Ray... Really enjoyed your "traveling goat" story. When I was young, I heard about many family traditions like this for Christmas and the other holidays. For some reason, not so much these days. Too bad, as a lot of them were fun and meant a lot. When I was a kid, we always had visitors on Christmas Eve. They were guys my Dad grew up with. They were the single guys from the old gang. Either bachelors, widowers or now divorced. They did rounds on that night to visit all the married guys. (sometimes I think just to let those married see what they were missing) By the time they got to our house, they were all feeling pretty good. My mother wasn't too happy, but never said anything as she understood what it meant to my Dad to see those he grew up with at least once a year. My Dad kind of outlived most of them, and I would sometimes see him staring off to somewhere the rest of us couldn't go on subsequent Christmas Eve's. I always wished i had the ability to get them all together for one last time. Hope they are now. Tom
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good Morning!! Coffee and the Sunday Brekfast Buffet please. Thanks. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Wow. Slow in here yesterday or what? Didn’t make it to Nebo after all. Brenda slept until about 2:30 and by then it was too late to go. We might today if we get out of here a bit after noon. She has “Mom watch” til then.
Good Morning!! Coffee and the Sunday Brekfast Buffet please. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45.
Wow. Slow in here yesterday or what? Didn’t make it to Nebo after all. Brenda slept until about 2:30 and by then it was too late to go. We might today if we get out of here a bit after noon. She has “Mom watch” til then.
Ummmmm. Hm. (taps fingers on table) Yup……Welp, guess ain’t much else to say othern…..
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Todd
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.
Good Morning,
Ray, can’t you build it out of styrene?
I picked up two large plastic drawer organizers and 3 small ones yesterday and work in the basement continues. Everything will have a place and hopefully it will go there.
PRR Question (Curt put your thinking cap on): PRR passenger car interior colors, what were they? All I can find is black and white photos. The comments in the various books claim they were “bright and inviting” but that’s hard to imagine from a B&W picture.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Everyone!
Wow, what a night again! Though the predicted storm turned out to be just a little wind, it brought buckets of ra*n with it. November and December had been fairly dry months over here, but January seems to be compensating that. Time to move out of this place ...
Janie, I´ll have a big Sunday breakfast, with all the works and gallons of coffee, please. Thank you, dear!
Pascal liked the plan very much and will now start to re-draw in his software, which allows him to plan the benchwork as well. He wants to build the layout in segments.
There is a lot to say about modeling Swiss narrow gauge lines. Tight curves and steep grades are prototypical, you need only a minimum of track, yet you can operate many trains, as the prototype runs on a streetcar-like schedule. The Bernina Line operates a pair of trains on an hourly basis, weekends during summer up to 3 pairs. I love those little red locos and EMUs. If I only had the space & the funds ...
Ray - I love that little story about the Howard Family Goat. We have something like it in Petra´s family. It is a cap that shuttles back and forth between Oregon and Germany. Come to think of it, it is right now stuck in Oregon - for the last 8 years!
Y´all have a good one!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Sunday, January 8th, 2012, 1:07 AM EST!!!
Enjoy Your Day!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a decaf for me right now.... Oh heck, give me a piece of the chocolate cake over there. Guess I can afford a few more carbos today. I have been good up to now.
Took my sisters lawnmower up to her this afternoon. When I got there she answered the door in rather a huff but couldn't help laughing at the same time. She had just gotten a very late late Christmas Present from someone in the family. I was the, "You Got My Goat" family rotating present of a small replica of a goat THAT belonged to my Mother. She had bought this... Thing..... About a year before she died. It is a small plastic toy goat with real cat hair used on the outside.... It was laughable when Mom was alive. When I asked her why she wasted what little spending money she had on something like THAT, she would always, "I just like Beautiful things!" Believe me, the toy goat is anything but beautiful and set my Mom back about $50 at the time which she didn't have. After she died My sister insisted that I take the goat as a memento of Mother..... Most of the family knew the story of the horrible little goat, so I decided I should share it as a keepsake of my mother for all the family to share. And so it came to pass the "You've Got My Goat" present was created and has been circling the family for the last 6 years. When I did this I knew my sister in Canandaigua would probably be offended by it, so it started off on my other sister's (the reverend), side of the family. It went to both my son's and all of my other sister's family, and finally was sent to the sister in Canandaigua.
