Ed Harvey
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Bill Veeck has said that, "the true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball." For me, this was also true until two things happened - the 1994 baseball strike, and my discovery of large scale garden railroading. Now, my harbinger is when I can finally run my trains without a jacket. So, I'm curious as winter comes to a close in the next month or so, what is your harbinger of spring? | |
Ed Harvey & Carol Rogers
Lincoln, Nebraska
http://www.snr.unl.edu/harvey/railroad.htm | |
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Dougald
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| | 02/14/2008 4:49 PM |
| Ed
You said "winter comes to a close in the next month or so". Man, you just need to come visit in a month or so to see that it will be another month or 6 weeks before the trains will really be running. Bring your winter coat if you decide to visit in March ...
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Doug Matheson
Manotick Ontario
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altterrain
silver spring, md
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| | 02/14/2008 5:04 PM |
| When the forsythia bloom, of course!
-Brian | |
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Steve Stockham
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| | 02/14/2008 6:25 PM |
| When I can start my waterfall up again without worrying about it freezing!  | |
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Paul Norton
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Torby
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North Chicago 'burbs.
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| | 02/15/2008 6:37 AM |
| | I judge spring is here by is a sunny day warm instead of cold. | |
 "If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about."-- C. S. Lewis | |
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markoles
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Lancaster, PA
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| | 02/15/2008 9:58 AM |
| Ed,
I picked March Madness. Love me some college b-ball!!
The SI Swimsuit issue has had sub par 'articles' the last few years, but I never associate that with Spring anyway! | |
Mark Oles
Millersvillanova Railroad, Lancaster, PA | |
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ByrdC130
Tecumseh Oklahoma
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| | 02/15/2008 10:38 AM |
| | Warm weather, spring thunderstorms, tornadoes, and turkey hunting season. Best sign is the oak trees budding out, they rarely get bit by a frost. | |
RS&B RR Somewhere out in the woods in Oklahoma | |
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Dwight Ennis
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Milpitas, CA
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Joe Johnson
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Hunt, Texas
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| | 02/15/2008 12:40 PM |
| | Bluebonnets !!!! | |
Joe Johnson
Guadalupe Forks RR
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Semper Vaporo
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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| | 02/15/2008 12:54 PM |
| | June | |
 C. T. McCullough
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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astrayelmgod
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Ventura CA
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| | 02/15/2008 2:10 PM |
| | Beach Boys songs in the elevators. | | | |
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DryHeatDan
Four Corners, Colorado
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| | 02/17/2008 9:38 AM |
| | The Cubs are already saying "Wait until next year." Our average last freeze is May 25th. | | | |
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Scottychaos
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Rochester, NY
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| | 02/17/2008 12:37 PM |
| This is what marks the beginning of Spring for me every year:
gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/CP/page5.html
REAL spring however is still a solid 6 weeks away.. 
Only the witchhazel has bloomed so far..
no snowdrops yet, no crocus..nothing but snow on the ground.
Scot | |
Scot Lawrence
Rochester, NY USA
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Tom Daly
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North Quincy, MA
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| | 02/17/2008 2:21 PM |
| When I stop shivering I know it's Spring time.
Tom | |
Thomas W. Daly, Sr.
Foreman of Locomotives
Quincy Northern Railroad, Steamship & Navigation Co.
SA# 261
New Hampshire Garden Railway Society
Milwaukee Road Historical Association | |
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pete
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canton ohio
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| | 02/17/2008 7:59 PM |
| | When you hear the spring peepres | | | |
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peter bunce
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near manchester, England
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| | 02/18/2008 2:34 AM |
| | When the sun has some warmth to add to its light (winter sun is generally cold), and it is out for longer (and no frost!) | |
Peter Bunce.
my website is part of my daughters website at www.musiccorner.co.uk', under the G scale sections on the left hand side. | |
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Robert
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| | 02/18/2008 5:14 AM |
| When my wifte tells me to get off the couch and clean up the yard . And thank goodness she does otherwise nothing would grow in our yard! | | | |
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Rod Fearnley
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Mid Norfolk. England
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| | 02/18/2008 8:27 AM |
| Hayfever Ar, ar, choooooo!
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Rudy Allarde
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| | 02/18/2008 3:10 PM |
| Running trains when the Yoshino cherries are in full bloom....
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