Good luck on your treatment, ed. hope all goes 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!
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.
Cheers, Ed
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
Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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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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.
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
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.
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
The rebuilt Diner Lounge 131:
NKP_DL131 by Edmund, on Flickr
NKP_129_dinerlounge by Edmund, on Flickr
Good morning!NKP Diner #127(Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum)
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
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
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.
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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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
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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!
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!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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 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.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
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
Good morning! NKP#757 - Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio
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!
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.
How about February the diner tags along on some 1940s and 1950s passenger trains?
Sounds good to me, I would be even happier to start at 1900.
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.