Elliot´s Trackside Diner - January 2013

[Anonymous]

... and welcome aboard on this AUA flight to Vienna!

This month, we will take a tour throughout Austria, enjoying history, music, snow and trains! More details will be available to you upon arrival at Vienna airport.

Last year´s diner can be found here!

[james saunders]

Ooooh Austria.

Happy New Year!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I got TOP on the last one so the New Years drinks are on me, as long as they're non-alcoholic. Make mine a Dr Pepper.

[rdgk1se3019]

Oh good.......we finally get the hell out of California.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

rdgk1se3019

Oh good.......we finally get the hell out of California.

Is that why the glasses rattled so much? I figured that was Vinnie snoring in the back.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Happy New Year! ....... Vienna ? ...... Cool! ...

Ulrich ...  thanks for moving the diner. 

Jeff .... Thanks. I'll have an RBF. 

JR ...... Wow! You have laid a lot of track! 

Jerry .... Nice work on the scrap gondola. ... I had another thought for your baseball field. Place it next to a golf course. ... It will be a "diamond in the rough". ..

Well everybody........ Does anybody have any model railroad related New Years Resolutions? ... Mine is to get started on the next section of my layout. I have several ideas about what to do with it. 

[fec153]

Put Jerry's Sallie on all prayer lists, please.

J.R.- Wow, what an endeavor. Is a lot of space better or worse?

Wish all a Healthy , Happy New Year.

Flip                     Fla.Phil

 

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

I actually learned to ski in Austria back in 1973 while my Dad was stationed in the FRG. Now I would probably just kill myself.

Garry- Only resolution so far is to finish my current project. I will probably do more Pennsy signs and I want to do something with my work area, it looks like....

I hope everyone and your families have a wonderful and safe 2013.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Flip ..... Prayers continue for Jerry's Sallie. 

Curt ...... Thanks for commenting on my WPF picture. It is an older picture, but one of my favorites. Also, Curt, I'll have to post a picture of my PRR 40's boxcar I just made. It looks good if I do say so myself. 

[fec153]

Galaxy- Keep the info coming. Most are very informative..

Here's one for you to look up- "AMEN".  Meaning and where it comes from.  Do you know????

Flip

Prayers for all.

 

[TMarsh]

Austria!!! Cool!!! Maybe I'll see a kangaroo!!

Welp, we're home from Springfield. But just for a bit. We will be heading uptown to the restaurant to have a wee bit of a celebration of the ending of the last year of the world and to welcome the year that never was to be. Considering the friends that are going to be there, we maaaay make it til midnight......, may not. Best thing about a "bar" in Williamsville is we can have a few drinkies and only a couple blocks from home. No drunks, no loonies. Besides after the bone in Ribeye and sweet potato I just ate, sleep is pretty much the main thing for me now.

Karl- Yes Ray has this cool old piano frame or casing...whatever you call it. Maybe next year he'll pop a picture of it up.

Was gonna say something else but forgot so probably go back tomorrow and reread to refresh the memory. Not using Word now so pardon any mispeelings.

Oh I remember, heard on the radio on the way into town. A towing company in Springfield has a deal. Too tipsy to drive? For $25 bucks they'll give you a ride home in their truck and tow your vehicle home. Now how's THAT for taking any reason away to drive drunk? You don't even have to worry about your car!

See ya'll on the morrow! Be safe!

[Cederstrand]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, folks. May it bring improved health and much MRRing.

So, for those of you already a year ahead, what's it like in the future? I'm still stuck in 2012 with 3 hours to go.

Cheers!  Rob

[cudaken]

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, Beer Pleases

TMarsh

Austria!!! Cool!!! Maybe I'll see a kangaroo!!

 Hum Todd, you are pulling our leg right?

 JR, pleases send the snow! Due I have to pay for shipping?  Would love to see more of your layout as well!

  Well I am dog tired after today at work. More than likely I will not see Dick Clark tonight, if I do you folks can send flower's to my wife.

 Lets all hope 2013 is better! 2012 kind of blew chunks here at my houses. But I am still in it!

 Ken

 

[blownout cylinder]

Todd:  uuummmmmm...did you miss the lack of an "L" in Austria?

Good Evening...

Well, with the sounds of chaos and mayhem in the background..ambulance and firetrucks...we got home just an hour ago from all the dang CT scans and other testing that needed done...now I'm just relaxing by the fireplace...mmmmmm...right down the street the thing went...oh joy....

So far it looks like the cancer thing was a bad memory...thank goodness...

