Good afternoon .
moelarrycurly4 I wonder why i type teh instead of the all the time have done it for years.
I wonder why i type teh instead of the all the time have done it for years.
MLC .... I do teh same thing.
Kevin .... You are welcome regarding my posting the museum photos.
Based on your comment and other, it looks like the Diners liked my post. The very fist steam locomotive was the Penydarren of over 200 years ago.
Everybody..... Have a goood afternoon.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I do that occasionally, too. It may be because "e" is the most commonly used letter in English, so our fingers have learned to type it so fast that it happens before our other hand can get to the "h."
My biggest bugaboo, though, especially when typing fast, is that I don't release the shift key fast enough and capitalize the first two letters of a word.
It also bugs me to no end, because I don't know why it happens, that I can't type the word "should" without inserting a J. "Shoujld." No problem typing "could," though. <shrug>
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
STeve O .... I also type with teh first two letters of word capitalized . MY fingers are as clumsy as teh rest of my body. LOL
I catch the teh, but when I want to type your or they, I type you and the.
Their and they're are typed there. Two and too are typed to, and I know the difference
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good evening, folks
In regards to misspellings, one common one I see frequently is the substitution of quite for quiet.
It is quite quiet in this room lately.
I see more frequent "auto-fill" texting mistakes, too. Sometimes this involves specialized words we use in modeling or railroading. Most spell-checkers don't recognize coupler and may replace it with clapper or some such similarity
I hope everyone is getting along well —
Hey! Top - O - the page! Have we had any traditional fish and chips yet? For best enjoyment they should be wrapped in a page from the Times (with lead-based ink? ).
Fish_and_chips_Blackpool by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
I have to go edit any post I do every time. My fingers are too big for the little key pad on my phone. It's just quicker to voice things when there's too much to type and edit the mistakes.
I miss the corrections sometimes. The most common mistakes are the wrong word that rhymes with the right word. You can proofread something and miss that too as your mind fills in the right word reading the wrong work. The worst one that happens all the time is foam and phone.
P.S. Fish and chips sounds good. You know, ...Arthur Treacher's used to do a pretty good job but I would drive around the block so I don't even have to look at Long John Silver's. Yuk
TF
Good Afternoon,
Cloudy here and perhaps there will be a shower.
TF, truck is looking good!
Maxman, yes I'm aware of the rolling issue with coasting drive but my layout doesn't have any grades so no problem.
As far as seat size goes on planes, I never had a problem as I'm only 5'7" and 140lbs so the seat isn't a problem. Not so for my wife though, her knees go right up to the back of the seat in front as she is tall and has very long thighs. She also has a bad back and has to sit with her feet up. An exit row is ok but there is nothing like business class for space especially on Turkish Airlines. I put my feet straight out and couldn't reach the seat in front. Food was amazing too as was the price, not much more than economy on other airlines. Only problem though is that going to Europe with them means you have to go via Istanbul which makes the trip a lot longer.
Did another grocery pickup today. It seems to me that prices on some things have gone up a lot or we are just buying more.
Time for dinner,
CN Charlie
Good evening, everyone.
We just got back from Breckenridge, CO, where my daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren got together. We missed one daughter who is expecting and was advised by her doctor to stay home.
My wife and I are in two weeks self-quarantine since we were in a crowded area, and a family member present who had the virus.
Here is a picture of the new normal -- helmets, oars, and facemasks. We went whitewater rafting -- I had great fun watching the grandkids hang on for dear life through the rapids. Not dangerous if you follow the rules, but plenty of excitement.
Yes, I am in the picture. Yes, I survived a wild ride.
We are now officially tired, and at our age, it will probably be a few days before we are rested up.
If I remember, I'll try to tell of my adventure this week of driving through the Eisenhower Tunnel at 11,100 feet (3,401 m) elevation on Interstate 70. I have driven through the tunnel many times, but this time was different.
Sorry for some events that occurred in the diner while I was gone. I love this thread, and feel like it's part of my extended family. Even though I have never met anyone here, I feel like I know friends here.
I'm very happy to come here to avoid the junk on many other sites. Thanks, Kalmbach!
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a and Dirk his dog treat.
