Steven, I've got you a business car.
https://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEquipment.php?itemId=1143
You may have to register to see it, in which case you get weekly emails of stuff for sale, like hi-rails, used diamonds $5-$10K depending on rail weight, stainless steel vents, passenger cars and, this week, a wooden baggage car.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good Afternoon,
Yes, it certainly has been quiet in the diner lately.
We are expecting a hot day here as in 85F which is about 20 degrees above normal. Still no rain nor is any expected. There are fire bans all over the province . I heard the water bombers coming in to the airport here as they do every spring likely for some sort of annual check before their season starts. We are on a flight path and I really like to hear the sound of those big radial engines. Yes 2 of them are quite old and radial powered. They were based at the old air force base in Gimli and I used to get to see them practice in the lake by Gimli when we had our boat there.
We have been inundated with white throated Sparrows this past week. They sure have a lovely song but they are now moving on their northward migration.
Nothing new on the train front. The N scale stuff I had on consignment all sold so I have some cash in the train kitty. Not sure what I will do with it right now. I would like to get a HO S4 but it would have to be used as no one has a CN version out right now.
Garry, I sure like those Eire builts. CN had quite a few C Liners that were built in Canada by CLW. Several were of the 5 axle variety and were used in passenger service. They didn't last long as reliability wasn't their strong point. Still, a nice looking loco. I regret not picking up a copy when TLT brought out a model a couple of years ago.
We are working full tilt at the garden clean up. It is always a big job in the spring even though our yard is small. This afternoon I have to clean up around the rocks by the pond. When I say rocks I really mean bolder size as 3-4 feet in diameter.
First we need to do a few errands.
CN Charlie
Morning diners,
This place is abandoned, did someone forget the OPEN sign?
Anyways, went with my grandpa to drop off the mower deck, they'll have it fixed in a few days, did the pools, well that's it, if anyone comes in they'll think I'm talking to myself!
I'm outta here, be back when there's people to talk to.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Hello... (add echo)
Everything is self-serve today? Even fewer diners than yesterday!
Well, I'll refill my coffee Thermos and head on down the road.
Thanks for the wonderful views of Austria and environs, Ulrich. My dad was in Austria in the summer of 1945. I know that he had always wanted to return as a regular tourist as I remember seeing tour brochures in his stacks of magazines. That was one "bucket-list" item he never got a chance to fulfill.
Here's a recent modeling project I completed. Paint and decals on the PRR N5 cabin car. Enjoy!
PRR_5012bw_sm1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Hope to see more folks in here (the menu is outstanding, by the way) soon.
Regards, Ed
Gary, thanks for reminding me! Yes, Roco´s headquarter is located near Salzburg, but there are no manufacturing facilities any longer. They have been moved to Gloggnitz (Austria) for track and motors, and Arad (Romania) and Banska Bystrica (Slovakia).
While were are in Salzburg, we should pay Porsche a visit! It´s not the kind of Porsche you may think of right now, but a great model railroad show!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Hi Ulrich ..
Isn't Salzburg where Roco Trains is located.
I'll look at your tour tomorrow. It's after midnight here. Time for sleep.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning!
Let´s go to Salzburg today!
Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state Salzburg.
Salzburg's historic centre (Altstadt) is internationally renowned for its baroque architecture and is one of the best-preserved city centres north of the Alps. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The city has three universities and a large population of students. Tourists also visit Salzburg to tour the historic centre and the scenic Alpine surroundings.
Salzburg was the birthplace of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the mid‑20th century, the city was the setting for the musical play and film The Sound of Music.
Getting around in Salzburg is easy, eith just walk, or take a trolleybus! Salzburg does not have streetcars, but operates modern trolleybusses, which are fun to ride! They will take us from the main station to the Altstadt.
Salzburg is not only a city filled with music, but the sweet scent of numerous tasty goodies, like Mozartkugeln and Salzburger Nockerln.
The Salzburger Lokalbahn SLB (Local Railway) connects the surrounding towns and villages with the city of Salzburg, a service which is very much appreciated, as Salzburg is an ever-congested city with a definite lack of parking facilities. The railway operates modern, streetcar-like trains, which are rather boring. However, SLB also operae the Pinzgau Railway, a narrow gauge line with steam services during the summer months.
Enjoy your day!
cudaken. . .At least I am not sitting in a foxhole in the rain, 40 degrees outside with a leaking Pocho at 3:00 AM.
