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Posted by yougottawanta on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 10:38 AM

Hey all

Popping in for just a second. Need Prayers for my father. Late last week while at his mailbox he was struck by a car that we believe was doing around 55 mph. He had to be flown out to a hospital in Charlottesville Va. There they determined that on the right side of his body he has two broken bones in his leg, fractured hip, fractured rib, broken forarm, broken hand, broken bones in his face, bruised brain and perforated intestines. So far they have removed part of his intestines, installed a rod in his leg, plates in his arm. Thursday they will be performing surgery on the broken bones in his face. Luckily he survived but recovery will be a very long road.

Ken - I will get the coal cars out to you when things settle down here

Ulrich - Congrats on your anniversary

TTYL

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:15 AM

YGW - for your Dad:

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:23 AM

Good afternoon all.

Flo, Barry burger, fries, and a Coke please.

Ulrich - Happy anniversary! 

Dave - Happy anniversary as well!

YGW - So sorry, will be hoping for speedy recovery.

Weather - Cooler and less humid here today, highs in low 80's, with dew points upper 50's to low 60's. Compare with yesterday 93 with dew point of 78, it was hot, hot, hot! This week will be in low 80's rest of the week and weekend.

W**k - Been slow, and zilch for spiff money chances. Our district manager is supposed to be visiting this week. We shall see. (Took 3 weeks last time we heard this.) 

Hope all are well, and everyone enjoy the day!

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:53 AM

Afternoon folks,

Chloe, I'll have a Barry Burger and a RBF for lunch today......  Huh?  I dunno, I just feel like it I guess.

 YGW, How terrible!  Will keep your Father and all the family in my prayers!

 Ulrich, the layout is looking great!  You are still able to do some fine work in spite of the handicaps!!!

I am currently wiping the hard drive on my old MacBook to get it ready to dispose of....  I will check and see if it has any resell value at the Mac Place, if not I may offer it to the schools.  Still has some life left, it is just slow for what I need these days.  If no one else wants it, it will go to the next recyling day for electronics at the county landfill.  The  7 times over erase will take 4 hours using the install CD that came with the old girl.

Yesterday we had......  RAIN!.........  Wow!  Yep some actual rain fell around here.  All of .6 inch of rain....  That is equal to all the rain we have had for the last 5 weeks.  We could use several days of the same.  There have been many sightings of deer in the city.  Poor things are very stressed with scarce water for them.  Some are treking several miles each day to get a drink from the lake.

Did manage to get some more scenery started on the layout and hope to get a few hours down there today.  Will take some photos in the next few days on the progress.

Have a Goodun'

73

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 12:03 PM

YGW ... That is horrible news about your Dad... Praying for him. 

Ulrich .... I meant to say Happy Anniversary earlier.  

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 12:33 PM

YGW....

Bushy LION will come and sit with your father.

ROAR

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:10 PM

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:26 PM

Since when does the Lion love Dunkin´ Donuts and hides on the awning?

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Posted by BigDaddy on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 3:55 PM

YGW May your father make a complete recovery.  The news everywhere is terrible.

A friend of mine visited by way of the auto train from FL.  Novelist Tony Hillerman says a day that starts bad, ends bad.  He was 10 minutes late and they wouldn't load his car so he had to come back the next day.  On they way up they hit some guy going around a crossing barrier.  He kept driving but the sherriff, Amtrak and CSX had to do an investigation and then they had to get a new engineer from Jacksonville.  That put them in the way of track construction and it took them over 24 hours to make the 17 hour trip.  He pays an extra $50 to have his car unloaded within 20 min or so rather than maybe a couple hours later.

Food is served on disposable plates these days.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 4:06 PM

YGW, sorry to hear about your Dad, a smooth recovery is to be hoped for.

"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."

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Posted by Steven Otte on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 4:29 PM

Best wishes to your father for a complete recovery, YGW.

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Posted by herrinchoker on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 5:39 PM

YGW

Prayers for your Father and family.

Jan

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Posted by herrinchoker on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 5:52 PM

Top of the page--put it all on my tab---Ulrich, it looked like the Lion was on the liquor store sign.....being an Anglican (flunked Latin) we can spot things like that.

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Posted by LIRRs on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:55 PM

YGW - Will be praying for your fathers recovery and for your family as well.  Give me a call if I can help in any manner.

All the best.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 8:40 PM

Good Evening,

A beautiful day here with temps at about 80F and sunny. Nice change from all the rain. 

