Wake up, everybody !
It is time for redneck pancakes !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
MisterBeasley RideOnRoad Alright, diners, I need a book recommendation. Looking for a good page turner, but am not interested in being assaulted by mass profanities or sm#t. Ideas? 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's about a present-day guy who is shown a portal through time and goes back to prevent the Kennedy assassination. It's very well done and hard to put down once you get into it.
RideOnRoad Alright, diners, I need a book recommendation. Looking for a good page turner, but am not interested in being assaulted by mass profanities or sm#t. Ideas?
11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's about a present-day guy who is shown a portal through time and goes back to prevent the Kennedy assassination. It's very well done and hard to put down once you get into it.
I will second that recommendation. I have read it and it is very good. As I am a history person, I thought it might be a good read. It was.
Grumbles of getting old: I was trying to paint the doors, windows and trim for my latest engine house. (More of the Walthers Modulars parts that I have managed to collect.) I've had to attack the issue in now two different shifts (and still going) as my knee is deciding it doesn't want to cooperate. If I leave it bent too long, it decides that it wants to act up and preclude me from finishing painting.
RideOnRoadAlright, diners, I need a book recommendation. Looking for a good page turner, but am not interested in being assaulted by mass profanities or sm#t. Ideas?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evening Diners.
Flo, Ed will have a Crown Royal on the rock's and I will have a please and keep them coming.
Monday off sucked. Spent 3 hours waitting for the washer and dryer. Now I did not expect them on time, to many things can go wrong. THey finally made it at 12:45 PM, I was told no later than 11:30. Day went down hill from there.
I was worried about the packing in the faucets, have not been moved in 23 years. So I turned off the main water supply. Hoses did not want to come off the the faucets, but with some effort they got them off. Hooked up the washer, turned on the water. Packing Nut Started Leaking! Watch some how to on U Tube and seemed like a easy fix. But decided not to take a chances. This stuff is old, what if I break a pipe twisting on the nut?
Called Mr. Handyman they have good reviews but they are not cheap. $60.00 service charge, 1 hour minimum at $96.00 a hour. Half hour later it was fixed to the tune of $156.00.
Next My wife saw where one on the Plexi-Glass panels had been craked when the washer and dryer was delivred and old ones taken. Door is not runied, but damage was done. Went over to where I bought the washer and dryer and told Jeremy what happend. Said "I need to talk to the delivery guys". Like they will fest up. Told him all I wanted was $50.00 and he said he will talk to the owner and call me Tuesday. Yea, right I am sure he will!
Ed is your wife mad about the lack of paper towels! I should not have to buy any for some time now. Yes I did get the package today and it did put a on my face. Guess all the Reffer's are to keep your Royal Crown cold. Now I need to buy a Icing Platform! Love the rolling stock! All ready have the Walbash Clynder Hopper, B&O flat car and NYRX cars on the rails! OH, got a smile from the Lions Milk Reffer and it all so being worked.
Olny rolling stock that needs repair work is the Bessemer Caboose and the Bulkhead wood car. Both should be easy.
Ulrich Great seeing you posting again! Don't be a stranger again, I miss seeing your post!
Galaxy Hope to see you posting again as well.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
V8VegaHowmus I see a garage there and you say you have your brand new car out in the snow and salted roads.
Garage???? No garage at my house. There is one over across the street but they use it for gardening stuff like the lawn mowers and the snow blower.... I have thought about putting an open carport at the end of the "L" (my bedroom is in that), but not an actual enclosed garage. The Tesla fund is depleted just from the car...... LOL
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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!
Here I sit at work this evening. I Have everyone in for a special dinner and now just have to wait for it to be over, do my rounds, chase the caterers out and lock up. That probably will be around 2200 hours or a little later.
My sympathies and condolences to those who have lost pets lately. I've always been a dog owner and know well the pain of those last few months. Right now my oldest dog, "Patches" is in his 18th year, he is blind and deaf and is now getting arthritic. Starting to see changes in his elimination, so I expect We will be joining those of you with losses before too long.
