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

[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.

[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.

 

 

[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

[Packers#1]

HAPPY TURKEY DAY FOLKS!

[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

[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! 

[pcarrell]

Happy Turkey Day!

[gear-jammer]

    Happy Thanksgiving

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

sue

[LSWrr]

Happy thanksgiving to everyone...

Hi 41 here today......

Lee

[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.

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[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.

[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

 

[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

[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

[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....

[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

 

[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

[sleeper33]

Nice bridge there Jeff

and nice pics as well

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

trough in all

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 That's coming. Be patient.

[blownout cylinder]

Jeff; Now all you need are a couple of people up there trying to get pix of the trains...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Today I got the bridge leveled up. The bubble doesn't lie.



Here's a little action shot for you.

[Flashwave]

Happy Model Railroader Recruitment Season!!!!

I saw my first christmas set at Target tonight, So we'll get the lost O scalers with broken trains, they'll be pointed to the right forum, then come back and fog up our windows when the see all of our fun with HO&N <<Shameless plug 

Guy walked into my LHS tonight when I was in wanted help replacing the plastic Christmas Battery train track with metal track. G I think, or a narrow gauge there of.

G'Night, Happy Birthdays, Happy Turkey Day, and Leftovers Week.

[Robby P.]

Boy we have alot of November babies!!! 

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

LSWrr

Jeff, good thing you keep an eye on that BP!  I hope everything works out for you.

I check my blood pressure three times a week and my blood sugar level three times a day.

[blownout cylinder]

We are trying out some Honey glazed Roast Venison. This ought to be interesting

We threw the mashed potatoes veggies and a gravy made with dk stout together as well and my sister is coming over the weekend (which is when we are doing this. ) to do all the above with us...

As for tomorrow I'm doing up something with cornish hens...

now if only I could find the tree plug...

[howmus]

LSWrr

What’s on the menu for the diner tomorrow? Is everyone heading out for dinner with family?

 

Well, here at my house, the Turkey is thawing in the refrigerator, Winter Squash has been cooked down and ready to be baked, And don't tell PC, but the pumpkin pies are in the oven.  Man do they smell good! I will be making my Grandmother's secret bread stuffing that is always a big hit along with mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and, of course, some good Finger Lakes wine (I'm talking some of the best in the world made with local grapes grown on the shores of beautiful Seneca Lake)!  My sister from Canandiagua will be bringing cabbage salad.  Both my sons will be here and my daughter in law not to mention granddaughter.  Both my sisters will be here as well.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody ...

Lee asked what's up for TG. I would like to see the responses.

Of course, all our model railroad friends from Canada, Mexico, England, Germany, Australia, Sweden, and everywhere else are welcome to shrae in the festivities.

Here we are having family members from Ohio and Michigan.  It will be a busy 4 days. Of course, when I show off the layout, no gremlins will distrub operations.

My gratitude this holiday will be similar to Texas Terry's although not at all the same. I certainly understand his suffering with cancer. I think Jeff has much to be thankful for, too. It's good the doctors can control diabetes for Jeff. In my case, as you know, I had a little heart surgery in May, and in August my heart acted up. In August, the defibrillator re-started my heart several times. I can now attest, that there is something waiting for us when our bodies die, and I am thankful to know that. I'm thankful to be allive. My layout needs more work!

Happy Model Railroading.  

 

 

[sleeper33]

cylinder

youve got 1 loopy cat there mate

evening all and birthday greetings to all concerned

 tea please girls. well the little cherubs are out on the drink again tonight some in fancy dress so lookin like an interesting evening.

 Rob youd fit in as it seems like country wear/ farming decore.

oh well i'll be at the counter if anybody wants me

 

[blownout cylinder]

Tom; 'Spring' did me a wake up call that involved his charging into the kitchen leap onto microwave>top of cupboard over sink>leap to cupboard over stove>onto kichen chair by so-called office amoire back into spare bedroom whereupon one hears a loud "MOOOWWW??"----only to see a repeat performance of such..and then people wonder why we collect strange twitches the older we get...