Chris, nice GMD-1!  CN still uses them here and I used to see one every week doing some shunting on my way home from work. I retired 2 years ago so haven't seen one since then. The one I used to see was built in 1958! 

Ulrich, congrats on 32 years. 

Jim,  hope you are having a nice time in Sask. I looked up the lake you are at but the closest I came to it was Nipawin. I used to work for Macleods stores which later became True Value. Thirty years ago there was a Macleods store in virtually every town in Sask. but over time they just closed up as the towns shrank. I have visited many of them at one time in my 40 years with the company. If you get to Prince Albert there is a large roundhouse still standing. 

After a lot of thought I decided against buying that Hudson. Instead I opted to upgrade  the sound decoder in my Light Mountain. It now has an old MRC decoder that has poor motor control and just so-so sound so I decided to replace it with a new Econami decoder. I also ordered a couple of BLI express reefers that were on sale for a great price. I will now have 5 so I can make up a nice train. 

Well, time for a little TV, so see you soon.

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Posted by hon30critter on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 9:09 PM

Garry:

Neat video of the bridge being blown!

Thanks

You are one of the lucky ones to have been able to ride the Rocky Mountaineer!

Dave

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Posted by hon30critter on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 9:16 PM

YGW:

So sorry to hear about your father. I hope he makes a good recovery.

Dave

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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 10:00 PM

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, Barry Buger with fries and a Beer.

 YGW Boy, your dad is luckie. 55 MPH sure is not slow. Hope they caught the driver. Hope for a quick recovery as well. Angel Far as the cars take as long as needed.

 Gary I think the Chapel Car is going to need new wheels the way things are going around this joint.

 Rick I know how you feel, I am making about 1/2 in extra money this year vers last year.

 Ulrich Congrats on 32 years, well I hope it should be congrats. Still sort of understand why you don't keep the current layout. You rather dream and build than watch the train go a round and a round. But, it does look good!

 I am beat, so later folks.

 Ken

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Posted by angelob6660 on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 10:34 PM

Evening Diners,

YGW- Sorry about your dad getting hit by a car getting the mail. I'm surprised he survived. Best wishes for recovery.

This and the other reason of kidnapping while getting the mail. I run out of the house and back in under 20 seconds so that doesn't happen.

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Posted by cats think well of me on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 7:18 AM

Let's go for bacon, cheesy scrambled eggs, and blueberry baked oatmeal this morning. With a large cup of coffee. Med. Roast, with hazelnut creamer. 

Best wishes for your dad's recovery YGW. I'm glad he survived. 

Today, I have much planned: Try and get my self organized to go back to college this fall. Depending on the time today, I'll take my youngest sister swimming too. 

As it's summer, I'm going through MR projects at a much slower pace compared to the colder months. I did get a pair of Red Caboose REA X29s built up recently. Going to buy a kitchen scale and get them weighted properly. I had two built that only needed a gloss coat before decaling. I used a can of clear gloss in a spray can as it worked well on two models I'd painted before. Instead, the clear coat ended up looking terrible, so I've since then, carefully stripped the paint, and will try again. I'll need to replace detail parts I'd broken off as well. 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:47 AM

Good Afternoon!

I got a package in today´s mail containing a box of those bottle brush Faller trees I need to rework the scene next to the guard´s house. I am not happy with the looks of the other trees there so I decided to go for the same generic fir tree that I have planted nearly everywhere on the layout. Of course, they need to be reworked. In order to avoid getting that certain look from SWMBO, I went outside to spray paint them with the dark olive paint I used for the other trees. I also sprinkled WS groundcover over them to improve the looks. Now they rest in our staircase. They should be safe there, we are the only ones on this floor. I took one of them into our apartment - enough to leave that strong smell of Tamiya paint ...

15 trees for about $ 8 is quite OK, I think.

The other trees will be transplanted to another location on the layout!

Zoe, coffee and a slice of that cherry crumble pie, please!

TTFN!

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:08 AM

Good morning 

Ken ... I think the Chapel Car will have to coupled to the Diner permanently with so much stuff going on. Still praying your daughter will be okay. 

Cats Think Well .... The joys of model railroading.  .... I hate it when things go wrong such as paint going bad. Glad you are not giving up on the models.

Ulrich ... Your trees look good .

