Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
An icy good morning.
My trip to the university field house this morning was exciting. I slid right through the first stop sign I came to. A layer of ice on the roads makes for nerve-wracking driving.
I understand the last Kansas City Chiefs' game had double the number of viewers that the first controversial 'streamed' game had. I realize the NFL made a ton of money on the streaming, but they sure had a lot more people watching when it was on network TV. Maybe the NFL could take their faithful viewers into account next time they are offered a streaming game. I won't hold my breath. Money talks.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Ecuador:
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."
Good afternoon Diners. A large whisky wth no ice please, Brunhilda.
Another visit to the Medical Centre for a thorough check-up. Same result as the others previous. Heartbeat bouncing all over the place. Missing a beat or three every other.
Advice: Take things easy, or else.
I have had the same 'advice' since I was born. Only then I was given a month to live. Well, it has been 'a long month' and as far as I am concerned there is many a day left. One day the doctors' will be right, BUT NOT YET.
Other news. Dawn is much better, (which makes me feel good).
Depending what is read or said, here in Europe some countries are preparing for war against Russia. Dawn says the news says 'We haven't to travel far in case of trouble'.
Oh well. If we are to be 'blown to bits' why take it easy?
I am off up to the train room.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good morning from the soggy West Coast. Alexa says the rain will stop in about 90 minutes, so I will be out the door with a mutt then.
It is my Birthday on Monday so the wife bought a roast lamb for six of us to enjoy on Saturday night. That number is now up to fourteen so she has to go buy a second lamb. I wish I could get past a birthday quietly sometimes. It's not so bad though, as people either come with bottles of booze or gift certificates to the train store.
My FIL was brilliant in his chosen lifelong career, however outside of that, dysfunctional best describes the way he lives. He has apparently lost his retirement savings through mismanagement and scams which was up in the $700,000.00 range. he also went way into debt along the way. He is of quite sound mind (such as that is) so no intervention is possible. My BIL managed to talk him out of another bad investment at the last moment, however we don't think he will have the money from his reverse mortgage long as he took a lump sum instead of a monthly payment. He has booked an 8-month around-the-world cruise but is going to Thailand first. My son tried to convince him that the beautiful (facebook) babe he is in love with is a 100% AI-generated creature. He won't believe that either.
The only saving grace is that the government-run (subsidized) senior's homes are quite nice. So when he has lost his last dime he will still be OK.
David, if the world does blow itself to bits, where we are it will be a slow demise from radiation poisoning and starvation. Maybe we should move back to the big city so as not to suffer. I have lived long enough that I am not losing any sleep over my end but my kids still have a lot of living to do.
Being down in New Zealand, Bear will be the last to shut down his layout, so on that note.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Vitamin D by Bear, on Flickr
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning!4-6-4 170 with Buffalo–Chicago train 5, the Nickel Plate Limited, at Englewood Union Station, 1936.D. W. Yungmeyer
Good morning Diners. A large coffee please Zoe. Rather quiet I must say.
It is Burns Night tonight.
All invited. Wear your tartan.
Haggis, Neeps 'n' Tatties
Bagpipes a'playing.
Whisky flowing
7pm for 7.30pm
Plenty of room to stay the night. Run a few trains tomorrow.
Good morning. Another icy morning -- just right for a big bacon, eggs, and coffee breakfast. Flo, bring a pot of coffee and leave it at the table.
I finally got started yesterday on the layout street that will run with the streetcar line. I'm making the street out of styrene, which may be a mistake, but it seems to be going OK. The only issue I have is on corners. The streetcar needs to have a minimum radius curve, and the streets will not be wide enough to have the track make a 90° turn and stay on the street. I'm not sure how I will handle it today, but whatever. I've made other non-prototypical things on the layout, so this will probably be the same.
We have an appointment Monday with the surgeon to talk about my wife's biopsy results. We are hoping it's good news. We have both been blessed to have such good health for over 70 years.
I hope we can hear from some of our missing diner friends. The waitresses are getting cranky with the reduced number of tips they're getting.
Have a great Thursday (or Friday).
Guatemala is in the tropics, even though the photo looks like it could have been taken just about anywhere.
Ferrocarriles de Guatemala by John West, on Flickr
It's another soggy day on the West Coast which is fine as it builds the snowpack up and gives us plenty of water of the highest quality for about $60.00ca a year.
