galaxy Burlington Northern #24 Thank you all for your prayers and support for her, I know the best I can do is hope. I believe in self sufficiency so that might help with the wondering of why I'm not a believer, I hope you guy's don't think any different of me though. There are lot's of great people here. To quote Ricky Ricardo, "of course we DUN'T" {think any different of you}. Religious discussions are banned, but i will say this; you are entitled to your beliefs or lack thereof. We all here value each other and the differences which make us a diverse bunch who all come together for the "common good".....so no worries for you! We gather this is hard period for you, facing losing her, and if our thoughts and prayers help smooth things along in any way, so be it. Many of us have been through this, as well as losing a parent or even a child. We all help each other....that is the spirit of the diner here...you are welcome, you know that.
Burlington Northern #24 Thank you all for your prayers and support for her, I know the best I can do is hope. I believe in self sufficiency so that might help with the wondering of why I'm not a believer, I hope you guy's don't think any different of me though. There are lot's of great people here.
Thank you all for your prayers and support for her, I know the best I can do is hope. I believe in self sufficiency so that might help with the wondering of why I'm not a believer, I hope you guy's don't think any different of me though. There are lot's of great people here.
To quote Ricky Ricardo, "of course we DUN'T" {think any different of you}. Religious discussions are banned, but i will say this; you are entitled to your beliefs or lack thereof.
We all here value each other and the differences which make us a diverse bunch who all come together for the "common good".....so no worries for you!
We gather this is hard period for you, facing losing her, and if our thoughts and prayers help smooth things along in any way, so be it. Many of us have been through this, as well as losing a parent or even a child. We all help each other....that is the spirit of the diner here...you are welcome, you know that.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Good afternoon.
During school, there was a mock accident put on by SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and the mock trial they had after that was something that apparently left a few kids emotionaly wrung out (myself included a little, I'll admit it). What apparently happened was that one kid decided to mess around with drugs before driving. Had maybe three passengers. Their car went head on into another car. Two people were supposed to have died in it. What got me a little was the thought of some of my friends being in the same situation. As a result, I don't have much energy left. Not doing much through the day today helped.
Apparently that mock accident worked.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Another fabulous sunny day in the Old Dominion with a high of 70 or so. Looks like it will hold to this kind of weather until Monday.
I'll be out shooting with friends tomorrow morning, (doin' a lot of that lately) and then reloading the cartridges I shot and finally, cleaning the guns. Tomorrow night is dinner and a movie with the old gal and Sunday might be yard work, grass is growin' like gangbusters. Hopefully, some afternoon MR time on tap.
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
-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.
Been working on one of my P2K GP38-2s. After taking the cab off, I used one of the SMDs I have for the beacon, and it required some tweaking. The SMD is so bright, it turns the beacon yellow. I painted over it with Tamiya Transparent orange, and the insde of the beacon with it. Seems to tone it down and it looks orange again. Looks like 1k 1/4 ohm resistor will work fine. I'm taking a break now because I've lost the beacon 4 times now, and have had to get on the floor to try and find it. I found it this time and it's on the bench. I'm going to try to find a decent size box to work on the engine in, so the parts stay in the box. This loco has a DH163, but the rear light (yellow) wire broke off from the connector. So I'll wire it to the green wire, put the resistor in line, then stick in a 2-pin plug so I can take the shell of easily if I need to. Then I have to do it's sister unit.
I *should* be outside pressure washing the shed, but it's been raining all day.
In speaking of MIAs, where is JR?
MisterBeasley, I think that one 007 book actually made it into a movie. I'd have to ask my mom since she's seen them all.
Gary, Sorry to hear about your grandmother.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
MisterBeasleyThere was also a James Bond book, back when James Bond was a series of novels and not a movie franchise, in which the action took place along a rail line in Switzerland in the winter. There was a scene involving 007, a bad guy and a rotary snow plow. The chapter title was "Red Snow."
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
jeffrey-wimberly. I've never seen Fargo. Enlighten me please.
Near the end of the movie, the more psychopathic of the two kidnappers feeds his partner into a woodchipper. It was a strange movie, half crime drama, half comedy.
There was also a James Bond book, back when James Bond was a series of novels and not a movie franchise, in which the action took place along a rail line in Switzerland in the winter. There was a scene involving 007, a bad guy and a rotary snow plow. The chapter title was "Red Snow."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Another beautiful day here with temps in the mid-sixties right now, along with sunny skies and a nice breeze. It's been busy around here as well. We both woke up early this morning, so we decided to go have breakfast. The sausage & cheese omelet was good and so was the decaf. With nothing on the schedule we had a couple of extra cups of coffee. That's the thing I've always enjoyed about retirement. Just to make it up as you go along some days. Stopped at the car wash on the way home and then because it was nice and clean, decided to give it a coat of wax once we got home. Another projec completed and scratched off the Spring to-do-list. Just finished lunch which consisted of a Thomas English Cinnamon muffin. After I read the news on the internet, I'll be cutting the grass again. Just cut it 3 or 4 days ago, but it really needs it again. Hope everybody has a good one...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Morning Folks
Flo, Big Coffee Pleases.
