Happy Canada Day! ..... Gotta love the Canadians, eh! ......
I'll have a Tim Hortons coffee and a Tim Hortons original donut, please!
Galaxy ...... Didn't know MI was your birthplace. Thanks for moving the DIner.
Michigan! ...... That's where I went to college and live most of my adult life. Many of my work years were with CN's Grand Trunk Western and its affiliates DW&P and CV. Between school, the railroad, and other jobs I lived in several MI cities. ... MI is one of 8 states where I have lived during my lifetime. ...... Two of our five adult children now live in MI with their spouses and each has blessed us with 2 grandkids. (other grandkids are in OH and they are here now. No grandkids yet from NC son or AZ daughter) ....... I may post a few MI railroad related photos when I can this month.
Canada Day and Independence Day are celebrated jointly by Detroit and Windsor. I have seen many of the spectacular fireworks displays.
Have a nice day, everybody!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
TMarshWhew. Mr B’s right. July already. (shakes head) At this rate I best get the snowblower ready cause in a few days it’ll seem the snow will be flying
Right you are, Todd. I was watching the Tour de France last night. This year, they started the Tour in Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean. I would have expected it to be hotter than my attic there, but it was in the 70s on the road and the helicopter pictures showed snow in the mountain valleys, presumeably on the north faces where the sun don't shine.
A good thing about July - school is out and the commute is a lot easier.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Happy Canada Day, To all my fellow Countrymen and Women, may you have wonderful day of relaxation and Leisure with your Families.
I be w**king today for all the fun and frivolity that will be going on around me, it should go pretty fast and be very noisy.
If I don't get in again for a few days I want to wish all of you from south of the 49th. a very Happy and pleasant 4th of July. May you also be blessed with family and Friends around you.
Happy Independence Day
.Johnboy out......................................and preparing for W88K
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Morning All,
Have a bunch of errands to run today so I will talk to you later.
Hope everyone has a great day and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good MorningEverything is all dull here...kind of. Supposed to get to 72F this afternoon...right now it is 64F.Going out later this evening to get the firework display up and going...we have a couple of empty parking lots we can use for this....hopefully it won't rain until after the thing.No workie on the lair of doom today...but will have to come thursday....Have a good one!!!
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/
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and...…you know, I think I’ll have what Paul had from the food trucks please. Thanks.
Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Whew. Mr B’s right. July already. (shakes head) At this rate I best get the snowblower ready cause in a few days it’ll seem the snow will be flying.
Welp the celebratio…..WHOA!!! Sorry G. Just kinda startled me there for a minute. Say Zoe…., would you turn the fan down in here? Yah, it’s um…a bit breezier than it should be for some. Thanks.
Anyway, as I was saying, the 4th of July in June Celebration went over well once again. Now it’s kinda rest for a month or two for Brenda and then the preperations for the Fall Festival on the 7th of September start to fire up as that roars to a full steam. WHICH just happens to be on our Anniversary of marriage by the way. Now, if it’d been me that scheduled something like that….I’d a died. It wouldn't matter if I said but it's always the first weekend in September. That's an irrelevant fact. But she did, so it’s ok. I just say “they sure are throwing a big party for us. Can I invite the Chinese girls?” No response….verbally anyway. I don’t know sign language but I know what THAT means.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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.
Wow Galaxy,,,nice new digs in a cool locale for Flo and the girls!
My sister, who now live in N.C., lived several years in Bay City Michigan before the railroad sent her to New Jersey. (She never could explain how that was not punishment.). I remember vacations, fishing on Lake Huron, fireworks at "the Shell" on the river on July 4th, and how ccccccold the lake was ,even in July! I can remember walking down the street in Bay City, on the radio they were broadcasting warnings for old folks and young children to stay indoors because of the heat. I had on jeans and a long sleeve Oxford shirt. They looked at me like I was crazy!! Nothing like a Baltimore summer at all!