[herrinchoker]

Wishing everyone a healthy, prosperous, New Year. I hope everyone has a quiet time weatherwise. Day before yesterday the "dusting to an inch", dusted all the way up to 14 inches, to add to the 9 inches of the "2-4" inches recieved the day before that. Between woodpile, and helping my neighbor pull his float out of the water, don't know if I can make the witching hour. herrinchoker

[jeffrey-wimberly]

You'd never guess it was New Years Eve by the temperature here. It's warm enough that I have the a/c on. Looks like it's gonna be a wet one tonight. The chance of rain after midnight is 100% and the low will be 55.

Not much done on the layout since this morning. Just been watching a long freight make the rounds.

[kbkchooch]

TMarsh

Austria!!! Cool!!! Maybe I'll see a kangaroo!!

Skiing Kangaroos???

[GMTRacing]

Good Evening All,

    Thanks for all the kind words. Truth be known, none of the track is fastened down, it's just pinned in place until I figure out the turnout rods. Fergie used control cable under the layout and I want to try something similar with it just embedded in the foam The layout is 6ft wide at the yard with the yard just over 5 ft of that. The outer loops enclose the yard just like Danbury and the stub end yard tracks are about 8 ft overall with a 2 ft throat off the loop. At the back is the reversing track also like the Danbury yard and it crosses over the Still River with which I took some liberties by enclosing part of it in big pipes where in fact the Army Corps of Engineers in 1955 just put it in a big concrete channel after it overflowed and flooded all of downtown (one too many times).

This showsmost of the loop track and yard with the freight house off to the left inside the loop. The station will be to the ouside of the loop in the lower left corner. The freight house shown is a place holder until I figure out what to build the permanent one out of. I favor wood as the real one was clapboard siding and two stories tall beyond the transfer dock. At the back is the proposed location for the turntable and 3 stall round house. There was also a back shop behind the round house but I may not have room for it there. I also need to locate the big coal dock and distribution shed within the loop so it's still all up in the air for now.

   About half an hour to go here to midnight so I did want to wish you all a Happy New Year. Austria should be cool but I think maybe Todd started the schnapps too early and is mistaking folks in Lederhosen for roos. Wrong hemisphere my friend. Too many egg rolls tonight?

Well I will back into the corner before things get too wild. I remember last time it took several days to straighten the diner out not to mention recover from Vinnies actions to restore order. At least they put the chandelier away before hand this year. Sure don't need folks swinging from it again. And I swear I have no idea who threw those cherry bombs under the rivet counter. I know I couldn't reach it from here so it couldn't possibly have been me. Really

30min and counting GMT

 

[galaxy]

Austria, Huh?

Its cold and snowy here....

we got up just to watch the crystal ball in Times Square drop...can you tell we are "older"? we go to bed to get up to watch it, not stay up late to watch it!!!

fec153 asked for The meaning of the word AMEN? HUH? As it can be {isn't always- but usually is}- a religious word, I will keep it brief:

well:

The word amen (pron.: /ˌɑːˈmɛn/ or /ˌeɪˈmɛn/; Hebrew: אָמֵן, Modern amen Tiberian ʾāmēn; Greek: ἀμήν; Arabic: آمين‎, ʾāmīn ; "So be it; truly") is a declaration of affirmation found in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Its use in Judaism dates back to its earliest texts. It has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding word for prayers and hymns. In Islam, it is the standard ending to Dua (supplication). Common English translations of the word amen include "verily" and "truly". It can also be used colloquially to express strong agreement, as in, for instance, "amen to that".

Oddly, to get a scriptural answer to what “Amen” means, we go to a place where it is used not as the last word but the first word.  Jesus would often start a solemn statement by saying "Verily" or "Truly".  In John's gospel (eg Jhn 3:3) Jesus is recorded as using the word twice in succession, "Verily, verily, I say to you...". This is actually the word “Amen”.

When we compare an instance of this in Mark, with the same statement in Luke, we find Mark has left the word untranslated (just as
αμην “Amen”), but Luke has translated it using the word
αληθος "Truly".  (Mark 9:1, Lke 9:27).  This shows us that the underlying meaning of the word “Amen” is truth and verity.  It is a solemn affirmation.  When we say, “Amen” we are saying, "Yes before God I agree with that, I believe that to be true, I want that to be so".

Courtesy of Wikipedia and other looked up information

Only 15 minutes til 2013!!!

HAVE A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

Good Morning!

... and welcome to Vienna, Austria!

OzJim - I just took an A and an L out of Australia to arrive here!

