Weather guesser says it's 44 heading for 35. Guess I might want to turn the heater up a little. Well it's been somewhat of a busy day for me so I guess it's time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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Evening All...Its 32 and clear here...I'll have a RBF please...Thank You...Not much going on the IC..Went to visit Sallie at Nursing Home but She had to be transfered back to Hospital so didn't get much of a visit..
You All have a god one...Jerry
Gee, Jeffrey,does "gloom, despair, and agony on me" eman anything to you? Especially when coupled with "If it weren't for badf luck, I'd have no luck at all",,, Oh, 'gloom despair and agony on me"
Well, i go the dishes and a load of laudry done, but a headache prevented me form doing the grocery shopping. that I didn't do the other day done. SO I relaxed.
we had, at my Other half's request, Pizza for dinner as I wasn't gonna eat. I don't eat much when i have a migraine,a s I tend to re-release it and taste it for a second time. so to speak. I keep a pizza ion hand for emergencies oR when MOH has a craving. {funny MOH complains for 2 dyas of having heartburn, but loves to eat it}.
So tomorrow is banking anD the remaining grocery shopping.. We can see a little difference in MOH's first paycheck. mOstly due to the health insurance {more catastrophic than good coverage} deductions. we will survice and MOH doesn't pay taxes onteh insurance moeny, so it reduces IRs owings and/or refunds {usually}.
WE got a ceramic cross for Christmas. so it got blessed and hung by the front door to bless all who enter and all who exit. That was a fiasco, as MOH decide to do it and tried to push in the cup hook {then tried to nail the cup hook in } and I kept saying "drill a small pilot hole first" or "let em do it' ,but MOH was determined.... finally took my advice when I handed off the drill with a tiny bit it it to pilot the hole!!! THEn it went hummingly along...sometimes I DO have a good idea...and know things....but MOH is stubborn!
Well, off to bed for the night.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Vincent, the one on the left is about 9-1/4 long, 4 high and 2-3/4" deep. the other is 9-1/4"x4"x 3-1/4"
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Evening Folks
Flo, a beer pleases.
Been under the weather today. Only thing I got done that need to be done was go on the trash run.
Vince's, I am so sorry I did not get the engine packed up. Today was the day I was going to get that done and mailed.
See you all Friday.
Ken
I hate Rust
tried my hand at weathering with a poorly done weathering brush didn't work. looks like I'll wait for my weathering brush kits.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Afternoon guys
Well the weather has sucked the past few days. It's either raining or it's cold. Makes it hard to get in some painting. I tried to use my airbrush the other day but the air compressor bit the dust. I turned it on and BOOM, sparks shot out the back. Weird, but the old one has been disposed of. So no airbrushing for a while.
I went to partially assemble some of the remaing car kits I have (meaning, minus couplers). It went well except for the last MDC Thrall gon. It's not a BN or NP, but a Peabody so I was gonna get rid of it. But apparently the box didn't have the ladders in it... IDK if anyone would want one with the ladders missing. I have a couple of other car's I'm getting rid of because they don't fit my era, namely a Kar-line B&M box and a McKean master frisco box; bot 40 footers. i might finish assembly of the frisco one though; just for fun.
Terry, I'm contemplating working on a small diorama. About how big are the buildings?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Afternoon, everybody! ( Nooorrrmmm)( Cheers reference)
A balmy 14f with a windchill of 3f.Sun's out so at least it LOOKS nice outside!
Sheesh, Jeff, ya shoulda stayed in bed today!
Bama, ask the Frankenloco King about your engine re -hab job. Jeff would know!
Finished the punchlist at the job today! Yay! Meeting the owners at 10am tommorrow for final payment. Then some time off and right next door for a gut/ remodel. The new people have been e-mailing me about start dates so now I can give them a definitive answer.
Train front( with respect to Ken)
Anyone looking for airbrushes? Think I've got 2 I'll NEVER use. Or can anybody use these:
I'm to the point in scenery that I cannot find a spot to use them! Tried a number of places ,none work.IIRC, they're DPM models but cut about in half.HO scale . Let me know as I'd rather get rid of'm here to one of youse guyz, as Vinnie would say!
That's it for now!
chochowillieWhen I have a day like that, I start to thinking that maybe I should have just stayed in bed
AMEN!
Jeffrey
jeffrey-wimberlyGot the shopping done.
