howmus "I think I am, therefore, I am. I think." - George Carlin
"I think I am, therefore, I am. I think." - George Carlin
Also The Moody Blues, "In the Beginning," from On the Threshold of a Dream.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Just found a documentary video of a train ride along the BLS, that´s the Bern-Loetschberg-Simplon Railway in Switzerland. The video shows the opening train in the year 1913!
I have been up and down this line quite a number of times, but things have changed so dramatically that ist is hard to recognize a place.
Heartland Division CB&Q Ulrich .... Yes ! What is available in the summer ?
Ulrich .... Yes !
What is available in the summer ?
... just the ice cream, Garry. You need freshly picked apples for it and you don´t want to heat up the oven when is steaming hot outside.
Actually, making a good apple strudel has turned into a challenge these days, as the good old kind of apples my grandma used for making it is no longer available. The new kind lacks the "tang" you need to get that particular taste.
Ray - thanks for making that big one for me
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Granole Cereal and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee this morning. Please and Thank You Ma'am!
Heartland Division CB&QHey Ray ! ..... Did you make enough cookies to share some in the Diner too ? ..... WhistlingDinner
Absolutely! Help yourselves. But... The one all by itself on a seperate plate is mine! Doc says it is OK for me to A cookie.......
I am about ready to head off to my morning shower and then sit out in the sun with my shirt off for a few minutes. The sun is shining here today and the chair finally dried off yesterday.... LOL Have a dermatologist appt. Early this afternoon and then will come home, change my clothes, and head out to camp to visit the troop.
Today's quote:
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QUlrich ..... I bet people would like some apple strudel from Germany again sometime.
Garry - it´s not yet the season for Apfelstrudel. It´s more for the cold winter days, which we definitively not having right now. We have 30°C, but fortunately, all the humidity has been blown away by a rather strong easterly wind. Now it´s just hot.
Just a sneak preview what will come up when the days get cooler again:
Mouthwatering, isn´t it?
Good morning everybody ........ It must be summer. Everybody is talking about hot weather (except Bear).
Hey Ray ! ..... Did you make enough cookies to share some in the Diner too ? .....
Ulrich ..... I bet people would like some apple strudel from Germany again sometime.
Meanwhile..... I'll be at the corner booth with coffee and donuts.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
Early morning diners,
I been working on my Class 3 short line. I give it a new image, the one I designed three years ago didn't look right, and a little outdated.
For the past two years I couldn't decide if I should buy Micro-Trains weather and graffiti freight cars since it would be very modern. The freight car list would stay to 18-20 with four industries.
I'll type later I'm losing my train of thoughts, maybe some pics if I get to it.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Could I get a pina colata milkshake this evening, please?
Sir Madog Only 3 folks in the Diner since I said good night yesterday?
Only 3 folks in the Diner since I said good night yesterday?
In my case I just haven't had anything to type until now.
Weather: It has been over 100 the last two days (100 on Monday {1st time all year}, 102 on Tuesday, forecast to be high 90s Wednesday and Thursday, 102 on Friday. Then back down to 87 for Saturday. (When the temperature drops that much, it makes me worry about the possibility of severe weather Friday night.)
Hobby Front: Should be fairly busy this week. According to the tracking: the handrails for the 30 should be in on Thursday (carefully remove from donor, paint to BN green and white on ends, attach to the 2212), the part for making the additional windows on the 45 should be here Friday (NP 45s had 4 windows while my model only has two), and the couplers for the 45 have a tracking number but the package hasn't gotten to the Post Office yet. I hoping that the 30 can go out to the layout on Sunday. (One less project to worry about.)
Good Morning!
Well, here I am, back again! I woke up at 4am after slleping for 6 hrs. - without any interruption - good!
It´s been quite hot yesterday, so I don´t mind getting up early today to enjoy the fresh morning air - just before it get´s hot again.
No major plans for the day. I sold an HOn30 narrow gauge passenger car through Ebay, which I will pack up and dispatch, but only if the money has been credited to my account.
TTFN!