Dirk is up to something? He has been behaving him self for the last 3 weeks?
Nice Surprise today in the mail. Recived a $563.27 refund from my Mortgage company. It was needed, this month I have been running short in funds.
Glad you folks where talking about Buring Weeds. One section around the pool has been driving me nuts. Gravel has dirt in it and the weed and gas go nuts. Weed killer, well not has good as it use to be but safer. So I am going to give this a try.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Lincoln-Electric-Torch-Kit/4742120
I wonder how long a 20 pound propane tank will last? Guessing not long.
Later Ken and Dirk says "Can I have some Chicken Daddy? Woof, Woof."
I hate Rust
York1We just got back from Breckenridge, CO
I only skied there once. My son was supposed to go there this spring and had to cancel because of the virus. When I was there, people in the lift line were talking about someone who lost control and skied backwards into picnic tables.
I enjoyed Breckinridge Brewery, I wore that t-shirt out last year and had to throw it away.My wife made chicken marsalla tonight, which is usually very good. It had no marasalla flavor and the Purdue boneless chicken breast was tough to the point of being almost crunchy. I told her what I thought and now it's my fault for not doing more meal planning and cooking.
cudaken Glad you folks where talking about Buring Weeds. One section around the pool has been driving me nuts. Gravel has dirt in it and the weed and gas go nuts. Weed killer, well not has good as it use to be but safer. So I am going to give this a try. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Lincoln-Electric-Torch-Kit/4742120 I wonder how long a 2 pound propane tank will last? Guessing not long.
Hi Ken,
The way I read the specs on that weed burner, it says that it will work with 20 lb., 50 lb. or 100 lb. tanks. The tank connector is not correct for 2 lb. tanks, and it doesn't say anything about using small tanks. You sure as heck don't want to have to haul a 20 lb. tank around to use it. There are lots of models that use the small cylinders and work very well. A small bottle of gas lasts a long time on mine, but I'm not using it for hours at a time. It's actually a pretty quick process.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Ken, a torch like that is what paving crews use. You will burn down the neighbourhood with that one. Not to mention you will go broke with the amount of propane it will use.
This is what you want. A small bottle you use with your plumbing torch last quite a while.
https://www.amazon.ca/Mag-Torch-MT-450-Garden-Torch/dp/B001DSKEP4/ref=asc_df_B001DSKEP4/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292923635229&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10862268512712582005&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001504&hvtargid=pla-492967335728&psc=1
Even with this one, use it after a good rain or things will go South on you real fast.
Went to Costco with he wife today and 99.9% had a mask on. Have not been to Costco in a long time and probably won't go til Christmas now.
Bought a new tile saw at the auction for a steal and picked that up as well.
Found a bag of Oreo cookies on the counter and could not behave myself. Sugar is very bad for anyone with chronic pain like my Arthritis so I will be on the pain train tomorrow. It will be like a bad hangover and I will learn my lesson and avoid sugar again for a long time.
I make the same type Os you guys do, however it is a result of a sticky keyboard. A good cleaning fixes it right up.
TF, good job on the truck! I am impressed.
Track fiddler Brent, That's cool your wife looks like Meryl Streep. It's kinda like you're married to a movie star I wonder if she likes Meryl Streep movies?
Having a wife that looks just like Meryl Streep has had some funny moments, especially when we are at airports or down in Las Vegas. My wife gets the short end of the stick though because I look nothing like Robert Redford. I stay in top shape to try and make up for that shortfall and that seems to do the trick. Out Of Africa is my favourite Meryl Streep movie.
Time for a movie.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
gmpullmanMost spell-checkers don't recognize coupler and may replace it with clapper or some such similarit
Did someone say clapper?
maxmanDid someone say clapper?
Hilarious!! I love how hard they have to work to keep their faces straight!
Thanks maxman!
BATMANEven with this one, use it after a good rain or things will go South on you real fast.
I haven't managed to set the neighbourhood on fire (yet), but don't use it around dry leaves or grass unless you want to do a fire dance trying to stomp them out! Best to have the hose handy.
Steven OtteMy biggest bugaboo, though, especially when typing fast, is that I don't release the shift key fast enough and capitalize the first two letters of a word.