When I have a day like that, I start to thinking that maybe I should have just stayed in bed
We are at 0 degrees or 32 F today. Don't know how to act except I'm in the midst of un-decoratin the outside of the house. Got all sweated up and had to take a break. Just have to put the stuff away in the shed and IT will really be all over for another year!
Got MOH's spring cleaning done in the Master Bedroom. Took all darned morning. I asked her if this was Early Spring Cleaning or Late Fall Cleaning All I got was a look. I suppose tomorrow will be another room Stupid "Honey Do LIsts".
On the RR front, I tried to hook up JRMI to my RR but I can't get them to talk to each other. I think it's a windows driver issue because I think I saw a reference to that in the JMRI doc's. Maybe tonight....
Well, thanks for the Coffee Ladies and much as I'd like just one more, I'd best go put the Xmas decorations away. Puff Puff Wheezzzzeeee.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Lee - The Union RR only went to North Bessemer, PA where it interchanges with the BLE. They never went further north than that as far as I know. The BLE and the Conneaut docks were both sold off to Canadian National some time ago. Interestingly though, power on the BLE has remained painted orange & black, no CN paint jobs so far. The URR has a number of differant paint schemes on their MP15's as of late including blue & white, blue & yellow, and green & yellow.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Got the shopping done. Got everything I needed from Wal-Mart. Besides the groceries I picked up a gallon of anti-freeze and a couple of cans of Engine Restore for the van. Took the stuff out to the parking lot with the intention of loading it through the side cargo door. Went around to the right side and saw that some idiot had parked his car about eighteen inches away. Either he was a walking spaghetti stick or he got out on the other side. Well there was plenty of space on the left side so I should be able to back up, cut left and pull back in and have plenty of room to open the cargo doors. Went to start the van and it didn't want to start. It was like it was vapor locked or something. I gave it a little shot of starting fluid and it fired right up. So I backed up then shifted to drive and the dang thing stalled! Right then everybody and their mother wanted to come down that row and I've got it blocked. Again the engine didn't want to start. Another shot of starter fluid and it starts right up! Boy, it must really like that stuff! I cut left and pulled back into the space and right then some yahoo pulls into the space to the left and has this desire to park right next to the line. However his desire to keep his car in one piece and not get his right front fender dinged by my drivers door won out and he changed his position. So now I get the groceries loaded, added the Restore to the engine oil and freshened up the coolant with the anti-freeze. Now it's time to leave. This time the engine fires right up with no problem! Now I'm on my way home, on the other side of town as a matter of fact and realize I had left my cane hanging on the back of the shopping cart. Back to Wal-Mart! Fortunately the carts hadn't been collected yet and the one I had used was right where I'd left it. I got my cane then set out for home once again. I made it home without incident.
Tom that’s a matter of era: the Union had 0-10-0 steam locomotives in their roster. I always thought the sight of an 0-10-0 winding its way around the low mountains and small towns would be interesting to model. The Union use to go all the way to Conneaut, OH didn’t it? Hauling B&LE hoppers….
I think the Union is the only USS railroad that wasn’t sold off to CN.
Todd I’ll send you a couple hoppers of snow if that will help….
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Dinner time!
Tonight´s menue:
and for desert:
Tafelspitz (German Tafelspitz, literally meaning tip (of meat) for the table) is boiled beef in broth, served with horseradish. It is considered to be the "national dish" of Austria and is equally popular in the neighboring German state of Bavaria.
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, was a great lover of Tafelspitz. According to the 1912 official cookery textbook used in domestic science schools of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "His Majesty's private table is never without a fine piece of boiled beef, which is one of his favorite dishes."
Mehlspeisen is the Austrian summary of sweet deserts, such as Nockerl, Palatschinken, Kaiserschmarrn. I recommend Palatschinken. Palatschinke (pl. Palatschinken) is the Austrian name of a thin, crêpe-like variety of pancake common in Central and Eastern Europe and known variously as palačinka (Czech), palacsinta (Hungarian), and similar ethnic derivations.
... and, of course, lots of local to go with the meal.
Guten Appetit!
Well folks I had great plans for today. I was going to go and pick up some 2 x 4's and enough Tee Bar to do the ceiling in the train room finished up.
Apparently it was not meant to be because MOH informed me it was time to Spring Clean the Master Bed room. Wall's, windows, floors .... blinds etc. Well now, I said to myself, why is it when YOU need to do Spring Cleaning, anything I had in mind to do which YOU don't help me with just goes to the bottom of the list?
