Lion wrote "LION has been here, even if he his hiding under the table. Now him sneaks out and makes himself at home, with a stack of pancakes and some Ostrich Eggs and Wildebbeast saussage patties.
Anybody want some Breakfast with the LION?"
Sure Lion I will have breakfast with you, please dont mind the sniffles. Have some allergies and I feel bit under the weather. Do they have any of these ? Gazelle tenderloin ? Crocadile bacon strips ? Hippo ham ? No then I have the Ostrich egg and a couple of those Wildebeast sausage thingies. By the way why are you hiding under the table ?
Galaxy - I suppose it has been a tough year. I am blessed with a large family. When my grandmother was alive we would pack about 70 people into her little shotgun house ! With that many people I guess the odds of something major hitting you have a higher percentage of something going off of the rails. As tough as it has been lately there have been much worse years. We have many blessings still to count. Grand children being born, employeed, have health insurance, family and friends, and more than anything a God that loves us and a country where we can worship freely, for the most part.
Bama - Merry Christmas to you also. What age kids do you teach in church ?
Howmus - Your sister yelled at you at her party ? Man I am sorry that happened.
Garry I will tell them that. Thanks
Uhlrich - I think you are so amazing. Have you heard from your RR friend lately ?
Der - hope your svc goes well today.
TTYL
YGW
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll join the feast at Brother Elias' table.... And a Happy Day Three of the season to all!
YGW, LOL... My sister always gets very upset with me any time I agree with her..... She is the "Middle Child" and makes the most of it!
I am busy cleaning house today. Yes, it definiately needs it! I have months of stacks of stuff that have been collecting to deal with, a horrably filthy rug to vaccume, and dust on any furniture that wasn't piled up with other STUFF. So I best get at it...
We got an inch of rain here in the Finger Lakes overnight... The basement is still dry! Normally there would be at least some water ozzing in few places. I think maybe the investment in the driveway and old shed area is paying off. Time will tell. Currently 46°F outside the door with rain and a touch of sn*w forecast for the afternoon.
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!
Good afternoon Diners: YGW, thanks for the SIL updates - I learned on Christmas Eve that I have to scale back the graphic detail in passing along prayer requests to one person in particular as she has PTSD, unbeknownst to me. No worries, now I know, I can govern myself accordingly. However she and her team are totally behind your SIL
yougottawantaDer - hope your svc goes well today.
On a lighter and train-related note, we walked a short section of the old railbed near here which has been repurposed as a walking trail. It includes a wye, and we turned on that! (Did not walk backwards on the short leg however, sorry purists! ) Back at home I Googled for a map of that line, without immediate success. However, one site was a local mmr who is building an HO layout which includes some of the old local ines. I've emailed him and await developments. Here's a link to his pages http://www.intercolonialrailway.com/prototype.htm
Have to go but I'll maybe drop by later.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, thought you were on vacation this week? No rest for the weary, huh... Well, while your up I could use as cup of decaf please.
I was cleaning up my dining room table and found that it is made of wood... Haven't seen it in so long I had forgotten evidently. The last thing at the bottom of the stacks of "to be recycled if I leave them there long enough" stuff was a funny publication I get each month. Then I thought that Galaxy has been remiss in his putting great quotes for us here in the diner lately and found some that might be both inspiring, seasonal, and make you smile (I hope!)...
"Christmas is a time when you get Homesick, even if you are home." - Carol Nelson
"I have all these people to give Chrismas gifts to, and you know what I found? There are some very nice things at the 99¢ store." - Ellen Degeneres
"I bought my brother some gift wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping." - Steven Wright
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." - Phyllis Diller
"Christmas at my house is always six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven." - W. C. Fields
See you later!
Good afternoon all. Just got wrapped up teaching, now buying a few last minute gift supplies before going to my grandparent-in-laws for lunch and Christmas with them.
YGW, we teach ages 5 to 9. It's always a blast with them. My oldest is also in that class.
