Happy Easter to one and all. It has been a busy Easter this year. I sang at two services this morning. Our choir normally only sings at the 10:30 service but we make an exception on Easter and Christmas. Daughter, SIL and granddaughter accompanied us to a big Easter dinner brunch at the local historical hotel. Good eats for all.
I am kind of symied on track laying awaiting an order of insulated track joiners needed for completing the laying of turnouts. Walthers says two weeks on orders but normal I have been receiving orders in about seven days.
CN Charlie, where are you?
Ken, glad to see you have been able to make some progress on your yard wars. We are now into the weekly grass mowing season.
Just saw that Canada is going to require a bunch of paper work and a fee for US visitors traveling by air. I don't know whether they will require the same for ground travel or not.
Time for some more Penguins hockey as they are playing the Rangers in MSG tonight. Good time of year for sports fans. I really enjoyed watching the UConn Huskies women game yesterday. They really put on a show of profection. We used to watch all the womens games when we lived in Connecticut as the local PBS station broadcasted all UConn womens games.
Hope everyone had a delightful Easter
Jim
Evening Dinners
Flo, warm please
Well I have had better Easters and Worse ones. Sue called me at work Saturday and told me the Furnace would not come on. It was dead at work so I left Jerry in charge.
Got home and the pilot light was out. Got it going with no problem. Few mintues later, Sue came out the the garage / train room and told me it stopped running again. Decide to mess with it Sunday some more.
Today I vacum out the furance, cleaned the therocoupler, brushed out the pilot light it self, used some can air and lite the pilot light. Furance came on, ran for a few minutes and went out. House or the car's all wise seem to know when I have a little extra $. Bright side, garage / train room is nice and warm. It has it own gas furance.
Yard Wars After I gave up on the furance I cleaned up a little around the in ground pool. Cut down a few stumps and finally got the pool re-covred. I think I will be lucky if this cover makes it this summer. Bought it from Harbor Freight, while it was only $59.00 with my discout I think I will regreat buying it. Pain in the caboose covering a 16 X 32 foot inground pool by your self!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Afternoon Diners,
Happy Easter everyone.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
A quiet day in the Diner. I must have fallen asleep in the backbooth
Just woke up - in time to head for the bunk. I didn´t get anything done today, just watched some videos on Youtube. Some of them showed really nice O gauge layouts and you know what? I have fallen in love with that stuff! Brings back fond memories of childhood play, when I built up my Marklin tinplate train set on my bed and just played with it. I have built quite a number of layouts since those days, but, although I enjoyed building each one of them, I never had as much fun as I had in those days!
Well, out I am - G´night!
Heartland Division CB&QLion .... you what ? ! ? .... Ate the bunny ! ? .... Terrible !
It was a chocolate bunny ...
I am really bored today. WHile running a train, I dropped my throttle, but nothing bad happened. Talking about being lucky.
Just made a few more shots of my layout.
I like the first one the best! Now imagine more detail and - most important - that delicate catenary system!
Let´s see whether I can make it into Trackside Photos once all that is done!
Here is yet another video of Norm´s great layout:
I´ll probably get shot for what I am about to say, but I truly believe that atmosphere is more important for a layout than scale accuracy
Ready, aim, fire ...
Happy Easter, everyone.
Ulrich .... The Pennsy layout in the video looks so good, the 3-rail track was not notivable.
Ray ... I like your photo the way it is. My opinion is the blacksmith shop is better where it is in the photo. The photo is more aesthetic and realistic the way you have it. .... Great work with the modeling and photography.
Der John ... Say hello from me to Krump. Better yet, ask him to visit the Diner again for some coffee.
Galaxy ... Tell your golfing neighbor to go to the driving range.
Lion .... you what ? ! ? .... Ate the bunny ! ? .... Terrible !
Remember .... A covered hopper is a rabbit wearing a hat.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Easter Bunny hopped in with baskets of Jelly Beans.
Nice Bunny. LION ate bunny. him tasty...
GOOD HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
{I'd say more, but it might be religious and I don't want to get banged}
WEll, I picked up some red raspberry bushes..just to of them. I will order a dwarf blood orange tree to add to the Lemon tree. Thye will stay in the bonus room, with 4 very LARGE windows {3'x4' each, two mullioned together}, two on the south and two on the W side....the W side has a single door, but we hope to take out the two windows there and replace with a slider...IF we can find one short in height enough to fit the existing header...MAY have to order one custom made. The lemon and blood orange will only grow to 4 to 6-7 feet well under the ceiling, though it is only as tall as the single door on the W side..about a foot taller or so on the E side{slanted}. They DO need to be pruned, so they will stay that under the ceiling height. I was also thinking of a miniature olive tree...but it might be too much!
