Evening Gang: It was another summer day here. I cleaned out the corral again so we could work the cattle without gettig all covered in poop. We seprated out some older calves to take to the sale barn tomorrow. There are six bull calves that will go in teh morning and three heiffers that Mary Ann wants to hang on to for a bit. Since Mary Ann and I got up at 4am for her appointment, I'm bushed.
Good Night All
How about that. I go into edit to correct a spelling error and Packers slips in another post and bumps me to TOP. Well Have at it gang.
Note to self. Leave spelling mistakes alone correcting them costs too much.
Good Evening Diners!
Thanks Paul, I'll have a slice of blueberry pie and a coffee please Zoe.
Robby, if you want to get rid of the critters making the holes in your yard you have the wrong dogs for the job. You need a West Highland Terrier. They were bred to hunt out badgers and believe me they can dig a hole big enough to disappear in faster than you can say Westie. They'll kill whatever they find at the bottom too. How do I know all this? We've had Westies for the past 25 years. Nothing they like better than digging and shaking the you know what out of any small living thing.
Been back working on my service yard. I've got most of the ballasting done and have the coal dock and sanding facility in place. I just need a couple of Caboose ground throws to finish the job and a trip to the LHS is planned for Saturday. Think I'll see if they have an N scale CN caboose for my little Pacific to haul assuming that it in fact it runs as I haven't set up the little circle of track I have to test it out.
Jim, I think Johnboy and I can win the "who's coldest" contest hands down. It was a balmy -25C today and it isn't supposed to get over -20 for the next week. Oh well, it is sunny. Turns out we had the 4th coldest December on record.
Well its nearly time to pick up my wife from her weekly stint at the restaurant.
CN Charlie
Robby P. Another cold day, and snowy. So I will take a hot cocoa for now. Gotta warm up. They are calling for snow showers all day, just a coating maybe. The news people did say something is coming later Fri- Sat. Right now they are saying 3-6 inchs, but you know that will change. As far as the holes in the flower bed. I will try some moth balls, and just shove them down the holes. I will see what that does. I think my engine, hopper, and roadbed might come today. I will get a shot of it, if they come. It says the package left Pittsburghs post office. So I am sure I will get it today. Heres a old shot I found. I thought I would post it again. Just think of the paper work!!!
Another cold day, and snowy. So I will take a hot cocoa for now. Gotta warm up.
They are calling for snow showers all day, just a coating maybe. The news people did say something is coming later Fri- Sat. Right now they are saying 3-6 inchs, but you know that will change.
As far as the holes in the flower bed. I will try some moth balls, and just shove them down the holes. I will see what that does.
I think my engine, hopper, and roadbed might come today. I will get a shot of it, if they come. It says the package left Pittsburghs post office. So I am sure I will get it today.
Heres a old shot I found. I thought I would post it again. Just think of the paper work!!!
The Naptown club has that picture, but the caption reads:
Meetings.
Because none of us is as stupid as all of us
I love that Garfield comic too.
On Cell phones: If I HAVE TOO, mine is on a mic clip by my steering weel. If someone calls me, like when Dad was in the Hospital, I hit "Talk" then "Speaker" and close it and yell at the thing long enough to tell Mom (only person calling at that time) where I was and hang up. Not great, but better. I can't tell you the people who I see looking at a PDA.
-Morgan
The only way you can use a cell phone on base is if you have the gizmo that plugs the phone into your cars radio. We're not even allowed to use one of those blue tooth ear deals. Not that it matters. I have two cell phones, and I don't even hardly use them. My wife and I share a plan with 700 minutes a month and I think with all our rollovers we have close to 6500 minutes. Honestly I can't even tell you where my personal cell is. My work phone is used maybe once a day. Personally I don't want either one. It just makes it easier for work to get ahold of me when I'm at a LHS or train show.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
CN Charlie:
Think I'll see if they have an N scale CN caboose for my little Pacific to haul assuming that it in fact it runs as I haven't set up the little circle of track I have to test it out.
