Well sold the trailer for $8000.00, more than fair considering the front end rot. The two guys that bought it seem to know a lot about how ours was put together and were not concerned at all. They said they could fix it up for little cost in materials and like the trailer shops said to me, it is just labour intensive. I am glad to be rid of it. Lots of great memories though.
The wife said what account should I put the money in, I said my train account. If looks could kill, doesn't she know it's Fathers Day? I could have bought another dozen or so Royal Hudsons. I think she sees a week at the Hyatt in Kaui instead. That's where we got married. Sitting out on the deck at Stevenson's Library with a Pinacoloda watching the Sun go down is just as good as it gets when you need a recharge.
Speaking of Fathers Day, happy Fathers Day to all it applies to. My kids got me a "PLANE SAVERS" T-shirt. Some of you may have heard of plane savers. Especially if you ever watched Ice Pilots.
My daughter just went DAD! There's $8000.00 on the kitchen table! Were taking you out for sushi for Fathers Day. Man I love my kids.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Eveing Diners
Flo give the gang and I a and for Ulrich! It is 1:59 AM Monday as I post.
Ed thanks for calling back.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
cudakenEd thanks for calling back.
Always good to chat, Ken!
Cheers, Ed
Starting today I am staying with my grandparents for a week. They live a stones throw away from a CSX line that runs paralell to a main road and goes through alot of grade crossings. The result is a lot of horns to give you enough warning to run out to were you can see the train through a gap in the tree. Already caught one frieght today!
Tomorrow night I'm going to see a local club layout, looking forward to it!
Have a great evening everyone!
Regards, Isaac
I model my railroad and you model yours! I model my way and you model yours!
Good evening ....
Ed .... Wow! That is quite a photo. I'm guessing an empty tank train was knocked on its side by a storm.
Meanwhile, regarding Montana, I have trains that went to or from Montana (and beyond ).
Empire Builder.
North Coast Limited. (Departing from Union Station )
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QEd .... Wow! That is quite a photo. I'm guessing an empty tank train was knocked on its side by a storm.
Hi, Garry.
When I saw the photo I thought the same thing but several wrecks like this were attributed to the "tightlock" shelf couplers on tank cars.
Here's a similar one. This one was tooling along at 69 MPH at the time!
http://tsb-bst.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2005/r05h0013/r05h0013.html
rollover-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Rollover_1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Tightlock or "shelf" couplers doing their job. Has a bit of a downside, though
gmpullmanTightlock or "shelf" couplers doing their job. Has a bit of a downside, though
Look at the positive side! The tankers are all laid neatly on their sides without a whole bunch of bent metal! If you have to have a wreck, that's the way to do it!
One of the guys in our club used to do wreck recovery for CN. He has some really interesting stories! I could listen to him all night.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
BATMANWell sold the trailer for $8000.00, more than fair considering the front end rot.
Congratulations!
We bought a well used tent trailer several years ago. It was in reasonable condition but needed some TLC. I couldn't believe that the manufacturer had used coarse particle board for the structure of the hardtop cover! It had turned to mush in some places so there was no 'just tighten the screws' repair. I guess it was a case of the accountants telling the engineers how to save money. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy!!!
We gave it to Dianne's niece when we were done using it and her husband managed to replace all of the rotting wood. Like Brent said, labour intensive!!
An interesting chap...
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
hon30critterThe tankers are all laid neatly on their sides without a whole bunch of bent metal!
Maybe some local kids went out for some cow tipping and couldn't find a farm? This was the next best thing
Good morning. Cloudy with rain predicted, so it looks like another unhappy day working inside on the layout.I
I think I already mentioned this, but since we're in Montana ...
Last summer we drove to Seattle, crossing Montana east to west. What a great car ride. The speed limit was 80 mph, there was hardly any traffic so we could actually use the cruise control, and we could see for miles. It's the kind of driving that we seldom get any more with the crowed highways.
York1 John
Morning folks,
Dont get me started on traffic, here in Louisiana we have some of the WORST traffic, problem is most streets are two lanes and the lights aren't calibrated for the higher volume of vehicles we are now getting, but I'm not going to go on about that.
