye out for it, Paul.

Did you know that many towns carry either the name or first initial of train employees? Here in Canada along the rails (at least in the West) towns and stops may or may not have been alphabetically influenced by railways starting with the highest letter to the east going to the lower letter as you head west. A map of the prairies will show that to be the case, although newer additions make it less noticeable.

Trains are definitely interesting and this city is not only surrounded by major rail yards and repair shops, but politics involves much of the land within the city owned by the railways.

I don’t know if it still happens here in this neck of the woods, but in the mid 60s I took a train up north to The Pas (a well known trapping town amongst other things). The train was full of gold miners going back to work in Thompson, Manitoba. It was my first year here and on my invitation to be introduced to the north, I saw craps being played in the aisles and they would stop when someone came out of the bush with a freight canoe only to be loaded on the train. I expected to see Grizzly Adams to show up. I had earlier been to the upper north border of BC and Alaska, but this train trip had that all beat.
FSB

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"The Walking Dead"

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You got to watch out going into those backwoods wilderness towns. Those trappers can get awfully lonely, you know.

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Yeah. If I ever heard the theme to Deliverance coming from those bushes I’d run for the hills. Only thar ain’t any.
I’m not worried though. I lurned a trick living amongst fishermen and loggers. Just pull yer toque over yer head and they can’t find you.

FSB

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"Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown"

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MNF: Patriots at the Dolphins.

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"Electric Lady"

The Voice

and now a new season of the show that cracks me up -
Better Late Than Never

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Blue Bloods

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Marky

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