I've been keping up with scuttlebutt about the 1:1 railroads through my area. Apparently, the "leadership" of CSX has decided to route all through traffic off the line, postponed a major tie replacement program and droped the speed of the line down. Some are saying that it's a sign they're selling. Funny thing is, now with the rains, they're redirecting all the trains back.
Well, that's enough from my neck of the woods.
Later taters
Evening guys
YGW:
You do know that our thoughts and prayers for your SIL are with/ for you and your family too. I shouldn't even be here, as I was brought back from clinically dead due to full anaphylactic shock from allergic to medication! Had it NOT happened while I was at work,andhad the EMTs been further than 6 minutes away, I definitely would NOT be here. It took CPR and 4 shocks to restart my heart.
I decided that there must be a reason I am still here now, and decided I would do whatever good I could do for others while I am here. I may not do as much as I could, but I try. That is one reason I started the first fundraising event for our dear departed Jeffery wimberly
, whom this diner was renamed for for a new roof when a tree fell on it and damaged it. The second fundraiser was for Ulrich' s new badly needed glasses.
I do hope we here can do great job of raising some funds for SIL as my third drive here!
Com' Mon guys, find it in your heart to help out, no matter how small you think you r contributions may be! Every little bit helps, and out of few can many blessings be bestowed on someone so much in desperate need!
Had it not been for the assistant mgr at work who saw me go down, a coworkers gf who knew CPR, and the EMTs being only 6 minutes away, and the 4 shocks it took. You all would not be graced with my presence. ( I had walking pneumonia, and had been prescribed a sulfa antibiotic that we now know that I am deathly allergic to. I was lucky, had I been home sick instead of going to work, I would not be here)
So everyday, even the bad ones are a blessing. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to be here. Some of my mistyping, and dyslexic responses are actually due to mild brain damage while I was clinically dead and it pushed the envelope time wise towards permanent irreversible brain damage due to mortal oxygen starvation and lack of blood flow to my brain.
Anyway, count your blessings and be greatful for another day.
I am off my soap box.
If you want to help SIL, please please PM me for instructions and my address.
N
-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.
Hi guys
back to work tomorrow for me. I thought about taking time off around Christmas but decided against it, too busy out and rather have time off during nicer weather. Speaking of weather they are calling for a winter storm tomorrow afternoon with snow and freezing rain.
well I caved and bought a ps4,lol. I got a few games for it and have been playing it the last two days. I'm a sucker for sports games both video game and table top. I have been playing a lot of table top lately so will switch it up for video game sports. I get way more then enough excerise at work so don't feel so bad sitting down and playing some games after house work is done.
Evening Dinners
Flo, a please
Work Front Seems Jerry is inventing new ways to screw up paper work! He has done around 20 Cash Reports and has not gone one right yet? I swear they are simple, I got it right the first time!
Owner has a buyer for my buliding. We will know more about the closing date in January, Marvi thinks closing will be around April or May of 2016. Then I am sure we will have the Going Out Of Bussines Sale, that will last around 3 months then the store is gone.
Told Jerry the news. He said "Guess both of us will need to start looking for a new job"! Well I sure I won't be, they will want me at St Charles again, only 70 mile round trip. Jerry on the other hand? If I was him I start looking now!
Ken
I hate Rust
The good news: Yesterday, I won a supposedly new-in-box BLI PRR T1 on eBay, for a great price. (I honestly didn't expect to win, but got lucky.)
The bad news: I found the box containing my three PRR E units this evening, after being unable to find them for years. Bonus: My GP9's were in the same box.
Well, at least I won't want for Pennsy passenger power!
Brief reply with my iPhone .. Our dsl internet is not working today. evidently there is a widespread outage resulting from storms. .. Read your posts. Won't reply until we get internet survice restored.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Really early morning diners,
I took down my Christmas lights and took the decorations off the tree within two days before it gets to cold.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
GM, MEN!
