Evening Dinners
Flo a JSTL and a beer please. Give the Buick guy a as well.
Feeling a little under the weather today. Not sure if I am getting sick or just beat up from Friday. Either way I left work earily, I felt like caboose.
Jeffrey Railraod name help! I think it was L&A am I correct? Was it a real railroad or just something Jeffrey came up with? Reason I ask is Jan bought a Round House Kit for Jeffrey for a project that was never sent. I now have it and want to patch it for Jeffrey railroad.
If it was a real railroad I maybe able to buy the decales. If not, could someone make me one?
Well I am beat, See you all Sunday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Busy day doing odds and ends that have been piling up over the last 6 weeks or so. I worked on the Clinic I am presenting next saturday for the Meet. I ran through it and it took me a little over an hour... I have 45 minutes start to finish to do the clinic so I will have to give in and do it right. That is write down what I need to say, so I don't go off on tangents.... I need to be done in about 35 minutes to give time for questions, etc.
Ken, Google is your friend! L&A RR Of course you need to do the decals (not decales) Jeffrey style... print them on tissue paper and then carefully glue them in place!
I got a call this noon from my sister. They are keeping Clim (her former ferral cat) until Monday. He ate a bit last night and managed to keep it down and is generally doing a bit better. I'm now wondering if he has an intestinal blockage....? It should have showed up on the xrays they did, but???? Her other cat Claude has been searching all over for his buddy and looking upset. I do hope they can find something curable with Clim!
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!
the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad was incorpated in Arkansas in 1898 for the purpose of acquiring former logging properties in Arkansas and Louisiana. the railroad was constructed and operated under the leadership of William Buchana, a prosperous timberman with extensive investments in Arkansas and Louisiana. Buchanan's primarycompany, Bodcaw Lumber company, was in Stamps, Arkansas and that city also served as headquarters of the L&A until the late 1920's. it was reorganized in 1902 as the Louisiana and Arkansas railway.
in 1910, the L&A Railway and Arkansas Southern Railroad were involved in a dispute over Louisiana taxes, a notable court case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
During the late 1920's a group of investor's acquired Louisiana &Arkansas stock. these investors owned electric and telephone utilities in Arkansas and Louisiana and believed that failroad ownership in their service area would also be profitable. When control of the L&A was secured in 1928, a new company was chartered in Selaware in 1928 to acquire the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company and to acquire and lease the Louisiana Railway and Navigation company. Louisiana Railway & Navigation operated a profitable railroad between New Orleans, shreveport and Dallas. The L&A inaugurated premier passenger train, The Shreveporter, in 1928, operating between Shreveport and Hope, Arkansas. This train carried a through Pullman sleeping car between Shreveport and St. Louis, Missouri, in conjunction with Missouri Packfic Railroad. A second named passenger train, The Hustler, was added to provide overnight service between Shreveport and New Orleans in 1932.
the investors began purchasing stock of the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1937. after gaining control of the KCS in 1939, a decision was made to merg the two properties. Kansas City Southern was the surviving corporation, with the Louisiana & Arkansas as a KCS subsidiary, but the KCS president and the controlling stockholders were all from the L&A. This merger created "single line" railroad freight service between Kansas City and New Orleans in 1940, a new MCS-L&A diesel powered streamliner, the Southern Belle, was inaugurated to connect the twi cities.
In 1948, in a letter to Ernest W. Roberts, Harry Truman described the difficult working conditions for certain black employed by this railroad.
The worst wreck in the history of the L&A occurred in 1951, when a northbound L&A troop train collided head-on with the southbound Southern Belle just north of Lettsworth, Louisiana; Leetsworth is located 55 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, on a segment of the Texas and Pacific arailway over which L&A train had operating rights. When the collision occurred on a long curve where vegetation obscured visibility. Thirteen people were killed, and another eighty-two were injured. it was determined that the accident had occurrwd because the troop train had overlooked a train order to wait in a siding at Lettsworth to allow the oassenger train to pass.
The identity of the L&A geadually disapprared in the 1950's and 1960's, as the Kansas City Southern name was adopted for all properties. By 1966, all reference to the L&A had disappeared from the annual stockholder eroorts of Kansas City Southern. The Shreveportee, once the pride of the L&A, was discontinued in 1962,and the Southern Belle was discontined in 1969, ending all passenger train service on the former L&A.
In 1992, Kansas City Southern dissolved the subsidiary Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, although tbe former L&A route continues to be a major component of the KCS.