The wife was gone when I woke up, there was a badly injured dog that came in at the Animal Emergency Hospital, and the attending Dr. had messaged my wife for an opinion. Even though my wife is supposed to be retired, she hopped in the car at 0400hrs and was off to have a look-see in person. When she was working, I would often wake up to find her gone. She would go into the hospital in the middle of the night just to check on a patient and then come back home. Then there were the times the phone would ring and I would get a punch in the arm with a "let's go". I learned how to be an anesthesiologist on the fly if time was of the essence. A badly injured police dog would have the wife working on one end and she would be telling me what to do on the other. Meanwhile, the police officers would be basket cases out in the waiting room.
We have a busy day ahead once the boss gets home so better get at it.
Since moving to Kansas, we have been following the Chiefs. But not enough to sign up for Peacock. The game was carried on a local radio station, so I listened on the radio, something I like to do. I grew up listening to football games on the radio with my dad on Saturday afternoons, puttering around in our garage. Except now I can putter around in the basement.
John: Hope your wife's results are good.
Good Afternoon,
Another balmy day here, about 30F and may hit 40 by Monday.
John, hope you get good news on Monday.
Nothing much new here. The results of my physical are in and all is good.
Need to buy a new printer as the old one won't work with windows 10. I finally fired up the old laptop that we had repaired last summer. It works great and they did get all of the photos successfully tranfered to the new hard drive,, all in order too. There are thousands of photos on it from our trips and also of birds in the backyard.
Maybe I should fire up a loco. The Consolidation hasn't been run for many months so I think the hostler better get busy.
CN Charlie
Hi everyone!
It's getting time to move the Diner again! I can't believe how fast January has gone by. I'm not complaining mind you. The sooner we get to Spring, the better AFAIC.
I can't remember if there were any suggestions last month about where to move the Diner in February. Any ideas?
Please feel free to move the Diner if you want to. If nobody speaks up, I will move it to wherever.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
My first train trip was in the 1950s -- I spent two days and nights on a UP "City" train. I've loved trains ever since.
How about February the diner tags along on some 1940s and 1950s passenger trains?
York1 My first train trip was in the 1950s -- I spend two days and nights on a UP "City" train. I've loved trains ever since. How about February the diner tags along on some 1940s and 1950s passenger trains?
My first train trip was in the 1950s -- I spend two days and nights on a UP "City" train. I've loved trains ever since.
Attuvian1 York1 My first train trip was in the 1950s -- I spend two days and nights on a UP "City" train. I've loved trains ever since. How about February the diner tags along on some 1940s and 1950s passenger trains? Great idea!
Sounds good to me, I would be even happier to start at 1900.
Good morning! NKP#757 - Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio
Good Morning Diners. *cough* Flo, a *cough* coffee please.
Remember me mentioning my family got me sick? Boy did they ever. What a miserable week. I was supposed to travel for work starting Monday, but that got screwed up and once my boss found out I was sick he agreed I should stay home. I left work at noon on Monday, crashed onto the couch, and stayed there until yesterday morning. I would have been useless at the training I was supposed to go to and probably would have just ended up staying in the hotel the entire time.
Praying all diners and their significant others with health concerns are doing fine and will be okay. Please provide updates as many here are thinking about you.
Tin Can IInot enough to sign up for Peacock. The game was carried on a local radio station, so I listened on the radio
Mike
Good afternoon Diners. Flo. A large coffee please.
Mike. It's the way of the world these days. (Sad).
It was good to see our daughter last night as she headed home. She works hard and is seen all around the U.K..I wish I could say the same about our DiL. Dawn is becoming furious with her. Only ringing us when wanting something (generally money. Taking it and no thanks whatsoever). Dawn is so angry. "I only give her the money for the grandchildren," she says.Anyway. A long story short, Dawn is having a new will written cutting Son & DiL out. "They have had enough from us," says Dawn.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, Brunhilda.
I have a men's group meet each Friday morning. The streets were not slick until I turned a corner onto the highway. I just about ended up where I didn't want to go.
The good part of the morning -- the university track team was practicing in the field house at 5:30 a.m., so I had some entertainment while I walked. I also got to listen to music I never otherwise hear -- they really blast it in the field house while the track team works out. This is just a small Christian university in our town, but they have some athletic facilities that rival a larger university, including the field house.
More road building on the layout today. The part I've finished looks a little too wide, so today I'll narrow the road up a little. If I didn't have a model railroad, I'm afraid I'd spend these winter days in retirement sitting and watching TV.
