I was going to mention in my previous post that while we were railfanning yesterday, we didn't hear a single transmission on the scanner from CSX across the Ohio River. I suppose that means that traffic is still shut down due to the derailment at Hyndman, PA. Major headache for CSX & Amtrak.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
What's going on here? Everybody sleeping in after a Saturday night bash or what...
The wife & I had a busy, but great Saturday. It included having our usual good railfanning outing. Mostly in the late morning, but also & hour or more in the evening. All together we caught 12 trains, 4 intermodal, 4 mixed freight, 1 coal train being switched out at a transload facility behind us, 1 empty gondola unit train, 1 auto racks & 2 engines running lite. Listened to a conductor reporting on a tresspasser & a block being placed on all tracks for 15 minutes due to a bridge inspection. That backed things up somewhat for the dispatcher, who sounded a little harried for a time. The only foreign power was a Union Pacific. I did catch a Norfolk Southern locomotive that I have been wanting to see. It was one of the SD90MACs that NS picked up from CIT Group still in its Indiana Railroad paint, but now patched for NS.
We left the tracks & returned home early as my oldest nephew & his family were visiting from South Carolina & stopped in for a couple of hours. They introduced us to our newest great niece, who is now 10 months old & cute as a button. My niece & her family, from Harrisburg, were also in town & they too dropped in for a visit. It was simply terrific to see all of them.
After they left, they were all headed to the Pirates ballgame, the wife & I had a light dinner of hot dogs & a salad. For desert, we went to an ice crean stand & picked up a couple of milkshakes & returned for a final round of railfanning.
Did a little yard work this morning as it's nice & cool here. It was in the high 50s when I got up, & it's only 70 degrees out now. This weather could stick around for awhile & I would be happy.
Garry - I'm not into boats, but you mentioned the other day about purchasing a pontoon boat for the lake. We saw a beauty on a trailer yesterday & you immediately came to mind. It was bronze, white convertable type top, & probably one of the largest outboard motors I have ever seen. I think one of those would be the type that I would like if I ever became interested.
I had an appointment with a dietician this past week. Something my Doctor wanted me to do. I haven't seen one for many, many years, & didn't expect much from this one based on my previous experience. Was I surprised... She was very helpful & cleared up a lot of things for me. I know her recommendations are going to be very good for me. The important thing was she seems to be realistic about what can & cannot be accomplished.
I wish you all a great week, & stay safe
Ray.... good to see you. . ... An itsy bitsy spider ..... LOL
Edit. ... just noticed Ken posted a minute ahead of me. .... Howdy, Ken.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Diners
Flo, Ed, Jan, Inch, Brent, The Buick Guy and I will have a please.
Ray, that engine must pull! Even the Amazing Spiderman could not stop it!
2 of the 3 last days have sucked rail spikes! OK, I had a good sale Friday so that is why it did not suck rail spikes.
Thursday My roof started leaking! I still count my self luckie with it being 35 years old + but with my current income still a big problem. Right now it is a very small leak so I am thankfull for that.
Saturday I have been with this company 4 years! Had a whole $246.00 in sales!
Then as my wife said it "My Car Is Broke!" Tonight I checked and yep it is broken! Seems the starter gave up it's ghost. When I was in my early 50's I would have said not a big deal, I will change it, well if it was a Big Block Mopar! Now, I am not to sure? I think I may have 6 metric tools to my name! God I am getting old, $150.00 for a starter? Last one I bought was $39.99?
Bright side is the Trains are running well!
There is a hole in my roof and my mind goes woundering Ken
I hate Rust
Hello!? Hello....? Hmmmm......
Guess I'll help myself to a cup of decaf since I am the only person in the place. Guess it has been a little SLOW today. The local frieght showed looking like this:
Later....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning ..
Ken .... You are welcome. I do suggest each of us review the rules from time to time. I don't want any of my friends to get in trouble .
Angel ... Hopefully, Ulrich realizes his friends like him and enjoy his presence here.
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Model Railroading .... We are getting ready for out of town visitors, and I'm putting away my scenery material. Time to clean the tracks and run trains.
Eclipse. .... We will have out of town visitors at our house from a few days before the solar eclipse to the day after it. The solar eclipse will be on August 21. In this region, its path will be approximately over Interstate 24 between Paducah and Nashville. About 500,000 out of town visitors are expected in western Kentucky for it, and Kentucky is preapred for it. People from other countries will travel to the USA to see it happen.