Good think I said it to myself Days half gone now, still not finished and guess what?
I was informed that WE are going to paint the kitchen next. I said but it was painted only 2 1/2 years ago dear when we moved in. Then she said that Ï don't like the colors anymore, I want two shades of yellow now."
Sooooo it now becomes two coats of primer plus two coats of two shades of yellow to cover up the IN Colors of 2 1/2 years ago. Oh yeh, the WE part means you know who.
I wish those stupid home improvement shows were never invented
I think I'll go finish washing the floor and then go pout for a while.
Mornin' ah, Hmmmm.... Noon already! Well, Zoe can I get what Todd is having...? The strudel looks delicious! Oh and I do want dark roast coffee with it, please.
Slept right through the night last night! First time in over a week. Felt so good that after I visited the little room down the hall at 8AM this morning I came back to bed and slept another 2 hours. Guess I needed it.
Ulrich, beautiful photos as always. Someday, maybe I'll take a vacation over there.....
I have a long list of things I have to get done today... Items for the MLK Committee, the NMRA Division, finish clearing off the snow from the solar panels if I can, and many other things as well. Feeling a bit better today, so maybe I will be a bit more productive.
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Lee - I have to admit that when I say "Western Pennsylvania" I am taking some liberties with geography. In my little world "Western Pennsylvania" means everything west of Harrisburg. So The "Ma & Pa" doesn't fall within my boundries. Although I sometimes think I should move the eastern boundry of my "Western Pennsylvania" to just outside of Philadelphia. But my wife thinks I'm just looking for an excuse to include more railroads. She does know me too well. The Union does fall with in my realm though. I think it is completely contained in Allegheny County. An interesting and busy line with SW1500's and MP15AC's.
Good morning. It's 37° with 97% humidity. It'll be cloudy with a high of 52°. North wind coming off the lake will make it feel colder.Now that my food stamp card is reloaded I can do the remainder of the grocery shopping today. I have a tremendous budget of $45 to work with. I also need to get a couple of cans of engine restore for the vans engine. That quiets those old valve trains down nicely. Paper towels are also on the procurement list. Later I may be able to get some cleanup work done on the layout. That depends on if someone has made plans for my day that I don't know about.
Hmmm...
WHO said "it hasn't gotten cold enough to freeze the ground"???? HE needs to come here! It is now 19F, feels like 11F, with a lite snow having fallen. It has warmed up some, as it was chilly {in the singles i think, and the real feel yesterday was a BIG OL' GOOSE EGG!!!
It was SO cold yesterday all I get at first out of the KIA was RRRuuhhhm, rruuuuuhhh when I tried to start it! We have been dripping the pipes for days now to make sure they freeze!
Well, today is household chore day...tomorrow is the banking day...and then I get a leisure day saturday..
See what kinda trouble I can get into...never know today...
Laundry should be a "breeeze" as i washed the washing machine yesterday...
I think today I pack up some under the table top tree trains and see what happends there.. for starters on housework.
Have to get a package together for Jeffrey some time too.
Well...off to do dishes with dripping water...
Yaaawn!
I just woke up from a nap. I am still having issues with my BP going up and down, so that nap did me good.
Todd said: "It amazes me how clean Austria and Germany appear" - , appear is the right word, there are some pretty filthy places as well. However, Vienna is about the cleanest and safest city I have ever been too. The absence of "paintings" on the walls is just stunning. You can even take a walk past midnight without meeting your friendly neighborhood mugger. Try to do that in Berlin, Frankfurt or Hamburg!
By this time, we have arrived at St. Poelten train station, ready to board our steam train to Mariazell. Time for some mor info on this line.
The pilgrimage center of Mariazell was one of Austria-Hungary's most visited places by foreigners in the 19th century. Much thought was already being given to building a railway from St. Pölten to Mariazell even at the time when the West railway opened in 1858. Many variations on the idea of extending the standard-gauge line through the Lower Austrian foothills of the Alps were considered. Only after the Lower Austrian State Railway Law was passed in 1895 did work begin on the project, and owing to the difficult terrain that the railway would have to cross, it was decided to build it to a narrow gauge. The gauge of 760 mm, as with all narrow-gauge railway undertakings in the "Danube Monarchy", was made necessary by the military administration, as rolling stock used in military service on railways in Bosnia and Hercegovina – which used the 760 mm gauge – would need to be brought in. The railway's alignment would be built to a minimum curve radius of 80 m. In 1896, building work by the Lower Austrian State Railway Office began with acting director Engineer Josef Fogowitz in charge.
