Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater proudly presents a bonus program on the occasion of Mother´s Day!
The Railroader
a 1965 flic featuring Buster Keaton!
Morning all
Again don't forget it is Mother's day. Ours started off with a success I think. MOH cried after she read the cards and looked through her gifts.. why do women cry when they are happy ????
Ed again thank you so much for posting the photos.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments on the hobby barn.
Sorry been AWOL last few days. With the extra w**k assignment I have been working OT.
TTYL
YGW
Good Morning!
It´s steaming outside! We must have had some heavy rainfall during the night!
Brunhilda - it´s Sunday, so I´ll go for my usual big Sunday breakfast which includes all the food my doctor said not to eat. If I have to die I don´t want to die hungry!
Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater features
today!
La Trochita (official name: Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "little gauge" though it is sometimes translated as "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish while "trocha estrecha" is often used for a generic description of "narrow gauge."
The Trochita railway is 402 km in length and runs through the foothills of the Andes between Esquel and El Maitén in Chubut Province and Ingeniero Jacobacci in Río Negro Province, originally it was part of Ferrocarriles Patagónicos, a network of railways in southern Argentina. Nowadays, with its original character largely unchanged, it operates as a heritage railway and was made internationally famous by the 1978 Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express, which described it as the railway almost at the end of the world. Theroux had sought to ride trains as far as possible into southern Argentina but did not include in his adventures the several railroads which were further south than Esquel, presumably because they were not considered operational or with sufficient connection to larger lines.
I know that those expecting a dramatic Italian opera are now disappointed, but just a little!
And in this feature, engine driver Carlos Jose Aqüero explains his job!
La Trochita has been brought to you by the "Friends of the Italian Opera"
Enjoy!
Good morning everyone! Coffee on me for everyone!
Dave, good luck with the neighboors situation. It can get frustrating but hang in there!
Ulrich, very nice videos!
YGW/Ed, very nice barn, i enjoy a lot construction updates in any scale (1/1....to 1/160).
Ken, what about trying a different speaker there?
Evening
Flo give Ed and I a please.
No one ever said life was fair. To be honest I am sick of this game and I am about ready to quite! I am in a very bad places right now, guess it is time to seek some help.
On to something more Cheerful. OK
Train Front Bachmann F7a's with DCC and Sound.
1 Much better pullers than the Bachmann DC only engines. While trying to get the Santa Fe passanger train around the layout I tried just one Bachmann F7a. One F7a could pull 9 passangers cars (my other Bachmann DC only would not) still could not keep them coupled? Coulper height is perfect I will add.Maybe the Bachmann E-Z couplers are shorter than Kadee's #5? Will try swpping them out.
Been pulling coal cars for a hour with out a problem so it more than likely the lenght of the passangers cars.
2 Sound Well the sound quality is fine, just not to happy with the sound. Sound nothing like my BLI QSI F7's, sound like my Bessmer SD 7? With it being a cheap Sound Trax there is no EQ so I given them more base. They sound like Pissed Off Bee's to me.
3 Wheel flange depth. I am running code 100 track. Tried to push them throught a trunout, derailed everytime? Have had the same problem with my Bachmann DCC only engines! Under there own power, not a problem?
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
YGW's HOBBY BARN UPDATE!
Trim & Battens
The weather man called for rain today So I canceled my helpers today. Then it didn't rain ! So out to work I went. I did get one helper to assist me though. Let's call him "Woody" he doesn't say much, eats very little and does exactly what he is assigned to do ! He is the tall skinny tan thing next to the ladder holding the end of the frieze board up !
Here is a photo of the front of the hobby barn taken from the house. You can see all of the board and batten installed on the left and the garage doors trimmed on the right.
Time for Ibuprofen and heating pads. Oh my aching back !
Submitted by GM Pullman in care of YGW
Good Afternoon,
A nice sunny day here. We have been doing a little backyard birding and so far have seen 5 different sparrows.
Dave, you have my sympathy regarding noisy neighbours. We have one beside us that were terrible about 10 years ago. They have 3 kids that yelled all the time and nearly drove my poor wife to a nervous breakdown. Luckily they did grow out of it and did spend a lot of time at a grandparents cottage otherwise I might be in jail now.
J.R. great to see you back in the diner! Are you still racing that 23B?
I did get that sound decoder hooked up under the layout and it is giving me the sound I was looking for. I have it hooked up with my RS3 and it sounds just fine.