Sorry about the history lesson about L&A. But Jeffrey had his limitations on using tissue paper for lettering.
Newport .. thanks for history of L&A.
Also, Jeff lettered some of his trains for his freelance railroad called "Midland Gulf". He made paper decals for that. He even painted and lettered his Dodge van for Midland Gulf RR.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
yea i know about the midland gulf it only lasted 3 or 4 years. started around 1887 ended around 1890 not much history about this line in Georgia.
that is what i mean by his limitations on tissue lettering. Jeffrey loved history
Newport, I used to be amazed at the work Jeffrey did with using tissue paper to patch his locos! Only he could pull that off.... That is why I told Ken he needed to do it tissue paper!
Even with all the new faces in here, there is an empty feeling without Jeffrey.........
i know what you mean. Reminds me of someone painting their car with house paint and it looked great.
Today's Quotable Quotes:
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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.
howmus Even with all the new faces in here, there is an empty feeling without Jeffrey.........
Yes it most definitely is. It was when he "disappeared" and we knew nothing, now it is and we know everything.
RIP, My friend
Morning Railfans! Yeah I know..... what the heck am i doing up at this hour. To tell you the truth, I dunno. Flo, my usual please.
Yesterday and today have been perfect. Cloudy, rainy, quiet.... so youd think id be doing my best Van Winkle impression! I tell ya, been boring as watching paint peel the last few days.
No work. Not even one call! As much as I hate to, I may have to find a real job and give up this working for myself. Something about a steady paycheck seems appealing .
i did manage to get two things somewhat accomplished. 1) i finally broke down and cleaned up my desktop workarea. Not because i had nothing to do really, more like it was i needed to because i couldnt do anything unless i did.
2) put in a few hours on my website. Edited something like a hundred pictures. Added some here, deleted some there. Now I am back to bored again. Id would love to work on the layout but this close after XMas with no work.... $$$ is a bit tight at the moment.
Heck, even the coupler project is at a standstill. And it hasnt cost me one red cent to make two cars so far. All i lack is a few magnetic switches (which i dont have). $$$$! Probably be the only things in the project that will cost something. Not bad if i do say so myself.
OH well, im sure something will turn up. Maybe I will head over to the parentals today and rattle their cages a little bit . Last thing I feel like doing is sitting around all day when theres so much in the hobby i could be doing.
Catch yall later.
Douglas
Good morning.
Speaking of Jeff and history reminds me of a phone conversation I had with him. I was interested in learning some history regarding Cherokees because we had recently taken two of our granddaughters to the Trail of Tears Memorial Park in Hopkinsville which is not very far from here. Jeff could talk indefinately on that topic. It was interesting to me. ..... I told Jeff about the older of the two girls who felt sadness at the park after reading brief history of the Trail of Tears on signs at the park. She placed a flower at the gate leading to the graves of Cherokees who died during the Trail of Tears relocation of Cherokees. .... I think Jeff could have written a book about that topic.
I did not know the name, Midland Gulf, was a real railroad name, but I see it was long before diesel locomotives. ..... or "Franken-Diesels".
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Yesterday, I began cleaning the rails for my streetcar line. I should complete that today. I do it by hand because that is the best way for these tracks. I wonder how I will do it after I finally install the overhad trolley wires which will be in teh way.
Happy Model Railroading.
The LION went to Brooklyn (sort of) and came back with this picture. Him then mounted the picture on the backdrop for the Avenue H station.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Morning guys.
Had a real wintery mix yesterday, snow and freezing rain. Its messy out today and calling for a big drop in temperature from 5c down to -14c tomorrow. We got the tree down earlier this morning. No plans for today I might play some strat o matic on the PC or run some trains.
Talk to you guys later on
Good Morning from Winterpeg,
The windchill here right now is -50F and that is chilly, if not cold. It is sunny though and from inside the house the snow on the trees looks quite, dare I say pretty. I wonder how Lion copes as he likely has similar weather today?
Well not much happening here today, think I might run a train and look at fixing the lights in a few houses that suddenly aren't lighting.
CN Charlie
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, could I get a refill for my cup of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee? Thank you Ma'am!
Slept in a bit this morning as I didn't shut off the laptop that has the Clinic presentation until 12:30AM last night.... Got up just in time to give Blackie his meds almost on time. I think I have the clinic down to around 40 minutes so that with questions and answers from the membership it should be about 50 minutes.... That is about right for a 45 minute presentation... We are only going to have 2 clinics at the meet but will do a Modelers Showcase (a modelers Show and Tell type thing) and have a short presentation on the Convention coming up.
