SeeYou190Our local birdies ignore our feeder all the time. They prefer to walk the lawn after a rain and eat stuff down there. I am thinking there must be all kinds of yummy bugs, grubs, and worms there for them, and bird seed is less appealing
You gotta keep things cleaned up else they will not come back.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Lion got the top, but I will buy the drinks.
New Belgium Trippel on a Thursday afternoon!
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Enjoy!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Track fiddlerthis popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone
OMG, the medications have turned him into a hippie.
SeeYou190Lion got the top, but I will buy the drinks. New Belgium Trippel on a Thursday afternoon!
LIONS do not drink beer... Does anybody have a nice Diet Dr. Pepper???
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good Afternoon,
Kevin, birds that eat insects as a rule, don't eat seeds and seed eaters don't eat bugs.
Dave, we use feeders with trays on the bottom for niger but the sunflower feeders are Squirrel Busters and you can't use those trays.
Picked up more Bird Seed! What a surprise. We now have 130lbs.on hand. Went through about 10lbs. today so far.
Nothing new here.
CN Charlie
BroadwayLionDoes anybody have a nice Diet Dr. Pepper???
Be a Pepper, too!
Pepper Time by Edmund, on Flickr
In my area black oil sunflower seed is 63¢ a pound. I get it with the hull. There are lots of ground feeders, especially mourning doves that like to pick through it, plus the chickens scratch around in it. Once a month or so I bring the tractor 'round and scoop up the spent hulls and add it to the compost pile.
Yesterday I had a bluebird, an American Goldfinch and a bright red Cardinal all sitting next to each other. They were gone by the time I got the camera ready, of course.
Glad you had fun with my Ed Toon, Bear
Peaceful day here, today. Will be near 80°F here on Sunday then high of 40°F on Monday.
I hope all are well...
Cheers, Ed
Anyone care to guess where I just dropped the wife off at?
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
DigitalGriffinAnyone care to guess
The 4859 looks a little dusty!
GG1_4859-Harrisburg_11-11-87 by Edmund, on Flickr
Long live the great Pennsylvania!
gmpullmanPeaceful day here, today. Will be near 80°F here on Sunday
Yes and we on the otter hand (otters always have two hands) are expecketating big snowy blizzard.
The Wizard conjured a blizard from the gissard of a liserd.
BrassTrainsDotCom listed this NEW YORK CENTRAL consolidation today. I was almost ready to buy it, then I noticed it is missing both ladders from the pilot to the walkways.
Nothing mentioned about missing pieces in the grading.
I assume NYC locomotives were supposed to have these.
maxman Track fiddler this popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone OMG, the medications have turned him into a hippie.
Track fiddler this popping pills, sleeping on the couch and farting around on my phone
Long day.
We bought our house 30 years ago, and it was about ten years old at that time. A six foot tall cedar fence had been put in -- I assume when the house was built.
Last week, some wind broke one of the 4x4 posts.
I thought I would quickly remove the damaged post and put in a new one. At least, that's what I thought.
I didn't realize that whoever put the fence in put the posts in concrete. Not just a little concrete. Each post got about 50 yards of concrete. (At least that what it seemed like!)
I tried to pry the broken post out, but the break was into the concrete, so I had to dig the whole thing out.
I know now I'm too old to do this work -- I am sore as heck. If another post breaks sometime, it will probably just stay broken, and I will be happy with it.
York1 John
York1We bought our house 30 years ago, and it was about ten years old at that time. A six foot tall cedar fence had been put in -- I assume when the house was built.
When I bought my house, it was 10 years old, and had a ten year old cedar fence.
Hurricane Charley destroyed the fence, but left all the 6 by 6 (yes, 6 by 6) posts standing. I brought home a truck with a service crane rated at 7,500 pounds to pull them up.
Whoever installed the fence had no consistency at all. Some posts had a bit of concrete, but some had 50 yards! At least that is what it seemed like.
I thought the project would take a half-day or so, it took a whole week!
Thank heaven I had access to that crane.
Happy Earth Day, everybody!
22-2616 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Curving through Tunnel 29 by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
SeeYou190I assume NYC locomotives were supposed to have these.
Not always:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4384319
Note the step on the front of the valve chamber and a small one above coming off the running board:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3597170
gmpullmanNot always. Note the step on the front of the valve chamber and a small one above coming off the running board.
Well, I had no idea.
I guess the model is correct.
Your picture shows a slightly different tender than the model comes with. I love the "inverted trapezoid" extended coal box.
Thanks for that information.
The World Is A Beautiful Place
That tender looks like it is one of the Big Four style with the inset coal bunker. One thing about much of the early NYC steam is that it has a quite varied heritage. LS&MS, NYC&HRRR, Michigan Central, B&A, P&LE, P&E, CCC&StL, Rutland plus maybe a half dozen more all had locomotive designs that were folded into the New York Central "System" of the late '20s.
Makes for some interesting sleuthing to figure out the heritage of particular locomotives.
https://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc1162.htm
I like the toolbox on this example:
https://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc1153_morris.htm
And now for something different...
Try... http://dagobah.net/flash/hestekor.swf
Its an old one, but I love going back to it.
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and coffee, please.
It's predicted to be a stormy day here, and that makes farmers happy. We really need the rain.
Kevin, I think I needed a crane yesterday. I'm still sore this morning. It might be a good day to work on the layout instead of outside.
