herrinchoker, just reading that about your father made me nervous. I have not had a close call with a power tool, but each time I read a post like yours, it makes me more careful.
I don't have a picture of my workspace, but mine is probably about halfway between Lion's and Brent's. Not messy enough to bother me, but enough stuff that sometimes things get in the way.
I've been pretty good about throwing away things I don't use. I don't think I have enough years left to keep too many things on the off chance I may one day use them.
Today is cold, windy, and wet in my part of the world. I drove about 50 miles to a Home Depot this morning, and I got great mileage on the way home with a 35 mph tailwind.
It's a good day to stay inside and work on the trains.
York1 John
herrinchoker Track Fiddler, Dad had come close to loosing his left arm when he was knocked into a running table saw by another worker, and infection set in--this was way before the advent of antibiotics. The doctor treating him at the time drew a line around his upper arm, and told Dad, "that if the red lines reach this point, we are going to amputate your arm." The one thing he stressed when we did a job, was that anything we built was our signature. He would tell me," Son, when you build anything, that is your signature as a craftsman--do you want somone fourty years from now looking at that and saying, "who built that piece of crap?" I believe it is called Pride. When I see some of the construction today I want to sit on the curb and weep.
Track Fiddler,
Dad had come close to loosing his left arm when he was knocked into a running table saw by another worker, and infection set in--this was way before the advent of antibiotics. The doctor treating him at the time drew a line around his upper arm, and told Dad, "that if the red lines reach this point, we are going to amputate your arm."
The one thing he stressed when we did a job, was that anything we built was our signature. He would tell me," Son, when you build anything, that is your signature as a craftsman--do you want somone fourty years from now looking at that and saying, "who built that piece of crap?" I believe it is called Pride. When I see some of the construction today I want to sit on the curb and weep.
Haven't been to the Forum in a few days as I became really busy.
Herrinchoker Thanks for sharing life experience about your Dad. He certainly sounds like my kind of guy from your words without even meeting him. The part about the table saw accident made me cringe. I'm glad he didn't have to lose his arm.
I cut the tip of my middle finger off on a table saw I when I was young. I'll never forget the feeling of that Jagged trauma sensation when it happened. Not nearly as bad as your Dad's accident. Enough to give me a Brand New Perspective and respect for power tools though.
Apparently not enough. About 4 years ago I had a grinder accident. The stone on the grinder blew up and took my finger right next to my table saw finger almost completely off. It is said when using grinder's, one should wear a leather jacket compared to a welding jacket, leather gloves and a face shield. I am a believer in that now.
I can understand your Dad's fear of power tools after his accident. I have never looked at a grinder the same again. I did not pick another one up for 2 years after the accident. I will never use a stone in a grinder again. I only use a steel Diamond blade. I am somewhat shaking in my boots when I do, and only use one when I absolutely have to.
I really like your Dads statement of, When you build anything, It is your signature as a Craftsman. I do not believe that could be said any better. What a great man
Track Fiddler
We are all, a reflection of our parents.
Good morning, everybody .
Burlington's main Chicago freight yard was in Cicero.... In this photo, Pennsy sharks had just delivered an interchange train.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
gmpullman,
When my first wife left me I did not get the nice office space that you did--however, I did get relief from my bleeding ulcers, that in of itself, was more than worth the cost---
herrinchoker
Hey guys, long shift at work today but I literally did NOTHING all day, no transactions in 6 hours!
Tomorrow is "healthy kids day" so I'll have my hands full all day.
Later!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Of course, it looks like this all the time.
My daughter just phoned, she has ordered a ton of sushi for her relay team and volunteered me to pick it up. Any bets I'm paying for it all. Oh well, it is a great thing they are doing. They decided to run an extra two hours and are now going until 2200hrs. Great kids is all I can say.
Show us the crew lounge!
MRR mags on the left.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Evenin' Folks!
Janie I could use another cup of decaf, please.
mbinsewi gmpullman I'm long overdue for a "Spring Cleaning" glass of Crown for Ed and I, now that's my kinda work shop! Just the way I like'em!
I think I got 'em beat....
Had it cleaned up a bit before the photo was taken....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudakenHow about some photos of your M1a? I sure wish I bought one when Bachmann was still makeing them.
Can I translate that to EM-1, Ken? One just sold, with sound, on eBay for about $230. That's a bargain! They are great running engines.
EM1_HighIron by Edmund, on Flickr
They were monsters:
B-O_AF_Pville_0005 by Edmund, on Flickr
I mentioned the Chardon, Ohio Maple Festival which happens to be going on this very weekend (As usual, it may snow on Sunday!)
Back in '57, the B&O ran special trains to the Festival and had an EM-1 on display for the fairgoers.
B-O_Chardon_FA-809X_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Aah, those were the days...
Cheers, Ed
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a Ed a Crown Royal and leave a stein outside for Ulrich.
