Snowing right now on Horseshoe curve https://youtu.be/PmCkBPm7ICk
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good morning from the West Coast of "The Great White North". It's cool with a high overcast with a chance of snow. I think a trip to the Cook Islands would be a good idea about now.
Steven, I like the waffle maker with the railroad theme idea. If MRR ever sells them in the gift shop, I'll take one with the Canadian Pacific logo.
Online dating is something I never had to try. I didn't want to get married until I was nearly forty, however, I almost always had a girlfriend to share my adventures with. I am still friends with them all even though I now have two kids and a great wife. Being involved with sports and other organizations, there were always like-minded people around me. Even today at sixty I can think of at least three very attractive single ladies involved with hockey I get along well with. There are many sheets of ice in the facility I go to and lots of fit ladies coaching the girls hockey. Being involved in organizations allows you to meet people and get to know them without the first date thing.
Ken, I feel your pain on the beer front, drop by the house I'll save the last Beer for you.
Galaxy, how hold is the hotel where you work. I have a ghost story I'll have to share at some point. It was a weird experience, to say the least. I thought I was just seeing things until....
I am lovin the RR pic's and videos being posted. I have been looking at old roundhouse photo's to see the lighting arrangements they had a hundred years back. They go from a single light bulb to many lights properly arranged and installed to whatever electrical code they had back then. Steven maybe an article on lighting the inside of roundhouses over the ages is in order.
We had a police officer shot and killed in a nearby town yesterday, so everyone is in the dumps somewhat. Having family members in the RCMP it sure makes you stop and think about the work they do. The news said it had been 33 years since the last time a police officer was killed by gunfire in the Province, usually, you hear of them being killed in traffic accidents more than anything else.
Well, best get on with it. The wife has dog people coming on doggie biz today so don't know how much I'll get done. They also are into Garden RR and seem to be very generous in bringing me things for the layout. They are very bigtime movie/TV people and always have great stories about that as well. The tabloids would love to be a fly on the wall when they are over for lunch.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Afternoon all!
Vision Front: As some of you may remember last month, I mentioned that my eye doctor was worried about my occular pressure (glaucoma). Had the pressure check today and the medication seems to be bringing it back to normal range. (17 in my right eye and 18 in the left.) Told me to continue to use the drops and I have another pressure check scheduled for March.
Hobby Front: Didn't go out to the ranch yesterday at all due to the weather. Ended up going out this morning. Not my idea - Mom's idea. I was planning to get my haircut this morning. That shot that in the foot. Did get the engines taken out and am working on the rest of the engines. The second to last all green one is ready for its plow and one of the passenger engines has the front fill panel done. (The rear fill panel will be worked on this evening.) The other all green one is the one waiting for the new shell for parts.
Not that I really need yet another engine, but I am in the begining process of possibly getting another one: an SW1200 switcher. (Switcher for an eventual yard to the (layout) right of the turntable area.) What I will most likely do is get the base for the engine and get the rest of the pieces gradually.
Eveing Diners
Flo, Brent, Ed, Gary, Ulrich, Jan, Angelob, Galaxy, Inch, Ray, Mr B and I will have a please.
Brent Thanks for the Strange Brew clip. When was that made, 1980? I remember seing it but no idea when.
Ed Do you thing the K-4 looks alot like a M1A? Only steam engines I know about are the ones I have and like to have. Well I have been in a Nickel Plated Berk that was in the Broadripple Park in Indy with a girl friend. I was stoking something and it was not the bolier.
All so gutted the Mighty B&O F7A, it would hardly move and was making the drive train noise you told me about. I think maybe the flywheels are slipping. Day before yesterday I was 99% sure. Last night, they did not seem to slip? Going to open the trucks, take a peek and see what I can find.
Work Front Best part of the day? Going to have vistors over on my day off so I have been doing extra cleaning. Moving dresser's, chest's and such to vacuum and was getting sick of it. Around 3:00 PM the Vacuum Clearner Died!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Steven Otte I looked all over the Internet for a PRR-keystone-shaped waffle iron, and couldn't find one. Are you kidding me? How can I be the first person to come up with that idea?
I looked all over the Internet for a PRR-keystone-shaped waffle iron, and couldn't find one. Are you kidding me? How can I be the first person to come up with that idea?