I am at teh computer now. A big part of the reason words don't always come out right is the brain damage I received after death. SOme typos or double letter taps aded to the mix nad sometimes my words may be scarbbled eggs! It may LOOK riht to me, and my brain tells my fingers in the wrong orde of which to type a word, so those brain cells must have died when I died. On the way to the hosptial, The EMT asked me several simple questions i either couldn;t answer or answered wrong, nad he said he was afraid of the fact that I secured brain damage while I was dead. I was dead to long and pushing serious brain damage.
enough of that..but that is why Ihave such a generally happy nad upbeat attitude now: I decided pessimism was for the birds, and TRY not to let amajor depressve episode get me down. but I have now no fear of dying, perhaps that accoutns for my 3 suicide attenpts, the most recent desire was this past June when I was hospitalized again ibnt he psych ward as I spoke up as a preventative measure.
Today's word:WARNING: it's a tongue twister!
Now, a pangram is a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet. The most well-known is “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog” which makes use of 33 letters. People have come up with shorter pangrams too.
Let’s call it a noelgram -- a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet, except the letter L. What noelgrams can you come up with?
Today's quotes:
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (25 Dec 1642-1727)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
FOR RAY:
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
MAKE SOMEOME'S day brighter!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to try an wake me up this morning.
Looked outside when I rolled out of bed and see that everything turned white overnight as expected.... Currently 26°F with a high of 32°F this afternoon. Time to get the heavy Carhart back out I guess and put on long sleeve shirts for a while. The sn*w is not staying on the grass but is still on the roofs around the neighborhood. Shoiuld be melting off the solar panels soon if it hasn't already. There is just enough sun out there to see light shadows from the tree trunks....
I will be spending most of today furiously cleaning house! Have company coming on Wednesday and tomorrow I will be out at Boy Scout Camp unhooking and staoring the Amps and Mixer, etc of the sound system out there. Big thing there is to make sure everything is labeled to make hooking back up easier. Also have to do some shopping today....
A few quotes to add...
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." - Plato
"Philosophy is the highest Music" - Plato
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles." - Plato
Have a great day!
Good Evening!
Dropping by just to say hello and enjoy a nightcap, before hitting the hay.
It´s been a totally uneventful day, filled with a short walk, a drive to replenish our supplies for the rest of the year (with Petra behind the wheel) and some time spent running a train around my layout. I still have not succeeded to create that BoM file. Whenever try to convert it from the Lego format lxf file, it looses vital information. One fine day I´ll be able to get it right.
Temps are going down and we may even get some of the season´s regular white stuff - just like Ray.
Have a good one and CU tomorrow!
Ulrich - Snow already ? When does it start and what month does it end ?
Galaxy - Call 911 ! My tnogeu is lal iedt up after that word ! I understand completly what yu are taking about on your view of this life. After a very serious accident resulting in three years to recover and brain damage and then loosing my wife I completely understand. I do not hold n to the things of this world with a firm grip like I used to. Not wanting to check out just yet either though.
Howmus - Arent Carharts wonderful ! My wife bought me a pair for Christmas : )
Angel - Already takeing down Chiristmas ? My wife being from Spanish stock we have to wait I think it is called "three kings day"
V8 - Geez ! You know you sure look dangerous to me with that toothpaste !!! I can see it know - stickem up cowboy or we are going to squirt you with flouride !!!
Bama - Kids that age are the greatest ! I still have one 10 (she is a sweet heart ) and one 12 and another who just turned 13.
Uncle Bob - Man that sound like Christmas all over again !!
Der - God was looking out after you that day !!! That was a CLOSE call.
Ken - Will the sales be better at the other store ?
My son is taking me to see star wars tonight. I wanted my father to come along - he likes Westerns - so I told him it was a cowboy movie with light sabers vs six shooters. He still declined . Oh well maybe they wil start showing good Westerns again with real men like John Wayne or Roy Rogers....
Eveing Dinners
Flo, please
Rotten Day Off Started with having to take Sue to a Eye Examine, they where dilating her eye's so I had to take her. I was warming up the car while she was coming out. Them I heard her screaming "Ken, Help me, help me"!