Here is what we will do in the next few days:

We will stay a couple of days in Vienna and roam this wonderful city. A bus will take us to our hotel, which happens to be the famous Hotel Sacher. We will have a few hours of rest, before we will be heading to the traditional New Year´s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Following that is a guided tour of the city, a visit to St. Stephan´s Cathedral and coffee and cake at Cafe Landmann. Tonight, we will go to the Opera to see Richard Strauss´ "Die Fledermaus" (The Bat). Dinner will be at the famous restaurant §Die 3 Husaren", where the Imperial family used to dine.

Following our stay in Vienna, we will be exploring Austria by rail, visiting Melk Monastery, St. Poelten, Mariazell, St. Wolfgang, Ischl, Innsbuck.

Enjoy the tour with me!

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning! from Tipton IN.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

IT'S NEW YEAR'S DAY!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TIPTON

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well I just watched the dropping of the ball in Times Square. That's good enough for me. Call it 2013 even though it's 11pm here. And with that I'm calling it a night. Time for this disabled veteran to hit the sack. See y'all tomorrow.

[blownout cylinder]

Happy New Years!!!!

[kbkchooch]

Happy New year y'all!! 

Hey Ulrich, will Arnold be our tour guide??

[teen steam fan]

Happy New Year guys

[LSWrr]

Happy New Year!!

[Rastafarr]

Just waiting for the people banging pots together to wake the wife up. Here's  to a great 2013 for all!

Stu

[galaxy]

Morning Coffee in the diner with friiends...

GEE, I haven't seen y'all since LAST YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Can you GUESS today's date?????!!!!

May your 2013 be prosperous and Happy and Kind to you!!!

MAy you be 'happy as a clam' this year:

Meaning:

Very happy and content.

Origin:

Why would clams be happy? It has been suggested that open clams give the appearance of smiling. The derivation is more likely to come from the fuller version of the phrase, now rarely heard - 'as happy as a clam at high water'. Hide tide is when clams are free from the attentions of predators; surely the happiest of times in the bivalve mollusc world. The phrase originated in the north-eastern states of the USA in the early 19th century. The earliest citation that can be found is from a frontier memoir The Harpe's Head - A Legend of Kentucky, 1833:

"It never occurred to him to be discontented... He was as happy as a clam."

The first record found of the 'high water' version is from the Pennsylvania newspaper The Adams Sentinel, August 1844:

"Crispin was soon hammering and whistling away as happy as a clam at high water."

The expression was well-enough known in the USA by the late 1840s for it to have been included in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary Of Americanisms - A Glossary of Words And Phrases Usually Regarded As Peculiar To The United States, 1848:

"As happy as a clam at high water," is a very common expression in those parts of the coast of New England where clams are found.

Also in 1848, the Southern Literary Messenger from Richmond, Virginia expressed the opinion that the phrase "is familiar to everyone".

 

The prayer cndles will be lit at daybreak for those who have a loved passed, one who need thoughts and prayers, and for those who need healing prayers...

 

[fec153]

Good morning everyone. . Black coffee and an English muffin please..

Galaxy, bet most of us are "SOBER AS A JUDGE".

Prayers and Blessings

Flip

 

[galaxy]

Good morning again!

I should have thought quickly to post this:

For auld lang syne, my friend, for auld lang syne

Meaning:

The title of the Scottish tune translates to “times gone by” and is about remembering friends from the past and not letting them be forgotten.

Origin:

ALud Lang syne was first written from an old man's singing in Scotland by Robert Burns.

Throughout the English speaking world, Auld Lang Syne is traditionally sung on New Years Eve (known as Hogmanay in Scotland). That  tradition does not hearken back to Burns but rather only to  Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo who sang at midnight January 1, 1929 in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.  Guy Lombardo's orchestra played the song every New Years Eve, in live broadcast from New York, until 1976.

Here are the traditional words:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

   And never brought to mind?

   Should auld acquaintance be forgot,  

   And auld lang syne?   

   Chorus:      

  For auld lang syne, my dear,

       For auld lang syne.

 We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,  

      For auld lang syne.

 

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp!

And surely I'll be mine!

And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,

 for auld lang syne.

 

We twa hae run about the braes

     And pou'd the gowans fine.

    We've wandered mony a weary foot,

    Sin' auld lang syne.

 

We twa hae sported i' the burn,  

   From morning sun till dine,    

 But seas between us braid hae roared   

  Sin' auld lang syne.

 

And ther's a hand, my trusty friend,    

 And gie's a hand o' thine;    

 We'll tak' a right good willie-waught,,   

  For auld lang syne.

So: Fill to me the parting glass....Goodnight and joy be with you all...whoops! That is another song... for another day!

Have a Happy day!!!