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

[pcarrell]

Morning all!

           
OK, It's that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.

Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of intelligence.

Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not. The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.

OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.

1. What do you put in a toaster?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: 'bread.' If you said
'toast,' give up now and do something else.
Try not to hurt yourself. If you
said, bread, go to Question 2.

 
2. Say 'silk' five times.
Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: Cows drink water. If you
said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question.
Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content
yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as
Auto World. However, if you said 'water', proceed to
question 3.

 
3. If a red house is made from red
bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink
house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made
from black bricks, what is a green house made from?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: Greenhouses are made from
glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why the hell are
you still reading these???
If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.
 

4. It's twenty years ago, and a
plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will
recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into
West Germany and East Germany.) Anyw ay, during the flight,
two engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last
remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing
procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he can do
so and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of
'no man's land' between East Germany and West
Germany. Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany,
West Germany, or no man's land'?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: You don't bury survivors.
If you said ANYTHING else,
you're a dunce and you must stop. If you said, 'You
don't bury survivors', proceed to the next question.

 

5. Without using a calculator - You
are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In
London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get
off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people
get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 1 1 people get off and
16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five
people get on . In! Carmath en, six people get off and three
get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven.
What was the name of the bus driver?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your ow name? It was YOU!!

PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions!!

OK, I'll quit picking on you now! (I failed too!)

[LSWrr]

Good morning, Today: A slight chance of flurries before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. West wind between 9 and 13 mph.

Tonight: A chance of snow showers after 10pm. Cloudy, with a low around 32. Windy, with a south wind 15 to 18 mph becoming west between 25 and 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. 

Morgan – Congratulations on the National Honor Society induction! 

Tom – Can he open pickle jars?  Might be a handy talent to have around the home.

 Blownout cylinder  - Welcome to the diner! Tell us a little about what you’re modeling and about yourself. 

John – With MSWORD 2003 I use Shift-Enter on my returns and things seem to work better.  I don’t have any problems pasting from MSWORD 2007.  I also changed the page settings in word to 7.25” x 10.5” (internet web page size).

 

Jeff – I hope things get better with that foot. I have a friend up here that is not going to the doctor, “forgets to eat” and is just not taking care of him self.  A group of us is taking turns with his kids going over to his house to get him back on the beaten path; the guy lost his big toe because of a blister he refused to tell the doctor about or his family.  Any suggestions on how to get him back on the straight and narrow?  It’s almost like he has given up or something.

 

Nice scrap load.

 

OK, time to go to work, I’ll check back on lunch break to see what is going on.

 Great now that I opened my mouth the formatting issues are back, LOL

 Lee

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good morning.

It's 37 and clear. The high will be around the mid 60's and it will be partly cloudy.

Didn't get much done on the layout yesterday as I'm getting used to this new antibiotic the foot doc has me on. He said it would cause some drowsiness initially. One thing I did get done was to make up a load for my 50' D&RGW gondola. It's several loco axles, some tin sheets, a bunch of knuckle coupler clones and some assorted junk.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      11/19/2008

Wind Chill:  37°F
Humidity:  81%
Dew Point:  32°F

So Far Today
High:  38°F
Low:  35°F
Rain:  0.00"
Rain Rate:  0.00"/h
Gust:  0mph NNE

Today  High: 65    Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight  Low: 45    Partly cloudy. Areas of fog in the late evening and overnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds around 5 mph.

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[sleeper33]

well goodnight all

see you tomorrow

 

[der5997]

Bergie: Thanks for the explanation.

Whenever, grabbing text from another source, it's helpful to paste it first into something that will make it truly text only. I used Notepad on my PC. I copy the text, paste it into Notepad, then cut it out of Notepad and paste it in it's final destination. It keeps extraneous code for formatting from being carried to the final destination of the text.