I plan a garden for next summer, and can graden a little this year..there is a raised 4x4' plastic bordered bed and two 2'x2' "tubs" out back from the previous owners. I can do herbs in one 2x2,and dont know yet what will do with the 4x4 {it is divided into 2x2 sections...maybe canteloupe and eggplant in one "cell" or zuchinni and yellow squash, of course MOH likes spaghetti squash so gotta have some of those...but need spacec for them to wander, so may try them direclty in the ground... tomato of course in one "cell", and I dont know in the other cells yet.
I want edibles to grow, I am NOT aflower person, though MOH is.....but I believe a plant should be edible too...hence the lemon and blood orange an raspberries! I want a FRUIT COCKTAIL tree too,,, grows apples, and peaches and pears and plums or something...all on one tree! But first we have to get ri of the trees out back thaat are NOT edibles... I wonder if there is a sugar maple out there, didn't pay attention when they were green when we visited before buying. ANd I don't know how to tell buy bark. ANYONE have a clue how to tell? PLEASE tell me!
WE also want to planr a "green screen" of evergreens of some type along gte fence for privacy...we are not exactly fond of "OPC" {Other People's Children} an we have babies behind us and to the N of us..THANK GOODNESS For fences! But balls may still fly in our direction.
WE already have a neighbor two houses up from us to the S mad at us. He likes to golf. He likes to golf on his 65'x131' suburban lot. His balls end up in our yard. SO we'd find the S single gate open, unlatched but closed, or whatever. HE's getting his balls in our yard. WHen his balls are in our yard, he exposes himself to our yard. He has white balls, yellow balls and blue balls. SOme are hard, and some are soft and squishy. His balls can get caught in our lawn mower and we don't know damage that will do,,,to our mower or what the mower will do to his balls. SO we LOCKED The gate to keep him and his balls out of our yard. He's NOT happy with us and has scowled at MOH more than once. It will teach him to NOT to point his balls in our direction. WE dont want his balls anymore. FENCES {and LOCKS ON THEM} make good neighbors-some great poet said that once.
SO children of course, will have their balls in our yard, granny was playing with two under five year olds behind us yesterday, playing ball, SHE was throwing the balls at the kids to hitbut throwing them in the direction of our yard. I WAS hoping she'd throw one over the fence and ask me to return it while i was out there, but no luck, I woulda told her to keep her balls in her yard, not ours.
WE don't want to make enemies of our neighbors, but our yard is for our enjoyment and not theirs!
SO..anywho
eventually there will be a stamped concrete or paver patio with a Pergola over it out off and behind the bonus room, a mini glass {polycarbonate}green house, beside it an "open weave" latticed "green house", and a nice wooden shed. WE can stretch a canvas over the openings in the pergola.....to cut down on direct sun, we are whitefolks and fair skinned at that, and I don't need any more skin cancer removal surgeries with skin grafts.
JOHNBOY: There IS STILL LOTS to do,, the LR isn't finished yet! WE have more ideas than money. MOH wants to make the siding In an English Tudor manner {or mannor, lol}style too. HOUSE AND GARDEN WILL have to wait a few years.
Well, I think it is nap time,it may be early to you, but I have been up since 2 am, was shopping at wally world at 5am and home by 7 am, so I have had half a full day already!
HOEP THE EASTER BUNNY Brought you some good trains! {not for me thanks, I THINK I have enough {? can you ever have enough?}}
WEll, HAPPY EASTER
We are having a nice HAM dinner.
-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.
Yoohoo! Anybody here?
Just in for a spell to get a sip of coffee and wait for someone to join me.
It´s a boring day and all I am inclined to do is to search the web for a train video worthwhile to watch.
In my search I came across a video filmed on Norm Charbonneau´s celestial O gauge layout. OK, it is a bit of a heresy to show a Hi-Rail O gauge layout here, but I cannot help being amazed by the heft and the atmosphere of it.
Happy Easter to all!
We changed to DST last night. Europe is always a little later in doing that. It would certainly make sense to change at the same time, but why do things that make sense. That ain´t fun!
