I should do that Karl, that's a good idea! it'll get me in trouble but it'll be worth it.
Lehigh Valley 2089 Gary, looking to do something similar with the Norfolk Southern. Then I will transfer to the Delaware Lackawanna or Lehigh Railroad, something local.
Gary, looking to do something similar with the Norfolk Southern. Then I will transfer to the Delaware Lackawanna or Lehigh Railroad, something local.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, August 9th, 2013!!
Why don't the winter months go by as fast as the summer months?
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Sometimes we, or others, need to "pull your horns in", SO:
Meaning:
Restrain one's ardour; lower one's ambitions
The short version:
The phrase means to back off, but has nothing to do with bulls or other horned animals. The origin has to do with the fact that snails will pull in their horns and hide inside their shells when they want no activity
The longer version;
You might think that warning someone who had overreached themselves in some dynamic enterprise to 'pull their horns in' was a reference to some pugnacious horned creature, maybe a bull or a rhinoceros. In fact, the creature in question is the unassuming garden snail. The retractable tentacles on which a snail's eyes are located are known as horns, and these are pulled in whenever the mollusc is threatened.
Likewise, the date of origin of what has the sound of a fairly recent colloquialism, is not what might be expected. Snails were spoken of as 'pulling their horns in' as early as the 14th century. An example of that is found in this extract from the Anglo-Norman romantic poem, Richard, Coer De Lyon:
And gunne to drawen in her hornes, As a snayl among the thornes
That citation uses the common alternative form 'draw in one's horns'. Other less common varieties are 'shrink/pluck in one's horns'.
An early use of 'pulling in one's horns' as a figurative phrase, with no snails in sight, comes in the 16th century religious diatribe Hay any Work for Cooper, 1589:
Mark how I haue made the bishops to pull in their hornes http://www.phrases.org.uk/images/snail.jpg
Mark how I haue made the bishops to pull in their hornes
http://www.phrases.org.uk/images/snail.jpg
-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.
Good morning. It's 74° with 93% humidity. It feels like 81° at this time. The high will be 98° and will feel like 110°. with a Today I plan on getting the grass mowed an start on moving some stuff down to my fathers place. Maybe get some laundry done. Nothing else is on my schedule.
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Good morning, and happy Friday! We've got a cloudy day on tap, with thundershowers in the forecast.
Tomorrow is sales-tax-free day, so I'll be paying for a pre-ordered locomotive at my LHS and buying a replacement microwave oven. I'll probably spend the rest of the day installing the microwave over the stove. Hopefully it won't be too heavy. It's the same model, updated a few years, so with luck it will slip into the space for the old one and all the holes will line up. It will probably be a couple of months before I see the locomotive, though.
I've got to make a list of paints and things, too, and pick them up tomorrow. Some Local Hobby Shop, some Local Hardware Store, but it's an LHS either way.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good MorningSunny and a little warmer today...cool off starts tonight though.Going to be somewhat busy this weekend here...we are onstage at the club and then we are having a BBQ on Sunday....we are going to be hosting a block party...with my band playing. ...
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.
Mr. B..... Now if only every day was tax free day!
Jeff .... Sent an email last night. Hope you received it. Are you acquiring new locos? WHat is the story with the brass steam loco?
Our cat wants to play constantly this morning.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning All,
Currently it is 61 with an expected high of 85.
Had a bit of rain last evening, cooled things down a bit. W**k today, and then the weekend off, may get some modeling in between the other stuff that needs to be attended to.
Not much else happening.
Prayers to all, especially Jeff.
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
Good Morning!!!
Just coffee please, already ate. Thanks
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 9am. Partly sunny, with a high near 82.
Got some yard wo*k done yesterday, still more to do today.
$250,000 to speak Chinese???!! I spent $12.50 on a DVD/CD thing and once or twice a week, or about $12-$30 (including tip of course) a week, at the Chinese buffet. ( Nah, I know what you mean)
Jeffrey- Glad everything went well at the pre-op thing yesterday. I hope everything goes equally well Monday. I will be thinking of you all day until I hear the good news, which I’m sure it will be. You’re a tough ol bird and this is nothing compared to what you’ve endured keeping it. Laying around until you can move around and not being able to do stuff will probably be the hardest part for you. Just keep looking forward to the new freedom you will have. Like I said, I know a couple people who have lost all or part of a leg in farming accidents and they get around very well. They don’t skip much, but then again, I don’t really take you as a skipper anyway .
Only problem I see is if they feed Jeff his Chimichanga’s and that liquid fire he calls hot sauce. I pity the person who will be required to enter his room.