...Why is it when I use MSWORD as my program to write posts for the Forum, and Copy and Paste into the Reply message field, all the paragraph spacing is lost, and the thing comes up as one block of text?

Also, when that happens, merely hitting ENTER at the appropriate places in order to put the paragraph spacing back in does not work. I find I have to ENTER 4 perhaps 5 times to get a gap between paragrahps in the final post (everything looks good in Preview, but it doesn't post that way.) This leadds to longer posts than you or I, or anyone else would like. Is the answer to CUT rather than COPY from WORD? Why would that make a difference?

[blownout cylinder]

Good evening from a newby. I too have a furry wonder who 'finds' things and brings them to me. I gave up trying to figure these things out after 'Spring' (the wondercat) managed just that very thing with an articulated I have in a display case we set up.

I even have to make sure the guy doesn't set up camp in one of the tunnels to a helix I just (Finally!! ) built. He seems to think he is the structural inspection department head here...

[Flashwave]

Tom tom tom...

twhite

Right now, I"ve backed a chair up to the display case.  This is going to be really INTERESTING!  I just hope that Remi doesn't find out how to move the darned chair during the night. 

Other cultures refer to that kind of chair as a "ramp" 

This is the all enclusive plug that snaps over locks on the loco end and has a few brass colored prongs correct? I've sperated am 0-8-0 by pulling on them. (heavy derailed train) the screw that holds the bottom latch plate on ight be loose enough to let it freeplay. I dunno.

Smart guy.

 

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: Since Bergie is buying I'll have the pork loin. Has anyone told Bergie about Vinnie?

Tom that was me and from now on listen. Good thing it was just the tender and not the locomotive. I guess that was the appitizer. If that had been a Yellowstone tender you may have had some touch up of the paint.

I went in today for lab work for my appointment with the doctor Thursday. On the way out I stepped on the scale to check my weight. I'm supposed to loose 20 lbs. Well I didn't loose any in fact I gained 10. I can feel it also. I can't figure out why I can't loose even a little when I get so much excersize. I guess I'll have to try harder.

I spent the day mostly out in the shop cleaning up. I added three shelves to one of the shelf stacks. One in between each of the lower shelves. That really gave me a lot more space and I got much stuff sorted and labled in bin boxes. I even found a bunch of stuff that I had been looking for. I guess this is what it's like to be an archeologist.

They finally got the gas wekk on line again. It's been a month so the next couple of checks will be very small. No room for MRRing funds.

It's good to see Ryan back in. Of course it will make it harder for me to loose some of this extra ballast.

Morgan that's outstanding work getting into the honor society. Keep it up.

Well I'm off to the showers and bed.

Good Night All

[sleeper33]

Werll not much to tell really Garry

Whent to DC. as usual did a Kliens raid and hobbytown in Fredrick then went to Brunswick which has a wicked layout of the RRarea as was old B&O then bummed round Leesburg for the remeainder of the time

 

[twhite]

Evening all. 

Little thing happened today.  As you might know, I'm keeping the new cat Remington in the music room until he gets used to the idea that he has a new home.  He and Spooky whack at each other under the door (paws only) and so far no hissing.  When I let Remiington out, Spooky is safely ensconsed in my bedroom, sprawled on the pillows, snoring peacefully.  Okay, THAT'S working.  I'm not introducing them until they're TOTALLY comfortable with sniffing each other.  The Rescue Society suggest two weeks since they're both adult cats.   

