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editI love old maps. Killiondude (talk) 05:32, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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editAttribution: text was copied from San Mateo County, California on May 13, 2022. Please see the history of that page for full attribution. (See WP:RIA for more information.)
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editI'm a Sonoma County railfan. Thank you for adding a schedule to the South Pacific Coast Railroad article. I hope you and your family are staying well through this COVID pandemic. I think the lowest invention pictured on your user page is a chimney cap fabricated from sheet metal to function the same way as the cast version in the top photo. Thewellman (talk) 18:10, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the kind wishes. The chimney cap by great grandfather designed also exists, as you surmised, as sheetmetal prototype in my garage, he had to submit an example with his patten submission. Many of those SF style chimney caps were designed by him trying to solve the fog water drip down the pipe and rusting out the riser. I haven’t doodled on this page for years! The little girl in the picture was my grandmother. FAHansson (talk) 18:24, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- I have tremendous admiration for the mechanical aptitude of the inventors of your great-grandfather's generation - devising new ways of using the structural materials made available through improved metallurgy. The drawing of the sheet metal chimney cap was a masterpiece of geometrical perspectives in the days before computers simplified mechanical drawing. Few of these talented individuals are remembered, for many worked in small shops where their contributions were locally essential, but little known to the outside world. Maine railroads offered the most reliable paychecks in a relatively remote area, so their shop crews were legendary. Bangor and Aroostook kept their first generation diesels operational until they were museum pieces, and then kept the railroad afloat financially by leasing locomotives to eastern railroads in more populous areas where railroad wages could no longer attract similarly capable mechanics. Thewellman (talk) 03:24, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- I see you love trails in the Bay Area. We’re working on a new 90 mile trail in San Mateo County (my part as a County Planning Commissioner and as a volunteer for SMC Historical Assoc updating all the Ca State Historical Landmark plaques that are associated with the trail). Hopefully in my lifetime this will be walkable - https://parks.smcgov.org/ohlone-portolá-heritage-trail-project FAHansson (talk) 18:18, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- I have tremendous admiration for the mechanical aptitude of the inventors of your great-grandfather's generation - devising new ways of using the structural materials made available through improved metallurgy. The drawing of the sheet metal chimney cap was a masterpiece of geometrical perspectives in the days before computers simplified mechanical drawing. Few of these talented individuals are remembered, for many worked in small shops where their contributions were locally essential, but little known to the outside world. Maine railroads offered the most reliable paychecks in a relatively remote area, so their shop crews were legendary. Bangor and Aroostook kept their first generation diesels operational until they were museum pieces, and then kept the railroad afloat financially by leasing locomotives to eastern railroads in more populous areas where railroad wages could no longer attract similarly capable mechanics. Thewellman (talk) 03:24, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for your work on bay area trails. When the weather discourages outdoor activity, you might take a look thru John Henderson's Cabins, Crummies & Hacks. I have seen only volume 1 for North & East railroads, but I was struck by the popularity of your great-grandfather's chimney cap for caboose stoves on the Maine Central Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Grand Trunk Railroad.Thewellman (talk) 19:20, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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