The spell of nice weather is over and we are back to our usual wet misery for the holidays. It isn´t much fun to go an an Easter egg hunt with rain drizzling down your collar.
I´ll make it a quiet day today. Just sort my thoughts on a few layout issues, like how to make that grade crossing leading to the cement silos and how to design the layout lighting. The latter is a big issue, for which I have no solution - yet.
Here is another short video I found on Youtube. It shows a model of a Czech narrow gauge line with real sounds dubbed in. The guy who did that must have gone through a lot of effort but the result is stunning!
Zoe, it´s Sunday, so I´ll be having that big Sunday breakfast, that´s crisp fried bacon, scrambled eggs, buttered toast & jams, a tall glass of OJ, hotcakes from the griddle, sausages and gallosn of coffee, please.
Have a great one!
Edit: Ray - the Prohibition is not on my mind, as it was one of those many stupid thgings happening in the world.
And the same from the island---Happy Easter to one and all----herrinchoker
Happy Easter, everyone!
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I like the picture, but I've got two problems of my own, related more to the composition than the content.
The Blacksmith Shop should be the focus, and I'd rather see it more centered. The whole picture is heavily weighted towards the right side, with the shop, the stone wall and the locomotive. The even distribution of those three puts the eye on the stone wall, which is fine as it is but it takes away from the shop, and the whole left side of the picture is marginalized.
The shop, the old car and fencing around it, and even the couple on the left side are worthy of photos of their own.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Uncle_BobRay, it's a great pic, but what is a beer car doing on the rails during the height of Prohibition?
Bingo!!!! We have a winnah over here.... That is the big one. The other problem is a bit more subtle and has to do with something that shouldn't be seen probably.
Janie, Out Uncle_Bob's dinner on my tab, please.
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray, it's a great pic, but what is a beer car doing on the rails during the height of Prohibition?
Not sure what the other mistake is, unless it has to do with the autos.
Hi Guys & Gals,
Chloe, for this ol' phart could you order me a Denver with Home fries and a Dr. P. Thanks much.
Ulrich, I'm waiting to see the final job on the backdrop. So far the layout looks great and YES as Garry said I really do like your new Bus.
Well, just got my and my wife's income tax done up.She gets $153.00 back and I owe $157.00. So that is at least better than the last few years have been. Always glad to get that figured out and over with.
Was down to the LM&E this afternoon and was running some trains for my Grandson. I have a road close to the edge in front of the elevated station and he loves to run his Hot Wheel cars and some of my CMW cars along that road with the trains running. Good fun for Grampa and him.
Ray, I can't pick out any errors. I think it looks great. We are talking the Blacksmith's shophere now. The other pic looks good with the loco closer but realize you lose sight of the drag it is pulling. Sorry to hear about your car, but glad you don't need a body shop too.
Galaxy, glad to have you back. Sounds like there has been a lot of work happening in your new tent. Should be ready for Better Homes and Gardens soon.
Br. Elias, that is great that you got a surprise package this morning. And it sounds like all kinds of stuff that you use regularily. .
Hope you are all having a great Easter week-end, but do remember the "Reason for the Season"
Stay healthy and well, Prayers and Blessings where needed.
Johnboy out......................Later Mates
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
For the life of me, I can´t figure it out, but I trust you will solve the mystery for us tomorrow!
G´night!
Hi Ulrich, it is actually a photo I took today, but it has the same basic problems as one from back then. Yes, it does involve the train in the background, and the angle it was shot at which shows something that wouldn't likey be there in real life.....
Ray - I remember vaguely seeing that picture a few years ago, but I have only a very faint memory on the issue with it. IIRC, it had something to do with the train in the background and/or the viewing angle.
I am probably all wrong!
Well, time to roll-out the sleeping bags in the hay - CU all tomorrow!
Oh, before I forget it - that backdrop is now nicely straightened out and the retaining walls to cover the transition installed - looks even better now. I guess I´ll keep it the way it is.
Sir MadogAll I want is to live in peace and quiet, in freedom and in as good a health I can have!
Good afternoon Herr Ulrich! May you find the peace and quietude that you need my friend! You and Petra are in my daily prayers....