Late start today, well, not really. I did some bill paying and put in a load of laundry and ate and a couple other things before I came here. But, I guess I best get outside and tend to some chores as Inch says. Gotta wo*k tonight so I also need to pick some Blackberries and get them in the fridge for a friend. She waitresses at the restaurant tonight. I gave her a bunch of Black Raspberries plants and a few Blackberry bushes, but she said she didn’t get anything this year. Black Raspberries started but then the rains came and drowned them I think. We’ll see if they come back next year and if not, I’ll set her up again.
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.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff .... Sent an email last night. Hope you received it. Are you acquiring new locos? WHat is the story with the brass steam loco?
Mornin'
Zoe, I could use a refill on the Dark roast please...
Dark, Gloomy, Damp, and cool outside this morning here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 70°F outside down from 73° when i got up this morning, Humidity is at 96% both outside and inside. I turned on the Air Conditioner when I got up just to help get rid of the dampness in here. It was 76° inside. Now it is down to 74° which is where I keep the thermostat and may rain here in the dining room where the computer is.
Need to do a couple loads of wash soon, and early afternoon make a run to the credit union. Later (after I recharge the PiP) I will be heading out to Canandaigua to do a bit of shopping and have diner with my sister.
Raining again out there...
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
speaking of chinese, I took two quarters of it. that stuff was hard, both in characters and speaking.
Jeff, I hope your doing okay and nice steam locomotives.
Garry: Got your email. Sent you a reply.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff, what is the story with the brass steam loco?
Hi Guys,
Not much going on here. It was a very nice day and went for a walk this morning, nice and warm but you can feel fall in the air. I hope to be in bed somewhat early tonight as I want to be on my bike by 5:30 until sometime around 9am. I have all my stuff all packed up to take with me so would just have to get something to eat. Was able to do some cleaning up work on the layout today and will do some more tomorrow.
Jeff: I will send you a PM a little later in the weekend wishing you luck. You think you might be at your dads for a couple months after the surgery?
JeremyBJeff: I will send you a PM a little later in the weekend wishing you luck. You think you might be at your dads for a couple months after the surgery?
Well I've had a very busy day. This morning I moved the enhanced Apple IIe and the old IIe I rescued from the school (the one that needs parts) to my room at my fathers place. I put the rescue unit in the closet and set the enhanced IIe up on a drawing table.Back here at my trailer I have the black Apple set up. No, it's not a Darth Vader, just a run of the mill 1982 IIe painted black. It's my mothers old unit. I upgraded it from 64k to 128k and enabled double hi-res graphics. I also put in a 1984 keyboard. I have it hooked up to two old disk drives and an 11" trash-80 VM-4 monitor, and in this case the name applies. I literally rescued the monitor from a dumpster back in the late 90's. Half the controls don't work and the case is cracked but it works well for green-screen. And it has a tendency to hum a little bit.I also got three bags of laundry done. I was hoping I could get the blood stains out of my socks so they wouldn't look so garish. I figured I had nothing to lose so I swiped one of my nieces Oxy-Clean balls and tossed it in the wash. I looked at the clothes when I took them out of the dryer. I'm sold on that Oxy-Clean. It even got the automotive grease stains out. Next time I go grocery shopping I'm getting a bag of those balls.I also got the yard mowed. My father got a little battery powered pump that makes refueling the tractors a lot easier. I can fill the gas tank in less than a minute and I don't have to lift the can. Great little device. It runs on two 'D' size flashlight batteries. I generally have to fill the tank twice to mow the entire yard.I should sleep well tonight. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening guys
Been away for a few days. just some stuff going on I'd rather not mention.
Jeff, Your picture of the trainmaster reminds me I need to get to work on my U25C. I have an athearn trainmaster I bought to get the chassis. I need to get the trucks from a Bachmann E33C to use in it for my U25C. That and I need another shell as I botched both of mine... Good luck with the surgery
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.
Hey there everyone.
Kind of an uneventful day today. Not much happened here on the layout, model aircraft or even in the game. The only thing that has really changed in the game is that I now have German ground attack aircraft. After using them, I have had mixed success with them. Vulnerable, but heavily armed.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lehigh Valley 2089 Hey there everyone. Kind of an uneventful day today. Not much happened here on the layout, model aircraft or even in the game. The only thing that has really changed in the game is that I now have German ground attack aircraft. After using them, I have had mixed success with them. Vulnerable, but heavily armed.
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
I fitted a TCS T1 to my Athearn FP45, and retrofitted the front headlights with a Micro LED kit I found online from SBSDCC. Looks way better than the single big bulb in the front.