It was immediately put back into my possession this afternoon just an hour or so after she received it. She wasn't mad, but didn't want the d@mn%d thing in her house a minuet longer!!! She even signed the recipient list that stays with it. I now have to consider who might be the recipient of it next Christmas or maybe someones birthday....... Hmmmmm..... The documentation is:
Congratulations! You are the latest recipient of the —Howard Family"You’ve Got My Goat!"Revolving gift/present/temporary award.........In loving memory of Family Matriarch, Nina Ruth Cooley HowardJune 14, 1917 - June 25. 2005
Nina Howard (my Mother) during the last few years of her life lived at Quail Summit in Canandaigua, NY. On one of the excursions Quail Summit had for residents, Mother purchased this (in her words) “beautiful cow, sheep, horse..... What did you say it was again?” Even though she wasn’t really sure what it was, she did know that she liked “pretty” things. In fact almost every time I went to visit her there after she would say, “have I shown you the pretty cow I bought?” Now that Nina has passed into the great ever after, and in keeping with the sense of humor inherent in the offspring of Raymond Arthur and Nina Cooley Howard, It is important to keep this family heirloom within the family for many generations to come.
I'll have to take a photo of this... Ah, what is it again? for all to enjoy! LOL
I have created something vaguely resembling a steam turbine like those used in early steam electric generation plants tonight. About half done with the first one. I'll take a few photos in a couple days. Actually is looking pretty good to me.
Hope you all have a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Time for me to call it a night. I'm watching an old movie tonight. "That Darn Cat". I gotta tell you, my sides hurt. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Everybody take care. I'll see y'all tomorrow.
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 evening .......
Anybody here? .............
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz " ........
Is that you, Duke? ........ Duke! .....
He sure is a deep sleeper. ........ Oh well....
Ulrich .... I like the track plan. Once agin, I would like to go ride Swiss trains. (DB, too!)
Jeff ... Looks like you've been busy weathing models. You junk cars in WPF look good.
Here is an idea for a flat car load. Pieces of a wrecked F7A. Looks like the SD9 was able to move on its own wheels to be repaired. ... The story was this was a head-on crash in 1958 in Wyoming on Burlington's Colorado and Southern. Both locomotives were re-built by EMD. The F7A, 570A, became an F9Am and looks like my 700D which also was rebuilt into an F9Am after a head-on crash. Both accidents had fatalities. The rebuilt SD9 came back from EMD in the new (at the time) Chinese Red paint scheme. It was the first SD9 in those colors.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Coffee refill, please.
Under a Significant weather advisory here for pea sized hail and cloud to ground lightning. It is getting a bit rumbly out there. Good thing the critter rounds are done.
Relocated a piece of furniture today to make room for the future wood stove. Also conceived a way to support some panels from H.D. during transport to home while they hang out the back of the car trunk. Once the extra carton of tiles arrive I'll try picking everything up in one trip.
YIKES, that lightning strike was close. YeeHaw. Best not try running trains here tonight.
Rob
Ray- Have you thought about making window and door frames, then after the wall is poured carefully push the frames into the plaster hopefully ending up where you want them. Then when the plaster is dry, you can push out the windows or at least have very little to cut without destroying the detail at the edges. Never tried it and don't know if it'll actually work, but you gotta admit, it sounds good.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakes w/ dark amber NYS Maple Syrup, and a cup of dark roast coffee this, ah, almost noon....
Once again, unseasonably warm here in the Finger Lakes Region. Currently 49°F (the predicted high will be 48°F...... THAT is what it says!) under sunny skies. Too warm to light the wood stove today. Maybe this evening.
Rob, yes, deceptively challenging! It will be very challenging indeed. The MMR who drew the building (from my measurements has no suggestions on how to do the walls... The guy whose layout I was at yesterday says to do a mold of the wall, and then pour them using dental plaster.... Of course then I have to cut the openings from the solid plaster. Easier said than done. I may try his idea first.
I'll be delivering my sister's lawnmower to her today.... I wonder what her neighbors will think when we start it up.
