Gee TF you're in my old stomping grounds, back when I was a wee lad we lived in Cool Springs, Tennessee; Franklin, Tennessee was like the next town over by just a few miles.
Franklin used to be the hotspot for country music stars to live, we once saw Billy Ray Cyrus's wife and daughter, Miley Cyrus, at the local Kroger's.
We went back to Franklin back in 2014 (I think it was 14 or 13), we were in town for the Notre Dame vs LSU Bowl game, we drove by our old house, stopped by the hotel my dad ran way back when, some of the staff remembered him all those years later!
I'm feeling better for right now the Caraphate (probably not the right name) along with some tums has my stomach feeling ok right now.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
BigDaddyWaiting for an Amazon package, I clicked on tracking and a map of my neighborhood came up and said 5 stops away!
MOST of the time Amazon gets it right. Of course, not long ago it was UPS and USPS doing most of the delivery. Lately they have their own people doing it.
Sometimes I check tracking and it will say package delivered at 1:10 PM. Funny, I've been home all day. Don't remember any package at 1:10.
Sure enough, I check back with Amazon and there is a photo of somebody else's front porch with my package on it. Well, it is nearly impossible to contact Amazon directly but once you navigate a bunch of useless pages you can finally get to someone, usually by THEM calling you back. They tell you to wait a few days and see if it turns up
One of the worst things to happen is if UPS or Amazon leaves a package for me in my U.S. Mail box. Sometimes the USPS carrier will pick up the package, it will be gone for 4 or 5 more days and I'll get a postage due note — sometimes for ten or more dollars — just to get my own ransomed package back
Lately they have gotten a little better but they still have some growing pains.
I hope everyone, including the ailing Steven, gets better or is doing well. I don't do much for breakfast, either. Sometimes an English Muffin or maybe a little cottage cheese, plus the usual pot of coffee. Anything more than that and, as noted by others, I feel weighed down and bloated all day. Forget the experts, do what you feel best with. Breakfast like a pauper, dinner like a King!
Cheers, Ed
moelarrycurly4How about a B-17 as a gas station https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968
So glad to hear that it is being restored!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Mrs MLC had to have the Caraphate (sp) earlier this year due to aggrivation caused by muscle relaxers.
Memphis is a different town than "Nashvegas".
hon30critter The most important issue AFAIC is the day's calorie intake. My one meal a day and late night snack usually amount to less than 2000 calories. Now if I could only quit the diet pop (soda for you southerners)! Dave
The most important issue AFAIC is the day's calorie intake. My one meal a day and late night snack usually amount to less than 2000 calories. Now if I could only quit the diet pop (soda for you southerners)!
I do say there, my good man, I am from Pennsylvania and by no means a Southerner, as any true Southerner will be quick to tell you. And we drink soda, thank you very much (well, actually, I really only drink water or unsweetened tea (more proof I'm not a Southerner, no Southerner drinks unsweetened tea, in fact they drink EXTRA sweet tea), since sugary drinks are bad for you and the diet ones are just as bad if not worse). Now, the wierdos in the western part of the state, they drink pop.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
BigDaddyPerforated ones happen one in 10 or 20,000.
OK Henry, I gues my wife fit in that catagory. It wasn't a fun time, and it was serious. The 3 day stay was for intravenous antibiotics for the infection from the leakage, and about 2 weeks off work to recover.
Prayers for your SIL.
Mike.
My You Tube
rrinkerI do say there, my good man, I am from Pennsylvania and by no means a Southerner, as any true Southerner will be quick to tell you.
Randy, sorry for using the wrong term, but all of you who reside in the good old USA are 'southerners' as far as we Canadians are concerned.
