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Jeffreys Track Side Diner for March 2022

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 31, 2022 9:12 PM

Would it be appropriate to add Jim Wrinn to the RIP track?

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:43 PM

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:03 PM

This forum has had several notices on the death of editor Jim Wrinn.

This was emailed out to members of the UP Steam Club.  It was nice of UP Steam Club to notify their membership:

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:33 PM

York1
Oh, great!  Now I have to write eight checks instead of one.


I just paid the IRS using Bitcoin. So far so good, I haven't heard any complaints from them in two weeks!  Whistling

The Diner is on the move...

 Amtrak_SDP40f 563 by Edmund, on Flickr

 UP_All-play by Edmund, on Flickr

 BandO_4-24-66_service by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:14 PM

BroadwayLion
IRS will not accep a check for or over 100,000,000.00. So you will have to use two or more checks if you fall in this tax bracket.

 

Oh, great!  Now I have to write eight checks instead of one.  Each check costs 29¢.  Now I'm really wasting my money.

Who can I talk to about this?

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:11 PM

BroadwayLion
He was reading between the lions.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:22 PM

LION does not pay taxes. LION does not get paid.

But LION just read that youse other guys such as need to pay the IRS mone than one hundred million dollars must use more than one check.

IRS will not accep a check for or over 100,000,000.00. So you will have to use two or more checks if you fall in this tax bracket.

BTW.... I saw a guy reading on the steps of the New York Public Library...

He was reading between the lions.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:37 PM

SeeYou190

Florida Railroading:

United States Sugar Corporation.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

-Kevin

 

 

This is great!

We got one Florida post from a person who lives in Florida before the diner moves.

I'm happy this has all straightened out.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:34 PM

Florida Railroading:

United States Sugar Corporation.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:00 PM

TF, I also haven't had any issues with logging in, posting, photos, etc.

However, I'm not using a phone like you.  I use a laptop.

At least once a week, I use the Windows tool Disc Cleanup and System Cleanup.  It only takes a few seconds, and I think that doing that helps avoid some issues on a computer.   It clears everything out.  Of course, if you saved passwords in Windows, they are also gone.

I don't use Windows to save passwords.  I have a password program that I only need to remember one password, and then it provides passwords for any site I go to.  I love it.

Good luck with your phone issues.  I'm sure Lion is on the right track since he's up on all the computer systems.  

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 31, 2022 11:37 AM

Track fiddler
Lately my screen flutters and shifts to different frames when I'm trying to post making it awfully hard to do. When switching tabs to retrieve a picture, frequently everything in the prior tab flashes and disappears into Oblivion. I don't know, but it's getting rather difficult lately.

 

LION has no difugulities... ergo nothing to sea here!

Problem is that site is old and uses old teknowlegies that modern systems no longer support.

 Yeah, I have modernest system a round. go figger.

Problem is if theys go to gnu form hardware we loose all wes got and gott atart from over.

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:41 AM

Good morning.  Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please.

I had to walk in the field house this morning.  Like David's area, last night, it rained, then snowed.  The result was a lot of ice, so I decided not to try the trail this morning.  The sun is out, and the ice is beginning to melt.  I think the snow will all be gone by afternoon.

 

Goodbye to Florida!  I love the state and will miss it.

 

 

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Posted by DigitalGriffin on Thursday, March 31, 2022 9:40 AM

Now I want cherry pie Lion (And good morning btw)

You can have pie for breakfast right?  I mean it's healthy...fruit, grains, milk...

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Posted by Tin Can II on Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:54 AM

I like the thought of a stockyards themed April.  My layout will feature a Santa Fe branch that was built to haul livestock from rural Texas to Ft. Worth.  I have close to 30 Intermountain stock cars ready to go.

Lion:  Cherry pie is the best.

 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:15 AM

Well, Besides the 403's I get this site is getting awfully glitchy with my phone.  Perhaps a software compatibility issue caused by updates, I don't know.

Besides the occasional thread that's deleted I come to the site and can't find a thread I darn well know has to still be there.  Switching to a different mode and coming back to the site, there it is again.

Lately my screen flutters and shifts to different frames when I'm trying to post making it awfully hard to do.  When switching tabs to retrieve a picture, frequently everything in the prior tab flashes and disappears into Oblivion.

I don't know, but it's getting rather difficult lately.

 

P.S.  Cherry pie looks good.  The only Jam Judy buys is Smuckers Cherry preserves as I have something to do with that.