Have to get doing some research for the NMRA Division. Somewhere I have the minutes of the very first meeting of the Division back in March, I believe, of 1962. I need to type them (they are hand written) to publish in the January Lakeshores Limited newsletter. Our 50th. year!
Later!
[edit] Looks like lunch is on me today! So much for having the Credit Card paid off.....
Extra strong coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug,please.
***Barry, those cyclecars are interesting little critters.
***Curt, nice layout pic.
***Ray, that looks like it could be a deceptively challenging building to recreate in model form. Good luck with the project.
***Ulrich, the layout you came up with for Pascal looks great.
Good morning. It's 57 and foggy. The high will be 72 and it will be cloudy with a 20% to 40% chance of rain depending on which weather guesser you listen to. Radar shows some clouds moving in from southeast Texas.Well I counted up my vehicle castings this morning. I have eighteen individual vehicle castings, one junkyard casting with five vehicles on it, two truck cargo boxes and one steel liquid storage tank. I should be able to make quite a junkyard from that. If I can get enough uninterrupted time today I might be able to get the five vehicle junkyard scene painted. As soon as I can get into town (probably not today) I have to make a bank deposit. Getting my meds cost quite a bit and though the deposit is small every little bit helps. I haven't heard anything yet on the results of the tests the doc had done so I'll have to call Monday to get that information.
Good morning, Chloe & Gang. I will have a coffee. I was in yesterday, but we are having trouble with the internet. I could not navigate within the thread. I had to close the internet and reenter for every page. Later this morning, I will call my neighbor to see if he is having trouble.
Jeffrey, Great D & R G W boxcar. It looks well used.
Ulrich, Looks like you had fun designing the layout for Pascal.
Well here goes. If it works.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks. Sunny, with a high near 48 Duke- THANKS! For noticing the floor! Not much happened since my last visit so I haven’t much to say. We were planning a trip to Nebo to see my Aunt, but Brenda spent the night in the horsepiddle with her Mom. Nothing wrong, just her Colonostomy ( or whatever it's called and spelled) bag won’t seal since she’s lost her weight (which is good by the way), so that means Brenda has to run in there seems like ever two or three hours. She is going in to have the bypass reversed soon, but I think it may be sooner. The digestive acids are really doing a number on the skin surface when it leaks. This all is gonna lead to another family blowup I can see. Brenda’s oldest sister ( the other is Brenda's twin) who just haaaas to be in charge or she pouts, says she will do all this and that. OK, Brenda goes in and does probably half of the stuff too. Her sister lives in Springfield and of course we don’t, but she gets the calls when SIL is at w**k and such. See she can’t take off w**k, but apparently Brenda can. Ok, maybe so. Now, SIL is becoming too busy to do the things that MIL needs. You know, calls Brenda and says “Mom called and I’m busy right now, you have to go in.” Or “I’m getting ready to make dinner, you need to go in.” “I’m making dinner too.” Brenda says (not because she doesn’t want to go in to take care of her Mom, she’s leaving almost before the phone gets put down. But because of the way her Sister puts it. You really need to hear the tone of voice and see the way she flutter blinks her eyes and gives you that snooty roll and the half turn away of the head to appreciate it. It's just precious). To which SIL responds something like “well eat later or you can pick something up to go. Bring Todd with you and you can eat in town.” Why can’t you Juuuudy. “My husband is tired and we do this all the time You’ll have to start picking up the slack and doing something.” THAT’s when Brenda wants to kill. Like I said Brenda is in there all the time. I say, “oh hunny, that’s the way she is. You’d think you would be used to it by now.” She says yes and for almost 50 years I’ve wanted to strangle her because of it.
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 48
Duke- THANKS! For noticing the floor!
Not much happened since my last visit so I haven’t much to say. We were planning a trip to Nebo to see my Aunt, but Brenda spent the night in the horsepiddle with her Mom. Nothing wrong, just her Colonostomy ( or whatever it's called and spelled) bag won’t seal since she’s lost her weight (which is good by the way), so that means Brenda has to run in there seems like ever two or three hours. She is going in to have the bypass reversed soon, but I think it may be sooner. The digestive acids are really doing a number on the skin surface when it leaks.
