Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Evening folks,
Ulrich, I understand and value you guys opinions, I don't really have a "grandfather" figure perse so I look up to you guys a little, and I thank Henry for his point of view.
Also I can put a good word in with the Man upstairs for you and yours if you wish.
Also just to clear up something, I've known Sarah since 3rd grade, and we've been friends for a long time, I think what happened was I got "friend" or "bro" zoned, as in not a dating option, and I misread some signals vice versa ect. Also I will add she's very immature more like a 16-17yo than 18 but then again her birthday was only a month ago. And I guess I can still be her friend.
Anyways,
No modeling today, and none for a while I'm back in a money pinch due to lack of work at the hotels, seems I did everything labor day!? My job is special projects.
I heard this song today I could swear I've heard that horn piece in some old show or something.
Well later folks!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
I can respect your reservations for elaboration TPT.
Regrettably I'm left in the dark here. I wish I could understand. I wish I could help.
TF
Thanks TF!
Anyways, so do you guys think feasibly I could lower the hood of a SD40 by 25%? In order to get the visibility clearance of a switcher, would It still clear the "Prime Mover" or no?
Well first off, she's a freshman, he's a freshman, he's also 17 she's 18, I'm NOT in high school I graduated and am taking a break year because I graduated EARLY. And I'll be 18 this January, by the way.
Shes also at a really strict Christian college, she's not looking for a status relationship, she's a home schooler like me. If she actually starts dating this guy it'd be her first time dating.
So have all the facts before you start choosing sides.
I'm actually over it but at the end of the day she led me on and wasn't straight with me and that's what annoyed me.
Example I was talking to a girl from graduation, she said that she had a boyfriend and couldn't talk to me, I said oh sorry my bad, and I'm not going to bother her again.
Honesty, it's such a lonely word.
Good evening Diners
After a three-day weekend with Family, then a full pallet on my plate for work this week. I had little time to catch up with you guys.
Ed and Garry thank you. It is nice to be remembered, you both put a smile on my face.... I didn't get locked in the basement with my Model Railroad and Trains Ed, I had to go back to work
Steven, next time I talk to my brother-in-law I will mention to him the PM you sent me and see what he has to say about it.
I hope all the East Coast people got evacuated all right. The S will hit the fan soon. I would hate to be a last-minute evacuator. Can't even imagine that traffic.
Nothing much on the modeling front from me lately.... That's what Winters are for right! Old Man Winter has his wing on the edge of the seasons. Good night to the crickets. Winter is coming fast.
Take care Friends
PS Alrich if you would, please elaborate a little. I have no idea what is is going on in Germany right now. I haven't heard anything on the news over here.... TF is a little concerned about TPT! Please share a little information if you will.
Appreciated Track Fiddler
Stephen if you are a freshman in college, which sounds better? I date a sophomore or I date a guy that is still in high school back home?
Actually when they get older, they have really viscious ways of telling you to go away. Dating someone else is the gentle way.
Beach Bill I almost went to Myrtle Beach this week. My parents took me there in 1957 and 58. On the news, it looks nothing like I remember. I saw my first Holiday Inn, with a really cool (for a 6 year old) neon sign that was sort of like the NBC peacock, only it was straight lines instead of tail feathers. Our motel had the first palm trees I ever saw and an island separating the deep and shallow end.
Loved the race track, really old jallopies. We ate at a night club. I think it must have been a dry county back then and a temporary membership was the only way my father could get his VO Manhatten. I had roast beef and strawberry short cake. My culinary choices were extremely limited back then. I fell asleep with my nose in the strawberry shortcake one night.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good afternoon all.
Flo - A RBF please. Thanks.
Ken - Glad that wife's surgery went well. Hopefully a quick and easy recovery comes next.
Steven NWP - I haven't said it yet, so nice job on the flat car.
Ulrich - Very nice vid of your layout.
SteveO - Thanks for the fresh baked bread!
Beach Bill - Hope that the home and layout are ok. Glad you are safe.
W*^k - Ken could relate, as I thought I was working with Jerry the past couple of days! They messed up, not just one, or two, but FIVE, YES FIVE!!! Deliveries this week! And the kicker? I was the one "assigned" to correct them! (Also, I was the one blamed for it, but that got shot down by me when I found the "lost" paperwork, sitting on the owners desk!) I'm beginning to think the commission that I am making here is simply not worth the hassle, especially if this is going to be a regular occurrence....