Flo, Ed, Jan, Brent, The Buick Guy and I will have a please. Set one out side for Ulrich if he stop's by to look in the widow.
Gary Thank you for posting the site rules. With me never feeling like posting about politics I never really read the rules. I had no idea immigration was on the no no list.
Work was a Sloooooooooow Day but a good day for me! Had a be back from March and bought a good spiff mattress from me. Made a extra $115.00 that is needed badly.
Later, Ken
Evenin' folks!
Janie, any ribs left to gnaw on from the Wildebeast, Lion caught earlier? No? Well then I'll just have a cup of decaf to get me in the mood to crawl into bed for the night.
As usual I got a lot of odds and ends accomplished around here, but still haven't really done any house cleaning. Took the kitties in for their blood sugar check, helath exam and Required shots this morning. Blackie's blood sugar after a 12 hour fast was lower than his non-diabetic brother.... The Doc is going to have him come back in a week or so and check him in the afternoon without a fast to see if he is still in the almost low range. He may be taken of the insulin to see what happenes. Cats can actually go into remission with diabetes (his brother did) so we may want to dicontinue the insulin..... Got home from that, had my own breakfast, fed the kitties, and ran some errands. Drove over to the Chevy dealer to pick up the correct tube of paint for touch up on the Volt, stopped at church to turn in my monthly pledge $$$ and a check to the memorial fund in rememberance of the friend who passed last week, and then to the pharmasy to pick up a prescription and a couple cards for people.
Found out that the wife of my old dentist, who was a teacher I worked with, just passed a day or so ago.... Had no idea she was sick. I guess the family kept it to themselves so most of the community didn't have any idea. I taught her kids as well, so that was one of the cards I got.
Tomorrow I will be heading out mid morning to Rochester to run trains at one of the members of the NMRA Divsion's home. We have two operations events schedule on consecutive weekends. I will be at both of them. Both are great layouts and fun to run trains on.
Have a great night and I hope to pop in tomorrow evening!
Evening Diners,
It's been a quiet place without Ulrich. No more information about Germany.
I finally got a Micro-Trains boxcar that I been chasing for 6 years. It's a white Guildford Boston and Maine.
Ed- I find a Conrail picture within yard limits. Right next to it a row of houses painted in dark green and maroon in the late 70s. When I searched the area where the photo was taken. It was basically the same, but the houses now are painted white. So no longer variety.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Some friends and I are taking a small road trip to Prescott Wisconsin tomorrow to sit and relax, have a few beers and watch the double stackers go back and forth over my favorite Bridge overlooking the river with the big boats Bobbing around. I do believe the boats can only call for a lift on the hour once an hour. Haven't been there for a while should be fun
Bear... . LOL
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Der .... Looks like a good plan for the Nn3 part of your layout.
I hope each of you agrees with what I am saying.
Don't think I'll ever be able to glue track of any sort to foam.
From what the reviewers have said, it looked like is was very good. Dunkirk was a changing point during WWII. If not for certain things the world could be very different. I do want to see it but it probably won't be until it premieres on the movie channels. I have a DVR as part of my cable service, so I record things that are on while I'm at work and take the opportunity to watch it later. (Sometimes later is quite a bit later.)
der5997, I don’t recall Calvin and Hobbes ever being syndicated down here, I got an appreciation of Bill Watterson when my folks bought back a volume of Calvin and Hobbes from one of their overseas sojourns some (18?) years ago.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
LION *editing* a Wildebeest.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning.
Ed and Bear ... Thanks for posting very interesting photos.
Here is photo from the Rocky Mountaineer Facebook page.
Mr. and Mrs. Bear are tresspassing, and should be arrested.
So much for Eds’ railroad diversion.
SO you want diversions "avec de l'eau" ?
THIS I can do...
B&M_20_3635 by Edmund, on Flickr
My dad's brother-in-law, Stanley Mackenzie, took this photo after the big storm of 1936. Stalled in the flood is #20, The Alouette, from Montreal to Boston.
I "believe" the engine is CPR # 3635.
Amazingly, the location is pretty much the same (sans H2O) today!
Plymoth_NH-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
The road is the Daniel Webster Highway, the river is the Pemigewasset and the railroad is the Boston & Maine.
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-new-england-flood-1936/
Neat Stuff!
Good morning everyone— I hope the day finds you well!
Regards, Ed
Cheers, the Bear.
BATMAN "Dunkirk" was a 2-hour tug at the heartstrings and well worth seeing.
