maxman Track fiddler The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore, The plane won't be sold out if he eats a couple of the other passengers.....
Track fiddler The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore,
The plane won't be sold out if he eats a couple of the other passengers.....
Yes, yes.... I have considered this as posing a possible problem. I have invested in a pretty sturdy Lion leash.
I don't suppose buying a few extra T-Bones as a deterrent to avoid potential fatalities such as this would be to bad of an idea.
Track fiddlerThe plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore,
The oral surgery went without a hitch. I have a follow-up in three months at which point we will schedule the implant surgery. This will be a little more involved as they will need to raise the sinus membrane and build up the jaw so there is enough jaw for the implant. As for yesterday's surgery, I feel great today. Virtually no pain, even when I press on my face where the extraction occured. The only real annoying side effect is the post-anatheia insomnia. I slept for a total of 3.5 hours last night. I am feeling well enough today that I am headed out for a bike ride in a few minutes.
mbinsewiSounds your going to be very busy, Richard. Training? like pysical training?. . .
No, thank goodness, it is product training for the software I will demoing.
Richard
BroadwayLion Prime Ribs? LIONS and Rare Wildebeests. I ought to come with you. ROPARING
Prime Ribs? LIONS and Rare Wildebeests.
I ought to come with you.
ROPARING
.... The plane is sold out but I don't give up that easily. Being that you are technically considered a carnivore, I may be able to obtain a carnivore transport permit. You would have to agree to be loaded in the compartment under the plane though.... It's only about a 3-hour flight and I do have some T-Bones for the way down
TF
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Judy and I like our cheap little annual winter vacation every year to Laughlin Nevada. Snooze you lose. We didn't book it in time this year. The early one was sold out. We usually like to go in February or March to break up the winter. This year April it is.
Good food, River Taxi's, a little gambling for fun. Oh.... and my favorite, Prime Rib Night. They bring out various roasts you can choose from to find your perfect slab
Can't wait for prime rib night! ... Almost as good as Lions rare Wildebeest
SeeYou190I went to the grocery store yesterday and it there was a group of sunburned midwestern coeds in bathing suits at the deli counter.
And I'm sure they thought "who is that lecherous old pharte?"
gmpullmanReally? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever see!
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I sent a package to my daughter in Seattle that went to New York, back to Florida, to California, then finally Seattle.
It only happened once, but it was quite a tour.
I went to the grocery store yesterday and it there was a group of sunburned midwestern coeds in bathing suits at the deli counter. This sure beats the heck out of being in Illinois in January!
I love spring break! My wife and I have a hotel room in the Lani Kai resort this weekend, time to take it all in and pretend like we are young again. We stayed in that hotel during spring break in 1989. Trying out the way-back machine.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Evening folks,
Went to the club,
Nate the club and Jack another were going on about how in there opinion I know so little about cars and ect... meanwhile Nate doesn't know what transmission is in "his" truck, and claims that it has all these (imaginary) performance upgrades, I've seen under the hood and watched him try to get on it pulling out of the club and yeah he isn't fooling anybody, I quickly shut him down by telling him I would bring my truck next week to drag race, he quickly came up with a nonsense excuse and that was the end of that.
I wasnt actually going to drag race him, my truck is drivable just OverDrive doesn't work, I would probably beat him even though he has a 5.2l vs my 5.0l, my truck is extended cab (2 doors/backseat) and a short bed, his is an extended cab long bed and a camper on it, so he easily weighs in a good bit more and maybe makes a little more power.
Sorry for the rant, that don't know they're really bother me.
I definitely won't be talking cars with the three stooges anymore.
Anyways, Ed sounds like a nice little vacation too bad your package didn't invite you! Perhaps try mailing yourself someplace! You probably would end up in Alaska though!
Well tomorrow is a double I'm working maintenance at the hotel all day then working the night shift at the YMCA, and I'll say it again, the Y is an awesome place to work I'm really enjoying it.
I put two boxcars I had laying around into service at the club, I've got a bunch of accurail boxcars but they all have roofwalks which are verboten, I'll be buying some more to help with the recent shortage of cars.
I'll be tinkering with my KCS coal gon too.
Thursday I pick up my suit from Jos. A. Bank, 300 bucks for a tailored suit isn't bad!
Night all!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a Jan a mug of Nitomethane (he like High Octane stuff) JR the wine list and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Jan Always a pleasure to see your mug in the joint! Just wished you had more to say.
Ed Well it was a short vaction, wonder if the parts got a tan?