Far as my truck and emissions go, I currently get low teens single digits MPG with my current truck, and at least I'm not on of those idiots that gets a diesel, mods the fuel injection system and mounts an exceptionally large exhaust tip so that he may spew black particulate matter all over the place making his truck look broken, all in the quest of... never mind not gonna go there!
Well I'll be around later guys!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
[quote user="NWP SWP"]Dont get me started on traffic, here in Louisiana we have some of the WORST traffic[/quote
Steven, don't even get me started on Louisiana roads. I moved here from New Orleans. They don't need speed limit signs there because it's impossible to drive more than 25 mph on the rutted and broken residential streets. My Lakeview neighborhood had some of the worst roads I've ever used, and that includes Nebraska country dirt roads.
Good morning from the West of the the America's the East of the Salish Sea. Ya,right about there. It is another sunny day and life is good.
Been thinking of Ulrich and wondering how the new piping installation went. I remember being with Mom when she woke up and she gave me a smile and a thumbs up. By the next day she was completely lucid and well on her way to getting back to business. She was tenacious in in her recovery program and as with anything effort in reward out. I remember when she was cleared to drive again, the next day she loaded up her four Golden Retrievers, drove about an hour and worked them all day out in the fields retrieving and tracking. I think she was eighty at the time.
Insert photo of something Montana related here.
Insert link here.
https://www.american-rails.com/mt.html#Top
Lots of coal trains from the Powder River Basin and other coal fields make their way to the Port Of Vancouver for export. Candian Pacific and BNSF being the two biggies.
Beautiful scenery in Montana, why not take a train and enjoy it?
Have a good day all.
Afternoon Diners!
Flo, give the gang and I a and a IV for Ulrich!
Sure hope Ulrich plumper did a good job! Hope to see him in the dinner Tuesday or Wednesday!
Train Front Been playing on the Railroad and it is fighting me all the way! I am going to guess I have gotten up 30 times tonight to fix something but I am making headway on getting the BLI steamers pulling right again!
Ed and others. As you folks know I use ATF on my layout rails to keep the engines from stalling and it works well! When I first got the Presdient Adams steam engine it pulled great with traction tires and some ATF on the rails.
Then I stopped smoking I got a BLI PRR I1sa with traction tires! While it had a smoke unit, it was not working and it pulled like a mule! Then one night the smoke unit started working in the I1sa?
Things went down hill after that! Steam engines could not pull more than 4 heavy weight passanger cars, they had been pulling 9!
I have been wipping down the track where I can reach it with alcohol. Well the presdent Adams is now dragging 6 heavy weight passanger cars but it and the Bessimer SD 7's are starting to stall?
Still enjoyed them tonight so later.
None smoking Ken day 48 and counting.
Ken great job on the ciggys.
I wouldn't expect to hear from Ulrich before Thursday or Friday.
When I woke up from my heart valve replacement, I was immediately relieved to not see an OR light overhead, because that meant surgery was over and I wasn't in any of the alternative destinations either.
They transfered me to a room at 3 am. My nurse was from Nepal. I was getting 3 different infusions and I had to wonder, how many patients in Nepal were getting insulin, levophed and fentanyl all at the same time. Probably none.
They sent me home after pharmacies closed tanked up on tylenol. There are limits on how much tylenol you should take in one day and the percocet has tylenol in it so you can't just take more when you are maxed out on the tylenol.
I'm in modeling slump at the moment.
Ozark Mountain has a deal on a 500 ton flatcar for $910,000, an S1 for $39,000, a GP9 for $55K, and a variety of box cars and reefers in extremely poor condition for $1,500
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Ed .... Thanks for posting information about the derailed tank cars. Remarkable story.
Brent .... Thanks for the Montana photos. There are many possibilities for railroad photos in Montana, and hopefully we see more before June is over. I especially like seeing the North Coast Limited. That was one of many trains I watched when I was a kid growing up next to the Burlington RR in Illinois .
Ken .... 48 days !
Henry .... Thanks for your insights on how soon Ulrich will be able to post. I know what you mean about awaking from surgery and realizing you survived.
Heartland Division CB&QThere are many possibilities for railroad photos in Montana, and hopefully we see more before June is over.
I think that's a wonderful idea!
Seeing film like this makes you wish you could have it "expertly" digitized and restored the wat some of the Ken Burns documentaries are done. This footage deserves to be preserved in a better format than YouTube!