You have to understand where I am coming from. I don't wish to offend. Being a good Canadian all I can say is 'eh!' or 'where's the beer?'. Of course, it has to be good beer. Just so you know how patriotic I am, my son buys the inexpensive (read "cheap") beer that originates from 'south' of the border for himself and his friends. I refuse to let him bring the stuff into my home!! When I ask him to bring me a case of beer I have to remind him of my standards. Please make it Alexander Keith's or Sleemans! I have to confess that I'll take Corona too! I guess that makes me a bit of a hypocrite as far as this conversation goes. So what, they are all excellent brews.
Seriously, I'm just poking fun at my friends below the border. You are great people and you deserve an enormous amount of respect for the good that you have done in the past and are doing now in the world. The world would be a much nastier place without you Americans.
Have a Happy New Year guys!
hon30critterBeing good Canadians all we can say is 'eh!' or 'where's the beer?'. Of course, it has to be good beer.
Back in '87 on one of my honeymoons we spent a week in the Toronto area. I got hooked on Labatt's Blue (among many others). Returning to the States I bought several six packs of the glass bottled Labatt's and it tasted like squirrel tinkle!
I came to the conclusion that you guys keep all the good stuff for yourselves and send us the spoiled stuff, eh?
I'll have to find a photo I recall of me slurping the head off a good Labatt's.
I agree with you, Dave, that life's too short for cheap beer!
Eveing Diners
Flo, get the gang and I a please.
Best Wish to all who them selfs or family health problems.
Work Front Far from being busy with only 3 customers but it was still a pretty fair day. All 3 bought and total sales while a mer $2200.00 it was a win!
Far as Casey Jones here is a video about the wreck site I watched a few days ago. Wreck was not his fault far as I know.
Ed The days I am working has my head all messed up. Work a day, day off, work a day, day off and work another day has me a little confused. Not has bad as my wifes. She wanted to know where I was going this morning?
Later Ken
I hate Rust
gmpullmanBack in '87 on one of my honeymoons we spent a week in the Toronto area. I got hooked on Labatt's Blue (among many others). Returning to the States I bought several six packs of the glass bottled Labatt's and it tasted like squirrel tinkle!
Labatt's Blue is only acceptable (notice I didn't say 'good') when it is ice cold. By the time you are half way through the bottle and it has started to warm up it tastes like squirrel tinkle even north of the border.
Dave you busted my gut in Kentucky working my way back to Minnesota. Home again to the cold by the Canadian border where I can have my Moosehead, Molson Golden and Molson Canadian.
And maybe once in awhile a shot of Mcmaster's Eh? ...
hon30critterLabatt's Blue is only acceptable (notice I didn't say 'good') when it is ice cold.
Couldn't agree with you more on that point. It may have been the "moment" plus it was draft so probably had a better flavor. Anyway, beers change over time. Years ago Rolling Rock was a good beer, brewed in Latrobe, PA along the PRR main line.
I had one a while back and it was AWFUL! It turns out the Pa. brewery was closed and it is contract brewed by Budweiser in New Jersey of all places.
Mega-Corporations have taken over and things are never good when that happens. I laugh when I see people here drinking Fosters and it says "imported" on the can. Yea, sure, imported from Canada, not Australia. (at one time brewed in Texas, maybe still?)
Right now I have a Moosehead in my hand. Good, still there are better. My usual is Heinekin or most IPAs.
When I was working on the private car back in August of '73, we were getting near Sarnia and ready to cross back to the U.S. We had CASES of beer on board and the car owner told me to take it off the car and he would try to find a way to haul it away. We would never make it through customs with all that beer on board.
Wouldn't 'ya know, soon we were in a slow order and I looked ahead and saw track workers leaning on their rakes and shovels waiting for us to pass...
I dragged as many cases out of the ice box as I could and got down on the bottom step of the car ahead and started passing out ice-cold beer to the guys lining the track! Hoo-haa, I almost caused a riot but I'll bet there are still some C-N track workers telling the story about the "beer from Heaven" that hot August day.
It was a different time back then. I was always nervous that a supervisor would radio ahead and turn me in but I never heard a word, just a LOT of smiling faces!
