Garry,
Condolences to you and your wife.
Morning.....
A couple of my Favorites on the current subject....
"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth" - Stephen Hawking
"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there is no sign of intelligent life" - Neil deGrass Tyson
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
hon30critter Dave
Dave
My kind of humor.
Very rich but probably true.
TF
BigDaddyIF that presumption is correct, UFO's and aliens ought to be as common as the telephone calls you get everyday for free back braces, and zero interest rate credit cards. Yes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door. They are not. That is the paradox. Where are they?
They took one look and decided to never come back!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Eveing Diners
Flo, the gang and I will have a please and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Gary sorry to read about Shelley brother passing. Hope he had a long and happy life.
Brent So sad but so ture, people are idiots. Now I will admit I be hard place to point at the south american countrys, but Mexico should be easy. Why not one of the dummies did not pick the United States is beyond me?
Well I have to work Friday. I was really looking forward to being off Friday but Jerry is sick.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Please accept my condolences.
I sure hope your dental experience goes better than mine Richard. Four and a half months ago I had two impacted molars extracted. I signed the paper before hand for the release of liability of the possible complications.
I had them. It got complicated. Four and a half months later I have just finished another series of antibiotics from the infection that moved into my jaw. It has not been fun.
I even had my blood tested to make sure it wasn't something else as I was getting a little worried that this thing had been going on way too long. The blood tests came back OK.
I feel like it has started on its way out now.... I hope. I don't like dentists but when you need them, you need them.
If I was an Alien and saw this on my approach to Earth, I think I would just keep going.
Last year when the kid was taking global affairs, on an exam, he had to name every country on earth and the leaders of those countries.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Garry, condolences your way.
The oral surgeon told me day three would be worse and he was right. The day of the surgery I was thinking, "Well, that wasn't so bad. I am not feeling much discomfort at all." Today, "Dang, that hurts a bit." Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little better.
Richard
BigDaddyYes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door. They are not.
Are you certain? Did they tell you they came from France?
Good afternoon (for another 17 minutes) it was another warm sunny day on the coast.
Garry my condolences to you and your wife for your loss. Will you be going to Texas?
Big Daddy here is something for your listening pleasure.
I went to replace a couple of rotten boards on the playhouse today and upon further inspection, the house was past its "best before" date and would need a complete rebuild, so I have started to dismantle it and will haul it off to the transfer station. We will not be here if we are still alive to see grandchildren and the Playhouse has served its purpose. The dogs use to all go up and sun themselves on the deck. Seems like just 25 years ago I built the thing.
Got sent an estate sale listing that was local for a large collection of trains, the people are asking close to retail for everything, good luck. I was in home depot and the clerk said he had a lot of old MRR stuff, all DC and nothing worth mentioning, I suggested he donate it to a club I know of and they can sell it at a train show to raise funds for the club, he thought that was a good idea and took the name of the club off me.
Dropped the kids' hockey bag off with the coach and gave him $50.00 to buy a round for the boys. BUT ONLY IF THEY WIN! I said. I did that last year and they appreciated it. Most of them are in school in one form or another and probably don't have the money to spend on beer. They are a really good group of kids that I have always been happy to be associated with when we would go to the U.S. or other parts of Canada to tournaments. I remember it would be Tim Hortons after the games on Saturday and now they have grown up it's beer. Most of the kids are the same today as they were back then. For this tournament, they take the best players from many different teams around the greater Vancouver area and generally clean up most years.
I also built something for the wife today for her dog puppy pen. We are expecting a litter of puppies tomorrow so soon there will be the pitter patter of little feet around the house again.
All the best to all.
Garry I am so sorry to hear about your wife's brother. Our thoughts are with you.
John
Evenin',
Garry, deepest sympathies to your wifes family and all of you. Will keep everyone in my thoughts and prayers.
Garry, my condolences to you and your family.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Garry, my prayers and condolances.
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One of my favorite history podcasts introduced me to the concept of the Fermi Paradox.
Fermi was a nuclear scientist and part of the Manhattan project. The universe is 13 billion years old, countless gallaxies, suns up the wazoo. Statistically, there ought to be lots of inhabitable planets, some with older and more advanced cvilizations than us. There ought to be other life forms, more advanced and mobile.
IF that presumption is correct, UFO's and aliens ought to be as common as the telephone calls you get everyday for free back braces, and zero interest rate credit cards. Yes, there is Roswell and various videos, but there ought to be an alien living next door. They are not. That is the paradox.
Where are they? que Twlight Zone Theme
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
My condolences to you, your wife and her family, Garry.
Regards, Ed
Did someone say ribeye? Ribeye tonight? Rare ribeye? Where ribeye?
Nice above-ground Subway scenes Lion I had to do a double-take zoom. At first I thought they were prototypical pictures.
Nice scene, Lion. I have been watching subway train sets, and it is unbelievable how much they cost.
There are a pair just plain shells, on Ebay, nothing to go with them, plain bare shells, for $60. ?
Mike.
My You Tube
The number 4 does indeed run on Jerome Avenue...
