TA462 richhotrain galaxy Well, some may not read the tidbits, and I can't keep 'em all RR related as some just aren't RR related, but I guess maybe I will do them only on weekends? I just like to know if the work I do i n posting them is enjoyed or a waste of my time. galaxy, keep 'em coming on a daily basis. Who you gonna listen to, TA462 or me? Rich I'm bigger.
richhotrain galaxy Well, some may not read the tidbits, and I can't keep 'em all RR related as some just aren't RR related, but I guess maybe I will do them only on weekends? I just like to know if the work I do i n posting them is enjoyed or a waste of my time. galaxy, keep 'em coming on a daily basis. Who you gonna listen to, TA462 or me? Rich
galaxy Well, some may not read the tidbits, and I can't keep 'em all RR related as some just aren't RR related, but I guess maybe I will do them only on weekends? I just like to know if the work I do i n posting them is enjoyed or a waste of my time.
Well, some may not read the tidbits, and I can't keep 'em all RR related as some just aren't RR related, but I guess maybe I will do them only on weekends? I just like to know if the work I do i n posting them is enjoyed or a waste of my time.
galaxy, keep 'em coming on a daily basis.
Who you gonna listen to, TA462 or me?
Rich
I'm bigger.
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
Alton Junction
Me too Galaxy, I read them every day and consider them to be part of my "Continuing Education" program. I also share many of them with some of my more enlightened friends by email. They always want to know how it is that I'm so knowledgeable in said matters.
I just smile and act superior..
Keep up the good work galaxy...
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Curt WebbJeff- I meant to tell you that was a nice video you had a couple of days ago.
kbkchoochThose little white things started falling here shortly after daybreak, Now look!
GMTRacingDennis - how goes the search for the faults (how long are the shorts ?)
JR - Those faults/shorts are a bearcat to isolate. I've gone through every that would be obvious and then the not so obvious.... Made a couple of changes but still not there yet
I did discover that I don't have nearly enough light for these old eyes to see all that well so today I'm going to take a break and install the fluorescent light fixtures even though I don't yet have the Tee Bar's up for the suspended ceiling yet.
That should help somewhat. (He says with tongue in cheek)
So JR, tell me what the heck a REFURBISHED SALVAGE CAR IS? That's got me puzzled..
So it's off to hang those fluorescent lights...
Cheers
Here we go again!
Those little white things started falling here shortly after daybreak, Now look! I'm seeing a pattern here, every 3 days or so!
Wife left early this morning to go clean her office. (Why now? been closed since Christmas and wont reopen til next Wednesday) Actually its a good deal, $200.00 bucks extra every 2 weeks . Anyhow she stopped at Wallyworld to get me a clear tackle case, to store all my Kaydee couplers in, came out and ICE was falling from the sky!. She beat feet home, she'd rather clean the office later this weekend than drive on ice.
Ray, I think Barry's suit of armor may have something to do with a bad joke I had yesterday about snowblowers. He's afraid of flying frying pans.
Galaxy We too are having our fights with the trash guys. They got our recyclables on Wednesday, but according to their web site, they stopped trash pickups at 1 pm because of the snow. According to their office, they didn't quit early! Normally, they don't pick up either til about 4, but our trash still sits, at the curb, where it has been since 6 am Wednesday!. I guess it will stay there til next Wednesday!
L8ter!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Got SNOW?
Got Inches?
WE DO! they said 3-6" today, starting in the afternoon. Well, here it is 11 AM and we ALREADY have 3-6 inches!
And by the looks of the radar, we are only half way through it!
I may havet o go out and TRY to shovel some out the end of the driveway so MOH can get in from work. Seaking of which, MOH just called on lunch to ask me how the roads are...welll...welll...weeeelllllll...not so hot it looks like. MOH taking the long slow way home from work at 1 pm.
They picked up recycle, but not so garbage, and they may NOT pick up garbage...they may let it slide.....I HOPE NOT!!! Won't be til the saturday following tuesday the 1st as our collection day is the Holiday!!!
Well. If I'ma gonna go-ah shovel some-ah snow-ah, I'da best getta move on....sitting here isn't doing ti!
GOtta rake the roof too! I noticed ice dams on both ours and our neighbor's trailers! NOt good on seamed roofs!
later gaters
-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.
Morning All,
Probably won't make it to the club today. We have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for the family coming over tomorrow morning for Christmas. I will try to check in later.
Ray- Some nice looking rock stars there.
Lee/Ken- No, not a new store, but new to me. There was a lot of traffic and the staff seemed to know everyone.
Galaxy- Keep it up.
Jeff- I meant to tell you that was a nice video you had a couple of days ago.
Everyone take care and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Galaxy, GO FOR IT...............
Johnboy out.............................now where is my dictionary ?
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good morning everybody,
Got up this morning to find around 4" of snow. So out to the garage to get the snow shovel and the snow blower. Had just about everything cleaned up, including digging out the driveway where the township snowplow did a really great job of filling it up with about a foot and a half of frozen stuff, and it started to come down again. There's about another inch out there now, but I'll wait a little longer to see if it stops.
