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22-10 1:03:07	soccrdad30	now we slowly go down about 4-5 degrees the next few days
22-10 1:02:48	rvn2001	72 here
22-10 1:02:40	soccrdad30	hi Mike
22-10 1:02:36	soccrdad30	we had the upper 60's
22-10 1:01:54	GNFan	60 degrees, nearly sunset. No trains running...yet.
22-10 1:01:23	GNFan	Hi, Thom.
22-10 1:00:53	rvn2001	How are you this prevening?
22-10 1:00:38	rvn2001	Hi Mike.
22-10 1:00:06	rvn2001	Same here.
22-10 0:59:52	soccrdad30	not bad, warm sunny weather for us
22-10 0:59:31	rvn2001	How are you tonight?
22-10 0:59:30	soccrdad30	Stony, thanks for the heads up on PHP
22-10 0:59:10	soccrdad30	Hello Stony, Thom
22-10 0:59:10	rvn2001	Hi John.
22-10 0:58:38	rvn2001	How are you tonight?
22-10 0:58:19	rvn2001	Hi Stony.
22-10 0:58:05	stonysmith	beep
18-10 18:01:03	rvn2001	Well, Stony, I'm going to go check on my trains. Have a great rest of the day.
18-10 17:57:24	rvn2001	...an oil tank level indicator?
18-10 17:55:39	rvn2001	Interesting.
18-10 17:55:18	stonysmith	no... it's some kind of control lines (might even be electrical) between the bottom center and top center
18-10 17:54:18	rvn2001	Maybe the pipes keep the oil from sloshing around.
18-10 17:53:18	stonysmith	but since nobody is ever going to see any of that... I deleted all of it
18-10 17:52:57	stonysmith	what's interesting to me is that there is a fairly significant amount of piping... INSIDE the tank.
18-10 17:51:33	rvn2001	It looks like they have a pretty good rail system.
18-10 17:51:30	stonysmith	and I think they were also talking about some of the oil going north to Jordan
18-10 17:50:35	stonysmith	They are talking about building that purple rail...
18-10 17:50:14	stonysmith	«link»
18-10 17:47:54	stonysmith	Alaska pipeline took ~4 years to build, and that was with tens of thousands of workers on it
18-10 17:45:56	rvn2001	I guess you're right...that's why I asked.
18-10 17:43:55	stonysmith	pipelines take a good long time to build
18-10 17:43:39	stonysmith	i believe that a railroad is cheaper... or at best, it's definately quicker to get oil moving
18-10 17:41:25	rvn2001	So...which is more expensive...a railroad or a pipeline?
18-10 17:40:28	stonysmith	there may not be a lot of rail lines accross the Saudi Penninsula
18-10 17:37:17	rvn2001	I've been wondering why nobody had already done something like that.
18-10 17:36:42	stonysmith	the plan to start is to go by rail while they build a pipeline
18-10 17:36:27	stonysmith	no... I THINK.. you heard on the news that the Saudi's are trying to circumvent the oil shipments thru Straight of Hormuz
18-10 17:36:22	rvn2001	I guess that's why they make big cargo ships.
18-10 17:35:42	stonysmith	weird to think about how they'll ship those over there
18-10 17:35:24	rvn2001	His own private oil storage???
18-10 17:35:05	rvn2001	I guess they need to see if they'll sell before making more.
18-10 17:34:46	stonysmith	so some Saudi Prince is buying 1000 of them
18-10 17:34:33	stonysmith	The tank car(s) I mentioned..... is going to Saudi Arabia
18-10 17:34:02	rvn2001	I would have trouble with it....but could manage.
18-10 17:33:51	stonysmith	Most of the cars I've done for him have a whopping ONE real-world car built so far
18-10 17:33:11	stonysmith	it's so cool to be on the cutting edge but at the same time it's annoying to not be able to go to a wider audience
18-10 17:32:21	rvn2001	Ahh...the fun of doing prototypes and new vehicles.
18-10 17:32:16	stonysmith	and... by the time you shrink it to Z, you'd lose 75% of the detail... like all the pipes would have to go
18-10 17:31:26	stonysmith	I'm quite happy with the Husky Stack cars I designed for him in G and HO... I'd love to do them in Z scale, but I'm not allowed (at least yet) to show the models in public.. it's a new car design
18-10 17:26:48	rvn2001	I wouldn't think so.

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