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Hello Diners!
It's good to see the place is full. I think I'll join the group in the corner booth. Wake up Duke and move over. Thanks. I'll have some cookies, please.
I really like Unca's Roggie's photo of the Golden State Limited. One of my passenger trains is the GSL hauled by Rock Island units to handle the Chicago-New Mexico leg of the train's trip. I really like the red and silver cars.
I am progressing with the scenery in the one corner of the layout. I have installed roads, and soon I can install the Woodland Scenics stuff.
We're thinking of travleing to Nashville this weekend. We'[ll see B-I-L Nick (recent stroke victim) and members of Shelleys family. i'lll tell Nick about your kind thoughts and prayers. Also, on my priority list is the train shw.
Oh oh!!!!.......... Shelley is looking at a website on her computer. It's the Hickory Farms website. They have lots of good food marked down by 75%!. Yum!...... Cheeses, sausages, cheese balls, scrumpcious goodies (desserts). ............. Wow.....prepared meals........lots of good stuff.............
.......see ya later! ...............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
CNCharlie;ONLY the 4th coldest? The way the temps were reading out there you'd think colder wouldn't you?---BTW what was the coldest on record out there?
PC;--As for our neck of the woods--The temps up here are reading about 2-5C lower---but me suspects it may be on both of ours that these weatherguessers may still be all wrong--let us hope for a short winter---
Did anyone ever come across a powered 'slug' that was 1/2 the height of a normal sw1500? If I could get my scanner working I could post this odd duck, a Canadian Pacific #B-100, switcher calf unit built by MLW in 1951----I'm doing a search but if one could,say google,a book by JWKerr called' Illustrated Treasury of MLW to ALCo, Bombardier Locomotives'. The ISBN # 0-919295-11-8 and check pg 68 out. Or some such---I'll post the thing when I figure out why the scanner won't let me scan----grumble
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
CNCharlie Jim, I think Johnboy and I can win the "who's coldest" contest hands down. It was a balmy -25C today and it isn't supposed to get over -20 for the next week. Oh well, it is sunny. Turns out we had the 4th coldest December on record.
OK, I bow to your superior chilliness!
So, as we approach the 200 page mark, I have to wonder..........
You folks think it's time to move this dining car over a few tracks yet?
pcarrellYou folks think it's time to move this dining car over a few tracks yet?
Not until I get that last piece of Blueberry Pie! And a cup of decafe.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
PC; Do you think we can sort of push it over there?
Oh and BTW we used to refer to London as the Miami of the north---because we have had a lot of really mild winters at one point-----
Snow, Snow, Snow. And now flooding. What next?
Hi, Gang. I missed a day or two. I will have a RBF, please.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Evening all from OvercastCal.
We were supposed to have a storm today, but it decided to tweak out and all of the storms are supposed to move north for a week. WAY north, like somewhere around British Columbia. So the weather people here are bouncing up and down with big smiles on their faces saying how PERFECT the weather is going to be for a while.
YO, GANG, WE NEED WET! We're coming into a 3rd year Drought here, remember?
Okay, enough female dogging from this end.
Played my buddy's Funeral Mass today--I told you about his passing a few days ago. Jim was a major choir director in this area, and it went beautifully. Many members of his former choirs showed up, and I'm thinking that he was Up There looking down and saying "Okay, I'm not hear to lead you, but you're not doing bad at all." We did the Mozart "Ave Verum Corpus" a-capella (which means I didn't accompany them) and it was superb. The rest of the music worked well. Kay, his widow, the Priest and myself finally came to an agreement a couple of days ago--the choir that we'd worked with had made a recording of secular music some years back, and he allowed that to be played before the Mass started. So, musically, I think it turned out to be what Jim might have wanted.
I came home and crashed for about four hours just from the emotional experience. Gonna miss my buddy, and this area is going to be musically a lot poorer from his Passing, but if St. Cecilia needs an Assistant Conductor Up There, all she has to do is look into the Tenor section. Jim's ready to help.
