ELLIOT's Trackside Diner VI: The Full Meal Deal!

[sleeper33]

Nice bridge there Jeff

and nice pics as well

LOL got this page Turkey's all round is it?

trough in all

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang:

Gav see what happens when you try to be nice and compliment someone? Since I'm trying to lose some weight I'll be nice and pass with a cup of coffee.

John and I ran the steam loco today. His wife's family came over and rode and then one of our nices and her girls and my daughter and the granddaughter did some riding. We all had a good time and ran 6 trips. That is about 11 miles in all.

Tomorrow Mary Ann and I are going to the daughters house for turkey and all the fixings. John and his wife and the youngest granddaughter are going to her parents for dinner and then coming over to Lara's for late supper.

I got the January issue of MR today. I've been looking forward to it. Of course it is the 75th anneversary issue. I really was looking forward to the article on the building of the Beer Line layout. That is home terratory to me. Back in the far past three friends would head downtown Milwaukee and to 1027 N. 7th st to the officies of Kalmbach Pub Co. We got to know Mr Kalmbach, Paul Larsen, Gordy Odegard and the rest of the staff. That was real heady stuff to us teenagers. The best part is that we were treated well. Just like one of the gang.  

Right now I have to get out of here and head for bed.

Good Night All

[CNCharlie]

Good Evening Diners!

Happy Turkey Day to all of our southern neighbours and friends!!  Remember that tomorrow all food is calorie and fat free so just enjoy! And by the way it is perfectly acceptable and indeed necessary to fall asleep after a turkey dinner so just nod off smiling contentedly.

Not much news here. Luckily Winterpeg hasn't been living up to its reputation so far year as it has been just below freezing all week and there really is hardly more an an inch or so snow on the ground.

I'm still working on ballasting my service yard. I tried several glue/water/alcohol mixtures and find that Jeff's method of soaking first with straight alcohol works the best. I have the engine house all in place but need a few more Caboose ground throws before I can finish up and likely more cinder ballast. I find I can't work too long on it as my back gets sore bending over the table which is quite low at 32" but it couldn't be higher than the book case/ room divider it sits beside. The CEO sets the asthetic values around here and I was just happy she agreed to the table at all.

I too have noticed how many November birthdays there have been in the Diner, mine amongst them. Wonder what it is about November?  Jim, aren't you a psychologist? You could do a study on it.

Have a great day tomorrow and I hope everyone is healthy and happy.

CN Charlie

 

[blownout cylinder]

Have a good Thanksgiving and be safe on your travels

I'm going to find another tool i've dropped and I'm heading for bed....

[Cox 47]

Just dropped in for cup of Egg Nog and a couple of cookies and then head for bed..You all have a great Thanksgiving.....Jerry

[Cederstrand]

Tall glass of cool lemon water, please & thanks!

***Jeffrey, do you take you BP at home, too?  That "action shot" with the locos headlights on is very cool.

***Paul, I envy your live steam runs. That would be so much fun, (except perhaps for the amount of maintenance on one of those locos?).

I am thankful for my life, not so much the condition of this body. Although not ready to start digging the inevitable hole in the ground just yet, sure wish I could change the speed and direction in which it is heading that-a-way. Could always be much worse...like a life without model trains.  Oh yea, very thankful for my wife & extended 4-legger family.

Have a WONDERFUL THANKS GIVING, Y'ALL.  Rob

[sleeper33]

Right

It's 06:35 here on the 11/27 which makes it 00:35 EDT

SO  HAPPY THANKS GIVING

TO OUR AMERICAN COUSINS

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Cederstrand

***Jeffrey, do you take you BP at home, too?  That "action shot" with the locos headlights on is very cool.

 

Yes. I have a wristcuff blood pressure monitor. Glad you liked the shot.

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Happy Turkey Day!

It's 58 and cloudy. The high is expected to be in the mid 70's and there's a chance of rain.

