Morning Dinners
Flo, Big Please.
Been at the dinner every day the last few days. Just did not feel like posting by the time I read all of the post.
Did not sleep well Wednesday night and by Caboose was dragging Thursday. Did get some of my running done but not all of it. Did buy a new offices chair but did not feel like bring it in the house. Guess I will get that done today.
B&O PK2 GP-30 Found out why it would not run. Seems when I cleaned the wheels using DC I some how cooked the decoder?
Well I am off, the Honey Do's are coming in quick and heavy.
Ken
I hate Rust
Hey all
Spoke to one of the chiefs in my local NMRA. I am considering volunteering to help with some things. He is going to speak to some of the other staff about how to make that work.
Last night an agent sent over a home inspectors report on a unit we walked this week . I hate dealing with these guys they ALWAY get half of the report WRONG because they are IDIOTS and these houses are so advanced they dont have a CLUE of what they are looking AT !!!!!!!!! , So now I have to be the bad guy and tell the HO that they just wasted $800 on an idiot and that he doesnt know what he is talking about and NO WE are NOT GOING to follow his OPINIONS because he is CLUELESS and is not an engineer and is WRONG and it is not based on Codes, industry stds or certified engineering... . Geez I hate this part of my job. Thanks guys I feel better now. Sorry. Just venting a little ( okay a lot )
Loco - what is yorkshire pudding
Ulrich - Hope I didnt offend you. I was just surprised that you didnt like that food. It is actually very popular in certain areas of the US.
Howmus - What does the lemon juice do for it ?
Cambus - What has you baffled maybe I can explain ?
Bob - Denizens ?? - Hmmm I take you all dont like the NVa folks ? I was going to mention the BARB Q but I though that NC is more famous for it. Although I do love it and Hush puppies ( yummy !!) I thought the tar heels needed something to crow about. Even though we are better at it than they are !!!
CNCharlie - No Mexican food !!??? Oh my you are deprived ! If you every get a chance try some Peruvian food it is as good or better that Central American food. I do love Papoosa ( sp? ) Tacos in hard or soft shells, Taco salads ...
Johnboy - Is that you in the picture ? Can a person actually eat the WHOLE THING ? Wow what a sandwich !
Mr. B - Go freelance with that thing !
Garry - Safe travels.
Angel, Mick, Neal Good Morning and hello to you all. Have a cup of Joe on me.
Gotta get back to W**k
TTYL
YGW
Good morning to all...Flo , a cup of coffess with two creams, please, and a jelly doughnut. Herein Southern Maine it's cool, temps inthe high teens, but the weekend is promised to be cooler still.Train nite for me tonight, looking forward to it. But for now, as soon as I finsh my coffee and doughnut, i am planning on goign out to cross country ski for some exercise. I went the other day and concluded I could use a little more exercise than I am getting just by walking around.
Later a stop by my local hobby shop to pick up some sceniking stuff, as I am just about at the point of sprinkle and glue time.
Hope all have a nice day ...
Good morning from a VERY COLD northern NJ. Angelo, add to your list the LIRR in the 60's had their motive power and passenger cars painted in a gray color. Still love those colors and every now and then I break out my LIRR nostaglia train made up of an Alco C420 with some P72 passenger cars. Brings back great memories...
well, cold weather is coming...single digits F for HIGHS this weekend, and lows for ambient temps are in teh negatives F. The artic bast will be felt stronger by Bro Elias in the Dakotas, though,s o i gess we should complain. All I knwo is the vehicles will be hard to start this weekend, and will have to start tehm jsut to be sure they will.
I turned up the 8' electric strip out int he 3 season room. It has a "low, med, hi" temp "thermostat" on it and doens't regualte as well as a temperature guage thermostat. SO I turned it form low-med to med, and am prepared to turn it to med hi over the weekend. I think we wiol hacve the electrician install a temp guaged thermostat on it sooner than later. That way it SHOUDL maintain a constant guaged temp. It is now a 4 season room, one we use as a cobo room/storage shed {we don't have one yet} util we get one erected. MOH wants a wood built one, bt if the town allowes it and we can still get one, we will build a platform and erect a metal one on top.
So bless all those whoface bitter cold temps KEEP WARM.
Have a good day.
I cnanot wait til tomorrow for the drs appt to find out aobut the spot on my lung. I sall be in the back booth contemplating my life......
-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!
Last night saw as much ra*n as we usually have for an entire month! Thank goodness it has cleared now and we don´t live in a flood zone!