Not much new around here. I suppose that is a good thing.
CN Charlie
Evening Diners,
Dave- I had new neighbors across the street that moved in several months ago. I have the same problem. Two days after they moved in they broke our brick fence. (If guys remembered). They also throw barbecues in front yard with their garage as a dinning room. I miss our old neighbors.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Hi Guys,
Hope you are having a great afternoon.
Just took Cody for a long walk and we are now just cooling off a bit.
I was trying to get more pictures into Photo Bucket and it doesn't seem to want to take them today. So I pulled up an older one, hope I haven't shown it before, maybe I did, (DUH)
A mixed Freight crossing a deck girder with a water fall behind it.
Well car has a mine truck load that I put together from a truck I found at Tractor Supply, with styrene I beams for blocking and black chains.
It was great to see J.R. and Tipton Bill check in again. I miss those guys and their input here.
Well one of my Son's who lives here in the city just called and wants me to help him build a new picnic table with some specific ideas to change it up a bit. So I guess we will be going to get the lumber here soon.
By the way, CN Charlie, I did finally get the main bathroom finished. Well, except my wife hasn't decided on the new mirror yet, but everything else is complete and looks good. It should it only took me about 14 months. It wasn't out of commission that long, but I was kind of dragging my feet. Good thing it wasn't a paying customer like with YGW. I think this room would look kind of mundane compared to the ones that he builds, ( or his crew).
WE had a bad wind storm all night last night and I was glad to find no more broken limbs this time. I have a trailer full from the last one a couple of weeks back and all the heavier wood set aside to dry out for the fire pit.
Enough rambling from this old Phart, so I'll sign off for now. I always check in but I don't post very often.
AS Jerry used to say "have a good un"
Johnboy out..................for awhile
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Well I have some good medical news. My GI specialist doesn't think I need an upper endoscopy, but I got some new meds. And, I have been having dizzy spells for a year. My former doc thought it was middle ear related but lately I was wondering if it was TIA's (warnings of an impending stroke) My new internist agrees is BPV benign positional vertigo. Given the long term outcome of TIA's, I'm pretty happy.
Saw a really cute hound running in and out of traffic. All white except for brown floppy hound ears and about 25-30 pounds; no collar. Someone else stopped and grabbed him before I got close to the intersection. Not sure Toby would have welcomed a new dog.
Went to AC Moore, a crafts store, looking for foam tape for a DCC decoder, they didn't have that nor anything useful, like the sheets of cork they used to carry.
Went to a small LHS. Trains are only part of what they carry. Aside from a susbstantial stock of Bachmann, they only have a smatterin of other brands, original Roundhouse, Walther, Exact Raii and Athearn. Bought some strip styrene.
The had Valejo weathering colors. Various shades of European and Russian mud, rain stain, petro stains. Some bottles were liquid but some were not. I'm not sure if that was intentional or they had dried out. I did not buy any.
Here's a Utah pic from Ogden
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
MisterBeasleyNow it's my blood pressure. It's been well-controlled with one little pill a day for years now, but suddenly it shot way up. I've been to the doctor and have yet another pill. I'm not thrilled about the idea of just taking a pill to mask a problem instead of looking for the root cause. I may have found it. I hurt my knee last December and I've been taking ibuprofen for it almost daily.
Mr. B. - that´s exactly my story. I have been taking Ibuprofen on doctor´s orders for some time to control my back pain. My BP was at a steady 130/80 reading and all of a sudden, it went up to 180/120. Doctor prescribed another white little pill to supplement the not so little orange one. And with that it all got wrong! Now I am on 4 different pills, mornings and evenings, but di I fell better? Only slightly...
Made a new video of my layout today, showing the new grass.
It's not easy getting old. Now it's my blood pressure. It's been well-controlled with one little pill a day for years now, but suddenly it shot way up. I've been to the doctor and have yet another pill. I'm not thrilled about the idea of just taking a pill to mask a problem instead of looking for the root cause. I may have found it. I hurt my knee last December and I've been taking ibuprofen for it almost daily. Over the last month I've been taking Zyrtec for allergies. It turns out both of these can cause high blood pressure. So, I'm going to sacrifice some comfort and see if my BP comes down.
I bought a blood pressure cuff at the drug store. It reads 50 points higher than the one in the doctor's office. So now I can take my own BP twice a day and get wildly inaccurate readings.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning .
