Well, we are in Niagara Falls, had a great time in Detroit, even convinced my mom to take me to Delray Junction, and saw a few trains. Got a great layout tour on the way too. heading home tomorrow, but don't expect any pics until Tuesday. I am really tired, so good night, and happy modeling.
EDIT: top of the page, have some Indian food, on the house, Niagara Falls NY is famous for good Indian, had some tonight, boy was it good.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
mbinsewiWell Ed, now that asked..... It's another kit bash waiting to get finished.
That is a beautiful "scratch-bash/kit-bash" Mike! I'm getting the vibe that it is a 1920's era depot structure that has been modernized for present-day commuter use? The columns and girder work look superb
HarrisonEDIT: top of the page, have some Indian food, on the house, Niagara Falls NY is famous for good Indian, had some tonight, boy was it good.
Thanks, Harrison, sound's good! It has been a few years since I've enjoyed some dishes of India. I do like all the variations of curry Sometimes we would season our goat meat with Indian spices! Good Stuff.
Snow mixed with rain here in NE Ohio. Good weather to run some trains!
I saw this earlier in the week, a bluebird at the suet feeder. Taken with a cheap camera through the kitchen window!
Bluebird-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
One time I glanced out at the feeder and had a Bluebird, a bright red Cardinal and an American Goldfinch all sitting side-by-side. What a colorful sight!
Cheers, Ed
gmpullmanMy shop is the office of my former wife, the architect. I even made built-in drawers for blueprints that just happen to be the perfect size for storing HO rolling stock! She left me the nice, vintage, drawing table that is now my actual work bench, too.
Speaking of good office equipment, my wife Dianne (to whom I am still married by the way) gave me a Herman Miller office chair about 10 years ago. It cost a fortune but it has been worth every penny! I can sit in it for hours without any back pain. I can't do that in very many chairs.
A few months ago a pivot bearing broke. It was still under warranty and the mfr. insisted on sending a technician to do the repair so that he could assess the condition of the rest of the chair. We just bought a second one for my workbench.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Ed,
You are good at catching birds in situ!
gmpullmanOne time I glanced out at the feeder and had a Bluebird, a bright red Cardinal and an American Goldfinch all sitting side-by-side. What a colorful sight!
We had a similar sight with Cardinals and Goldfinches a couple of days ago but no Bluebirds. I guess we are too far into town to get them here.
We saw some Wood Ducks on Friday. Such a boring name for such a beautiful animal.
Good morning. I'll take a coffee, black please.
Great kitbash Mike. I have always wanted to try a kitbash. I think I'm going to start buying models I don't want for cheap at Train Shows so I can.
Garry.... You run a tight ship in your work area. I do believe you may be the first one that qualifies for the Lions nursing station example As clean and organized as a doctor's office
TF
A nice little Oasis to play Blackjack on my last Laughlin trip.
Very peaceful.... Landscapers, eat your heart out.
Ed, great picture of a bluebird. People try to get bluebirds here -- there was even a group in our town that went out and put bluebird houses on fenceposts in the rural areas. They got a few, but nothing like some other areas of the country.
Cold morning here, a little frost last night, and only getting into the low 50s this afternoon.
It was cold going to church this morning, but not many people wore coats. My daughter in Dallas reminds us they can use their pool these days. I remind her they don't even go outside in August.
I am enjoying reading Kevin's posts about his cross country trip. There is alot to see in the US and Canada. It's difficult to pick and choose what we have time to see.
Have a great Sunday.
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."
Thanks Ed, and TF. The station has been on the lay out then off, back and forth. When I built that work bench, I figured if I put the station front of may face, I'd get back to work on it.
And Ed your right on about the scenario of the project. I had come up with a totally ficticious plan involving an organization called the WRAA, the WI Rail Advancement Assoc., to promote passenger rail through out the state of WI.
I had come up with a color scheme for a couple of different communtor services, and the planned long haul passenger train, that I stated a thread about, a while back.
My station would be one of the regular stops, along with Amtrak.
So many projects
I think if I was to go on a train/modeler/history adventure, such as Kevin, I would head East. My ancestors are from PA., and I've never been there.
I understand one of the missions of his trip is to visit a daughter?
Anyway!! Last nights snow gave us about 2" of the heavy stuff, much more tolerable than the 5-6" called for. The sun is out, temps warming, and the snow is almost gone.
As the weather turns more to Spring and beyond, my modeling time will be winding down. Time for "1:1 building season" to kick in, with many projects on the list. There will be a period when the lay out room lights won't be on for weeks at a time.
Have a good Sunday eveyone!
Mike.
My You Tube
Good afternoon all. Having issues with either my computer or this website. I'll be back!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Track fiddlerou never cease to amaze me. Where you once a nurse? WowConfused The funny thing is.... I don't even know if I'm serious or not asking that question.
LION is a monk. Him lives in a monastery. Monasteries alsway have old monks in them. Fifty of us have died since I came here 35 years ago.