Garry, So good to hear that you are set for another 100,000 miles. Now if we all can keep up with you.
For all those showing SNOW pix, believe it or not, we, here in this part of the Great White North are still without any snow on the ground. This is very rare for us, but we are indeed enjoying it. It is wonderful to be able to take Cody, the younger dog out for walks with dry sidewalks and such, the third week of November. Usually, around here it looks alot like what Ray is showing.
Ray, Good luck with that new set of wheels, if you can find it under the snow.
Good Luck CN.Charlie. with the up coming surgery. It will probably make you a new man.
YGW. I'm glad to hear that your SIL has accepted some councilling. I hope and pray that things continue to improve for her and her family.
Ulrich, Always glad to hear from you. sorry about the various situations you find yourself in, but please stay positive. we'll keep you and Petra in our prayers.
Hope you all have a great week and the weather is kind to you.
Catch you later,
Johnboy out.............................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Alright, diners, I need a book recommendation. Looking for a good page turner, but am not interested in being assaulted by mass profanities or sm#t. Ideas?
I'm an avid reader of dogs and mysteries Combined). Two of my favorite authors are Stephen Quinn and David Rosenfelt. Great stories and keep you paying attention. Another author I dig from time to time is Clive Cussler.
Enjoy............
Johnboy out.
BroadwayLion Have you read Harry Potter. I only just read it recently. It is something that did not interest me in the past, but now I love it.
Have you read Harry Potter. I only just read it recently. It is something that did not interest me in the past, but now I love it.
Shh, don't tell anyone but I have read them multiple times over the years. It was interesting to see the author's writing mature with each book.
Richard
Heartland Division CB&QRay .... Sounds like too much snow.
Certainly is a bit more than we generally deal with in November....... Forecast says snow will continue until around 4AM tomorrow...... Probably looking at another 4 or so inches on top of what we have already. Here is what it looks like outside.
Here is the deck and picnic table (that still needs to be put back against the windows for the winter):
Nice shot of the solar panels on my roof........
And looking out my main door of the house:
Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get dug out and do all of todays errands......
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ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BTW, I just finished David McCallough's The Wright Brothers. Good book. Now I am ready for a little junk-food reading.
Good afternoon .
Tom .. Thanks for commenting about my surgery.
Ray .... Sounds like too much snow.
Ulrich ... Thanks to you too for commenting about my surgery. There is too much snow in the photo.
Bear.... Interesting electric loco.
Time to call it a day and try to get some sleep.
Dave, no wonder you are later than us here with getting the first snow. Bradford is a full 7° south of us!
Hey all !! Guess what ?!! I took some time off this morning and went down to meet with the permit lady. Turned out to be a good decision. Went over a few things, kept saying "Its a barn!" over and over. She worked with me I gave here the engineering ( can you imagine that engineering for a barn ! ) sheer walls, hold downs, grade beams, rebar etc....Looks like I will be approved by next Monday !! Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah !!
I did get one concession from her. She wanted me to pour "haunches for a stoop ( have you EVER put a stoop on a barn ? ) I said look, it is an 8" step down to grade. That is $110 a foot for a total of $800 with slab ! Its a barn ! Then she asked what if the backfill settles ? I said I will fill it back up ....
Ulrich - How is your railroad doing ?
Howmus - I though you northerns didnt close school for snow ?
V8 - Raining ? At least it isnt snowing !
Mr. B - You and Howmus both have snow ? Same storm ?
JaBear - Thanks for the clarification. Why do you still use Her majesty...You are not ruled by a Monarch are you ?
Ken - Now that the elections are FINALLY over I think people will be out and everyone should see an uptick in sales - hopefully -
Mike - You have a good wife ! The only thing better is if she bought you a locomative !