Ed, I see Bessimer! Hummmm Pretty. Far as the PRR Y 3 I like it, pretty sure they are longer than a Y-6b. For some reason I think the Y6b had a higher traction effort? How about some photos of your EM1? I sure wish I bought one when Bachmann was still makeing them.
Boy it is a pretty day here in Maryville IL! Got the rear yard cut and it was that bad this year. Last year I waited to long to cut it and it was a mess.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
mbinsewiglass of Crown for Ed and I, now that's my kinda work shop! Just the way I like'em!
Thanks, Mike
When live gives you lemons — My shop is the office of my former wife, the architect. I even made built-in drawers for blueprints that just happen to be the perfect size for storing HO rolling stock!
She left me the nice, vintage, drawing table that is now my actual work bench, too. I sure appreciate it. I'll never forget ol' what's her name
It is a very "cozy" room and, of course, I spend hours there.
Thanks for the fine beverage Cheers, Ed
gmpullmanI'm long overdue for a "Spring Cleaning"
glass of Crown for Ed and I, now that's my kinda work shop! Just the way I like'em!
Oh, ah, make mine Crown Black please.
Mike.
My You Tube
Good Afternoon from the edge of the blue Pacific, it is 15c and a perfect day for slaving away.
This morning we went and bought a bunch of cut rock stepping stones that weighed 70lbs ea. After that got a yard and a half of lava rock put in the truck and it is all now nicely in place in the front yard. Next week it is cleaning up the gardens with a couple of yards of bark mulch I will pick up in the truck. We get about 20 yards delivered every 6 or 7 years but this year it just needs a tad here and there.
Yesterday was crazy. Five years ago the University Of British Columbia approached the kids school looking for a smartypants to monitor brain development and other things as they grew. They recommended my daughter and she was fine with it, so began the study. Over the five years, she had regular MRIs and took DNA samples and sent them in. She periodically went in for a bunch of IQ type testing. She had her last three-day testing session three weeks ago and my wife and I went in for three hours yesterday to hear the results of the last five years. Talk about interesting, they don't use an IQ index to determine things anymore but use something called a general capability index. My daughter scored really high. Meaning she could step into any role and do it well if need be. I asked if she would make a good Astronaut and they said she would be the exact type of person they would be looking for. It was all very cool.
Then the kid sent me some movie stuff and asked me to deal with it as he had two exams yesterday. Amazon is making a Lord Of The Rings TV series and wanted to know his availability for that. The trouble is they could not say where it is being shot. They may shoot the exterior scenes in New Zealand and/or Scotland/Ireland or Vancouver Island that can easily double for all of the above. Vancouver has massive amounts of studio space available which isn't available in the other locals. Regardless of where the outdoor stuff is shot, it looks like the studio work will be done here. It's a long commute to NZ. The kid is so exhausted from school he is thinking of taking a year off to work. My wife took a year off to travel when she was in University and never regretted it one bit.
Speaking of NZ, Bear have you heard of a young pilot named JP Schulz that comes from your part of the world? He flew around the world in a Cessna 210 and I followed him on You-Tube. He reminds me of me and I am reliving my younger years vicariously through him. It was a cool trip/challenge.
Got the usual crowd in for dinner tomorrow and I am looking forward to it. It is so relaxing watching hockey while the women cook the steaks or prime rib. The rational conversation that gets more rational with each Rum and Pepsi.
The daughter has been running a relay for cancer all day and figures she will finish about 2000hrs and I will go peel her up off the track at the school and bring her home. Her small group was close to $30,000.00 in donations yesterday so they should have surpassed that today. Wife is out doing dog stuff so for me, it is weiners and beans smothered in cheese for dinner with a nice glass of cab.
I am volunteering at the school all day tomorrow, it will be a killer. It's the last year as both kids will be out and we will have done our part.
Time to wash out the truck from all that lava rock.
This was seen on the CN mainline in B.C.
All the best to all.
BroadwayLionShow us YOUR workbench!
With all its warts...
IMG_2703 by Edmund, on Flickr
Shop1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Shop1b by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_0359_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Sometimes — it isn't quite so cluttered!
IMG_7297_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
I'm long overdue for a "Spring Cleaning"
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Howdy ....
Ed .... The Pennsy Y-3 is beautiful .
Lion ... Your subway layout is very impressive.
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The North Coast Limited was a Northern Pacific Train which traveled on CB&Q tracks between Chicago and St. Paul with Burlington E-units .
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In the 1960's observation cars were no longer included in the train. Burlington had one of them in the pool, and it was repainted silver. Afterwards, it was used in secondary trains or it was used as a substitute lounge car on Zephyrs.
Show us YOUR workbench!
There! NOW the LION is on the TOP!
Free Wildebeests for all. Diet Pepsi and special glazed donuts.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Somebody say LION?
ROAR
Two Levels? Why stop at only two levels... THIS is a SUBWAY layout.
Tunnel on subway of LION. Note resistors across track gaps. These allo trains to pick up speed departing the stations. These are both downtown tracks.
