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Something is wrong with this MRR web page it is jerking and carrying on. There is this stupid video advertisement that is running like a race horse but I cant type ! Then I keep getting this stop, debug scripts, thing. Very frustrating.
News on my dad. He has had a minor hear tattack in the hospital. Must not be to major of a heart attck they are moving him to Acute Therapy and releasing him from the hospital. Worried about that decision.
howmus wrote " but I think he caught whatever Mr. Quinn had a couple weeks ago!" The faculty had a "hey day"" One reason I keep coming here is teh humor. I really need that now. Thanks Howmus for the cute story
Herb - Good afternoon to you too
Richard - Mrs ROR - What a nice thing to do cross off a bucket list item !
Brent - Sounds like they will have some memories they will never forget
Mr. B - I have heard some of those seats can make a man infertile is that true ?
Ed - Pictures of torn down Round houses I think are sad pictures.
Ken - OUCH!!!Oh the thought makes me groan!
Ken Amos - I am sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you and yours.
Henry - Watched the video neat thanks
Ulrich - I plan to watch your video tonight
Garry - Geez I have to wear sunglasses to look at that video !
Ricky W - Oh I didnt pick up what you were laying down. Man that must be tough to live with that
TTYL
YGW
I use AdBlock for just that reason. Sometimes, advertisers put very system-intensive videos in their ads which are so intrusive that they render the page unusable. AdBlock takes care of that.
I'm not sure about infertility, but the older seats can result in some ED and urinary problems as well. They constrict the flow of blood and also put pressure on the nerves. The new seats are designed to not have that problem. There are records of the same issues regarding horseback riders way back in ancient Greece.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Hello Railfans!
Top of the bleeding hot-bright day to yas! Flo, you prolly ought to tell Mel to order extra ice. Your gonna be serving alot of it. Except for Ken, who doesnt like ice in his . So tel Mel to order extra of that too!
Folks, Imma do my best to catch up here so bare with me....
YGW - very sorry to hear your father is still on the rough side of recovery. Best wishes for a much better recovery from here on out for him.
In last months post you asked if i moved 'to' fRednecksburg. No, actually i moved 'from' the redlight capital of the world to NC. Though this is supposed to be somewhat temporary, I am not going back there! 50 years was enough.
Havent given much thought as to where I want to end up after my task here is done. I will say though 'Gopher-Hole' Idaho looks very promising. Ive just gotta get away from the hub bub of city life, ya know? Id like to go where there are more train tracks than there are people, and its illegal for a redlight to exist within a 100 mile radius of me.
Ken - no matter what type of access you have, phone or cable (dish or dsl too), you will have to do something with your 'network adapter' in XP. Enabling it ofcourse gives you access, disabling it turns it off. Im not really understanding what you need (because if your posting here its working ok) but you got my number. Pick an evening when you have about an hour free time and hit me up. I will see what i can do to help ya out.
Ulrich - YES! The Saurer Alpenwagon - awesome looking. I love that model! The layout is looking nice aswell. Also a very nice job on the opening of the month. Keep up the fine work my friend!
Ed - You shoulda been a patron of the diner already! Your gonna fit right in here. Its gonna be a welcome sight to see your contributions. Alot of pictures posted here that reflect some mighty fine work, information, and knowledge. More so now that your here. Welcome to the show!
Flo - set a place for Ed here and show him the dessert list. Ya know a man will sit a spell if hes got a nice piece of pie in front of him.
In General - Mr. Beasley just stated....
I Use AdBlock.....
There is no instrument made that can measure my indifference to that statement! I second AND third that comment. And without drawing the direct ire of cousin Vinny, I will not state the whys and wherefores of the fact you should use it, JUST USE IT!
For the weather followers, eh, its hot and bright. Blah Blah! How many days is it til were griping about the cold?
Railroad front - my drive-by railfan moments so far the last couple weeks aint been to bad. I caught a couple NS units snoozing for a day on an overpass. One happened to be an "Operation Lifesaver" unit. Today i went by the same spot and they were gone. To be replaced by a couple of cars with caboose. Thats right i said caboose. The poor mans artwoork was all over it so I couldnt tell who it was lettered for. Im just suprised to see it. As i was the fact the two sleeping units were 2nd generation. Always nice to see something without an ugly face (safety cabs).