I hope everyone has a good day today.
gmpullman DigitalGriffin Anyone care to guess The 4859 looks a little dusty! GG1_4859-Harrisburg_11-11-87 by Edmund, on Flickr Long live the great Pennsylvania! Cheers, Ed
DigitalGriffin Anyone care to guess
Yes she does look a little dusty. But she's still an beautiful sight. It was my first time in Harrisburg station.
Unfortunately they won't let you on they don't you on the platform without a ticket. My son was all excited to see his first Amtrak up close too.
Howdy Folks,
A page back their was a great bunch of photos of old Gas stations.... I do have such a thing modeled on the S.L.O.&W. But I have a much more modern fueling station right here at my house to show you.....
My son who was an executive at the time at Argone National Labs sent it to me as a birthday present when I bought a new car that was featured at the lab back then. Enjoy!
According to the Tesla App that compares costs of operation it says that if I was driving on Gasoline with the current costs for the last 31 days, I would have spent $112. If I was buying the Electric from the grid (about 1/3rd of my total electric comes from the roof of my house) it would have cost me $30. I like my Fueling Station at the house... I do!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
EMD Mike's post about his brass find at the Antique Mall made me think about my personal brass collection. I do not "collect" brass, but buy pieces I intend to run or use in photography.
I was surprised at the distribution of models when I wrote it all down. I was accurate about the number of steam and diesel locomotives, but was surprised by others.
I guess I never really thought about it before.
I had no idea I purchased 20 caboose models. I thought the number was 14-15. I also did not know I had than many tank cars.
I thought I had more covered hoppers. Covered hoppers and tank cars are my "preferred to be in brass" models. I do not enjoy building resin kits of these model types. Well detailed plastic tank cars are just too fragile.
Head end cars was another surprise. I thought there were only 3, for the mail train, but a steel express reefer and a Pfaulder milk car snuck in there too.
This was interesting data to compile.
Cabooses: 20
Steam Locomotives: 12
Tank Cars: 12
Covered Hopper Cars: 6
Diesel Locomotives: 5
Head End Cars: 5
Box Cars: 4
Bridges: 3
Oil/Water Columns: 3
Passenger Cars: 3
Oil/Water Towers: 2
Signal Bridges: 2
Tell Tales: 2
Dynamometer Cars: 1
Elevated Shanties: 1
Flat Cars: 1
Gondola Cars: 1
Sand Towers: 1
Total: 83
I have exactly the right number of most items for my layout plan. I would like a couple more unique freight cars if the price is right, but for the most part, I think my brass purchases are pretty much concluded.
Good evening Diners.
The grandchildren have been on holiday this week, so they are visiting us. Like a 'revolving door'.
I think I am around my limit with freight cars etc. Then a colleague is sending me some of his 'old stuff'. No idea how much, but it will be fun going through it.
Grandson number 2 has me watching basketball! Newcstle Eagles versus Glasgow Rocks. Apparently I am supporting 'The Eagles'.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Our county extension agency does a tree sale every spring and fall. We ordered ten trees and today is planting day. Most times I use the auger on the back of the tractor but today these will be hand-dug.
IMG_9022_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
I like planting trees around the property. There's one here I actually dragged home from the GE plant where I worked, a large-tooth Aspen, that is over fifty feet tall today. We've probably planted over a hundred trees around here over the last 30 years or so.
Right on schedule. Day 10 will get an eyeball.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
NorthBritThe grandchildren have been on holiday this week, so they are visiting us.
That sounds wonderful. Soon, mine will be old enough to visit Florida.
gmpullmanWe've probably planted over a hundred trees around here over the last 30 years or so.
I don't think I have quite made it to 100. The 44 Areca Palms boost the total a bit in that direction.
There are only three trees here from before I owned the house. The three Mahogany trees were the first to be replaced. Those are just too messy. The Weeping Bottle-Brush went next. That is another too-messy tree to have around.
I planted four Slash Pines twenty years ago. Two are still around.
My little Magnolia Tree I planted 18 months ago still has not grown an inch, but it sure is making some impressive blooms right now.
-Photographs by Kevin Parson
The only fruit tree I have had survive to production is my Mango. My Honeybell Orange was destroyed by the city just before it started producing fruit.
My Coconut Palm is doing great. I should get coconuts in four or five years.
gmpullmanI like planting trees around the property. There's one here I actually dragged home from the GE plant where I worked, a large-tooth Aspen, that is over fifty feet tall today. We've probably planted over a hundred trees around here over the last 30 years or so.
Ed, I'm the same way. There were no trees on our property when we bought it, and now we live in a forest.
My pride and joy is a Dawn Redwood. My father got it as a twig for free when he ordered some garden plants. I stuck it in the ground, thinking I would be mowing over it in a short while. Instead, it took off, and is now over 30 feet tall.
It's a deciduous conifer. It looks like a fir tree, but it's leaves turn rust red and fall off each year. The local nursery man is surprised it grew here.
I had a friend who saw it one fall and thought it was a dead fir tree. He offered to help me cut it down! I had to convince him that it would come back in the spring.
Kevin, I miss the palm trees of New Orleans. I really wish I had a large indoor area with lots of windows so I could grow one indoors here.
SeeYou190 I think my brass purchases are pretty much concluded
HMMMMMMMMMMMM??!!
JaBear SeeYou190 I think my brass purchases are pretty much concluded HMMMMMMMMMMMM??!!
Welllllllll......
I "might" buy still be willing to buy a 4,000 gallon 2 dome tank car or a PENNSYLVANIA X-23 boxcar.
A bigger consolidation is also on my radar.
My reaction to cat photos: