Heartland Division CB and Q wrote:Here's a link for chapel cars I found with google..... http://www.chapelcars.com/
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good morning all,
Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. South wind between 10 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69. South wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Lee
T-61 days before the first train show of the season.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning all!
Flash and Terry continue to be on the prayer list.
Chapel car.....good idea! Why didn't I think of that?
Good Morining!
A windy day here as it is blowing 30mph with gusts to 40 and it is a cool 60F. We had planned on going out to Gimli tomorrow and go sailing but I'm starting to wonder now as the forecast for today is a west wind at 35 knots diminishing to 20 knots by tomorrow. Twenty knots is a bit too brisk for a casual sail as it would mean a reefed main and steep angle of heel but we could likely get 6 or more knots out of the boat. That speed sounds very slow but when you are pushing through waves heeled over 20 degrees, it seems like you're flying. It would mean a couple of seasick dogs though.
Garry, How about some wild blueberries? They are far superior to the cultivated ones and are one of my favourites too, especially in pancakes with lots of maple syrup.
Lazy day here with the wind, cool temp and cloudy skies and we are feeling lazy too as we went out for dinner last night. I had an appetizer of Bellotta ham that was simply the best ham I have ever tasted. It comes from Spain and the pigs involved eat only a certain type of acorn. Amazingly the ham tastes nutty.
Well being a lazy day I think I'll get started assembling my engine house. It is amazing the difference a decoder can make as the engine performance of my PK2 0-6-0 is great with that new Digitrax decoder. I had hardly used it before but now it will get a lot of use.
Bye for now,
CN Charlie
Howdy All....We got some t-storms this morning but sun is out now...I'll have a slice of Garry's Ky ham,slice of swiss cheese,slice of tomatoe and a diet Coke please..Thank You..Gave the layout a good vacuming while the caregiver had the sweeper out yesterday..only managed to lose a couple of small things...
JP...Belated Happy Birthday!!
Flashwave...Your Dad is in my prayers...
RT...Sounds like you been making some good deals...
Paul...Hope your eye surgery went well...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Morning everyone--
BLUE SKY!!!!
Yep--darned if that old Delta Breeze didn't kick in BIG TIME yesterday, and is supposed to hang around until at least Tuesday. We had a high of 87 here yesterday, a predicted high of about 90 today. So the Valley is pretty much clear (unfortunately, the Delta breeze has kicked the smoke into the foothills), and I was actually able to go OUTSIDE yesterday.
The breeze is actually helping the firefighters up in Butte County and the American River complex, because of the moisture contained in it. In Butte County, they're allowing a lot of the 12,000 or so evacuees back in--Paradise is no longer under immediate threat. Unfortunately, a lot of people in that area lost their property, and there's one death attributed to the fire--someone either refused to leave their home or was trapped in it. Investigation still going on.
But we MAY have turned the corner around these parts. Fires that were expected to not be under control until October are now predicted to be under control within the next two weeks. Firefighters have been working 24-36 hour shifts, and help is supposed to arrive from New Zealand, Austrailia and our Nifty Neighbors to the north--Canada! As my history teacher buddy says: "The Cavalry has been called in, we can start un-circling the wagons," LOL!
Jeff: A hornet's nest in a refrigerator? Wow, those little devils don't care WHERE they claim property rights, do they? And they have really NASTY tempers. Glad you didn't get stung or swarmed. Especially Hornets or Yellow-Jackets. Those little beasties can sting repeatedly.
Terry: So when do we heat up the grill, buddy? Either Texas or Colorado beef--they make the BEST burgers in the whole world! And nice, sharp Cheddar for the cheese, none of that yucky Kraft 'American' stuff! Glad those treatments are over.
Flash: Continued prayers for your dad.
I let Flash Photoshop the photo I did for this weeks WPF into a night-shot. First try is pretty darned good. He's still working on it, hopefully he'll post it for the rest of you when he's got it all done. I can't Photoshop to save my life--sometimes I can barely take a photo--but he's doing some good stuff to it. Actually, it dawned on me, it's my very first Diseasel photo (though the focus is on the steam helper, natch!).
Well, time to go out and mount the Lookout tower on the Butte, so I'm going to spend as much time in the garage as I can, today. It's so nice to take in a gulp of air that HASN'T been re-cycled through the AC system. Almost forgot what it's like.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
BLUE BERRIES !!!!
I LOVE 'EM.........
CN Charlie............. Or Dick................Feel free to ship some to the diner!
CN Charlei .... Wild blueberrie sounds great to me. Here we have wild blackberries along the road. They are OK, but no where near as good as blueberries.