Eric: If you're having trouble with cell-phones in NJ, we're having a WHALE of a time with them out here in SunnyCal. It's been illegal for over a month, but you should see all of those self-important businessmen (and Soccer Mom's) in their SUV's, still rolling around here on the streets, phones slammed to their empty heads, running stop-lights and smashing into pedestrians. Some people just DON'T LEARN!!
PC and Sawyer: That GARFIELD cartoon is a Bloody Hoot!! Especially since I have TWO of them owning my house and letting me live there. I love that cat!
Unca Roggie: What a gorgeous photo of one of my all-time favorite trains, the GS LIMITED. Rode it once from LA to Tucumcari, but it didn't go to New Orleans. But nevertheless, it was one LUXURY train!
Blownout: Aren't Hed-butts FUN? Remington has discovered the "Full-Power Head-Butt", usually while I'm on the computer. It's like his head is a Viking helmet, LOL!
Speaking of cats--and you knew I would--interesting thread on HO Cougars (or Mountain Lions as we call them out here in SunnyCal) the past couple of days. Of COURSE I've participated--I'd like a couple. We've decided to approach either Preiser or Mountain Miniatures for some. Frankly, I'd like to approach WS for some Maine Coons or Wegies, myself . Should be interesting to see what happens. I don't know about you guys, but the Preiser pllastic deer in my Tahoe National Forest seem to be proliferating when I'm not out there to keep an eye on them. An HO Mountain Lion should keep things in check.
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!
Hi all, not very hungry, what’s on the menu? Oh for PETE”S SAKE! I guess I’ll have the brisket and the blue plate special and a piece of Texas sheet cake.. Better have a small Diet Rite cola.
Unca Roggie-You? Hahahahahahahaha. I love to talk and love to hear what other people say.
The “Lipstick Tube” pickup was Danelectro's thing.(originally) Some store brands such as Silvertone,(I had one of those in the seventies) also had that style. But they were made by Danelectro and then subsequently by others. The Danelectro versions may be worth something if you find the right person. Phillips correct on the Page stuff never seen him with a ”Lipstick” though. Maybe he has. By no means am I an expert.
Robby- Careful they might be small cave dwelling Hippos. Sit out at night with a bag and a stick and when you……..
Digital- Let me get this straight, you’ve never had catfish, a medium to strong fish tasting,, delicious aquatic beast. (I’m sure the chef could give you a more accurate description than “nummy”), but you have eaten “mud bugs”???? Nuttin’ wrong with that, just seems backwards. Thought everybody has catfish. Eric is right on where they come from.
Jeff- Hurray for Louisiana, I agree with you there is nothing hdhiu ueugkj udugbcl ufueuiug h I I f u e euuhfo yfyyf yfoe ui . Oh I’m sorry, I had to text back to someone. What was it you were saying? Oh yeah the Shell station. Around here I, emphasis on I, have not seen a Shell station that big. Most around here were 2 bay service stations. However I have seen a Goodyear (or was it Goodrich) shop that looked remarkably like your model. Large doors and a large roof peak that made the building look large. In fact when I saw your pictures I said to myself, that looks just like the old Good---- shop in Springfield. So It would stand to reason somewhere there is or was a Shell station (or any number of brands) just like that. And if not who cares? As a mechanic I like it.
CN Charlie- BALMY??! -25 BALMY????!
On the subject of phones, I survived a good portion of my life without having a phone stuck to me and made it just fine. Cell phones IMHO provide a great service in the case of emergencies and I think they are great. I feel good knowing that my wife or my mother when on the road can call for help or me if needed. ( I don’t care if my children can call me because they usually want money to pay their cell phone charges. They just keep trying, resilient little buggers) But just to call and chat no. And when you’re busy and can’t answer right away they act like I should stop what I’m doing and answer the phone “How come you didn’t answer?” I’m not a big fan of the phone anyway. Can you tell? Besides we have enough trouble with drivers not paying attention to what they are doing. They've got more important things to do!