Ken: Years ago I was sitting in a sales team meeting and the regional manager was talking to the team. Some decisions had been made the year before to record some revenue early causing the sales accelerators to kick in and give eveyone a big boost in their commissions. On the flip side, it meant that the first half of the next year was going to be really lean. (I was a technical seller and was not affected like the true sales people on the team.) The regional manager, a Vietnam vet, told us that things were tough, but not to take it too seriously. He told us of being in a foxhole with bullets whizzing over his head. He told us, "No matter how tough it gets, just remember, these are not real bullets. I have seen real bullets. These are not real bullets." I have always remembered that. Whenever life gets especially tough, I just tell myself, "These are not real bullets."
Richard
This was my ride for today
Good evening ...
Two weeks late, we celebrated my wife’s birthday in Nashville yesterday afternoon and evening . We ate too much food at Ruth’s Chris , and spent the night at a downtown hotel.
Ray... it is good to hear you are active with your church and with BSA. Very nice your granddaughter is playing the flute. ... my iPhone keeps track of how many steps I walk each day, and I would not need one of those fitbits .... it is good you continue to improve your physical condition.
Ken. ... Maybe Walthers parts department can get you what you need to fix your locomotive. It seems like the model locomotives are assembled like Chinese puzzles, and you sometimes can’t figure out how they come apart.
Ulrich. .. thanks for commenting on my Santa Fe locomotives. . I ran them a while after we got home this evening. ... I will catch up with your latest videos when I can.
Regarding the Fairbanks Morse Erie Built passenger locomotives, they were assembled at a General Electric plant in Erie, PA. That’s where the name came from . They had 2000 horsepower per unit, and had a wheel arrangement of A1A-A1A. ... FM produced some shorter locomotives called C-Liners . Most of them were with a wheel arrangement of B-B, but there were some with an odd wheel arrangement of B-A1A. ..
Santa Fe owned one three unit set of Erie Builts. It was an ABA set with a total of 6000 horsepmower. Milwaukee Road had the most Erie Builts
Eveing Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a with a chaser and give Steven and Rick what they want.
Well I have had worst days! At lease I am not sitting in a foxhole in the rain, 40 degrees outside with a leaking Pocho at 3:00 AM. Been there and done that! It sucked rail spikes!
Work Front Another Rail Spike Day.
Train Front My Walther Proto 2000 SD 7 Bessemier was stalling a lot. Seems there has been designs changes when Walthers took them over. I thought I knew what the problem was, the clips that hold the pickup wire to the truck side frame. Hum they changed the design. OK, that is a good thing I think. Problem is they changed they way the truck side frame and wheels are held into the truck! Broke a side frame mounting tap off. Plus one one of the Number Board Lights Fell Out. Gave it a try to reinstall, now on the RIP Track.
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Man, am I bushed! Still wore out from all the stuff going on on Saturday (mostly just the nervous tension all day), then this morning I ushered at church, this evening was the Deacons Talent Show at Church. My granddaughter #1 played a couple short flute pieces from her band music (she started flute this year) and she did a great job! I think she was the youngest to perform. My Pastor did a couple of songs (she started out as a musician). So...... I think they have convinced me to at least get out my guitar and make a deadline to get the old fingers working for next years Talent show... Can't sing any more (well I can haul off and do an unaccompanied thingy but not really able with my hearing to sing anything like I used to. Frustrating, it is!), but I think I could hear well enough to start playing guitar again. Besides my granddaughter wants to start lessons again this summer.
Ran into a couple old friends who were there to accompany some of the performers. One is a lady who is an exceptional local accompanist and pianist who I have worked with in the past. We gave each other a big hug. She said she didn't recognise me...... Yep, I do look a bit different than I did a few years ago!
Tomorrow night is the Boy Scout Council Recognition Dinner. A couple of my old friends in Scouting are receiving their Silver Beavers there. I will be wearing mine so when we are all asked up to be the recipients I will be "properly dressed" for it. Tuesday the hearing loop will be installed. I told my pastor, since today was Sacred Song Sunday and there was no sermon, that I missed her sermon today, but expect to actually be able to hear it next Sunday!!! LOL
Right now I am waiting for my Fitbit to charge... Mowed the lawn today for the first time this year (last one in the neighborhood) and some of it was about 8" tall. Gave the EGO electric mower a definate workout. Since my two original batteries were reduced in charge over the winter, I didn't get very far on the first couple of batteries. I do have two 5 amp hour batteries that came with the snowblower, and used those to get a little over half done. By that time the 7.5 amp hour one was recharged and that finished it up. But.... I did get 13,450 steps registered today on the Fitbit! So I did walk a little over 14 miles this last week! I also figured out what was irritating my arthritis in my right hip. After losing weight, sitting on my wallet is causing the hip pain when I walk. I moved it into a front pocket and the pain has dissapeared now.
