Evening Dinners
Flo, Ed and I will have a please and give Ed anything he wants to eat! Two days is a row Ed you dinner devil! Happy Hallowen.
Work Front Some how I may have eeked out a fair month? If I did the math right I broke draw! (means I get something over base pay) While it nothing to get happy over, it has been some time I have made ture commission. Spiffs money the total sales amout for the month does not come into play.
Home Paper Work. Spent about two hours scanning pay stubs and entering the amouts on a spread sheet. I hate doing it and I was behinde 2 and a half months. Had to do it to re-claim my desk / work bench. Sometimes I am amazed how much junk winds up on my desk at home.
Ed Thanks for your help in the DCC section. Far as BBQ, I talk more in depth later, but I just might send you a bottle of the Magic Sauce.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning and Happy Monnday, Diners!
Brunhilda, dear— I'd like to start off with one of your special, spicy bloody marys please... yes, of course the hundred-proof Absolut and a twist of lime.
Then, I'll go for a nice mushroom, swiss and spinach three-egg omelette. Wheat toast, please.
cudakenFar as BBQ, I talk more in depth later, but I just might send you a bottle of the Magic Sauce.
Hey, Ken...
That sounds like a pretty tempting offer!
Now, I have to tell you I'm not much of a fan of those sweet-sticky type sauces (Sweet Baby Ray's ) when I have to use commercial bottled stuff I like Stubb's Original:
http://www.stubbsbbq.com/
Here's a Union Pacific recipe for their own BBQ sauce. Being based in Omaha they must have a little background with meat? And who can argue with a recipe calling for a half-pound of butter?
On the railroad front, I installed a new B&O style color position signal on the DeForest Secondary. Photos tomorrow...
I hope you all have a safe and prosperous day! My prayers and best wishes for all who are in need...
Regards, Ed
Good morning ... Coffee and a donut, please.
I'm happy the Cubs won yesterday. I wonder if they can win twice in Cleveland.
Ed .... The old dining car recipes are interesting. I have tried cooking with recipes from the book, "Dinner in the Diner". Of course, some are enough to feed way too many people, and proprtional adjustmnts are needed.
Who recalls football specials on their favorite railroads ? Often, older equipment was used for those trains.
Here is photo of the rear of a Burlington football special.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
cudaken Daughter Front My mature (43 years old) leveled headed daughter had most of her hair cut off. Top is dyed brown and the bottom Blue? I just don't get it...
Daughter Front My mature (43 years old) leveled headed daughter had most of her hair cut off. Top is dyed brown and the bottom Blue? I just don't get it...
That sounds like one bad ombré.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning diners,
Steven Otte cudaken Daughter Front My mature (43 years old) leveled headed daughter had most of her hair cut off. Top is dyed brown and the bottom Blue? I just don't get it... That sounds like one bad ombré.
She probably did it to look young.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Thanks Ed for the information, I'll try look for one.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good morning Diners: A large mug of Ray's Special coffee, black SVP. Haven't been around 'cause I've been "WOTRR" - and have now wired in all the powered turnouts, sorted a number of track issues (would you believe missing rail joiners exiting turnouts? Joiners not joined raising one rail above the next? - elementary mistakes which I, in my pride thought were things of the past ) Anyway, I've run a train or two - found just how much higher my tunnel portals have to be to allow double stack container traffic - and have only three or maybe four more turnouts to adapt to DCC friendliness. Maybe those surgeries can be booked today. The storage cabinets have been returned to their places under the layout from in front of the ETS unit for the basement in time for the heating season (haven't had to use that yet....) All of which labour is pretty much invisible when one looks at the layout.
All of which to say that before too long I hope to be starting the scenery. If the view-block hills are effective, I’ll probably find out that I can’t actually complete the switching moves at my industries quite as easily as I thought. We shall see!
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hey !.... where is everybody? ... The Diner had some excellent spaghetti with meatballs for dinner. The sauce was outstanding. You guys missed out.
Der John ... Your layout is coming together very nicely.
Have a nice evening ...
BOO
Hum, wonder what scared the diners off? Kind of creppy if you ask me.
Zombie Flo Ed and I will have a please.
Der that is a great looking train layout! I wish my looked as good.
Ed If you need another paper weight I have a E-7 with sound you can have!
Work Front It was Dead sort of. Only 2 customers but one did buy. I am 96% sure I broke draw and made real commission! If Larry (fellow Manger) and I am correct I made a whole $75.00 over my base! Yeap!
No Zombie Flo You cannot eat my brain, you get food poisoning.
Later Ken
Flo, could I get a half a club sandwhich and a bowl of borscht/borshch (depending on your ethnicity. I have both German and Ukrainian so I can do it wither way.)
Hobby Front: As I had hoped, I finally got the new engine house done (even with having to help Mom take the pop cans to the recycling center). As usual, here are the pics:
The colors are as follows: The walls and gutters are Apple Barrell Lite Mocha. The windows, doors and awning supports are Scalecoat II NP Dark Green with Polly Scale Flat Finish (as Scalecoat is a gloss finish) and the roofs and awnings are Humbrol Polished Steel Metalcote. I had to get the Lacquer Thinner out to use the Scalecoat and the Humbrol. I dislike using those types of color as the thinner has quite the smell. But given that the NP Green is one of the main colors for the tourist road, I have to use it if I am painting buildings for it.
Steven:
Steven Ottebad ombré.
That wasn't a Donald Trump quote was it? We're not getting political here are we?!?
Dave
P.S.
I won't be offended if you decide to delete this post.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
FRRY ... your building looks outstanding!
FRRYKid:
Nice job on the engine house. Did you build it from Walthers Modulars or did it come as a kit?
That was built from the Walthers Modulars parts with a completely kitbashed front. It was designed "on the fly" to fit the 2-6-0 steamers that the tourist railroad uses. Parts of the building made up to 3 trips out to the layout to get everything right. The rain gutters are 1.5 mm styrene square rod bent and shaped as needed. The track seen in the image of the front is a hybrid track setup. The track is a piece of Atlas Code 83 rail with concrete ties. The length of track was cut to fit to join with the last sectional piece of track on the track coming into the engine house with transitional joiners. I also had to rearrange the track plan a little bit in order to get the insulators and power feeds in the right place. (The house lead comes off a reverse loop section. I ended up changing a 9' section into a 6" and a 3".) The concrete ties outside the building were removed and the ties from a spare piece of code 100 flex track were used to match the rest of the track on the layout.