Garry - Glad the operation went well. Heck if you would have come up my way I would have doen it for free...I have saws, drills, dremel tools etc...Oh and I have some rechargeable batteries
Ricky W - If I had not gone into construction I wanted to be into racing !!!Love watching Nascar.
Henry - internecive - Sound like a descrition of what happens in a divorce ! I will never forget Billy Crystals line about spending lots of money fighting his ex wife over a $200 chair...forget the movies name.
GM - So what is the cats name now ? Still 7 or is it Wilson ?
jlehnert - LOL - "Pretty sure I own a house..."
Der - So good to see you again. I think that would probably work too.
CG - Was one of those Lions our very own Lion ?
Uncle Bob - Good luck on the cataract surgery - here is a that all goes well
CNCharlie - I laughed out loud when I read " "just a taste" comment Glad your back and hope the cancer stays away.
Todays History qoutes:
Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country
Robert E Lee
TTYL
YGW
Hi Ulrich:
We had our first dose of the white stuff today. Very windy too. We had been spoiled so far in November with sunny warm(er) weather so the snow and the cold is a shock to the system.
As always there were those who can't equate the presence of snow on the road with the need to slow down so there were cars in the ditch everywhere. Thanks to several accidents on Highway 400, which is one of the main feeder routes into Toronto, the side roads were packed solid. It took me two hours to get Dianne to work. Its usually 40 minutes.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Evening!
Janie, I need something to comfort my shattered nerves - how about a nice mug of hot chocolate with a generous swig from that bottle Vinnie keeps under the counter? Thank you, dear!
It´s been another calm day. Petra and I went out to do the weekly grocery run and we are now stocked up with a week´s supply. We had organized a sort of convoy with neighbors, so we felt a little safer passing the spot. I also think that there is a little more police presence in our neighborhood now.
We already had a good dose of that fluffy white stuff a couple of weeks ago, which was quite early in the season. I can´t remember having snow at the beginning of November, so that was a new one to me.
A pretty sight, which stayed only a few days. We are back to the usual wet & windy weather which makes November a dull and depressing month.
Garry - could to hear that the change of your alternator - oops, pacemaker went well!
CNCharlie - keeping our fingers crossed for the upcoming surgery!
Someone said he is up for a colonoscopy. While the procedure itself is not a big thing, the prep work is not really nice. It´ll be forgotten soon!
Have a good one, y´all, y´ hear!
MisterBeasleyWe had a light snow cover this morning. It's mostly gone already. It will not be warm today, and I may need to think about getting back to the gym as it's going to be too cold to bike for a while.
Ha! Wait 'till Argos moves off the coast and swings around from the North on the backside........ We have been getting Argos which in itself is a bit nasty, but as it swings Southward winds across the warm great lakes it has gained moisture and is nailing us good. Where I live usually only gets and inch or so of lake effect when over near Buffallo they may be getting a few feet of the white stuff. I have been out working in my fairly short driveway for well over an hour and have it about 1.3rd. clear. There is over 2 feet on the porch. Had to do a path by hand for that to hike through the stuff out to the shed, hand shovel the ramp enough to get the door open and get out the 100' cord I use with the little Toro Electric blower. The Volt is almost completely buried in the back of the droveway. Driveway is averaging about 12 to 14 inches all across it. Out near the street where the city both plowed and major salted before that, it is very heavy icy slush. The little Toro electric isn't made to handle that at a foot deep...... I'm inside trying to get warmed up. Wet gloves are infront of the heat vent as is my Carhart winter coat. Wind is still roaring across the place at about 22mph with gusts into the 30's.
Time Warner Cable News lists 42 schools closed today. That's just in the Western Finger Lakes and Rochester area....
Looking at the map, there is a lake effect snow band that is starting at Lake Huron (near Barrie, Canada) and picks up strength coming over Lake Ontario. That is the band that is dumping snow here and it keeps on going all the way to close to Hartford Conn. Major lake effect I would say!