Garry, your smiles begin at 5:20. Check out that brand new B&M box car, too.
Great scenes around Billings! The North Coast Limited cars are glossy-new and spotless!
Good morning ....
Ed..... Thanks for sharing the video. ... I like the action in Billings. CB&Q had two routes to Billings, one from Lincoln, NB and one from Denver, CO. In the 1950's, Burlington usually used SD9's for frieght trains to Billings as was the case in a train in the video. CB&Q passneger trains to Billings typically had a single E-unit, a few head end cars, and one or two coaches. Billings is where CB&Q connected with NP or GN.
Saw this on my morning walk. I thought it was a snake skin, but it was moving. The is a name in biology for an organism made up of multiple organisms. It was about 16" long and each worm was about 1/4"
It's tail was separated into 4 or 5 tiny sections, all following along with the main body.
Anyone ever see anything like it? It is a fungus gnat larvae and is considered a pest as it spreads fungal disease to plants.
It is a newly hattched Basilisk.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
BroadwayLion It is a newly hattched Basilisk. ROAR
Finally a picture of the beast!
BigDaddyAnyone ever see anything like it?
Never! If I did, I'd be getting the gas can.
Mike.
My You Tube
Flo, give the gang and I a please and give Ulrich a IV please.
Henry I don't know what the heck that mess is! My first intinict would be to kill it or them. Guess that is the problem with man kind, if you don't understand something kill it. Are you trying to find out what that thing or things is?
Gary Something I have been meaning to ask you about your passanger terminal. Is it a run throught or do you have to back in your passanger trains? If you can back them in!
BLI PRR I1sa Front. Slowly I am winning the Traction War! I keep wipping down the rails with alcohol where I can reach it and it starting to pull better and better! Only problem I am having is I am using part of a old towel. My track is held down rail spikes and I have pulled a few up? No idea where so that can cause problems later.
Message to BLI! Dump the smoke unit and a add a bigger stay a live Capacitior!
None smoking Ken posting again!
gmpullmanThis footage deserves to be preserved in a better format than YouTube!
At least it's been saved, and available to all interested in such things, Ed.
Anyhow, Laurel + Montana =
Cheers, the Bear.
Couldn't agree with you more, Bear. With today's digital technology that film could be brought to much higher resolution and clarity. I will say, who ever did the transfer did a nice job with the frame-rate. No jittery frames
I'm amazed at some of the 16mm stuff found on the commercial (Green Frog, Sunday River, et-al.) DVDs are excellent. Again, film like that should be preserved in an archival manner, not just loaded-up to YouTube.
Ed, your video is great!
And Bear, your video is, as well. I think the MRL operates mostly on former NP trackage.
My wife and her brother grew up in Billings, living with their grandma, and to get downtown, they walked ( and ran) through the NP yard.
Their grandpa worked for the NP M.O.W during the summer, between planting and harvest seasons, to keep steady employment.
Good morning, everybody .
I'm hoping Ulrich is recovering very well from his surgery .
cudaken Gary Something I have been meaning to ask you about your passanger terminal. Is it a run throught or do you have to back in your passanger trains? If you can back them in!
Ken ... My Union Station is in a corner of the layout room. I tried to make it appear as if trains could pass through beneath the building. However, it has stub tracks and the trains are backed in . Only about 2 1/2 passenger cars fit underneath on each track. The building is on plywood, and there is a hole in the plywood hidden under the station which allows me to reach tracks in case a car derails there. However, no cars have ever derailed under the station.
There is a streetcar track which loops around the building. The streetcar line runs between the station and downtown. ... In the photo, you can see background building fronts in the corner behind the building. Thanks for asking..... (By the way. I spell "Garry" with two r's. )
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Bear..... Thanks for sharing the video about MRL
Ken it was one stage in the life cycle of a gnat, like a fruit fly. After this stage they become something largers, a pupa and then a fly.
What amazes me is if they have a brain, it would fit on the point of a pin, the head of pin is bigger in diameter than the larvae. Yet they know where they are going, now to stick together and crawl on top one another. The ones that got separated are still moving in the same direction, on the same path.
It was an amazing reaffirmation of life.
In deferrence to the Diner you have to click on this to see them move
Go ahead, tell me what this is. Tell me where it was.