I do that a lot also. My biggest mispelling is I just simply cannot type "SENSOR", I always type "SESNOR" instead. In my working days when I was writing Field Incident Reports our system did not have a spell checker, I used the word "sensor" a lot, and it was embarrasing. Once a report was submitted into the Information Management System it could not be edited.
Track fiddler..Arthur Treacher's used to do a pretty good job but I would drive around the block so I don't even have to look at Long John Silver's. Yuk
My wife and I ate nothing but drive-through on out trip earlier this month. This included two Long John Silver's locations.
The one in Indiana was really good. The second one we stopped at I think was in South Carolina on the way back, and it was not good at all.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning
It's going to be a hot one today and for the rest of the weekend. It seems everything is in heat index or wind chill anymore. Back in the day they'd give you the actual temperature and leave the rest up to your imagination. After fading in and out of the news this morning to get the weather I only know what the heat index is of 105° but don't know what the actual temperature is going to be
I found some cedar yesterday at Scherer Brothers Lumber in Hopkins. They are one of the few full service lumber yards left. Although they said their supply is depleting as several deliveries did not show up.
4 - 2x6x8's were $96.00. I think Oak is cheaper these days. It's been awhile since I've been to a full-service lumber yard. The guy picked through the pile sighting down the boards and put them on top of my truck for me. No wonder that wood was so expensive there but I ain't paying for it after reimbursement.
It's nice a couple of decent sized inside jobs came in at my building. I don't like working outside in the heat anymore.
Well the $27 I spent at eBay yesterday is spit in the Hat. Finally after 3 years of starting my layout I made a rather large purchase from three different N scale suppliers. Internet shopping and purchasing is obviously saturated. I was not able to get all the items I need from one supplier.
Kevin, If you found a good Long John Silver's you should go buy a lottery ticket I never did find a good one and quit trying after about the third try, ...Mush
Thanks for the compliments on my truck
Have a great day everyone
Track fiddlerKevin, If you found a good Long John Silver's you should go buy a lottery ticket
I can count the times I've been to a "fast food" joint in the past ten years on one hand.
But — I do recall having a halfway decent fish dinner at Arthur Treacher's a few times. Are they even still in business?
Maxman, thanks for that Clapper skit with Herrrrres Johnny.
There was a fellow in Cleveland, (not Claude Cooper) that was burning weeds with a torch last fall. After the fire department left the street was minus two garages and three houses!
Good morning, everyone.
Just finished my morning walk, and I am sweating. It was very warm and humid at 6:00 a.m.
After about a week, we came home from Breckenridge a day early. The high altitude bothered my wife, and she didn't really acclimate
The lodge sits at over 10,000 feet (3048 m), with the lifts going up to 12,840 feet (3914 m).
Now it's back to normal. I'm outside, hating cutting my grass.
gmpullman. . .Hey! Top - O - the page! Have we had any traditional fish and chips yet? . . .
Dang that looks good. That's what always happens with fish and chips--they look great, they taste awesome, and about an hour after eating them I am thinking to myself, "Why did I do that?!" The grease weighs heavy on me.
Today is a "sweet and sour" day for me. The sweet: I am like a small child with my nose pressed against the window watching for the FedEx truck. We decided to invest in some mid-grade recording equipment. Both of us play the piano and have decided to make some quality recordings to leave behind for our children and grandchildren as a legacy of sorts.
The sour: This morning I noticed that the motorcycle is blowing oil. I had it in a couple of weeks ago to get new pipes installed and a Stage 1 upgrade. It looks like the dealer may not have tightened everything back down all the way. It will be going in on Monday to get fixed.
Richard
Good afternoon All,
hot humid day here. I am freezing in my office. I am working in this engine today during lunch.
It is a Williams O scale from the Museum It burned out the control board, bought a new control board which burned out. could nto figure out where short was so , motors are good. I have placed a bridge rectifier in it and it will only travel one direction from now on.
POST HOG
Gotta get gas on the way home ( From Garry's layout)
POST HOG 2
gmpullmanI can count the times I've been to a "fast food" joint in the past ten years on one hand
Prior to our recent trip, I do not think I have had fast food in months.