"Dunkirk" was a 2-hour tug at the heartstrings and well worth seeing.
On a totally diffrent subject, it won't be tonight but probably either Sunday night or Monday, I have to remake my bed. (And I mean that in the literal sense of remake, not the sheets sense.) I have a futon and important parts of the support structure decided to break. Not enough to cause immediate problems, but they do need to be replaced. (Given the thing is somewhere between 10-12 years old, I'm not surprised.) I have new frame pieces, but I'm just too tired tonight to get them installed. The plan is to "kitbash" the pieces together. To get the new frame was actually cheaper than getting a whole new unit of the same type as I have. Just getting the box home was hard enough. Mom was nice enough to come in and help me. But trying to get the frame into Mom's Focus was a challenge. (Drop down backseat helped. But Mom wouldn't drive with the trunk lid open. We ended up both pretzeled in the car. Thankfully only about a 2 mile trek and we decided to stay off the primary streets as to not foul up traffic with Mom wanting to go a little slower for safety. Once I got it home, I managed to get it wrangled up the stairs. (Mom insisted that I reset all the seats before she went home. Easily done, however.)
Edit: Not that it will mean much, but I see I'm getting very close to having made 1000 posts on the forums. Quite interesting, though.
ouibejamn Heartland Division CB&Q Let's thank Steven and Model Railroader Steven Otte is one of the best moderators on the internet.
Heartland Division CB&Q Let's thank Steven and Model Railroader
Steven Otte is one of the best moderators on the internet.
Agreed.
Thanks for all you do Steven. Make sure Flo and the girls put your next drink on my tab.
As a moderator on another site, with far less posts and far less people, I can say for sure I would not want to be responsible for more. It does get crazy sometimes. Can't imagine how this site compares though.
Ed - Bellevue museum, huh? I like it! Been there once, and have wanted to go back.
Mark - Sorry about the puppy.
Thats all I will post tonight, as nothing new from me.
Hope all are well, and all have a good night!
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.
Henry,
I concur with your observation. I talk with Ulrich once, sometimes twice a month. He is observing things that happened in 1935, and he is afraid that path may be trod again. I was in Germany in 63, stationed at Ramstein, near Kaiserslatern. Patton had gone through the area in 45, and the destruction still evident was incredible.
There were still areas with signs posted "ACHTUNG-MINEN", not a place to go on a outing.
Places near Landstul that were farmland are now row houses, and the microwave site I worked at is now a mushroom farm. I can barely make out the parking lot in front of what was the main entrance to the caves. The entire area has been built up almost beyond recognitiion.
His world view has been shaped by when, and where he grew up, at that time just barely above second world conditions, plus he has traveled and worked worldwide and has observed what works and what does not. Unfortuniately, he is watching a country he loves very much being radicalized, and is unable to impact the outcome because of several factors.
Ken
Still here, #4 Son has been having some real challanges, back in the hospital again, Dana Farber, in Boston. He will be released tomorrow, but will have a nurse come to his house every day to give him IV antibiotics. He has had a port established in a vein near his clavicle. This makes seven trips since March, the infection keeps coming back in his stoma-- his frustration level is equal that of Ulrich's in that the source of the infection has yet to be found. Big problem is he only has 1/3 of one kidney due to an infection when he was young, and the problem was missed by the doctors treating him at that time. It was finally caught by a local doctor, but by that time the damage had been done.
My #2 stepson is holding his own, barely, he has had to increase his flow of O2 to 6L, up from 2, and has cut back on some of the more strenuious things he did. (carpentrey being one, and welding is definately off the table)
Bear
Has that arrived yet??
This is that time of the year when zuchinni squash become problematic, when going to places such as: friends, family, church, various and assorted outings--best to lock the doors on your vehicle- to not do so will cause you to run the risk of a front seat loaded with the "GREEN MONSTERS"
Rain still going around us, we will get tagged on of these days--hopefully?
Mackerel have landed, massive schools in the area now, tuna have worked up into 6 fathom feeding on them, along with a small pod of Menkie whales. Weather still hot (for us, 88F) enjoy it while you can.
Mark, sorry to hear about your dog, the loss of one hurts.
Time to take my nite-nite medicine, prayers for those in need----
herrinchoker
Heartland Division CB&QLet's thank Steven and Model Railroader. I hope each of you agrees with what I am saying.
Ditto
I sure hope Ulrich is back on the tour bus when I get on in the morning. I hate breakin in a new man! Nothin worse than trying to make a new tour guide understand my weird sense of humour.
