Welcome aboard Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner for the month of September 2015!
This is your informal place to meet with friends, share your day, talk on topic and off topic, but always within the rules of the forum policy.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner was formerly Elliot´s Trackside Diner, but was renamed to honor our friend Jeffrey "Running Bear" Wimberly, who passed away in December 2014. Jeffrey was an outstanding personality, a gifted and creative model railroader and a true friend.
We miss him very much!
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner is open to anyone and Cousin Vinnie, the proprietor and the staff - that´s Janie, the twins Chloe and Zoe, Flo and Brunhilda - are always happy to welcome new guest.
So come on in and enjoy the finest food and drinks and good company!
Good morning Ulrich, early riser today I see--will be talking to you shortly, will try to call at the same time. Hope all is well.
herrinchoker
If this is the top use the CC and set up drinks for all--
Good Morning!
Thought I´d open up the September Diner, as our G-Man seems to be on the road and not available for this service. I am not sure, but I have a faint memory he mentioned a trip some time ago he and his OH planned on taking at the end of August.
My ear is improving slightly, but still bugging me. Li´l Whistler is still blowing his whistle, and there is still a feeling of pressure in it, but the pain is nearly gone now. Two more days until I can see that specialist about it.
I couldn´t help but fiddling around with that plan once more - always in search of excellence
The track plan:
... and some 3D views:
... and some detail shots:
... and a shot of the prototype location:
I wish I could change the colors of the scenery and the trees. I´d like to see it in those bright Fall colors!
up831 - I like designing small layouts, but I do have an issue with room-filling behemoths. It´s somewhat a hobby within the hobby for me, especially these days, as I cannot do any "serious" MRRing.
Enjoy the day!
'bright fall colors' Ulrich? Don't start pushing it! 25 more days until my B-day, then i will agree, after the first day of Fall,that there should be "pretty fall colors" other than green!
I have been busy this weekend...1st saturday was a BIG Shindig for special close friends...known as family.
Then SUnday we took in a couple of houses.nothing yet.
yesteraday was sa vet day, a thyroid issue, maybe and NOT a 'put to sleep' issue ike moh feared. and a cleanup day as MOh made two-one alcohol nad one non alcohol Black Forrest cakes for the shindig! so there was clean up in isle 16.
so, i was busy,
make it a great day....
Oh, hte train trip is next saturday...from Steamtown to Deleware water gap...
-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.
Had to look up what a shindig is - never heard of that word before.
Good morning diners,
It's the first of the month!
I was going write a few days ago but I got worried doing it. The past weekend I went on a small 2 day vacation to New Mexico and back doing some railfanning. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera on me until the return trip, but I missed a pair of UP SD70ACe with NS locomotive pulling a fast intermodal freight.
While watching Union Pacific trains I got energized again about the hobby. Mostly it went downhill; a bit on just focusing on buying freight cars.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to keep my R&GV RR Mug filled and a couple sour cream Glazed donuts..... Oh, The're gone already? The powdered sugared ones will do nicely then.
Brother Elias, I have been enjoying your photographs. I see the lion checking out the ladies there... Is that allowed?
Galaxy, sounds like you folks had a good weekend. I kinda thought you had mentioned that you would be busy.
Location and host for the NMRA Fall meet fell through for this one, so now I am trying to find a good location and program for it. Have a couple possibilities to look into.
Lots of stuff I need to get done, so I will catch you all later.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hello all
Just popping in to say HI ! Covered up right now at home ( remodeling ) and work. Assistant is on vacation ! Gotta run. Say a prayer got cardo appointment this afternoon to find out the result of all of the test.
YGW
Not much going on now. School is starting here in Michigan and everything is crazy.I might order a GM EMD SW-1 and paint it to its origional Pere Marquette colors and running a diesel instead of steam for a change. But other than that not much going on. Did find a couple of websites to help me model the Pere Marquette, and here they are.
http://www.pmhistsoc.org/library/PMModelsWeb.pdf\
A post on the fourm here
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/t/219683.aspx
Thats all.
Chris
Have you not sometimes wondered, what Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner looks like?
Well, here is a recent photograph:
Janie is on duty today, and she took the liberty of naming the place "Jane´s Diner". Cousin Vinnie is that lackadaisical figure sitting on the right side of the porch - I am the bloke with the coffee mug in his hand, sitting on the bench in front of the porch.
