Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
THIS DINER IS CLOSED!
The new one is HERE.
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 from Tipton IN !
<<tip toeing and whispering>>......I'll just sneak in round the back side and pick up the last of those pies that Flo, Janie and Chloe forgot to send over from the back pie shelf....
Hey, Duke, wake up, they done moved the diner again!
Now there's that ice cream......gonna head back to the new place on the hand car....
Here's the new place!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
JimRCGMOMaybe we need to move the Diner before page 200...
Already done!
THIS PLACE IS CLOSED!
Got the dreaded Timeout Error message - and posted a copy of it for Bergie. Maybe we need to move the Diner before page 200...
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Well alrighty then, guess I'll grab this bull by the horns and see if I can ride it!
OK everyone, grab your drinks. They're coupling up now to move us over a few tracks!
Here's a link to the new place!
See you there!
Jeff,
I have some spare HO-Scale gas pumps if your interested.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good FRIDAY Morning, Zoe, Diners! Zoe, I'll have a glass of Ed's finest OJ, and a cup of coffee, please, 'n' thank you, ma'am. I'll sit a while and then order lunch.
Eric, I think you're 'preaching to the choir' in here. I have a work cell, but don't even want one for my own. (But that's because I think pretty much all cell plans suck. Of course, that's just my ). What'll get to me is people who are in some meeting or small group at church and someone's texting them or calling them. (It is okay to not answer it, y'know?) As others have said though, the law will only slightly slow down those who don't see it as a problem to begin with. (okay, stepping down off the now...)
Jason, I'd agree with your thing - I don't want it to be easy for work to reach me when I'm not at work...
Jeff, with those pumps out front, that Shell station still looks like it could stand a couple or four more pumps. You're right, you might be able to fit a small switcher in there... (Just teasing you a little). Will that be a full-service station?
CN Charlie - I have confidence in you, Johnboy and Barry to be able to out-freeze PC. Heck, winter hasn't even got started up there yet, has it?
PC? Charlie will see your (+)5 F low, and raise (lower?) you another dozen degrees!
blownout cylinderOh 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-----
Sue, the way your weather up there has been, maybe we should send you the plans for that ark. Hope you get some clearing up of your skies there before too long. Though from the weather stuff I'm seeing, things aren't looking too promising...Hope things clear up so Larry can get back sometime to work.
Todd, now you have me drooling over your D-28 - I have friends who have Martins (one has a 000-28, and I think another has a Dreadnought of some kind). My current guitar is an Epiphone Texan, got it back in the late 60's - traded my Gibson 'folk' guitar (the one they made with the white half-pickguard) in to the guitar store; the owner's daughter wanted it, so I got a good deal. Needs refretting, and (if I have the money when I do that) I want to install a pickup in it with a jack at the bottom. But that's on the 'later' list for now.
Tom, I'm sure you and the others did your friend Jim proud, as you said. Good that you were able to get a little more of the music he loved 'in' the funeral service.
Unca Roggie - great job on the photo (is that the model, or the original depot?? Guess you're good enough that I can't tell...).Around here, no passenger stations, but we have the SSW/SP/UP (with BNSF trackage rights) that goes alongside our riverwall downtown. Only has crossarms on the road that goes through the wall on the north end to a small area (smaller when the river is up, and non-existent when the floodgates are closed in the spring), and exit out the south gate. I can hear the trains at night sometimes or in the mornings when I go out to my car, and I'm a couple of miles or more from downtown. And [#ditto] Barry's comment on 'modern' train stations vs. (Ahem...) REAL train stations.
Ryan - , when we get a bunch of Diners going (and more lately, since we got some new folks in), the pages mount up, don't they? And you've prepared another fantastic lunch menu, Chef! That was a great story about the writer and K-19, too.
JR, maybe we should ask Jason about those 'submersible' carriers?
pcarrell Oh man! You guys are lookin' to hang me out to dry!
Terry, good to see you back - we were thinking if we moved, we'd have to leave you a note on the post to tell you how to find the new location! Whatcha been doing on the layout and other stuff?
Zoe, I think I'll order that Blue Plate Special, and a bowl of that veggie soup, please. Oh yes, and a root beer float, thanks!
I'll let my food stop my mouth a while...
Blessings,
Wow i missed a week and there must be 20 pages of posts
Hi to all the new folks !
Guess i'd better slip into the back booth and read some of what i missed
TerryinTexas
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Lunch time here. I'll just get a cheeseburger to go. Friday is always busy here. Hope I don't have to work the weekend with the weather we are expecting. See everyone after work!
Eric
Mornin" everyone!
Flo, COFFEE!!! Please. And a hot bowl of Cream of Wheat would be nice with brown sugar. Pretty please (sorry for yelling). I am not awake. I didn't manage to crawl off to bed last night until well after 1AM.
Tom I am glad the service went well. Those are always difficult to do when it involves a close friend. I've done my share over the years................. The family is lucky to have you there to help. You are a gem!
Currently 21°F, the high for the day, here in the Finger Lakes. Forecasting a few scattered snow flurries for this morning and this afternoon. Low will be around 15°F tonight. The next week is forecast to be bitter cold. Glad I got the extra 2 cords of wood last year. By the end of next week I will be burning that wood......
Have to get going and do some cleaning and some shopping today. Have a client coming over tomorrow to do a recording as a present for her kids Grandfather. Birthday present I believe. Shouldn't be terribly involved once I figure out what miking will work the best for a flute trio....... (Mother and two daughters).
Have a great day, and please leave directions to where the dining car gets set please.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning. Off to work.
Jason, Stay safe working in those flood waters. Remember to sanitize things well. Larry's normal run is between Ranier, OR, and BC. Sounds like they may open I-5 as early as this afternoon. My brother may have dodged a bullet. Looks like some of the rivers crested sooner than the prediction.
Later,
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Oh man! You guys are lookin' to hang me out to dry!
Phil; I think that would be a good idea----could we?
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/
I AGREE, but the person that opens the new diner is responsible for the trail of bread crumbs as well and going back to fetch the stragglers.
I think PC should do it; last time we changed we also had the modernization of the forms and the birds ate all the bread crumbs and Rob’s wife announced she wanted a circus train, my girlfriend demanded a creamery built on the LS&W, dogs and cats were living together, it was horrible! I think PC can give us a smooth transition to the new diner and be completely responsible if things go bad.
PS: PC your welcome.
Mornin' all!
Another brisk morning here. Guess thats about right for January in Indiana though, huh?
Gotta get that morning cup!
Well, I've been making room in the garage the last few evenings as some of you know. I'm trying to make enough room to get my hot tub shell in there so I can work on getting it up and running. See, about a month ago my wife came across a guy who had this hot tub shell that he was looking to get rid of. She bought the thing for $200. It needs plumbing work and since it originally sat sunk in a deck and we want a stand alone unit, I need to build a frame and cabinet for it (Never worked on a hot tub in my life and I know virtually nothing about them!). Well, last night my son and I got that shell into the garage. We were going to bring in the rest of the framing stuff, but it was frozen to the ground. Should be warm enough today (barely!) to free that stuff up, so I'll get it in tonight. Then this weekend I get to start looking in depth at that shell. I get to go through all the plumbing and all that stuff. Joy of joys, right?
**And you guys thought you had Hunny Do lists!**
Speaking of guitars, I have a few myself. I'll have to post a pic or two soon.
And what say the first person to hit page 200 gets to open a new Coffee Shop?
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I'll have the bacon and eggs.
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.
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---
SilverSpikeJeff, how much is the gasline per gallon at your Shell station? Nice addition to the layout.
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...
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.
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.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
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}
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!---