Seems empty in here today, so lets play a "What's Wrong with this Photo?" game for a bit... I'm getting together some photos to enter in the upcoming NMRA Convention this May and decided to get a few new photos of the old Octagon Blacksmith Shop I built a couple winters back. The Prototype shop was built in 1832 and the model is as it might have looked in 1925 which it is always on the SLOW. I thought thgis photo was going to be a keeper, but there are a couple problems with it. One might be a big problem with the judges at the Convention.... See if you can find them... (I'll put up the shot I plan to use later.) If you click on the photo, you can see a larger one at Photobucket.
Later!
Things get even more stupid when you understand that Petra has a college degree in nutritional science. She used to teach these things in a vocational school and guess who attended her classes.
I have given up of attempting to understand the world. All I want is to live in peace and quiet, in freedom and in as good a health I can have!
Foun d a nice video on Youtube showing the short streetcar line from Soller to Puerto de Soller on the Balearic Island of Mallorca - the second favorite vacation spot for Germans as well as Dutch and Brits!
Quite a picturesque run!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR Mug. Huh? Oh, just checking to make sure you have the proper board of health inspection stuff posted.....
I'm reminded of when I was in the Philipines for a couple weeks many years ago. Every major street had a "Jim and Marie's Tire Vulcanization and Lunch Counter". I used to laugh and ask about those places. The family I was staying with would just say.... No, no... You not want to eat there! Yep, you could have the bare tires on the junk Jeepney redone while you got food poisoned by Marie (and maybe catch some other stuff while you were there). I dunno... I think maybe some of those dumb laws were put in place for some very good reasons..... Just riding on a 4 seat Jeepney with 10 other people running stop signs and red lights at 60 mph was enough of a scary experience for me....
Sun is trying to shine here in the Finger Lakes Region today. Currently 41°F with a high around 50°F sometime this afternoon. If it was a tad warmer I think I would go out in the back yard and get some sun on the patches of psoriasis on my back. Needs to be about 15° warmer for me to do that. I do need to get my laundry done today, so I best get moving.
Have a great day out there!
Sir MadogUnless you have gone through the correct vocational training, you can´t open a bakery in Germany. We gave that some thoughts already a few years ago and had to learn that we could do it nearly anywhere else, but not here.
Many years ago, I knew a young woman who had studied cooking at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, so she was certainly qualified to be a chef. She started doing some catering out of her home, only to be shut down by the Board of Somethingorother. I turned out that to do that, she would have had to have a full restaurant-grade kitchen, with all the expensive "compliant" equipment, and regular inspections.
Good morning ....
Ulrich .... Your Swiss Railway layout looks fantastic! ... It is at least as good as (if not better than) the project layouts published in Model Railroader. ... ..... Perhaps, you should start a thread just to show it off in the main forum.
Also, Ulrich .... I know what you mean about stupid laws such as the one you mentioned. The examples are endless.
Galaxy .... I still think it is very good of you for ebing the kind of friend "Train Nut" needs at this time.
Happy Model Railroading !
galaxyANY chance Petra could open a small bakery and SELL her cakes and pies for a small side income?
Unless you have gone through the correct vocational training, you can´t open a bakery in Germany. We gave that some thoughts already a few years ago and had to learn that we could do it nearly anywhere else, but not here.
I think this is rather stupid, but that´s the way this country is - rather stupid!
Sir Madog Henry - Petra´s Easter cake is just any cake she makes when it´s Easter. This time it´s a lemon cake. She does make cakes and pies often these days. We can feast on a cake for a whole week if she does and that gets a bit too much cake eating Galaxy - great you were able to re-enter this place. Have a great time!
Henry - Petra´s Easter cake is just any cake she makes when it´s Easter. This time it´s a lemon cake. She does make cakes and pies often these days. We can feast on a cake for a whole week if she does and that gets a bit too much cake eating
Galaxy - great you were able to re-enter this place.
Have a great time!
Ulrich:
ANY chance Petra could open a small bakery and SELL her cakes and pies for a small side income? over here MANY start off with a good hot selling baked iteman sell to groceries, specialty stores and cafes anddevelop quite a business that CAN make millions if featured ona TV show, increasing demand to commercial bakeries and RAKE in the profits!
Just an Idea...
Good Morning!
Our weather guessers were utterly wrong in their prediction of today´s weather. It´s not dull and rainy, but bright and sunny - what a boost to my spirit!
I was able to shoot a couple of pictures of my layout without using the flash or the tripod. The pictures show the backdrop without the corrections made. I will have to get a bit of lumber and a couple of lugs before I can do that. I will ask Petra to take me to our DIY place later in the day.
Here are the pictures: