Afternoon Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please.
Had a fair sizes post yesterday that disappeared today?
We are still grieving over Sparkie. Wife is lossing it, when it was 3:30 PM today she lost it. 3:30 PM was feeding time for Sparkie. I am holding up better today except for when Sue losing it.
Far as Sparkie on the RIP listing? I would not mind but is it really appropriate?
Mulch Tip At Lowes if there is a bag of mulch that has a rip in it ask them to bag it in a Recovery Bag. Besides putting in the bag you get it for half price. Same trick works for damaged foam that I used on the layout.
Time to play in the mulch.
Later none smoking Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning ....
Ulrich ... You talked about doing house cleaning. Reading that made me realize you must be feeling good again. Your recent hart surgery must have been successful. If so, I am very happy for you. ..... Thanks for the videos.
Mr. B ..... Yeah. Ken talk about his beloved Sparkie enough so Sparkie was like a mascot here in the Diner.
John / York 1 ..... Enjoy your visit with grandkids.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. Bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, and black coffee. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Forget dessert. Just more coffee.
Won't get much accomplished today. Have to drive to the city (1½ hours away) to babysit for the youngest two grandchildren.
I imagine it will include riding tricycles, getting Happy Meals at McDonalds, watching a Disney princess movie, reading 4,200 books at bedtime, and falling asleep on the couch. It's great!
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."
cudaken Hueaven is a better places now. Sparkie has crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
Hueaven is a better places now. Sparkie has crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
May we have a special place on the RIP track for Sparkie?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Back again!
The Saturday chores are done - dusting the furniture, vacuuming the floors, feeding the washing machine and, finally, the weekend grocery run!
Time to relax! What better way there is to relax with a couple of train videos? Join me in a tour to the "other" toy train, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Rlwy.
First, a little bit of background, told in a late 1970s video.
Part Two shows some interesting footage of war time deployment and well-known celebrities paying a visit to the line.
Last, but not least, a few recent shots taken during the May Gala Event.
Enjoy!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Good Morning!
Weekend! Normally, folks love weekends - time to relax, time for the family and time to take care of the house and the yard! Well, I don´t like weekends, but for a different reason. Weekends are the noisiest time in the place where I live. Kids visiting their fathers, little feet stomping up and down the stairs all the time, yelling, screaming all day long. No respect for the elderly, no consideration for their need of peace and quiet! Yes, I am turning into a grumpy old man! Time to get out here, but I am afraid there will be a further delay. I don´t thing we will be out here much before Summer 2020.
Kevin - I am with you on not being in control of things and having to wait for some nitwit to decide. I have waisted half of my life in waiting for people who must have had mechanical brains not well-lubed!
Railway jobs in Britain - here is a late 1950s educational film by British Transport Films aimed at recruiting young people for British Rail.
Later in the day, we shall be paying a visit to the"other" toy train in the south of England!
SeeYou190 Heartland Division CB&Q Kevin .... Good of you to take time from your full schedule to visit the Diner. . This is aggravating me. I hate not being the principle in charge of a project. It seems like I spent 4-5 hours each day yesterday and today waiting for other people to make the obvious decisions. . This has given me ample time to visit the diner. . More of the same tomorrow. . Thank goodness next week I will be presenting in the training room. . -Kevin .
Heartland Division CB&Q Kevin .... Good of you to take time from your full schedule to visit the Diner.
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This is aggravating me. I hate not being the principle in charge of a project. It seems like I spent 4-5 hours each day yesterday and today waiting for other people to make the obvious decisions.
This has given me ample time to visit the diner.
More of the same tomorrow.
Thank goodness next week I will be presenting in the training room.
-Kevin
Kevin .... As once expleined to me. .... "It takes an unusaul mind to make a detailed analysis of the obvious."
Good Evening All,
Thanks for the coffee and donuts Steve. Much appreciated especially the virtual ones. Fewer calories.
Left w..k early and took a nap this afternoon. I feel much better now. Spent time on the layout tonight painting foam on the risers and finishing ditches. Getting a little done each evening is better than trying to blitz stuff.
Kevin - i feel your fustration. One of the things that really turned me off with modern pro racing is the sheer amount of time wasted waiting for the engineering staff to make a decision and put out a job list so the mechs can get to it. I was brought up in different times when we (the mechanics) actually had input as to what was needed. Watching the team stand around until 10 or 11 at night and then be given a 4 hour job list just wound me right up. The engineers then would head off to the hotel while the crew worked. Of course said crew was back on the job at 7am the next morning no matter how late they worked the night before. I also firmly believe this is how many mistakes happen as people get fatigued.
