inch53 wrote:A thought for the day; Not matter what the news media says, we are not in a recession, it's just a slight economic slow down.
A thought for the day; Not matter what the news media says, we are not in a recession, it's just a slight economic slow down.
Been keeping up with a plane crash near here.
This has been in the local news the past couple of days. A plane crashed into Toledo Bend Reservoir in Sabine County Tuesday afternoon. No survivors had been found by 9:30 p.m., more than five hours after the crash was reported, Sabine County Sheriff's Office said. A dispatcher with the Sheriff's Office said the plane went down into the lake close to Indian Mounds Recreation Area. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said air traffic put out a notice that the Cirrus SR22 aircraft was overdue just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. At about 4 p.m., a local department got a 911 call from a witness saying that a plane went down in the lake. Herwig says that the plane was en route from Tupelo, Miss., to David Wayne Hooks Airport in Spring, Texas, near Houston.The Sheriff's Office said it could not confirm how many people were on board. He said the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating. Herwig said the plane is owned by McAir LLC of West Memphis, Ark. Toledo Bend is on the Texas-Louisiana border. No Louisiana law enforcement agencies were working with the search and rescue.Texas Department of Public Safety officials say search teams have discovered human body parts among the wreckage of a fixed wing single engine 2006 CIRRUS SR22 that crashed Tuesday afternoon in East Texas. The remains have been taken to Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill. Fifty-four-year-old Daniel McIntire of Humble, Texas, George McFadden of New York and 34-year-old Heather Hardin of Pecan Island Louisiana all died in the crash. The three are business partners working for Crescent Directional Drilling out of Houston. The companies chief operating officer, Michael Torres, said that McIntire, who was piloting the plane, was the chief financial officer for the company and McFadden was the companies principal owner but was not involved in the day to day operations. A Texas Department of Public Safety operator said witnesses a plane sputtering, but it was obscured by clouds. The plane then broke through the clouds and hit the lake nose first. A dispatcher with the Sabine County Sheriff's Office says the plane went down close to the Indian Mounds Recreation Area. The Sabine County Sheriff's Office spent most of Tuesday evening sorting through the wreckage of the plane that crashed in the Toledo Bend Reservoir, finally calling off the search due to darkness and thunderstorms in the area. The search resumed at sunrise Wednesday morning. A spokesperson with the regional FAA office says air traffic controllers sent out a bulletin that the plane was missing about 3:55 Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after, they received a 9-1-1 telephone call saying a plane had crashed into the Toledo Bend Reservoir. Multiple agencies were involved in the recovery effort, as search and rescue reportedly set up headquarters in the Indian Mounds community, East of Hemphill off of FM 3382. The plane, reportedly an SR22, is listed as belonging to MCAIR LLC of West Memphis, Arkansas. It was traveling from Tupelo, Mississippi on its way to David Wayne Hooks Airport in the Houston area. An NTSB official said the plane traveled in a straight arrow direction for an hour and a half with contact with an FAA tower before taking a nose dive into the water. They say thay is very unusual and something they will be looking into as they continue to investigate.Investigators also say the plane was equipped with a parachute that was never deployed.
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Afternoon all,
Rob, that's not even cool. You know these vendors need to understand opening a package like that is Christmas morning to us!
Dick, you could hide my 0-6-0 in the ties and apply power to it, trust me it will look exactly like a small fire.
Worked at the steel plant all morning, I issued them a written warning in lieu of a civil penalty. They seemed very happy with my enforcement action and invited me to take as many pictures as I wanted. So I wandered around the locomotive shops for a while and hung out near the rails between the BOF and the blast furnace long enough to take pictures of the hot metal cars going by. Yes I have a bit of a tan now since the cars are just over 2200F and I was only 5 feet away from them. I did get to chat with one of the supervisors and learned a lot about how the plant worked and the purpose behind most of the buildings. I'll share pictures tonight.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
***So Jeffrey, was it a Hit or an accident?
***Lee, that's cool. Looking forward to seeing the pics later.
The vendor has been very nice about the sick Berkshire. I'll ship it back tomorrow for a refund. The fact that I received a bad one has me wondering if this is common? Are there QC issues with these models? Too bad there is no LHS (Internet dealer does not count) who is set up to test locos prior to purchase. Would be worth paying extra just to know what one is getting. It is the only disadvantage to living out in the sticks.
