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Just thinking of how thankful I am for each and every one of you for your support of OGR through your subscriptions, sponsorships, and advertising as well as supporting memberships!  Here is hoping that all of you will have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends and may you arrive safely if you are among the many that will be traveling.  Bless each and every one of you!

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All the very best for a wonderful Thanksgiving to you Allan and the entire OGR staff!   I'm grateful for all the wonderful opportunities that OGR offers this great hobby of ours!  I'm also grateful for model railroading and trains in general for continuing to spark my imagination in such a special way ever since I was two years old.  

Wishing all my OGR fellow forum members a wonderful Thanksgiving!!  AND may your Thanksgiving include enjoying your trains

From the city of Christopolis, the city and the Great Northeastern Railway wishes a very Happy Thanksgiving to the OGR staff, forum members and everyone else!!!!

It is the day before Thanksgiving and the city has cleared the city street from the first snow fall of the fall and winter for tomorrow's Christopolis annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Later tomorrow afternoon, the annual football game will be played between the Christopolis Crunchers and Boy Scout Troop 136 (the only team they seem to be able to beat lately).

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On the farm, the search begins for the elusive turkeys.

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Their turkeys are not fools. Below is a picture of one of their smartest ones already prepared for the search.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!!!!!!!

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Just thinking of how thankful I am for each and every one of you for your support of OGR through your subscriptions, sponsorships, and advertising as well as supporting memberships!  Here is hoping that all of you will have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends and may you arrive safely if you are among the many that will be traveling.  Bless each and every one of you!

Right back at 'cha and the whole OGR staff, Alan!

Thanks Alan, but you're about 6 and a half weeks too late for me!! Joking aside, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you south of the 49th parallel. I know a lot of us who live on the border certainly partake in the "second" Thanksgiving. Looking forward to some football, a few beverages and some good Black Friday deals from my favorite hobby shops.

Rob

I saw this earlier today but had 0 time to respond accordingly. Well, thank you Alan, and everyone else before me as well as those after. What to be thankful for? Plenty. My car blew up last year, it got fixed, had more issues, got that squared away, and very thankful indeed. It is a good thing I have a great support staff in family, coworkers, and friends, as well as those I have reached out to and talked with on here either in person, on the forum, or by email(and maybe even a phone call).

So many things happen in our lives and we may either blow up, or brush it off. I'm hoping for the latter, as blowing up is definitely not a fun thing to do, ask a steam engine. Last weekend when I was in the food store, my car got bumped into(I said crash at the time, but bumped into is more apt to say). I didn't know it happened, was trying to get everything done that day and get home to try and relax. The woman who bumped my car quickly flagged me down so I would know. She was a little older than me, extremely apologetic as well as nervous I think(I'm a big guy, she was short). Looking at my car, the only thing that was wrong was nothing. Yeah, my grill was bashed in a bit, bumper a little tapped, but no fluids leaking anywhere, fan and other stuff in the engine compartment, okay. I was fine.

She continued apologizing which I said it was okay, found out we're in the same town, she works downtown about 6 minutes away from my house, and lives about the same time in the other direction. We talked a bit longer, and the officer showed up to write up the report. He took our info, we waited while her husband arrived. We chatted a bit longer until the officer came back and explained about how to access the police report and such. After that, we said goodbye.

My destination on Saturday was also to go to the train store. It was busy as heck as usual for around this time of year, and I always try to chat if possible. What would I say other than Happy Thanksgiving? Well, I said to Tony(the owner), "Well, I am going to take your advice from now on about food shopping, not for me." He asked me what with a chuckle and I told him about my car getting hit and that it wasn't a big deal. He gave a little laugh back.

So much more could have been wrong to sour my mood, but it is only a busted up grill and some scratches. Not a broken up new steam engine I burnt up trying to blow the whistle. Even if that was the case, I think I would still be pretty cool about it. I would email one of our good buddies on the forum to see if they could squeeze it in for a fix up, which I do have to do some contacting about one of the other projects I haven't gotten my fingers typing on.

In closing, being thankful for all the bumps along the road that haven't taken me out and off the rails. Have a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving all. May you not fall asleep from too much food, and may your family not get on your nerves(if they ever do), run some trains, that will fix them.

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