Evening diners my hardest Bridge. I had to think inside the box cuz the bamboo sticks weren't working for the mock-up.
Canadian walleye fillet for everyone. I'm buying!
Four pillars not piers. Two under laying curved tracks. It took a while, alas I got it.
Measure twice and cut once and I still managed to cut an oversize circle for my turntable.
Plan B Use Ken Patterson's technique of using a router. He does it indoors, holding a shop vac hose next to the router. I did it outside. His shop vac is better than mine. For those of you old enough to remember Larry Flynt, I created a whole new meaning to think pink. I can't believe he does this indoors. I had to call my wife on my cell phone to vacuum me off.
Fortunately I was wearing a respirator. Unfortunately I discovered in the shower that during my work in the woods, a tick took up residence in a place I cannot mention in the diner. He came out still kicking, as opposed to leaving his head behind, so he must not have been there too long. We live in Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever land, but he chance of being infected is related to how long the tick is holding on.
Is it ground hog mating season? Yesterday on the news, a cop had to draw down on a ground hog that charged him across a 4 lane highway. Today a woman was attacked by a ground hog and they are claiming it is mating season. I hunted ground hogs a few times and if they saw me a 100 yards away, they did not wait around to see what happened next. The foxes have had there pups, the eagles eggs have hatched and I doubt that groundhogs are just getting around to being amorous.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
moelarrycurly4 RideOnRoad Page 5 is displaying correctly today. Wasn't earlier. Finally fixed? (Fingers Crossed)
RideOnRoad Page 5 is displaying correctly today. Wasn't earlier. Finally fixed? (Fingers Crossed)
Page 5 is displaying correctly today. Wasn't earlier. Finally fixed? (Fingers Crossed)
Richard
That is because this is page 6........
Southern railway serves the south, oh wait that was last month!
Not much going on. Went to the club last night, still having problems with track cleaning, I have been given permission to try "gleaming" on a extra piece of flex track to see if it helps.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Afternoon folks!
Jimmy_Braummy dna history is a combination of German Hungarian slovak English and who knows what else
I used to tell my eighth grade classes when we would start the unit on "World Music" that most all of us are a mix of many different nationalities. Then I would tell them I am mostly English and German with some Irish, Scotch and a little Bourbon as well. Today I would have been fired on the spot for that but my classes would roar.....
Just a quick break from getting several things done today. Did my 3 miles over at the fieldhouse. They are setting it up for Hobart and William Smith Colleges Graduation this Saturday. Ran into an old friend who is one of the major Sound Guys in the country (Greg Bennett who owns Moondog Sound). He is doing the sound for graduation. He is also doing audio and video installations now, so I got his card to give to the church as we move forward on streaming the services soon. We are making a checklist of where the noise problem may be coming from in the hgearing loop that was put in yesterday. I think we have a ground loop prob;lem somewhere in the circuitrey. One of our members works for the local electric company and deals with this sort of stuff so we will get him involved...
Also trying to get all the information I need to create the Program for the MLK Scholarship Dinner a week from today. I could use about two more weeks to get everything done! Best get back to work and get something accomplished before I have to Take Manet to the Vet for a check-up.
Ulrich, I haven't had time to see any of the videos, but will after I get caught up with the deadlines here!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hello, Everyone...
Remembering the Big Event of one hundred forty-nine years ago.
UP_CP-5-10-1869 by Edmund, on Flickr
How quickly the time passes!
I hope you good folks are doing well, to those not.
Cheers, Ed
Good morning .
FRRY .... Nice looking SD45, but the photo made it look shorter than it is .
Ulrich .... Nice scenery in the viseos. I like the European stone arch viaducts.
Henry .... Interesting news from UP about the Big Boy.
Jimmy .... Good to hear your club has a new member .... Best wishes regarding job prospects.
Ken .... Sounds like your Digitrax stuff is giving you problems. ... If you have a defective decoder of any brand including Digitrax , you can send it with $10 to NCE, and they will send you a new NCE decoder. I have done that.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
MLC hope the wife gets better soon.
I stumbled on UP's twitter account and they are having a live announcement Thursday night about the Big Boy they are restoring. They are machining bolts with a CNC machine and converting it to an oil burner.
Morning all.
my dna history is a combination of German Hungarian slovak English and who knows what else, so I appreciate seeing stuff from my ancestors home. ITs fascinsting.
welol, potential lead for a real job, I just havent had the energy or time to go talk to the owner about it. Hopefully I can tomorrow.
work on my trestle is going well, except I'm almost out of cement. Trip to the hobby store I guess is in order soon.
My club picked up a new member, so we're at about 13-14 members now. not a bad number, and since he's my age, this will make setup of our modulars a lot quicker and easier. we only take our portable layout on the road once a year, since we are An older age club and it takes toll on our older members. Although, maybe if we get an influx of young peopl, anything is possible.
i saw a sport I follow might be for sale-NASCAR. All I am going to say on that is, Brian France messed up the sport so badly, maybe someone new needs to run it. Someone who actually listens to the Fans.