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD SATURDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, August 10th, 2013!!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Panic Button/ Panic Stations:
A state of high alert, often a simulated panic for comic effect
Origin:
One version:
Panic Button is a real button! B-24 and B-17 bomber planes had panic buttons! When the pilot hit it, a bell sounded that could be heard throughout the plane. This told the crew to stop what they were doing and get ready to jump out of the plane because it was damaged to much to fly anymore. When the phrase got moved into civilian life, it was meant as a warning (written or oral) for fast action, whether a situation might be dangerous, illegal or embarrassing
Panic Station:
The earliest citation of the term 'panic stations' that can be found in print comes from the New York newspaper The World, September 1892. The actual reference is to 'anti-panic stations', which were units set up by the local medical services in order to reassure the public during a cholera outbreak. However, that can't be said to be the origin of the term, as it has a different meaning to the one that we usually understand.
The real 'panic stations' is a rare linguistic beast, in that it is a nautical phrase that doesn't originate from the heydays of sail. One of the numerous meanings of the word station is 'a position assigned to a man on duty'. The Royal Navy had several commands to call sailors to their stations, notably 'action stations', which was ordered when a ship came under attack. Oddly, for a term that sounds like an ironic play on words, 'panic stations' was an actual command. This is apparent in a report titled Behind the Veil, published in The Times, November 1918:
Alarm gongs had already sent the guns' crews to their invisible guns and immediately after the explosion 'Panic stations' was ordered, followed in due course by 'Abandon ship'.
The above story itself relates to HMS Prize, one of the Q-ships that were used by the UK as a defence against the German U-boat submarines in World War I. Q-ships were heavily armed military vessels disguised as slow and rusting cargo ships, and were filled with wood and other buoyant cargo to enable them to stay afloat after being hit. The disguise was intended to induce the unsuspecting U-boat, assuming there to be no risk, to surface, at which point the Q-ship's hidden guns would be unveiled and an attack would commence. The Germans soon became suspicious of any apparently harmless ship and waited until all threat appeared to have gone before surfacing. The above story explains how, Lieutenant-Commander Sanders, the captain of the sham cargo vessel, even went to the lengths of allowing his ship to be hit and part-submerged before raising the flag and opening fire on the surfacing U-boat.
The Royal Navy's ships fly the White Ensign and the last-minute hoisting of the flag was considered to be a vital part of the engagement, as an attack by an unidentified vessel would have been against the accepted rules of war. Captain Saunders made sure that, although his ship was figuratively 'a wolf in sheep's clothing', it was literally 'showing its true colors'.
As to panic itself, the word is sometimes said to be derived from panicum, the Latin word for millet - which is also the source of the French 'pain' , that is, bread. One of the theories as to the fate of the Mary Celeste, which was discovered abandoned in the Atlantic in 1872 with the crew mysteriously missing, is that the ship's bread was contaminated with the hallucinogenic ergot fungus, causing those on board to panic and throw themselves overboard. Neither of these suggestions is correct. The Mary Celeste ergot theory is based on no evidence and the word panic derives from the eccentric god Pan, who the ancient Greeks believed lived in caves and other lonely places. They attributed any unusual sounds or animal behaviour to him. In ancient Greece, anyone who exhibited any sudden state of wild alarm was said to be like Pan, or as we would say, 'Panic'.
Yea. My footy team won. I premiership since 1883. Go Western Bulldogs. aka Footscray . Here we go here we go here we go! It use to be that all the rich clubs won. Well, we're still playing the game & look out. O 1954 was when we Won. Thanks for helping out in WWII . My Grandfather said we were in a spot of bother, yet still trying. Don't worry I'm your classic mongrel, German, Briitish Jew etc.
well thanks for introducing me to the rest of my life
Go Footscray .
Yo Vinnie, lets talk.
Coffee and a waffle with strawberries and whipped cream please, thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 82.
Not much going on today, just more much needed outside stuff around the house. Been looking at the garage and thinking, “how did this happen?” Like Barry I’m gonna have to get out the shovel. No bio-hazard suits though.
Good Morninganother sunny and cool day...high of 70 expected...hah!! We kicked out the jams last night...getting ready for tonight..see what happens. Anyhooooo...have a good day!!
Good morning. It's 81° with 85% humidity. The high will be 95° but will feel like 109°. with a No plans for today other than recover from yesterday.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with fresh blueberry syrup and a side order of bacon to go along with the dark roast coffee this morning. Thank you Ma'am!
There is a bright yellow thingie up in the sky here in the Finger Lakes this morning. Nice distinct shadows out there under the trees and such. Could be a decent day for generating electricity.... One could only hope. Currently 68°F with a high around 73°F later this afternoon. May get through the day without even running the Air Conditioner! That would be grerat for the net metering ratio for the day. yesterday in the dark and gloom the array only made 7.71 kWh. Not enough to run the clothes dryer and charge the car even. (Did both of those...)
Need to get busy and mow the lawn. Want to get the back half done before lunch so I'd best get moving. May get some time to work on the Packard Stake Truck too. That kit is a BEAR!
Currently it is 60 with an expected high of 86.
