Bowling or root beer or taking the train

On my mathematics blog I've almost exhausted the use of old material I can stall for time with! Watch as I draw near the end of old alphabets. Or watch on your RSS reader, if you prefer.

• From my First A-to-Z: Z-transform


• From my Second A-to-Z: Z-score


• From my Third A-to-Z: Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms


• From my Fourth A-to-Z: Zeta Functions


• From my Fifth A-to-Z: Zugzwang


• From my Sixth A-to-Z: Zeno's Paradoxes

Seen enough model railroad? So it's probably too late to warn you but I have all the risk factors for being a Model Train Guy so you're stuck with more train photos from Crossroads Village. Sorry.

The side layout, including a tower that's got a helicopter circling it.

Train racing past the station. Guess it's an express.

And here's the train making a circle around the construction site or something.

Train cutting off downtown like this is Lansing at 3 pm.

Ooooh, buttons that one assumes do things! I love those!

You know if you set a basketball on the railroad tracks it'll cause the trail to derail. It's true!

Trivia: The 1928 Winter Olympics at St Moritz were the first postwar Olympics held outside any of the Allied nations, and were the first postwar Games to accept a German team.
Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.

Currently Reading: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, Simon Winchester.