I got the pedestrian bridge leveled yesterday. The next step now is to spray it down with Matte-Finish (outdoors of course) to get rid of the gloss. I talked with my niece in Colorado (younger sister's daughter) last night. She can't believe her son is already a year old. Next thing she knows he'll be walking down the aisle. Next I talked with her mother in Pennsylvania. She and her other half are working to get the farm house they recently bought into shape and expect to be in it by Christmas. It's near Newport on the edge of the Little Buffalo State Park. From the photos I've seen it's a very nice looking house. My mother says it looks like a typical Pennsylvania farm house.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      11/27/2008

Wind Chill:  58°F
Humidity:  95%
Dew Point:  57°F

So Far Today
High:  58°F
Low:  56°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  5mph S

Today  High: 75    Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the morning...then a chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.

Tonight  Low: 62    Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.

[LSWrr]

Happy thanksgiving to everyone...

Hi 41 here today......

Lee

[gear-jammer]

    Happy Thanksgiving

I missed a couple of  days.  Happy Birthday to all those celebrating in November.

sue

[pcarrell]

Happy Turkey Day!

[howmus]

Mornin' everyone! 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

The bird has been in the oven for almost 3 hours now, starting to smell good in the house.

Philip that is a sketch....  Love it.   

Paul, live steam and a thanksgiving dinner........  What a way to spend the Holiday!  All I get to do is run some 1/87 sized ones today.  I think the USRA 2-6-6-2 will get some work on the mainline! 

My sister from South Bend arrived a little after 10PM last night so it was midnight before we got to bed around here.  Got up at 6:30 to start the stuffing and get the Turkey ready fro the oven.  The rest of the family should be arriving a little after noon. 

Currently 35°F here in the Finger Lakes with a high around 38°F this afternoon.  Some clouds, but a nice day all around.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.  If you are traveling today, be safe! 

[Cox 47]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope you all have much to be thankfull for...Sallie and I are most richly blessed...We are watching the Macy's  from New York on TV...We will have our Thanksgiving on Saturday..Jerry

[Packers#1]

HAPPY TURKEY DAY FOLKS!

[C&O Fan]

Morning All

Hope every one has a Great Thanksgiving ! I be having a Frozen Turkey dinner by my self

and watching some Texas Football Maybe run some trains too

I think the grandkids will be stopping by friday while their mom goes shopping

I may just eat out on the Deck as it will be the warmest Thanksgiving day we've had for the last 5

years with a high of 76 Degrees

[der5997]

Diners, and a very for our neighbours to the South.

Disturbing find just now while vacuuming the train room. A cross brace from my double track bridge on the window module was on the floor!  It has to be from the underside, as all the top ones are present and accounted for. (I think I would have seen one of those was missing Have a list of only 5 projects to complete the crane, so any month now!

 

 

 

 

CNCharlie:

I too have noticed how many November birthdays there have been in the Diner, mine amongst them. Wonder what it is about November?  Jim, aren't you a psychologist? You could do a study on it.

…Ah Hem…I think the study has to be done concerning February. …

 

 

 

 

Jerry: Eggnog, now that’s a great idea.  Haven’t seen any in the stores yet. Curiously, at any rate I think it curious, Hot Cross buns appeared in the supermarket bakery section about a month ago, and are still an item, so they must be selling. I associate those only with Easter-time.

 

 

 

 

Rob:

I am thankful for my life, not so much the condition of this body. Although not ready to start digging the inevitable hole in the ground just yet, sure wish I could change the speed and direction in which it is heading that-a-way. Could always be much worse...like a life without model trains.  Oh yea, very thankful for my wife & extended 4-legger family.

…coming from someone who said Terry had had a rugged year (which is absolutely true)…Rob my hat’s off to you too!

 

 

 

 

Jeff: 

Better make sure the windows at the A/C end of that bridge don’t open or your passengers / railfans will be swept away!

 

 

 

 

We’re having Shrimp curry tonight, so I’m looking forward to that.Have an wonderful Holiday, TTFN.

 

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Afternoon Gang: I'm just stopping in  between chores. We had breakfast over at the daughters this morning. It was a late breakfast so Mary Ann and I went out to What A Berger for an early snack. When we got back home from the daughters I went down and grubed some more in the field. I had to redo some stumps that didn't get completely out the first time. We'll head back to the daughters in a couple of hours.

Well the right margin is gone again. Funny everything was fine for the last week.

 I've got about an hour untill we have to go back so I think I'll  grab a little nap.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

der5997

Jeff: 

Better make sure the windows at the A/C end of that bridge don’t open or your passengers / railfans will be swept away!