Weather - Getting a little humid again... Not to my liking...
Hope all are well, and all enjoy the day!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Afternoon diners,
I'm over it now so I'm better.
Mowed most of the grass, it was very therapeutic.
Moving on now, I'm going to do some more KCS gons to go one my coal mine switching layout, along with the tipple, and a pair of MP40SDs.
There's a bakery between here and home that makes the best hearth-baked bread. Sometimes I get a craving to hack off a slab about an inch thick, toast it just enough to warm it up for the butter, and go to town on it. Mmm. (It's great with cheese, too; makes me feel like a medieval French peasant farmer.) I guess I'm going to have to make a stop on the way home. Anyone else want a slice? Dig in. The crusty end is mine; that's the best part.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
NWP SWP,
I doubt it was about you, but more of a "bird in the hand" situation. She's at college, you're not. It probably doesn't mean anything to her. A lot of people see college as a time to date around, get a feel for what kind of person you are and what kind of person you want to be with. The same thing will happen to you when you go to college, and you'll be on more of an equal footing. For now, keep working hard and saving up money for college! Dating is expensive, almost as expensive as college textbooks.
Morning diners,
I feel better this morning, I'm still a little bothered by it, just how she didn't have the decency to say "I don't like you" she kinda led me on, honesty is always the best policy.
Well we can still be friends, I guess.
Moving on to better subjects.
Yeah I thought about doing some more KCS coal gons too.
Beach Bill If anyone wants to pause a moment and send good thoughts for the Winneshiek & Western to run again without damage, that would be appreciated.
I hope your home survives Bill! That's not something that I ever want to face. I'm not religious but I will cross my fingers for you.
We are blessed to live in southern Ontario. The last hurricane was in 1954 (Hazel) and it did an incredible amount of damage. A lot of lessons were learned the hard way, like don't build on flood plains.
There are some amusing stories (at least in hindsight) that came from the storm. One occurred right here in Bradford. The Holland Marsh flooded and one family's two storey house started to float. The family was still inside it! As it floated across the marsh the family had to keep moving from one side to the other to keep it from falling over. I'm not sure if the house survived or not but the family did.
There were less amusing events of course. As the water surged down the Don River through Toronto the washed out trees and debris built up against the low concrete bridges that spanned the river. The first bridge burst releasing a huge amount of dammed up water. That surge hit several more bridges downstream and each one let go in the same manner. IIRC there were 800 houses washed away that had been built on the flood plains.
Good luck,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I'm going to college next fall, I'm a year early so I took a year off.
I'm going to invite my Sunday school class to the Fall art crawl to hear me sing, hopefully some of the girls in the class will come listen, I'll instantly become "Mr. Cool" or the "sensitive music guy" either one works.
And anyway it's her loss, and I actually feel happy for her, the guy actually is about as much of a geek as she is with the superheroes and star wars and doctor who, sci-fi stuff, so they kinda are birds of a feather.
And I just posted a picture of the sheet music for Honesty on my instagram, I did the same with She's got a way, if you could read my mind, and you may be right, so it's not obvious, but I said in the caption I'm thinking about doing it for fall art crawl, which I am, and there's the Burn Factor, so yeah I feel better.
Also just to point out I don't even know If she said yes, her post didn't even imply it so she could've turned the poor chap down like she did me, I reached the reasonable conclusion she did say yes.
Flo ... I’ll have a vanilla malted milk shake please.
Ken .. Thanks for offering a T bone . You are off the hook because I’m having expensive dental problems currently . I have trouble chewing now. .... I’m pleased to hear your wife’s surgery went well . It is good of you to take care of her . She will need you as she heels.
NWP SWP .. if you don’t mind a suggestion, I think you should continue making the KCS coal cars You did well on the first one. ... Also, don’t worry about women. Instead, just continue improving yourself . Consider taking college classes yourself . You will do very well. My 2 cents.
T F ... good to see you
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Well I need a stiff drink, I'll take an Arnold Palmer, spike it with ginger ale and give me a root beer chaser.
Just found out my friend Sarah got asked out on a date by a guy at college, I'm not bothered by it in as much that I'm annoyed she didn't just tell me that she didn't want to go out with me when I asked her.
Oh well, there's plenty of other girls out there.
I'm back again,
Ken, glad your wife did well in surgery, hopefully the pain will he gone when the meds wear off.