Work Front, spent another 6 hours of playing
What the Ash Pitt was Nancy and Jerry thinking! While there antics provide us some giggles I am still stuck with the task of telling the customers "No your order was not written right so it was not shipped to the store." I sure wish I could tell the customer "When I am not here the store is ran by the village idiots!"
Trains are running great, my head hurts and there is beer to drink so later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Liked the steamer videos Ray.
Thanks
Good evening.
I've been waiting for a few little brass detail items to arrive. Supposed to be delivered yesterday to me in NE, Ohio. Just checked the tracking to see where the delay might be?
Really? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever see!
Really? East Falmouth, Mass. to San Juan! That package is getting a better vacation than I'll ever
see!
Good evening folks!
Janie I could use a nice hot cup of decaf right now... Please and Thank You!
So the talk is Bridges today.... Here is NPR 765 crossing the old 1800's bridge over the gorge in Letchworth State Park near Mount Morris in Western NY back a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmuTmxmpD4
And here it is again from a better angle!!! Listen to that Whistle!!! Gives me chills, it does!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5iPfnDZZuo
Enjoy!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
So the root of the word suspension must be suspense. Flex is probably why very few railroad bridges are suspension type. For that matter, towards the end of rail use of the Poughkipsee Bridge there was a strict no brake rule in effect and that after the traffic had been restricted to one track from the original two. It was iron, not steel and the deck supposedly flexed in the wind. J.R.
Galloping Gurdy
There is a copy of this bridge going out to Deer Isle, Maine. At each end of the bridge there are,(last time I was out there) traffic lights to regulate the traffic, depending on the wind conditions. One of the men I worked with at the ship yard grew up on Deer Isle, and during the summer months when he was in high school worked painting the bridge. Deer Isle has several high grade granite quarries, and as the trucks carrying the granite would pass by where he was painting, the bridge would flex so much all they had to do was hold the brush next to the steel as the loaded truck went by and it would paint a strip nearly eight inches long.
To the East of the bridge there are two WWII landing craft, with gravel roads and landing areas on both the Island and the Main Land, built in anticipation for the collapse of the bridge.
If the traffic lights are yellow, it is one lane traffic only, and if they are red, passage is stopped. When the wind blows much over 30 MPH people on Deer Isle figgure they didn't need to go shopping anyway!
herrinchoker
I never knew about the airfoil thing or the poor little dog.
Track fiddlerThey must have got the engineering flaws ironed out quickly after that bridge
This is one that we reviewed in engineering classes.
It was stated that the biggest flaw in this bridge design was that the cross section of the bridge resembled an airplane wing, and when wind blew across it, it actually generated lift.
The bridge wasn't whipping around in the wind as much as it was being lifted and dropped.
The professor talked about it for hours, I remember I became quite bored. It was only interesting for 5 minutes at the most.
The guy on the bridge hesitated because his daughters beloved cocker spaniel was in the car, he originally ran to the toll plaza and realized the dog was in the car, they sent a group of firefighters or policemen out to get the dog but the canine was so scared it wouldn't leave the car and bit on of the would be rescuers, the man finally gave it one last shot during a lull, he got halfway to the car before the winds picked up big time and he had to crawl back the the toll plaza as the bridge began to collapse under him.
The only casualty of the collapse was the cocker spaniel.
Heres his account of the experience,
"Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. The car itself began to slide from side to side on the roadway. I decided the bridge was breaking up and my only hope was to get back to shore.
On hands and knees most of the time, I crawled 500 yards [1,500 ft; 460 m] or more to the towers… My breath was coming in gasps; my knees were raw and bleeding, my hands bruised and swollen from gripping the concrete curb… Toward the last, I risked rising to my feet and running a few yards at a time… Safely back at the toll plaza, I saw the bridge in its final collapse and saw my car plunge into the Narrows."
NWP SWP Yeah TF! That's the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the winds caused harmonic vibrations in the bridge, it started to wobble and just got worse from there!
Yeah TF! That's the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the winds caused harmonic vibrations in the bridge, it started to wobble and just got worse from there!
They must have got the engineering flaws ironed out quickly after that bridge.
What I couldn't believe Stephen, was the guy that stayed on the bridge hesitating, looking at his car. The car can be replaced but you can't. I think it would have been a good choice for him to get his butt off the bridge a little more quickly then he did!
Ah yes, "Galloping Gurdy" An oldy but goodie:
This is one version.
Mike.
My You Tube
Good morning.
I'll just have a coffee, black please.
I was looking through videos this morning and came across the suspension bridge, I do believe from the early 50s, that was blowing and waving in the storm. It definitely failed.
