Sir Madog Heartland Division CB&Q So if that's what Ulrich envisions, I agree
Heartland Division CB&Q So if that's what Ulrich envisions, I agree
I agree with Garry and Ulrich wholeheartedly!
Leave the name the same and add an RIP list post right after the opening post of each month's thread. We can start with the names we have, and add more as they become known to us.
If someday down the track it becomes advantageous to change the name then so be it. Chances are I will be listed on the RIP Track by then.....
“Le doute n’est pas une condition agréable, mais la certitude est absurde” ~ Voltaire
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
In this rush to change names I am reminded of something I once read." A duck is an elephant that was designed by a committee"
I am against removing Jeffrey's name from the heading--
my observation--
I called him friend---
herrinchoker
Lion and Ken What say you ?
Heartland Division CB&QSo if that's what Ulrich envisions, I agree
You´ve nailed it, Garry!
Calling it a day now - CU tomorrow!
I think the name should be the same along with the same opening post. The RIP Track should be posted immediately in the second post. Whoever opens the thread at the beginning of the month is the one to do both posts.
Some newcomers may not know the definition of RIP Track. RIP is a railroad term meaning Repair In Place. Large rail yards had designated tracks where rail cars could be repaired .
This would be a clever play on words because we also know RIP means "Rest in peace" to most people.
Perhaps we could place a gondola on the track and say "Gon but not forgotton".
So if that's what Ulrich envisions, I agree
We have already mentioned names to include. It is appropriate to include those in the general forum who were not regular participants in the Diner .
If someone wants to compile a list of names, that will be appreciated.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good afternoon all.
Flo, a slice of that apple pie, please. Oh yes, vanilla ice cream on top would be good, thanks.
Name change - Keeping Jeffery's Trackside diner named as such is fine, or changing if others want is fine as well. Just keep someone's name here, not just Trackside Diner. Much less personal.
Weather - Still very humid, but is cooler today than the past two.
Hobby - As promised, a few pics of current projects -
First, recently assembled kit, a Bowser Open Hopper kit.
Trucks have base coat, Bearing caps need highlighted (blue seems most common color used), and then a black wash to tone it down a bit. The rest of the car has yet to be weathered. (If anyone has a technique they really like for trucks, let me know!)
Next, an old gondola, also in EL paint, that has the weathering started, but is not yet finished.
I have done nothing on the trucks, so need to get that done. It will get another coat to fade and some grime added.
I also am working on some other kits, an Accurail covered hopper, in NS paint, it needs final detailing, and then weathering, a Scaletrains boxcar kit that I just need to do the wheelsets, and then weather the body, another Bowser hopper in EL paint, and a Roundhouse "reefer" kit, that needs paint and decals on body, then final assembly and weathering. No pics of these, as they are still parts and pieces. The three old EL cars will be heavily faded and weathered, as they are older for my layouts timeframe.
Well, all have a good afternoon, I'm off to work.
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Sir Madog. . .May I suggest to end the discussion on the Diner name. . .
Your suggestion seems to appeal to the majority, so, I am of the Yul Brynner school of thought, "So let it be written; so let it be done."
I wonder if there is any way to get the avatars of the all of fallen members. The RIP Track could include their on-line images. (Steve?)
Richard
Afternoon Diners,
Heartland Division CB&Q I definately like the idea of the RIP Track posted at the beginning of each month. I think retaining Jeffrey as the name is good.
I definately like the idea of the RIP Track posted at the beginning of each month. I think retaining Jeffrey as the name is good.
So... What !? It's going to be named Jeffrey's RIP track Diner.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Ken, Garry, Lion
What say you to Ulrich vote ?
YGW
May I take the liberty and wrap up the discussion we had so far on the naming issue?
I sense a certain reluctancy to change the name, after we had changed it to honor Jeff only 19 month´s ago.
Jeff was a very special member of this community and a dear friend to many of us, so we should keep the name as it is!
Barry was also a very special member of this community, who, just like Jeff served this community as a moderator and ligthened things up with his good natured humor. While having his name "up front" would be fully "deserved", we can´t make that name of the place much longer - hence the idea of a RIP track.
The RIP track should include all the friends we have lost over the years, regardless of them having been frequent visitors to the Diner or not! Wolfgang and Stein hardly ever found their way into this place, yet we should pay our respect to them
May I suggest to end the discussion on the Diner name and concentrate on collecting the names for the RIP track? I am sure I won´t be able to recall all of them - shame on me!
Lunch Time.
Meeting with Grande Jefe went well. He is out of my hair now and moving onto the next meeting with new Home owner for a Predrywall meeting. Then send out final notes, lock up for the wekend and on to a week of being on Vacation. One of the many things I love about the folks I work for if I need time off they give it to me no questions. In fact next week While I am off they are bring in another PM to handle a bunch of teh houses, another guy will handle two of the houses and the Grande Jefe will handle two of the critical time frame houses. Three people to do the job I normally do !