Supposed to be a nice day here, and I work.... sigh.
have a great day all
(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!
This place looks deserted lately! I hope it is not my "Tales of Austia" keeping folks out of this place.
Time to "git goin´ ". This time, we are heading south and take a train ride along the Südbahn (Southern Railway).
The Southern Railway is a railway in Austria that runs from Vienna to Graz and the border with Slovenia at Spielfeld via Semmering and Bruck an der Mur. It was originally built by the Austrian Southern Railway company and ran to Ljubljana and Trieste, the main seaport of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; a main obstacle in its construction was getting over the Semmering Pass over the Northern Limestone Alps. The twin-track, electrified section that runs through the current territory of Austria is owned and operated by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and is one of the major lines in the country.
Construction of this unique line commenced in 1841 and reached Trieste in 1857. It was the first railroad across mountain terrain. At the time, when the construction started, there was no engine available which was sufficiently powerfull for the mountain climb.
We reach the city of Graz in about two and a half hours.
Graz is the capital of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. On 1 January 2018, it had a population of 325,021 (of which 289,440 had principal residence status). In 2015, the population of the Graz larger urban zone who had principal residence status stood at 633,168.Graz has a long tradition as seat of universities: its six universities have almost 60,000 students. Its historic centre is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe.
For centuries, Graz (Slovene: Gradec) was more important to Slovenes, both politically and culturally, than the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, and it remains influential to this day.
In 1999, Graz was added to the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage Sites, and the site was extended in 2010 with Eggenberg Palace (German: Schloss Eggenberg). Graz was sole Cultural Capital of Europe for 2003 and got the title of a City of Culinary Delights in 2008.
Have a great day!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Eveing Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a and give Rick and Steven what they want.
Work Sucked and not looking forward to Wednesday. Seems my customer that bought a King Set from Saturday heard what she want to hear and not what I said. Told her Tuesday we will call after 6:00 PM and before 8:00 PM and give you a 3 hour time frame we can deliver your mattress. What she heard was we will deliver it after 4:00 PM and before 8:00 PM. Go figuer?
Brother Can you spare a DB 150? Tried to do a reset of the DB 150 and got some strange reading on the DT 400. (I posted about it in the DCC section) I all so found out that Digitrax no longer makes DB 150's. I just hope they can still fix them! I was some what shocked by the current command stations prices! I paid $329.00 for the SEB and power supply guessing 7 years ago. Now a command station by it self is $300.00? Seen a system by Digitrax called EVO for $360.00 that I don't have to spare.
Seems strange not hearing the Mighty CB&Q F7's dragging freight.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
This is my 2.000th post.
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Thank you for joining me in celebrating this meaningless milestone.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Evening All!
Hobby Front: Latest Project: Another take on NP SD45 3617. (I bombed out on the Spectrum unit.) Still in process. It is an Athearn SD45 bought via eBay. (Found completely by accident. Looking for freight cars and ended up with an engine!) I can't take credit for most of the paint. Someone had painted the unit in NP colors already. (The 4 window side panels and the proper NP headlight were also already installed.) I had to touch up a couple of areas where the prior painting was a little sloppy. I also had to fix some sloppy CA gluing. (Easily cleaned with some Glue Buster. Bottle can just be seen in the far end of the photos.) The only decals that I didn't have to do are the monad on the cab sides and the logo on the nose. Also trimmed the handrails a little bit to get them a little closer to correct. The plow and the airhorn both will be reused from the Spectrum unit and will be attached later. The antenna is on order as I couldn't find the ones I had ordered previously.
(Also ordered some styrene strip for the wheel car and some horns for the 1200. I snapped the replacemtn horn off again and I can't find those either.)
We are back in Vienna - time for a relaxing evening with good food, excellent wine and typical Viennese music at a Heurigen!
Time to say Good Night to you, I will see y´all tomorrow morning!
Garry,
The SLIM started running a tourist operation in 1986 using steam, The steam engine is in parts on the property, They aquired the E-8 , it is ex penn and ex amtrak and geared for 120 mph. They only have about 5 miles of track and run a two hour train. (hour out and hour back) They do murder mystery, train robbery stuff, etc. That was my first time over there.
Hello everybody .
MLC .. interesting about the E8. I have not heard of that short line. Jackson is near Cape G which reminds me of Jim who used to be a regular customer here in the Diner. I wonder what happened to him..... we have a small group of people who will be on the dinner train in Branson MO soon.
Ulrich. .. Continued thanks for the tour.
Ulrich,
Enjoying the tour---JaBear, anywhere near the sinkhole???
herrinchoker
Good Morning all,
Now the wife has the crud I had only worse. Her's tunred into a bacterial infection. So we got her Meds. Put her to bed.