Speaking of cabooses there are a few scattered around Charlotte Im coming to find out. I may have mentioned it already, I have come across a 1920's Pullman car (so i was told) hanging out in a very odd place. Shes in very, very poor shape, having also been modified. While Im happy to see atleast shes not been scrapped, im saddened at her demise anyways.
A couple weeks ago i mentioned i had cought someone rounding the gates at a grade crossing. I passed by that crossing again a couple days ago and got a real good video (as good as 'i' can do) of a very odd sight. A lone NS unit slowly ambling along. Thankfully, no one crossing against the gates this time! She was a second gen unit too. I will say this for Charlotte, theres some nice units skulking about.
A couple of intermodals and a sighting of a long string of coil cars round out the festivities.
Well folks thats about it for my podeum time. Hope everyone is ok and doing well. Or atleast on the road to amends. See yall soon again.
Douglas
Shanny Ken My condolances
Cuda Ken You are too old for mumps. Everyone in the diner had had it.
Mr B I had a bike with a seat that would make me numb. Very disturbing feeling. I now have a seat that is split in the middle.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Evening,
Ken, sorry to hear about your 'problem'. I am in just the opposite situation. The hormone drug I am on for my prostate cancer is shrinking my prostate which is enlarged. It also stops the cancer. In any event it also shrinks other bits. This is all in prep for having it removed likely in November or December.
Been thinking about summers when I was a lad of 10 or 11. My parents rented a cottage at Victoria Beach which is a beach community on Lake Winnipeg. It is unique in that no vehicles are permitted during July and August except taxis and service. Bikes are the main mode of transport. In any event CN ran daily passenger trains there and in the summer of '58 they were hauled by a Pacific usually #5097. It was great fun to ride down to the station for the arrival of the train. Sometimes the crew would let kids ride the passenger cars when they turned the train on the wye. We moved to a small town in NW Ontario when my parents started a hardware store business in 1961 and there on a siding with a string of other locos heading for the scrap line was 5097.
Well time to head down to the workshop as I need to re-solder some on the connections in the tender of the light mountain.
CN Charlie
Evening Diners
Flo, a cushion and a Beer Please. No Flo, I am not intrested in a cantaloupe I all ready have one! All so get Ed and the Buick Guy a as well. No Flo, I don't need any nuts with the beer.
First thank you all for your best wishes. Sure can tell me mainly have Male Members here at the diner.
Big Ones Front Fastest I have ever been help at a ER. I was in and out in 2 hours. Seems the cantaloupe has a infection, I wounder if I got that when I visited the VA Tuesday? Used the rest room twice and I sit down when I take a leak. Shut off control is not as good as it use to be.
Got my meds in record time! I use Shnunks and was in and out in under 10 minutes? Norm is 45 minutes.
Did not get my store open till 12:05. I was fine with that, I left a note that said I made not open till 1:00 PM anyway. Took my med and the day just went down hill from there! Started hurting in the shoulders, felt like I may have a fever and just felt like ash pit! It was slow today, so at 6:45 I called the main offices and tod them I was Punching Out At 7:00 PM and not 8:00 pm. Not sure if it was the med or the infection that made me feel bad.
YGW I have heard minor heart attacks are not life threating. A friend of mine had 3 of them till he started having problems. Guess you are feeling like Job about right now.
Train Front Looks like I killed the Proto 2000 774 B&O SD 7. While the motor turns, it turns real sloooow. Only pulled .90 amps so I hosed the motor with CRC and well test it tonight. With some luck, it was just over oilded but I ran the SD's hard.
Time for bed.
Ken
I hate Rust
MisterBeasley Is anyone else having trouble with the "quote" feature? It's not working for me. I run Windows XP and Firefox. When I hover the mouse over "Add Quote to your Post" the little window in the lower left says "javascript(void)" That's never been a good sign in the past. It worked fine a few days ago, and I haven't changed anything at my end.
Is anyone else having trouble with the "quote" feature? It's not working for me. I run Windows XP and Firefox. When I hover the mouse over "Add Quote to your Post" the little window in the lower left says "javascript(void)" That's never been a good sign in the past.
It worked fine a few days ago, and I haven't changed anything at my end.