We had a busy day yesterday, starting off with breakfast at our local diner, then errands and shopping, lunch at Friday's, and finishing with more shopping. Never got home until almost 3:00pm. I don't think we have anything on the schedule until Monday, our usual shopping day. We might head out tomorrow morning to do a little railfanning at our favorite spot. Haven't done much of that when there is snow on the ground, so it might be interesting. I have a Bowser 70 ton offset hopper that I might put together this afternoon. Then I need to take some photos of that, 2 other newly aquired freight cars, and a B&O RDC Car for my inventory list.
Here's hoping everyone has a nice weekend and stays warm and safe.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
"Oh, the weather outside if frightful, but the fire is so delightful...." Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll....... Ah, why is Barry wear a suit of Armor? Musta missed sumpin' I guess. Anyway I'll have a nice bowl of hot oatmeal with brown sugar, and lots of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug, please and thank you, Ma'am!
Hey Galaxy, keep on with those daffynitions and "little known postings" guy. I like 'em! Good way to start the morning. Reminds me of back when I taught in Elba, NY. The High School Principal had a book of "Historical Facts" that ended with some very bad puns. At the end of the morning announcements every day he would read, "A moment in History"... He got many complaints from students and teachers about the practice, but we all noticed how quiet the school got now for the Morning Announcements. The quiet was followed by a huge groan from all over the High School. He finally had to stop the practice as an English Teacher who was very prim and proper and had no sense of humor at all stole and destroyed the book!
Little white thingies are falling out of the sky here in the Finger Lakes and the forecast calls for more partly cloudy all day. 3" to 5" of partly cloudy they say! I may get out the Turkey Carcass from Thanksgiving that has been in Freezer ever since and see about making some Turkey Soup today....
Should also find some time to complete the metal bands on the water tower... Possible photos tonight. Oh, here are my two favorite little Rock Stars:
Christmas at my Sisters house... Can you tell she is an artist and was an Art Teacher???
May have to go shovel some of the Partly Cloudy this afternoon...
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
jeffrey-wimberly BOC: Vinnie has a can opener should you need it.
BOC: Vinnie has a can opener should you need it.
He can leave that can opener alone for now...
Galaxy: Please continue with those postings!!!
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/
Galaxy: Keep them coming! I read them and I enjoy them.
I got a book of uniquely Canadian words and expressions from my wife for Christmas. It's really interesting, eh.
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
*In comes a shape in full body armour...clinking and clanking as he moves through the diner to the counter....lifting his visor he asks for coffee and a breakfast bagel*
Good Morning
Welb...we is getting bout 2-3" more snow here...as the little tiny snowfluffies continue on....
Not much to report on here today...which is a good thing...especially on the health front.
However Monday I have another CT scan thing to go to ...yay.....
Good morning, everybody!
We still have our out of town family visitors here, and I'm busy with them .
BobK .... Thanks for sharing the family photos! Congrats on your very cute granddaughter! Have a save trip to NJ.
Bill T. ..... Thanks for posting the NS "Honoring Veterans" locomotive. It would be nice if NS locomotives all had a colorful paint scheme.
No layout progress this week to report.
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. It's 31° with 88% humidity. A hard freeze watch is in effect. Mostly sunny today with a high of 48°. Low tonight of 25°.It's a bit on the cold side this morning. With a west wind coming off the lake it feels much colder than 31°. Think I'll stay inside today. No plans. I may run some trains later. I'm still feeling very tired for some reason and don't feel like doing anything.
Galaxy: Continue. I rarely read all the way through as my dyslexia drives me nuts on long reads. I do however like seeing where certain words or phrases came from.
Mornin gang!
33 degrees outside, they are calling for a snow/rain mix,,usually means we are on the snow side, rain to the east.
Another good day to stay indoors. Might run out to my LHS, might not!
Galaxy, continue please!
Ken . Got local consumer watchdog at your local TV station? Call em! Bad publicity can move mountains! Also contact you local Senator or House representative's office. The more heat you bring to bear on B.O.S the better. Ever since the bailout, banks dont like the bright light of scrutiny!
Well, its time to grab a little grub, then set to some projects!
galaxy So, What say you, readers, do you want me to continue with the tidbits every morning??? So who wants them to continue? Inquiring minds want to know! Let me know if you want me to continue!
So, What say you, readers, do you want me to continue with the tidbits every morning???
So who wants them to continue? Inquiring minds want to know!
Let me know if you want me to continue!
All right, already, CONTINUE !
Lunchtime in Germany!
Flo, just coffee, please, I am filled with Petra´s fine cooking!
Another nothing to do day. It´s gray outside, temperatures short of 40 F. No rain yet, but lots of it heading our way.
Galaxy - I very much enjoy the morning "words of wisdom", if it´s up to me, I´d like to see them continued in the coming year which is only a little less than 2 1/2 away from us.
Going for a nap - CUL!
GMTRacing Galaxy - do you have a book of roots of famous phrases or are you doing your own research? Hope you have enough material to keep going next year.