Current temperature here in the Finger Lakes is 52°F but we are under a High Wind Advisory. Looking at gusts today around 55mph. Tonight the temps will dive to about 22°F so wintertime will be back.
I have all kninds of stuff to keep me busy today! Catch you all later...
Good morning all. It's just above freezing and raining lightly in New England. It's supposed to warm up to near 50F later today, which is when I'll take out the screen from the kitchen door and put in the glass. I'll also shovel a path through the 2 inches of wet snow we got last night, because we won't see the warm side of freezing temperatures for the rest of the week, at least.
As I recall, Jeff's decal technique was not to use tissue paper, which would be difficult to get through a printer. Instead, he printed the images on regular paper and then carefully rubbed the back side with sandpaper to thin the paper down to tissue weight.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evenin fellow Railfans! Flo, my usual please with a side of Dbl bacon cheeseburger-plain, el grande fritas, and we will talk dessert later.... if i have room.
In general - well folks it started out to be a hum-drum day. Guess it kinda ended up that way too. You know you have a day like this when you consciencely(sp) elect to clean out and rearrange your kadee's. Yep, i did that today. Still havent finished.
I will have you folks know it was 65 here today. Sun popped in and out. Was a very nice day! The last ten minutes though it has gotten windy to beat all heck. Betcha it gets real cold tonight you wait and see.
Been 7 hours since anyone posted. Kinda quiet in here today. Hope everyone is ok and just taking it easy today. Reckon I will get back to cleaning the place up. Talk to yall in a while.....
Flo, a JSTL and a please. Give the Buick guy a as well.
Weather here is Caboose! While it is still 20 degrees, wind is blowing around 15 MPH.
High Light of the day is I have found 3 more Old Dutch Hoppers hidden behind a NOS gas tank for my 68 Road Runner. Guess I should look behind some more car parts.
Later, Ken
Hi; all!
Never got warmer than MINUS 6f and the windchill is around MINUS 30f and will get waaayyyy worse tonight!
Looks like the Packers play Dallas at Lambeau next Sunday. Good. We beat them last time there in a post-season playoff game. That's all for now!
How about a run-by?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGIXi-TUras
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
well,
Our weather was warm, but cloudy and now is heavily windy. I think we got to the 54F mark ttoo. I think in afew days we will be lucky to have a high of about 5F.
I did a whole lot of nuttin' today.Felt good?
Went and got a new wrist BP monitior. The cardiologist wants me to keep track for awhile, and Harbor Freight had them on sale for a whole $14.99 {with coupon, $1 more without}.
I also got a Free set of screwdrivers, just the regular kind. It seems when loooking for one we can never find one, so i got an extra 6 pack of 'em.One of each straight and Philllips in 3 different sizes.
Also got another hammer for a whole $3.99. Seems ours is always missing?
There are only 2 of us, and the "borrowers" tend to have everything when we need it.
Or, I can't find what i have. I only have 4 sets of allen wrenches, both metric and english each, and could I find just one set when I need it? no...
Harbor Freight is a place I tend to try to stay away from...SO many tools, so little time, so little money...
so other than the usual chores, I didn't do much. It is good to take a "holiday" for oneself once in awhile.
Tomorow is another day.
HAve a GREAT night sleeping!
saronaterry Hi; all! Never got warmer than MINUS 6f and the windchill is around MINUS 30f and will get waaayyyy worse tonight! Terry in NW Wisconsin
Janie, a cup of decaf would be goods right now....
Galaxy, one of the best ways to find missing tools and such is to go out and buy another one... The "lost" one will reappear just as soon as you get home.
I have spent much of the day worrying.... My sister is leaving for India in 3 days, and had a cat in the cat hospital... If he came home I was worried about what to do if something happened to him while she was away. Well the poor little kitty died this morning at the vets... On Friday he was seeming to be doing better, but yesterday he took a turn for the worse and passed away this morning. My sister is trying to tell herself that at least the little guy had one year in the safety and love of her home. It was little Clim that died. He adopted my sister and Claude the other cat after being a ferral cat in the nieghborhood for a couple years. Claude has been sitting in the window watching for his buddy to come back....... I told my sister I would be sure to spend as much time playing with and giving attention to Claude when I come over to feed him while she is gone. Clim was a sweet little guy!