The flag man on the line that day was at fault. He was not where he should have been to warn Casey there was a problem on the siding.
Casey replaced an engineer that was sick that day and engineered his train that was behind schedule.
Everyone knew Casey always arrived his train on time.
The flag man figured wrong. He did not think Casey would be as far down the line as he was. The flagman figured wrong.
I don't allow that horse pee stuff in my house either. I drank my share of cheap beer in college, now to have a beer it needs to be something that tastes good, ie not collected from horses. Labatt's is common at hockey arenas around here. Canadian game, Canadian beer, eh? Certainly a better choice than Bud, Bud Light, or Miller Light, but just barely. I guess I am a beer snob now. We're kind of blessed with a bunch of small breweries around here that have not been sucked up by the giant corporations, and most of their various options are quite good.
Now I want a beer...
gmpullman When I was working on the private car back in August of '73, we were getting near Sarnia and ready to cross back to the U.S. We had CASES of beer on board and the car owner told me to take it off the car and he would try to find a way to haul it away. We would never make it through customs with all that beer on board. Wouldn't 'ya know, soon we were in a slow order and I looked ahead and saw track workers leaning on their rakes and shovels waiting for us to pass... I dragged as many cases out of the ice box as I could and got down on the bottom step of the car ahead and started passing out ice-cold beer to the guys lining the track! Hoo-haa, I almost caused a riot but I'll bet there are still some C-N track workers telling the story about the "beer from Heaven" that hot August day. It was a different time back then. I was always nervous that a supervisor would radio ahead and turn me in but I never heard a word, just a LOT of smiling faces! Cheers, Ed
Ed that is by far my favorite story of yours!
NWP SWPEd that is by far my favorite story of yours!
Thanks, Steven. I sure wish I could remember more.
This is old 8mm film but at least it is something...
I was your age when I did this... The PM's cars were along for part of the trip out of Ottawa. Pierre wasn't on board but I got to tour the cars and meet the crew. They made lunch for me one afternoon
rrinkerNow, the wierdos in the western part of the state, they drink pop.
Yep! My ancestors are from the Lancaster area, Town of Intercourse So I've been told, and my ancestry research confirms.
My uncles always said pop.
I don't drink pop anymore, but I'll have a Yuengling please. Can't get it here in WI., something about everything in this state has to come from a distributor, so when my DIL goes to visit her dad, she brings some back for me.
Down south, atleast where I grew up in Texas every soda is a Coke. "What kind of coke you want?"
" Dr Pepper"
" You bring the cokes? "
" yep I got sprite, coke, dr pepper, pepsi....."
Beer, I do not like beer, never have..... But I do like coke, all flavors except diet.
Good Afternoon!
As the year is slowly coming to an end, my least liked time of the year has arrived. Not that I get sentimental about another year having passed, but it´s the noise that comes with the ending of the year! Firecracker and fireworks are now being sold and there are too many stupid folks getting a pleasure out of annoying other people with it. These stupid folks are spending a fortunate on that stuff! All I can hope for is a downpour at midnight on New Year´s Eve!
Yes, I am a New Year grinch!
Heartland Division CB&QUlrich ... Perhaps you would like to get the Diners to agree on where we are going for January . Also who will start the new thread and when. It’s best we agree ahead of time to avoid a misunderstanding.
I think that sreven did a nice job opening the December Diner, so I am quite happy with him doing it again. Any location is fine with me.
Steven - I guess you are on antibiotics to battle your infection. Hope you´ll soon recover!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Christmas Day I did enjoy hearing Bob and Doug McKenzie..... on the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a beer in a tree
Morning folks,
How's the Lone Star state (Texas) sound?
I'll be going there the last week of January for my birthday, we were going to NYC but my mom decided it'd be too cold!