Garry: That E-8 is over in Jackson MO on the St louis and Iron Mountain. The railroad museum here, chartered a train Sunday. The engine needs a little work on one prime mover as she is using oil. It was a nice trip and we had good weather, the storms stayed over in Paducah. I may go over and help them once and a while. That engine compartment was hot. I rode the Caboose helping with the conductor duties and we were inspecting the track. ( got a little tie work to do)
Morning diners,
I been in and out for a while. Lately it's been hard to communicate. Since I took a two week break from the forums. I haven't had a really good reason to continue talking daily, like I used too. I guess I have better things to do than chatting on the forum.
I am enjoying the trip around Austria.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Westward ho! Our tour throughout Austria takes us even further West - to the state of Tyrolia and its capital Innsbruck.
Innsbruck is the capital city of Tyrol in western Austria and is the fifth-largest city in Austria. It is in the Inn valley, at its junction with the Wipp valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass some 30 km (18.6 mi) to the south.
Located in the broad valley between high mountains, the so-called North Chain in the Karwendel Alps (Hafelekarspitze, 2,334 metres or 7,657 feet) to the north, and the Patscherkofel (2,246 m or 7,369 ft) and Serles (2,718 m or 8,917 ft) to the south.
Innsbruck is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics. Innsbruck also hosted the first Winter Youth Olympics in 2012. The name translates as "Inn bridge"
Today´s highlight is a ride to Fulpmes at the foot of the Stubai Glacier. The Stubaitalbahn was one of the earlier electric railways operated on AC. Until 1983, the railway employed the trains from the year of the opening, but changred to DC operation, when it was integrated into Innsbruck´s streetcar system.
The following video shows the "once upon a time":
For the times they are a - changing:
Enjoy!
up831The sad thing is I can halfway understand those Texans speaking German, but native speakers throw me for a loop.
Jim, I am with you on this! There are "native speakers" in Germany I hardly understand! People in my neck of the woods are said to speak the cleanest German, without a trace of a dialect, which makes it a dialect of its own. People in southern Germany, namely Bavaria, and eastern Germany, Saxony, are speaking something I would not even consider to be German at all, at best it has a faint resemblance. But even that can be topped - just go to Austria or Switzerland. Would you believe that Swiss movies require German subtitles for us to understand even a single word? If you had thought it couldn´t get worse, than let´s move to the Netherlands. The Dutch language is basically a German dialect, like it is spoken in the northwest of Germany. Blend in a few English bits and pieces and add a sore throat and clogged up nose and there you have the Dutch language! That´s, of course, tongue in cheek ...
Good evening Diners,
Brunhilde, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please. And set up a round or "other" for Ken and the gang.
Speaking of Brunhilda, Ulrich, you found her! Or maybe I should say you found her y'all. The sad thing is I can halfway understand those Texans speaking German, but native speakers throw me for a loop. I'm just not accustomed to hearing it, and I can't even understand words that I know.
I've not been to New Braunfels, but there is a place nearby that has this good Mexican restaurant in what looks like an old mission that was destroyed by a fire. Good food, good atmosphere. I thought the place was called Gruen (Green), but I'm not sure.
The wurst festival sounds like it might be fun, but it could be the worst wurst festival. Sorry, couldn't resist. Would that I could enjoy a few of those craft brews, but I'll have to stick to wine.
MTDentailed: when I could drink beer, I liked medium to full bodied Amber ales, malty not hoppy. But then again, I loved the old Olympia before it was bought and they changed the recipe.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Afternoon Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a please and give Rick and Steven what they like.
Day Off Cut the rear yard for the first time this year. I swear I have more Weed Than Wood Stock!
Train Wars Some times I wished I stayed DC! Trains where running fine, stopped the layout to change a engine. Decoder Pro would not take comand of the Santa Fe Erie Bulit? Hum, something wrong with the engine? Tried the C&O RS2, samething? Next none of the egines will take a command? Tried hooking the DT 400 straight to the DB 150 thinking the PR 3 died, nothing? Tried the Digitrax DB 150 with out the throttle, nothing! I have power to the tracks becuse a few of the engines Lights will come on, but after that nothing!
Unplugged every thing and will give it another try Tuesday when I get up. If I where to guess it would be the DB 150 has given up it's ghost.
New Braunfels has a reputation for good beer and good wurst and they know how to celebrate both properly at the New Braunfels Wurstfest in November!
I think my German is slightly better. Well, it should be!
Hi;
Here in New Braunfels , Texas we have a bunch of them . last count was 12 ! Good brews . That depends if you like Lager or Ale . Some are Wheaty some Hoppy. I like a good Bock with a Bright taste but Filling feel .
Howdy ...
I have not had much train time yet today .
Ulrich .. I saw part of your last video. Impressive.
CN Charlie ... I can remember CN had some of those C-Liners . I think several railroads decided FM diesels were more costly to operate and maintain than the competition .
MLC ... Feel free to us more about the PRR E8.
Ed ... I like your PRR cabin car.
cheers, everybody.
He better hurry, I think Amtrak is, or has, changed their policy on hauling around private varnish.
Mike.
My You Tube
Henry, I'll just get out my waller and write them a check!
For now I'll have to settle for the smaller stuff, as in HO scale