Good morning!NKP Diner #127(Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum)
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
The rebuilt Diner Lounge 131:
NKP_DL131 by Edmund, on Flickr
NKP_129_dinerlounge by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Good morning, diners. Just coffee this morning.
Dave, since I'm building a layout road along with my streetcar line, I'm glad you posted that video. I had no idea I could just put in the road and let the streetcar makes its own tracks across the road. I might have to add some lead weights to the streetcar first.
Have a great Sunday!
Thailand -- I hope the engineer warns the people crossing the bridge:
Thailand-Burma railway by wolf4max, on Flickr
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."
York1Dave, since I'm building a layout road along with my streetcar line, I'm glad you posted that video. I had no idea I could just put in the road and let the streetcar makes its own tracks across the road. I might have to add some lead weights to the streetcar first.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
It is a real dragon, just not the same a the one that chased Harry Potter.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
We are back to square one with our son and DIL's kitchen. We have ceased dealing with the contractors who wanted $120,000 to do the 180 sq. ft. kitchen, and Cole and Kaitlin have decided to put the project off for the foreseeable future. What we hoped would be a huge addition to their home comfort turned into a very stressful experience.
I have to give Kaitlin some recognition for her part in closing out the contract. When we told the contractors that we would no longer be dealing with them, they sent us a $3200.00 invoice for work that they had completed but we had not authorized. Kaitlin is a Chartered Accountant and she put her knowledge to good use by pointing out the fact that the contractors had moved ahead without our permission. The final bill was about $600.00 which we did owe for previous work. I couldn't have handled the negotiations nearly as professionally as she did.
Nice looking car Ed!
Is that diner kitbashed?
I've started the new year with a Flickr account, now I'm trying to figure out how to upload train photos from my phone to my computer.
It's still being set up, so nothing is public yet.
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Good morning!
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, toast and orange juice please.
Not much news from my end of the woods. We pretty much spent the weekend just trying to get healthy. Whole lot of not doing much. With the lame excuse for winter weather again, I did spend a fair amount of time this weekend thinking about house projects for warmer weather. Much that needs doing, but not much I'm looking forward to. Oh well.
Cheers!
Mike
ATSFGuyNice looking car Ed! Is that diner kitbashed?
Thanks! It is a product, or import I should say, of the NKP Car Co. There were several variations and the one I painted up Nickel Plate is closer to the ERIE counterpart but for my needs it is 'close enough'.
EL_DinerLounge by Edmund, on Flickr
NKP_dinerA by Edmund, on Flickr
https://www.brasstrains.com/BrassGuide/Pdg/Detail/43794/HO-Passenger-Nickel-Plate-Products-Erie-Railroad-COACH-DINER-SET
Yippee! Today I start my radiation therapy for prostate cancer. THIRTY EIGHT consecutive visits (off weekends) I'll get to know the staff pretty well.
MisterBeasley 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.
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.
Well, yes, hello! I am attempting to model a freelance short line in either the foothills of the ozarks or the appilachians, haven't decided quite yet. It's set somewhere between the 20s and 40s, with older built, modernized 2nd hand equipment. I'm currently taking a shot at superdetailing a bachmann mogul that I installed a decoder in a while back. First time I've ever truly done it, fingers crossed.
making a good layout in the space I have is frustrating, but I'll make it work.
as for my breakfast, I had a light one, powdered doghnut and coffee.
have a day!
Good luck on your treatment, ed. hope all goes well!
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, please.
Ed, I'll be saying a prayer and thinking of you today. I hope the side effects are not bad, and that this will take care of any future problems. A good thing is that temporarily suffering now will give many more years of health.
Even though we still have some deep snow, the trail along the creek is now clear enough for me to walk the dog there. I call it 'walking' the dog. It's more take ten steps, stop and smell, take ten steps, stop and smell, ... Going two miles should take me about 35 minutes. Instead, we are out there for much longer.
Since I hate the 49ers (hate might be too mild of a word), and since I really like the Chiefs, this Super Bowl will be a fun one for me. I have disliked the 49ers ever since the 70s and 80s when the Saints were in the same division as San Francisco. That was back in my paper grocery bag Ain'ts mask days. (This photo isn't me. One thing I've regretted is that I've never been to a game in Green Bay.)
