A very special 2-8-8-4 on eBay

Perfect engine if your into raw fish

I would like to have one of these.....

Crud, sweet engine, but once again that "0-72" minimum curve rules me out...

Instead of just cutting and pasting these HUGE lnks, learn how to make links here, please.

I'm one of those guilty ignorant morons who indiscretely posts huge links, but after this chastisement I'm trying to figure how to post tidy links:

Little Link to Minnesota Sushi Train

And here's the info that learned me how to done it right, found with a search:

Links for Dummies

see the third post

I guess I have figured it out. Now someone please explain the inside joke about "Minnesota Sushi Train" ?

Ace, the seller made a typo, 

  "DULUTH WASABI & IRON RANGE YELLOWSTONE 2-8-8-4"

It should be Duluth MISSABE and Iron Range.

Wasabi is a Japanese plant, with a HOT flavor, often used in Sushi, among other foods.

Doug

I guess I have figured it out. Now someone please explain the inside joke about "Minnesota Sushi Train" ?

Wasabi is the Japanese condiment that gives the spicy flavor to sushi and sashimi. It's green in color and related to horseradish. So the flagship train of the Duluth, Wasabi and Iron Range must be the Minnesota Sushi Train. Or maybe the Wasabi Limited. 

When I lived in Fiji, everybody with a boat kept a tin of wasabi and a bottle of soy sauce in their galley. The dip for sashimi is made by stirring some wasabi into soy sauce. Whenever we went out we would throw in a handline baited with a rubber squid. Every once in a while we'd get lucky and land a yellowfin tuna (ahi) and we'd have an instant feast of tuna sashimi. You talk about your fresh fish - now that's fresh!

Thanks Ace. Very helpful unlike some advice that I read here.

Rich - I understand.  I'm one of those people who paste the entire link as it into an e-mail and would recommend always doing that.  I'd prefer others do that, too.  First, it will work that way, even if it is long.  Second, the person reading the posting can see the actual site name and etc. the link will take them to . . .  I've had many bad experiences with re-named links that took be to toxic sites, etc. 

While you can rename the link and it seems a convenient way to simplify things, doing so is how a lot of internet scams are done - someone sends you what looks like a link to www.honestnigerianbanker.com (don't worry, that text, which has been interpreted as a web address by this forum's software, won't work).  Renamed, that is what the text seems and it looks legitimate, but since it has been "renamed" as a different text stream, the link actually takes you to www.crookedlithuanianbanker.com.).  This was one of the scams we learned in an internet security course we took at work along with how to read the actual address before hitting a link and what to do if the link seemed suspicious.

if using the hoopla URL option is a chore, you could always plug the long URL into tinyurl.com and they will give you a custom shortened URL to post instead.

While on the forum and browsing another website in a another tab, the process looks like this:

1. Begin typing your reply
2. Switch to other website\tab and click on the address bar to select or highlight it and hit CTRL+C
3. Select the forum tab and your response and drag the cursor over the text to create a hyper-link name
4. Notice the chain and broken chain icons now are active-select the link
5. the dialog box appears with the cursor blinking in the address area-hit CTRL+V
6. the linked address is now there and open in a new window is the default, so hit OK
7. Now you have text that is a hyper-link.
    
    
    
    
    
   
   Insert a hyperlink
   

It took me a long time to get the fish joke.  I didn't notice the mispelling.

.....

Dennis

Yeah! Me too. And then I end up learning how to post tidy links. And then I learn why they might not be such a good idea. You never know where these subjects will lead to!

For those who insist on explaining the Missabe/wasabi error:

We get it! Did right away! We know what wasabi is.

It would look really good lettered on the tender, however. And how many of you are

going to order "missabe" sauce, now?

Sounds a little "fishy" to me. Don

It is sort of funny that he fixed the spelling, but left the initials as DW&IR.

-Dave

If you overheat your Wasabi on the Iron Range, it Dull-uth the flavor. 

Dulluth Wasabi & Iron Range

Wow, is somebody a little cranky today, did we miss our nap?

Just in case you missed it, Ace didn't get it:

I guess I have figured it out. Now someone please explain the inside joke about "Minnesota Sushi Train" ?

So SORRY that TWO of us answered at the same time.

Get a life.

Doug

Just green with envy...

Jon 

Believe me guys I'm in no way taking sides on this issue, but it seems to me like we have a slow subject night.