News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Sunday, October 29, 2017

General Electric wants out of the locomotive business

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Wow. The diesel locomotive business really got started right after WWII. All the railroads wanted to replace their steam engines. This wa...

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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Tempest in Teapot

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"Don't Trust the Chinese to make Microchips for the Military" Headline to a Wall St Journal op-ed yesterday. The writer, Dan...

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Dawn over Marblehead (Wall St) Finally.

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Price of Puerto Rican bonds is finally dropping into the toilet. About time. Early in 2015 a Puerto Rican bond was selling on the street ...

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

OK, so Corker and Flake are bailing out

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Two US republican senators announce they will not run for re election in 2018. They are no friends of Donald Trump, but up until now have b...

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Opioid Crisis Some more bad stuff

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Article in a local paper said that opioid prescriptions were down, from about 90% of patients in 2014 to maybe 70% in 2016. The article di...

Monday, October 23, 2017

Whither the EU?

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Just as it looked like the EU was coming together, the Brits pull out. Britain is the number 2 EU country, just behind Germany and ahead of...

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Driving down to a Boston Train Show

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It was a lovely day, dry, warm, sunny. Leaves are a bit past peak in Franconia Notch, but are at peak down south. I93 was in good shape ex...

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