You have to admit the way this forum shows up from one page to the next, you never get bored with the same old look.
Well better hit the hay. Prayers for those in need. Especially for those in the flooding areas.Stay warm and dry
Todd
(See Unca. Told ya he he )
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Hey, Tom, we are longing for some of that California sunshine. I would say ship it to us, but with I-5 closed not much is getting through. If we had a pipeline, we could send some of this water south.
I'll have a Lobster Plate with a small Orange juice---I'm getting a sore throat--oh frabjious joy---don't mind my odd verbiage, I get this way when I've gotta code cobbig ond---
I'm going to sit back here and admire the fine locos we got around here---
Tom; Right now 'Spring' has curled up between my arms so I'm doing the one finger quick poke at the keyboard----
Speaking of guitars---I have, in this house, a 1965 ca BURNS 'Baby Bison' with a Jim Burns vibrato and a 1966 Gibson SG that has been around the mill a few times---I've changed the pick ups at least twice and redid the circuitry I don't know how many times, the finish we just gave up on---I use an old Princeton Amp for both. There is only so much space in this place for stuff---
Sue; How much rain fell?---and with all that snow?---SHEESH!!!
BC- Cool guitars! I don't have anything near like those babies. What I do have is a Fender Vintage '52 Telecaster (the reissues), a Mexican telecaster, and a Cyber Deluxe amp. Also a Martin D-28 and a no name guitar that my father got for a high school grad present in about 1935. Looks like an old Gibson 35 (I think that's right can't remember the number for sure. It has f holes) but isn't. Think it came from Monkey Wards. Talk about a high action! That thing is a finger bleeder!
Barry, Sorry I didn't keep track of how much rain, but it was crazy like 12/07. I-5 is still closed due to flooding. And the passes are closed due to mudslides or avalanches. We are high and dry, but travel is compromised. Larry is getting a lot of time off.
Tom.... I am sure the funeral mass as very emotional for you. I was good of you to tell us about it.
Todd; The Burns guitar has a WWIIIIIIIIDDDE neck---My stumpy fingers couldn't reach far enough---ended up using my thumb to rest neck on. That one also has very stable tuning--I dropped the thing on its head and nothing went out of tune!! I call this guitar MOOSE! The SG won't die---It has next to no actual finish to it but the tone---OY---I got this from my grandfather when I was 12---I'm surprised the thing is still around---- The Burns came from a pawn shop---yes I go to them---you never know what you'd find there---Burns came at the ridiculous price of $75cdn!---
Still awake on the west coast.
Little story about how I came up with the photo of the Palm Springs depot....I was snooping around on the northwest end of this town, once the playground of Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, as well as others from Tinseltown, looking for some down time.
Some of you have seen the pix from the two dioramas I made up in Canada, to pose my armchair modelling pieces on. I have some stuff down here, too.
The natural background that will appear when I photograph the diorama I'll soon start on, will of course be desert and palm trees...so I thought I'd scout out a good place, hopefully over near where that depot in the old shot, stands.
I couldn't find it. Stopped into the strange looking building known as the INFORMATION CENTER, and the two people manning the counter, near my age, did not recall any such place...but said there's an AMTRAK stop over near the I-10 Freeway offramp.
I scoot over there, and find something about the size of a FOTOMAT kiosk, that now serves as the passenger station for Palm Springs, (owing to how no one in their right mind comes here, on a train anymore.)
A cop hanging around there, tells me there WAS a real depot, years ago...and heads me over to a place on the same street as that information center. Only, its not there anymore. I do a Google Earth on the area, and spot an EMPTY LOT from space, where it was.
A long internet search later, I found that colour depot shot, and the other one I'll include here, this time. I'm STILL going to yard my project over to where that depot once stood, just for the "history" of it all.
I'll prop it up on my car trunk, and the background will be what you'd see if you were standing waiting for a train...its real undeveloped out there, so very little would be changed, from the 50's!