I get that as well and can click on it just fine. Make sure you're not running a script blocker of some sort. Given Firefox auto updates, it could have changed as the result of an update.
Good morning .
CN Charlie ... I'm sad to hear you are dealing with cancer. Praying for heeling..... That is very interesting about CNR 5097.
Ken .... I hope the SD7 will be back on the rails. Sounds like a new motor may be needed. ... Also hope hyour health condition improves.
YGW ... Continued prayers for your Dad. Keep us informed.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
<I> "Is anyone else having trouble with the "quote" feature? It's not working for me. I run Windows XP and Firefox. When I hover the mouse over "Add Quote to your Post" the little window in the lower left says "javascript(void)" That's never been a good sign in the past.
It worked fine a few days ago, and I haven't changed anything at my end."</i>
I *was* going to tell you that the problem is XP, and that Java has no up grades for XP. While that is true, *I* just had the same problem. So LION nose not the answer. The "javascriptviod" has nothing to dew with it.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
It also makes you want to shop for shoes for three hours.
Good Afternoon!
Just stopping by for a moment. I am battling heart issues since this morning. My BP is playing roller coaster again, so I am up to nothing today.
I hope tomorrow will be a better day!
CNCharlie - I am sorry to hear about your "issues" and hope, things will turn out right
ROAR ROAR ROAR ROAR
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 Special this morning. Over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefries, and a double order of the sourdough toast. Oh a 30 cup urn on Seneca Lake Blend Dark Raostr coffee would be gopod to wash that down with, please.
We got some RAIN overnight. I think anyways. Was supposed to be in the form of thunderboomers. I didn't hear anything (I'm deaf anyway...) but Manét did climb up on the bed and ask to get cuddled for a while. LOL The State here in NY has fianlly declared an official Drought Warning for the Central NY/Finger Lakes Area. That means farmers that lose their crops due to the dry weather can get some help for the loss.
I went down to the Credit Union to take out some pictures of dead presidents to spend next week.... On the way home I stopped at the corn stand over at a strip mall near my house to get a couple ears of sweet corn. Some high school kid was working there. I haven't seen him there before so toady may be his first day of work. Place was busy and he was finishing up a ladys order of several dozen ears (good day for a picnic actually). I grabbed to ears that seem good and handed him a $5 and said, "Here is a picture of Abe, you can just give me 4 George's back. He gives me a completely blank stare..... I said, "see this a picture of Abe Lincoln, the corn is 50¢ each so I need 4 pictures of Goerge Washington back. Blank look....... After a bit more time, another explaination, this time with another lady roaring... it sinks in! The kid couldn't stop laughing... Told me he just has to tell his dad that one. I explained it is an old Boy Scout thing. We are not allowed to buy or sell patches but are supposed to trade them. So some people trade them for "Pictures of Dead Presidents!".
#1 Granddaughter finally gets to celebrate her 9th. birthday tomorrow. Her birthday was over a month ago, but after having a party inculding her little friends and a family vactaion weekend where she wanted to go, they totally forgot that the rest of us might want to give her some presents and celebrate it. So tomorrow we are going out to one of her favorite places to eat and then will likey go back to the house for brithday cake and present openings.
I am going to spend most of today cleaning the deck and the back porch here. Both those places will likely get used when I host the faculty reunion in 3 weeks. I am pretty much at a standstill with the layout until I get some more HO scale 1" x 4" lumber to make the fence. I may get the last piece of plywood cut and ready to install as soon as I have the scenery done....
Well... Started this post over an hour ago and had a call from my son and afew emails I needed to reply instantly to. So hope you all have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon,all. 79f and mostly sunny.
Sorry to hear of everyone's trials and tribulations.
There is a live band playing at the sandbar on the lake about a quarter mile from our house. We can hear them, they sound pretty good. Lots of horns and such. Mostly oldies rock .
KEN: you sure go through decoders/engines. Have you checked for any underlying layout problems?My layout is pretty big and I have yet to burn up a decoder or engine.
Seemed like a good day to start a batch of trees, so I did!
trimmed into a tree shape and trunks painted. Next comes hairspray and ground foam. That's all for now! Terry
trimmed into a tree shape and trunks painted. Next comes hairspray and ground foam.