I wish I knew how to add a link or post it, sure is interesting to watch. I've seen it before but it doesn't get any less interesting to watch the second time.
That was quick... Thanks Mike.
Hey guys!
Ya know working at the Y is truly a lot of fun, meet a lot of people too!
Just tonight I saw the preacher from my church, a girl I used to go to church with, and a girl I wish I went to church with
I was scrolling through the recent diner posts and I saw someone mentioned Billy Joel, I don't think we've played NYSOM on the Jukebox, but first theres this gem off the same Album, Tunstiles,
Say goodbye to Hollywood and hello to that New York State of Mind!
Turnstiles is one of Billy's first really great albums, not all of the songs were great but enough were, albums like The Stranger, Innocent Man and the like are the real front to back great records though.
Well I've got work again in the morning bye guys!
Top of page, drinks are on me!
I liked PBS when they had the really interesting stuff. Rich Kids buying $5,000 gliding suits, jumping off the highest mountains of the world, gliding through the air in free fall.
The skyscraper around the skyscraper in China was a pretty interesting one too. They had to build the outside glass around the skyscraper from the top down because of the weight. The Atrium Living Spaces on each floor with the trees indoors was pretty cool too. It was something else when they jumped the crane.
I got my third BM today Henry to complete my set. I don't know if there's any more of these but I sure like the Boston & Maine boxcars.
Oh.. and I got you back, but it's all in good fun. Play your cards right, next time I'll get your back
BigDaddyPBS is a shadow of what it once was when it was my favorite channel.
I've watched it for seems like forever. I was a supporting member for a bunch of years. When the Ken Burns Civil War aired for the first time, I had the VCR running.
I just can't stand regular TV, so it's PBS channels, History, Discovery, and such. I watch the local news on regular TV, and football games. Thats it.
But, now it's time to turn everything off, and look forward to tomorrow.
mbinsewiAfter weeks of fundraising, no Antiques Roadshow on PBS tonight. Instead we get a two hour Front Line special on the Mueller Report.
PBS is a shadow of what it once was when it was my favorite channel. Some of the best, was BBC shows but they did produce some of their own shows. I never forgave them for firing Lou Rukeyser. Their fundraising is reruns of reruns.
I saw a funny decorated covered hopper on Facebook. Unfortunately I cannot share it because it involved graffiti, and politics and orange hair. That sentence says nothing about pro or con so everyone can be happy.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Drove down Highway 61 past the Saint Paul yard again today, like many other days.
God that yard is huge.
It's probably a great job, but would hate to be the head dispatcher responsible for everything coming in and going out Don't know how it works. Let's talk about stress!
It's a sea of cars extending North and South in many, many rows, almost as far as the eye can see.
What seems like a few seconds driving down the highway for however many miles passing. I view it as, what the heck's what? Where's it coming from, and where is it going?
What appears a scrambled up nightmare is a piece of cake to them. They are used to it. They are there every day. They know where it's all coming from, and where it's all going to.
I just drive by and look.
Sounds your going to be very busy, Richard. Training? like pysical training?
Well, just great. After weeks of fundraising, no Antiques Roadshow on PBS tonight. Instead we get a two hour Front Line special on the Mueller Report. I am just so thrilled......
Maybe I'll check out the History Channel. That's about the extent of TV that I watch.
I am exhausted just thinking about the next few weeks. Tomorrow I am scheduled for oral surgery, the first step in getting an implant for a failed root canal. On Thursday I get on a plane to fly to Idaho. On Friday I drive from Rexburg to Logan to man a booth at a Utah State University forum, driving back to Idaho afterwards. On Saturday I am cross-training my replacement at my son's business. I fly home on Sunday. On Monday I start a new job. (Yup, why not start a new career at 59?) And the following Monday I fly to Cambridge, MA for three, that's right, THREE weeks of training. Excuse me for a minute; I am going to take a nap in the back booth.
Flo, I am buy for the diner filet mignon, rare wildebeest for Lion and a Crown Royal for the gang and I. Yes, leave a stein outside for Ulrich as well.
Reason I am buying? Well it is Happy Happy Joy Joy time on my railroad! Finally figured out what was wrong with the Mighty F&O F7a and she is fresh out of the backshop looking pretty again! Some how the address got changed from long address to short address byte even tho the address looked correct.
Think I will take another crack at the Proto 2000 E-7 with QSI that won't come out of sleep mode. Just maybe I get that turd to run again, it sure not a Proto 2000 E-6, cannot pull for a cinder!
Got some backyard work done, again not as much as I should have but still some!
Later, Ken