Got a little bit done on some scenery in the train room today, and practiced my clinic once. Doorbell rang about dinner time and it was my next door nieghbor letting me know that my car keeps flashing its lights and blowing the horn for no particular reason. He figured with my hearing I probably didn't hear it. I wasn't wearing my hearing aids most of the day and he was right. Didn't hear a thing... What happens is that the key fob is on the key ring with about 20 keys in my pocket and every once in a while one of the keys presses on and sets off the location finder... Blows the horn and flashes the lights for me. Fun being deaf, it is...
Hope all of you have a great night.
good luck with the kitty, i thought it was the cat playing with your key chain, setting you car alarm on. lol
lael
Today's quote:
Men ever had, and ever will have leave,
To coin new words well suited to the age,
Words are like leaves, some wither every year
And every year a younger race succeeds. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)
Newport good luck with the kitty, i thought it was the cat playing with your key chain, setting you car alarm on. lol lael
WE may have lost Jeffrey, but looks like we have gained a new friend, his younger sister, Lael!
Welcome Lael!
I know you like the new diner...
Tell us more about yourself! WHat do you like to do,are you into trains like Jeffrey was? What do you do for a living? WHere do you do it?We'd love to know more!
Join us often.
Make it a great day!
Good early morning fellow Railfans! Top of the day to you. Flo, my usual fizzbuster in a frozen glass please. And make it fresh, i wanna feel the burn this morning.
Have you folks gotten used to singling out the new title of the diner yet? Still find myself looking for 'Elliot', now and then.
I found this link in todays news....
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/04/california-starts-building-high-speed-rail/
Its about the fact California is about to break ground on a new HSR. I wish them well. Would be nice to see more things like this take off. I hope I do get to see one in actual service in my lifetime - in this country.
to Newport, im a newbie too. Nice place, you will like it.
Probably nothin on the RR front today. Hopefully I am going to get to work today. Down to 40 now, woulda been great to have another 65 day like yesterday. Was a nice break in the cold. We will see about the work thing.
Until later my friends. Time to go get ready for the day. Flo, I will be back for dinner.
Good Afternoon!
Fairly quiet in here today!
Zoe, just coffee and a handful of those deliciously looking chocolate chip cookies, please.
Good to see you, Lael - it´s a little bit like Jeffrey coming to see us again.
I tried to overcome my health issue by working on that track plan of mine again. Now all my attempts of coming up with a more compact design failed, which did not really add to me well-being. Today I revisited my "old plan" and changed a few things - the most important to be introducing a double-slip switch and thus adding one more track to the station. That makes a whole lot of a difference! I now like the plan a lot better and will start on the benchwork, time at my friend´s shop permitting.
I tried to put a touch of a 3D effect into the drawing, hope you all like it!
Have a good one!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Hertitage Flakes Cereal with skim milk and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee this morning... Oh yes, bring my R&GV RR mug over for me to use. Thanks!
Currently 17°F under partially skies (you can fill in what that means...) with a high of 20°F, maybe sometime this afternoon. Wind from the West at 19mph with gusts up to 26mph. The wood stove will be lit for the day shortly.
I don't even want to list all the Stuff needing to get done the rest of this week around here! Today I get to take Blackie to the Vet to see how his blood sugar is doing. I may be soon learning to give him injections. We will see what the vet says. I have to get a refill of my Diabettes Medicine today. Will do that around lunch time to get me out of the house for a while so I won't be plagued by constant bugging by the cats for food (Blackie is on a fast between breakfast and his 2:45 appt.). After the appointment I may be back over to the Pharmacy to order equipment and stuff for the cat.... Have to get in touch with the guy over in Syracuse to see where we are on several odds and ends for the Meet on Saturday too. That's the very short list, BTW.
Catch you all later!
Sunny and just about freezing here in New England today. It will get brutally cold in a couple of days, particularly further north, so we won't be skiing this week.
OK, now I am officially retired. If I hadn't been, I'd have been back at work today. I'm still dealing with the slow Social Security system which has not yet turned on my Part B Medicare.
I spent the weekend watching football. The schedule for the next 4 weekends is Divisional Playoffs, Conference Playoffs, Springfield Train Show and then the Superbowl. It's nice to see that the NFL schedules its games around the big train show so I don't have to miss any football.
Howdy
Today would have been me father's 97th birthday. I think him often although it has been a long time since he died. My Dad was an active model railroader. He did O scale and also large live steam locomotives.
Mr B. LOL. I am sure the NFL planned it's schedule to accommodate train shows. Enjoy retirement.