Steven ... very clever thought. I suppose most waffle makers result in a circle waffle slightly similar to the Santa Fe logo.
Brent ... Sad to hear about the police officer shot near you . Reminds me of that happening to a KY State Troooer a year or so ago on Interstate 24 near here. Terrible.
Model Railroad ... I’m still repairing my old engine house.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QUlrich ... Where are you?
I sent Ulrich an e-mail a couple of days ago and he responded promptly. He is watching the forums ("lurking" in his words) but he has decided to take a break from posting for now. He is having multiple health issues and they are grinding him down. He has his layout up for sale but so far no offers. I'm sure he appreciates it when people ask about him.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Heartland Division CB&QBrent ... Sad to hear about the police officer shot near you .
Sad to report that a Pennsylvania State Trooper was shot today during a traffic stop not far from Harrisburg.
Not much I can say...
Regards, Ed
Good morning ....
Ed ... Sorry to hear about that very sad news near Harrisburg.
David ... If Ulrich is lurking, I'll provide vidoes for him to watch. First I'll give a little background information. .... The Burlington Route operated steam excursions in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Most were operated with either 5632 (a 4-8-4) or 4960 (a 2-8-2). I road on several of the excursions myself.
These videos are not good quality, but you can see a lot of railfans along with 5632, and they are having a very fun day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzUpIsn8Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF0Ts_Y1AU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tklXdkWlEc
Good afternoon Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
Deep in the recesses of the forum, our friend Ulrich is there. Watching! Waiting! Lurking about. Waiting for the right moment to pounce like a lion (da-da-dummm, dramatic descending chords inserted here). Uhh,... wait, Lion is somewhere in North Dakota. Hmmm,....never mind! ( in Emily Latella voice)
Sorry couldn't resist.
Weather here is cool but pleasant, in the low 40s, and we had frost last night.
Friday (11-10-17) is the 42nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship was believed to have sank in Lake Superior as a result of a storm. If Gordon Lightfoot hadn't made such a great song, I'd have probably never heard of it.
I don't have anything to report MRR wise. Just thought I'd check in and see how everyone is doing.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Afternoon Diners,
I trimmed or hacked the tree in our backyard. To make a cleaner look and not to ruin, continue breaking the wall. Removing a lot of it makes it more sleek.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Afternoon folks,
Chloe just a decaf to tide me over to Supper, please.....
"...That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewedWhen the gales of November came early...."
Ah yes one of my favorite songs! And this one I used to sing with 5th. graders back when...
The cruise of the Bigaler (A fresh-water forecastle chanty, the Bigaler was known as the one of the slowest ships on the Great Lakes!)
4. "We made Skilagalee and Wabbleshanks, the entrance to the straits,And might have passed the whole fleet by there if they'd hove to and wait;But we drove them all before us the nicest you ever sawClear out into Lake Huron thru the straits of Mackinaw."
Refrain:
"Watch her, catch her, jump up in her juberju.Give her sheet and let her go; we're the lads can pull her thru.Oh don't you hear the howling of the winds a-blowing free,On our down trip to Buffalo from Milwaukee."
Ah yes I love chanty songs! Fun!!!!
Had the major killing frost here last night as well. Everything was a white hoar. Roofs, lawns, and vehicles when I rolled out of bed this morning. Local election here was great yesterday. The Eagle Scout I was pulling for easily won his bid for the County Board, and everything I voted for or against (as the case mey be) went the way I voted. Got up to see a couple guys removing the sprouted election signs that grace the neighborhoods around this time of year... Almost time to put up the deco for the next season coming around....
I am just about packed and ready to head out to Newport, RI for the NorthEast Region, NMRA Convention this weekend. This will be the first convention I have attended in the new Region. it looks to be well put together from what I see online at this point. Those of my membership that have gone to them before have always had good things to say, so I figure it should be fun. I have been to several conventions in the NFR Region in past years, so I am well versed with how they usually go. I will be taking a couple of photos to enter in the photo contests, but no models this time.
Oh... Hi Ulrich! We know you are hiding in the back booth. Take care and be blest!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon Diners
Flo, give Ed, Gary, Angelob, Ulrich, Galaxy, Brent, Jan, Ray, Mr B, Inch and I a please.
