User talk:Slambo/Archive 0511

Save the picture of Gowen

Save the picture of Gowen!!! Scott 03:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Old drawing of BLW 4-4-0

You may be interested in the link I added to the BLW page, a works drawing from 1875 (zipped), showing the 4-4-0 I've built a live steam miniature of... I scanned this from an original preserved at the Finnish National Archives, and a friend in the US put it on his server. If you want to know more about the miniature project, there's a link on my user page. Regards, --Janke | Talk 19:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

brakeman

Sean, while working on Henry H. Rogers, I was surprised to see brakeman pop up in red. Any thoughts? Mark (now relocated in Historic Triangle of Virginia), Vaoverland 12:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Class I reporting marks

I understand your edits to change M to MTR and C&G to CAGY. I'm not sure myself what would be better.

Montour Railroad was M from 1923 to 1966, and MTR from 1961 to 1986. Prior to 1947, MTR was the Midland Terminal Railway. [1]
Apparently at one time reporting marks could have &. CG was Central of Georgia Railway from 1923 to 1980, and C&G was Columbus and Greenville Railway from 1923 to 1966. CAGY has only been used for the more recent railroad with the same name, starting in 1975. [2]

I guess the real question is whether to be "revisionist" or not in our use of reporting marks. Do we use the marks that were used when it was a Class I, or those used most recently? What do you think would be best? --SPUI (talk) 21:40, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Timken 1111, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Ça va?

Salve, Slambo!
I do hope you are doing better. I also apologize for being so tardy in replying. I've not been as active in the past month and most of the time I've been in a bit of a funk, just glancing at my messages. I am pleased my Mark Felt article got through the gantlet of FAC. I'm hoping to put James Aubrey up as a FAC article. I was just read AT&SF today so I could write John McPhee and tell him he has a mistake in his train article in The New Yorker. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 14:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appeal to consequences

Thanks for the pointing out the lack of references in Appeal to consequences. How else do you think the article can be improved? Shawnc 17:41, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wake Island

You voted to keep the List of Wake Island railroads, based on the nav box. Wouldn't it have been simpler to remove it from the nav box template, along with all the other island groups that are a mile long spit of sand and coral rubble? It's like having a template for nuclear powers in Africa with 50 blank articles as no nuclear powers exist there. Sabine's Sunbird 00:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

March 1 rail transport

Shouldn't this information be merged into March 1 in rail transport, which already exists? JPD (talk) 17:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bounty Board

Greetings. You've recently been involved with working on get articles up to featured status, so I wanted to let you know about a new page, Wikipedia:Bounty board. People have put up monetary bounties for certain articles reaching featured status - if the article makes it, the bounty lister donates the stated amount of money to the Wikimedia Foundation. So you can work on making articles featured, and donate other people's money at the same time. If this sounds interesting, I hope you stop by. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 01:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Photographic grey

The official photograph of Midland Railway 990 Class No. 990 in photographic grey livery.

Did you yanks use photographic grey livery? Dunc|☺ 23:59, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]