Tom .... I'm glad things are clearing up, and you can work on the buttes. Yes, indeed, your work is butte-tiful!
Jeff ............You zapped those bugs before they could buzz off.
Jeff is thinking of making a chapel car. Flash says he has made one. Guess what, I'm making one myself..............I HOPE others will do likewise.....
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry--
Yup, been thinking of transforming one of my Walther's Pullman Standard cars into a Chapel Car--St. Francis (natch! ). Sierra City and Deer Creek are predominantly Methodist Episcopal (Cornish miners, you understand) but we've got some Italian shop-keepers in the area that sure need to attend Mass occasionally, LOL!
Which reminds me of a funny story my dad told me. Seems during Prohibition in Nevada County, all the local 'brewers' (of which my grandmother was one) used to store their alcoholic root beer in the basement of the Catholic church in the little mining town of Allegheney, WAY up in the mountains. Dad had an old Ford model T with a spare gastank to store the hooch and made weekly runs from Nevada City to Allegheney. Actually, half of the model T's in Nevada County had spare gas tanks, LOL! It was a BUSY place! And the Priest in Allegheney just grinned and looked the other way.
Alex
Model train show in Pittsburgh this weekend, so my brother and I went on down. Set a very meager budget of $150 (have an equally meager three day vacation to Corpus Christi TX next week, bad timing!) and managed not only stick to it but came in under budget. Only got things with good prices and stuck to my shopping list. Just one impulse buy! Still, a small haul by some standards. Got five RTR pieces (four Walters, one Stewart) and one kit (Bowser). Saw a few things, even things I plan on getting eventually, but the prices weren't very good or I knew it would be some time before I need them. Right now I'm just trying to get enough together for one full train on my future layout before I start construction. A few things I was looking for no one had, to my slight displeasure. Still we had a good time. The Bowser kit was the impulse buy. The roadname it comes in can't exist in my freelanced world, but who cares.
In the last couple weeks my fleet has grown eight cars. Right now its larger than my fleet was when I had a layout as a kid/teen. Not counting toy train level stuff that is. A few of the old Blue Boxes, Walthers, MDC, and what have you kits from those days can be salvaged I hope, though I don't know what I'm going to do about all the missing ladders. And some of those (the intermodal) can't fit with the new plan. Seeing all those high quality locomotives makes my BB SD40-2 and SW1000 look hopelessly primitive now. Maybe that will help me mentally when these guys lose their BN colors.
WOW!!!
I have been so far behind lately... its not funny. Good to be back here though. Did you miss me?
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
3 years ago I bought a stick in a box of dirt (raspberry bush from home depot). This year I'm getting black raspberries larger than my thumb! The Rhubarb patch is not doing very well at all I should have had 3-4 5 gallon buckets of rhubarb by now in my freezer. The tomatoes plants are about 5' tall and have large green tomatoes on them, wahoo!
Tom, looking forward to some more pictures and I'm glad the air is clearing up for you.
Alex, sounds like you had quite the adventure this summer.
NittanyLion, Have fun in CC,TX I lived there for 3 years, great place to visit but I really didn't like living there. How was the Pittsburg train show? Would it be worth a 2hr drive for me?
Railroadnut, welcome back!
Well I think I'm caught up on painting the UP and BN rolling stock in my LS&W black with yellow lettering. I'm thinking about painting my cabooses yellow and black to match the color scheme.
railroadnut675 wrote:Well, dad says I can take out the layout once I finish my summer work.
Mornin, Janie, just some coffee n a couple of Bill's doughnuts please. Better weather forecast for us today. The heat n humidity the last few days bout had me down.
Sunday-Early rain, then partly cloudy and cooler. Less humid. High82 Sunday night-Clear and cool. Low 57
One good them bout the weather we've been having the couple-3 weeks. It's help catch the crops n gardens catch up some from late plating and cool weather, we' d had earlier.
We got some sad news Wed, found Deb's x SIL, Terry, died from a heart attack at 48. Jamie n her bunch came down for the funeral Fri n got caught in a hailstorm, which beat her car up purrty good. When they went home last evening, they got caught in another thunderstorm. Luckily no hail this time.
JP,
Happy burthen day, be it a bit late.
Terry,
Hope your starten to feel betters now that the treatments are over.
Flash,
Real sorry to hear bout your dads problems. We've still got him in our thoughts.
Tom,
Hope the blue skies n cooler winds continue for you folks. Now with the better weather and extra help, they can get the fires under control.
