Good evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have a glass of your best Pinot noir, please.
Ed: thanks for posting the golden spike pic. Seen it lots of times, but it always excites.
Speaking of: I seem to remember the "HO Railroad That Grows" had a golden spike ceremony. I think it was Linn Wescott holding the nail set, Andy Anderson holding the hammer, and Larry Kumferman looking on.
Ancestry: My surname is Scotch-Irish, but I'm mostly German. My dad had traced our ancestry on both sides To Stetin and Breslau, both now part of Poland. Or, as I like to tease my Polish friends, Polish occupied Germany.
Ethnic cuisine: don't really care for German food because it has so much pork in it and I don't eat it.
There was something else to comment on and do ya think I remember it?
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
edit: hey I'm at the top of the page, everyone's order is on me!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Interesting ancestries!
My ancestors are from England (Sheffield) and Denmark (Schleswig Holstein, which was Danish territory at the time. It changed hands a couple of times I believe).
The English side came over in the early 1900s and settled in a town called Spanish in Northern Ontario. The family suffered a huge disaster while in Spanish. Seven members of the family went for a spring boat ride and never came back. By all accounts the boat was severly overloaded.
My Danish great great great great grandfather arrived in Painswick in 1823 after touring the world. Actually, he blew his family fortune doing the tour! He and his family were the second white settlers north of Sharon, Ontario. They started with nothing but bush and managed to survive. The family eventually ended up with a 600 acre farm on the original site as well as several other farms in the area. My house is partially paid for by the land assets they acquired.
We have lots of documents and diaries from those times. They are really interesting to read. We don't know what a hard day's work is! That is for sure!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Eveing Diners
Flo, Ed, Jan, Yannis and I will have a please.
Work sucked so that is covred! Next week again, I don't have 2 days off in a row! Mainly because No One Wants To Work With Jerry the . Cannot say I blame them either.
Ed Hum, 2007 on the JMRI 2.10? Guess I have had it longer than I tought! Guess the limted factory will be the last up date of JAVA download. My last up date was last year sometime. Java will not full download because I still run XP Pro. I am 99% sure that is why I cannot see all the CV's on the Might B&O and CB&Q F7's!
Train Front. Got the new Bachmann Santa Fe F7A's home tonight. While detail is lacking, they still look better than I hoped. Kind of a better detailed Athearn Blue Box. Rivets and such look more to scale. Read the decoder's with my out of date JMRI program and what a shock, not all the CV's showed up. I have been told that CV 5 and 6 should be there.
Quick Test Run. First of all I am happy with the sound! Need to change some volume settings but not bad at all. They do sound like my PK2000 Bessemer SD 7 than the Mighty BLI F7's but I am fine with that.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning diners!
Coffee time here. Anyone for a hot cup?
Ken, congratulations on the new engines. May they serve you well for many many scale miles.
Lots of great food posted here!!! Very diverse and very tasty looking.
Morning all.
The apartment search went well yesterday, and we have a couple options-splitting rent with my mother.
Train front-trying to do small projects here and there to keep my sanity intact from the whole moving deal. I'll post a pic of my project in the Weekemd photo thread. Saturday has a Lego night planned- adult enthusiasts of lego are having a night at a coffee shop I frequent, with free build and competitions planned. So that should help
Also, Ive started seeing a truly beautiful woman my age. We clicked after our first time hanging out, so we re off to a good start at least.
Nothing but rain here today, so its either gonna be more cleaning or some train stuff. Oh, and I found some old particle board wood I can repurpose for a small switching self layout when I get my housing situation solved.
(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).
Time for coffee and a slice of my favorite cake!
Zoe, do me tho honor and bring me a generous slice of that German cheesecake from behind the RC, please!
I decided to follow the advice a friend from Argentina gave me - not to get too indulged into thoughts about bad health and what might be, but pursue the Doris Day approach of "Que ser, sera!"
My son brough me his ex fly swatter, home made static grass applicator which I gave a try this morning. Against all odds, that thing works - much better than the rather expensive contraption I bought before Noch introduced their first version of the grass master.
When I accidently touched my leg with it, I looked like that little Norwegian troll in the above picture, which is quite an achievement who has little to no hair left north of his thinking department! The fly thingie runs on two AA batteries and that´s certainly not a high voltage, but you should have seen me jump !
