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Side view of of O scale model of Monon ALCO Century 420 locomotive.

Recent Train Acquisitions – March 2023 Edition

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by Matt

One of my goals is to have a model of each type of diesel locomotive that Monon operated from 1942 until the company merged into the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1971. So far, I’ve managed to acquire most of them, but one that has remained elusive is the ALCO Century 420 … until now.

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Front view of O scale model of Chesapeake & Indiana EMD SD40-2 locomotive.

Recent Train Acquisitions

Posted on February 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by Matt

I recently got a bonus at work, and decided to use a bit of it to buy some trains. I recently saw some locomotives from MTH and Lionel end up on eBay, being sold by someone here in the Indianapolis area. Turns out, they were being sold by a train shop I’ve never visited called A-Trains down on Main Street in Greenwood.

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Obituary of John Nelson Hanes

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Matt

“His advice and farewell words to his family were enough to melt the heart of an infidel.”

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Fixing File Sharing Following macOS Ventura 13.2 Upgrade

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Matt

Here at home, I have a Mac mini (2018) running as a file server for the home network. After I upgraded to macOS Ventura 13.2 earlier this week, I realized that I could no longer connect to the file shares on the Mac mini from anywhere. Time Machine didn’t work either.

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Monon Railroad History (Video)

Posted on January 12, 2023January 24, 2023 by Matt

Gilded Rail Entertainment posted a YouTube video recently that does a pretty good job explaining the history of the Monon.

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Recent Photos at White River State Park

Posted on January 8, 2023January 24, 2023 by Matt

While playing Pokemon Go yesterday, I managed to grab a few good shots of White River State Park.

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Fixing Zombie Tags in InfluxDB

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by Matt

I ran into some issues trying to clean up stale data in InfluxDB and found a nice workaround thanks to a user on GitHub.

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Model of Monon #6 viewed from the side.

How I Got Started Loving Model Trains

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 by Matt

When I was 4 years old, my father gave me his old Lionel train set. Fast forward 40+ years, and here I am a serious collector of O scale model trains.

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My Fediverse Story, So far

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Matt

I started out on a couple of other Mastodon servers back in the Spring of 2022, but ended up migrating to my own instance by the end of the year.

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Settling Into WordPress

Posted on January 3, 2023January 7, 2023 by Matt

I’ve completed much of the initial work on this blog. I’ve installed a good theme that I really like, and have begun to customize a few things.

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