Stay tuned for the outcome, in a couple months {the thread will probably be called "UNCA ROGGIE NEARLY GETS BITTEN BY A RATTLESNAKE WHILE SHOOTING DIORAMA PHOTOS"----or something like that}
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Steak and eggs, and a cup of black coffee please. Sue, glad to hear you guys are ok down there. Kitsap County is pretty wet. My buddy had 5 inches of water in his basement. I borrowed a pneumatic bilge pump from work this morning when I left and droped it off at his house, and picked it back up on my way in this evening. I feel bad for the guy, he just finished remodeling the basement a month ago.
Anyhow, looks like the weather is gonna let up until Saturday night. I got a few packages in the mail today. I picked up an MDC one story building of ebay for 99 cents, and Tonopah and Tidewater boxcar for a couple of bucks. That boxcar is OLD. The little mini catalog that was in the box had a copyright date of 1968. It needs some TLC to get it back into shape.
I love working graves. I'm a night owl anyway, so I'm up, I've got a full shift of people to talk to, and there's hardly any work to do past 0100. Speaking of work, I need to generate a new watchbill for next week. Catch ya'll later.
Good morning. It's 53 and cloudy. The high should be in the mid 70's and it will be partly cloudy. Got a lot of work done on the Shell station yesterday but there's still more to be done. Most of the work done was on the outside. What remains has to be done on the inside and I'll have to scratchbuild some things for that. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/9/2009 Wind Chill: 52°F Humidity: 91% Dew Point: 51°F So Far Today High: 54°F Low: 50°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 5mph SSE Today High: 75 Partly cloudy. Patchy fog early in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 58 Partly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers in the evening...then a 50 percent chance after midnight. Warmer. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Dang....we are getting to be a bunch of Hemingways in the Diner these days...6 + pages since yesterday morning.
WOW, two full days with more sun than clouds, I don't know how to act anymore!!!!
Jim and Unca Roggie, glad you liked the "name changes".
Tom, thoughts and prayers for you and the family of your buddy.
Jeff, how much is the gasline per gallon at your Shell station? Nice addition to the layout.
And Unca Roggie, ditto on the GS Limited, great image you got there. Oh...and great back story too of how you researched the Palm Springs station. Took a family vacation and went through and stayed in Palm Springs for a few days. We took a sky cable thingy up to a mountain top around there and visited the Joshua Tree Natl Pk also.
PC, you got me beat, thats colder than here! But 24 is still cold enough for me!
To answer the CATFISH question. Most catfish for sale in restaurants is farm raised and feed grain, so the taste is not fishy at all, but is a firm flaky fish great for blackening too.
Now crawfish is a whole other story! The best crawfish in Louisiana comes from Bell River!
AN AMAZING COINCIDENCEIn 1929 American novelist Thomas Wolfe told a friend that his next book would take place aboard a train. He planned to call it K-19, after the number of the railroad car in which the characters rode. He never wrote the story, but when he died in 1938, Wolfe's body was shipped home for burial by train. The number of the railroad car in which his body was placed: K-19.
And now....today's lunch and dinner specials...
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
SilverSpikeJeff, how much is the gasline per gallon at your Shell station? Nice addition to the layout.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hello and Good Morning---We are expecting a mix of Sun/cloudwith a 60% of snowflurries---a high of -6C expected with a low tonight of -11C. Tomorrow will be cloudy with periods of snow; total amount around 7-9cm. tomorrows high will be -5C.
There was a curfuffle in our backyard last night---couple of critters crossed paths and argued with each other----
Roggie; The station in the photo no longer exists? And they replaced that with a whatsit?
I'll have a western omelette and a coffee please---
Good Morning All,
Just a regular to go please Zoe. Lots to do again today, but I wanted to pop in and say hi - Hi.
Lee - funny thing about prop shaft seals - we almost lost the Saratoga in Naples Italy harbour when the prop shaft seal went whilst standing still. Fortunately the on duty engine room watch spotted it and she didn't sink though it was a serious leak. Carriers are not designed to be submersible. CUL, J.R.
I'll have the bacon and eggs.