The mainline from St. Pölten to Kirchberg and the branch to Mank were opened on 4 July 1898; the operators were the state's own Lower Austrian State Railways. As of 1902, building was continued and in 1905, the stretch through the Pielach valley as far as Laubenbachmühle and the branchline extension to Ruprechtshofen were completed. In 1906, the Mountain Line was pushed through far enough for freight traffic to be taken through to Mariazell. On 2 May 1907, passenger service to Mariazell began running, and that same summer, the stretch through to Gußwerk was brought into service.
The "Lower Austrian-Styrian Alp Railway" (Niederösterreichisch-Steirische Alpenbahn) as the railway was known in Austro-Hungarian officialese, was thereby complete. Far-reaching plans for an extension over the Styrian Seeberg and a connection with the likewise narrow-gauge Thörlerbahn, and thereby with the Styrian railway network, had no work done on them owing to the outbreak of the First World War. Likewise, a connection to the Ybbstalbahn was never built.
On the Mountain Line, the service was for the time being run with steam locomotives specially designed for the line of series Mh and Mv, which very quickly turned out not to be up to the job. The rush of passengers was so great that for a time, the railway, which had become enormously popular overnight, did not even bother with advertising. Among the various kinds of freight carried on the railway were agricultural products, ores from local mines, and above all wood from the heavily forested mountain region. Wood remained the most important kind of goods on the railway right up until freight operations were discontinued on the Mariazell Railway. As early as 1909, standard-gauge goods wagons were being transported along the Mariazellerbahn on transporter wagons, insofar as the railway's narrow loading gauge would allow it.
Between 1907 and 1911, Mariazellerbahn was electrified. At that time, the locomotive series E (now ÖBB 1099), still used now, were acquired.
Between 1959 and 1961, these locos underwent modernization, which included a complete new loco body.
Service on the mainline is today still mainly done using the now nearly 100-year-old series 1099 electric locomotives together with passenger coaches not much less old than the locomotives. The class 1099 can therefore claim to be the world's oldest electric locomotive still running on the line for which it was originally built.
Since 1994, two newly developed electric multiple unit trains (ÖBB 4090) have come into service. For lighter runs diesel multiple unit trains (ÖBB 5090) are used, as well as on the Krumpe, where series 2095 diesel locomotives are also used.
For nostalgic runs, the Mh.6 steam engine stationed in Ober-Grafendorf is brought in. This was a private initiative in the 1990s by several Mariazell Railway employees, who managed to fetch back the Mountain Line's original locomotive.
The line´s future is secure - beginning in March this year, the entire line will be revamped and new rolling stock is on order at the Swiss Stadler company, looking like this:
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and STRUDEL!!!! Please. What flavor? Oh I don’t care as long as it’s Strudel. Thanks. I love these trips to Strudel countries.
Well so much for a rock sticking up like a platform and a building on it not being prototypical. My non-prototypical land formation is leaning more and more towards proto.
Ulrich- The inside shot of Baroque Abbey is beautiful! Wow. It’s stunning the work people did so long ago.
It amazes me how clean Austria and Germany appear. Many folks who went to Germany would say they loved it and commented on how clean it was. They (Uncle Sam) never sent me to Germany or even Europe. It appears they preferred me to be in Asia. I take that back, I did get the "opportunity" to go to Italy once and the Ukraine. Italy was ok I guess, but what I saw looked better in the brochures. And as for the Ukraine…..send me back to Korea. And….. They did. Girls were prettier too.
Things didn’t go off yesterday as planned (imagine that) so, today I’ll change out that light, do some more laundry and then try to w**k a bit more on the emptying of junk/trash from the trainroom. Then w**k tonight. Tomorrow should be a rerun for me with any luck.
Jeffrey- Never thought I’d say this but….I’d like to take some of that rain off your hands even if it’s in the form of…(gulp) ….sn*w.
Hey, ever notice the super clean looking countries with beautiful architecture and countrysides have Strudel? Hmmmm.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good Morning...*yawn*...
I need a strong coffee this morning...Do we still have raw caffeine in an IV bag? We do? Good...I'll have one of them thankye...
A mix of sun/cloud is greeting us this morning...high of 23F expected...low tonight is 15F...right now it is the mighty 13F....
