>Gentlemen of Steam and Sparks,
BEWARE- READ THE FOLLOWING FROM N.Y TIMES: Airport Security Alert for Toys With Remotes WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 - Citing "credible specific information" about terror tactics, Transportation Security Administration officers nationwide on Monday stepped up their scrutiny of passengers carrying remote-control toys aboard airplanes. The move was not motivated by a specific terror plot, said Kip Hawley, the assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in charge of aviation security. But there is concern both in the United States and internationally that common remote-control toys could be used to detonate a bomb as part of a terror plot. The aviation authorities decided against banning the devices in carry-on bags. But people carrying remote-control toys - including children - could be subject to a more intense search, in which the passenger is patted down and the baggage is checked by hand, officials said. ______________________________________________________ Now, if we told the TSA inspector: "hey they are not toys, they are high quality museum pieces" do you think they would listen? To Chris-- Wouldn't the Live steam HO Hornby with it's huge transformer and controller confuse them!!? We would be in the detention room for a month before they figured anything out! I have suffered needlessly in the loving inquisitive hands of TSA and I get patted down so much (bionic knees) that I almost got excited once! When the agent looked down the front of my pants i told him there was nothing bionic down there so he retorted that if there was he would like to know where I got it! Some do have a sense of humor- thank the Lord of Steam. (is that Clark Lord?) BTW, now I ask for a female "patter down" No luck yet - guess I'll have to cross dress to get a female. In closing, I did steam the HO Flying Scotsman the other day- almost 30 mins none stop. It really is amazing, to boot, I discovered that in addition to the boiler in the tender, it has a super heater before the steam enters the cylinders!! We had 138 souls visit our garden railway two weeks ago, part of a fund raiser for the Timber Heritage Association. Six local railways opened for the event. Two club members, Larry Buerer and Carl Mueller came and steamed their N.G stuff while I steamed the Schools and the Duchess. What an event- no accidents either! We even had two visitors from the Medford OR club. Unfortunately the Queen couldn't make it. Geoff.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20071002/2af6011e/attachment.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