But the landscape is intended to be the Franklin Shuttle.
LION can not help what numbers Life-Like put on its train sets.
Here is route of LION.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Last weekend was Maple Weekend in upstate NY, where folks drive into the middle of nowhere to see how maple syrup is made, sample all the maple products, and take sleigh rides.
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Let's jog down the river a bit from Troy to Rensslear, NY, where the Albany Amtrak station is and where Amtrak services there 18 P32AC-DMs, the only locomotives used by Amtrak below Albany, as seen below:
#717's sister #716 in Utica:
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
BroadwayLion LION on the TOP! LION on the TOP!
LION on the TOP! LION on the TOP!
I don't see any Lion.
Anyway, is that the train that goes to/past Jerome Avenue in the Bronx? Used to ride that train with my Mom when we visited my aunt. She used to live on Shakespeare Avenue. I don't think I'd care to visit that area now.
Funny that I can remember riding that line into the city, but I can't remember where we were going.
My wife’s brother just passed away. He lived in Texas.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Rare Ribeye Steaks Tonight!
Come n get'em
I visited a pretty impressive layout tonight along with a few other club members. It is 3 rail O gauge, approximately 2100 sq. ft. Our host was very gracious. After a brief introduction we went down to the the layout room. He let us look around for a few minutes and then handed one of the guys a throttle. If we wanted to see trains run then we had to run them ourselves! By the middle of the evening we had four trains running. There were only a couple of minor hitches throughout the entire evening.
The layout consists of two 'loops' with interchanges at three different points. The term 'loops' hardly describes the track plan. They both snake around the entire basement and there are multiple sidings, a large yard, and the best piece was a double track bascule bridge that operated automatically as trains approached. The track height goes from about waist level to almost six feet in the air. I have to admit that O gauge sound is impressive!
Perhaps the best part of the whole affair was that the host invited us to come back on a regular basis. He built his layout specifically so that he could have people visit to run trains. Next time we visit he will get us doing some operating.
Flo, give the gang and I a JR the wine list, I will pay for Garys tab for the RBF and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Rally not a lot to talk about today which is a good thing I guess.
Old car bug is starting to bite me again. Going to visit a old car friend this weekend. Allen has been storing my 68 Road Runner inside for the last 3 years and it is time to visit him and my Road Runner.
Hey guys, went to the Y but got sent home after 2 hours because there were three front desk clerks me, Ms. Janice and Angie another trainee.
I'll be working the 8 to 1 shift which is good because it allows me to work the front desk 3 to 11 at the hotels a few days a week, I also work nights on Saturdays.
Far as meeting girls, yeah I noticed a few more come in in the evening but I figure more young people will come through during the day as summer starts.
Well I've gotta get up early tomorrow so goodnight all!
Good evening, everybody .... I'll have an RBF please.
Our New York visit is very enjoyable.
Where should we go in April?...... I don't have suggestion for April, but I deinfatelythink we should visit Utah in May so we may celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike in Promontory. ...
It's been a little busy here lately. I hope to slow down so I can work on my coal mine scene most of the coming week.
Have a nice evening, everybody .
Good afternoon (for 18 more minutes) it was a warm 20c sunny day today.
Cut the lawn for the first time this year, could have waited another week but I wanted to vapourize all the branches that had fallen on it through the Winter.
Finally got the tree that fell over cut up. The chain saw I pulled out had not been used in three decades and I had forgotten the chain had been destroyed by the person I had lent it to. So off to get a new chain, cut half the tree up and the saw stops. The fuel line had disintegrated, so off to get a new fuel line and gas filter, that was a very finicky job getting that in. With a little carb tuning the thing now rips through wood like a hot knife through melted butter.
Steven, congrats on finding and having two great jobs. I liked every job I ever had and the only bad days I ever had were when I got injured. I guess over a forty year period it is bound to happen. I think working at the Y will let you meet lots of young ladies that come through. When I worked at the golf course there were many girls my age that would flirt with me, there were a few older ladies that would flirt as well, didn't go there though. I had a girlfriend at the time (this is high school years) and was quite happy with her. We are still friends to this day, she is a Doctor at the University of Chicago Hospital.
Ray and others, I have been really enjoying the tour, beautiful country made even better by having trains rolling through them.
Got the kids hockey gear all packed up and will take it to the coach tomorrow. He flies out of Ottawa to Alberta at 0700hrs Friday and they play their first game that night. They paid his airfare and hotel to get him there, I think he is feeling quite a bit better from his Norwalk virus. Being young and healthy makes those events easier to get through. He gets a lot of school work done on the flights because he doesn't get bothered by anyone.
I remember studying the Tacoma Bridge collapse in both elementary school and in Physics in high school. Vancouver has a similar bridge that was built in 1937 and there were a lot of concerns about that one afterward.
Well, the girls are home with dinner so all the best to all.
Tell'em he's your service lion, ya know, like a service dog? I bet you'll get what ever seat you want.
Hey wait a minute, it's 1:47, get back to work!