Bedtime is coming up - CU all tomorrow!
Hi Everyone...haven't been on since last January with the move, the new job and all....just wanted to get a cup of java and a slice of apple pie to go. hope to have some posts together real soon.
I love what cousin Vinnie has done to the place in honor of Running Bear.....have a great day everyone....
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
There's no place like ~/ ;)
Howdy ...
Ulrich ... Thanks for starting September Diner.... The photo of the diner is really remarkable. ... I like your track plans. Looks like fun just doing the track plans.
Galaxy .... Sounds like you had a good time with family, etc. .. Your birthday is 25 days... Mine is much sooner.
Angelob6660 ... Glad you had a nice trip in NM.
YGW ... Hope the appointment went well.
Gopod to see everybody including Herrinchoker, FLip, Lion, Ray, Chris, and Luvadj.
..............
I had my appointment in Nashville, TN yesterday with the cardiologist. Everything is stable for me.
Getting ready for a trip to Michigan soon.
Meanwhile, I am scratch building a rural grain elevator.
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Dinners
Flo Please
I am in a foul mood tonight, I hate stupid customers! At 4 minutes till closing Jeep SUV pull up to the store. Old Fart (well I am a old fart as well, but he was older) came in. He wanted to look at queen sizes mattress for him and is wife, she was not there.
OK, that not a buying sighn but I went at it. Took him to a King Koil Pillow top set for $629.99, he asked me how tall was it. Answer is 22". He said there was 22" and his wife has a hard time getting in and out of it. So I explained I have box springs that will lower it 2" to 5". Asked me "What eles to you have"? Asked him if he like to try it? He said no, what eles do you have?
With out him trying the mattress what do you do? I told him all ready I can lower the mattress up 5" with driffrent box spring, what does he want to do look at 52 driffrent mattress? Guess when he said look at Queen sets he did mean just look at them! Plus with out his wife being there to see if she could get in and out of the bed what am I going to do to get the deal? Store Grand Father clock started chimming 8:00 PM so he started shuffling to the door and I followed.
Reason I am in a foul mood? When I went out to my car I saw his wife sitting in the Jeep SUV! Why the heck would he leave her in the car, when she was the one with speical needs?
You Can't Help Stupid
Ken
I hate Rust
cudaken Reason I am in a foul mood? When I went out to my car I saw his wife sitting in the Jeep SUV! Why the heck would he leave her in the car, when she was the one with speical needs? You Can't Help Stupid Ken
Ken, you misunderstood the situation. That WAS NOT his wife in the Jeep SUV, It was his MISTRESS!!!
GM, MEN!
September 2nd, 2015. High today 85f. Muggy hazy humid. Humidity is at 100% already.
Todays word:
Richard Edmonds; DVD Reviews; Birmingham Post (UK); Jul 12, 2004
Today's quotes:
One for Ray:
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952)
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Watched rocket go up. Haze slight so didn't block view.
Back into the 90's with index 104 or so. T-Storms later. [again]. Garage to hot to run trains.
Prayers for all,
Flip
Good morning everybody.
Flip, it must be amazing to see one of those rockets going up.
We watch it from our home. We're about 50/60 miles from where it's launched. The sound from the rocket must be deafening. Bad enough when the T/S boomers go off and the house shakes.
howmus about a new sport?
about a new sport?
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
inch53RAY,,, I use to take my dates down on the Wabash to watch the subs race. One evening a log came floatin down with part of a limb sticking up, she said oh look there’s a periscope……
ROFL!!!
Zoe, I'll have Organic Granola with fresh picked Blueberries and a large pot of Marrakesh Exp[ress Dark Roast Coffee to start the day. Thank you Ma'am!
Hazy 81°F outside at the moment here in the Finger Lakes region of NYS. High will be 85° under mostly sunny skies. Right now the haze hasn't completely burned off.
Will be doing some odds and ends most of the day. Have Boy Scout Roundtable this evening. I'm continueing to just watch Manét as he seems to be a bit better than he was a few days ago. May make an appointment at the vets to have him checked out though.
Have a great day out there!