Boy this morning is being a big pain in the caboose! Because of how the paydays fell last month I made $3300.00 and now SSI wants the cash they sent her back. But, get this! They just sent her another $331.00 payment? No wonder the state of Illinois is Broke!
Todd I am starting to think you are right about change engine manufacturer. But as a whole have had good luck with Proto's. PK 2 with the cracked gears, it is a well known problem and not a big deal. While not as well known problem, worm gear squealing is all so a common problem I believe.
Ulrich Here in the states a Politician must be able to smile, while turn a knife in someones back!
Gary, sorry to hear about your grandmother.
Well got to run.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just another cup of dark roast coffee please. I had breakfast some time ago.
Had to get the news release down to the paper as early as i could this morning, but needed to wait until my son and granddaughter #2 stopped by to pick up a bag of fresh cut asparagus. he had to drive to Penn Yan to pick up his sharpened chains for his chain saw. Of course he managed to leave the asparagus sitting on the kitchen table..... Duh!
The HVAC guy is coming at 1PM today to give me some choices on central air. Then I have a couple more errands to do before going to Canandaigua to have dinner with my sister tonight.
Been grinning at some of the comments here this morning.
Another sunny day here in the Finger Lakes.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Extra strong coffee in an APACHE RAILWAY mug, please.
Blustery weather here, so will work on inside stuff today. Might even make it down into the Train Room later.
Have a good day all.
Cheers! Rob
ps: need to borrow this alien:
Good morning. It's 42° with 99% humidity. Seems like the weather has forgotten that it's coming on to summer next month. There's a small chance of rain this morning. Otherwise it'll be cloudy with a high of 62°.I have nothing planned for today. In fact I'm giving serious consideration to going back to bed. I'm just extremely tired for some reason and can hardly keep my eyes open.
jeffrey-wimberly TMarshThey’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.That reminds me of how a friend of mine compared statistics and a bikini. They both do the same job. They show a lot and at the same time hide a lot and while what shows is real what's hidden is vital.
TMarshThey’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.
.... and then there is this one:
Take all the economists in the world (including USA and Germany) and place them end-to-end. They still will not reach a conclusion.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
MisterBeasleyJeffrey, that big rotary plow reminds me of the end of the movie "Fargo....." I hope you're not planning anything like that.
pascaff*I have been known to have a not so welcome smile. But people learn to live with that.
Good Morning, DIners! .......... Coffee and Strudel please! ...... All this talk about Germans caused me to think of strudel. ..... My "Frau" is German.
BN 24 Gary ..... Very sad to hear about your grandmother's illness. Will pray for her health. Also, sad to hear you say atheist. I respect your views of course, but at the same time I suggest your keeping your mind open to the subject. I suspect you can find some inner peace if you even consider opening your heart to God. There are believers in the Diner, and I suspect any of them would welcome questions from you on that topic if you send them a private message.
Ulrich ..... Interesting to hear you talk about your political party. Sounds like some people in Germany are like some people here in the USA. They don't accept reality, and they prefer allowing themselves to be gullible instead of being skeptical. However, you are suggesting some Germans are finally awakening, and that is good. ....... I'm sad to hear about your family matters. Prayers for that. ..... Your photo of yourself shows you look a lot like my next door neighbor, another very tall man. Exception is my neighbor has a thick Southern accent from growing up on a farm in South Carolina. He's also active in politics but he will never run for office. He personally knows our state's senior US senator.
I have several projects to do on the layout, and so I had better hurry and complete some non-mrr work so I can get to the layout.
Cheers, everybody.
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Morning All,
Currently 43 with an expected high of 81 under mostly sunny skies.
Opening shift today, so may get to do some more painting on the engine house after w**k. Problem is, working on my feet all day, by the time I get home I am quite tired and just need to sit down for a bit. Then I lose all ambition.
Gary - Sorry to hear about your grandma. I believe in the power of prayer, as well as some others around here, so I hope you do not mind that I pray for her.
Ulrich - I have been known to have a not so welcome smile. But people learn to live with that.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Mr. Beasley and Todd - no difference here on the other side of the Big Pond. They also have an abundance of figures stating this and that, but no one believes them anymore. Just like the recent polls - the ones based on 3,000 people are correct, the one based on 200,000 folks participating must be incorrect, because they don´t pay for it...
Politics is a dirty business and I still don´t know what made me take it up!
MisterBeasley The parties we have are only interested in their own power, not in the best course for the country.
Boy you ain't just a whistling Dixie there...
Oops, sorry Vinnie. I couldn't resist. I'll be quiet now.
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!!!
Coffee and an order of biscuits and gravy please. Thanks.
Rain. High near 61. So far there’s an inch in the rain gage from last evening and overnight. .
Ray- at 25kw, you have exceeded my average daily usage of electricity for...feb/march. Not bad!