With the modern prototypes we run now, we frequently employ an engineer but have been careful to get one that is a team player. Ok. Rant over. Anyway better luck next week Kevin.
Another long day coming tomorrow so we'll see you then. Ciao, J.R.
Heartland Division CB&QKevin .... Good of you to take time from your full schedule to visit the Diner.
Living the dream.
We can fix this Lion. I have an awesome set of tools and I want to see that box car door straight again
TF
Condolances Ken. I hope I up do date on all those who have lost someone one.
Tongue reduction. Never heard of that, sounds like something out of Treasure Island.
Br Elias I had to go to wiki to understand the terms you used. Be careful of those nuns, I've heard stories they pack a mean ruler.
MR in a slump. I did decal a loco, need to put some gloss/matte on it.
I bought a Spring Mills B&O caboose at Timonium in the spring I thought about buying 2 for $60 each. They are NLA and the two on sale on ebay are $160 and $200
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Lion.
My Son's third Son is due in two weeks.
Judy and I will be traveling to Mandan North Dakota when He is born to welcome my third Grandson into the world. I will give you a heads up.
Bloody Prime Rib on me at the Roadhouse is soon
I'm so looking forward to seeing You and checking out all your beautiful work on your Subway Layout as well....... Visiting my Monk friend Lion in your Monastery is on the top of my list of things to do while I'm your home state of North Dakota
Track Fiddler
Steven - those donuts come in time for dessert! We just had supper and I´d be happy to take one of your donuts to top it off!
Btw, the blue loco in the video on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Rlwy. may look rather un-British to you - and you are right. The loco was built in 1929 in Munich/Germany by Krauss-Maffei and is a sister engine to those you see in Vienna, Stuttgart and Dresden. It was acquired by the R&E in 2016.
Jimmy ..... Best wishes for your interview.
Steve O .... Thanks for the donuts. Yummy. ... How are your cats doing these days? Any recent photos ?
Ulrich ... Interesting photos of models of the 15" trains.
Ken, you have my sympathies on losing Sparkie. You did your best for him, and I'm sure he appreciated it up to the end.
Let's all drown our sorrows in some coffee and donuts.
Also, good luck to Jimmy on the job interview!
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Jimmy_Braum Hey all. I have an interview today, so hopefully I'll be employed again soon.
Hey all. I have an interview today, so hopefully I'll be employed again soon.
Pulling for you, Jimmy!
In Britain, there is a handful of railway modellers building models of the 15" gauge lines. These models are usually British O scale (1/43.5), runnng on 9mm track, using N scale mechanisms. It´s quite a challenge and you just can´t take a shell of an HO scale loco und put a N scale mechanism underneath it. You have to pay careful attention to detail, as some of the fittings need to be oversized.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Good morning ...
Ricky .... Thanks for sharing your "catfish" photo.
JR... Congrats on being an almost grandpa. ... Nice to see the race car.
Kevin .... Good of you to take time from your full schedule to visit the Diner.
Ulrich .... That is an impressive video of the 15" railway.
Everybody .... Have a nice day.
friday
Normally I would be excited about Friday, but I have to work all weekend, and I am out of town.
Next weekend won't be any better.
GMTRacingI assume they are oil fired.
They are coal fired with real, but small lumps of coal!
Good Morning All,
A regular to go please ladies. #1 son is off with his missus to the docs this morning. No news to report yet, just another checkup and ultrasound.
Still digging ditches and filling with plaster on the layout. Got my latest order of fencing and substation kit in so I can go further in a day or two. I will likely finish ballast/paint on the elevated main behind the construction before I start on the foreground. Just easier to reach that way and less chances of an oops.
Ulrich - the 15" trains look great. Big enough to sit in not on and small enough to deal with. I assume they are oil fired. The diesel hood looks big enough to stuff one of the Cat motors in. That would be fun! I'm impressed by the number of cars a "toy" can pull. That must have substantial weight when filled.
All for now - it's time to get back in the shop and be useful. Last few days have been unproductive shop wise as my right hand got all swollen from Arthur itis. Not always fun being older but still much better than the alternative. Ciao, J.R.