Coffee and a donut, please.
Jimmy ... Sounds like some tasty chicken salad.
Dave ( Critter) .... Sorry to hear about the new neighbors. Probably, other neighbors don't like the loud new neighbors also. ... It's been quiet here since the drunk drove his John Deere lawn tractor into the lake. He survived somehow, but his family moved him back to Nashville. We felt sorry for his dog becasue the drunk was always cursing at the dog.
Ken .... I still have my MRC F7's (Northern Pacific) and like them.
Ulrich ... Thanks for posting the videos. I'll watch later. It would be nice if you could take a two hour trip to see the one you talked about.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Yoohoo! Anybody here?
Good Afternoon, Folks!
A little late for lunch, which I already had, but I am still hungry! A burger would do nicely, Janie, and add abucket of coffee, please!
We just had a terrific thunderstorm, followed by a torrential downpour. The siren of the fire brigade rushing out to pump water from flooded basements meant a sudden interruption of my mid day snooze, which I try to take every day now. It does me a lot of good, providing there is sufficient peace and quiet inside and outside the house.
Today, it wasn´t.
Today, Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater is featuring Molli.
You have not heard of Molli yet? We all the famous name trains on the US of the 1930´s, the Broadway Limited, the California Zephyr, the Orange Blossom Special - you name them! We have heard of the famous "Blue Train" in South Africa, the Shinkansen in Japan and the красная звезда (Krasnaja Strela) connecting Moscow and Vladivosok, but Molli?
Molli is the nickname for a narrow gauge line connecting Bad Doberan in northeastern Germany with the popular Baltic Sea resort towns of Heiligendamm and Kuehlungsborn. The line was opened 131 years ago and is Germany´s one and only 900mm gauge line. The name Molli was given to the line to commemorated the little dog of a lady passenger, which escaped from her lap while riding the train, jumping out of it and overtaking it, thus arriving ahead of his mistress.
Molli´s trains are steam trains, with much of the motive power from the heydays of steam in the 1920´s. The trains are so popular these days, that the management decided a few years ago to have a new steam engine built, using the old plans but modern construction methods, just to be able to extend the services!
Enjoy this video about a little train called Molli!
The following video shows Molli running in the streets of Bad Doberan.
Molli is just a 2 hour´s drive from my place, but I have not had the chance to see it!
hon30critterI'm not too happy tonight. We had planned on staying in this house until we couldn't manage any more, but if the noise persists that may change.
I am feeling with you, Dave!
We live in a house with 4 apartments, two on each floor. We live on the top floor, and the other apartment on "our" floor is rented out to a bloke in his early 20, with his mom living with her BF one floor below. He works the early morning shift at some place and leaves the house by 4am. He has never learned how to walk the stairs quietly, but rather storms them up and down like a herd of elephants. The sound proofing of this house is so great, whenever he walks the stairs Petra and I stop talking to each other, because we would not hear a word said. His mom´s BF is a rather dim-whitted creature, who does exactly the same, but also stomps up to the attic a number of times each day - up a metal staircase, emitting the noise of shotgun blasts. Neither of them know how to quietly close a door, but slam them shut. They also like to engage into verbal fights, so we are well informed about what rocks their boat.
The apartment below us is rented by a young couple with a toddler of 2 1/2 years of age, who has not yet learned to speak properly due to lack of attention by his imbecile mom. Whatever sound comes from his mouth is either crying, screaming or shouting, followed by his mom yelling at him. His parent´s frequent night time activities are of the noisy sort, followed by this little pest screaming again, which again is followed by his dad yelling at him.
But that´s not all. We are surrounded by folks of the same sort. There is a Russian immigrant who likes to "call home" like ET. Apparently, his mobile phone has a bad reception inside the house, so he goes outside for a call. His deep dark voice floods the entire neighborhood with the guttural noise of the Russian language. The neighboring kids are simply a pest, hollering, screaming, yelling all the time, with their moms adding to the din when they call them in.
Such is Petra´s and my every day life. The place makes us sick, but we don´t have the money to rent a decent place and pay for the move. We are stuck in it and hate it every second. No wonder my heart does not want to do its job the way it should!
I know I don´t have as many days left as I´d like to. I had hoped to be able to spend them in peace and quiet, comforted by Petra´s love (and excellent cooking), but that is not given to me.