The monastery sent me to school to study nursing. At least I can do the job right.
The chair is a recent aqusition, we bought it on ebay for about $2500.
The cabinets were custom made for us by TMI, a company here in Dickinson ND, with brojects all over the country. They make custom cabinetry for hospitals, dorctor's offices, and any other commercial or office building that you can imagine. The ones we got were pretty generic. Just poked some buttons at a computer terminal and sent in my request. It came back from a representitive that guided me all the way throught the rest of the process.
The arrangement of the cabinets and drawers was all my idea basssed on what was available.
LION is also Network Administrator, managing 5 servers, and 40 workstations. Gotta have expensive firewalls to keep the pornography out.
LION also seels Wine. We have Altar Wine and Table Wine. Because of ND law, we can impiort altar wine directly from the winery. For table wine I place the order with the winery, and when the entire order is ready I call the local distributer, give him the two purchase orders, one for the Altar Wine (He needs that to arrange the trucking) and the other goes to the distribuyter who places the "Real" table Wine order with the Winery. He pays the taxes on the table wine.
State law says that the table wine must come to rest in his ware house. So the truck stops hat hsi shop, he opens the door and looks insinde. "YUP, It's Wine" and sendss the truck on to our place where we unload it and strike the wine below.
That used to mean dropping each case (for a whole tractor trailer) down a ram and luggging it into position. LION said the heck with this and we cut come wider doors in some baement rooms, and now we can simply pull whole pallets into our cellars.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLionLION is a monk. Him lives in a monastery.
Lion, I'm impressed with your subway layout.
Is it completely yours, or do any other monks work on it with you?
Afternoon all, it is another warm sunny day West of the Rockies. Kept getting kicked off earlier as I was trying to post a link to a unique staging track I came across on FB, I will keep trying to get a link up, although I can't even find it anymore.
Just got off the John Deere, the grass was overdue for a trim.
Yesterday I was at the school helping to get ready for the annual fair the school holds. It is a big undertaking but brings in around $100,000.00 for the school so it is well worth the effort. There are only 675 students from K-12 so it makes a big difference to the budget. I am sure feeling it today. Came home to a house full of people ate four chicken legs with thighs attached a mountain of potatoes and a mountain of veggies, three glasses of cab and a double Rum and Pepsi. This morning it was all I could do to climb on the bike but I managed to burn off 1050 calories in about forty minutes so I paid the bill for the pig-out.
According to my daughter, the school brought in about $135,000.00 from the all-day relay for cancer. Again with only 675 students, it is a good haul, they work long and hard to get that much. Apparently, they almost always come in third for the amount raised out of all the schools that participate in North America. That is incredible for such a small school. They do blow every other school out of the water when it comes to amounts raised per student so it makes them feel pretty good.
One of our best friends that comes every Saturday had bowel cancer and had it removed and was good for a couple of years and it has returned to her liver. A horrible disease.
The kid is on his way home. 130 pounds of luggage. His plane was an hour late leaving Ottawa and he has to make one stop in Winnipeg, my home town. I have to drive into Vancouver to get him, that will be tough as I am still wiped out from yesterday. Gettin old sucks.
BMW has come out with a new Roadster the 40i, I am overdue for a new car and this one has really got my attention 0-60 in3.9 secs. Now the Daughter is graduating I think a couple of road trips South will be in order and the Roadster would be the perfect fit. After watching Kevin's adventure I feel the need to go for a drive.
Well I can't remember the last time I ever took a nap, but one sounds pretty good about now.
1929.
All the best to all.
Edit; I found this guy with the cool staging idea. It is "A Modlerslife Podcast" The guy is Luke Lemmans with his Soo line layout. Can't link it for some reason but if you can hunt it down it is worth a look.
Eveing Diners!
Flo, give the gang and I a please and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
For some strange reason I felt good today? Not sure why I just wish I could duplicate it! Cut some grass, repaired the rear fences, cut up a large pine tree limb 8" around, hauled it out to the front, cut off another 8" pine tree limb that had been hanging over the in ground pool, cut it up and draged out front, weed wack by and behind the diving board, cleaned up some of debris around the pool and did a small honey do for the wife.
Maybe I seeing a small benfit from cutting back my smoking?
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Cudaken.... You feel good cuz you're not smoking so much anymore. You are starting to Breathe Again. You will continue duplicating your day you had, keeping up the good work. Also your many more days will follow
I went out to my buddy Erv's today. I don't miss my garage so much with my good friend Erv.
A retired mechanic with all the tools, helps me get my brake job done on my truck, quick in a part of a day
Erv is my best friend. Always will be.
I remember my Mother telling me.... "If you have one real friend towards the end of your life, you are doing good"
I have plenty of fair-weathered friends, but no one like my friend Erv.
It is a good day! The last Royal Hudson container has left the factory.
And it is time to go get the kid!
Go get the kid Brent, that's important
I wish I could go get my kid, She's in China
Bye-bye
Hey!!!