Last weekend
The night was cold! Only 9°C! Their is a scent of Autumn in the air! Too early for my taste!
Let´s leave the mainlines of Britain for the day and have a look at something different, yet still railway related!
The term "toy train" is either connected to our fellows "over there" with the CTT magazine, or, when talking about a real railroad, with the 2 ft. gauge Darjeeling Himalaya Railway in India. Yet Britain sports their own set of "toy trains"! These are 15" gauge railways like the one in the Vianna Prater park, or in Dresden and Stuttgart in Germany - miniature railways built to haul visitos through a park. In Britain, however, these are "real" railways, linking two towns. The certainly most famous one is the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent, which started as a "filthy rich man´s toy" back in 1927, became part of the war effort and national defense during WWII and now is a tourist magnet in a rather remote region of the Kentish coast. Another such line is the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in the Esk river valley, which we will vist today!
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a 15 in (381 mm) minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The 7 miles (11.3 km) line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Ravenglass railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line.
Intermediate stations and halts are at Muncaster Mill, Miteside, Murthwaite, Irton Road, The Green, Fisherground and Beckfoot. The railway is owned by a private company and supported by a preservation society. The oldest locomotive is River Irt, parts of which date from 1894, while the newest is the diesel-hydraulic Douglas Ferreira, built in 2005.
The line is known locally as La'al Ratty and its 3 ft (914 mm) gauge predecessor as Owd Ratty.
2240hrs here on the West Coast. Just spent the last hour lying out on the back lawn a couple of hundred feet from the house watching a great shooting star display. My old dog came out, had a pee and came and lay beside me with his head on my stomach. He didn't move until it was time to come in. It was a good night to spend with a best friend.
Night all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good evening all.
Ken - Sorry to hear you lost Sparkie. You have my condolences.
Thanks to all who did the same for me.
Brent - Glad that the kid is doing better now.
SteveO - I will have to look for some "good" photos of Max, but will share the "humorous" one tonight.
I think that you will get the humor, as you have posted some like it before.
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Now, a little background - I had just gotten the new fishing rod and reel, and was stringing the reel while sitting in the kitchen. Evidently, Max thought that the fishing line would make a great string toy, and came running over to play with the new "string".
I just could not resist taking the picture, and then sending it to my coworker at the time.
I did have to explain that, no lures or hooks were used in the making of this photo, so "no cats were harmed in the making of this picture". (Seems that my description of "I Caught a Cat(fish)" was received before the pic downloaded, and she had known I had just purchased a new fishing rod and reel that day, so she was a bit concerned at first.)
And yes, Max was a big cat. At his healthy weight he was 25-30 pounds, and as seen, he was not fat.
He was also one giant "cuddle-bug", and would often sleep with one of us in the family. Even the dog, Dozer, on occasion would have Max cuddled up with him. (I will have to post that picture off my computer. Tablet posting tonight.)
I think the only time I ever got mad at him was the night he brought me a mouse, at 2am.... and placed it in my hand, in bed.... while it was still alive. I was VERY unhappy with him! (After he recaught the mouse that morning, Max found himself locked out of my room the next couple of nights!)
Still loved him though. And I think he knew that. He was very well taken care of, and always given lots of loving attention. (Sometimes I would jokingly say that he was loved too much!)
Weather - Odd thunderstorm tonight.
I was watching it, under cover of a car-port, but outdoors, with some friends, when my one friend motioned me over to side he was on. (We were all waiting for the rain to let up so we could dash like mad to our cars and leave!) There was lightning that resembled chain links more than the traditional lightning shape, and lots of it, almost constant flashes, all around us. It was deluge style rain, wind, and hail. And the thunder roar was constant.
Yet, in the middle of all that, he said I "have to see this", as "this is nuts".
He pointed into the sky, and, in the middle of this (now warning issued) severe thunderstorm, as bad as it was, you could still see stars! I am not kidding! You could actually still see stars!
I only wish I had my good camera with me, as the pictures with that would have been something! (You could not see it with my cell phone camera, I tried.)
I had never been in the middle of that bad of a storm and still seen the stars!
With the almost constant lightning, you could see that there was this huge gap in the clouds, allowing the stars to show up. (When lightning was in that vicinity, they would disappear during the flash, but reappear immediately after.)
He was right. It was nuts.