Evening Diners
Flo, please and keep them coming.
Work Front Boy I am glad this week is over! One of the worst ones I can remember. I was ready to chew my arm off to get the heck out of the store tonight! Foot traffic has picked up, but no buyers. This is the kind of week that God grew Barliey and Hops for man kind.
Steven OttePeople who come to the Forums just for model train information don't care about people they never knew who died before they ever joined the Forums.
Steve Kind of the reason I said what I said. I come to the diner because of the people I know and care about that are in the dinner. Lossing Jeffery and Barry was personal to my self and fellow dinners. While I know Andy from his writting and Wolfgang for his great modeling I did not really know them and there personal life outside of Model Trains. Reason I sugested it be a post on the main page. I do understand about why you don't want to post it there and again I am fine with it.
YGW Just got the first shippment of Round House B&O Coal Cars, and they do look great! I see why you would not have mind keeping them. Enjoy your week off!
Todd Great to see you back in the dinner again. Have you been dusting your 1970 Road Runner?
Well it is and half way hope it does it for all my 2 days off. Like to have some Train Time this time around.
Later, Ken
What my layout will look like in the next few weeks
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I could sure use a cup of decaf right now, please.....
Got a few things done today... Not nearly as much as I should have though. I got some toll house, M&M cookies baked to take out to the Troop dinner tomorrow at camp. Sent a bunch of emails making some final counts for hots and hamburgs and such for the NMRA Picnic this Saturday. Scanned and dealt with a couple hundred emails, and then decided to water the garden. Found out that the deer has been back grazing now on the squash and peppers out there.... So, I made a trip over to the Value Center and got a shaker of deer repellent. Did get it spread around the bottom (ground) by the raised beds that have anything growing in them (one of them only had radishes and lettuce, now gone). We shall see if it is successful in the next few days I guess.
Ran across an interesting quote today....
“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.” ― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
About time to head for bed, I think. Catch you all tomorrow.
RickyW - I was a user moderator for the Trains.com forums for a few years and I can tell you it is a real job. Things are a lot more quiet these days, but in my time, we had some veritable flame wars going on.
There is an amusing thread about BlueRail in the Electronics and DCC forum, with a lot of back and forth, but still going `round in circles. I like to hop into that discussion now and then and leave my odor mark
Time to hit the hay - I have been watching Buster Keaton´s "The General" - very nice movie and so relaxingly quiet !
Didn´t know they already has steel cabs during the Civil War.
TTFN - CU all tomorrow!
Good Afternoon all.
Lets clarify my vote here.... Yes for keeping diner as is, yes for keeping RIP track and/or Fallen Flags posting in the diner. I do not feel another locked permanent post at top of main page is a good idea, nor does Mr. Otte need more responsibilities... As a mod on another site, with many less patrons, it still sometimes gets pretty busy, can't imagine how busy Steve gets on occasion.
Weather - Cooler 80 today, but warming up starting tomorrow, with high heat and humidity returning. Thursday on is 90's +, with enough humidity to have heat indices above 100 easily, might be approaching 110 indices by weekend...
W**k - One of the part time people (Kate) turned in her two weeks notice over the weekend, as she is moving on the 1st of next month. (Moving from 5 minutes away to 1:45 awa, one way.) As we still don't have a actual named store manager as of yet, our store cannot replace her, so we will be down to a total of 7 employees (9 last month), and one who can only work 2 days a week due to her other job (so, for all intents and purposes, 6 employees available to fill all shifts all 7 days each week). Our three remaining cashiers (once Kate is gone) are limited to 29 hours each, per week, and ther must be a minimum of two people each hour we are open. And, one must be a MOD (Manager On Duty) at all times. As my hours have creeped up as well, I will be limited to 28-29 hours each week, and the two other managers, limited to 38 hours and 43 hours each week, respectively.Each must have a minimum of 2 days off, and state law requires a lunch break, off the clock, of at least 30 uniterupted minutes, after 6 hours. Now, add in that I have my cousins wedding Saturday, and that I am out of town the entire following weekend, this means one of the 2 others who can be MOD's must be there those days, and on Fridays and Saturdays, we are open longer than 6 hours, so you must have yet another MOD available, so both must be there those 4 days. Now, this could easily become an issue, but then you factor in that all of us are hourly, and we have only 135-155 hours available each week, depending on sales/markdowns and scheduled deliveries, and something is just not going to work. Glad someone else is responsible for the schedules!