UP 831 I use to play The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on guitar and and knew all the words. Sadly I have not touched a guitar in 6 years or so.
BATMAN Galaxy, how hold is the hotel where you work. I have a ghost story I'll have to share at some point. It was a weird experience, to say the least. I thought I was just seeing things until....
WEll, yopu may or may not know: spirit energy can "occupy" either a building OR the land. Gettysburg, for instance, Is NOT a place for those of us who are "sensitive" to such energies. Even our friend, the spouse of the one whose adopted son decided to tempt fate with teh Ouija board....said he didn;'t think Gettysburg was bad, but the father of the adopted Ouija board wielding son, said "oh, you don't have to be sensitive like these guys {my OH and I}, to FEEL the bad energy aT GETTYSBURG....." SO, our hotel is only aobut 9 years old. It may be a former resident of the LAND , not exactly the hotel......By the way...you left it above as :"...UNTIL....." Mind if I ask "UNTIL WHAT? WE ALL have energy, if that energy signature is left behind, we MAY have inhabited the land or building we occupied or died in. Ill figure out more in the future, I;'m sure about our "inhabitant".....
I was going to GIve Ulrich a call, actually, good to know hes not in the hospital......Thanks for sending him the email and relaying his message.
Ken...work is sucking one rail spike and Im in the ash oit too....LOL ANd it seems you cannto vatcha break, can you? the wifes manifold, the wipers, now the vacuum....what else do you have that can break? I guess not buying trains for a while would help...
Im at wrok, finally figured out AOL, I think now got AOL gold, I know old fogies using aol. BUt I like it. SO now If I can get my ohine to work..>MR. OTTE...can you PM a name and number to contact at Kalmbach to talk to directly to help me figure out why my phone keeps getting rejected?
WEll, waiting for a guest to come down for TOGO menus, better be at the desk waiting and not in the back office.
LAter guys,
SPecial thoughts and prayers for ULRICH, others who need them, and prayers for the less fortunate...
Have a great night guys.
-G
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
UP 831 I use to play The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on guitar and and knew all the words. Sadly I have not touched a guitar in 6 years or so. Dang! now I have that song in me head!
Dang! now I have that song in me head!
Ghost stories
My mothers aunt passed at an early age and my mother delivered food to her cousins. When she got there the rocking chair was rocking with on one in it. Her cousins said that was their mother. She saw the same aunt at the top of her stairs a couple years later and dropped a load of laundry. It took her 40 years to tell her mother that story and grandmother remembered her screaming and dropping the laundry.
A coworker worked with the Park Service at Gettysburg when he was in college. They make the rounds at night to make sure no one is digging for souvenirs. Three wounded soldiers came out of the woods, one on horseback. They called for backup but never caught them.
Hobby Front: Well, I've gone and done it again: I've bought yet another engine. This time it is a Proto 2000 SW9/1200. It is destined to become an NP SW1200. However, I haven't decided which number to do. (Like I needed another engine/project. Yard switcher.) Probably won't get to it until next spring at least. It most likely will go out to the layout until I am ready for it.
moelarrycurly4Dang! now I have that song in me head!
Oh, I can fix that!
Sorry...
Ed
Well, it's a better song to be stuck with than "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Evening,
Another frosty one here today, right now there is a windchill of -6F.
Today I took the car in for an oil change but I also needed a new air filter that cost $72 installed or about $50USD. I get all my service work done at the dealership so the costs are high but Volvo filters are a lot better than aftermarket ones. Besides I doubt I could get one elsewhere as I would be surprised if there are more than 50 models of my car in this city despite a production run of 9 years--not exactly a volume model. It only has 55k miles on it which isn't much for a 2010 so I will be driving it for quite a few more years.
I finally started on a Red Caboose reefer kit that I intended to build last winter when I was recovering from surgery. I had planned on building it in the kitchen as I couldn't go down stairs, well perhaps down but not up again. Anyway it was far too complicated and needed a dedicated space for several days so I needed my workshop. It is a model of a PGE wood reefer. So far it is going ok but those Red Caboose kits have a lot of very small parts, over 20 on the roof alone with all the hatch detail. I anticipate a one month build time at the rate I go.