To our friends in France: Dear God we ask that you heal the broken bodies of those that remain, heal the hurting souls of those have been scarred by this latest act of hatred. And we pray that you protect us in our homes from this same hate. Evil comes in many shapes and from many directions and we need your guidance and wisdom. How do love enemies when we are hurting ? How do we give them a cup of cool water when they hurt us ? We know that when you return evil for evil it only breeds more evil. Help us be the light that you have called us to be
It is another hot one hear. My coworker told me yesterday his car registered 104!
Reinhard - Hope you are staying cool here is some tall cold water for you ! Look forward to meeting again next week !
FRRYKid - When you ordered teh engine did you know all of those parts were broken ?
Jim - Please send some of that cool air here ! Please !
Howmus - That is so true about teh Rabbits foot. Never did undersatnd that whole lucky charm thing.
Ken - Is that a J ? You could always put the B&O engine in a repair shop. I have one last question for you about renaming the forum. I like you loved jeff. I still think of him. Do you remember his stories of dealing with some of his family ? Or how he could take scrap RR stuff and put together his Frankstein RR stuff ? I even didnt mind it when he got cranky. I say all of that to ask this. What do you think Jeff would say about renaming the place ? I do not know but I beleive he would have been embarrassed that we named it after him in the first place ? I am open to whatever the other folks here decide including you. Heck maybe sometime in the ( hopefully way distant) future they will be renaming this place "Kens Mopar and Beer paint shop ". I liked Jeffrie and still feel a pang of regret at his loss. I sent money to him and helped Galaxy start fund raisers behind the scenes for him, prayed for him.... Whatever the decision is I believe the most important thing is that we have a community of like minded people here from all walks of life and from across the great bodies of water. Everyone here means more to me than whatever name is chosen.
Now for some history on the start of this thread. - Thanks Flip for sending it -
The thread was started on April 29th 2004 By Big Boy 4005 from St.Paul Minnesota. Following is a copy of the first thread:
"Hey Guys, ever since the DOS topic was closed this forum has seems to be lacking that certain something. A place where there is no topic. A place where the members can just say HI. Over on the Classic Toy Trains forum, one of the members brought an idea from a fishing forum that he belongs to, where there is a daily "check in" topic that the members can use. http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14891 So, the idea of this topic is to provide that kind of space for this forum. It will help people get to know each other better, and keep some of the topic clutter off the forum. This topic will always stay on the front page if you use it properly, so ENJOY!!!
My Pastor has this saying "Keep the main thing the main thing" Which means loving people and helping them up when they have fallen, when they are hurting, when they just need a friend, and loving them like God has loved us and forgiven us is the "main thing". Whatever is decided here on the name, what is important is the fellowship we find here and encouragement we give each other, is what we should focus on. The name is important. But is secondary to why we are here. It is a place to say Hi and that you matter.
I count each and everyone of you here a friend and I look forward greatly to hear from you all.
Lunch time?.... Not just yet Chloe. Just finally took my shower looking at stuff needing to be done today. Tomorrow and Sunday I will be the car host on the Eire Caboose out at the R&GV RR Museum.
I too would like to see the name of the diner remain the same at this point. I do really like the RIP list proposed for those that are no longer among us. Somebody, maybe all of us can suggest names to put there.
Currently 85°F here in the Finger Lakes. The air conditioner was alreadyt running whenm I rolled out of bed this morning..... Ontario County is now under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning! It looks like it will hit just North of Geneva though.... Calling for 60mph winds with possible damage to trees, roofs, and damage to homes. Telling people to take shelter in an inside room if the storm hits where they are.
I want to clarify that although I've put in my for possible new names for the Diner, I'm not encouraging renaming it. I liked Jeffrey and I was pleased Diner patrons saw fit to rename it after him. My ideas are only suggestions in the case that Diner patrons decide to change the name. I'm not advocating that it be changed. That's up to you guys.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Lion .. The Diner has been a dining car which was moved to a new location each month. . .. So I am not sure how to implement your good thoughts.
Rich. I guess you thought I might have been bothered by something you said, but I was not. You have good thoughts. No apology needed .
I think we could say the specialty of the house would be a Barry-sized burger with an RBF ( Root beer float).
More thoughts from others will be appreciated.
What ever we call the diner, we ought to have a cover photo of the diner. It should be a diner on one of our layouts. Submit photos of diners. Spruce them up with the proper signs etc. Park some vintage cars on the outside. Maybe put a LION in the scene.
LION has no diner on the layout of him. There is no place for them in the Subway Tunnels, although up on Pitkin Avenue the Monk's Table Resturant does a fine business. The Avenue actuall had to be properly modeled before I submit pictures of that.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mornin'!
Zoe. I'll have the #2 Special this mornig and Barry Size everything including the Coffee....
Just a few quotes today.....
“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.” – Winston Churchill
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams
“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember, it didn’t work for the rabbit.” – R E Shay
In this sad moment, my duties as Forum admin require me to remind everyone to please observe the Forum rules and keep the attacker's ethnicity and religion out of the discussion.
I know that emotions are raw after events like the one in Nice, but to let our anger get the best of us serves only the agenda of the terrorists.
Let's keep our thoughts on the victims, and ensure that at least in this one little corner of the Internet, the attacker and his hateful agenda are forgotten.
Good Afternoon!