This all is gonna lead to another family blowup I can see. Brenda’s oldest sister ( the other is Brenda's twin) who just haaaas to be in charge or she pouts, says she will do all this and that. OK, Brenda goes in and does probably half of the stuff too. Her sister lives in Springfield and of course we don’t, but she gets the calls when SIL is at w**k and such. See she can’t take off w**k, but apparently Brenda can. Ok, maybe so. Now, SIL is becoming too busy to do the things that MIL needs. You know, calls Brenda and says “Mom called and I’m busy right now, you have to go in.” Or “I’m getting ready to make dinner, you need to go in.” “I’m making dinner too.” Brenda says (not because she doesn’t want to go in to take care of her Mom, she’s leaving almost before the phone gets put down. But because of the way her Sister puts it. You really need to hear the tone of voice and see the way she flutter blinks her eyes and gives you that snooty roll and the half turn away of the head to appreciate it. It's just precious). To which SIL responds something like “well eat later or you can pick something up to go. Bring Todd with you and you can eat in town.” Why can’t you Juuuudy. “My husband is tired and we do this all the time You’ll have to start picking up the slack and doing something.” THAT’s when Brenda wants to kill. Like I said Brenda is in there all the time. I say, “oh hunny, that’s the way she is. You’d think you would be used to it by now.” She says yes and for almost 50 years I’ve wanted to strangle her because of it.
Sorry. All that just came out. I feel better anyway.
Well, don’t know the events of the day until Brenda gets up. She got home about 0745 and now is sleeping like a log. No that’s not accurate. Logs are quiet. It probably wouldn’t be in my best interest to get the flush cutter out and fit the transition board in the bedroom doorway……..or shooould I.
Well, Yesterday according to our outdoors thermometers it was either 55.0 degrees or 55.4 degrees!
Today will not be that warm though, but it will be in the high 30's low 40's until next um, THursday I think.
Today I recoup form yesterdays shopping ordeal. Maybe get some laundry done.
Time to take down the mini layout for under the Xmas tree and pack it away, so we can have the table back for dumping ground instead of on top the layout. I have a tool box I will pask every loose tning into.
Maybe I take the salt water aquarium from the stand beside MOH's chair that died and dried out long ago. that way MOH has more dumping space for things. Dunno that is a tall order..may wait til monday to do the aquarium so it can go curbside right away.
Well, that is my agenda.
MOH has the next 3 days off nice to have MOH home once in awhile, but we sure can use the money.
I dunno.
HAve a great day yourselves!
I hear from the internet Woodland Scenics is still operational. Only 2 of their buildings burned down, the shipping and warehouse remain untouched.
I’ve been organizing the layout room. Yes I should have warned everyone to be seated before I announced that. I emptied 4 plastic organizers and reloaded them and labeled the drawers so I could see where stuff is supposed to go. I may go into town and pick up a couple more multi drawer organizers.
Today is Saturday, January 7th, 2012!!!
2012 is breezing right along!!!
Have A GREAT day!!!
Good Morning Gang!
I am up for quite some time - did not sleep well, but that´s no news. We are getting ready for the next storm to roll in, which should hit us later in the afternoon. Petra will be off for the weekend shopping soon, so she won´t get wet.
I spend the better part of the night and the morning to draw up a new track plan for my Swiss friend Pascal. He got a little tired working on his BLS -. themed Marklin layout, knowing that it will take at least 5 more years, before he can actually drive the golden spike and run the first train. He plans on selling whatever he has built so far and start a much simpler layout, based on the famous Bernina Line of the Rhaetian Railway. This is a narrow gauge line connecting Switzerland with Italy - certainly a must for those visiting Switzerland.
The layout I planned for him captures two of the many high lights of the line - Bernina Ospizio Station on Lago Bianco (White Lake), which is at 7403 ft. the highest point of the line, and Alp Grüm Station, which sports the narrowest curve of the line. I used Google Earth to come up with the track plan of the station. The layout itself is of a basic loop to loop design and may appear not to be too thrilling in terms of operation. The Bernina Line is mainly frequented by passenger trains, with only a few freight trains during a day, hauling lumber. Focal point of the layout is the breathtaking scenery of the prototype. I am sure that Pascal will capture that exceptionally well.