That's all for now!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
MisterBeasley - The "Javascript<void>" error is a common one, but not serious. Actually in most cases this is a good thing. Java can be used to seriously damage things. Some browsers (you say Firefox in your case) have "pop-up" blockers that will block the java code from allowing a worthless window from 'popping up'. Javascript errors are caused by blockers (if not by bad programming).
You mentioned you use Ad-Block. Darn good for you!!!! Everyone should use it! However, its a good bet this is whats knocking down the java commands not your browser. When I first started posting a year or so ago I had the same exact error you have now during the posting process here on MR's sites. I would lose the whole lower tool bar and couldnt do anything like post a link or picture... No Buttons! It was the content blocker in ad-block.
Bare in mind Im on Windows 7 not XP, and I use IExplorer not Firefox. All I had to do to clear this error was turn off the "Content Blocker" in Ad-Block for the page. Problem solved. I hate to say it but yes, even MR uses some questionable programming code as far as Ad-Block is concerned. And more than likely Ad-Block is catching it and blocking it.
To turn off the content blocker I will describe as best I can. Do know there may be differences between what I see and what you see since we are using different browsers. The process is still the same - turn off the blocker on this page.
In the url bar (where you type inet addresses like 'http://mrr.trains.com") you should see a blue circle with a line through it at the very end of the bar. Normaly this logo is red and is placed over something to be blocked or not used. Much like a 'do not litter' or 'no smoking' sign. In Ad-Block's case, its a pastel blue color.
If you click on this a small windows appears mentioning the 'Content Blocker'. At the bottom should be a button that willl let you either turn it on, or off. In this case - turn it off. If the webpage does not automatically refresh (it does on mine, but may not on yours), Then press F5 to refresh the page or right click on page and select refresh.
You should be now able to go about your business. If none of the above works, OR with your version of windows and browser this option is not available.... then turn off Ad-Block altogether for the MRR site ONLY!
To do that click on the Red colored 'stop sign' shaped icon with "ABP" on it, that resides in the lower right of your browser status bar. It will ask you to "Disable everywhere" (never select this option) or "Disable on CS.Trains.Com" (select this one).
Using the first step with adjusting the content blocker fixed my problem. I am able to do anything the page is set up to do. AND, ads are still blocked thank goodness which is most important since Ad-Block is still on. Hope this helps.
Thanks. I disabled AdBlock for this site and I could quote again. Then, of course, I had to see what happened if I re-enabled it. I can still quote.
Maybe it's the heat. I've been the Air Conditioner Kid all day.
Good Afternoon, Fellow Diners
I see a few new specials on the chalkboard by the door! They all sound delicious and the BLT with extra thick bacon and extra Miracle Whip sounds like it will sate my appetite, some hand-cut fries AND to top it off, that ice cold beer, thanks to Ken!
YGW, It is a sad reality to see so many of our roundhouses and factory buildings razed like that. Sometimes I look at Google Earth and see areas that I was familiar with and today, there is nothing left, just litter-strewn weeds! A result of the "new direction" the business and economy of today has taken. Below is the PRR roundhouse at Mingo Junction, Ohio.
I offer my continued prayers to ease your father's suffering.
Thanks for the welcome, Douglas! I have been peeking into the front window of the diner from time-to-time but with that j*b and other obligations I didn't have the time to actually pull up a chair. Glad I stopped in.
I should look into ad-blocker, I use Malware Bytes and I'm pretty satisfied with the protection it offers. I have also been having frustrations with this and several other sites as well. For the past two days Photobucket was acting all goofy. Problem is compounded by not knowing if the fault is at their end, or the ISP or on my end?
Must have been a Photobucket problem, they seem to do frequent "upgrades" to their site, since as of early this morning everything is back to normal with no intervention on my part. The MR site was acting weird as well. No quote feature, On IE I had no toolbar in the reply pane, in Chrome I couldn't even copy/paste!
Ken, Thanks for the always appreciated. Like Terry in Wisconsin, I also wonder about some major fault somewhere in your layout wiring? Over several years I have seen where you have had smoked decoders. What could be the underlying cause? I wonder if a reset would clear that slow-turning motor. Seems to me that I had that problem with some older DH-121-123 decoders and it was cured by a reset.
Well, the promised "Cool Front" has moved through NE Ohio so instead of 92 and humid it's WAY down to 86 and slightly less humid and a whopping .06" of rain!