Cambus - muesli is my usual fare for breakfast for many a year now. I am allowed to eat my favorite breakfast of crisp fried bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages and buttered toast & jams only in this place
Chris - that must have been "Schweinenackensteak", which is essentially a grilled slice of pork neck or pork shoulder.
Mr.B - nice loco, but unfortunately wrong gauge. My little Swiss trains run on 12mm gauge, representing metre-gauge in HO scale.
I don´t know what I´ll be up to today. I should do a little more shaping and carving on the layout, but it might be better to have a day without making a mess again ...
Have a good one.
Hey diners,
I was thinking of different shades of gray on railroads. I named a few, SP, UP, NYC, L&N, DL&W, SBD. There's apparently more right? I was thinking about this on my walk this morning.
I read about the Germany train wreck, and I totally forgot about Ash Wednesday. Its okay it's not like we celebrate it. I make sure we don't eat any meat on Friday.
Train News: I bought an Athearn covered hopper Conrail. It will be my first product I bought from them.
Good night and many prayers to the sick and wounded.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
Good evening ...
As I said, i will have little or no computer time starting in the morning when we leave for our trip. Be back in a week.
Cheers, everybody .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mmmmm. Local delicacies.
So, my daughter came home tonight with a present, but one which is totally out-of-era and out-of-region. She got it from a friend who found it in an office building they were moving in to.
It appears to be a nice European model of a Portuguese locomotive. I'm guessing it's DC. It's got some minor cosmetic damage (one of those peculiarly European bumpers on one end) but it otherwise looks OK. I'll give it a test run tomorrow.
It would be silly to put this on a shelf under my layout. I'd rather find a good home for it where it will be run. Ulrich? Are you interested? Free, and I'll pay the shipping just to know that it's going to a good home.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Br. Otte,
When you are setting up the new menu, Please don't forget to stock some "Ensure" and some "Two Cal" and do have a heavy duty blender/extractor handy for me to dilute and blend any of these great dishes so that I can get it down my tube. I would hate to miss out on any of them.
BTW> Also include this in the new menu, it is called the Glacier Burger made by the crew at the Ice House Tavern in Emerald Park, Sk. about 11 miles east of Regina on #1 Hwy.
Johnboy out.. and yes I always did like Cucumber sandwiches with light mayo....
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Evening,
In my neck of the woods we really don't have regional dishes but we do have several that reflect the ethnic background of the groups that settled Manitoba. Winnipeg, the capital, has a very diverse restaurant scene except for Mexican. In a city of 800,000 there are only 2 that I know of. I suppose some French Canadian dishes could be considered as regional so tourtiere must be on the menu.
In any event I grew up in a house that never knew garlic but roast beef and yorkshire pud were frequently on the table. My father's favourite meat was lamb chops with mint sauce. I never had a real pizza until I went to university. Yes, it was very much a Brit cuisine household.
I have done a little on the RR. I bought a new decoder for a Kato PA as I thought I had fried the NCE unit I had installed. Turns out it wasn't so as the new one doesn't work either(TCS). I tested the motor on DC and it works fine so there is a pickup issue. It is driving me crazy so I may just save my sanity and put the whole thing away. I have one PA (N scale) that does work but it suffers from intermittent stall issues so it has a pickup problem too but not as bad as the other. Sometimes I find N scale very frustrating and if I had to do it all over I would have just left it DC as I find N scale DCC fairly tempermental compared to HO.
Ray, my wife and I are back to doing our laps at the gym. I try to do 2 miles 3 times a week. I am working up to increasing that but my wife's back can't take more than 2 at a time. We do it fairly briskly and average a mile in about 12-13 minutes. I feel a lot better getting some exercise. I might even try out some of the equipment they have too but first things first.
Well soon time to watch Nature. I am recording it now as we weren't quite ready for 7.
These new TV's are great but when we watch some of the video shot on our trips the picture quality isn't so good as on the old TV. I think is is just that the picture is so much larger and the imperfections are magnified. When we went on our last trip to Africa in 2015 I changed the camera to 16:9 in anticipation of a new TV but the picture isn't very good. Perhaps the old Sony video camera is wearing out or at least its circuits are degrading.
See you soon,
CN Charlie
With all due respect to the denizens of Northern Virginia, us down here in the Southeast corner of the Commonwealth would definately have to include pulled pork bar-b-que and ribs; served with hush puppies of course.