After a couple of hours hard work with PVA, a brush, little steel nails and the fly swatter, the green, green grass of Engiadina has been transformed into a the look of parched grass at the end of a hot summer/early fall.
Dave - the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein became Danish in 1559, when the Danish king Christian IV. tricked the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation into taking the land rights from the Archbishop of Bremen and to grant them to him. His successor, Christian the V. is noted to have had the habit of speaking Danish to the German speaking people, but German to his dogs. Following the Prussian-Danish wars of 1849/50 and 1864, the duchies became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and, subsequently, part of the German Reich in 1871.
In the early 1800´s nationality didn´t matter much, but language, culture and tradition did! Things have changes since...
Enjoy your day!
Ulrich:
The grass looks great!
Thanks for the history lesson. I figured you would know something about it. My ancester left what was then Denmark permanently in the early 1800s, settled in New York for a short time, and then moved to Canada because of land availability.
Morning all
Well yesterday w**k ended badly. A crew of flooring guys were disobeying all safety rulles, no gaurds on their table saw, bad cord on compressor and refused to wear their hard hats. I had to fire them because the absolutely ignored all instructions to get into compliance. Then they refused to leave the site. Had to call the police and have them escorted off...
Last night a chandelior we had ordered through a friend who runs a lighting distrubutor came in. He was really nice and gave us the light for his cost. The light normally runs $780. He let us purchase it for $320. MOH is very happy...just in time for mothers day !
Ulrich - Hmmmm I sense a buisness opportunity here ! If that contraption did that to your head men around the world will be lining up to purchase that thing !!! Good looking grass. How long did it all take ?
Jimmy - Good luck with finding a place and your new lady friend
Yannis - Well thank you so much for the drink, morning to you also.
Ken - I think you should just copy and paste "w**k s**ks all the time " in your post... How many F7As did you get ? Why didnt yo buy B&Os ?
Dave - I have done the same thing. On my moms side of the family there are diaries going all the way back to Palatine (Swiss/German area) and it is very interesting read. One thing that startled me is how many letters were filled with someone dieing or towns being closed off becasue of some epidemic, disease etc... until the 1900s when medicine made huge strides. Less people died.
UP831 - I knew some WW2 vets who fought along side the Poles and he said they were fierce fighters and very brave men...
Garry - Where did your car get hit ? I have lost five relatives to drunk drivers. I do not think much of folks who get behind the wheel after drinking...
Angel - Thanks for the photo. Do you think you will build a layout in the near future ?
Larry - Have you every had sauerkraut made with chopped up cooked sausage in it ? My family used to make that often. I always like it. Dont really care for it on hot dogs.
Alvie - How did your family who fought on the British side remain in the America. It is little known but a LOT of Tories were packed up and shipped to Canada after the Revolution.
FRRYKid - Oh my that has to be strange looking a dauchshund & chihuahua mix ! Love to see a photo of that dog. Did you build the caboose from scratch ? Kit ?
Ed - You know I resemble that remark ! "Diner denizen"
Douglas - Have you ever considered ancestry.com they have a huge system. It is my understanding taht they started off with the Mormons use of ancestry record keeping...
Howmus - Do you go to this past weeks NMRA meet ? How do you all conduct your meetings ?
Henry - Really ! Sauerkraut for thanks giving ? Where did that tradition stem from ?
Jim - Borsch ?? What is that ? We use power tools that have a similiar name.But of course it is not food.
Lion - You are laying pipe in flower beds ! Isnt that a bit backwards ?
History qoute of the day from our countrys first mothers :
Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
yougottawanta FRRYKid - Oh my that has to be strange looking a dauchshund & chihuahua mix ! Love to see a photo of that dog. Did you build the caboose from scratch ? Kit ?
The dog has been mistaken for a min-pin puppy if that gives you an idea. She is very cute and her ears naturally stand up. (I know I don't have a pic of the dog.) The caboose was bought in that scheme. The only things that I changed were the lettering to update to BN numbering.
yougottawantaUlrich - Hmmmm I sense a buisness opportunity here ! If that contraption did that to your head men around the world will be lining up to purchase that thing !!! Good looking grass. How long did it all take ?
Instant hair growth! Good idea, but I doubt the treatmant would pass any medical legislation
Adding the burnt grass was a job of less than two hours, including cleaning up the mess I made to keep SWMBO happy, so not really much work, but I sure needed some rest after I finished it!
yougottawantaJim - Borsch ?? What is that ? We use power tools that have a similiar name.But of course it is not food.