Got to get cracking on them report papers...distill them down to a couple of binders ..then next week a few meetings/presentations to get to...with Powerpoint's for the lot.....oy....
Have to get runnin'...have a good day...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Mor*yawn*ning y'all. Stopping in for breakfast before heading off to w**k today. Got Heather up and on her bus for school, so now I get a few minutes to myself before I have to get ready. Think I will have biscuits and gravy with sausage and a tall glass of milk. Been doing some checking around for MRR things I need online and so far I've come up completely empty on the parts needed for my Bachmann CW40-8 to connect the engines and trucks. What's missing is the connection on the end of the truck, I have a couple of driveshafts that should work, if only I had the little sleeve that allowed the end of the driveshaft to clip into it. Looked into theBay, and a few other sites and have come up with a dry hole. Any ideas y'all?
Good Morning all,
Karl, it’s 3F outside! I think this is the first time we hit single digits in 2 years. 20’s and 30’s for the next 7 days.
The lake needs to hurry up and freeze. We have a total snowfall of about 22” on the ground.
Jeremy where are you that you have to get up at 0400 to watch a hockey game? Are you in BC? When I went to Motor Life Boat School in Ilwaco, WA I remember we had to rush back to the hotel after class to watch Monday night football at 1600.
Tom I just did the layout work for some MA & PA graphics does that count as Western PA? Do you consider Union RR a western PA road?
I missed last night’s MRR Club meeting, I thought yesterday was Tuesday all day, that Tuesday holiday messed me up…..
Morning Coffee in the diner...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Ulrich says "westward, HO! The wagons!", SO,Ever wonder what "to coin a phrase" means?? {beside the obvious!}, SO:
'To coin a Phrase':
Meaning:
To create a new phrase.
Origin:
'To coin a phrase' is now rarely used with its original 'invent a new phrase' meaning but is almost always used ironically to introduce a banal or clichéd sentiment. This usage began in the mid 20th century; for example, in Francis Brett Young's novel Mr. Lucton's Freedom, 1940:
"It takes all sorts to make a world, to coin a phrase."
Coining, in the sense of creating, derives from the coining of money by stamping metal with a die. Coins - also variously spelled coynes, coigns, coignes or quoins - were the blank, usually circular, disks from which money was minted. This usage derived from an earlier 14th century meaning of coin, which meant wedge. The wedge-shaped dies which were used to stamp the blanks were called coins and the metal blanks and the subsequent 'coined' money took their name from them.
Coining later began to be associated with inventiveness in language. In the 16th century the 'coining' of words and phrases was often referred to. By that time the monetary coinage was often debased or counterfeit and the coining of words was often associated with spurious linguistic inventions; for example, in George Puttenham's The arte of English poesie, 1589:
"Young schollers not halfe well studied... will seeme to coigne fine wordes out of the Latin."
Shakespeare, the greatest coiner of them all, also referred to the coining of language in Coriolanus, 1607:
"So shall my Lungs Coine words till their decay."
"Quoin" has been retained as the name of the wedge-shaped keystones or corner blocks of buildings. Usually refering to those that stand prioud on the corner borders. Printers also use the term as the name for the expandable wedges that are used to hold lines of type in place in a press. This has provoked some to suggest that 'coin a phrase' derives from the process of quoining (wedging) phrases in a printing press. That is not so. 'Quoin a phrase' is recorded nowhere and 'coining' meant 'creating' from before the invention of printing in 1440. Co-incidentally, printing does provide us with a genuine derivation that links printing with linguistic banality - cliché. This derives from the French cliquer, from the clicking sound of the stamp used to make metal typefaces.
'Coin a phrase' itself arises much later than the invention of printing - the 19th century in fact. It appears to be American in origin - it certainly appears in publications there long before any can be found from any other parts of the world. The earliest use of the term found is in the Wisconsin newspaper The Southport American, July 1848:
"Had we to find... a name which should at once convey the enthusiasm of our feelings towards her, we would coin a phrase combining the extreme of admiration and horror and term her the Angel of Assassination." The prayer candles are lit for those in need for a loved one's passing, or for helath reasons, or for those who just need special thoughts and prayers! Make it a great day and pay it forward by doing a good deed for someone!
"Had we to find... a name which should at once convey the enthusiasm of our feelings towards her, we would coin a phrase combining the extreme of admiration and horror and term her the Angel of Assassination."