Well, here is the track plan:
Just a few pics of the prototype:
A train just before entering Ospizio Bernina
At the station
Alp Grüm station
Look at the tight curve!
Flo, I am hungry, so I´ll go for coffee, buttered toast & jam, OJ and scrambled eggs, please!
Have a good day!
Ray: I have a few photos stuffed away in my computer of what are called 'cyclecars'...another fine example....
More of the little things....http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=226791&page=71
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/
Janie, Oh, thank you! It is decaf I hope. I'll be sitting in the back near the stove keeping warm.
Been a good day for the NMRA Division in these parts! I was honored to be one of the judges evaluating one of our members items for the Model Railroad Engineer - Civil Certificate. As we thought before we even arrived, it passed with flying colors. He earned the merit awards needed and showed he had all the other portions done well. His paperwork is complete and our AP Chair will be sending it on to the Region tomorrow. Also! This is the gentleman's 7th. Certificate so... He also filled out his application for Master Model Railroader. As soon as the Civil Certificate has been OKed at the Region and at National, his MMR paperwork will be submitted. The Modeler is more than a little excited right at the moment.
Oh, as of today I have the blueprints in hand for this sweet little building I hope to build for a Merit Award (Structures):
Now I have to figure out how to make it!!!
I'm hoping that the guy's Cars Certificate and my Association Official will have final approval and we have our certificates in hand for our Spring Meet (April) so they can be "officially" awarded at that event.
Barry, who exactly is driving THAT thing you posted a photo of??? Looks like the steering wheel is in the back seat. Built like a two seater airplane maybe?
No personal time in the layout room today..... hopefully tomorrow.
Have a great evening! Prayers for all in need!
Time for me to call it a night. It's bben a long day as I didn't get much sleep last night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good Evening
I had a wonderful day of doing mostly trainroom stuff. Namely rewiring the layout for turnouts and actually getting to run some trains as well...
I never park my motorcycle in restaurants...only these ones...
Evening All,
Not much happening here. MOH and Raine are both snoozing in the living room. MOH is doing a little better and had her walker delivered today. I helped her up the stairs today so hopefully she won't be stuck in the living room.
Took Raine in today to the Vet. We decided on a treatment plan and I was going to come back to get him after his treatment. Well I get a phone call about 3 hours later that the vet had left with no explanation and that he had received no treatment. Oh and could I bring him in on Monday....well my next day off that they are there is next Friday. When I went back in I was supposed to talk to the vet about drug therapy for his pain...that did not happen. We are stuck because he is a exotic pet and very few vets will deal with them. I am asking around on the skunk board (yes there is such a thing) for another vet in the area as another option. To say that I am *** about this is putting it mildly. Oh it looks like it is arthritis and it was made worse by him getting it struck hard somehow.
I posted a video on WPF of one of my working signals.
Todd- I am sorry for the loss of your Dad. He looked like an awesome guy.
Prayers for all those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Evening All,
What was that racket just now? Did someone really drive a motorcycle through the door? Oh - just Duke waking up from his nap.
Off to New Hampshire tomorrow to deliver a car to the panel beater.
Web site is getting weird again requiring me to log in repeatedly. Hope my puter isn't coming down with a virus.. Catch Y'all later, it's off to home for me. CUL, J.R.
Veggie plate, please.
***Garry, I cannot imagine where your interest in trains came from?
Got to use the tractor for a few minutes, moving a bale into the barn and then grappling some loose hay out to the minis. Recorder shows over 5 hours now and the fuel gauge has finally started to move off of full. Seems efficient.
Closed up the house, including the train room. Spotted a steamer or two in there I can part with, to help fund (justify) some desired acquisitions. The plan is to list something next Thursday on the-bay.
TODD Nice floor!!! OOOhhhh,you’re talking about what is sitting on it.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Ray ....
I appreciate your post and sharing "Barney" with us. I'm glad his spirit is still with you. I suspect my Dad would have liked knowing him. My Dad did fly when he was young, but health issues stopped him from being a pilot later. He did build many things.
Here is my Dad with the live steam locomotive he built. He would have been 94 yesterday. Yes, I miss him.