Oh well, job searching then painting a clients engines on tap for today, catch y'all later!
Karl
NCE über alles!
It's 68°. 84% humidity. high will be 90°.I was feelng pretty bad last night and not doing much better this morning. I;m haveing a hard time concentrating and am feeling real tired. I think b egoing back to bed soon. Feeling bad last night that never signed off here. Seems it not noticed anyway.
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
galaxy your kingdom is divided
Prophetic, as Michigan is also "dividied" by the Great Lakes.
Good morning to all. July already. I'll appreciate the 3-day week, although the weather seems stuck in a cloudy, humid pattern and I'll likely hide in the AC much of the time.
Ok, OK , stop badgering me!
I can read the handwriting on the wall!
Handwriting on the wall:
The quick and dirty explanation:
We know it today as a sign of some upcoming gloom and doom. The origin goes back to the bible when Belshazzar, the successor to King Nebuchadnezzar got drunk one night and drank from sacred vessels from the temple of Jerusalem. It is said that afterward a 'mysterious hand' appeared and wrote 4 strange words on the banquet room wall. Only Daniel, the prophet, could decypher this writing, which he said was ominous. So, any warning today is referred to as 'the handwriting on the wall.'
Wiki says this:
Meaning:
"The writing on the wall", or "the handwriting on the wall", or "the writing is on the wall" or "Mene Mene", is an idiom for "imminent doom or misfortune" and for "the future is predetermined".
The expression originates from the Book of Daniel, Chapter 5, from the handwriting on the wall that was witnessed at a banquet hosted by king Belshazzar. As those at the feast profaned the sacred vessels pillaged from the Jerusalem Temple, a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, " מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין" Or "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin". The prophet Daniel was summoned and interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. That night, Belshazzar was killed and the Persians sacked the capital city.
The advisers attempt to interpret the meaning. However, their natural denotations of weights and measures were superficially meaningless: "two minas, a shekel and two parts". Therefore, the King sends for Daniel, an exiled Isrealite taken from Jerusalem, who had served in high office under Nebuchadnezzar. Rejecting offers of reward, Daniel warns the king of the folly of his arrogant blasphemy before reading the text. The meaning that Daniel decrypts from these words is based on passive verbs corresponding to the measure names, "numbered, weighed, divided."
And this is the writing that was inscribed: mina, mina, shekel, half-mina. This is the interpretation of the matter: 'mina', God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 'shekel,' you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; 'half-mina,' your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. —Daniel 5:25–28
-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.
Forgot to tell you where the spiffed-up diner is..this month we want to stay cool, so I thought we'd check out a place we haven't before, I don't think.
SO, Without further a-do, to-do, or any other "do", we are in MICHIGAN. There were tracks laid for Mr, Henry Ford, and tracks laid in to Mr. Kellogg's organization {as well as competitor MR. POST's production facilities}.
There are, I believe, tracks from Detroit right on into Chicago now-a-days. More research will show where.
According to Wiki: The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the 9th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state.
It is also the birthplace of Yours truly.
Trains:
Amtrak's three Michigan routes provide several convenient options for getting around the Wolverine State and beyond.
The Pere Marquette provides one round trip each day between Grand Rapids and Chicago with stations in Grand Rapids, Holland, Bangor and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor.
The Blue Water provides one round trip per day between Port Huron and Chicago with stations in Port Huron, Lapeer, Flint, Durand, East Lansing, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Dowagiac, Niles and New Buffalo.
The Wolverine provides three round trips each day between Pontiac and Chicago with stations in Pontiac, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Detroit, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Albion, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Dowagiac, Niles and New Buffalo. Special event trains also stop in Greenfield Village
http://www.amtrak.com/michigan-services-train
I'll see if I can dig up other historical routes.
Morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD MONDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, JULY 1, 2013!!!
I will light the prayer candles for those in need at 9 am.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Hello, and Welcome!
The old diner is here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/218130/2414708.aspx#2414708