Evening diners,
If I did indeed win $10,000 for a shopping spree I do hope that the prize would be $10,000 and a building to put the layout in! I would probably spend the first $2,500 on locomotives the second $2,500 on rolling stock and the last $5,000 on the layout itself. That includes custom painting for some of the locomotives and rolling stock.
I'll stop by later on, happy Easter!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Jim ... I like your lantern idea very much. . . Nice idea got MRR awareness month. I think our hobby deserves more attention
Brent ... intriguing video.
Steven NWPSWP .... $10,000 would be a nice prize. Perhaps a day will come when you are having a successful career and that amount will be affordable to you. I hope so.
Happy Model Railroading , everybody!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
This just in: The administration announced today that April is Model Railroading Awareness Month. According to one official, people may or may not be aware that model railroading is the finest hobby there is. He went on further to state that it is beneficial, educational, and just plain fun. Now who doesn't want to have fun. Another official said that if you've seen a model railroad, you're aware of it. The celebration will start with a parade of locomotives starting at Horseshoe curve and ending at the Tehachapi Loop.
Happy April Fools.
Seriously, just a suggestion, but I really like the picture of the lantern n the track. If there's no copyright issues, how about using that picture for the RIP Track?
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
I want one!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Good morning and happy Easter from the Wild West Coast. It's 10c at 0800hrs with a high overcast.
The hunt is on! Release the hounds.
The hunt has been prepared for my 16 year old daughter with chocolate eggs having been spread all over the house for when she wakes up. The kid found his bag of eggs in his helmet in his hockey bag. I thought he would share them with the team but he said NO-WAY! I obviously didn't bring him up right. He plays for the Gold medal at 1345hrs today and then drives two hours back to Calgary for his flight back to Ottawa at 2300hrs. Think I'll be somewhat of a deadbeat today as the wife is at a dog show all day. May run the 48 car freight with the mid-train helper I put together. It ran for over an hour without a hiccup last week while I puttered in the trainroom. I don't have a big enough parking spot for it so I will have to dismantle it out on the main if I want to run something else. Hopefully, a new house will allow for a much longer A/D track, I like watching 50 cars snake around the layout. Watch out for alligators in the pool and on the golf course. I wonder if my Grizzly bear spray I carry with me up here would work on a gator. All the best to all. P.S. Young Steven, if you did win the $10,000.00 shopping spree, what would the shopping list look like?
The hunt has been prepared for my 16 year old daughter with chocolate eggs having been spread all over the house for when she wakes up. The kid found his bag of eggs in his helmet in his hockey bag. I thought he would share them with the team but he said NO-WAY! I obviously didn't bring him up right. He plays for the Gold medal at 1345hrs today and then drives two hours back to Calgary for his flight back to Ottawa at 2300hrs.
Think I'll be somewhat of a deadbeat today as the wife is at a dog show all day. May run the 48 car freight with the mid-train helper I put together. It ran for over an hour without a hiccup last week while I puttered in the trainroom. I don't have a big enough parking spot for it so I will have to dismantle it out on the main if I want to run something else. Hopefully, a new house will allow for a much longer A/D track, I like watching 50 cars snake around the layout.
Watch out for alligators in the pool and on the golf course. I wonder if my Grizzly bear spray I carry with me up here would work on a gator.
All the best to all.
P.S. Young Steven, if you did win the $10,000.00 shopping spree, what would the shopping list look like?
Good morning everyone!
Happy Easter!
I got an email from Walthers that I was the lucky winner of a $10,000 shopping spree!
Just kidding!
Happy April Fools!
BATMANHad four hours sleep last night and won both games today. He was sound asleep by nine tonight. Kids these days just have no stamina.
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Tell me about it. My daughters and sons-in-law hate going out for a night with Mary and me. It is embarassing when the old farts can out-party the twenty year olds!
They are ready to go home by 10:00 and asleep by 11:00. No stamina at all. Mary and I are just getting started at that point.
No wonder all the late night dance bars with live music play classic rock. The kids just can't do it.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Everybody ... Happy Easter !
Steven NWPSWP ..... Thanks for moving the Diner .... I like the photos you included .. The Vicksburgh bridge is a classic.
In partucluar, I like the SOU GP30 with high short hood. Remarkably, SOU operated its locomotives long end forward, but this photo shows an exception.
Jeff lived in Louisiana and I bet he would like the choice for this month's location.
Here are Southern and Frisco E-units in Birmingham AL .
hon30critter BATMAN Kids these days just have no stamina. Neither do I! Dave
BATMAN Kids these days just have no stamina.
Neither do I!
Dave
I have stamina. Just not very much.
Robert.
LINK to SNSR Blog
BATMANKids these days just have no stamina.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterWhen I was in university I used to do all my reading and essay writing in the wee hours of the morning because there was nobody around to interrupt me.
That is exactly what my kid tells me.
He had two hours of sleep Thursday night. He was up at four and flew to Calgary, was in a van for two hours to Red Deer, got there just in time to play a game that night as the Vancouver part of the team had a big flight delay. Had four hours sleep last night and won both games today. He was sound asleep by nine tonight. Kids these days just have no stamina.
It's the Old Vicksburg Bridge in Vicksburg, MS over the Mississippi River, I had the privilege to go out on the middle with a train coming across for my birthday last year.
Steven:
Neat bridge! Where is it located?
BATMANDave, it is past your bedtime. GO TO BED!
I'm afraid I have been a night owl most of my life. My parents let me stay up late on the weekends to watch movies with them, and then they let me sleep in in the morning. That started my nocturnal habits. When I was in university I used to do all my reading and essay writing in the wee hours of the morning because there was nobody around to interrupt me. These days I regularly stay up all night, particularly when I have a task to do like working on the club's layout drawings. My wife has come to accept me sleeping in in the morning. I do go to bed 'on time' when I have to get up the next day.
It's after midnight. Good morning everyone!!
Thanks, Steven
Dave, it is past your bedtime. GO TO BED! As I always tell my kid when he is still up in Ottawa when I am going to bed.
How about we leave this so our friends that have past will see which way we went.
I'll try to post some stuff from my neck of the woods.
Yes better do the south now than next month or the next, it's not the most "enjoyable" place come midsummer.
Enjoy, and have fun!
Here's some music about the good old south and the country way of life.
Thanks Steven. Better to do the southern US at this time of year rather than in July!
Brent, thanks for the great video! British Columbia is every bit as beautiful as it suggests. We were there a couple of years ago. Didn't get to Squamish but we will next time.
We should consider taking the diner to Northern Ontario in the fall. The Agawa Canyon is spectacular when the fall colours are out, and the route along Lake Superior is magnificent.
Greetings from the Deep South! From Texas to Florida we are on a month long tour of the Dixie's railroad offerings.
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The staff here is very friendly and able to serve. There's Zoe, Chloe, Flo, Janie, and Brunhilda. They'll serve up plenty of virtual food with a smile and a friendly "See any nice trains today?"
Chef Ryan has set up a fire pit and smoker to cook up some good ol' BBQ!
Enjoy!
The RIP Track
"Gone, but never forgotten!"
Have fun!