The NFL! I pay for cable TV. I also pay for a sports tier that includes the NFL channel. Then I endure one hour of commercials per game. Then the clowns want me to pony up more money to watch a single game. Someone thought I was dumb for protesting since it was only $6.00 and I could cancel the Peacock network after the game. I won't argue about the dumb part (I am), but to me it's the principle of the thing. I didn't want my TV to count in their ratings.
David, that's too bad about your son's family. Family issues like that are hard to take for people our age. Good luck.
Have a great Friday, everyone!
Guyana sugar plantation train:
Old sugar plantation train by David Tharby, on Flickr
Good morning all, it is another soggy day out West but it will warm up to 12c today which means not so many layers on my scoot through the woodland.
The last time I was sick was in February 2020 when the wife and I came home from Las Vegas through Washington State which was ground zero for COVID in the U.S. We both ended up quite sick with respiratory infections (probably COVID). It was shortly after that the world was officially on fire.
Changing/re-writing Wills has always given me a chuckle. I am and/or have been an Executor for a few friends, acquaintances, and family, and every once in a while, someone gets mad at someone, and the Will gets changed. I was Executor for one lady for 30+ years and she changed her Will several times over the years. When she died people started coming out of the woodwork insisting they were named in her Will (some of whom were in the Will at one time) and demanded to see it. I told them to take a hike as they were not named in the Will and the Beneficiary was none of their business. They said they would hire a lawyer and I told them to go right ahead, however, if they cost the Estate so much as a dime they would be getting a bill for that. Little did they know that once the Will has gone through Probate it is available to the public to view, but I never tell them that.
We are going to a big Farm show today. We got free tickets so thought why not. I want to see all the heavy farm machinery that's worth millions. At first, the wife and I thought, why would we want to go to a farm show? Then we thought why not? The wife has degrees in Agriculture, genetics, and animal nutrition as well as being a Veterinary Surgeon so she decided it might be interesting. Besides it is pouring rain.
The interior of B.C. has a very arid/desert region, CP on one side of the Thompson and CN on the other.
Photo by Mike Dannerman.
Hoping for positive progress on the health fronts for all those in the battle.
To the Farm Show!
I'm new here, so I don't know how things work, but I don't have the button to make a post. Hope things get fixed soon!
Welcome aboard!
Tell us about what you're modeling, your scale, era and the like.
We have a thing here called "moderation" which delays your first few posts. It's well-intentioned, a system to keep random clowns from bothering us with stuff about extended car warrantees and the like. Keep posting. They get over it.
I like HO trains in the late Transition Era, mostly, but sometimes I go back to the 1930s for the steamers, old vehicles and old rolling stock. I just realized I'll have to include the prefix 19- pretty soon. Dang I'm old. But model railroading keeps me young.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Another Saturday morning. I used to love Saturday mornings. Now every day is Saturday. Retirement is great!
Flo, I'll have eggs, bacon, and coffee, please. Then I'll have more bacon for dessert.
If my doctor ever tells me I need to quit eating bacon, I'll quit seeing that doctor.
I tried to walk the dog this morning, but it's still too icy. It'll be above freezing this afternoon, so I should be able to wear out the dog a little.
Work on the layout road is slow. I got some done, but didn't like the way it looked, so I changed it a little.
Welcome to the diner, JSmith1999. I hope we can hear about you and your interest in trains.
I'll finish this posting today reminding everyone that this is Thomas Crapper Day, remembering his work in improving toilets! He didn't invent them, but he sure made them better.
Peru:
Peru by Paul Haywood, on Flickr
JSmith1999I don't have the button to make a post. Hope things get fixed soon!
Hi JSmith1999,
Welcome to the forums!!
Do you see the 'Reply' button on the bottom right of each post? Try clicking on that.
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One last tropical railroading video from me. Not much evidence of track maintenance! In the first few seconds you can see the locomotive cutting its own tracks through a freshly paved road.
hon30critterIn the first few seconds you can see the locomotive cutting its own tracks through a freshly paved road.
R4434. Class 25s at Britsville. 4th September,1972. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr
Ivory Coast Railways - 2-6-6-2 articulated locomotive "Golwé" (Haine-Saint-Pierre) by Historical Railway Images, on Flickr
Transgabonnais GP40 at Lope by Bernard, on Flickr