I have to vent - again! Seems like that's what I have been spending a lot of my time doing recently.
We just had new neighbours move in behind us. The previous owners were quiet. Even the kids were restrained. The new neighbours are not quiet. It seems that they can't talk to each other without doing it at full volume. Even their toddler was louder than any child I have ever heard before when he was crying.
I'm not too happy tonight. We had planned on staying in this house until we couldn't manage any more, but if the noise persists that may change.
Sorry for crying in my soup!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Evening Diners
Flo, Ed, Gary, Jan, Yannis and I will have a please.
Gary As far as the MRC Santa Fe F7A's I will find something to do with them. For what I paid for them, think it was $25.00 each plus a working decoder still a good buy. While they might be a little out of scale, they have pretty good detail.
Bachmann Sound Value Front. Found the CV's on line for them and while it is a bacis decoder there are a lot of things you can do with them. Looks like you can even add ditch lights and number boards.
Hey all- glad to see everyone here.
Decided on a chicken salad using my own special rub (spicey and sweet) for dinner. Not to brag, but it's so good.
Apartment hunt- might have found something, so there's that.
enjoying the last two days of my vacation-the no job related stress was nice.
glad to see the Penguins won their best of 7 against the Capitals.... just need to win the next two rounds and they'll go back to back Stanley cup champions for ghe first time since 1991-1992. Onwards to senators.
Trains- got another weathered car done-ordered a couple more to try and keep my sanity
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
hon30critterLet's hear some other family history!
I'm second generation American on both sides. My Mom's family came from Sweden, and my Dad's was from Scotland. I knew both my grandmothers but neither of my grandfathers. My Dad's father was a merchant seaman. He was literally a sailor because sail was the motive power back then. He was born before the Civil War.
How am I, the grandson of someone born in the 1850s and the son of a son of a sailor, still around? My own birth was delayed by WW2, and my Dad was the last of 12 children. We named our daughter after his Mom.
Yesterday while railfaning in Upper Sandusky I found a blue Alco working the grain mill..I heading back over there with camera and extra batteries in hand.Of course it didn't help when I forgot to recharge the batteries in the camera.
I decided to have two fried bologna and cheese with a glass of buttermilk instead of Schnitzel for supper last night.
Went railfaning this morning for a couple of hours and seen three NS trains.Kinda of slow.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
hon30critter Let's hear some other family history! Cheers!! Dave
Let's hear some other family history!
Cheers!!
Some of my ancesters were movers and shakers in the 1800's and early 1900's. Included are a state governor (Ohio) who also worked in the Lincoln Administration. A CEO of a major oil company. The founder of a major department store in a major city. (Most of the familiy wealth did not survive the Great Depression of the 1930's.) ... Most ancesters were ordinary folks with ordinary occupations. One of my grandfathers was born on a farm. ... My father had a Scottish father and an English mother. My Mother had a Dutch father and an English mother.
J R ! ........ Good to see you again. Please visit the Diner more often if you can.
Bill T ! ... Ditto to you .
Good Morning All,
Was passing by and thought I'd drop in for some breakfast. Blueberry bagel toasted with creamcheese and a regular coffee would do me a treat Zoe. Been out and about racing here and there with the layout pretty much neglected the last two years while we struggled with the shop and expansion. Things have not really slowed but I can at least put myhead up now and then to take a breath. Good to see so many familiar faces here still but the RIP track is sobering.
Off to w..k but I'll see you all later. Cheers, J.R.
Bill - good to see ya again!
Welcome to Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater, where videos from the great wide world of trains are shown!
Today´s feature is about the last of the giants - a hommage to the biggest of all boys. The only recently published Youtube video shows unpublished footage shot in the late 1950´s. A must see for all friends of the UP and the Big Boy!
Enjoy the film!
Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
gmpullman'nuff said
Ed, I was working so hard that weight gain was the least of my worries. In truth it was a horrible episode in my life. I got to the point where I was so sleep deprived that my short term memory failed. I would put a load in the oven and turn my back. Immediately I could not remember what I had just put in the oven so I would turn around and have a look. I had to turn around and have a look again 4 or 5 times before it would stick in my memory. Then I would forget about the timer, and I burned several oven loads because of that too. These were not small ovens. They are often described as "walk in" ovens. You could certainly walk into them, although I really don't recommend doing that when they are at 400 degrees F. A full load would be 80 dozen Kaiser buns or the like (the racks held 40 trays x 24 buns per tray). Burn that and there goes your profit for the day, and you are leaving your customers short so that doesn't help either.
