Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Derrell Poole on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Eight-wheel-Caboose-on-C-Sng-tp488p2032.html

A thoughtful Post Jim....

...except for the blasphemy!

"(He says, trying to remind himself why he chose not to model the RGS with its 12 volume encyclopedia of information)".

Where's the fun  of modeling a RR that has all the answers figured out for you? Isn't that kinda like Ready-to-Run history? How many duplications of O-Fear loop do we need? I could model the 1930s C&S very easily. I don't because the ground is hard and challenging over on the 1910 pasture and the rewards are very fulfilling - specifically because we either don't have the answers or many of those given to us don't hold up to scrutiny. When all the answers are given to you all you can do is harp about how many of them you actually know (aka as a knit-picker fest!).

Your observations of the posts to this thread got me curious. Never mind the posts, look at the views. This topic is by far the most popular - 2848 view as of this writing. I went back and added up all the views from any topic that spoke about C&S cabooses. The total views in 8 topics is 6237....

Do you think we LOVE our Bobbers? It appears to me that we are hungry to understand this topic. And I think this is one to be converted into a Blog Book. Personally it has been a very rewarding discussion; I learned a lot and I hope everyone else did too. It ain't our fault there are so many unknowns - I think we've done a noble job of making the most of what we do know. And I think another dynamics has been made apparent - you can thump the books and raise the dust in the files 'til you choke but when you get into dialog with like minded seekers it all seems to come together. Well. At least as much as it can - more than I had before...

It ain't over, either.