Rob
Afternoon all.....Its sunny and warm here posta rain latter...I'll have a pork burger and a diet coke please...Thank you...didn't have a good nite last nite and spent most of AM in chair napping...got a call in to DR. but He hasn't called back..I got a M/T coupler conversion for my BL 2 now I gotta get it on....
Flashwave....Sorry to hear about your loss..You are in my thoughts and prayers....
Mike...I hadn't heard about Casey Tool and machine...Thats gonna hit alot of folks in Casey hard...
Here is a couple of photos of the turntable I have been working on off and on for a couple of years...The pit is a Round baking pan from Wally world....Bridge is a block of wood with atlas Bridge parts glued to it...Its on a 1/4 inch pin like we used to use at the Radio station male and female to do the wiring and turning....Don't know what I'll do with it if i ever get it done just don't have room for turntable and round house...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Cederstrand wrote:***So Jeffrey, was it a Hit or an accident?
Cox 47 wrote: The pit is a Round baking pan from Wally world....Bridge is a block of wood with atlas Bridge parts glued to it...
The pit is a Round baking pan from Wally world....Bridge is a block of wood with atlas Bridge parts glued to it...
PC and Jim are gonna miss all those pies and desserts we used to make from that pie pan Jerry!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Hashbrowns, scrambled eggs and a coffee, please & thank you.
WALTHERS N & HO Turntables: $170 - $250.
Jerry's PPS Turntable: Priceless!
Now Jerry, if you could turn them out quick enough, the Diner could supply you with plenty of "parts". Awe heck, just toss it all in a box and sell it as a kit!
It's raining here. HURRAY! Rob
Cederstrand wrote: Hashbrowns, scrambled eggs and a coffee, please & thank you. WALTHERS N & HO Turntables: $170 - $250.Jerry's PPS Turntable: Priceless!Now Jerry, if you could turn them out quick enough, the Diner could supply you with plenty of "parts". Awe heck, just toss it all in a box and sell it as a kit!
That's right Rob, and with all the burnt in and baked on "weathering" from the Diner pies and pastries you can't go wrong!
evening gang
just a large tea to go please
little angels are out again tonight. all maintainance is done for today at least .boss wants to know if the building has a lightning conductor so up on the roof tomorrow morning.
ill try and get back in later
Gav
hey Guys.
Well I got some thing for you all. I'm starting to be come near sighted. It's not really bad it's just that this far away become blurry but I still make out the over all shape of them, and some I have glasses. (My first pair.) The good things is that my eyes are not as bad as my brothers.
Colby, I bacame nearsighted in the 7th grade. Back then, they dodn't know half as much as they do today about vision problems, just as any of the OF's in this Diner that are over 50. One word of advice, from what we now know, your eyes have muscles that need to be exercised like any other part of your body. If you get used to wearing those glasses all the time, your eyes get worse over time, and your prescription will get stronger and stronger as you age up to around age 40 to 50, then they sometimes reverse like mine have.
So use the glasses when you have to, like driving, of seeing the blackboard at school, etc. otherwise, take them off and make your eyes work, look off at long distance objects, then focus in short at something close, like the couplers on your box cars. Repeat this process every day to exercise the muscles in your eyes. This will strengthen your eyes.
Alex
***Dick, my bad eye "improved" for the first time since I started wearing glasses. At age 45, perhaps there is something to what you say. I was pleased with the reversal. Now if any of the rest of my abused, wrecked and ruined body parts would start reversing, that would really be neat.
Off to do evening critter rounds. Rob
grayfox1119 wrote: So use the glasses when you have to, like driving, of seeing the blackboard at school, etc. otherwise, take them off and make your eyes work, look off at long distance objects, then focus in short at something close, like the couplers on your box cars. Repeat this process every day to exercise the muscles in your eyes. This will strengthen your eyes.
Good Evening Diners!
Well Jim, we didn't get all the snow that was forecast but we did get rain, freezing rain, sleet, and of course some snow. That wouldn't be bad but the high temperature today was a balmy 35F. Mind you it is going all the way to 40 tomorrow so we do have something to look forward to.