Hope you all have a great night!
"I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast." - George Burns
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening all,
Where is everybody?
Anyways here's the highlights,
Went to church, did yard work, filled the trench in, mowed grass with the other mower, and went to get the steel plate for the guy to weld tomorrow they only had 3 inch wide and 36 long, I was wanting 6 inch by 36 inch but oh well.
1.2 million? Brings to mind the "If I had a Million" track plan from 101 track plans.
I'll be hanging around if anyone stops by.
This has been a very quiet place today.
Well, I am off to bed. Good Night!
Slightly OT - I hope you don´t mind!
Let´s take a short break from our tour throughout Austria and have ourseves beamed all the way up north to Hamburg, where we are allowed to have a sneak preview on the making of the new section of the infamous Miniatur Wunderland - Venice!
Never mind the narration in German, just look what those folks are building! Simply awesome!
The new section covers an area of about 100 sq.ft. and required about $ 1.2 million to build!
Rise and Shine - early today, please! It´s a day to head out of Vienna ang go west. As Vienna is close to the eastern border, there is hardly a chance to go east!
Today, we will visit one of the famous lakes in the Salzkammergut, not far from Salzburg. Bad Ischl used to be Emperor Franz Joseph´s summer residence and anyone having been there understands, why. Really a lovely place, oozing that sweet Austro-Hungarian character, which was sometimes giving you a toothache, at least when you were of Prussian decent, like I am.
We will spend the day in and around St. Wolfgang, situated on the namesake lake, take a cruise on the like with the old paddle wheeler "Kaiser Franz-Josef", have lunch at the famous "White Horse Inn" and take the Schafbergbahn cog railway up to the summit of the Schafberg, from where we can overlook all of the Salzkammergut, on a clear day that is. And today will be a clear day!
Back at the White Horse Inn, an Austrain "Oompah" band will entertain us for a while before we take the boat to Bad Ischl, from where we will return to Vienna.
Make it a great day!
NWP SWPDave, in case you miss my first post, thank you for your being straightforward, I apologize for not saying thanks or thank you.
Thank you for that Steven! It restores my faith in you.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
howmusThe National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo."
Too funny!
Thanks Ray!
Evening diners,
Jimmy, I know how it is, once you get something that works stick with it.
Ulrich, I take a melatonin supplement for insomnia caused by my autism/OCD and a deficiency of naturally occurring melatonin, a pleasant side effect is I have less anxiety, which I think is three things, 1 the melatonin acts as anti anxiety, 2 the melatonin allows me to sleep which helps lessen anxiety, 3 a placebo effect.
Dave, in case you miss my first post, thank you for your being straightforward, I apologize for not saying thanks or thank you.
Anyways not much going on I'll stop by again later.
I'm a miracle whip fan myself, mayo is good, but I prefer the zing of whip.
amazingly i don't really have insomnia, so Im not willing to "tempt fate" in that regards. I've found that spearmint tea, for some reason, improves my mood greatly.
im waiting on the 1/4th inch styrene to come in- a week after I ordered it on amazon.
Man, the Hiawatha car is a work of art. the Pennsy is my first love, but Miwaukee road hit it out of the park With that car.
As I type my hockey team, the pittsburgh penguins are leading their game 3-2, and shpuld they win tonoght, they take a 3-2 series lead with pne more round before lord Stanley's cup.
(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).
Evenin' folks......
Yaaawwwwnnnnnnnnnn! I be pooped! I was up at 5:15AM this morning so I could drive for an hour and twenty minutes to get to Oakfield, NY by 8AM to set up at the Genessee Society of Model Engineers for the Division NMRA meet today.... It is always great to visit the club as they now have 4 layouts in there, and are always great hosts for us. The afternoon session was model railroad owned by one of our members who is also a member there and a visit to the local Shortlin Roundhouse to see some 1/1/scale stuff. I couldn't stay for the afternoon session as I had to get back home to change into my Boy Scout Uniform (complete with my Silver Beaver) for the Eagle award Ceremony for one of the young men in the Handicapped Troop I am the commissioner for. I provided two powerpoint presenations, printed the programs for it, and got to read the letter to Scout from National Office.