The worst part of the Super Bowl for me will be the halftime show. Many people watch the Super Bowl just to see the halftime show. I leave the room when it comes on.
I hope everyone has a good Monday. If you have to go to work on Monday ...
Not sure what is going on in the picture from Vietnam:
Woman on the railway by IDwan, on Flickr
I used to be an avid football fan, but no longer. I think the "expansion" craze has created too many teams, while the "concussion" craze has made more kids and their parents realize that this is a dangerous sport, and they have their kids indulge in safer activities.
My daughter's high school boyfriend was a linebacker. He did not play football in college. He said he noticed after high school how much clearer his thinking was when he stopped bashing his head all fall. Good enough reason for me.
As a fan, the Superbowl halftime was the time to leave the living room to eat food in the kitchen or go outside and grill, even in Massachusetts in January. I noticed in pre-game hoopla that both conference playoff games had halftime noise for non football fans this year. That's an annoying feature that I hope they won't repeat. Who needs games that are 15 minutes longer because they're filled with commercials and noise?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
*waves quietly from the corner*Long time no see all.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
DigitalGriffin *waves quietly from the corner*Long time no see all.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain DigitalGriffin *waves quietly from the corner*Long time no see all. Don, you have been missed. Rich
Don, you have been missed.
Thanks Rich.
Being a chief engineer, and having two sons in scouts can keep a man busy. That said, my youngest is a Amtrak & MRR nut. So I can take him to club with me now he's 11.How are the passenger ops going?
Thanks, John!
I have never watched a Super Bowl game and couldn't name any team who played or who won what or how many rings a certain player might have in his dresser.
I DID watch one halftime show once when it was Paul McCartney. When was that? A while back. The only thing I know about Cleveland football is that there was some guy named Bernie Kosar who was supposed to be something special, I guess, and that they tore down a good stadium on Cleveland's lakefront and built one just like it in the same place for about $300 million (across from the Amtrak station) and it is used eight times a year or thereabouts. It had to be remodeled again a few years after it was built.
I actually attended one Browns game on a cold, snowy day back in 1970 or so. Must have been fun since I can still remember it. Seemed like it was a minute or two of pandemonium, then about ten minutes of idle time while all the players shuffeled around for a while. Maybe I'm missing something?
Old:
Old Muni Stadium by Thom Sheridan, on Flickr
That low, flat building in the foreground is the Amtrak station. I guess they tore down the old Municipal Stadium because the toilets didn't flush properly?
New:
browns special 051 by Todd Dillon, on Flickr
Probably won't be watching this year's Super Bowl, but — who knows?
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
I plan on watching the Super Bowl this year. The Chiefs are in it. We'll be going to my son's house for the game. He has this big screen TV, and of course the food and the commeradery. This year we'll stay for the whole game. Last time we left at the half. Oddly enough, I don't have a Chiefs jersey, but no matter. Looking forward to it. Should be a good one.
Ed: that's an interesting picture of the old Memorial Stadium in Cleveland. If memory serves, I think that back in the 50s and 60s that stadium had a seating capacity of 77000. The only reason I remember that was because it was the highest capacity in the majors, if the numbers were correct.
i remember there was a Browns playoff game one year and it was -2F that day. Here I was in LA in a T-shirt and it was about 80 degrees. Kind of surreal.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Here is a four track railway in the tropics with BIG ditches between each pair of tracks and some pretty phenomenal grades too!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Morning Diners. Chloe, coffee and toast please.
All of this talk from you guys of not watching the Super Bowl, might as well be speaking Greek. I for one still feel like Super Bowl Sunday (and probably half of the next day) should be a national holiday! In years past, we would make a whole day out of it. We would get together with family several hours before the big game to play board games and eat junk food. Then watch the big game while playing Super Bowl bingo (with prizes!) and eating more junk food. While we have since cut back to just watching the game, with at most watching squares for prizes, we still have a lot of fun.
Bear, I recently heard about just how big of a problem the Red Sea shenanigans were causing with everything worldwide. I had not heard about issues with the Panama Canal yet. That's no good.