Have a "nice" day.... LOL
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Morning diners,
Sorry about not communication on the weekend. The Star Wars Battlefront was giving away 4x the points on their 1st anniversary.
We finally met our new neighbors across the street, unfortunately not in a good way. He ran into our brick wall with his motorcycle ("he says he was taken pictures while riding it") caused a huge hole. The wall foundation needs to be replaced but luckily the wall is broken/spilt into two sections.
I'm been debating on whether to get two cabooses or one. Since my layout design is a branch line concept with one to two trains. One passenger one freight. But I thought if I didn't want to run the layout as a branch line but a normal town with active locomotives running at least three. Making two cabooses really possible.
Should I just forget it and see what happens.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
howmusToday has been cancelled due to weather conditions!
We had a light snow cover this morning. It's mostly gone already. It will not be warm today, and I may need to think about getting back to the gym as it's going to be too cold to bike for a while.
Mornin'......
Today has been cancelled due to weather conditions!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ray - Good luck with the new car. I know very little about these type of vehicles, but what little I have read seems to indicate that advances in their technology is moving along right smartly.
Garry - Very glad to hear that your surgery was successful, and that no gremlins showed up to rain on the parade.
Yesterday was another good one railfanning. 16 trains in 4 hours. One each of UP & BNSF for foreign power. Caught a coke train, first one in quite a while.
We went to a train show this morning. It's a small show, but I like it for some reason. Seldom find anything, but enjoy looking all the same. Mostly old, beat up TYCO type stuff. Usually way over priced as well.
After the show we stopped for lunch, & then railfanned for about an hour. Somewhat surprised to catch 6 trains, including the "Erie" heritage unit again.
Our weather has changed here, & not for the better. Temperatures have dropped, & although we had brisk winds & flurries all day, we lucked out & had no accumulation other than a little in grassy areas. Other areas of western Pennsylvania aren't as lucky & are seeing some significant accumulations.
Stay safe & have a great week.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Evening Diners
Flo Ed will have a Royal Crown on the rocks and I will have
Work Front While I could not say 5 customers in 5 hours is hopping busy. But way better than 2 in 8 hours! Best customer of the day was the first! Weekends only blew the sale by telling them "If you don't buy the matching box springs it will void the warranty" At one point when I started with Mattress Gaint I thought that was ture. I now know that is because they want to sell you the box spring, nothing to do with the warranty! They bought a good spiff bed and I made a extra $120.00 to boot! I use to do 6 to 8 $100.00 + a month spiff sales. I am now down to maybe 4 and that is hurting.
der5997Your pics show a very good, and RUNNING empire! Bow
Der have you been in Ed's Royal Crown? My layout looks like a 13 year old had $10,000.00 and bulit it! I mainly just photos of the last section I bulit I call K-10 Mining. I like the painting I did, like the trees but there are short comings. If you look at the bottom of the rock faces, they are smooth, forgot to work that part. Rest of the layout Well, it works well so for now I am happy.
Ed, what am I going to do with the 40 HO scale Crowns and Rocks I made for you? I was kidding about not knowing what Royal Crown was. I have never tried it and as a whole I stay away from the hard stuff.
Guess I was about 28 at the time I went on a canoe trip. Other guys got there way before me, I got out of work at 6:30 PM and it was a 2 hour drive. When I got there I played catch up by drinking Old Granddads. I was lite pretty fast and to late to picth my tent. Ok, I was to hammered to pitch a tent. So I sleep in my 1974 Eldo. I woke up at one point, rolled down the window and blew chunks. Next day when I woke up and got out of the Caddy, where I blew the chunks on the door, the paint had lifted! So No More Hard Stuff for me!