Looks like TF just showed up we can call off the posse.
Good wishes to those in the path of Flo.
Evening Diners
I've been away for a few days, I Wish Positive Thoughts, Good Karma, and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Today is September 12th 2018.
My friend and yours Johnny Cash died 15 years ago on this date.
A moment of silence for the Man In Black...... The Man that loved Steam Locomotives and sung about them.
He's Upstairs with the Big Man
Eveing Diners
Flo, Give the gang a , Gary what ever he wants. Yes a T-Bone Steak Dinner is fine with me Flo.
Gary Thank You for reading my post about the Wife surgey! We where up at 4:00 AM and at the hospital at 6:00 AM. Surgery took around 1 hour and 15 minutes so it went well. She seemed in good sprits when I left at 7:00 PM. Well she is all so on some drugs so that helped.
Thursday will be the real test, the block that they have her will be worn off by then and they are going to make her walk.
Well I am running out of steam, so later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Also I'm trying to figure out my set list for when I play the Zachary Fall Art crawl. I'm pretty set on She's Got a Way (Joel), If you could read my mind (Lightfoot), and You may be right (Joel)
I'm thinking about doing an interlude of the chorus from Love Story in She's got a way.
It'd go like this.
Evening diners,
I'm thinking about building a diorama or at least the structures for it, maybe some locomotives.
I'm thinking about doing a SD40T switcher with a cut down long hood about the height of a SW1500 or MP15, no short hood, and the spartan cab. I still have to work on the F45 spartan cab to get it just right and the P42cbu though so I might wait a while.
This is what it'd look like.
With an engine still of course.
Good afternoon
Beach Bill ... good to see you here again. Glad you and your wife evacuated to a safe place . That was wise. Of course human life matters more than possessions.
Mr. B. .. 40 years with the same barber shop is remarkable . I bet the new place did well however.
Ed .. The train stranded in the flood is interesting . I recall when CB&Q rescued diesel trains with steam locomotives from flooded tracks.
Bill, welcome back to the diner, we'll certainly send some best wishes your way, hopefully your home and layout will survive with minimum to no damage!
I got a haircut. Big deal? Well, it's the first haircut in 40 years that was not done at my barbershop in Concord, MA. I've relocated to Virginia, so Concord is a bit far to go now.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
gmpullman Mornin' Folks I hope anyone in the Carolinas and mid-South weathers the storm that's on its way. Best of luck to all you folks! Cheers, Ed
Mornin' Folks
I hope anyone in the Carolinas and mid-South weathers the storm that's on its way. Best of luck to all you folks!
Cheers, Ed
Beach Bill here- haven't been to the diner for some time but was a regular there for a while. We evacuated North Myrtle Beach yesterday (Tuesday) and are safe at my sister's apartment in Asheville, NC. Forecast does not look good for the Winneshiek & Western RR.
When I moved to the beach I recognized the possibility of a serious hurricane and I did the difficult decision-making early. I established one good-sized evacuation box, and put the boxes of locomotives and such in there that I would most want to save. Several cabooses with interiors and passenger cars with interiors completed are also in that box. My wife and I each drive a Prius, so there is not much room. I also allowed one "copy paper box" of RR books. With over 500 RR books in the library, deciding on the last ones to fit in that box is difficult. Despite the hours involved, the structures are still on the layout.
Very little to do now but wait. I had the house built with sloping roof and no gables for the wind to get under and I believe that it is okay for a Cat 2... There is a risk of flooding from rain. If anyone wants to pause a moment and send good thoughts for the Winneshiek & Western to run again without damage, that would be appreciated.
Bill
Good morning ...
Meanwhile, in TN..... Here is a neat steam powered streamliner.
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Ulrich ... Glad you liked the donut...
FRRY ..... You are working on a fun project, the Athearn Geep ... I have wished they offered the GEEP without dynamic brakes.
Wonder where Track Fiddler has been? He was having house guests for the weekend. Maybe they locked him in the basement — with his trains, I hope.
I gave the layout about a five-hour workout last night, just to "clear the cobwebs" as it were. Lots of fun, a few minor glitches, but still a good time.
This is The Alouette, near Plymouth, New Hampshire, stranded in the March, 1936 flood. Fourteen days of rain and melting snow and ice wrecked havoc in New England.
B&M_20_3635 by Edmund, on Flickr