Not too worry. It's over 400 scale feet away and the air is going by about 300 scale feet overhead. All they'd get is a gentle breeze.

[sleeper33]

Good evening all

just a tea thanks girls

 well I hope you all are having a good time and stuffing yourselves stupid on good fare.

seeing as we dont celabrate thanksgiving overhere I decided to have fried chicken as to share the experience with you all, exept the falling asleep part afterwards, that is

so enjoy and I hope to speak to you all later

[Cederstrand]

in a AT&SF mug, please & thank you.

Had a nice dinner with the wifes parents tonight. Plenty of leftovers for another meal or two.

Gave a second coat to that door I re-painted last night, then touched up another door they missed spots on, then painted two entire walls on the outside of the new screened porch, plus an end where another door & window is I put in recently. Needed to finish this us, as the tile folks will be here in the morning. Then I set about a dozen posts in quickcrete for the "wife's new fence" (that came out wrong, didn't it...) Cleaned the barn, did some hay rounds, the usual stuff. I'm beat.

Rob

[blownout cylinder]

Happy Thanksgivingeveryone...

I'm starting on a multilevel Purina mill project for my socalled 'overgrown' shortline. When I figure out why my camera refuses to divulge the information I will post this thing for your perusal...

[rtraincollector]

Evening all and hope you all had a good Turkey Day. Not much happening here will talk to you all later

[Cox 47]

BUMP!!..........Jerry

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: We had a great time at our daughters. I spent some time with the middle one in her book nook under the stairs. That is a room that is used for storing the vacumn and some cleaning things and has a shelf for her books and a matress for naps. It's really nice a she likes it. I also got to play with the youngest one. She's 11 months. There was pleanty of food and I did not stuff myself. I had a glass of wine and a little of ham and turkey. I'm going to watch myself and really try and loose some weight.

Rob you need to slow down a bit. Your even making me look lazy. I did some more on the mesquite field. I grubed out some more stumps and a couple of plants I missed. I also loaded up three buckets of stuff and hauled it to the burn pile. That pile is getting big. I hope that it rains tonight so I can burn it tomorrow.

Well I'm off to bed.

Good Night All 

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning.

It's 67 and cloudy with fog. The high should be in the mid 70's and there's a chance of rain.

Spent part of the day yesterday at my sisters place for Thanksgiving. We had other family members there as well as some of the neighbors and some good friends. As usual she cooked enough for a small army. Turkey, glazed ham, green beans, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes with gravy, baked beans, potato salad, deviled eggs, pies of many flavors, several cakes, tropical fruit salad with peach schnapps. There was more but I didn't look at everything. By the time I left there I could hardly walk. Only thing that was done on the layout was to spray the pedestrian bridge with Matte-Finish to kill the gloss.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      11/28/2008

Wind Chill:  67°F
Humidity:  100%
Dew Point:  67°F

So Far Today
High:  67°F
Low:  66°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  6mph SSW

Now through 07:00 AM CST November 28, 2008

Isolated showers tracking rapidly northeast at 25 mph will Advance across the northern portions of Tyler...Jasper and Newton counties of interior southeast Texas. Rainfall under 1/10th of an inch can be expected with this activity.

Today  High: 75    Patchy fog in the morning. Scattered showers in the morning...then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Tonight  Low: 62    Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

[C&O Fan]

Morning All

Nice morning here Had my frozen Turkey yesterday  but could only taste the  Mashed Potatoes

Since the Radiation treatments burn your taste buds but

 I am lucky Some folks loose their saliva also but I retained mine

Hope to run some trains today What about you ?

[JPowell]

Good day gang!

Sorry I haven't been on alot as of late, but I'm tryin to get the house in order before I head to Iowa and Julie's house in 2 weeks to help her pack it for the movers to come and drive the stuff here. Yes gang, we are really going to do this. Her kids are all excited about this major event in their lives and so are Julie and I.

Anyways, I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving Day yesterday. I know I did, eventhough it was a some what sad one since Julie and I were not together for it. My brother and his wife decided to have the feast at their house and had all of my family over, as well as most of her family. In all, there was close to 45 of us! My brother put on one of the best meals I've had in a while.

Well gang, I have to get my house cleaned up. My mom is going to bring my sister, and a few other relatives over to see my house.

Have a good day.

Take care!