I have no real idea why you have taken a shinning to me Ed, but I am gratefull! Looking forward to getting the package Monday! More Bessemer even! My heart be still! By the way, my wife thinks we are both nuts! You because you have so much, and I for wanting more! She all so never under stood why I have a good running Mopar that had 335 HP and I wanted 425 HP, then 475 HP and so forth. When I hit 693 HP, hum another 100 HP would be nice. Never made that jump, got into trains.
Midlefeild Centeral F7 If they are Old Athearn engines I will eat them. I have delt wih a lot of them, from rubber band drive, Rocket Motors with steel flywheels and there RTR (ready to repair) engines. Chassis it self looks like a Proto 1000 F unit, much like a Stewart which shells can be inner changed some what. Motor looks like none of the Athearn or Stewart motors I have ownend. Motor is dark gray and flywheels are brass with a tapper at the end. U joints are white. I will take a photo and post it.
Well time to eat some BBQ
Later Ken
Afternoon folks!
Chloe a cup of hot chocolate would really hit the spot right now!
Charlie, thanks! If it turns out to be as good a car as the PiP was, I'll be very happy. May get a chance to start right in driving on snow here! They are now forcasting 3 to 5 inches of snow in the next 36 hours for the Finger Lakes Area. We are getting lake effect flurries at the moment and the heavy snow should start in an hour or so, I guess. Also will be getting 40mph gust of wind..... The good news is that the maple tree next door has had most of it's leaves ripped off in the last 24 hours! The lake effect is on full force with clod air moving over a very warm set of Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario), lots of mosture being picked up. I bet you can see the steam coming up from Seneca Lake right now. That should be dumping some small lake effect over where my son lives. He has to work today. Hope he gets home safely........
Have more of the recording done. One more and it is half way done...... I hope to get a test CD burned for the friend who wants to give them out as Christmas Presents to check out. If it is OK then I will put together the artwork and documentation for it....
Break is over, so back to w*rk.
I went to the Greenberg train show today. I didn't think the vendor representation was very good. A few vendors that I'd gotten used to seeing were missing. I bought some scenery supplies - trees, rock molds and plaster cloth.
This show is more O and S than anything else, and it seems there were more toy vendors (Hot Wheels, Thomas, Star Wars) than I've seen before. I think I've seen all the operating layouts many times before, too.
Wife and I went to two club open houses in North West Illinois yesterday. One was in a little town called Chadwick the club had an open house. Layout had 3 levels scenery mostly completed. They had a nice curved trestle and there was a gauntlet on it. As one guy said "We have had head ons on it. Not me but others have." Loved the layout very well done.
Savanna Illinois hosts a club at the local history museum very well done layout of the area in the 50s. It is on the Mississippi, and the CB&Q and the Milwaukee road ran thru there. There was a bazaar on one of the lower levels so wife spent time and money there. After that we went to a local biker bar called Poopies, which has some great looking choppers and even better food.
Wife really liked an older mans steam engine that had sound. She told me I should get some of those. Well if you twist my arm I suppose I will have to.
Mike
Good Morning,
A dull, cool day here but at least there isn't any of that white stuff on the ground.
Garry and Mr.B, thanks for the words of encouragement. The procedure I will have is the removal of the prostate as they found cancer in it. The operation is about 4 hours long followed by about 4 days in hospital.
CG, we have recorded that show on cats but will wait to watch it when Robbie(the westie) isn't around as he hates cats in flesh or on TV. I have actually petted a cheetah when we were on a safari in Kenya. It was very tame. It sure did purr loudly and seemed to really like me as it gave me a big lick on my face. Maybe it was just a taste test.
Ray, congrats on your new car. I looked it up on GM's website. It is a very nice car. We don't see many here as there aren't any incentives in this province for hybrid or electric vehicles. You can get up to 12 grand in rebates elsewhere.
Not much on the agenda today except a grocery run.
CN Charlie
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special this morning, over easy on the eggs, Bacon, home fires, and a double order of the sourdough toast, please. What? Of course, I'll need a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Organic Coffee to keep me awake wilst I work here at the computer.....