Your prohibition story reminded me of some the stories my great grandpa told about him and Uncle George making n runnin shine. He still had all the equipment hid in the barn and I got to help him make a batch one time. There's a place in Charleston were we go for bbq ribs that was a speak-easy during those days. They still have the dice table, but it's hanging from the ceiling now.
RT,
I see you may a couple good train scores again with the command control. Have you started on the layout yet?
Been busy round here the last few days, but I finally got round to uploading some more photos. Here's some pics from the Paducah rail museum's layout.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g214/inch53/vacation034.jpg
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Like most every one else's it's still under construction. These are some other pieces they have.
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Dissipater's desk
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CTC control panel and the relay cabinet
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And here's a couple of the IC #1518
She looks like you could build a fire and take her for a ride. Still got some of Garry n them's layouts to up load yet, plus a few other train pics.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good morning..........
Tom ... That's a funny story about prohibition. I'm now living in an area that includes moonshining in its history. Before the big man-made lake existed, the area here was called "Shotgun Hollow", and the moonshine was made in a small town named Golden Pond that no longer exists. The biggext customer was Al Capone's gang. I have the Woodland Scenics moonshine still located on the banks of the Mrs. Hippy River on the layout.
We talked about chapel cars, and here's my effort. My box of out of service passenger cars included this Roundhouse kit. I still need to install the awning, but here it is. I'm using the Prairie (2-6-2) to haul it with a combine car for use by the railroad crews. Note: liitle locomotives can be fun, too. (To those who insist on extra large lcomotives).
Inch.... .You got a lot of good photos in Paducah! Did you happen to drive around the VMV locomotive re-building plant. They had many older locomotive stored in back awaiting rebuilding the last I saw.
I here Shelley getting up so we will soon be off to church this morning. It's likely we'll visit her late sister's grave after church. Janet passed away last September, and today would have been her birthday.
Have a beautiful day.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: railroadnut675 wrote:Well, dad says I can take out the layout once I finish my summer work.I can't take mine out. Never put it away.
Oh nice, rub it in.
Good Morning Diners!
OK Garry, I've placed the order for the wild blueberries but they won't be in for another month or so. When you get them you'll see that they are quite small but the taste is far more intense than cultivated ones. I think you going to like them! I'll tell Chloe when the're shipped and I'll send along some maple syrup too. The Manitoba stuff is odd tasting so I'll send some from Quebec as they have lots there.
I was going to head out to the boat today but I'm too tired for an hour and half drive each way this afternoon. We were up at 4 a.m. as one of the dogs was sick and I just couldn't get back to sleep. Besides the yard needs a clean-up after the stormy weather we had yesterday-lots of wind and rain.
Jeff, Make sure that gas storage fridge is well ventilated as gas fumes have about 10X more explosive force than TNT. I remember well the lectures from the tech guys at Sunoco when I used to work for them. A gas explosion would blow the door off any fridge but I guess you know that being a fire fighter.
Well I have to gear up for my return to work tomorrow otherwise it is too much of a jolt. I might even go into the office for a short time but my wife would think I'm nuts and she could be right.
See you soon,
railroadnut675 wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: railroadnut675 wrote:Well, dad says I can take out the layout once I finish my summer work.I can't take mine out. Never put it away.Oh nice, rub it in.
CNCharlie wrote:Jeff, Make sure that gas storage fridge is well ventilated as gas fumes have about 10X more explosive force than TNT. I remember well the lectures from the tech guys at Sunoco when I used to work for them. A gas explosion would blow the door off any fridge but I guess you know that being a fire fighter.
Afternoon Gang: We went into Cracker Barrel for breakfast this morning. Actually late morning about 10:30. It's Sunday so sleep in is OK. Anyway we got back and the compressor on the gas well was not running. My SIL said that it was down yesterday also. I called the production manager but got her answering machine. It's about time for them to fire that company that provides the compressor. It was down for a week two weeks ago. Our check this month is going to be short for sure.
I guess Bergie and the guys got things cleaned up fast. I was lost for awhile yesterday when the site was down.
My operation went well. Right now my left eye is very blood shot but will clear up in a week or two. There is some improvement now but it takes a week for any real improvement to show.
Terry I hope that you are starting to feel better now that the treatments have stopped. I'm sure that the knowledge that they are over is a relief.
I'm not doing a whole lot since I'm supposed to take it very easy. No bending over to pick up anything heavy and such. I should get down to the basement but the things that need doing on the layout require lifting and that's a no no.
Flash I'm really sorry to hear that your dad is having trouble again. Prayers for his recovery. As the others have said if you need a shoulder we're here.
I'll stop back in later tonight.