Hobby - Planning on finishing a car kit later this week, as it will be too hot to be doing much else. Might even fit in some weathering while I am at it.
Hope all have a good day!
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.
Zoe, I need a bowl of Vanilla Almond Granola cereal, a glass of OJ, and a Barry sized pot of MArrakesh Express Darik Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR mug. (in rememberance of those who have gone to the big layout in the sky.)
We got well over a tenth of an inch of rain Sunday Night and Yesterday here in the area. We need much more..... badly! At least I won't have to water the garden today... I headed out to get my dose of sunshine a few minutes ago and decided to wait a half hour or so and let the chair seat dry in the sunshine.
I am in agreement with Ulrich (actually, I agree with him quite often...) on keeping the RIP listing in the diner itself. I think this is where it belongs, and this thread is almost always on the front page.
I need to bake the cookies I plan to take out to camp when I visit my troop tomorrow. Should get that done before the main heat of the day hits this afternoon. Going up to all of 76°F.... By Thursday and Friday they are predicting highs of 93°F. That stuff in the midwest will be moving Eastward...
Catch you all later!
No. 160719
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Steven OtteKeep the RIP Track in the Diner. Any one posted outside the Diner will be appended to the Diner thread.
I am one who is not easily in agreement with others, but this time I am - let´s keep it in the Diner!
It has turned quite hot all of a sudden. Now it´s steaming outside and I am certainly not made for that!
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
cudaken If you where not a diner would it not be better to have the RIP Track on the main page? Have it as a locked post and have Steve or a modrater add names as needed?
If you where not a diner would it not be better to have the RIP Track on the main page? Have it as a locked post and have Steve or a modrater add names as needed?
Several reasons why not:
• The RIP Track is a Diner thing, not a Forum thing. It's easy to forget that there are many more people in the Forums than those who patronize the Diner. People who come to the Forums just for model train information don't care about people they never knew who died before they ever joined the Forums.
• There are two locked posts at the top of the General Discussion Forum already. Whenever there are three, people start complaining that their threads are "buried." Let's not add a permanent one.
• I participate in the Diner because I want to. Not because I need to be assigned more duties.
Keep the RIP Track in the Diner. Any one posted outside the Diner will be appended to the Diner thread.
Good morning ! .... I'll have a coffee and a waffle with real butter and real maple syrup, please.
Todd .... Thanks for commenting. I have a video of Mom playing the piano on her 95th birthday. She was still very good at playing it then. She died on May 21st, only a fewweeks ago.
Bill T .... Good morning to you too.
JohnBoy ... Are the trains running on your railroad today ?
Ken ... The thought process leading to the RIP Track idea did begin with how to include some sort of memorial to Barry, and it evolved to where it should include any other forum members who passed away. The Diner is open to the entire forum, and so I think it is best to include all forum members who have passed away.
Ulrich .... If you are the one opening the August Diner, I think you know what to do. I would suggest the top of the first post say "Everybody is welcome" so everybody knows it is not an exclusive club.
Again Galaxy has been away for a while. It sounded like his train of life was running on rough tracks. I hope everything smooths out for him.
I know there are several others who have been MIA for a while. I used to have several eamil contacts with them, but most of my contact list somehow disappeared.
We're having hot weather this week, and I hope to be in the cool train room working on the layout later today.
Happy Model Railroading.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Ulrich, and all on the other side of the planet.
I'm just going to bed.
I just ran a couple of cookies and a granola bar through thr blender with a bottle and 1/2 of choclate ensure, then put it down the tube. I'll probably have nightmares in tecknicolor tonight. So I may be up posting again in the middle of the night.
Sure hope not.