Got out of the car and found her laying on the front porch on her back! My guess she step off barckwards to close the front door and lost her balance. With her knee's and back problems, she cannot get up off the ground. I got behinde her and lifted her from behinde under her arms. I had her 3/4's of the way up, then she stepped backwards trying to help.
She pushed me backwards and I fell on my well padded caboose and she on top of me! Told her not to help this time and I was able to get her standing up. She was hurting pretty bad, could hardly walk. But she wanted to go for the eye test anyway. Good news, her eyes have not suffred any from her being diabetic. Bad news, she is a mess now, she is having to use a cane to get around what little she can.
YGW Far as would I make more money part? I would not hold my breath. This company is domed. Only real question is how long I want to hold on, it is easy and making small mistakes is not a big deal and I make some.
Train Front I have tested some of my old Atlas Remote Turnout machines, and they work? Bought some wire and hope to have a few turnouts wired up Tuesday. I think I will enjoy it, I have around 50 turnouts on the layout and seldom throw any.
Later, Ken
Howdy .... Our internet connection was re-established late today.
We delayed our northern trip until tomorrow because of Winter Storm Goliath. Today would have been a bad day if we tried to drive through Ohio to Michigan. Goliath is done with our area now and is far east of us. I don't have much time to visit the Diner this evening, and I will have little or no computer time for the rest of the week.
So, I'll say Happy New Year now.
Ken ... Sorry to hear about you and Sue slipping and falling. I hope all will be okay.
When I get back, will each of you have a Model Railroad New Year's Resolution ?
Cheers !
Evening Diners,
Yes YGW- They are taken down. My mom told me the same thing that your wife said. If I took them a few weeks later after they came, the weather is going to be freezing and than trying to pick a day to those lights. Which I did last year, before the previous two years making it 4 years.
I went to the movie theater and watched Star Wars episode 7. It was alright, all that excitement was a little overstated. Then again am not a real nerd star wars fan.
Good evening all. Just stopping in for a RBF before I hit the sack. I had to w**k today which I'm grateful for, but given the weather, it was a less than productive day. I did a grand total of 4 vehicles for the day (2 oil changes, 1 flat repair, and 1 alignment), a "normal" day would have me doing 2 to 3 times that easily. Oh well, still got paid.
YGW, I've a total of 4 kiddos, my oldest is 8 (will be 9 in two weeks), my second is 6, my son is 3, and the last is 1 (will be 2 on January 24th). 3 girls, 1 boy, I'm completely outnumbered.
I got home this evening and found that the wife and kiddos had taken down our Christmas stuff, which means my wednesday off will be clear of that duty.
That's enough for me, talk to yall layer taters.
It is icy and slushy here....
today's word:
LION bounds into the dining car... finds a table near the kitchen door. Him orders Wildebeest Steaks for breakfast. Sticky Buns are just coming out of the ovens. I'll take the ones with Raisins and Pecans, if you do not mind. Or even if you do mind... LIONS are not all that particular (except with regards to what trains the BMT runs on Broadway... Him has ideas about that!)
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Hmm... Amost the end of the month it is...
LION thinks that the next stop for the diner should be in Zimbabwai. They have nice trains there, including Garretts on the point. And we can park our diner under a Baobab Tree, and will have very plentiful Wildebeests this time of year.
Get your passports ready, and do not mind the TSA agents, they are friends of mine!
Snow! It's the first of the season here. It's wet and sloppy, and we're only getting an inch or so. It's already turning to rain and will stay that way, so I'm looking for just wet roads on the drive to hockey tonight.
cudaken Train Front I have tested some of my old Atlas Remote Turnout machines, and they work? Bought some wire and hope to have a few turnouts wired up Tuesday. I think I will enjoy it, I have around 50 turnouts on the layout and seldom throw any.
Ken, I've got a few old Atlas machines on my layout, too. Some date back to my teenage years, so they're 50 years old or more. Get yourself a capacitive discharge thing, or build one yourself. It will give you much more reliable throws and protect the machines from burnout when a toggle switch sticks in the on position.