You mean Bosch. Bosch is like a small copy of GE in Germany, making anything from electric/electronic car parts to power tools and appliances.
Actually the beet soup is spelled borshch for the Russian variety, borsht for the Polish one and Borscht as the German name for either one.
yougottawantaLarry - Have you every had sauerkraut made with chopped up cooked sausage in it ?
No,but that sounds good.I give it a try. I do cook cabbage,noodles with with chopped up cooked sausage in a pot and it rather good. I may be the odd man out but,I like my bratwurst on a plate covered in sauerkraut since that's similar to what I ate at that German restaurant.
I'm thinking about cooking up some German Schnitzel for supper tonight.. My favorite afternoon snack is English Yorkshire tea with 2-3 tea cookies. In fact I'm taking a break and having a cup of tea now.
This afternoon I'm heading over to Upper Sandusky for railfaning and to have a look around for a NKP caboose..
Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have a bottle of Cherribundy Lite, a banana and a Raspberry, Cashew, & Chia fruit and nut bar for lunch please. What you have fresh borshch, borsht, and borscht soups freshly made today? Ah.... No thanks, I absolute want to puke at the thought of eating anything made from beets.... yuck! That is one one of the things we raised on the farm and I just could not stand to eat in any way shape nor manner. Of course that made my Dad insist that I had to finsh it all and then have seconds..... Have no idea why a human would want to eat anything that tastes that bad!!! I don't care how you spell it..... Pardon me while I go outside and gag!
Took the Volt over to have the new door lock sensor put in. They told me it would take an hour or so, but they got it done in just over 30 minutes. Covered by warrenty, of course. I'll see how long this one works......
I'm waiting to hear back from the Handyman to fix my water leak in the conection to the toilet.... Have a bucket under where it is dripping to catch the drips. I am just getting too old to be climbing around on the floor to try to fix it myself. Would rather pay to have someone else do it.
Ulrich, Che Sera, Sera is the best attitude for all of us I think. We really can only deal with the future when it is upon us. I also like the wisdom of:
" God grant me the Senility to forget those people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, And the eysight to tell the difference."
I do hope that a couple people get some information to me today so I can get more done for the MLK Scholarship Dinner.... Only 6 days to go!
Quote for today -
"The greatest immorality is to do a job for which one is not qualified." Napoleon
Have a good one!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon Diners,
yougottawanta Angel - Thanks for the photo. Do you think you will build a layout in the near future ?
I enjoyed you like the picture.
I hope so. I planned on building it this year, but I run into some problems. That left me off track and somehow tried to get back on. I recently purchased CMW Sunoco tank trucks for my New York Central layout. (I found out three popular gas stations in New York. Sunoco, Gulf, and Mobilgas.) Gas Buddies is website I used to help me.
If I knew the difficulties of buying materials and additional features. I would have started a decade or so ago. But I main focus was on locomotives and freight cars.
I only need two items left before I start construction. 1. Furniture sliders, 2. Sculptamold and after that paints, glue, and building clamps.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Angelo - you´ll be enjoying building a layout - go for it!
As you all know, one of my most favored ways of killing time is to watch steam videos on Youtube and to share them with you.
My idea is to now and then, frequently, but not every day, link you up with some of my finds, which show steam (or electric) trains from all over the world - with a focus on Europe and the British Isles.
Today´s video is titled by me "Steam In The Harz Mountains). The Harz Mountains is a mountaineous and heavily forested area about a three hour´s drive from my place. The "HSB", standing for "Harzer Schmalspurbahn" or Harz Mountain Narrow Gauge Lines, operates a nework of lines with a total lngth of 85 miles. It´s a regular train service, not a museum line, with quite a number of trains, taking commuters to work, kids to school, and tourists up to the Brocken Mountain. The majority of the trains are steam powered, but HSB also operates a few Diesel railcars and Diesel locos, which look a bit odd, as they are standard gauge locos set on NG trucks.
Enjoy the video!
Good afternoon .
You Diners are posting some very good looking food.
Henry ... I am a big fan of Reuben sandwiches, and yours looks like one of the best. Yum.
Ulrich .... wow! ... The cheesecake looks fantastic. Yum again ...... Also thanks for the videos.