The prayer candles are lit for those in need for a loved one's passing, or for helath reasons, or for those who just need special thoughts and prayers!
Make it a great day and pay it forward by doing a good deed for someone!
Good Morning!
Why are you all wearing sun glasses this morning? Oh, I see, you enjoyed the wine yesterday? Maybe a little too much ...
Westward Ho! Time to leave Vienna and make our way westwards!
We will be leaving Vienna by boat, steaming upstream through the lovely Wachau.
The Wachau is an Austrian valley with a picturesque landscape formed by the Danube river. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations of Lower Austria, located midway between the towns of Melk and Krems that also attracts "connoisseurs and epicureans". It is 40 kilometres (25 mi) in length and was already settled in prehistoric times. A well-known place and tourist attraction is Dürnstein, where King Richard the Lion-Heart of England was held captive by Duke Leopold V. The architectural elegance of its ancient monasteries (Melk and Göttweig Abbey), castles and ruins combined with the urban architecture of its towns and villages, and the cultivation of vines as an important agricultural produce are the dominant features of the valley.The Wachau was inscribed as "Wachau Cultural Landscape" in the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in recognition of its architectural and agricultural history, in December 2000.
Around noon, we will be arriving at Melk Abbey.
Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley.
The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A monastic school, the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. The monastery's scriptorium was also a major site for the production of manuscripts. In the 15th century the abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform movement which reinvigorated the monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany.
Today's impressive Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 to designs by Jakob Prandtauer. Particularly noteworthy is the abbey church with frescos by Johann Michael Rottmayr and the impressive library with countless medieval manuscripts, including a famed collection of musical manuscripts and frescos by Paul Troger
After our visit, we will take a short bus ride to St. Poelten, where we change to a narrow gauge train to Mariazell. The Mariazell Railway (German: Mariazellerbahn) is an electrically operated narrow-gauge railway (with a track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5 7⁄8 in)) which connects the Lower Austrian capital Sankt Pölten with the Styrian pilgrimage centre of Mariazell.
There will be a special train waiting for us, headed by a class Mh 0-8-2 steam loco.
Upon arrival, we will pay a short visit to the famous basilica and later on check into our hotel. There will be time to catch a little rest, before we go for dinner.
Enjoy the day!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases!
My Day, lets see?
Work Sucked
Trains Sucked today.
What is Big, Red, Swallow and has a hole in it? My Toe, so that sucks.
If CBS has not up dated my Ziva Show, the rest of my day will suck!
Well I am alive, not wearing lederhosen so I guess life could be worse!
See you all later.
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf for me right at the moment. Thanks!
The roof rake arrived this afternoon, so I put it together and tried to clear the solar panels for a bit. Not an easy job, but after a while I got the hang of how to best use it. Not anywhere near done, but pulled and pushed a lot of snow off them. Trouble is the snow has now melted just enough to become crusted and frozen down in the pack. The job will be much easier once I get the panels cleaned and keep ahead of the next storm with it. We also got a couple more inches of light and fluffy late today to add to the fun. Panels didn't turn on at all again today as there was no, I repeat, No sunshine here... Dark, cloudy, and gloomy, and cold! Currently 13°F outside with a low tonight of 5°F. I have the wood stove cranked up pretty good at the moment.
I have officially started my taxes for 2012... Want to get a head start on it and get it filed early as I can. I should be getting a major bit of $$$ back with all the grants and stuff to lower what I owe on the upgrades I did this summer. What I am doing at present is to start going through all my medical bills. With the new hearing aids, I should have more than the standard deduction....
I think I will head out to get some as I still have not caught up on the nights I didn't get any sleep over the last week. Still coughing a lot, but I think I am on the mend.
Prayers for all in need! Have a good night everyone.
A belated Happy New Year to one and all!
Another cool one up here but we are supposed to have a heat wave by Sunday with a high of 32F!! If it is sunny(unlikely) it would certainly be short sleeve shirt time.
Jerry, great to see you back in the Diner. Sure hope Sallie is on the mend. Nice that your daughter can spend some time with you as I can imagine how quiet the house must seem.
Well back at work today and it really wasn't too bad. I managed to catch up on everything that required that and prepare the sales department for an account that I will probably have to 'lower the boom' on next week. We shall see.
No train time tonight. I did look at the HO layout and think about running the F7 and attached train but decided against it.
Well soon time to head off to the land of nod.
CN Charlie