Night all, beautiful dreams of shiney rails in the moonlight to all of you.
Johnboy out.......................for the 18th.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
cudakenWas Wolfgang the modeler that lived in England? If it is the Wolfgang I am thinking about, he did great work!
Wolfgang Dudler lived in Germany, about 150 miles from my place. Actually quite close, but I never had the chance to meet him. Heas a retired highschool teacher and yes, I think he was the modeler you were thinking of, Ken. His web page is still up:
Westport Terminal RR
cudakenI hate to ask, but what did you pay for the Z-Scale layout and what do you hope to get for it?
I have sunk about $ 250 into the lot and I hope to get half of it back.
I´won´t be selling all my treasures. I will keep the Marklin locos and that oval of track, as well as the Japanese N scale mini-modular layout, which is small enough to be taken with my, should I have to move out quickly. I could never sell it! It was your help which got me off the ground and back into model railroading, so the layout is dear to my heart!
Flo, please.
Not sure why I have a long face, over all it was a good day. Think it was the heat after I got off from work and went to the store for the wife. She ran out of Junk Food so I spent $35.00 on the junk.
Work Front Over all it was a good day with $3500.00 in sales but I had to do it the hard way. Some of the deals where a real pain in the caboose to get done!
Heartland Division CB&QOf course, it is best to include all who particapted in the general MR forum. Being a former Diner patron should not be required.
Gary and other diners. Well I sure will not fight the issue, but was not the idea more to remember are fellow dinners? I have read many things by Andy so I think I some what knew him. Was Wolfgang the modeler that lived in England? If it is the Wolfgang I am thinking about, he did great work!
YGW I just checked the and the coal drag is in Hazel Wood MO. I should have some of the coal cars Tuesday. Let me know when you get the Snail Mail.
Ulrich On your side of the pond you can get more for a used done layout? Here in the states if you spent $5,000 and sale it on E-Bay you be lucky to get $500.00.
I hate to ask, but what did you pay for the Z-Scale layout and what do you hope to get for it?
Evening everyone,
I vote to keep the diner as is with the RIP track as well. I also agree that anyone thats contributed to MRR or been on this forum should be added regardless the number of posts. Just my
Could I get a pot of coffee please. I am trying to stay up as long as possible for my oatmel baths every 2 hrs, alchohol rub and Benadryl . Yep you guessed it, poison ivy. Seems I got it when cutting firewood, thought it was under control but temps in the 90''s with 60-90% humidity caused it to cover me head to toe almost overnight. Seen the saw bones today and he put me on steroids, not happy about that but he says my body cant fight off the poison ivy due to my absessed tooth- which I still cant do anything about till this is gone. Just enjoying the AC tonight.
Ken-prayers for your daughter. Going thru similar issue with my FIL with no will. Wife took over gaurdianship and this was one of the papers we had to fill out. Hope it isnt needeed for your daughter.
Ken Amos Jr
Shanny10
B&O, C&O, PRR
Just lovin trains
Hi Gang,
Just had a thought, (first one today.. Haha)
But I can't remember if anyone had mentioned putting Elliots name on the RIP list/track.
I don't think that should be forgotten, even though he was long gone, I believe, before I arrived here. Should probably get top billing...Don't cha think ? Any thoughts ???
Have to make a quick run to the bank to pay a bill that I can't do online.
Catch ya later Guys.
Johnboy out............. for a spell
Update with my SD45: The seller sent me a refund amount even greater than I was expecting or had suggested. It made the locomotive a very reasonable net price. The refund was enough that I was able to purchasse the needed couplers and well as a detail part that will be used to make the correct 4 windows for the NP version of the SD45.
Chloe, could I get a club sandwhich, some cottage fries (with white cheese on top) and some raspberry iced tea please?
Hobby front: As you folks know, I received an SD45 with a few problems. I contacted the seller and she is willing to give me a partial refund. She admitted that she missed seeing that. The way it sounds the seller handles a lot of engines and check them for running only and doesn't check the details real close. (Of course not everyone is a modeler and checks things like that.)