 

 

 

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Posted by yougottawanta on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:30 AM

Thanks all for the prayers. We believe he will be in the hospital and rehab about six to eight weeks. Finally last night he got about six hours total sleep. He still hasnt had any food or water since last Friday. He is only being given small sponges with water soaked in them and occasionaly small ice chips. Not sure but we may have started to turn the corner for the better. Never know it such a roller coaster ride, up and down, one minute it looks good and then in seconds everything goes south. Yes it is amazing that he survived the accident. We do not know much about who hit him, but the driver did stop. All of our attention has been on getting my father the help he needs to survive.

Will check back in later.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 2:51 PM

This place is rather quiet today - only 4 posts so far!

Well, I am getting ready for the hay. I dis some more w*rk on the layout, planting the Faller trees, transplanting the others, retouching some of the trees which have lost some of the ground cover I had sprinkled on and, last but not least, that ghastly plastic green of the silos has turned into a dull grey. Some weathering and those silos will look OK! Pictures will come tomorrow!

Today´s job has transformed the layout a lot - fortunately in the direction I had planned. Starting to look OK, but still lot´s of areas to w*rk on!

Got to go now - CU tomorrow!

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Posted by angelob6660 on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3:20 PM

Hey diners,

I tried watching The Averagers on blu ray. I just bored after a few minutes after in started and myself at the hour mark and decided to quit. I guess I'm not in the mood. Not even the hulk and iron man fight got me excited.

Let's see if railroading with help.

 

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Posted by Steven Otte on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3:37 PM

angelob6660

I tried watching The Averagers on blu ray. I just bored after a few minutes after in started and myself at the hour mark and decided to quit. I guess I'm not in the mood. Not even the hulk and iron man fight got me excited.

LOL @ "The Averagers"! With that name I guess they're the more everyday kind of heroes rather than superheroes. Come to think of it, that's the team Hawkeye belongs on. Archery is not a superpower!

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:04 PM

Afternoon folks!

Chloe, a tall glass of lemonade would suit me fine right about now....

Another sunny day here in the Finger Lakes!  We need rain badly though.  The latest news on the drought here is that Taughannock Falls near Ithaca, NY has dried up.  It normally runs lots and lots of water all year round down the gorge and into Cayuga Lake.  Right now it is just a trickle they say.  https://weather.com/science/nature/video/before-after-of-taughannock-falls-in-western-new-york, http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/columnist/2016/07/25/new-yorks-taughannock-falls-looks-like-trickle-during-drought/87385072/

Been spending some time down in the train room working on some scenery and running some ideas through my head for a cattle grazing pasture up un the hiltop with the farm off the layout......  Got to take some measurements and stuff to see what might work.

Catch you all later!

73

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Posted by tcwright973 on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:57 PM

Ray - I'm surprised that the "Falls" have dried up. How disappointing it must be for those who walk up the trail to view what I think is a fascinating & beautiful wonder of nature. As you might be able to tell, I love that place. We have walked the trail a couple of times, but I'm afraid those days are over. It would be kind of hard for the wife now. The video you linked & the photos I have don't really do justice to the size or height.

There are some people at the bottom of this photo going up the trail.

This photo was taken from an observation deck on that upper raod across the gorge.

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:37 PM

Hey Tom!

Here was the falls the first week of August 2008 at Sci-Tec Camp out at our Boy Scout Camp....  Even this photo doesn't do it justice.  Remember, Taughannock Falls is taller than Niagara Falls!  (BTW, there is a couple great science museums in and around Ithaca, NY.  Well worth taking a day and visiting them, and have lunch at the falls!)

That would be normal this time of year.  This year, just a little dribble.  Crops are really suffering aroiund here.  My garden has to get wattered every evening.  Can't wait to get the water bill....

73

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Posted by BigDaddy on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:40 PM

My install of a PSX circuit breaker failed.  Working, looking up, is not my strong suit and there was a loose wire somewhere.  I could not find it, disassmbled everythng and put it on the bench, where it all worked normally.  Reinstalled it and it works. (NCE powercab BTW)

YGW Hit and Run drivers are the lowest of the low.  How is your dad doing mentally?  Anesthesia is a big hit to old folks, we don't know why.  Besides the immediate effects of narcotics and anesthesia, there are effects that last for months before they get better.

I wondered about the significance of the name Statler and Waldorf Photo of the day.  Muppets?   Darryl Wallace got fine $15 grand for calling Nascar officials muppets.  As a kid, Jim Henson, did commercials for Chock Full of Nuts coffee on a local TV station with Kermit.  That was his start.

Everyone have a good evening.

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