Afternoon guys
just had a big rain storm move through and now things are really muggy out there. I'm off this week and part of next but have a job interview on Friday afternoon so wish me luck. The pay is good and it's straight days. Not much planned for time off but too relax and take it easy. I plan on playing some table top baseball after and want to work on the layout. I tried to post earlier but it got lost, funny why my internet acts up in the intense heat of summer.
Evening, Folks!
Haven´t been feeling up to snuff all day long today! It´s not only that ear pestering me, it´s the old ticker acting up again. I am having this dull pain in my chest which really starts to worry me. Tomorrow will be hospital day - ear and heart need getting fixed.
I think I´d better stop dreaming of building a layout - even the small one seems awfully big when I am not feeling well. All I want is something to play with, something to get my mind set on other things. Something like this maybe?
I think that I can manage to build something like it - with a lot of help from my MRRing friend Lothar. Nothing fancy, crazy track plan, but somehow "cute" - and less than 3 by 4ft.
Something more realistic to dream about ...
Ray - where I spent the best time of my life (Bainbridge Island, WA) watching the submarine races had a meaning I am not allowed to explain here. It was certainly a popular Friday night thing to do
Good evening everyone.
Ulrich at first I didnt get the joke ( I was what ? that doesnt make sense ! ) until I scrolled down and saw the picture then the light bulb went on. Thanks Funny : ) Hope you feel better.
Ken - People can be so aggravating. If you think your customers are bad you should try dealing with inspectors in teh Fire dept. They are "stupid as stupid does" . I could go on and on about how out of touch they are with the real world like for instance the IRC code states that the frost depth here in this area is 30" But nope they look at some chart some dingbat has made up and they say it has to be four feet deep ? !! What heck just two years ago it was only 2 feet deep and Ale Gore and Obooomba is saying the world is getting warmer ! Now how can that be and teh frost depth is getting deeper here ? - yep there is a real disconnect going on.
Garry - thanks it was good news bad news type of appointment.
Galaxy - Fribble ? Now that is interesting. See above my comments to Ken. Can fribble apply to them ?
Flip - What rocket did you see go up ?
Good news and bad news on cardio doc. Good news no structural issues with the ole ticker. Bad news is there is a permanent electrical problem. The doc wants to try shocking my chest to get the electric in the heart corrected plus shove something down my throat to see it from the inside. Have any of you all had this performed and what was it like ?
TTYL
yougottawantaGood news and bad news on cardio doc. Good news no structural issues with the ole ticker. Bad news is there is a permanent electrical problem. The doc wants to try shocking my chest to get the electric in the heart corrected plus shove something down my throat to see it from the inside. Have any of you all had this performed and what was it like ?
Been there and done that!
The procedure is, to say the least, not really a pleasant one, but there are things worse. I just wonder how they want to get into your heart from your throat. In my case the went through one of the big veins in my thigh.
Nothing much today, I bought a Union Pacific AC4400CW and a BNSF SD70ACe from two different stores.
Lately it's been hard to buy locomotives when you buy only freight cars this past year.
Sir Madog yougottawanta Good news and bad news on cardio doc. Good news no structural issues with the ole ticker. Bad news is there is a permanent electrical problem. The doc wants to try shocking my chest to get the electric in the heart corrected plus shove something down my throat to see it from the inside. Have any of you all had this performed and what was it like ? Been there and done that! The procedure is, to say the least, not really a pleasant one, but there are things worse. I just wonder how they want to get into your heart from your throat. In my case the went through one of the big veins in my thigh.
yougottawanta Good news and bad news on cardio doc. Good news no structural issues with the ole ticker. Bad news is there is a permanent electrical problem. The doc wants to try shocking my chest to get the electric in the heart corrected plus shove something down my throat to see it from the inside. Have any of you all had this performed and what was it like ?
I had a cardio cath done too. They said "it must be blocked at least 85% or we don't do anything"...I said well, don't you think while you are in there, that you should DO something if it is only 75% blocked?They siad NO, ONLY 85% or more.
The worst part was, afterwards I had a 'collagen plug installed" that supposedly sealed up the hole in my thigh, and then had to lie there flat on my back for 5 hours, during which they served dinner, mushy stuff like mashed potatoes and gravy, which i could not eat lying down!
I thought the whole shindig was a waste...