Happy New Year from the Valley Isle

Don

 

Happy New year to you and your family

 

Very nice photo

 

Alex

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope your year will be filled with engines and rolling stock.

 

Doug

Will you stop rubbing it in that you live in Hawaii. I would hate to live on an island. I would feel like I am in jail, or stuck in an elevator.

 

Anyway, Happy & healthy New Year to all.

Do thanks. Always enjoy your pictures here on the forum, but really like this one. Happy New Year to everyone here on the forum.

Happy new year Don!

Happy New Year everyone!

Great picture. When was it taken?

CH, about 12:30 today. Don

And a very Happy New Year to you from the staff and management of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Southwestern Railroad. (That would be me.)

 

And here's a picture of an "island girl" with a Hiawatha. (She's Fijian and Maori.)

 

Happy New Year Don, great view of the back yard, we all wish we were there too!

Yea keep rubbing in.

Happy New year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all!!!!!!!

Don,

 

Happy NEW YEAR to you and Yours!

 

Used to live in Kailua on Oahu ! Was there for 3 Years. Had two Daughters Graduate from High School there! Loved it, hated to leave it!!

 

Fred

Southwest Hiawatha, tell your island girl Fiji is one of my favorite places. Don

I'll e-mail you offline. I lived in Suva for three years. Needless to say, it's one of my favorite places, too. The island girl is a high chief and an Olympic athlete. 

 

SWH

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou to you and Vicky!

OK wise guy.  I also live on an island which is beautiful . . .  uh . . . but we also have rain, sleet, snow, clouds, leaves to rake, -0° temps.  Not boring like 24/7 sunshine.

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Dennis

Dennis, I guess I love to be bored. Allan thanks, that's become our theme song. Don (wise guy)

A Happy New Year from your island neighbor

OMG, there's another one of us? When did you come on the Forum? What island? Don

Happy New Year everyone!  Ya know, most of us only know each other through our writings on this forum.  But there is a deeper element of fellowship and friendship that always comes shining through.  It is a part of our common bond through the love of our trains and childhood memories!

 

Phil 

Happy new years to everyone on this wonderful forum  Here's a video of a cab view on my elevated loop on an MTH SW1500 going up to 62SMPH, hope you enjoy and have a great new years eve! 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVERYONE ON THE OGR

Happy New Year every one.

 

Don - I don't live on an island like you do but both mine and my wife's family come from an island on the other side - a little place called Sicily.

Sicily, loved going through the ruins. Only had a few days there. Have you gone to see where your folks grew up? Don

Scale Rail,

   Happy New Year back at ya from the mountains of Pa, and all the best in the coming year!

PCRR/Dave

 

You got a bit to go to midnight scale rail....the east coast guys are in bed already and it's only 9:46 here on the west coast....

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi Don I've been on the forum since September 2000 I used to post more back then My parents live in Kula and I'm on Oahu Actually there are a few of us on Oahu on the forum

Happy New Year from another Island, home of the L.I.R.R.

Never got the chance Don.  I was stationed in Tuscany (Camp Darby) from 1981 to 1984.  We were going to make the trip but the wife had some medical problems at the time and the doctors didn't want us taking any long trips.

Happy New Year to you Don. Maui is one of my favorite places and it would be impossible not to like it.

 

Keep us posted on the build out of your new layout.

Pass.TC, will do. Have a great New Year. Don

Don,

I'm curious why the gal in the bikini is giving us the Texas Longhorn sign?  Does she usually wear Wrangler's instead of a bikini?

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Dennis

Shaka, dude.  Hang loose.

She'd be overdressed where I'm going.  

No trains though.

See ya'll in a month.

It's a Hawaiian thing...........Dennis. Don

Hi Don, it's a tough life but someone has to do it.

 

HAPPY NEW YEARS.

gg1man, but look at the lazy bums I have to hang around with and they stink of fish. Don

We have been here on the islands for the past 15 days.  6 days on the Big Island (what a blast - :-) ) and 9 days on Oahu (4 of which were due to a medical emergency). We are leaving tonight (10 1/2 hour flight).

I have to say that in my travels all over the world, that Hawaiians are some of the nicest folks I have ever met. :-):-):-)

Jim

Jim, glad you had a great time here. People are wonderful here. I've never seen kids treated so well. I've never seen so many smiles. Vicky my wife is aunty Vicky to so many kids. It's truly an amazing place. Don

Don, I was also suprised about how easy going folks were while driving.  I drove 700 - 800 miles during our 6 days on the Big Island and didn't hear a single car horn (Not like the Washington D.C. metro area LOL)

We hope to come back in a few years (I retire in 9 years when I reach 62) and check out Maui and a couple of the other islands.

Jim