I'll be stopping in later for a night-cap!
Cheers to all,
Ed
Evening everyone,
Sorry I haven't been in but things have kept us very busy with funeral arrangements and contacting family. Thank you for all the kindness and heartfelt condolences. Everyone is doing much better too.
YGW: hope your father is doing better, sorry but I didnt read anything the other night and missed what happened.
CudaKen: hope your feeling better.
Prayers to all in need and for those I may have missed.
I'll have a RBF and sit in the back for a while. Flo can you wake me tonight, the snoring is going to chase everyone off.
No train stuff past few weeks but I should get time this week to work on my bridge project I have posted elsewhere, will update later this week hopefully.
Ken Amos Jr
Shanny10
B&O, C&O, PRR
Just lovin trains
Hey all
Dad is napping right now. I have the graveyard shift with him tonight. They had him up standing on his one good leg. He looks better. Rehab therapist said he may be in here ten weeks before he gets out. but he is making progress. Which it is amazing he is still alive after being hit by a car doing 55+mph.
Thanks for all of the prayers and good wishes.
Ken - just to crazy didn't get the cars sent out today. Will try this coming week.
Ulrich - will say a prayer for you. Hope the morning finds you better
I wonder why they test down the roundhouses? Do you think they get taxed on the building if it remains up ? Removal and haul of a building that size is crazy expensive. The dump feed would be astronomical alone.
Eveing Dinners
Flo, Beer please and yes I will take Ed and The Buick Guys tap!
gmpullmanThanks for the Beer always appreciated. Like Terry in Wisconsin, I also wonder about some major fault somewhere in your layout wiring? Over several years I have seen where you have had smoked decoders. What could be the underlying cause?
Ed and Terry My wiring sucks rail spikes! I was into HO scale slot cars when I got into trains. So not knowing any better I wired the then DC train layout like a HO slot car layout and all was fine. Then I went DCC, well Simon 66 came over and found a major flaw with the K-10 mining section and decoder cooking slowed down a lot.
Some of the layout more than likely will not pass the Quater Test and need more feeders. Plus the wires from my DB 150 is 18 feet long to the power blocks I use. (Use to use to MRC 3500 so each 3500 had it own block) If or when I know I will beable to keep the house and start a new layout I will wire it the way it should be.
Now, Ed and Terry question for you. How many hours a day do you run your layout? When I got started, well I ran my layout about 40 hours a week. I have now down to about 21 hours a week. I like long trains, little over NMRA weight (free rolling stock) still have some 18" turns and pull a Train Line track cleaning car on all of the trains! Each track cleaning cars is about the same as pulling 15 free rolling stock car. Good chances I am just wearing the motors out, but maybe not?
CN Charile is the cancer thing something new or have you been battling for a while? Either way, I for you.
Dougles (The Buick Guy for new folks) I will take you up on your offer sort of soon. Main thing is for me to dig through the PM's to find your number.
Ed I saw on Train Stuff web site they have new B&O SD 7's for $89.00, are they the same as my B&O SD'S? Guessing if anyone knows at the diner it would be you.
Ball Bearing Front Getting better, still not right but heading in the right drection!
Galaxy I hope you are still out there watching, like to see you back again!
Later,Ken
Good evening. It has been a beautiful day here, today. 72 degrees F and clear blue sky. We went scouting wild rice this afternoon. My friend has been suffering from mono at 44 years of age. He thinks it started out as a strep throat and turned into mono. As he is recovering but not up to snuff, I was the designaterd driver as the rice lake is 100 K away. The crop is not as good as last year as the lake water level is very high this year. Following picture shows how nice the weather was today. Wild rice is on the left of the picture.
Ken, ouch. Hope you have quick healing.
YGW, continued prayers for your father's healing and rehabilitation.Jim
yougottawantaI wonder why they test down the roundhouses? Do you think they get taxed on the building if it remains up ? Removal and haul of a building that size is crazy expensive. The dump feed would be astronomical alone.
I'd imagine it's liability. If kids go there to play and get hurt, guess who gets the blame? No amount of fencing or No Tresspassing signs will protect them.
cudakenEd I saw on Train Stuff web site they have new B&O SD 7's for $89.00, are they the same as my B&O SD'S? Guessing if anyone knows at the diner it would be you.