Ulrich, not on antibiotics yet, I'm waiting for the results of the blood test, for the time being I'm surviving with the ulcer med and heavy duty prilosec, I actually feel alright now, I just took the prilosec so that's probably why, I'll be doing good for the next few hours then it's back for another round.
hon30critterRandy, sorry for using the wrong term, but all of you who reside in the good old USA are 'southerners' as far as we Canadians are concerned.
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The true (non historical/political/economic/geographic) dividing line that seperates the Northern United States from the Southern United States is State Road 50 in Florida.
Anywhere above this road gets WAY TOO COLD in the wintertime... thus it is in the NORTH!
So... all those tens of thousands of tranplanted yankees that live in The Villages, well... as you can see, they are still in the North! Ha! They would never survive this far South.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
This is all amusing. I asure you that the boundry between North and South is I-195 in Jersey, or so says the media .
When it comes to Canadien Bier, it's quite apparent that the Frenchies hoard their Molson Export, which In my opinion is the best brew North of the Border, and the one least available in the US in spite of the label.
My Uncle worked at Yuengling's and I got to tour the brewery back in the 60s, so I'm partial to the brand. Otherwise, it's Sam Adams Boston Ale, (Brewed in Pennsylvania's Leaky Valley).
The big question, is why Budweiser's Bud Synchronized Goal Lamp, is not available for purchase in the US, only in Canada? For sure, the growth of the game in the US is phenominal, not only at professional levels but NCAA and Scholastic levels.
LaBatt, is truely squirel tinkle, and to add insult to injury their bottles are 11½ oz.vs. 12oz, like everyone else.
Boris
Sam Adams sold the brewery along 78 in Fogelsville a while back, to InBev I believe. They brewed many different beers there over the years, but originally it was Schaeffer. It's actually rail served, long spur off the subject of my previous layoout, the former Reading C&F branch. A few years back, Yeungling built a additional facility to meet the demand, in conjection witht he Reading and Northern who provides them rail service.
And someone brought back the OTHER Yeungling, the ice cream. My grandparents used to always have it, then it disappeared for a long time.
As for the South - all I can say is, it's a character issue It hits the 70's in FLorida and everyone puts on long pants, long sleeve shirts, and a coat. While I frolick around in shorts and a t-shirt.
-Randy
Talking about North and South - New York is just about on the same latitude as Rome, and Rome is a little over 1,000 miles south of us.
No comment on beer from me We have quite a few really nice ones here in Germany
I don't know if the Johntown branch of the family called it pop. I don't recall ever having soda there. The did say yins (PA version of you all or yall to you Southerners) and drink warm Iron City Beer. Warm Iron City was a bit rugged for my tastes.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Afternoon folks,
Starting to feel (@#^$^!% again, mostly due to my head pounding from this migraine I've had on and off the past few days, I'm scared to take pain meds in fear that they will make me worse.
Going to town in a bit to gas up my truck and do some errands, getting out of the house helps some.
Modeling news, I'm going to try to start working on a little drag racing scene for the club layout, I'm going to need some driver figures, a crowd, some cars and motorcycles, and stuff.
Tinplate ToddlerNo comment on beer from me We have quite a few really nice ones here in Germany
I am quite a fan of Spaten. I don't know how you think that one compares to other German beers, but it is the best I have sampled.
NWP SWPI'm going to try to start working on a little drag racing scene for the club layout, I'm going to need some driver figures, a crowd, some cars and motorcycles, and stuff.
Please share pictures of your progress in Weekend Photo Fun.
Good Afternoon, Everyone! I'm in my backyard workshop sitting back, listening to streaming light jazz, smoking my tobacco pipe, the heater is on, and I have an insulated mug of coffee under my jacket. Ahhhh....retirement! I'm waiting for some parts to arrive before I can start working on the HO diesel locos that are coming out of mothballs. New gears for the Proto DL&W GP7 are on the way from Walthers and replacement drive couplings are on the way from eBay. I also ordered an NMRA gauge to make sure the wheel spacing is right when doing the reassembly. In the meantime, I promise to stay out of trouble.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/