On dear I was already some what down when along came that terrible man(Steve Otte) and started everyone talking about there favourite food mouth watering stuff some sounded quite delicious some to me a Scot sounded some what strange YGW had me baffled but I digress. Why should this light hearted post from "The Grand Poobah" cause such alarm and consternation!!!!!! Well SWMBO has taken the decision that I must sorry "we" must lose weight and are therefore going on a strict diet!!! No more full Scottish breakfast to start the day we are going to eat healthy things like muesli (wood chippings) crispbread(corrugated cardboard) and cereal! So as you post about your favourite food please spare a thought for one unhappy Scotsman (no whisky either). I can only hope that my good lady wife cracks first or this could be a long miserable spring. Maybe a quick cup of tea and a few chocolate digestive biscuits before she notices!
Health and happiness to all who visit the diner!!!
Evenin'!
Actually Galaxy don't remember having Speedies when I lived in the Valley, but I have had them at the NYS Fair on a good many occasions. Deliciuos!
yougottawantaHowmus - Concord grape pie ??!! Oh that sound good. I LOVE concord grapes can you describe how it taste ?
Well.... Grape pie tastes like ahhhh.... Concord grapes mostly with a lot of sugar and a touch of lemon juice. My MIL who was an amazing pie maker used to make them in the fall of the year when the grapes were ripe. Pretty much a seasonal thing. Goooooooooddddd! Here is a recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/12289/concord-grape-pie-i/
Concord Grapes and Niagara Grapes are native varieties that were used long before the "White Man" arrived. The Hodenosaunee also used Maple Syrup as a sweetener.
I think we will have a great menu (as always) here in the diner! Thanks for starting this line of thinking Steven.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ulrich,
About 30 years ago I had the pleasure to visit Frankfurt (businesss trip) and had dinner at a restuarant where I ordered what the owner called "swinesteak" or thats what it sounded like. Of course he was German and me English so there may be a problem with the translation. Anyhoo - I assumed it was some form of shoulder of pork - but cannot find a recipe. Do you know what it is?
I also had a much nicer time in the Black forrest about 10 years ago - I had "wild hog" in a restuarant in the mountains. This was wild hog on a wooden board - diners were invited to bring thier own hunting knives to carve the beast at the table. We also drank "mead" from a bulls horn and tasted various Schnapps I also had some "real" black forrest gateau - I think is called Schwarzwald -Torte - YUM.
P.S. I actually found the website for the restaurant and Sago still runs it...
http://www.hirtenbrunnen.de/
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
yougottawantaUlrich - You dont like sauerkraut ????
That´s correct, Sir - I am a German who does not like sauerkraut! Well, I do eat it, but definitively no knuckles of pork!
Steve Otte:
Here in the Binghamton NY area {affectionately called BINGO town} we have something called "spedies",cubes of chicken, pork or beef marinated at least over night if not a day or two { good italian dressing will suffice if you don't have Salamida's State Fair Spedie sauce, or LUPO's spedie sauce, then carbroiled over open flame then put in a bun or preferrably another local favorite, Roma's Italian freshly baked bread...delcious!
I am sure RAY can confirm about them...he used to live around these parts...
YUM...
Sir MadogI thought you´d make that Bangers & Mash, Cucumber Sandwiches, Black Pudding, Roastbeef & Yorkshire Pudding and, not to forget, Tea and Scones!
Okay - you must have psychic abilities or have a telescope into my kitchen I love black pudding - but can't get the real thing over here - only copies. Tired to make it myself but you can't buy pigs blood over here - only the dried stuff.
Roast beef and yorkshire pudding with roast potatoes are served frequently.
I also love Haggis - and its much tastier than most people think. Admittedly, it looks gross when you cook it - but you eat the contents not the casing.
Darn it, now I am gonna have to order some black pudding - getting cravings already.
Excuse me while I dust off the construction dust! Geez they are trying to kill me around here. Settling a house a week, which entails Elevator inspections ( if it has one ) final inspections of Fireplace, HVAC,plumbing, electric, building, Gas, 10 page punch lists (takes three days to write the list ), Residential use permit, fire marshall lane inspections ( waste of time and our money ) then once these have all been completed and passed then you have to "walk" the house with a HO, ( thats a whole day used up ) then you have to rewalk the "list" with the HO five days later !! That is what it takes to deliver a house each week on each house - Phew makes me tired just thinking about it !
Howmus - Concord grape pie ??!! Oh that sound good. I LOVE concord grapes can you describe how it taste ?
Ulrich - You dont like sauerkraut ???? I love it especially with a litle sausage ground up and dropped in and then warmed - yummy or on a hot dog and bun, or with that big round fat sausage forget what they are called..
Neal - LOL C&P that is a good one
Henry - DC subway is that the Metro you are discussing ? Yea they have not done well here. I hear they have fianally hired a director. Maybe he can turn it around.
Galaxy - I had a spot. Turn out to be my nipple. Pray for a good report.