With the Covid concerns, drive-through seemed more responsible.
Burger King really had the "no-touch" system working very well. Better than anyone else from what I saw.
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk a dog treat.
Dave I missed typed, I was trying to say 20 pound bottle not 2 pound.
Brent The small weed burner would take for ever. Section I want to burn is 8' X 40', all gravel that has been over ran by weeds. Far as buring down the house? Really kind to like that to happen.
1 It get rid of all my wifes junk!
2 Get a new roof!
3 It would fix the floor joist!
Getting rid of her junk would be the best part! I was looking at phots from Christmas 2005 and it looked like real people lived in it. You could sit on the couch with out moving stuff, my command chair (reminds me of Captain Kirk Chair) did not have anything on it. Now it looks like a horders house and none of the stuff is mine!
Later, Ken and Dirk says Woof, Woof!
MLC's a Post-Hog
My oldest brother had that Illinois Central in HO when we were kids. Always liked that one.
gmpullman
I don't think they are Ed. I don't know about Nationwide but the last one around here closed up many years ago. I don't know what happened to them as they did a pretty good job and it was more healthy than a greasy old Burger.
I too stay away from fast food joints. Once in a blue moon we might go grab a Big Mac or something. It's like splurging for a treat that's bad for you now.
I don't have any fish in the house. I may have to do a grocery run before its time this weekend. We're still pretty stocked up on food around here but now I want some fish
Good Evening,
A hot one here today. The humidex is 109F! It is supposed to cool down a bit tomorrow which is a good thing as I don't like this heat and humidity. I couldn't live in the southern U.S.
Lastspikemike, if you want a CP correct Sante Fe you will have to buy brass. Van Hobbies did import a model of CP's Sa2 in the early '80s. Brasstrains just sold one with a nice paint job for $325. I bought my K5a Hudson from them and they were good to deal with. Only thing with a brass Sante Fe is that it will need very broad curves as they have a rigid frame certainly 28" or more. My Hudson barely makes it around 22" at a fairly slow speed.
We did a bbq tonight. Just burgers but what burgers. The patties were made with prime rib and were better than some steak I've had. I washed it down with a glass of Merlot from Ontario.
Not much else going on here. Hopefully I will get my new Hudson back soon. The fellow doing the work has a cottage so he isn't home all the time and he told me he has several projects on the go for customers from B.C. and Ontario. Not surprised given his skill. I still feel guilty spending what I did on that loco. I have decided to sell off a few other N scale pieces and a BLI SW900. I am tempted to sell off all the N scale stuff but am reluctant to do so as I put a lot of effort into my little door layout. I guess 3 locos and 25 pieces of rolling stock isn't too extravagent.
Well have a nice evening,
Evenin'Folks!
Well, Ken, just be careful with that weed burner. Before you start make sure your insurance is paid up!!!
I think tomorrow I may be a little bit sore or at least know I hjave some muscles talking to me.... My Lady Firend and I went for a short bike ride alomg the old Erie Canal Trail from Fairport, NY West past Pittford, NY. The canal gets very windy around there but is nice and level basically. At lunch after the ride she checked the distnce on Google.... We rode somewhere between 26 and 28 miles depending how Google calulated our starting and ending points (The ride was out and back). Did it in about 2 hours. Not bad for a pair of old folks in our mid 70's.
Most of the trail is on the roadbed of the Rochester and Eastern Trolley Line that ended up right here in Geneva where I live. No the Canal doesn't come near Geneva.....
Hope all of you are safe and had or are having a great day!
KEN!, Be carefull with the weed burner!! Hear?
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Nifty toy museum in Ohio that occupies an old school building.
Note the little yellow caboose on the front steps near the entrance.
well the williams engine does have a bad motor that is drawing too much current. the 35 amp recitfier I put in it got a bit warm.
The lionel gp9 needed some motor tlc and had a stuck motor brush . The other lionel gp9 needed a lube job. So I got 2 out of the three museum engines up and going.
I found we had boucoups of yellow jacket nests on the house. One had over 50 on it. they are gone now. I have to sweep up the carnage tomorrow.
now for more snacks.