This is a sad day for the civilized world.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of last night´s Muslim terrorist attack in Nice, killing 84 people, who had been celebrating the Bastille Day on the Corniche, the main promenade along the waterfront of Nice. Entire families were wiped out by this mad man who drove a truck into the people standing there and watching the fireworks.
A German family is also among the victims.
''hokey pokey ice cream'' Bear??LOL.
Sounds ''hokey'' to Me.
I would rather have ''Blue Bunny'' vanilla on My warmed up Double Dutch apple pie.
Take Care, All!
Frank
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Flo, could I get a basket of breaded mushrooms with some blue cheese dressing and some iced tea w/ some lemon (no raspberry. It doesn't work with blue cheese dressing very well.)
On the hobby front, I got the SD45 yesterday (Wednesday) and discovered that my reassembly and improvisional skills are going to be needed. The end rails were both broken off in places. Thankfully, there are no missing pieces and I have bashed enough things that I think I can get stuff put back together. The only other major issue is that the airhorn was damaged, but I ordered a metal one to replace it. (I was planning to order some additional parts anyway so I just added it to the order.) Another minor problem is that a hole for one of the nose rails seems to be filled in. I think I will get my drill bits out and carefully drill the hole back back to fix that problem. The other fixes (couplers and snowplow) were planned for anyway. This might end up number two in the queue as the ordered parts won't be here until Monday (and the needed couplers weren't part of that order). However the decals for the GP30 are supposed to be here Saturday (a day I happened to have taken off from w*rk. Needed a break.). Hopefully, I can get the 30 done on Saturday. (Depends on how ambious I get.)
Greetings diners from Devils Lake, ND where the temperature is a cool 64 degrees this evening. One more day of driving before arrival at the lake for the rest of the summer.
Saw several different storage train on various BNSF trackage today. Crude oil cars, covered hoppers and box cars. Sure the covered hoppers are for this years grain harvest.
Later,all.
Jim
Garry, sorry that I missed your post a few days ago about remembering Barry and others who have recently passed away. Good idea on the RIP track.
Rich
Alton Junction
Rich. Thanks for your thoughts. Another person was Wolfgang Dudler if I recall the spelling right.
One thought in an earlier post was to have a "RIP track" within Jeffrey's Diner.
Maybe the second page after the first one with the memorial to Jeff
more thoughts will be appreciated.
Heartland Division CB&Q Rich. Actually I was thinking of Barry (Blownout Cylinder) and asked if we should also do something to honor him. How do you feel about Barry and others who have passed away?
Rich. Actually I was thinking of Barry (Blownout Cylinder) and asked if we should also do something to honor him.
How do you feel about Barry and others who have passed away?
richhotrainJeff was such a big part of the Diner, such a big part of the forum, a moderator, a friend to everybody. I mean no disrespect to any of our dearly departed friends on this forum, and there are many, but Jeff was almost bigger than life. Why on earth would we want to change the name of Jeffrey's Trackside Diner to something less meaningful?
No
Ken
I hate Rust
Heartland Division CB&Q I'm still fond of Jeffrey, and my sentiments are much like Rich's.... However, I miss others who have passed away too. In addition there are others who were in the main forum..... ... and who can forget Andy Spenandero (I may have messed up spelling his name) . So.... I'm glad we are having this conversation. Please continue with your opinions.
I'm still fond of Jeffrey, and my sentiments are much like Rich's.... However, I miss others who have passed away too.
In addition there are others who were in the main forum..... ... and who can forget Andy Spenandero (I may have messed up spelling his name) .
So.... I'm glad we are having this conversation. Please continue with your opinions.
I agree with Rich's sentiment---
Evening Diners
Flo, PLease.
As I was afraid of it, my caboose derailed today and it was dragging. I did have 2 hours of running around, did most of the wifes running besides mine. Got home at Noon, took a nap and woke up at 1:50 PM? Then off for more running around. This time I used the car that A/C is not working and the heat beat my caboose into the ground.
Yard Wars Boy I wished we did not have the yesterday! I did not do anything with the backyard today!
Train Front Stopped by K-10 Model Trains today and bought 2 switch control boxes. Pretty sure that is why one of my turnouts is not working. Wires are fine and I replaced the motor last week. Bought yet another Accurail 3 Bay Centerflow Covered Hopper? Well, I like them and guess I should have bought all of them when K-10 got them. For $5.95 hard to past up, like I need any more rolling stock!
Speaking of buying what you don't need. While I was checking out I spotted a B&O GP 30 laying on the counter. Asked if it was being bought and was told no. Looked at the box and it was a Lionel HO scale engine. Knew I did not want that so I put it down. Ken (owner of K-10) said I could have it for $10.00. I said no. Then it was $5.00, I said no. Then he said $3.00 and I said no, then bought the dran thing!
He did thell me it did not run and I am sure it is pancake motor engine. So they way I lookat it, it is pre-broken. I don't have to spend time wearing it out! Well maybe it can use the shell on something.
Diners Name If it is not broken, don't fix it! Jeff was a friend, I have some of his engines and rolling stock on the layout as I speak.
Cuda Ken