YGW .... Five relatives lost to drunk drivers. That is sad. While there have been improvements over the years, the laws and courts are way too lenient. Meanwhile, there are increasing problems with drugs and also distracted driving with cell phones. ... Idiots. ... You asked about where my car was hit, and it was in the driver's door next to me as I was driving. I recall you said you were very seriously injured in an accident with a drunk yourself; am I correct ?
Have a great evening, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
New MU CAbles for Locomotive of LION
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
cudakenI don't have 2 days off in a row! Mainly because No One Wants To Work With Jerry the Dunce. Cannot say I blame them either.
LION be off for 5 days or 9 days depending on if you count the weekends.
Actually Monday is a drive day... Richardton to Wisconsin
3 days of computer classes then another day of driving back to Richardton.
Well, at least *I* call toese days off.
BTW... THIS is Jerry...
Punjab was his main squeeze, but they took her away from him since he could not get her pregnant.
Now him is getting a new female to work with. They like his bloodline, and so they want cubs from him.
He looks like a little bobcat in this bicture, but in fact he is a fiull grown snoe leopard.
ROAR
Evening Diners
Spent way to much time at the VA Hospital today. Got out around 5:00 PM right in rush hour.
yougottawantaHow many F7As did you get ? Why didnt yo buy B&Os ?
YGW I bought 2 Stana Fe F7 A's in Warbonnet Paint. Reason I did not buy B&O is the F7's are for my only passanger train I have as of right now. I would love a B&O passanger train, but for right now no funds. Besides there where no B&O F7b units and all A units in my mind need a B unit.
Gary Don't worry, I have a old Athean BB Santa Fe B unit that I will run with the new Stana Fe F7A's. I rememberd what you posted!
Train Front. Seems the Bachmann Sound Value can be speed matched! Have yet to up grade JMRI but I was able to change CV 6 and 5 with my Digirax DT 400. Did take some time to get the speed matching done! One was way faster than the other. Head engine CV 5 was set at 255, while the rear engine CV 5 had to be set down to 197. CV 6 was closer with head unit at 127 and rear unit 118.
I am having 2 problems with the new Bachmann Sound Value Satna Fe Warbonnets.
1 Have the engine exhaust down to 5 and still to loud. Seems just a little odd with the Sondtraxx sound decoder in my PK2000 Bessemer being to quite.
2 Bachmann EZ Couplers do not like my passanger train. Seems the coupler height is off which could very well be my fault. I added the coupler pockets with Kaddes on the passangers cars.
For $89.00 each plus a 10% off dicount for DCC Sound Engines I think they are good buy!
Later Ken
Thanksgiving sauerkraut. My mother told me it was a Baltimore German tradition, but she wasn't German. My father's side was Jewish. Baltimore had a mix of German, Polish, Italian and slavic populations. The Jews came from just about everywhere in Europe. I guess it was something my father expected.
It was a rainy day and I was going to work on my F&C gondola that I bought off a white elephant table. I discovered that it was missing the truck bolsters so that ended that. I then studied by LL proto 2000 GP9. I asked about it a while ago in another thread. It looks nothing like the pics posted. i am going to have to resurrect that post and ask some more questions.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I forgot to add in my families' culinary history.
There actually isn't much to add. My father's side has been in Canada so long that any Danish influence on the food has long since gone.
My English grandmother fed us one thing that is truly English. That was Yorkshire puddings! Her's were huge and delicate and never scorched. I have attempted to recreate them many times but I have failed miserably. I blame the store bought mixes, her's were made from scratch, and I'm probably too chicken to get the pan and the oil hot enough before adding the batter.
I have to admit that I had mixed feelings about them though. They looked so great on the plate covered in gravy, but there was nothing but hot air inside! All show and no go, but they sure were tasty!
Darn, now I'm hungry again!
Cheers all!!
Howdy .
Ken .... You are making me think I hould put decoders in my Santa Fe engines to run them. ... I'm guessing you are no longer using your MRC Santa Fe F7's ...
Dave (Critter) ... Your talking about Yorkshire pudding made me hungry. ... Too bad, the Danish is not being served. I like Danish pastry for breakfast.
Lion .... Maybe Jerry can do his thing with thing with the new female. .... MU hoses? .
Cheers.
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!
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
Good Morning!
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!
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.
Let's hear some other family history!
Cheers!!
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.
Good morning!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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 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.
J R ! ........ Good to see you again. Please visit the Diner more often if you can.
Bill T ! ... Ditto to you .