Hey to everyone, guess I'm having an okay day mentally. Haven't had an anxiety attack in a week, so that's progress.
I literally hid in my house from trick or treaters, since I don't give candy out.
I'm planning to start doing work on building a module for the club's portable layout. Of course, that means someone else will have to build another one to balance it out....
speaking of the club, we're approaching another open house season, and it's coming closer than normal- we got asked to open up for the town's "Light up Night" on the 17th of November. Update on the Castle Shannon show from sunday: I did well. I took 150.00 to spend, and showed a lot of restraint. This time around, I actually only got stuff I needed, instead of whatever I wanted. I got some wonderful deals to- an exactrail waffle boxcar normally selling for 50 bucks? picked it up for 20 bucks. A factory painted Athearn unit for Wheeling, a rare unit? 70 bucks. I also got two proto 1000 hoppers for 15 dollars.
I'v got this sore throat, headache and hoarse voice that's going around here. So I hope everyone else here is feeling well.
(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).
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Nice job of opening the diner, Henry. Both of the links on your post work. Interesting stuff on Horseshoe curve.
Switzerland hey?, never been there, but, I have been known to go out of my way for a cold one! , a round one me.
Don't remember the horn thing, born in 49, but I lived most of my childhood and teen years on farms, or in the country. Not many trick or treaters.
Mike.
My You Tube
Afternoon Diners,
Nobody serves homemade goodies for Halloween anymore. They're trying to give out candies with no weird stuff that can make kids allergic. Kids are getting allergic to everything nowadays probably because women are having children pass 30 recording by studies.
Visiting the Horseshoe Curve would be nice, when I decide to go there.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
My memories of Halloween are pretty vague. Never really liked the holiday. I do seem to remember that back in the 50's, when I last participated, people used to give out homemade popcorn balls and sometimes homemade cookies as well as candy. It was an entirely different world then.
My more recent memories of Halloween was the zoo on Hollywood Bl back in the 70's. If it existed, it was on the boulevard that night. Sometimes people would dress in costume in some of the clubs I played in at the time. I actually used to work with a keyboard player who refused to work on Halloween because it was his religious holiday. I wasn't too worried though, the pentacle he wore around his neck was right side up. But, I never hung out with him.
I don't have any MRR news to report.
Thanks Big Daddy for opening up the diner this month. So, are we in Switzerland or Pennsylvania? Horseshoe curve is really cool. No wonder it has long been a sort of tourist attraction.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Ricky W - Too bad you didn’t catch anything on your trip. You did mention hearing of 2 on your scanner, and that’s another good thing about that section of the Fort Wayne Line between Conway Yard & Pittsburgh, plenty of defect detectors. Where we railfan, there’s 1 to the east of us & 1 to the west. Both give ample notice of approaching trains.
Not as busy on Halloween night compared to last year when we had over 230 kids. This year we only had 152. But there were some really cool costumes. We get all ages & don’t mind the older ones. There’s not that many of them & they are always appreciative & polite. They come in groups of 3 or 4, & are having a good time. Don’t mind the ones who come by car from other neighborhoods either if it means the little ones are having a fun night.
Halloween was a big deal when I was growing up in the 40s, & it remains one of my favorite holidays. We had so much fun, even having certain houses you ran to early because they handed out special treats like hot chocolate with little marshmellows, homemade candy apples, fresh pop corn & other homemade goodies. I wonder if anyone does that anymore.
Ray - Your probably right about homemade goodies these days. When you mentioned cookies for your granddaughters, it brought to mind another special house on Halloween. The lady gave out homemade peanut butter cookies that were really good. Everyone got 3. I wonder how many she ended up baking because there were a lot of kids out then.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Ah... Halloween... Our cook was dressed up as a cow, complete with a plastic udder.
She served a Jello brain with gummy worms crawling out of it.
Pork ribs were served, but LIONS do not *like* pork if they can get something else.
This LION found a bowl ful of candy in the community room.
Him was reading the New Yorker with a pile of candy wrappings scattered around his chair.
All SNOWS day to you. It is snowing outside, not fearcely, but nicely and in earnest.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Heard a car horn alarm last night and it reminded me that as a kid people used to do something to car horns on Halloween night to make them honk. Did we call it pinning the horn? How was it done?
My wife was born in 1960 and she doesn't remember that.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I wasn't planning on doing this, but Ulrich must have overslept.
Fall colors are a little past their peak in western Pennsylvania but lets go to Horseshoe Curve. According to Wikipedia: Work on Horseshoe Curve began in 1850 and took over three years.[9] It was done without heavy equipment, only men "with picks and shovels, horses and drags" Cost for 31 miles of track (more than just the curve) was $80,000/mile Cost of the Durango Silverton "Highline" was $1,000 a foot.
http://www.railroadcity.com/visit/world-famous-horseshoe-curve/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCkBPm7ICk
Not really Amish country, but Shoefly pie for everyone in the Diner.
Last try at an edit, only one linke wants to be clickable at a time
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