A hearty "Hello!" to DigitalGriffin and JSmith1999! Good to have you back Don. JSmith, sounds like a neat layout!
Sri Lanka. Look at that trackwork!
Good morning, everyone.
In 1975, the Super Bowl IX was played in New Orleans. It was supposed to be in the new Superdome, but the dome was not yet finished, so they played at Tulane Stadium.
A friend at church asked if I wanted to go. He said we could get tickets outside the stadium. It was cold and had rained, so dumb me, I said no, I'd rather stay home. That would have been my only chance to get into the game. As it was, he had no problem getting tickets. By game time, they were going very cheaply outside the stadium. The tickets were officially $20, but by game time they were just a couple of dollars.
Over the years since, tickets have become impossible for most people to ever consider going. Two days ago, the cheapest tickets were $6,300 and that was for the poorest seats.
JaBearI’m afraid I just don’t get American Football, over three hours to play a game that is supposed to take an hour??!!!
If it were any shorter, we couldn't be subjected to the stupid, inane TV commercials. Of course, we wouldn't be able to afford watching if there weren't commercials!
On the layout front, I'm having difficulties. When I originally started adding a streetcar line, I had in mind exactly how it would look and operate. I have been disappointed with things, and I keep changing the setup. There needs to come a point when I just accept what I've done and go on. I can't keep moving things and redoing trackwork -- I'm too old and don't want the layout to be in this condition when the family gathers in our house after my funeral.
On the health front, my wife's doctor had good news. While the biopsies were not necessarily good, they weren't bad, either. It means that there will be more checkups and tests in the future to catch the expected problems. We both felt much better coming home from the hospital yesterday.
Every day is a blessing.
I hope everyone has a good day today.
Thailand:
GE 4026 at Bua Yai by Kittitat Keeratinijakan, on Flickr
At the market beside the railway, Bangkok by antony5112, on Flickr
Bangkok2018-135 by Eric Burlingame, on Flickr
FILE0220.EXIF by Lisa Ayla, on Flickr
Good morning from the damp West Coast where it should be 14c today. Two more degrees and it will be T-shirt weather.
Had to take the wife to Vancouver for medical apps yesterday and have to go back on Thursday. I had to jump in and help out for my Birthday dinner on Saturday as she was struggling, but we gott'er done and all 14 had a good time.
I love all sports but limit myself to watching hockey. I see people that spend their life on the couch and while watching amazing athletes do their thing in any sport, there is a lot more to experience in life than the couch.
Welcome LSmith1999 and welcome back Don, it is good to see the diner filling up again.
Bear, I think one needs a certain demeanor to be in logistics. It was my bag for some 36 years with the Feds and while I never get stressed in the least about things I cannot control I saw a few have breakdowns over the pressure(s) I have a million stories. I was a guy who wore coveralls and a parka or rain gear and drove around in a Government truck but often spoke directly to Government Ministers, Military officials from the top down, and Diplomats of all our allies. Someone needed something somewhere I was usually involved. Like I said, lots of stories.
Ed, I hope your treatments are as quick and easy as my sister had recently for breast cancer. She said she was in and out of the chair in a very short time, each time she went and had no ill effects, so here is hoping you also have an easy go of it.
They gave my sister the three closest facilities that did the radiation treatment two in Canada and one in the U.S. The U.S. one was the closest so she went there and was happy with the outcome.
Well, Alexa just said it will start raining at high noon and she is always spot on, so I had better hit the trail now.
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."
I forgot. Happy Birthday Brent!!
Water Level Route I forgot. Happy Birthday Brent!!
WOW!
Thanks Mike!
Let me just admire that for a while and then we can all have a piece.
I have three suits in the closet, two of which have only been worn once, I was ordered to get a new one for my son's wedding in May. I was told to go to the place where all the wedding suits were coming from, get measured, and wait for it to arrive. I followed orders. About ten days later it shows up and it is so small it is hilarious. The arms of the jacket just go past my elbows, the pants are at least 4" too small in the waist, and the custom shirt I can't even do up. Back to Vancouver tomorrow. GRRRRRRR!
Happy Birthday, Batman!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!