Anyway, I am currently exhausted!
The Sink De Mayo story is this:
"Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.
The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo."
One of my favorite bad puns!
Have to be an usher at church tomorrow morning and have to feed my fish and the kitties before I head to bed, so have a great night out there!
Happy Cinco De Mayo to everyone!
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I got together with the Southwest Florida Wargamers Club for a good time. Since it was 05/MAY we of course played a game set in Puebla in 1862. This is the Mexican line in defensive positions.
Then we moved to Texas for the Mexican assault on the Alamo. The Mexican army is getting ready to assault the walls at daybreak.
This has been a great day. We drank a lot of Modela, Corona, and Dos Equis. You better believe we ate a bunch of Nachos, Tacos and Guacamole. I hope everyone else was able to have a great day as well.
Be safe.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
That Hiawatha is gorgeous. I suppose back in the day, I would be gagging as the only non-smoker.
Installed a solar security light for the neighborhood. My landscape chairman has been storing this for 3 weeks. He told me he read the instructions, but now his story is there were never any instructions. We have a round pole, a lower mount that is 2 semicircular clamps and an upper flat mount and one semicircular clamp. Nothin online and the company was closed today.
The thing swivels like that construction crane in the Toronto windstorm on the news today. A former president, dealt with that by tightening the stainless bolts so tight the stripped and broke. Two people said they had replacement bolts but they didn't. Then all the help had things to do so we reconvened at 6 pm.
New bolts, it doesn't swivel as much, but I think we must be missing an adapter for the flat part to connect to the round pole.
Afternoon,
The mower gremlin is back!
The rear deck mount is broke again!
The other mount is close behind!
What am I going to do about it?
Going tomorrow to get two pieces of 4"x8"x1/2" steel plate, Monday me and my Paw Paw are going to the local welding school, his sons wife's father is dean so he figures they'll do it free or cheap. The plan is to clean up the mounts and the deck have them weld the mounts to the plates and then weld the plates to the deck, that should handle the problem.
maxmanNow we have a day for mayonnaise?
I'm a Miracle Whip guy, myself... *
In fact, how about slathering some on a BLT for me, Chloe, and I'll take it back to the observation-lounge of the Hiawatha and enjoy it there. Bartender— the usual!
Thank you, dear.
Hiawatha by Edmund, on Flickr
*I believe the "sinko-de-mayo" had something to do with mayonnaise being lost with the sinking of the Titanic...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinko-de-mayo/
Enjoy the weekend, everyone!
Cheers, Ed
Tinplate ToddlerHappy Hellmann´s Day!
Now we have a day for mayonnaise?
It´s a fine late afternoon. I spent some time watching a herd of deer grazing on the meadow behind our house. It´s really strange - the rail traffic on the adjacent mainline to Hamburg with its up to 20 trains an hour doesn´t seem to bother them, but a single car going down our road does.
I filmed these dinner guests just a little over a year ago!
Now the view is obscured by leaves.
Jimmy & Steven - I too suffer from insomnia, but I find, that sleep induced by medication is no help at all. I feel "freight-trained" the next morning and much more sleepy than if I had stayed up for an hour or so before heading for the hay again. It´s much better to find out what causes the insomnia than to battle it with pills. Well, that´s my worth, yours may be different!
Gary - I am glad you like the tour. A liitle appreciation now andd then is an ointment for a soul in distress!
The "warbonnet" scheme looks fine on the FM consist! Still one of the best known paint schemes in the world!
Yes it's about a 30-45 minutes from my house to downtown BR.
Jimmy, I have found a melatonin supplement helps me sleep ( i suffer from insomnia) and it combats the anxiety, that said it depends on the dosage it sometimes causes depression, I have been the course of anti anxiety/depression medications I've found that they worsen the condition. Good luck with your stuff, it does get better.
Jimmy .... As I said in Weekend Photo Fun ..... The bridge you are building looks like it will be awesome... ... Good luck with job hunting. It is a good idea to follow up with prostpctive employers soon after an interview.
Steven NWP SWP .... On the map, it looks like you are near Baton Rouge.
Ulrich ... Thanks again for posting the Austia tour.
I finally installed DCC in my ATSF Fairbanks Morse Erie Builts.
I posted more in Wekend Photo Fun.