Squirt and Big Dog

Dead Horses

Riding a dead horse into the 21st Century

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In modern corporate America and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

• Buying a stronger whip.
• Changing riders.
• Threatening the horse with termination.
• Appointing a committee to study the horse.
• Sending a Congressional delegation to see how other countries ride dead horses.
• Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
• Reclassifying the dead horse as "living impaired."
• Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
• Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
• Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
• Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
• Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than do some other horses.
• Rewriting the minimum performance requirements for all horses.
• Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
• Keep reassessing the horse until it rises from the dead.

Author of this little gem is unknown.

The iside of the Steel Sarcophagus

The interior of the Steel Sarcophagus is coming together and shortly Southern Star Rail and the Pen and Ink Sketch Artist shall be moving location.

Progress

Work inside the Steel Sarcophagus continues.
And the area for Southern Star Rail is closer to fruition.

RailPictures.Net - The BEST railroad photos on the 'net!

RailPictures.Net - The BEST railroad photos on the 'net!

This could very well be one of the most comprehensive collections of rail photography available on the net currently. It is predominantly American rail, but there is a lot of other stuff as well, and all good quality images.

Roco DCC for Southern Star Rail

Well I was told how easy the Roco Multimous DCC was to configure and use. Fine, then if you'll jus' program it all up and get it running then.

Husqvarna 345

Here's the new 345e that is replacing the well used and now rather tired 350

Stump Removal toy...works a treat.

Sqirt

wood

Hungry

Fair Dinkum, we loves trees we does

Five cats, a dog, a rabbit, and two huskies - o course I'm a friggin' environmentalist.

Vege patch

That took care of some of the limestone blocks

Its a pretty good lookin' fence .

Jus' add a watchtower, some spotlights and a bit of barb wire.

New Home Page

Old Snaggletooth has got a new home page. After many years this page has moved across to his own domain.
Http://snaggletooth999.com

Railway photos from around the world

I have a great personal interest in railways, the real deal and model, existing and the deserted. All over the world. I especially like viewing what could be loosely termed railroad photography from around the world. More often than not railroad photography gives us an insight, a view, of more than just a railroad, it often gives an uncensored glimpse of a country, region , society, culture that those steel rails run through.

Russian Rail Photos

AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation

AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
And this would be the obvious answer to the preceding problem

Steam Engine IS. Russian Railway Portal

Steam Engine IS. Russian Railway Portal
Some good pics on this site, alas is a Russian Site in Russian, even makes it a little difficult to do an alphabetical search. But worth taking some time to stumble around in.

trip-report China's narrow gauge lines in autumn 2003

trip-report China's narrow gauge lines in autumn 2003