Now remember, locomotive case is in the Music Room.  This morning, after feeding Spooky, I put her in the bedroom.  Open the Music Room door to feed Remington.  He's sitting at the door looking up at me with a TENDER in his paws.  "Hey, daddy, look what I found!"  I glance to the back of the room where the locomotive case is.  It's open.  I glance down at the tender.  Back at the case.  There's a Mallet in there with no tender.  Tender is HERE!   I gently take the tender from his paws, go to the back of the room to the case, he's following me, 'chirping' (Maine Coons don't 'meow', BTW, they 'chirp.' you'd think a cat that size would have a 'meow' that would blow you out of the room).  How he did it is beyond me, because it's a very strong magnetic lock.  But how he got the tender away from the locomotive is REALLY beyond me, because it was a Proto 2000 2-8-8-2 with one of those clips that goes from the loco to the tender.  And I never disconnect those things.  The tender is undamaged, the plugs are fine, I have NO idea how this clever little critter did what he did, but after retrieving the tender and taking both out to the garage and seeing that re-connected they work fine (well, that 2-8-8-2 pulls just as light as it ever did, LOL!) .  Meanwhile, Remington is chomping down on his chicken and beef. 

Who said he was going to bypass the cabeese and go directly to the Yellowstones?  YOU'RE RIGHT! 

Right now, I"ve backed a chair up to the display case.  This is going to be really INTERESTING!  I just hope that Remi doesn't find out how to move the darned chair during the night. 

Still trying to figure out how he disconnected that plug. 

Tom    

[SilverSpike]

Heartland Division CB&Q

Well, well, well ..........

Thanks Ryan!  That stuffed pork loin looks better than great. I bet that's a secret recipe for the apple stuffing...

Hey Garry, glad that you liked the Roast Pork Loin, for the recipe just click my Cajun Chef Ryan URL listed here: http://cajunchefryan.rymocs.com/blog2/recipes/pork-loin-cornbread-apple-stuffing/ 

Regards,

Ryan

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Well, well, well ..........

Thanks Ryan!  That stuffed pork loin looks better than great. I bet that's a secret recipe for the apple stuffing. Jim CG is having beef kabob and Jeff is having pinapple chicken. Hmmmmm.... those might be good on other days, but not when Chef Ryan is in the diner.

Good to hear from Gav...Feel free to tell more about the trip across the pond, Gav. 

I'm still working on my layout expansion. As I have said it is a two level part of the alyout with a reverse loop on each level. My lower level track is in place. Today, I started running trains on it.  So far, I have no problems with derailments. That means that soon I may be building the upper level.

Happy Model Roading!  

 

 

[Flashwave]

Oh boy! Food on the Mod's tab!

I believe the yellow boxes are of an earlier era of Accurail. They changed to white. Or maybe it's the other way around. I;ve gotten 89ft flats in both colors.

I didn't tell you guys last night. I got inducted in National Honor's Society. I feel so honored I was asked, it wa smore just the way I do life than striving for it. But I'm eacer to be a part.

[sleeper33]

Evening all

I think I'll have a tea to start with please Zoe

Well whats new in the land of Gav. Just got back from over the pond with a bag full of goodies and been to the NMRA-BR convention wher I purchased moer goodies and my dcc controller and now Im skint.

 Jim the cherubs are the same as usual , darn I wish I could get something stronger than tea,

also the layout is up and running in dc at mo but it lives.

well thats all for now

I'll be at the counter if anyone needs me

 

[pcarrell]

JimRCGMO

PC, how hard is your ground, and will you be using a manual auger, or a power one with a tractor or such? Could be a lot of work if it's manual. (I think she got the better end of the deal in terms of work required for what she got vs. what you got, but that's just my ... 

Ground isn't frozen yet, and I'm going with a hand held power auger.

And yes, I'm SURE she got the better end of the deal!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Check it out! Bergie's buying this time around. I'll have the pineapple bbq chicken.

[LSWrr]

Jim,

Most of the stock numbers for Accurail are 211-#### Accurail uses the number on the car as the stock number.  So far all the cars I've built with a BLT date of pre WWII are yellow box. Those box car models are BLT 5-32 and they are outside braced wood box cars.  The 1955 TOFC kit I built was a white box and the frame was all one peice like an Athren kit and the instructions were easier to read.

Bowser kits will make your heart skip a beat, the directions for the 70 ton coverd hoppers has instructions to build the 70 ton hopper on one side and instructions for the 4 bay 100,000 pound hopper on the other.

