Happy New Year 201(pick)3!

Following close on the heels of my Christmas-ellaneous 201st post, here's another miscellaneous 201st post.  What does the view down the track look like for 2013? Everyone engages in deep thought at the start of a new year...what will the year bring?  Achievements and disappointments, highs and lows, the good, the bad and sometimes the ugly.   I'd like you to join me in some crystal-balling.  What follows is a look inside the Trackside Treasure High-Level Strategic Planning Document 1.0, also known as a coil scribbler full o' Post-it notes: 

Each Post-it represents a potential post, upon which I write various references, photos and other information I'll use to create that post.  (These Post-its don't include the additional subjects from the Posts in Production on Trackside Treasure's sidebar, which are also fair game for purposes of this exercise.) Here's page 1:

A lot of these ideas just get 'stuck in my craw' or perhaps are railway-related bubblegum that stick to my shoe sole, as I stroll along the virtual sidewalk of online or published railway subjects.  Here's page 2:

Trackside Treasure exists as a synergistic relationship between what interests me and what others might want to read.  See any personal favourites here?  If so, what's your pick 3...if you could enjoy three of these potential posts on your next visits to Trackside Treasure, which ones would they be?  Send me a comment or an email - I'll tabulate the submissions, and then get to work.  For that matter, send me your ideas for other potential posts, too.  These can become future Post-it's.  As always, thanks for your input, suggestions and continuing interest in this cornucopic corner of cyberspace.
(Top photo - engineer's view from VIA 6507 on No 1 at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on June 11, 1982.)

Running:  Extra...
Resolving: I resolve to do my own version of Psy's sensational Youtube video.  I'll call it Gagnon-Style!
Refreshing: Leftover Christmas turkey, baked goods and fruitcake (heck, the latter will last until June!)
Reflecting: I have a room full of mirrors, and sometimes I go there just to reflect.
Rewarding: I had the opportunity to meet fellow VIA author Chris Greenlaw.  We had a great time talking trains, VIA and Canadiana.  Watch for an upcoming blog post.  Thanks to everyone for allowing me to reach a 2012 milestone.
Returning: New Year's greetings to Trackside Treasure community members.  Have a good one, and all the best for 2013!