Der - Really ? A British phone number ? I am surprised by that I thought it was a reference to teh locomative in your picture.
John Neal - hello and welcome to teh forum
UP831 - Well ! Nice seeing you here again !
Steve Otte- Virginia has so many foods we are famous for. I will name a list of them and you can pick ...Va hams ( Smithfield hams ) , Smoked hams, Apples ( we used to lead the world in apple production ) Peaches , Scrapple/Sausage , Beef ( Black angus and Hereford ), Peanuts, Virginia Oysters ( yuck ), Cheasapeake bay blue crabs, Wines - Vineyards all over the stinking place, Fried apple pies , apple butter, Marble cake, Damson Plums....So Steve I am not sure which one to pick but I can assure you anyone of them will knock the tastebuds off of the ole tongue.
Gotta get back to w**k
Baked salt cod, boiled potatoes, fried salt pork chunks, pickled fiddleheads, squash pie to taper off with.
herrinchoker
LOCO_GUYold brit like me
I thought you´d make that Bangers & Mash, Cucumber Sandwiches, Black Pudding, Roastbeef & Yorkshire Pudding and, not to forget, Tea and Scones!
John will likely go for Haggis, Auld Reekie Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Toad-in-the-Hole and Dornoch Dreams!
Here in Mississippi we have some WEIRD foods like Collard greens, black-eyed purple hull peas, cheese grits, Gumbo, Crawfish (mud bugs) Etouffee.
Personally, I'd only like to see gumbo on the menu - the other stuff is inedible for a cranky old brit like me.
BigDaddy - I vote for crab cakes. Done properly they are delish.
P.S. Glad to hear Galaxy reply - I dont know him - only from what I read in this post. Hope everything works out okay for you.
If you think Maryland, you must think of crab cake sandwiches. This time of year the crabs have burrowed into the mud in the Chesapeake Bay, so that other delicacy of Delaware and the Eastern Shore happens to be in season. Big plate of muskrat for me Flo.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Welcome to Neal !
Steven... Menu items from KY. Southern style breakfast: eggs, grits, country ham, and biscuits with gravy. Fried chicken. Pork chop sandwich with hot sauce. Burgoo with hot sauce. Kentucky hot brown sandwich. ... And of course, Kentucky Derby Pie.
If forced to pick one, it would be derby pie.
Good Afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have my usual extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
Well, in the Chicago area we would have to include Italian beef sandwiches, the finest hot dogs on the planet, and of course mouthwatering deep dish pizza!
However, I'm with Dennis. In-n-Out Burgers all the way! They were voted the best burger in 3 counties, LA, Orange, and San Diego. That's a lot of people. Not to mention they have the best fries, too.
Gotta get back to work.
I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Diner needs some perogies and borsch. I'll second the Johnsonville brats. Last night daughter took us to a little neighborhood place that served ski chips (homemade kettle fries) with melted bleu cheese, very tasty and unhealthy. Can you tell I have been contaminated by Ukrainian immigrants during the summer in northern Saskatchewan.
Jim
Steven, I'd have to include Johnsonville brats, too!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Did just under a mile today over at the fieldhouse. Tomorrow or Friday I will get it up to a mile...
Chloe, I understand we are supposed to order and share some local foods... Well I do that, many mornings when I order Buckwheat Pancakes (Birkett Mills in Penn Yan makes the best mix for that) and local NYS Maple Syrup. But for lunch I'll have a Beef on Weck http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/roast-beef-on-weck-recipe.html and a dozen hot Buffalo Wings http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/buffalo-wings-recipe.html and a glass of a good Seneca Lake Riesling http://www.foxrunvineyards.com/wine.asp (any of these would do nicely). Oh a slice of the Concord Grape Pie for dessert would do nicely too. Yeh, I know, but I can't just limit it to one item.......
Looking outside the window there are a bunch of little white thingies falling out of the sky. Nothing to worry about, less than an inch predicted.
Catch you all later!
Nice Boat.
House of LION has 100kw generator. Our peak load (Sunday) is about 40kw, our norma hotel loadings are about 20kw. So LION gots plenty of power snowy storms or no.
NYCT thinks Canal Street is a two strack scation, LION has only on track, (the return track being on the other side of a 6' wide table and carries the monkier "Chambers Street". Opposite site is photograph pasted to the wall.
LION wants diner to serv fresh WILDEBEEST.
Elias however will settle for a RARE RibEye Steak, (fat left in tact).
MMMMMMmmmmmm....... suculent!
Tiere od potatoes, Ill take the Rice instead. Easier to eat.
ROAR
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