Branchline trains use large nuts for car weights, a little unorthadox but if it keep the  prices low so be it.

Lee

[Bergie]

jeffrey-wimberly

 This infinite right margin is a real PITB!

I just fixed that problem, so I just want you guys to know why that happened...

On page 60, Lee's post with the weather forecast came from another site. I assume it was copied and pasted directly from another source. That, unfortunately, brought the lack of text wrap over to his post.

Whenever, grabbing text from another source, it's helpful to paste it first into something that will make it truly text only. I used Notepad on my PC. I copy the text, paste it into Notepad, then cut it out of Notepad and paste it in it's final destination. It keeps extraneous code for formatting from being carried to the final destination of the text.

I hope this makes sense. If you ever see other pages that are getting blown out to the right side and can pinpoint which post is the culprit, please click the report abuse link at the bottom of that post and let our moderators know about it. We'll fix it.

It almost always has to do the the poster (the font, the length of a link, the size of an image, the width of a signature image) and rarely has to do with the forum itself.

Thanks,
Bergie

 

[JimRCGMO]

LSWrr

The yellow kits are a little harder to assemble, the I beam on the bottom of the car is in 2 peices and you have the standard 3 part undercarriage brake system.

The white box has a single peice I beam, 3 part brake system and is pretty easy to asemble.

 

Hmm, so I've been assembling Accurail-Kits-For-Dummies all along and didn't know it, huh, Lee? Are the yellow boxes a different stock number from Walthers, I wonder?

PC, how hard is your ground, and will you be using a manual auger, or a power one with a tractor or such? Could be a lot of work if it's manual. (I think she got the better end of the deal in terms of work required for what she got vs. what you got, but that's just my ... 

Jerry, sounds like you're having some fun there today.  

Think I'll have a couple of beef kabobs and a Dr. Pepper, Zoe. Thanks! Oh wait, Zoe - after seeing that Pork Loin Roast, I'll have some of that instead of the kabobs, please.

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau
 

[SilverSpike]

 Wow take a look at all dat new white stuff you all gettin'! We had a light dusting of the flurry white stuff this afternoon, but no sticking here, but getting frigid temps tonite! I'm not gonna say that four letter word as not to offend..... and to keep my hat on too...

My bad Garry! I've been lacking in my culinary Diner "Full Meal Deal" duties lately!  Did'nt think anyone would notice...

So....without further ado...here is what I been cookin' up lately at the homestead....

Red Beans and Brown Rice with some Creamed Spinach on the side

 

 Pork Loan Roast with Cornbread Apple Stuffing

 

[der5997]

Lee:

I think I’ve cleaned out all my non-period correct rolling stock  

... I'd like to work towards that, but am near totally ignorant of what was built when (and date built data often is unreadable in N, at least in the stuff I have) One can't tell from ads in magazines anyway.  Is there a website that gives years of production, or better, years of general service, for various types of cars?

CapeJim:  I'll join you in that corner, if you don't mind.  A black tea, and a nsa oatmeal cookie would be fine, thanks Janie.  We'll let Jim off lightly this time!

On last night's weather, it looked like Indiana, Ohio, and western NY were gonna be getting the lake effect stuff. Me? I just had a little frost on the windshield this morning. (I figure our turn will be in Jan./Feb.).

...Got our yard pretty much put to bed over the last 2 days, and ate the final strawberry yesterday (nothing to get excited over for size, just about a large wild one!), but 16th November is about as late as we've been able to do that!  Cooler here today, with a steady rain. Snow was mentioned for some parts of Nova Scotia, but it hasn't happened here yet. However, a white Christmas is being talked about by some of the weather guessers...we shall see.