[color=red]Garry]/color], glad the surgery went smoothly and hope you have some good batteries to last several years!
We are under a "Lake Effect Snow Warning" here in Geneva at the moment. Snow has already bugun with some flurries and is supposed to trun real nasty later this afternoon.... Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are under "Gale Warnings"! The wind is a constant 22mph here at the moment. Good news is there aren't many leaves left on that maple tree next door, so if the sun ever comes out again, the panels should make a bit more power.... I should go grocery shopping this afternoon. Will be a chance to see how the Volt handles in high wind.....???...
Will be spending miost of the day finishing the CD I am working on. One quarter done and only 9 more pieces to digitize.
Catch you all later!
Good morning ..
I can't thank everybody enough for the kind words regarding my surgery. This was my 7th heart surgery and this time it was minor surgery to replace the device. ... The doctor said researchers are trying to figure out how to recharge batteries with radio waves through the skin or something like that. He did not mention solar power, however. Maybe, doctors will implant cell phone chargers so I can simply plug myself in. LOL ! .... All of the humorous comments are appreciated. The Diner has always been a place where friends can razz each other, and I encourage people to do that.
Have a nice Sunday.
Good morning all.
Zoe, a nice big breakfast platter, with scrambled eggs, homefries, bacon, French toast, flapjack short stack, and an OJ, please. Thanks!
Steven - Enjoy your vacation! Don't worry, Vinnie will keep us in line. He's nice and friendly, so long as we don't push him....
Garry - Glad the surgery went well!
Ed - Wilson sounds kinda like Dakoda - A cute black&white fluff ball we gave a w**kmate of my Dad's. He was a stray that started hanging around, so we put some food out for the cute little guy, and one day, my Dad ran to his w**k to meet up with the one who now owns Dakoda, for a project that needed completed. Well, the w**kmate mentioned they were looking for a cute black&white kitty for the kids, and my Dad said he was welcome to take in the stray that was-yet-to-be named. As they were talking about it, they heard a faint meow, coming from my Dad's truck. (A Dodge Dakoda....) Well, they investigated, and when they opened the hood of my Dad's truck, they found, sitting on the air cleaner, safe as could be, said black&white fluff ball, he had evedently climbed in there to escape the wind and cold, earlier that morning, and safely rode there all the way to my Dad's w**k. So, he promptly was named Dakoda.... And as of last report, still a lovable ball of fluff, just bigger.
Weather - Like Ed, we got colder (a lot!) and whiter. Have around 4 inches of fluffy stuff, and a Lake Effect Snow Warning now, expecting anywhere from 6-12 more inches, with storm total of 10-18 by Monday afternoon. However... All is currently quiet, save for that same fierce wind. (Still staying in today though, weather concerns have cancelled all my normal routine for today.) If it wasn't for that wind, it wouldn't be that bad out there....
W**k - DATG sale is now finalized, Pre-TGD sale is (almost) completely set. (That is Day After ThanksGiving, and ThanksGiving Day, for those not in retail.) Schedule appears to be fun... But it should work out ok. (40+ hours scheduled, but due to a scheduling conflict, I will be 35+) Like Cudaken, most of our sale is really not that spectacular, and some items sale price is higher for the Pre-TGD sale and the DATG sale than it was last week! Only a select few have a "smokin' deal" price. We are pushing more towards financing deals than cash deals though. (But the "hot buys" are excluded.... So that "smokin' deal" price is exactly what you see, nothing else offered, nor will nothing else be permitted to be used/added.)
I am off today, so am planning on catching the NASCAR championship race.
Speaking of NASCAR - #Se7en today? Just might be a record-tying day.... (And now you NASCAR fans know who and what I am rooting for....)
Trains - Nothing new accomplished recently, but hoping to finish a few projects while stuck indoors toady. Might get some pics to share if it gets completed.....
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the 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.