About 20 miles past us, the hail went from penny sized, to golf ball sized. (Glad I wasn’t there!)
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the night!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
I liked the videos
Afternoon all, it is 1540hrs on the West Coast and another perfect day.
It has been a while since I have posted much as it has been busy around here for some reason. Both kids will be heading off to their respective Universities on Sept.1st. We will dump son at the airport for his flight to Ottawa@0700hrs and proceed directly to the ferry to take daughter to Victoria. Glad we have a P/U truck as she has a lot of stuff to take. She got a large private room in residence and obviously wants to make it feel homey.
Thanks for asking about the kids' recovery he is almost back to normal, lost 18 lbs in the process but is putting it back on in a hurry, all muscle. He had a tongue reduction as he could touch his nose with his tongue. This caused all sorts of problems such as sleep apnea and having his teeth constantly being pushed out of his mouth by having too much tongue. He has had to wear braces since he had his permanent teeth at a young age just to hold them in. Now at twenty he was old enough to have the surgery and will lose the braces. That was a lot of years of Orthodontic appointments, glad we didn't have to pay for them.
There must be something in the air around here as his large tongue was possibly the result of a long-dormant gene rearing from its slumber. When our neighbour was out in his driveway 16 years ago with his new daughter just 3 days old, I went over to see her and he said that she was born with something a little extra and proceeded to pull down her diaper revealing a tail. It was removed shortly after and you would never know it was ever there.
Funny story about the kids' braces, he was working on a show Legends Of Tomorrow and they had gone back to the old West in the 1800s. His braces were front and center on screen when they looked at the dailies. They had to remove them digitally from his mouth. Production got in big trouble for not catching it before shooting. It didn't happen again as they have ways of hiding them.
I am sorry to hear of the recent loses some have suffered it is never easy that's for sure. Being married to a Vet I have seen a lot of grief suffered by pet owners when I have accompanied my wife to help out. We have a herd of Golden Retrievers and one of them has been my special guy since we got him 13 years ago. In the last few months, he has gone from just following everywhere and just lying down beside me to cuddling up and putting his head on my lap just about every time. He will be 14 in December and I think he knows time is getting short.
My wife has themes for her litters as most go to show homes and that is how they can easily tell what litter they have come from. My old guy Scotty came from the Star Trek theme.
We have a litter of six right now and the theme name will be "Game Of Bones" After The Game Of Thrones series. One of the girls we are keeping will be called Arya.
Bear, loved the story about the plane, at first, I thought it was fiction, WOW is all I can say. It would make for a great movie. If the kid ever gets to that stage in the movie biz I'll suggest it.
The kid writes his last exam in a week and that should take a year off getting into Law school if he goes. He is on the Deans list at Carlton and can follow any dream he might have. With taking all these courses this Summer he did no movie work but was offered $20,000.00 to work as a low level producer on a Netflix horror movie. He had to turn it down, no time.
Have been enjoying the tour of the "old country" as my Grandma used to say. Every time she would use the term "old country" my Dad would say "which one?" The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
All the best to all.
BroadwayLionWe will have them over for a feast today.
I'm not sure I'd like that invitation. How do they know that they're not the feast?
BroadwayLionWe will have them over for a feast today. Nice Steaks too!
Hopefully you will let them have their steaks a little more well-done than the raw wildebeast things you eat.
The Benedictine sisters are moving from their long time Richardton Monastery to a new building in Dickinson. We will have them over for a feast today. Nice Steaks too!
Next Sunday we will visit their new house.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
York1 RideOnRoad I am in the middle of replacing a busted kitchen faucet. Three simple words -- I HATE PLUMBING! I don't understand this. What is wrong with lying on your back in a contorted position stuck halfway into a kitchen cabinet, working over your head and having all kinds of junk falling into your face, with your fingers stuck into a opening that is ½ inch wide?
RideOnRoad I am in the middle of replacing a busted kitchen faucet. Three simple words -- I HATE PLUMBING!
I don't understand this.
What is wrong with lying on your back in a contorted position stuck halfway into a kitchen cabinet, working over your head and having all kinds of junk falling into your face, with your fingers stuck into a opening that is ½ inch wide?
Our maintenence monks *could* do it, but these days we just call a plumber.
Aour maintenence monks are quite busy, so a lot of the constructional work is farmed out. It is cheaper than hiring a helper.