Ken, basically, yes. Same "heritage" as the Life-Like and possibly with a better motor and gearing. After Walthers bought LL they made a few design changes to many of the locomotives. The E units are a little slower for one thing and I don't have any of the Walthers versions so can't comment on any "improvements" but generally, Walthers made them better.
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Walthers-Proto-HO-EMD-SD7-B-O-p/920-48901.htm
$90 is probably a pretty good deal on these guys! BEFORE you shell out any money to enlarge your roster give me a little time to get a PM to you. I may have a few "surplus" locomotives I can send your way on a "Long-Term Lease".
Running time? I'm sure the numbers are higher in the colder months but I would judge my average time actually operating, i.e. "running trains" to be in the area of 15 to 20 hours a week. Often I'll have through trains making laps while I'm working on other projects, too.
FYI
Did you know ESU decoders have a built-in hour meter? Here's the screen shot for one of my PA-2s showing 48.00 hours (highlighted toward the bottom). Now I would like to know the exact criteria for that number. I don't think it is actual motor time, but could be. Maybe it is time the decoder is "active" or selected? I'll have to email Matt Herman and ask.
Cheers— Ed
P.S. Ken: If you keep buying me all these beers the keyboard is going to be too blurry for me to type a response! Still... keep 'em comin' I'll tell 'ya when I've had 'nuff
gmpullman P.S. If you keep buying me all these beers the keyboard is going to be too blurry for me to type a response!
P.S. If you keep buying me all these beers the keyboard is going to be too blurry for me to type a response!
Hence why I am a teetotaller. As I have said before, I have many reasons why I don't imbibe.
Train Front: It's finally here. Construction Sunday. Adding 17 sq ft to my layout. Of course, as many of you know I have a slight eBay addiction when it comes to freight cars. I found yet another one that I currently have on bid. Before I bid on anything, it has to draw my interest and I have to find photographic proof that the number and car type is accurate for the roadname. (Too many times I've ended up with cars that don't meet those points.) The current goal is accurate flats and gons somewhat hard for the era I model.
Good morning .... Coffee and a donut please.
YGW .... Continued prayers for your Dad. Thanks for the updates.
FR RY ... you mentioned flat cars for your era. What is your era?
Ken ... Speaking of P2K SD's, here are 4 of my six P2K SD's . In the early 1960's CB&Q operated SD's in both paint Schemes. Crews called them "black birds" and "red birds".
Ed ... Your post reminds me of my "round tuit" project. When I get a round tuit, I would like to use Decoder Pro or some other software to manage my DCC locomotives. I converted to DCC a few years ago, and now have roughly 50 locomotives equipped with DCC. Not very many are speed matched. I have not put much thought into what to get if I want to use software to manage my decoders.
In recent months, events have not allowed me to have much time with model railroading as I would like. Just about all of my available model railroad time currently is working on my layout extension. My current scenery project is part of that. When I get back to the workbench, there are several projects with the locomotives and cars which are awaiting me.
It cost $2 million dollars to rebuild the B&O rail museum roof collapse of 2003. That's a museum that can raise money through donations and rent out the facilities for events such as weddings and corporate events.
A decommissioned roundhouse is just a big building waiting to fall down. Nostalgia doesn't play a big role in corporate America, especially in the boom and bust world of railroads. Had Eisenhower decided to put the US on a path of high speed rail instead of sprawl and crawl highways, things might be different, in a lot of ways.
Almost forgot. I had a patient complain of his package hitting the water when he sat on the john. I thought that was too much doctor patient honesty, but thought my elderly physician uncle would enjoy the story. Uncle: "I hated it too, I had the operation."
Me: "What operation?"
Uncle: "They did a package lift."
Who knew? Gotta run I hear couzin Vinnie coming with a big stick.
Henry .... I remember when that roof collapsed. I had been to the B&O Museum before it happened. ... As for Ike and highways, he was only one of the politicans who have been anti-railroad since the early 1880's... Funding to subsidize highways and airports has been about 100 times funding to subsidize rail transport since WWII. .. Fuel tax for highways pays only half of the costs for them, and the rest is out of the general fund. Therefore, the fuel tax should be doubled so users can pay full cost of highways. .... USA had the best pasenger trains in the world in the 1950's but Uncle Sam put them out of business. .... Trains are the most fuel efficient means of transport on land, and it was dumb to put them out of business.... A conventional diesel locomotive is capable of going over 100 mph, and many of the expensive high tech trains really are not needed for high speed rail in most cases. What is really needed is a clear right of way with good tracks.