I did drop into the hobby shop as it isn't far from the car dealership. First time there about a year. I didn't buy anything but found out that we will likely be getting another full gauge loco here as the Prairie Dog Central is buying one of the G5 Pacifics that a fellow from Alberta bought last year and had shipped here. He is in financial difficulty so the local group are in negotiations with the bank to buy one of the 2 locos he bought. They already have a 4-4-0 in operation and a G5 would be a really nice addition. One the G5's apparently still has time on the boiler.
Ulrich, hope you are feeling better and I look forward to your posts again.
A few years ago someone did a dive on Edmund Fitzgerald. There was a show on TV about it. It did sink in a November storm but I can't recall the conclusions of the show about the cause. I don't have that song on my mind but how about 'Baby Its You' by the Shirelles. That is what is rattling around in my brain right now.
CN Charlie
Hey all. Hope we're all good.
my county was in a boil water advisory from Monday until 12:00pm yesterday. Slight inconvenienc, but do I hate the taste of boiled water.... yup should have seen the fighting over bottles of water, like there was never gonna be any more.
im actually off work tomorrow and Saturday this week. I'll do something tomorrow , and planning to go to a veteran parade on Saturday.
Ive got a ghost story of anyone wants to hear.
(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).
Good morning ... Coffee and a donut, please...
It's getting spooky around here.
There has been a story about a haunted Lackawana coach in Cleveland. With Google, you may find some articles about it. I wonder if Ed is familiar with it. In 1943, there was a very bad collison of a Lackawana passenger train killing dozens of people. This coach had 21 fatalities. Many of their spirts haunt the coach.
When the Midwest Railway Preservation society began restoring the coach they heard strange noises. Eventually, they gave tours of the car. During one tour, a vistor asked the guide why the man in funny looking clothes behind was not talking. No man was behind the guide. A ghost was seen sitting on the roof of the coach.
A TV station reported about the story.
....http://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/my-ohio/passenger-train-car-from-1943-crash-haunts-midwest-railway-preservation-society-in-cleveland
galaxy MR. OTTE...can you PM a name and number to contact at Kalmbach to talk to directly to help me figure out why my phone keeps getting rejected?
MR. OTTE...can you PM a name and number to contact at Kalmbach to talk to directly to help me figure out why my phone keeps getting rejected?
I don't know what you're trying to do that results in your "phone getting rejected," but Customer Service's number is 877-246-4879. If they can't help you, we'll try something else.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Morning all...
It's chilly here in the "Burgh" this morning, only around 30 degrees. But it's suppose to get up around 50 later on today. I hope so because I want to put the Christmas lights up on the porch gutter. I like to do that when the weather is decent & I don't freezr my fingers on the aluminum ladder. The rest of the decorations & lights on the railings will go up around the middle of December. No ladders involved with that portion.
Started my Christmas shopping yesterday & got quite a bit done, but my knee (arthritis) really flared up walking in the mall, so I quit a little earlier than I wanted too. Not much left to do, so it's no big deal.
I need to dig up the cannas & dahlias to store them over the winter too. It's not a job I particularly look forward to, but my goodness, those things are expensive to buy every year.
I also need to start taking down the Department 56 Halloween Village display, & then start the Department 56 Dicken's Village display. It will take about 2 days to dismantle, pack up & then take all the boxes up to the attic. Putting up the Dickens Village display will take 3 to 4 days, depending upon my ambition. Guess we better figute on 4 days then. Oh well, it's worth it because they do look good & we enjoy them.
Hope everybody has had a good week, I have & now I'm looking forward to railfanning on Saturday as usual.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Just saying hello to old and new friends! I have difficulties typing as my right hand and shoulder are pretty much useless at the moment. Went to see the doc about it, but from what I understand, the outlook is not really enlighting!
Seems as if I´ll have to stay in the backbooth for quite a while.
tcwright973It's chilly here in the "Burgh" this morning, only around 30 degrees. But it's suppose to get up around 50 later on today. I hope so because I want to put the Christmas lights up on the porch gutter.
Eh? Is 1 degree of fairy height outside at the moment.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
It's 0800hrs on the West coast, 6c with a high overcast.
Good to see Ulrich dropped by, I think we need breaks from everything from time to time including the forum.