Not much happening here. It is my weekend off so need to do some house cleaning, and some grocery shopping. Supposed to meet with a few friends later today, so do not know how much I will get accomplished around the house today. There is always tomorrow. Not sure what will get accomplished on the layout or related modeling this weekend either.
Prayers to all in need.
Good Morning, Flo - I'll have one of those Barry-sized cinnamon rolls, please, and a Rio Grande mug of coffee. Thank you.
Well (toads are treading water a lot lately...), let me re-introduce myself (... it has been quite too long..) - I'm Jim from Cape G. (Midwestern river town).
Jeff, it's good to hear that you're preparing stuff at your father's place, so you won't be totally bored after your surgery (and that your Dad will be filling us in on your progress via Garry). That brass loco was an interesting story - I'm sure that with that old of a brass steamer, your buyer was likely going to put a new motor in it, so I'm sure he/she considers it a bargain at that price (and you made extra on it, so about everybody did well on the deal). Will have you in Monday morning (and before then, also). One of our supervisors at work has been back from surgery (broke her foot badly, had to have it amputated), and she has a new foot and is getting around fairly well for so soon. But I think you probably have way more determination than even she does!
I only did a quick check back about three pages and didn't see (so I probably missed it) - has anyone heard from Ulrich? I do understand that some of the Diners who've been MIA (as I've been) have stopped by, and (CB&Q)Garry nudged me (two or three times) earlier about showing up before they got the hounds out to track me down (and a few others). I saw that Gary (BN#24/SP&S) is looking into w**kin' on the RR Go for it, guy! And (YAY!) Galaxy is keeping up with our morning education, and that Todd is keeping up with his efforts to learn Chinese, a week at a time. While Barry is rockin' the - let's see, was that the Casbah, or some other place?
What has been keeping me occupied has been a combination of w**k, an Apple II conference that was in late July in the KC area (interesting to see your refurb-ed disk drives, Jeff! - I hadn't seen any pics of the Mitac's in quite a long while), and after the conference I met (IRL - in real life, vs. our phone calls and online talks) a woman from that area after the conference (still thinking thru where that relationship might go), and while I was in the KC area, I met this fella:
(Other Steve 'n' me)
Since I got back home, work has been, well... - the other two people working in my section are leaving us on the 30th, and I've been moved this week to help out part of the days, with another program (where there is less of the occasional time when I could even post a short note in the Diner in the past), between 9-ish and 2:30 p.m. or so. I still have yet to find out how to do whatever documentation is needed... It remains to be seen about when/how soon there will be the new person(s) in my section (and how well they will be trained, or whether the powers that be will decide to pull me out of the group to help them...) I almost feel like CudaKen about having me a bit to drink. How's Ken been doing, by the way?
I think I have too many "leisure-time" activities/hobbies and such going on (computer stuff, de-cluttering the apartment, trying to talk with the woman in KC - and this week met online and initially talked with another woman who lives closer to my area). Plus, the layout hasn't been touched for probably a month or two, maybe more...).
One good thing was, at the Apple II conference, there was a soldering mini-tutorial, so I now can (safely...) solder wires and connections for the layout(!). So maybe by Christmas, I will power on the layout and might (just might) be able to do some switching on it. (I hope!)
Due to my frequent absence from the Diner, any of you who want to keep in touch probably need to either email me or send a PM (which I will get). Not sure how soon I'll be able to resume semi-regular visits to the Diner...
Hope all you Diners have been staying healthy and out of the hospital as much as possible, and that you've been making way more progress on your MRR'ing than I have. for healing for those with ailments and/or surgeries/procedures coming up. And may you have some good rest at night.
Blessings and prayers (even in my absence from here),
Jim in Cape G.
Good afternoon all,
Because the wife has a bridal shower to attend tomorrow, we decided to do our railfanning today. Have to feed the habit you know. It turned out to be a a busy day for us and Norfolk Southern. We caught a total of 14 trains in 2 hours, with 9 of them being in the first hour.
4 intermodal -1 denatured alcohol train -4 mixed freights -2 coal trains - 2 crude oil trains- 1 Herzog ballast train. Best of all, leading the Herzog string was Illinois Terminal #1072, a NS Heritage Unit. I have always been impressed by the photos of these units, but I must say they are even more impressive when seen live. This is the 3rd one I've seen so far and hope to see more before they get too dirty and beat up.
Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
alexstan Lehigh Valley 2089 Hey there everyone. Kind of an uneventful day today. Not much happened here on the layout, model aircraft or even in the game. The only thing that has really changed in the game is that I now have German ground attack aircraft. After using them, I have had mixed success with them. Vulnerable, but heavily armed. What game are you talking about Jake?
A game that is yet in Open Beta test mode, World of Warplanes. It's similar to World of Warcraft in the fact that it is a multi-player online based game, but is free and focuses on war planes that range from the 1920's to the Korean War.
EDIT: Well, I got top, eat up everyone!