Dick, you're right about the eyesight thing especially that people who are nearsighted rarely lose their close vision as they get older. I used to have 25/20 vision but although the distance part hasn't deteriorated much, I have to use glasses for all reading or close work. I need two pair when running trains, a 1.25x so I can see most of the layout OK and 2x if I want to see something close up. I may resort to strings but my wife has threatened me if I do, so I'll have to be quiet about it. For those not familiar, 25/20 means being able to see at 25 feet what normal vision is at 20 feet or the second bottom line on the eye chart.
Besides they can do marvellous things these days with laser surgery. A woman who works with me had glasses like the bottom of a coke bottle but now she doesn't need glasses at all.
Well, back down to run some trains. I have the Spectrum Consolidation hitched up to a freight right now and I like watching it run and also have to say the sound is great too. My wife actually says she enjoys hearing it, well at least when she is upstairs.
Say Jeff, do you really use as much Tobasco as I get the impression you do? It isn't a commodity that gets used much in our house. I think we still have the bottle we bought when one of our dogs was a pup. He liked to chew on the speaker wires and none of the commercial pet deterents worked, so I thought, ah ha, I'll bet Tobasco will work. Not. He just ran up, licked it all off and then went to the other wire, licked that off and commenced chewing.
See you soon,
CN Charlie
CNCharlie wrote:Say Jeff, do you really use as much Tobasco as I get the impression you do? It isn't a commodity that gets used much in our house.
Say Jeff, do you really use as much Tobasco as I get the impression you do? It isn't a commodity that gets used much in our house.
Close up of hot metal cars
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2765095140029441264JRsjpD?vhost=rides
It's interesting that even empty these cars are still shooting flames and sparks from the top of the cars. The steel plants locomotive fleet of 21 switchers is interesting. Mostly SW1500 and SW1550's, the oldest locomotive was purchased in 1950 and the newest locomotive was purchased in 1973. The military locomotive lists the names of the family members of the steel plants employees that are or have served in the military; a gold star denotes a service member KIA. There are other pictures near the 8th page of this album showing a rail served grain mill that has been on operation since pre-civil war and one of the local cement plants served by ship-rail-truck. I picked the best day to visit the grain mill, the day the workers were cleaning out the bottom of the silos! I swear it smelled like I was standing in 4' of poop!
Jerry nice looking turntable (mental note: do not eat apple pie at Jerry's house, lol)
Have a good night all!
Evening Gang: I just came in from the meet. There wasn't alot going on tonight. I guess we're all getting old. It used to be that we'ed be running untill 3am. There are a bunch of locomotives, both steam and diesel here and and alot of really great cars. This will go down as one of the biggest meets ever at Terry's track. One of the high lights was a tripple headed narrow gauge train with about 150 feet of cars. I got some good video of that. Once again I got made the offical video and still photographer. That means that I get to do all the picture taking for Terry and no running. Of course I'll get to do some running when they leave me out at some remote site. I'll be running after the last train home.
Lee have you heard about the tug Dorthy Ann losing one of it's Z drives? Now they found out she hit a rudder on the bottom of the harbor at Marquite. Now I want to know who could have lost a 16 ton rudder and nobody knew it.
Well I guess I'll hit the sack.
Good Night All
***Lee, cool pics. So, did you touch one? Love that tribute loco, very cool. Interesting that in the last pic of those towers/silos, there is prominent horizontal banding. What exactly causes that?
Trouble averted: Was in the dungeon clearing off the table when I did a double take at the tender with the vintage Berkshire. Sure enough, I packed up the wrong one to send back. Lucky I saw it because I wasn't planning on going down there tonight and would have shipped the wrong one in the morning.
Observation: Although the new Berkshire model has a ton more detail than the vintage version, this is not true of the tenders. The vintage has open steps/ladders, nicer tender covers, and better looking riveting.(IMO)
Going to work a bit longer here. Have a good night all. Rob
Rob, it had been raining all morning, and I took the pictures of the silos shortly after the rain ended. If you look hard in the steel plant pictures you might notice I was using my hard hat to protect the camera from the rain. No touching, LOL I noticed the car right against the locomotive was empty on both trips acting as a spacer car. I asked about slag cars and they don't use them. Good thing you caught the tender swap, the IHS might have thought you were pulling some trick.