Another note on the Police constable that was killed. The department was established in 1955 once the city grew enough to support its own Police force, before then the RCMP would have looked after policing. They currently have 216 officers and this was the first person they lost in the line of duty in their history.
My Ghost story.
My Mom was in her eighties and in failing health, so we had her move in with us for the last couple of years of her life. She died of congestive heart failure in 2003. It was probably a year or two later that I had come home from another of the endless 14 hour days I had been working out in the elements at the Airport. I would usually roll in about 2330hrs just in time to collapse on the couch and watch the first half hour of Jay Leno before crawling up the stairs to bed. I would get my boots off and hit the couch with my coveralls and parka still on. You could see up the stairs from where I sat watching TV and one night I looked up and saw my Mom sitting at the top of the stairs. I closed my eyes for a few seconds as I was so tired I thought I was seeing things, when I opened them she was still there, however after I turned my head away for a few more seconds and when I looked back she was gone.
The next night, got home at 2330hrs, was sitting on the couch watching Leno still in my coveralls with my parka on, My daughter who was three or four at the time came down and crawled up in my lap and pulled my parka around her as she often did if she woke up from hearing me drive in, were watching Leno when all of a sudden she said, "look, Daddy, there's Grandma sitting on the stairs". I looked up the stairs and sure enough there she was. She disappeared after a few seconds and that was the last time anyone saw her.
Every "long" once in a while something weird will happen in the house and we jokingly say that it must be Grandma. She died in hospital, so I guess it took her a while to walk home. Mom! You should have called, I would have come and picked you up.
My Dad and I spent a lot of time on the layout(s) from the time I was three or four and while we had everything we needed growing up, discretionary spending was nothing compared to what we have today. I have a nice size layout and when I am in the train room I can feel my Dad in there with me and he is smiling ear to ear. I guess when I croak I will find out what really goes on, if anything. We are always laughing about what kind of signal I should send the family to show I am spying on them.
Jimmy! Your turn.
Since we are in PRR territory this month, here is a video from the time, when women were women, men were men, and trains made it to Hollywood fame!
The plot is rather silly, but that Raymond Loewy streamlined K4 is some sight!
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Okay, welll I have two stories. The first one is: Devils Den at Gettysburg.
It was back in 2009, on a school field trip for a social studies class. Well, we had just seen the show in the tourist welcome center, and began walking the fields. We made our way to an outcropping, and things got creepy there at least for me. I was walking and exploring the den, and suddenly, the temperature dropped a lot. I'd say a bout 10-15 degrees in late April. I swear I had seen something further down in the outcropping, but I wasn't going to say anything. I also had felt a feeling of being "watched" and a heaviness on the fields.
The second one is railroad related. I was driving back from catching a Wheeling and Lake Erie train on the Clairton Branch last year around 6:00pm, so it was getting dark fast. There is a portion on Stone Church Road that shows the AVR as it passes over a side road. Well, I had seen OLD covered hoppers on the old B&O line (Now the AVR tracks out to Washington PA). It was heading in the direction I was going (West), so I figured I finally get an AVR train on film. Well, I got to the next crossing...no train. You can see down the mainline right to that bridge...still no train. It was heading west, and crawling. So yeah....might have seen a ghost train.
Flo, Gary, Ed, Ulrich, Inch, Bent, Jan, Galaxy, Jimmy, Angelob and I will have a please.
Jimmy Love to hear your story. I have mine own from when I was in the Army thay I will post later.
Good News Bad News. Called SS offices to get to some none wife details on SS when I am 62.
Good News With her being 5 years older than me she will get $300.00 a month more than I thought!
Bad News With staying working anything I make over $17040.00 a year they keep half, that I knew. What I did not know say I think I will make $25000.00 they will keep $3980.00 worth of checks before I get dime! So much for my projected budget! I was thinking they would keep a % of the SS check's. Not keep a whole check or in the case checks!
Train Front Got the Mighty Strange B&O F7a open and ran it with the decoder off. Seems the rear flywheel or drive shaft is rubbing the chassic. Motor seems mouted tight? Off the top of my head I thinking the flywheel may have slipped back some? Need to drop the fuel tank and see how the motor is mounted if at all from the bottom.
Later Ken