Jesus

Jesus was amazing.
Even if you don't believe in him, his words ring true. Across the ages.
He said, basically, before you worry about the splinter in your friends eye, maybe you should think about pulling the 2x4 out of your own eye.
I like that the best.
Next I like, when he says, Hey the 10 commandments are really good, when they say "love your neighbor."
But then he amends them with "Love your enemies."

That is harsh. I immediately thought of Hitler. Why should I love him?
Because even in his hardened soul there was a pearl that only God owned.

Andy Warhol's friend Ultra Violet dies

Isabelle Collin Dufresne

aka

Ultra Violet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Violet_%28Isabelle_Collin_Dufresne%29

Louis Waldon

http://pagesix.com/2013/12/08/friends-mourn-death-of-warhol-factory-member/

Dwight Yoakam I Sang Dixie....Buck introduces...Dwight explains what it means...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJCPnd3NDNs
The Blue Melon  Doo Wah Diddy Wiggle Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP3BA13n-NE

Kiesza....Hideaway...big hit in Germany right now....
Incredible 80's video...One video shot.... Great planning...Don't care if you like it or not...
She does a Cyndi Lauper pose in the middle of the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXgJ9-H-2U

Dwight Yoakam I Want You to Want Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_lSJfUHu8A

The Heart That You Own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqGUTn9AEU

Totally amazing...Dwight does  Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNmFR19m_I

Austin City Limits...She Wore Red Dresses....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx68VTJ33o

Austin City Limits with Buck Owens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryzDq8LSCo

Hillbilly Bears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hhh70InsEc

Progress

Delaware Public Archives _ Chicago & South Side Transit

Following up on my beginning work yesterday....
Found these wonderful drawings in Delaware Public Archives...
Jackson and Sharp were train car builders.
The wiki article on Chicago South Side Transit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_Elevated_Railroad

states that it began with 180 46' wooden passenger cars.
This kind of jibes...The drawings I found spec'ed 45'11 1/4" with didn't make sense with anything else in the drawing. This kind of thing always happens.

This is wonderful. Jackson and Sharp's car #1 is on exhibit at the Chicago History Museum
This is Chicago L org's archive page.
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/car1.html

From this document..
"Car 1, Chicago's first rapid transit passenger car, was part of an order for 180 cars purchased by the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company. Ordered on February 15, 1892 from the Jackson & Sharp company, the cars were trailers built to be hauled behind steam locomotives.
The cars were of wood construction and had center end doors with open platforms at each end of the car and railroad-style roofs with stained glass clerestories. The cars, as delivered, were painted dark Pullman green and had intricate stripping and gold leaf decoration on the exterior. The railroad's name was spelled out in gold lettering along the letterboard -- the long, thin, horizontal space on the carside between the tops of the windows and the roof -- with a unique peculiarity: a period at the end of the name.
The interiors were luxurious and typically Victorian, with varnished woodwork, ornate light fixtures, decorative ceiling trim, slatted window shades, cork floor mats, rattan seats, and leather straps hung from the ceiling for standees. Originally, the cars were heated by steam from the locomotives, circulated in the cars through pipes, and were lit by gas lights supplied from tanks under the car floor. The cars weighed 42,500 pounds; were 46 feet long, 8 feet 9.75 inches wide, and 12 feet 10 inches high; and seated 46 people."

Wheels

So, I figured a simple way for wheels. I did a profile of the wheel and used the spin function in Blender. Then I added a line 4'5 1/2" for the new standard inside length between wheels, and some points in the original file for it to snap to.
Now I can use this wheel profile file again with little alteration to create any wheel I need, and still alter it as learn more.
It worked out pretty well.