Garry,
When Ike pushed for the Interstate System it was to prepare for a potential conflict with the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain came down in 47, one of the things Ike saw was the ease and speed the German Army had when they utilized the Autobahn. Hitler also wanted the capability of the Autobahn to be used as aircraft runways, which was done-the German jets, the ME-262, used several sections of the Autobahn for runways as their airfields were destroyed by Allied bombing.
Many sections of the US Interstate System have that capability as well.
With the expansion of this country after WWII rail could not provide all the services needed, not without major expansion of all rail lines. Because of the shift in popultion, (cars) trains could not provide the freedom that the population wanted.
No-one misses rail (steam for me) more than I, my Grandfather was the yardmaster in Brownsville Texas, retired in June of 40, and re-called January of 42. As a young boy I made several trips to Harlengen Texas on 2-6-2 and 2-8-0 steam engines. It truly is a time I miss---
Unfortuniately/fortuniately, society has changed, and the demands we have as a people are not what they were in 1938, or even as recient as 2000.
The infrastructure is long gone. When rail service was re-established here in coastal Maine my thought was " who is going to get on a train in Boston, ride to Wiscasset Maine--no hotels, no cab service, get off walk around, get back on, and return to Boston, yeah, I had a train ride, jeez--that was fun" That senario can be repeated all over this country. REA is long gone here, the station in Bath Maine is now a information center, the old REA buildng now houses a crew building a replica of the Virginia of Sagadahoc, a pennice, built in 1607 at Popham Colony.
To re-establish the infrastructure would be a cost that not many would support. (Given the iron will of our leaders)
I agree that rail IS the most reasonable way to move goods costwise--the real rub comes when you finally arrive at point B how are said items to be delivered to the customers.
Just some observations,
herrinchoker
This is straight run---no spell check, don't know if I have it, don't know how to use it if I do----
Evenin' folks,
Janie, just need another cup of decaf for now. Ate way too much at dinner out at a resaurant to celebrate a late 9th. birthday for my #1 Granddaughter. Then went back to their house for way too much dessert and a glass of wine. Sugar will likely be a bit high when I take it before bed....
I will get to babysit the girls on Tuesday as their mom is going back to work tomorrow after being out for 6 weeks due to the shoulder surgery..... She will be going directly back to her classes... (she teaches at a, more or less, prizon school for problem youths.... Many are badly abused kids or ones with some definate mental problems.) The institution has promissed that she will have extra help (other teachers) with her in class until she feels up to teaching alone again... Anyway, the girls will be coming over to help Papa clean house for the Faculty Dept. Picnic coming up in a few weeks. Ought to be fun.
I have gotten a bit more scenery done down in the train room during the last few days...
Have a good evening!
Hello, is there anyone in here?
Flo, where are you? That's OK, I know where the is kept!
Work was as slow as the dinner today. Only two customers in today and total sales was $11.00? Coustomer bought a fill kit for is Mom water bed.
To be honest, I was glad it was slow, I felt like caboose. When I first woke up I thought I may have had a few to beer's last night. But I never even now felt any better. Guess the ball bearing wars is still on. While I don't have big brass one's now, still sort of red.
Train Front Man I still have it bad, the rolling stock sickness. Guess I am going to have to throw away more rolling stock boxes. I have ran out of places to store them again.
I just don't understand why we all want more? I now have 120 cars on the layout, around 75 under the layout (project / Junk ) and 110 wrapped and in storage from a few years ago I was going to tear the layout down. Yet I still buy rolling stock?
Ed Looking forward to your PM. Can I use a credit card for the long tem lease?
By chances, do you have any photos of the East Saint Louis Ill B&O Round House? I still drive by the remains off highway 65/70 heading into St Louis Mo. It is one of the reason I became a B&O Junkie. Use to look like round house when I first saw it.
Gary What are you trying to do to me, get me hooked on another road name!
YGW Not a problem as far as the coal cars.
Later, Ken