Mark, I am sad to read about your dog. Being married to a Vet I have been around many times while owners have had to say goodbye to their pets. Heartbreaking is the only way to put it.
The dinner bell is ringing.
Til tomorrow.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Garry - I totally agree with you. The rules are quite clear. I can see where this forum might someday disappear, just like another did not so long ago. When it does, it will be our own fault.
Heartland Division CB&QLet's thank Steven and Model Railroader
Heartland Division CB&QLet's thank Steven and Model Railroader. I hope each of you agrees with what I am saying. Happy Model Railroading.
2006 photos 704 by Edmund, on Flickr
How about some railroady diversions? Photo taken at the Bellevue Ohio Railroad Museum.
Good evening, everybody.
Suggestion ..... Read the MR Forum policies thread if you have not done so recently. It only takes a few minutes to read them.
Here is a quote from the forum policies thread which evidently pertains to a current situation in the forum. Immigration is on the list. It does not limit conversations about immigration to the USA immigration. Therefore, it means immigration to any country.
"Avoid controversial off-topic subjectslike race, religion, ethnicity, sex, violence, guns, abortion, politics, unions, and immigration, even in signatures. "
Each one of you in my opinion is a good friend of mine. I don't want any of you to be in trouble with Steven or Kalmbach in general. I want each of you to continue posting here.
So, let's all remember Kalmbach owns the forum and has a legal right to control the content of posts of forum members. Steven is an employee of Kalmbach, and is doing a job his employer has instructed him to do.
So don't pick on Steven when he does his job.
We should be grateful to Kalmbach for allowing us to make friends here. Kalmbach does have private messaging available to us. If you care to contact an individual member to talk about items not allowed here; go ahead. You can exchange email addresses where you can email back and forth about politics, etc.
Let's thank Steven and Model Railroader.
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Happy Model Railroading.
Mark Sorry to hear about your dog. I had an uncle that had his doberman die on the beach from heart worm. The south is a hotbed of heartworm, tho' my uncle was in Los Angeles at the time.
Howmus As you probably know Glenn Curtis was a racer turned pilot by Thomas Edison. He trained the first Naval Aviators. The Wright Bros. where his peers, but they were much more secretive about what they did. Curtis died of appendicitis.
Ulrich I hope you stay and good luck with your tests.
Steve Politics is local and none of us but Ulrich are local to Germany. I suppose Angela Merkel could be a closet model railroader in a pantsuit but so far she hasn't posted. Our immigration, his immigration and those in Australia or Canada are all as different as cole slaw and kimchi and steak tartare.
I've not seen a post that used Ulrich's comments to support Trump's wall. Granted it could happen but it hasn't. I welcome his input to see how the rest of the world lives.
Had my dizziness test. The tester was a Dr of Audiology. 4 years of post college training. She wore a long white lab coat and was about the age of one of my sons. She needed to be about 30 pounds lighter but she was one of the most beautiful women I've seen maybe in the top 5.
First was a hearing test, then she put goggles on me that resembled virtual reality googles with a black out shield. I followed a red dot up and down left and right. The fast left and right, then random left and right. The final test was to blow hot air in each air. Louder than I would have thought and pretty hot. The googles are used to track your eye movement and the black out shield was down. Eventually I could feel my eyes twitching (nystagmus) but I only got a little bit nauseated.
I see the ENT doc next week but I think the test results do not indicate anything bad like a brain tumor.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Mark: Sorry to hear about the loss of your bulldog. That is tough.
Brent: I am really wanting to try spline roadbed. Not sure if I am going to use white pine, or masonite for the splines. Don't think I'll ever be able to glue track of any sort to foam. Just my shortcoming....
Afternoon Diners
Flo, Ed, Inch, Brent, The Brass Buick Guy, Jan and I will have a please.
Ulrich Stick aroud, only folks you will punish is your self and your fellow diners friends.
Blood Surgar Front Seems the Veiggie Kabob's agreed with me even with the Pineapple! Mainly Red, Green peppers, oinions I think Zucchini and 1 chunk of pineapple would be high in carbs. I ate all 3 and this morining by blood surgar was a good 94!
Jan are you still in here? Get a little worried when I don't see some of the Dinner Folks post! Hope the son is doing better!
Mark Sorry to hear your dog died. I still get teary eyed thinking of Muff, Tiff, Sonya and Shaddy.
Well it is good thing I warted the plants!
Later Ken
Ulrich: Tried to send you a PM. I hope it went through and you got it.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)