I like trains!!! Train thread...

[SallyCat]

Fucking hate ebooks.

 

 

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My high school students seem to mostly agree. I did a sort of informal survey for a conference paper a while back and the results were surprising. You can see some of the graphed data here if you scroll down a bit past the initial text:

 

https://facultyjacobin.com/2016/11/24/think-you-know-how-your-students-feel-about-technology-in-school/

 

 

As far as Chaucer, Salinger, et al. I will say that just because you don't like a book (or didn't like it as a 15-year-old) doesn't make it a bad book.

 

I do think that the way reading is assigned in school often takes the fun out of it. Shakespeare, for example, I love reading now in a way that i just didn't "get" in HS, partly because I was young and callow, and partly because we read it in such small chunks instead of all the way through the way it was meant for. 

[Barb]

I am with Toast, thought I was the only one who hated ebooks. I used to go for mysteries, but now have gravitated toward survival stories, mountaineering and Buddhism themed. Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh is a favorite.

[SallyCat]

 

Sorry, just realized this is the trains thread

 

 

 

LOL, it's a fun hijack, though. I've been home sick for two days and found some old codeine in a cupboard this morning, so I'm not exactly detail-oriented today. 

[Schif]

I usually read biographies and/or history or other nonfiction kind of things. People have done some cool stuff over the past few thousand years might as well learn about it. 

 

I'm between a rock and hard place where I just moved to in terms of libraries now. As far as I can tell Montgomery County Library system doesn't have a location anywhere near me, I work close to Doylestown so I could hit up the library there but I don't live in Bucks county, and the nearby one in Lansdale is only for residents of that town so I would have to pay a monthly fee to use the library. 

[trackbiker]

My high school students seem to mostly agree. I did a sort of informal survey for a conference paper a while back and the results were surprising. You can see some of the graphed data here if you scroll down a bit past the initial text:

 

https://facultyjacobin.com/2016/11/24/think-you-know-how-your-students-feel-about-technology-in-school/

 

I'm kind of surprised by the results of that survey since most teenagers are always looking at their phones. I always take a real book with me when I get on a plane but it seems most of the others are reading kindles.

Last book I read is "Beneath a Scarlet Sky" https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Scarlet-Sky-Mark-Sullivan-ebook/product-reviews/B01L1CEZ6K

It's based on a true story and there is some skiing involved and even a train. Highly recommend it.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Planes are where I do most of my reading.

[SallyCat]

I'm kind of surprised by the results of that survey since most teenagers are always looking at their phones. I always take a real book with me when I get on a plane but it seems most of the others are reading kindles.

Last book I read is "Beneath a Scarlet Sky" https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Scarlet-Sky-Mark-Sullivan-ebook/product-reviews/B01L1CEZ6K

It's based on a true story and there is some skiing involved and even a train. Highly recommend it.

True, but on their phones they're socializing or looking a YouTube videos. Reading is a different animal, especially if it's for school. 

They seem to be pretty savvy about what works for them in terms of getting good grades, and that's generally books-on-paper. The one time a math class used an e-textbook they NEVER stopped complaining about it all year long.

[Shadows]

There are so many train channels on amazon. This is great.

Just chilllin on trains in norway right now

[Mixilplix]

[Shadows]

Wheres that? The anthracite tour in reading? Been wanting to do that for a while

[Mixilplix]

8 hours ago, Shadows said:

Wheres that? The anthracite tour in reading? Been wanting to do that for a while

These were taken at Port Clinton...I finished an AT hike there....It could be the tour you are thinking of,cause there were signs for train rides....

[toast21602]

 

 

http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/train-mountain-oregon-largest-miniature-railroad/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2055

 

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[JFskiDan]

6 hours ago, toast21602 said:

 

 

 

http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/train-mountain-oregon-largest-miniature-railroad/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2055

 

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Thats really cool.  Steam baby steam.  

[Shadows]

you down with opb?

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

5 minutes ago, Shadows said:

you down with opb?

Yeah you know me 

[Burton0688]

The train set is up, the snow is coming tomorrow, and the conductor is enjoying a few too many IPA's this evening! 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Fap Fap Fap..

[Shadows]

Wow. That probably costs more than all of my cars.

[indiggio]

A nice couple of steam engines there!

 

[Schif]

Beautiful layout. I have a similar PRR steam engine but I'm an O-scale guy. 

[JFskiDan]

13 hours ago, indiggio said:

A nice couple of steam engines there!

 

i agree.  steam engines are awesome.  

[toast21602]

I prefer the deep hum of a diesel. No hate on the steam.


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[toast21602]

My dad sent me this picture today. Looking west into the Lehigh Gap. You can see them deconstructing the old trestle that used to cross. And of course a beautiful black diamond diesel.




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[Shadows]

That's awesome.