Paul, there are no salvage rights on the Great Lakes, so unless the owner wants it back it often sits on the bottom. I imagine with the loss of water from the GL you'll see more things getting hit. There are whispers of smaller freighters or barges coming.
okay girls looks like I'm buying today . Enjoy guys as its going to be the last for a long time .
Bought a house yesterday or should I say made an offer and it has been aproved. for a 1300 sq foot house 3 bed room 1 bath. has a den with a fireplace added to it. (was to tired to report last night)
I figure 1 bedroom wife and me, one beroom office/ storage and the last bedroom will be train room!!!
Now just need the va to finally get my finger prints in.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
congratulations
on the house and good luck with the VA.
Good morning all,
Congratulations RT,
Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 51 by 2pm. South wind around 16 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. West wind between 8 and 13 mph.
Tomorrow morning I'll be headed west to Toledo for the train show, then north to visit my kids. Then a 3 hour drive back home.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning all!
Haven't been around a lot lately. This new set of duties at my job is kicking my butt!
I see RT got a new place! Congrats!
Morning,all!
I finally got both bikes tuned and ready for the first ABATE fund-raising ride of the year today.But it's 30f and snowing.1" on the ground,more on the way.I hate winter.
JEFF: you sound just like Robyn!I can't even stand the SMELL of it and she puts it on everything.Eggs,chips, pizza,pasta,toast, everything. If I was smart I'd by stock!!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Good Morning All!
Still here, just been busy in the garden and garage and hallway and...
The weather has been very good for these parts this past week with temps in the 50-60 range, which for here this time of year is very good and has allowed me to do work in the garden.
grayfox1119 wrote:HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM OUR NOVA SCOTIANS ?????? Just because someone (un-named) ate all Fergie's butterscotch cream pie is no reason to shun the Diner.
HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM OUR NOVA SCOTIANS ?????? Just because someone (un-named) ate all Fergie's butterscotch cream pie is no reason to shun the Diner.
I think Jerry has some explaining to do as the pie plate he absconded with was full before it's transition BTW Jerry Kudos to you and your inovation as I never thought to have used a pie pan for my pit... would have saved me a lot of grief, saying that you still owe me a Pie!!!
As to the whereabouts of John and Luc I cannot answer that. I get the occassional joke via e-mail from Luc but nothing else. I've just been too busy this past while to do anything on the MR Believe it or not I'm still dealing with Dad's estate and personal effects and it's a steep incline. I still have boxes with momentos I have no idea what to do with...
RT: Concongrats on the house as I hope it works out for you as I'm sure it will. If you have a house warming make sure the Chandeliers are put away as we know what certain individuals can do to them!
Lee: Checked out your site some very interesting pics, thanks for sharing! LOve the triple man line makes me green with envy!
Paul: One of our Coast Guard ships recently did an engine trial at dockside and sucked "something" though one of the props... Half a $million later she's working fine again. No one has any idea what lies below the waters surface as it's the worlds largest dumpster... could be why the Ocean's levels are rising
Anyway I've said my fill for the morning
Later
Fergie
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Fergie, glad to see you in the diner again. Thanks, the outer 2 mains are modeled after the Chicago Line running from Buffalo, NY to Chicago, IL. The inner main is the local track for Fox creek and Major city. I have 3FT laid for the Pittsburg Line running from the docks to new Haven, PA. The Pittsburg line will be a single main 21' point to point main.
Good Morning!
This must be a first as I never come in during the morning. It seems a good place to be as it is blowing and cold outside here. I think Terry mus'nt be too far away given his weather report. Northern Minnesota isn't it? I'd much rather be down there in Jeff's neck of the woods right now.
Great news RT on your new house. I do like the idea of a house warming though. Perhaps we can get Ryan to do up some of his great cooking for the festivities.
Weather or not, I have to go out as we are on round 2 of the new vacuum cleaner quest. There is a new one sitting in the box not 5 feet from where I'm sitting now but the internet reports were mixed on it so we're going to look at another make.
Bye for now,