We'll be skiing next week, and this snow is welcome up north. They've had no significant natural snow this season, and the man-made stuff is pretty limited. We go to Sunday River. This is the biggest ski week of the year, and they've got barely a quarter of their trails open. And, that's the resort that has the best snowmaking in the East. I feel sorry for those who've booked vacations at places with even less snow.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning, Diners.
Since we have such a broad-based group here, thought I'd ask a question. Do you have a tradition of some specific food you eat on New Year's eve or day to bring good luck for the year? For a while the wife and I tried the Japanese tradition of soba noodles on New Year's day, but it hasn't seemed to work yet. Her family is German, but she doesn't know of any lucky German New Year's traditions. So, what do you eat for luck in the New Year where your people are from?
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good Afternoon!
I was hoping my friend Lothar would join me today to complete the wiring of my layout, but he did not come - . He is a bit of a lone wolf and tends to forget such things.
Steven - there are a few traditional New Years customs I know of. The most prominent is Bleigießen - you´ll find a lot about it here.
Another one is to eat a special doughnut called "Berliner Pfannkuchen". Despite its name, it´s not a pancake, but a doughnut, filled with jam, but without the hole in it. Incidentally, this was not what JFK meant in his famous 1963 speech "Ich bin ein Berliner"
There may be more, regional traditions, but I am not aware of any. For my wife and I, the New Year´s Eve is a time to get a little sentimental. We have a rather frugal meal consisting of potatoe salat and German sausages (Frankfurters) and listen to music. It´ll be a glass of champagne at midnight and "Auld Lang Syne", before we hit the hay, trying to get some sleep while the rest of Germany sends billions of Euros worth of fireworks up in smoke and noise.
I did some searching of the web for more info on Lego trains and the deeper I look into this subject, the more I am fascinated by what can be done out of those plastic bricks.
Just look for yourself:
More to be seen here
The only problem I see is to source all those bricks. "Hunting them down" could take years!
YGW - no snow yet, but the weather guessers see a fair chance for New Year´s Eve. A few years ago, we had a long, cold and snowy winter, which started in December and lasted well into March! More recently, we had rather mild, but wet winter seasons.
Prayers for Kelly!
Have a great one!
Ken - How are you and Sue doing ? I hope okay.
Ulrich - Those arent kits ? I assumed that you could buy those and put them together ? If those arent kits that makes them more impressive !!!
Lion - Uhhhh if those lions are TSA agents at the depot lets see if they have a back door outta there !!! Do I look like a wildebeast ?
Bama - YES you are outnumbered ! Man what a great blessing you have been blessed with ! Talk about being outnumbered. I have three daughters, wife, two female dogs, one female cat ! The estrogen and DRAMA flow deeply here.
Angel - I agree on star wars. There were some really great parts but I am soooo glad I was not one of those that stood in line for days to get tickets or a seat.
Lazy day planned. Will be working on the study with finishing the new trim, some paint prep and then lazy afternoon.
yougottawantaUlrich - Those arent kits ? I assumed that you could buy those and put them together ? If those arent kits that makes them more impressive !!!
No kits, but so-called MOC´s - which stand for My Own Creation. It´s a German guy doing an incredible job of designing and building near-to-scale locos using Lego bricks. The bricks are not that expensive, the only difficulty is to track them. There is no place you could just send a list of the bricks you need. You have to individually order them. If you are lucky, you can get them at one place. HAve you ever identified and order 500 individual items? Takes ages!
Ulrich, what you call,>>>Another one is to eat a special doughnut called "Berliner Pfannkuchen" I think we call a "Bismark". Does that sound right ?
Johnboy out..........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
last mountain & eastern hogger Ulrich, what you call,>>>Another one is to eat a special doughnut called "Berliner Pfannkuchen" I think we call a "Bismark". Does that sound right ?
I think Bismarks are chocolate-covered and custard-filled... what I (probably incorrectly) call a Boston cream.
Steven Otte
And if there's a tray of those at the end of the counter, I'll take one. Or two.