Got back from Jazz Fest, and it was AWESOME, Bleachers did not disappoint in the least, heres two quick snippets of my favorite song.
The weird thing is I really haven't had a loss experience such as losing a loved one but this song just really resonates with me.
Had some girl come up to me asking me bleachers questions, she hung around for two songs and right I as was about to ask her name she walks off... oh well!
Well later guys.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
BATMANIt is a good day! The last Royal Hudson container has left the factory.
I'm going to need a bigger roundhouse! I just bought one of these
PRR_K4_BLI by Edmund, on Flickr
Why do I need another K4? Well, this one has a bigger tender.
Sounds like a good enough reason to me
Fun Times! Ed
And I have to admit I don't like it a bit
Being left here beside this Lonesome Road.... don't know why I said that, I just did
I'm right on it!
Hey Brent! You can just meet the boat in Prince Rupert and save a few days
gmpullmanHey Brent! You can just meet the boat in Prince Rupert and save a few days
Sure! go for it! I'm sure the officials or CN won't mind if you rummage through the container and look for yours!
Maybe they'll even help! I'm sure they'll understand!
What a scene that would be! Jason should be there, filming it to show it in fast motion for an ad.
York1Is it completely yours, or do any other monks work on it with you?
Monks don't own anything. It is the Abbey's Subway : )
But Im the only one who builds it. But they love showing it off.
NWP SWPGot back from Jazz Fest, and it was AWESOME,
Steven, I used to live in New Orleans, and I attended Jazz Fest, too. I'm sure things have changed, the last Fest I attended was in 1984 or 1985. I We moved away from NO when my daughters were ready for high school, but we still get back every so often to visit relatives.
Good Morning,
Good grief there is some white stuff falling from the sky this morning. Maybe I'll run a train which would be different as I haven't done so since Christmas.
Very exciting all these new locos coming. None for me though as I definitely blew the budget on the big trip. That helicopter ride over Victoria Falls cost $300 for the two of us but it was worth it.
We flew on Turkish Airlines because the tickets cost less and it has a reputation as a great airline. They fly every day out of Toronto to Istanbul. Anyway I have to say that the food was the best we've had on an airplane and the service was great. Both legs of the trip over and then back were 10 hours flying which means 12 hours on the plane by the time everyone gets on board, a total of 24 hours flying just to get to Johannesburg. Oh and another 2 to get to Toronto from Winnipeg. Due to the distance and my wife's bad back we fly business class because of the space and your seat makes up into a flat bed. They actually have 2 chefs on the plane in full chef outfits. The pre-meal appitizers are served from a trolley and you get a choice of about 8 different ones or you can have some of each if you want. My wife wasn't sure which main course she wanted so they brought her both.
That was the last trip we will be taking to Africa. It just costs too much and I think I'm getting too old for the stress of such a long trip, dealing with large airports, luggage, packing, not to mention finding someone to look after Robbie.
Not going anywhere today. We still are unpacking and washing clothes. Yes we do take a lot of clothes but some is necessity as you need different clothes out in the bush vs. what you need in a city and that goes double for a woman. My wife's suitcase weighed 62 pounds. They put a ' caution- heavy' tag on it. I could barely get it off the carousel and onto a cart.
I have to see the travel agent this week to get all the info together to file an insurance claim for the accident I had. It has basically all healed up now. I will be able to claim the actual medical costs and the cost for a lost day of safari.
Time to do something.
CN Charlie
BATMAN It is a good day! The last Royal Hudson container has left the factory. And it is time to go get the kid!
Is that container the kid's luggage?
But seriously, folks... Another Monday morning. Breakfast is on me. It snowed Saturday, now it's raining, and I doubt I'm the only one who needs a hearty breakfast to get going.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
OK Steven, what is that white stuff on the biscuits between the bacon? Sorry but it doesn't look very appatizing to me.
CNCharlie OK Steven, what is that white stuff on the biscuits between the bacon? Sorry but it doesn't look very appatizing to me. CN Charlie
That's the best part of the breakfast -- spicey, salty sausage gravy that is probably not good for your health, but is worth it for the taste.
Charlie, biscuits in sausage gravy is a southern delicacy, you must try it sometime!
BroadwayLion Track fiddler ou never cease to amaze me. Where you once a nurse? WowConfused The funny thing is.... I don't even know if I'm serious or not asking that question. The monastery sent me to school to study nursing. At least I can do the job right. ROAR
Track fiddler ou never cease to amaze me. Where you once a nurse? WowConfused The funny thing is.... I don't even know if I'm serious or not asking that question.
That makes sense. With as many community members as you have, keeping check-ups on-site is definitely more convenient.
I was under the impression you were showing a well-organized workstation, which it was. I was thinking this because I remember you once showed the electric panels on the Subway Layout, that flipped up for easy access.
They were very impressive. Again well-organized, wired very neatly, straight and numbered. I pretty much assumed that's the way you are with everything
Speaking of wine. I have heard of this. Is it true you all sample each batch?