Terry:

Paragraph notice that the moderators would review my post and notify me if it was accepted

...sounds like a severe case of Miscrosoftitis, like when my computer tells me I don't have authorization to do some thig or other..it's my computer d**n it. Who do they think they are?That's a great layout, thanks for posting those pics.  I especially like the look of the train Andrrew is operating.

Rosie-the-dog is making "where's my dinner" noises, and it's half an hour to that time. I'm going to use it to paint the redesigned doohickies for the crane power cable suspension points I was able to make last night.

CapeJim:  I'll join you in that corner, if you don't mind.  A black tea, and an nsa oatmenl cookie would be fine, thanks Janie.  We'll let Jim off lightly this time!

On last night's weather, it looked like Indiana, Ohio, and western NY were gonna be getting the lake effect stuff. Me? I just had a little frost on the windshield this morning. (I figure our turn will be in Jan./Feb.).

...Got our yard pretty much put to bed over the last 2 days, and eat the final strawberry yesterday (nothing to get excited over for size, just about a large wild one!), but 16th November is about as late as we've been able to do that!  Cooler here today, with a steady rain. Snow was mentioned for some parts of Nova sCotia, but it hasn't happened here yet. However, a white Christmas is being talked about by some of the weather guessers...we shall see.

Terry:

Paragraph notice that the moderators would review my post and notify me if it was accepted

...sounds like a severe case of Miscrosoftitis, like when my computer tells me I don't have authorization to do some thig or other..it's my computer d**n it. Who do they think they are?That's a great layout, thanks for posting those pics.  I especially like the look of the train Andrew is operating.

I hear Rosie-the-dog making "where's  my dinner?" noises. It's half an hour too early for that, so I'll go paint the doohickies for the power cable suspension points on the crane I was able to make last night.

TTFN.

[der5997]

Jeff:

That's why my photos are all reduced to 800x600 by Photobucket automatically when I upload them. If I left them at the size they come from the camera the folks on dial-up would never forgive me.

...Yes, I do the same, adjusting to about 800 on larger dimension, but BEFORE up loading to Photobucket.  That's because when I haven't, I've found the result in posting to here from Photobucket has been the wide margin gremlin...I don't know why, but I've seen it happen and now I avoid it if I can.

[LSWrr]

The yellow kits are a little harder to assemble, the I beam on the bottom of the car is in 2 peices and you have the standard 3 part undercarriage brake system.

The white box has a single peice I beam, 3 part brake system and is pretty easy to asemble.

[pcarrell]

JimRCGMO

PC - what's your wife's backyard project in -20 F weather? Digging for a new patio's foundation? I thought outside projects stopped when the cold weather hit. Better dress warmly.

You're closer to hitting the nail on the head then you think!

I need to get a ground auger and dig some post holes.  Then I need to plant the posts and connect them all together (make boxes), then fill the boxes with pea gravel.  The tricky part is that the whole thing is on a slope.  We have to get this done before the hot tub can go in.

Oh, and it's +20 waether, not minus.  If it was minus then I'd tell her to wait for spring!

[Cederstrand]

refill, please & thanks.

***Jerry, must be great to have a finished layout (or at least track) to run trains. Something I really look forward to next year.

***Terry, will check out those pics this evening. Too much glare on the puter screen here this time of day.

Rob

[C&O Fan]

jeffrey-wimberly

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[Cox 47]

Good Morning All...Its sunny and 28 here...I'll have a sweet roll and coffee please..Thank You....I have the IC SW 8 on the line now doing laps it seems to run better the longer it runs...Also working on a couple of Piggy Back cars..Painting and weathering the deck..Hope I can pick up a couple more for a pig train...Since my railroad is so small I plan to run it as a run thru from the IC Train 51 and 52...You all have a good one...Jerry

[Cederstrand]

in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thank you.

It is currently 37 degrees with a high today of 44. Painters are working on the outside porches. Wonder how/if the paint is going to set OK?

Off to do critter rounds. Rob

[jeffrey-wimberly]

C&O Fan

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