Galaxy - do you have a book of roots of famous phrases or are you doing your own research? Hope you have enough material to keep going next year.
I have/do both. For the phrases/words that are derived from OLD ENGLISH, it requires a different reasearch to get to the "old meanings" of the England-originating phrases {that may still have been transferred into Old English from eleswhere}.
I will have enough to get thorugh next year, though some may be accidental repeats!
I don't know if I will continue next year or not, as I am not sure how many actaully read and appreciate them versus how many just skip it all together. I Know TODD has expressed his satisafaction on them.
But if only one or two read it/ appreciate it, then it may not be worth my while to look them up.
{speaking of the word "tidbit": here goes!:
/ˈtɪdˌbɪt/ Show Spelled [tid-bit]
So who wants them to contiue? Inquiring minds want to know!
{sorry can't resist: in·quire:
Inquire, also enquire
v.intr.
v.tr.
Phrasal Verb:
[Middle English enquiren, from Old French enquerre, from Vulgar Latin *inquaerere, alteration of Latin inqurere : in-, into; see in-2 + quaerere, to seek.]
in·quirer n.
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Good morning all,
Curt, a new LHS is always a good thing.
Ray, we are getting more snow as I type this. Snow never use to be an issue up here until they cut back on snow removal crews. Use to get 11” of snow but the roads would be clear, now you have to guess if the roads have been plowed and salted or not.
Today I have Dorothy’s Christmas present from her sister’s arriving today and a friend is coming in from VA to visit. So I best get busy….
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning Coffee in the Diner with friends...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, December 29th, 2012!!!
The end is coming!! {of the year that is!}
Some may think "yeah, yeah, yada yada" when I post these whimisical informative ditties, SO:
Meaning:
A disparaging response, indicating that something previously said was predictable, repetitive or tedious
Origin:
This phrase is a modern-day equivalent of 'blah, blah, blah' (which is early 20th century). It is American an emerged during or just after the Second World War. It was preceded by various alternative forms - 'yatata, yatata', 'yaddega, yaddega' etc. The earliest of these that I have found is from an advertisement in an August 1948 edition of the Long Beach Independent:
"Yatata ... yatata ... the talk is all about Chatterbox, Knox's own little Tomboy Cap with the young, young come-on look!"
All of those versions, and including 'yada yada', probably took the lead from existing words meaning incessent talk - yatter, jabber, chatter.
yada yada
'Yada yada' itself is first found in the 1970s. Dory Previn released the album Mythical Kings and Iguanas in March 1971, which included the song Yada Yada La Scala:
Yada yada La Scala yada yada yada yada yada Let’s stop talking talking talking wasting precious time Just a lot of empty noise that isn’t worth a dime Words of wonder words of whether should we shouldn’t we be togehter Yada yada yada
Lenny Bruce used something very like it in the 1960s in his Essential Lenny Bruce, 1967:
"They're no good, the lot of them - ‘Yaddeyahdah’ - They're animals!"
In the 21st century the place you are most likely to come across it is when installing software; for example, the millions who have installed the Google Toolbar will have seen (although probably not read any further than) the instructions - "Please read this carefully - It's not just the usual yada yada."
The prayer candles will be lit as long as I am home
Make it a great day for someone else!!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
JR - Yes sir, Miami.
The dirty spurs fascinate me as well as the fact I can stage a "CSI Miami" scene somewhere on the layout. Infact I just ordered an Atlas GP40-2 and a few more freight cars from Trainworld just now.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good Evening All,
Cold today and now we're waiting for the next round of white stuff. Spent the day in the shop mostly Gov't work. Started stripping three Focuses to make 1 good one (actually 1 and a half - the second one will be a rehabilitated salvage car).
Spent time this evening starting to lay out the yards. I'd like to at least aproximate what's in Danbury for yard tracks though it means moving the turntable and round house out of the yard area. Seems there is never space for everything you want. Perspective wise the yard is shorter but wider than needed but I still want more on the layout than a yard and a river.
Bob - Grandaughter is a cutie. Hope your trip to Joisey went ok - traffic has been nuts. I'll miss Big E this year are you going?
Dennis - how goes the search for the faults (how long are the shorts ?)
Jerry - Nice transfer cab. Did the weather clear up enough to go see Sallie?
Rob - one step at a time. Most of the summer by the time I got home I was too frazzled to even think about going downstairs.
Ray - do we get to see progress shots of the layout structures?
James really - Miami?
All these questions plus alLong day especially after having time just rocket by downstairs. I'll call it a night (ok - it's a night) and get back to it tomorrow. J.R.
Oi! Oh me achin head, why is there a lump,,,what day is it?
Flo, you have NO sense of humor do you!
Can I please get a coke and some aspirin??
V8VegaSeveral of us post on both the Pot and Diner, I read the 1st few sentences and if I have already read it I move on. I wanted to learn how to type on Notebook or something like that and then cut and paste to the Pot and Diner
Calling it a night a bit early. I've been feeling slightly 'off' all day and I just got hit by a wave of fatigue that has me so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. See y'all tomorrow.