My town was built around the Rail Road: Highway US 6 follows it (or vice versa) and I take that to work every day. Around here I am seeing something new. A Locomotive in the MIDDLE not at the lead?! 2-3 in the lead was always normal. The one in the middle UNDER POWER is telling me there is a LOT of weight needing pulled!
ANYTHING that expels a projectile or is part of the process of expelling a projectile is in short supply. A lot of seasoned gun owners have started to try their hand with an airgun or black powder to scratch that itch causing a trickle down ripple effect on those supplies. Most supplies, especially for well established items with a long history of demand expectations, take big hits when there is a large influx of new consumers. I have been a gun nerd for a very long time. If it relocates a projectile safely it’s in my wheelhouse. I am blessed enough to have made sure to have the toys and feed for those toys to be able to weather these storms as this isn’t the first time and won’t be the last. My guess is the market will go from famine to feast in about 2 years maybe a little less.
Quote from: Cslinger on June 06, 2021, 11:12:43 AMANYTHING that expels a projectile or is part of the process of expelling a projectile is in short supply. A lot of seasoned gun owners have started to try their hand with an airgun or black powder to scratch that itch causing a trickle down ripple effect on those supplies. Most supplies, especially for well established items with a long history of demand expectations, take big hits when there is a large influx of new consumers. I have been a gun nerd for a very long time. If it relocates a projectile safely it’s in my wheelhouse. I am blessed enough to have made sure to have the toys and feed for those toys to be able to weather these storms as this isn’t the first time and won’t be the last. My guess is the market will go from famine to feast in about 2 years maybe a little less. Agree, before we know it we will be back to normal.
Quote from: Nomadic Pirate on June 06, 2021, 03:57:40 PMQuote from: Cslinger on June 06, 2021, 11:12:43 AMANYTHING that expels a projectile or is part of the process of expelling a projectile is in short supply. A lot of seasoned gun owners have started to try their hand with an airgun or black powder to scratch that itch causing a trickle down ripple effect on those supplies. Most supplies, especially for well established items with a long history of demand expectations, take big hits when there is a large influx of new consumers. I have been a gun nerd for a very long time. If it relocates a projectile safely it’s in my wheelhouse. I am blessed enough to have made sure to have the toys and feed for those toys to be able to weather these storms as this isn’t the first time and won’t be the last. My guess is the market will go from famine to feast in about 2 years maybe a little less. Agree, before we know it we will be back to normal.It might happen faster than that if midterms go well. If it does, take my earlier advice and stock up. Make hay while the sun shines so to speak. This won't be the last time this happens.
<snip>I am glad to see railroads getting more use -- I wish more were being built or better kept up to avoid dangerous situations.
I never gave up airguns, and I've been telling my PB buddies they were missing the boat for years. Most of them ignored me, but a few get it now.John, that must be why the CSX stock my mom inherited from my dad was at an all time high and just split 3 for 1. My dad worked for the railroad for 40 years.
It might happen faster than that if midterms go well. If it does, take my earlier advice and stock up. Make hay while the sun shines so to speak. This won't be the last time this happens.
$1,500,000 and $2 million for the ones with all the bells and whistles.
Quote $1,500,000 and $2 million for the ones with all the bells and whistles.Don't all Locomotives have "bells and whistles" ?
Ya gotta just keep looking. I just found some .22 Hades I've been craving and was not raped in the process. Not only is our interest in flinging lead going up, but I'm seeing the more experienced powder burners jumping ship to air for cheap (and available) trigger time. The newer air guns are an attractive alternative never dreamed of a decade ago by the firearms community; many of which have taken up airguns as well. Can't blame them.Part 2, my other hobby is railfanning (meaning I watch and study trains). Yes railroads involved in the land bridge operations are operating at beyond max capacity. Intermodal traffic is insane right now. Mile long trains of double stacked shipping containers are quite common these days. Trains of the same length of just FedEx, or UPS trailers are just as common, all vying for the same rails much of the time. Then the usual traffic is still there, the ethanol trains, grain, coal, oil, food stuffs, etc., it has to move too. Then they all have to find a place in the terminals to unload when at their destinations. The lack of truckers means who delivers the trailers or containers, so that snowballs things too. Image taken in Cajon Pass, the thing trains have to cross to enter California from the southwest.
When you can't get people to work supply problems will occur. Resterant in town can't get people to work there so have to close tue and wed.