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The Aero Monorail Company of St. Louis

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 03 May 2016 11:00:35 +0000

The Aero Monorail was a futuristic monorail train that first hit the market in 1932. Manufactured in St. Louis by the eponymously named Aero Monorail Company, it was designed to suspend over Lionel standard gauge track and run faster than

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Linux is unrelated to extremism

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:00:41 +0000

The NSA’s spying on Linux Journal readers is precisely what’s wrong with NSA spying. Why? It paints with an overly broad brush. Eric Raymond’s views on many things are on the fringes of what’s considered mainstream, but he’s not the

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Homemade toy train track

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:07:44 +0000

For some reason, a lot of people are interested in making their own Lionel train track. I don’t think it’s practical, but it’s definitely possible. I found a 1944 Popular Mechanics article on making your own DIY Lionel train track.

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