Thanks Ed for that Friday morning wake up march!
Sousa's sister, Mary Elizabeth, was my Great Granddad's 2nd wife. Their daughter, Katheryn, used to partack in family reunions at Grandpa's farm.
It was somewhat of a family bragging point, being related to JPS, but some family research revealed the "rest of the story". No actual "blood" relation.
Crown hey! I like the Black.
Fish fry Friday! Actually, we usually bake it. Tonight, it's walleye.
Always open to suggestions, Rich
Thanks, Ed
gmpullman richhotrain Ed, are you an Old Fashioned fan? Well, a Manhattan was my first drink at age 10! Right in front of my mother and father, too! But, yes, I sure like the occasional Rye Old Fashioned, too. IIRC they are just a tad sweeter with some simple syrup added? I do like to add bitters in many of my cocktails, too. Here's lookin' at ya'. Cheers, Ed
richhotrain Ed, are you an Old Fashioned fan?
Well, a Manhattan was my first drink at age 10! Right in front of my mother and father, too!
But, yes, I sure like the occasional Rye Old Fashioned, too. IIRC they are just a tad sweeter with some simple syrup added?
I do like to add bitters in many of my cocktails, too.
Here's lookin' at ya'.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrainEd, are you an Old Fashioned fan?
gmpullman Yep, we got a lot in common, Ken Thanks for the Crown, mighty tasty.
Yep, we got a lot in common, Ken Thanks for the Crown, mighty tasty.
Raccoons in the attic!
Here's a photo of the Y-3 (HH1 on the PRR) we talked about:
PRR_HH1b by Edmund, on Flickr
PRR_HH1d_sm1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks for commenting on my lucky grab shots of the green herron, Dave
Well, Young Steven hasn't had time to link any music videos here for a while so let me fill in with a rousing Sousa number to get you guys up-n-marching on this Friday morning. (Love those piccolos — In tune, too)
I hope you have a good audio system connected to your computer
Not much to type about because I told it all to Ed over the phone! I would guess we talked for about a hour and enjoy it. While we talked about trains, we have other things in common and that was the majority of what we talked about.
Trains are running great so later Ken
Evening folks,
Another New Yorker here,
I was born in Jersey but my parents lived in NY, my dad was born in the Bronx, spent half his childhood there before his family moved to the burbs in Garnerville, Rockland County, NY my sister (half sister) still lives in Rockland County with her fiance Jon.
LETS GO METS!!!
Gimme somma that NYC thin crust pizza!
I've long since been transplanted to the Bayou State which I truly enjoy living in, I couldn't handle the snow, to dreary.
TF, Lambos are pretty freaky, I've never been drawn to those extremely exotic autos, about as exotic I'd get would be a Ferrari 308 GTS or a 288 GTO the Omologata (homologated) version of the 308.
Back to Lambos though, I recently discovered theres not one but TWO hiding out in Slaughter which is the next town over from me, they are parked inside of a racing trailer parked next to the old bank, one is lime green, the other is white.
That's the old bank.
And heres my lovely workplace
The Americana YMCA, which is the newest of the nine Baton Rouge area YMCAs. Its located in the Americana neighborhood (subdivision) in Zachary, heres an example of the homes they are building here.
They have about 50 homes built not to mention the apartment/condos in the front, they are planning to build an additional 87 homes!
That's this one neighborhood, they are currently building in almost a dozen subdivisions in Zachary, a few here at the west end, two to the east and three or four north of town.
Today I rode three miles in 25 minutes on my bike, not too bad. I'm considering picking up kayaking as an upper body workout, I'm not really one to go to the gym but riding a bike or kayaking is a workout while doing something leisurely.
Well that's all for now.
York1 We actually complain now when we sit at our stoplight and there is more than one car ahead of us.
We actually complain now when we sit at our stoplight and there is more than one car ahead of us.
I know how ya feel, I am from WAY upstate NY, and currently I am seeing more traffic in Detroit than I have seen in my life. Took the people mover today, photos coming soon.
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
Good Afternoon, Crew! It's mild but cloudy with some rain in the forecast for my part of NE Ohio. Today's a lazy day and I'm going to do some reading. Here's a shot of Santa Fe and GMO E8s pulling long-haul passenger trains at the Joliet Union Station in 1972. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Howdy .....
We were in Nashville last couple of days.... We celebrated my wife's birthday in downtown Nashville Tuesday evening .... We stayed at a 4 1/2 star hotel. We had champaign and birthday cupcakes in the room. .... In the daytime Tuesday and daytime yesterday, we visted Shelley's Mom in Long Term Care. With other family members, we met with the doctor yesterday. Sadly, it does not look like her Mom will be able to recover her mental capabilities. Basically, it is not a good prognosis.
Good to see the Diner is active with many interersting discussions.
Below is a Burlington switcher in Chicago.
Have a good day, everybody.