Well Gang, I hope you are all having a great weekend. It has been a beautiful week here in Spokane where we are house and pet sitting while our son and DIL are attending a wedding in Florida. They will be back on Tuesday.
For those interested in the fires ( Jeff, Tom, etc.) ust a couple of miles east of us here on the western edge of Spokane Valley we had a terrible fire that is believed to have started in a back yard (all they will say as of now) It burned 100 acres and 13 very expensive homes. Another home was spared because the heat was so intense that it melted an above ground swimming pool and the water flooded out into and onto the house they say and it was spared.
I couldn't log in the other day because of the service work they were doing on the site. But I found it interesting that you guys started talking about "Chapel Cars" Not an hour after I had ordered on-line The book "This Train is Bound For Glory" A book about those Chapel Cars. We were really on the same wave length that day.
Well the wife is calling me for lunch, so will try and get back in later.
Prayers and blessings to all in need.
Johnboy out..............
The "Wobbly" is on vacation....................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thanks.
Speaking of moonshine: My wife's 2nd cousin was Raymond Parks (founder of Nascar), who employed Lloyd Seay(sp), Frank Sosebee, etc... Not sure if this is something she should be proud of or not? She and her sisters (as little girls) were also responsible for destroying several of those early moonshine cars with rocks & such. I think that was right after her grandad's death, another big time moonshiner. She thinks about what those cars would have been worth today and shakes her head.
Took advantage of the free weekend on this site and downloaded all sorts of track plans. Also read many articles. Cool!
Significant Weather Alert here. Frequent lightning and strong wind gusts. Getting real dark now...YeeHaw. Rob
Afternoon. I pulled out my Cha[el Caboose, didn;t realize how much dust and dried paint flakes had accululated on the roof. Shoudl use it for my steamers. I still need to put some "stained glass" in the side windows. Like to put a bell in the couplola , but no one would notice it. I glued a piece of Sprue to the chimney to finish the Cross look on it.
-Morgan
Howdy ...
OK, CN Charlie ... thanks a million.......it'll be worth the wait for wild blueberries and Quebec real maple syrup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnboy ..... wow that's somthing you just order the Bound for Glory Book. Maybe a book review from you would be a good idea Those fires are bad.
Paul..... I'm hoping eye number two heals as well as did eye number one. How do you like Cracker Barrel? The ycertainly have a lot of trinkets in the store part of the business. I like the food. In the store, they have old fashioned candy. One of my favorites from way back when was Chuckles candy which they have. Instead of 5 cents it's 75 cents now.
Flash .... Your Dad remains on the prayer list. You have neat ideas for teh caboose. I recognize it as the Walthers CB&Q type 4 window wood caboose.
Tom ..... Thanks for your remark in WPF ........... The Prairie type steam locomotive is a brass model imported from Japan. I've had it a long time.
I added the awning to the Chapel Car this evening. I'm looking forward to seeing others from some of the diners.
We did make it to Shelley's sister's grave today on what would have been her birthday. Shelley is still very sad about the loss of her sister.
Good evening, we were out at Palmer all day yesterday ( Sat ) with the members of the MBRE for an all day railfan picnic at the hotspot of New England. I got some nice shots on video as well as many photos. There were intermodals, car racks, Manifest, The Vermonter, and Amtrak. The weather was great, the food and drink was great, met some real nice people form all-over.
GARRY: Picked 2 gallons of blueberries, but I don't think this year's crop will be as large as last year. I had to do some prunning last Fall, and this has had some effect.
MIKE: Now that is what I call a CTC center !!!! That is electronics heaven. And, I saw those two tankers on the CSX main line yesterday.
Later, guys, time for bed,
Hi crew, I see most of you have hit the hay for the night.. Me too soon.
So, when you get up in the morning, those of you who have been in on the discussion about "Chapel Cars" might find the reviews to the book I ordered quite interesting.
You can find the book at Amazon.com then typing in the title. Look at the great prices that they have for used copies, everyone can afford to get a copy.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful: This Train Is Bound For Glory, March 11, 2000 By A CustomerThis is an excellent history of the railroad chapel cars used in the United States in the latter 1800's & early 1900's. It is a good review of how the gospel was brought into newly developed railroad towns that had no established churches and in many cases wild & wooly towns. There are many wonderful old historic pictures and bibilical quotations. You will find out how the Episcopalians, Catholics, and Baptists had these chapel cars built. Anyone who likes trains, actively involved with the church, or has lived in towns where the local railroad brought in chapel cars will really enjoy reading this book!
Well I'm off to bed as well.
Prayers and blessings to those in need. Sleep well Buddies.