Oh well, thanks for listening. It is very therapeutic to talk about it. At least the nightmares have finally stopped.
Sir MadogDave - I forgot to mention that the Holstein people are a hearty breed. Wealthy farmers from the medieval times on
Well, my great x 4 grandfather certainly came from a wealthy family because he was able to travel the world in his 20s, apparently no expenses spared. However, eventually the money stopped coming so he was forced to return to Denmark. Upon arriving home he discovered that unfortunately the family fortune was lost. We are not sure how and why that happened but the outcome was that he had to sneak passage to the USA aboard a trading ship or he would have been thrown in debtor's jail because of the family's outstanding debts.
I will say that I admire his tenacity. He went from a life of luxury to clearing bush in Ontario, and he did quite well at it.
There are lots of funny stories. Apparently he was quite ill tempered and was prone to brawling. As the story goes he ended up in court one day charged with assaulting a fellow pub goer. He was fined several dollars, or whatever the currancy was at the time. He paid the fine and then asked the presiding justice what the fine would be if he were to punch somebody else. He was informed that the fine would be the same, so he put the same amount down again on the table and proceeded to punch the justice right in the face!
He was quite bow legged. It was said that you could drive a wheelbarrow between his knees without touching!
On another occassion a dispute with his neighbour resulted in them challenging each other to a duel. Fortunately their seconds wisely decided to only load the charge into the pistols but not the shot. It was assumed that each had missed their targets so they went their separate ways none the wiser. I could go on for hours but I'll quit now so you are not bored to death.
It was a short night this time and I still feel sleepy. I hope to be able to catch up on sleep after lunch with a mid day nap.
Zoe, coffee and a breakfast bagle, please. I am on a diet to reduce weight, which also involves the virtual goodiies in this place.
Dave - I forgot to mention that the Holstein people are a hearty breed. Wealthy farmers from the medieval times on, they formed the first democratic republic on German soil and even withstood the onslaught of the Danish troops in the year 1500, when their militia defeated the Danish expeditionary forces in the battle of Hemmingstedt. Sounds a bit like US history, does it not?
Talking of Danish Pastry, I remember that Danish Bakery in Poulsbo, WA, which certainly was a gold mine back in the 1970´s. They opened only for a couple of hours and were sold out in no time each day. People would line up to secure their part of the catch! I doubt that this is still the same today, as the growing health awareness has put a ban on all sugary (and therefore nice) food, turning the Cookie Monster into a Veggie Monster. Have a turnip instead!
The term Danish Pastry is actually a little strange and misleading. The origin of the stuff is German/Austrian and was brought to the Danish court by a Viennese baker. Go to any bakery in Austria, Swirtzerland and Germany and you will find them filled with that mouthwatering stuff!
On a side note, in a German bakery you will find pastry named "Berliner", which adds a certain flavor to JFK´s famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. You´ll also find a pastry called "The American", which looks like this
and is so sweet it pulls your teeth out! You have a choice of a sugary icing or chocolate icing. There is also a French roll, a Copenhague and hundreds of others - yummy. As a child, my eyes always grew to the size of a a mill stone when my Mom took me to our local bakery!
Bon Appetit!
hon30critter I guess I wasn't a very good business man but I sure had a lot of loyal customers!
'nuff said
Boston Cream Pie would have to be my weakness!
Regards, Ed
Heartland Division CB&QToo bad, the Danish is not being served. I like Danish pastry for breakfast.
A long time ago I owned a bakery. It was miserably hard work and the hours were punishing. However, a few things gave me great pleasure. One was the cheese sticks. I blew my profit line on them because I put so much cheese on them, but they sold by the hundreds. My other favourite were the Danishes. I have to confess that we used pre-made frozen bases, but after the filling and icing was applied they were to die for! I always made a few extras so I and my staff could have a treat. I blew the profits on them too because I put in tons of filling and lots of icing. Another weakness was Hot Cross buns. I hate the Hot Cross buns offered today because very few of them have the proper candied fruit in them. Plain raisins just don't cut it IMHO. I put tons of candied fruit into them, and the 'cross' was thick and wide. I guess I wasn't a very good business man but I sure had a lot of loyal customers!