 

 

TF

 

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:35 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:32 AM

To the world you are someone.    To someone you are the world

I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought

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Posted by pav on Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:18 AM

David, is this the place you described? I am unable to copy and paste the actual google map picture, but this is the link.

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.4766935,-4.2265648,3a,75y,202.26h,93.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szADRHCbk4UWyIeHD6D1teQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Regards,

Eric P.

ps - Everone please enjoy breakfast on me before we hit the stockyards

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:56 AM

The picture you painted with words made the snowy river scene sound like really something to see David.  Images from a camera don't do any justice capturing those rare life experiences when everything gels.  When given one of those, one just has to live the momentSmile

 

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:47 AM

gmpullman

I like your idea, Dave, although I'll be perplexed as the very first stockyard I've ever seen was while on vacation (holiday) in 1966 when my dad and I traveled west to the Rio Grande narrow gauge country and spent a night in a little "motor cabin" just down the road from the Omaha Stock Yards.

 Omaha_Stockyard by Edmund, on Flickr

I see two of my favorite breeds there...

Filet and Mignon Dinner  (no offense to the vegans out there Embarrassed)

No worries, though, I'll post in both April AND May Diners.

 

 
Attuvian1
No doubt some of them will go waaay back.

 

Hey! I represent that comment!

You have my vote!

Cheers, Ed

 

 

Looks Good To Me!

 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:12 AM

Hi Dave.   The magic of Wintertime.

Snow has fallen overnight.   Store owners are clearing their part of the path outside as I walk down High Street in Inverness.

The bridge over the River Ness is ahead.  I do not cross.  Instead I turn left and walk.   The river on my right,  the castle to my left.

I stop and look at the river.  It is wide and shallow.  The sun shines.  Hundreds of small patches of snow  sail down the river.   A river of 'diamonds glinting in the morning sunlight'.

Magical!! 

 

David 

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:29 AM

NorthBrit
Stockyards in April.   Trains seen on vacation in May.   I go along with that.

Hi David,

Personally I'd much rather go on vacation in May rather than April. The weather in April is far too unpredictable for me to venture outside of my four walls and the train room.LaughLaugh

Cheers!!

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:05 AM

Good morning Diners.  It is snowing.    A large coffee to go with a bowl of porridge please,  Brunhilda.

Stockyards in April.   Trains seen on vacation in May.   I go along with that.

Friends visiting today.  (Yes we have some.Smile)  Therefore I shall be playing teaboy

 

Thoughts and Peace to All who Require.

 

David

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:02 AM

John and Ed,

Thanks for your input!

I have never personally been to a stock yard, or even a cattle ranch for that matter. The sheer logistics of keeping them all fed and watered boggles my mind. That also applies to the task of cleaning up their prodigious output!Ick! 

Cheers!!

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 31, 2022 2:25 AM

I like your idea, Dave, although I'll be perplexed as the very first stockyard I've ever seen was while on vacation (holiday) in 1966 when my dad and I traveled west to the Rio Grande narrow gauge country and spent a night in a little "motor cabin" just down the road from the Omaha Stock Yards.

 Omaha_Stockyard by Edmund, on Flickr

I see two of my favorite breeds there...

Filet and Mignon Dinner  (no offense to the vegans out there Embarrassed)

No worries, though, I'll post in both April AND May Diners.

Attuvian1
No doubt some of them will go waaay back.

Hey! I represent that comment!

You have my vote!

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 1:54 AM

hon30critter

I eagerly await your responses.

Cheers!!

Dave

 
Well, Dave, it looks like your first eager response took two hours.  Must have been a hard day for the troops and they all went to bed early. Sleep
 
I think incorporating both ideas over the next two months is great.  I will also give some of the guys the necessary lead time to locate (and perhaps reformat) some of their old vacation photos.  No doubt some of them will go waaay back.
 
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Posted by hon30critter on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 11:57 PM

Good morning everyone!

Further to the debate about where the Diner should be located for April, if my count is correct, we have a total of eight votes, three for holiday trains and five for stockyards. Therefore, given that they are both good suggestions, I propose that we use them both. We can do the stockyards in the month of April (seems fitting for April 1st), and then we can go on the holiday trains in May. How does that sound?

I eagerly await your responses.

Cheers!!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 8:54 PM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

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Posted by moelarrycurly4 on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:53 PM

Man my weather radio is going crazy right now. 

Lots of severe stuff around. 

 

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