Ken- I’m beginning to think there is something…..particular to your layout or something you do that causes so many engine breakdowns. I know everyone has some from time to time but gee whiz. Either that or you just need to change from your usual brand. They don’t like you… Your not jabbing them with a stick as they go by are you?
Ulrich- Well…. Good thing you don’t live over hear.( I mean here) As you said “That´s why the politicians of our well established parties find it very difficult to argue with us - they are bound to lose.” Over here they wouldn’t find it difficult at all. They’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.
Gary- I’m sorry to hear about your Grandmother.
NP2626- Seems the first few days of the month the pages build up quick. Use to be the ones who posted occasionally would stop in to say hi. Now, it just seems we talk more.
ENGLISH HOT MUSTARD! Oh my gosh. Talk about something needing a warning sticker. Tie into that stuff not realizing what it is and whew! Even Jeff might blink over that stuff.
Well, not much for outside today seeins how it’s raining so, who knows. Just waiting for the cabinet top material to be cut and that should be today and cut the door latch hole just a bit higher for the bathroom door and the restaurant “remodel” is pretty much done. Brenda is setting up for the all town garage sale tonight so she’ll have my truck while I’m at w**k which is aboooooout the scariest thing I can think of right now. I hope they have a good turnout. She is insde the community center so at least she will be dry.
Best chuck in a load of laundry to start the day off right. Oughta just spray the clothes down with soap and hang ‘em over the fence. Nah. My luck, probably stop raining and the sun would come out and do something funky to our clothes.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Sir Madog NP2626 Gary, thinking about you, bud! I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name. This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that? As there is a mile long list of MIA´s, the remaining bunch must have turned into talkative folks
NP2626 Gary, thinking about you, bud! I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name. This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that?
Gary, thinking about you, bud!
I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name.
This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that?
As there is a mile long list of MIA´s, the remaining bunch must have turned into talkative folks
I think we are a talkative bunch....
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Good M'arnin'....
Well, I went to bed at silly o'clock this morning and got woke up at another silly o'clock by our little Spring..who was running around our house after ....a sparrow..... How did the bird get into our house, you ask? Stupid window at the back staircase ...slightly opened
Oh well, weather here be just a little cooler and sunny...still.....high near 70...as opposed to 78...feeling like 84F....
Today's agenda includes a bunch of paperwork for work and a bunch of RR planning stuff for my RR....sigh.
Edit... missing letters...sigh...
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...
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Good morning from sunny New England. We are having a run of great weather. I'd actually like to get some rain, to wash the pollen out of the air and give me a chance to put down some grass seed. Maybe I'll fertilze this weekend, if I can deal with the pollen. I'd like to get out on my bicycle, too. My weight loss has plateued since ski season ended, and I need to get more exercise. Gyms and treadmills aren't the answer for me.
Gary, even a non-believer like me can think positive thoughts, so I'll do that. When my own Mom was in her last year, her doctor called her brief recovery and return home "a miracle." We had gone for a visit with our then-little girl, and the cheer she brought to Mom was enough to get her out of what the doctor thought would be her last visit to the hospital.
Ulrich, I wish we could get some serious political options in the US. The parties we have are only interested in their own power, not in the best course for the country. Your multi-party system allows for more ideas than ours.
Jeffrey, that big rotary plow reminds me of the end of the movie "Fargo....." I hope you're not planning anything like that.
JaBear - right now, I find it difficult to smile. The ongoing family issues keep me from smiling. All I can try is to avoid a total warfare frown, I´ll never accomplish a disarming smile
People who know me look at my eyes - I smile with my eyes, not with my mouth.
Gidday Gary, My thoughts and best wishes to you and your family.
Ulrich. You do realise I hope that when you're out on the election trail shaking hands and kissing babies you will have to have a ???
As Chris ( in Iowa) mentioned the "infinite improbability drive" perhaps you could all drop in and join me in the "Tea Room" at the Te Awamutu Station for a mince pie, a Ham with hot English mustard sandwich, and a slab of fruit cake washed down with a coffee in an NZR cup. Folklore has it that a teaspoon of hot English mustard was added into the coffee pot!!!
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Gary: Hope she pulls through.
Good morning.
No work for tonight. Spring Concert tonight. Look to just kinda relax this evening beyond the concert
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
Friday, May 3, 2013
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Sir Madog Burlington Northern #24 Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her! yes sir, I'm 25% deutsch. my dad's half. my real name is Gett, but Gary is the American version of it. I'm german with a french last name who'da thunk. It´ll be the name Gert - short form of Gerhard, I assume. I am German with a Polish last name
Burlington Northern #24 Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her! yes sir, I'm 25% deutsch. my dad's half. my real name is Gett, but Gary is the American version of it. I'm german with a french last name who'da thunk.
Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her!
Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know?
My thoughts and prayers go out to her!
It´ll be the name Gert - short form of Gerhard, I assume.
I am German with a Polish last name